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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 3d

🙃 Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 20d

these families deserve justice and answers about their loved ones who were disappeared during and after the Sri Lankan civil war, in many instances following surrender to the armed forces. Their courage, persistence and activism is a lesson to us all.

Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 20d

I hope it brings important and necessary attention and visibility to the ongoing protests of the Tamil families of the disappeared. The protests began in February 2017 and have continued for well over 3000 days despite the relentless cruelty and violence of the Sri Lankan state.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 20d

the installation will form part of the Alexei Jaccard Human Rights Mural at the University of Geneva, alongside the work of Colombian visual artist Óscar Muñoz www.unige.ch/rectorat/mai... and will run from today, the 18th of September 2025 to 15th February 2026.

MURAL ALEXEI JACCARD-DROITS HUMAINS - Maison de l'histoire - UNIGE

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 20d

'Images rémanentes de la disparition forcée' feauturing a video adaptation of my 2022 article (rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) on the political uses of photography by the Tamil Families of the Disappeared in Northern Sri Lanka opens in Geneva this evening www.unige.ch/cite/eveneme...

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 24d

Far-right London rally sees record crowds and violent clashes with police: More than 110,000 people join Tommy Robinson-organised protest featuring racist conspiracy theories and hate speech www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police assaulted as far-right rally led by Tommy Robinson sparks clashes

More than 110,000 people join Tommy Robinson-organised protest featuring racist conspiracy theories and hate speech

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Shwetha Srikanthan @shwethasrikanthan.bsky.social · Sep 8

@vindi-b.bsky.social on how Trincomalee, a port city on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka, has been shaped through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...

Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal

by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Sep 8

v happy to be working on new projects, in ‘new’ island places, fortutiously intersecting in one of my favourite towns, Trincomalee: on the conflated histories/present of militarisation & leisure in Ceylon/Sri Lanka + the making of place through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...

Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal

by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Sep 4

happy day.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Sep 1

delighted to have received a print copy of fLIP’s ‘imperfect issue’ feat my review of Sabes Sugunasabesan’s haunting exhibition ‘kunkumam’ www.londonphotography.org.uk/upcoming/fli...

Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Aug 31

"After my father & the others were killed by Sinhala prisoners, the government deliberately hid that crime. How did they die? How were they cremated? Where were they buried? They didn't say anything. We are still in shock, even today" lankaleader.lk/news/15200-t... #SriLanka #BlackJuly

The burial site of Kuttimani and the group killed in the 83 Welikada prison massacre revealed

Over the past few years, Sri Lanka has witnessed multiple discoveries of several new mass graves. Hundreds of human remains are being excavated from these mass burial sites, and su...

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Aug 30

😍 Kovilpatti: the Town that Papered India - In the mid-20th century, the heyday of printed imagery in India, a group of artists in a tiny town in southern Tamilnadu became a creative force (that defined print/visual culture) www.tasveergharindia.net/essay/kovilp...

Kovilpatti: the Town that Papered India

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Aug 27

sanctioned former Sri Lankan navy chief Wasantha Karannagoda’s memoir published by Penguin India contains potential admissions relevant to alleged crimes committed during the civil war www.himalmag.com/politics/kar... damning, important review @himalmag.bsky.social #SriLanka

https://himalmag.com/politics/karan…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Aug 26

Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’

When war broke out between India and China, the author and her brother were taken by their mother on a chaotic journey from hill station squat to an eccentric household in Kerala. Would they ever find...

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Aug 22

Former Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested: Police say the former leader is accused of misuse of public funds in relation to a trip to London. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Former Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested

Police say the former leader is accused of misuse of public funds in relation to a trip to London.

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JDS @jdslanka.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thursday (21) marks the 12th day since excavations recommenced at the Colombo port mass burial site where over 85 bodies, haphazardly buried without clothes, were unearthed. The site was first found in July 2023 during construction work for the Port City Expressway entrance.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sri Lanka: ICJ urges international oversight and victim-centred investigation into Chemmani mass grave in compliance with international law and standards www.icj.org/sri-lanka-ic...

Sri Lanka: ICJ urges international oversight and victim-centred investigation into Chemmani mass grave in compliance with international law and standards | ICJ

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 28

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds: the university benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds

Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 25

people who have been explaining away, rationalising, defending, and outright enabling a genocide for nearly two years now 'gently' changing tune like they had no hand in - have some shame?! Are you not embarrased? What good are your words of condemnation? We haven't forgotten.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Supreme Court has ruled that the islandwide State of Emergency declared on July 17, 2022 by then Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe was unconstitutional and violated fundamental human rights. www.newswire.lk/2025/07/23/s... #SriLanka

SC rules 2022 Emergency declaration by Ranil violated fundamental rights - Newswire

The Supreme Court has ruled that the islandwide State of Emergency declared on July 17, 2022 by then Acting PresidentContinue Reading

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 21

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities: Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities

Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 20

Greater Manchester Friends for Palestine (GMFP) and Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which both organise peaceful protests and vigils, have had access to their funds cut off indefinitely by Virgin Money and Unit Trust bank respectively. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Two UK pro-Palestine organisations have bank accounts frozen

Groups say having access to funds cut off raise fears of wider attempt to silence voices speaking out about Gaza

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 19

A mass grave site in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district,which has drawn domestic and international attention, is putting to test the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government’s pledgeto address Tamil people’s grievances. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

Jaffna mass grave, a test for the Dissanayake government

Mass grave in Jaffna tests Sri Lankan government's pledge to address Tamil grievances, sparking hope and skepticism.

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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · Jul 19

Krishanthi Kumaraswamy tragedy and mass graves in Chemmani www.ft.lk/columns/Kris... #SriLanka

Krishanthi Kumaraswamy tragedy and mass graves in Chemmani | Daily FT

Chemmani, a sparsely populated area in the northern peninsula of Jaffna has in recent times acquired a somewhat dubious image. Just as Nallur in Jaffna is associated positively in public perception wi...

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