Amnesty International USA
from Jim McDonald
Please read my blog post on the winners of #Amnesty's poetry competition on the theme of enforced #disappearances in #SriLanka, then take action! Thanks."Last fall, I told you about “Silenced Shadows” – a poetry competition that Amnesty was launching in Sri Lanka on the theme of enforced disappearances. Sri Lanka has experienced at least 80,000 cases of enforced disappearances over the past 30 years. The vast majority are still unaccounted for and the perpetrators remain unpunished. The agony of the families of the disappeared – not knowing whether their loved ones are alive or dead, or what condition they’re in if they are still alive – continues unabated to this day.
We’re pleased to announce the 15 winners of the competition – five poems each in English, Sinhala and Tamil. The winning poems are available online now. This fall, Amnesty will publish a trilingual book, with each poem presented in its original language and translated into the other two languages.
The winning poems lay bare the tragedy of enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka now."
Click here for the poems and ACTION.
