Culture Clash

By pearlaction | May 11, 2009 |

[ SBS ] This week Dateline invites you inside Jaffna’s public library, a building with a tortured history that echoes Sri Lanka’s long civil conflict. The library was once one of the largest in Asia and a source of enormous pride for the Tamil community. But the building was torched in 1981, during riots following…

Read More

Sri Lanka’s Dirty War Continues…

By pearlaction | February 2, 2009 |

[Journeyman Pictures] Description: “This collection of footage presents a nation battling decades of civil war and seeing thousands of political arrests. Years of bloodshed in Sri Lanka places today’s violence in its proper context.” [Watch  Video on Youtube]

Read More

TAG webcast 2 : Tamil Genocide – History

By pearlaction | September 9, 2008 |

[Tamils Against Genocide] Description: In this video broadcast, Bruce Fein traces Sri Lanka’s genocidal history against Tamils, and focuses on the urgent need to prosecute, in the U.S. Courts, high-level Sri Lankan Government officials, Sri Lanka’s Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Sri Lanka’s Army Commander, Lt.Col. Sarath Fonseka, and Presidential Advisor, Basil Rajapakse for crimes against…

Read More

TAG webcast 1 : Motivation and objectives

By pearlaction | August 25, 2008 |

[Tamils Against Genocide] Description: Bruce Fein, a representative of US-based non-profit organization, Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), and former Deputy Associate Attorney General in the Reagan administration, on the mission and objectives of TAG. TAG was formed by Tamil Activists in the U.S. to seek criminal indictments against Sri Lanka’s Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Sri Lanka’s…

Read More