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Jude Lal Fernando is assistant professor in the School of Religion, Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin), and the director of the Trinity Centre for Post-Conflict Justice. He is the author of "Religion, Conflict and Peace in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Interpretation of Nationhoods" (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2013), and the editor of "Resistance to Empire and Militarization: Reclaiming the Sacred" (Sheffield: Equinox, 2020) and "Faith in the Face of Militarization: Indegenous, Feminist and Interreligious Voices" (Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2021). He was the coordinator of the Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka and lives in exile in the Republic of Ireland.

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The USA’s Pivot towards Asia and the Genocidal Massacre of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka

There needs to be a broader alliance amongst oppressed peoples in Asia who demand their right to homeland. It is necessary to extend solidarity to each other’s political struggles; it is also important to develop a common campaign to resist the USA/UK-led military paradigm in Asia which is backed by India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea, and so on, amongst whom the Sri Lankan state is at the heart...

/ May 18, 2021