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Breaking The Silence Journal: UCL

23 November 2013

The #BreaktheSilence campaign continued as students from the UniversityCollege London (UCL held their e!hi"ition detailing the history of humanrights violations and ar crimes in Sri Lanka on $onday%

&unning an e!position in the "usy 'orth Cloisters section of UCL theycampaigned ith the goal to raise aareness amongst the student "odyand to gather support for the groing demand for an independentinternational investigation into the countrys actions during the last monthsof the ethnic conflict%

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)rganised "y the UCL Tamil Society their Campaigns )fficer stressed theurgent necessity of these campaigns%

Speaking to Tamil *uardian the Campaigns )fficer (ho has close family inthe 'orth+,ast and therefore ished to remain anonymous said

the average student in university ill "e a"le to tell you at thevery least that there are issues in -ra. Li"ya Syria etc% But thosesame students usually have no idea a"out the atrocities hichoccur in Sri Lanka on a daily "asis% -f no one knos then no onecares / and if no one cares then nothing ill change%0

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)rganisers produced posters and display "oards capturing the history of SriLankan discrimination against the Tamil people and highlighing ho thestructural genocide conitnues and ho the situation in the rural 'orth+,astremains dire%

Students ere also asked to transfer their opinions onto outlines of theirhands each hand coming together to create a metaphorical all of disgust

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discontent and dissatisfaction at ho so little has changed%

1oignant and simple phrases such as 2hy3 4o could this happen$urder is rong ere com"ined ith more accusatory statementsincluding The U' has alloed another 4olocaust increasing the strength

of the e!position as the all gre%

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Some passers"y ere simply left speechless hilst others .uestioned theinternational communitys failure to act%

)ne student asked

-f Sri Lanka has "een alloed to get aay ith acts such as this

ho much more has actually "een hidden from us3 -f something ofthis magnitude as sept under the carpet 5ust imagine homuch more has "een hidden from us / organisations like theUnited 'ations have a lot to anser for%0

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-f you ish to follo the Breaking the Silence e!hi"ition series you can do

on Titter "y using the 4ashtag 6#BreaktheSilence6%

Stay tuned for the ne!t piece in the Breaking The Silence 7ournal as thee!hi"ition travels to universities across the U8%

(9: 'ov ; London School of ,conomics

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