🧵1. On 18 July 2009, a mere two months after the end of the war in #SriLanka, a team of exiled
progressive #Sinhala journalists and #Tamil journalists came together and established @JDS. 2. In the post-war context, JDS played & continues to play a vital role on #accountability and
#justice issues related to Sri Lanka. Fueled by a moral obligation, the committed members of
JDS covered issues many feared to undertake.

🧵 1.Singapore became the meeting place for my Amma and me because of Gota and his team. Even during my last meeting with my Amma, she cursed the war criminals. 2. In the end we said goodbye to each other at Changi airport without knowing that would be our final farewell. I would never see her again and she would never see me. This time I arrived in Singapore with the memories of my meetings with Amma.

Hi, @paheer @TorontoPodiyan @Chrish0506 @Eelapalan @TamilMaanthar @Kathigai_poo @PragashPA @prasan_kumar @tweet_005_ @SChijuz @sidhamaruthuvar @SwetaVelpillay @AsiaRonn Thank you for your interaction on my previous 🧵. Unfortunately, I had to delete them. Pls see the updates 👆 Hi, @AanMur @Jaffnaman @Jananthan @packiarajan @gobiratnam @NishiTwt @kedairezeki @sarithabey @Nachchellai @Changavy @haarshi284 @aviselva Thank you for your interaction on my previous 🧵. Unfortunately, I had to delete them. Pls see the updates 👆

🧵@GGPonnambalam is a strong witness of the #Tamil #Genocide in #Mullivaaikaal.Below is a summary of one of his testimonies.On 16 May 2009 KP informed me that the LTTE had decided that they wanted to get the civilians out in a safe&accountable way,&wanted GGP to speak to the gov. I communicated this clearly to Basil Rajapaksa. The initial agreement we hoped the government would agree to was to have the ICRC broker a population exchange to get the civilians out. The government disagreed. They were only willing to have local actors involved.