Melani Gunathilaka (@melanirgk) 's Twitter Profile
Melani Gunathilaka

@melanirgk

Climate Activist | Human Rights Defender | Writer | Translator

#PowerToThePeople #ClimateJusticeIsSocialJustice #PlanetBeforeProfit
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"Aspirations of the struggle - Challenges of the present", at the public seminar held by Movement For Peoples' Council on the 9th July 2025. A look back at how #SriLanka moved forward and the present challenges as #Aragalaya marked 3 years ❤️✊🏾 #PeoplesCouncils #ParticipatoryDemocracy #SriLanka

"Aspirations of the struggle - Challenges of the present", at the public seminar held by <a href="/MPCSriLanka/">Movement For Peoples' Council</a> on the 9th July 2025. A look back at how #SriLanka moved forward and the present challenges as #Aragalaya marked 3 years ❤️✊🏾

#PeoplesCouncils #ParticipatoryDemocracy #SriLanka
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"Release our ancestral lands back to us" Over 100 landowners from Valikamam, #Jaffna, held a peaceful protest near the Presidential Secretariat today demanding the return of their ancestral lands occupied by the Sri Lankan state. #LandRightsNow #lka #srilanka

"Release our ancestral lands back to us"
Over 100 landowners from Valikamam, #Jaffna, held a peaceful protest near the Presidential Secretariat today demanding the return of their ancestral lands occupied by the Sri Lankan state. 

#LandRightsNow #lka #srilanka
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@franceskalbs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My last report is downloadable on Rainews' platform: quite a development. Thank to the conscientious journalists who have worked hard, from within the system, to have my findings and analyses land on mainstream platforms during this genocide. rainews.it/dl/doc/1752426…

My last report is downloadable on Rainews' platform:  quite a development.
Thank to the conscientious journalists who have worked hard, from within the system, to have my findings and analyses land on mainstream platforms during this genocide.  
rainews.it/dl/doc/1752426…
Melani Gunathilaka (@melanirgk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brilliant decision by the parliamentary COPE committee 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Education is a right not a commodity! #EducationIsARight #FreeEducation #EducationForAll #SriLanka #lka

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Join the protest tomorrow demanding justice for #Chemmani mass grave at 🕑 2PM near 📍Fort railway station. #SriLanka #lka #EnforcedDisappearances #Justice4Chemmani

Join the protest tomorrow demanding justice for #Chemmani mass grave at 🕑 2PM near 📍Fort railway station.

#SriLanka #lka #EnforcedDisappearances #Justice4Chemmani
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Skeletal remains of 65 people were uncovered during the excavation of #Chemmani mass grave in #Jaffna, including those of children. A public protest demanding justice for the victims was held today near the Fort Railway Station in #Colombo. #lka #srilanka #Justice4Chemmani

Skeletal remains of 65 people were uncovered during the excavation of #Chemmani mass grave in #Jaffna, including those of children. A public protest demanding justice for the victims was held today near the Fort Railway Station in #Colombo.

 #lka #srilanka  #Justice4Chemmani
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චෙම්මනි වල ඇටකටු බවට පත් වූ අපේ මිනිස්සු | Our people, reduced to bones in Chemmani. #Chemmani #LKA #SriLanka

ISHR (@ishrglobal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On #MandelaDay, we honour defenders like Melani Gunathilaka 🇱🇰, Emiliano Vergara 🇲🇽, Angélique 🇲🇬 & Igor 🇧🇷 – fighting poverty, inequality & climate injustice. Their courage carries Mandela’s legacy of justice and dignity for all. 🌍 👉 ishr.ch/defender-stori…

On #MandelaDay, we honour defenders like <a href="/melanirgk/">Melani Gunathilaka</a> 🇱🇰, <a href="/Nanovemu/">Emiliano Vergara</a> 🇲🇽, Angélique 🇲🇬 &amp; Igor 🇧🇷 – fighting poverty, inequality &amp; climate injustice. Their courage carries Mandela’s legacy of justice and dignity for all. 🌍
👉 ishr.ch/defender-stori…
Vindhya Buthpitiya (@vindib_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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. thehindu.com/news/internati… via Meera Srinivasan + The Hindu

JDS (@jdslanka) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Workers of Mine Action Group have uncovered human skeletal remains in a de-mining site at Children's Park in Sampur on Sunday (20), lying in close proximity to a location where at least 57 civilians were shot, hacked & burnt to death by Sri Lankan troops on 7 July 1990.

Workers of Mine Action Group have uncovered human skeletal remains in a de-mining site at Children's Park in Sampur on Sunday (20), lying in close proximity to a location where at least 57 civilians were shot, hacked &amp; burnt to death by Sri Lankan troops on 7 July 1990.
Kumanan (@kumanan93) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Acknowledge the root cause. Deliver justice and accountability. Only then can reconciliation begin. கறுப்பு ஜூலைக்கு 42 ஆண்டுகள் – இன்னும் நீதியில்லை இனப் பிரச்சினையின் வேர்களை ஒப்புக்கொள்.நீதியும் பொறுப்பும் வழங்கு. அதன்பின் மட்டுமே நல்லிணக்கம் சாத்தியம். ————————— No to fake

Acknowledge the root cause.
Deliver justice and accountability.
Only then can reconciliation begin.

கறுப்பு  ஜூலைக்கு 42 ஆண்டுகள் – இன்னும் நீதியில்லை
இனப் பிரச்சினையின் வேர்களை ஒப்புக்கொள்.நீதியும் பொறுப்பும் வழங்கு.
அதன்பின் மட்டுமே நல்லிணக்கம் சாத்தியம்.

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No to fake
Melani Gunathilaka (@melanirgk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deshabandu was the acting IGP since Nov 2023. Ranil Wickremesinghe confirmed Deshabandu's appointment as the IGP in February 2024, roughly two months after the SC's landmark FR decision (SC/FR 107/2011) which found Deshabandu guilty of torturing and sexually harassing a suspect.

Meera Srinivasan (@meerasrini) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#SriLanka: Memories of 'Black July' - resharing my piece written for its 40th anniversary in 2023. thehindu.com/news/internati… via The Hindu

#SriLanka: Memories of 'Black July' - resharing my piece written for its 40th anniversary in 2023.

thehindu.com/news/internati… via <a href="/the_hindu/">The Hindu</a>
Melani Gunathilaka (@melanirgk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#SriLanka now has a former president and a former IGP who have both been found guilty for violating fundamental human rights. What a disgrace 🤮 #Ranil #Deahabandu #lka

#SriLanka now has a former president and a former IGP who have both been found guilty for violating fundamental human rights. What a disgrace 🤮

#Ranil #Deahabandu #lka
Gayara De Silva (@gayaradesilva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Funny how Ranil Wickremesinghe had no problem unleashing the military and STF on unarmed protestors during the aragalaya - an act the Supreme Court now ruled as a violation of fundamental human rights. And yet, when it came to Black July - when the same party, with the same policies and

Gayara De Silva (@gayaradesilva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is an implicit moral hypocrisy here: Crackdowns come swiftly on dissent that threatens power. But when minorities were under threat, the response was delayed or absent.

Kumanan (@kumanan93) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The oldest known documentary on #BlackJuly1983 — a brutal anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka. Thousands of Tamil homes, shops, and lives were destroyed in state-backed violence. Watch. Remember. Resist. #SriLanka #TamilGenocide #NeverForget

Melani Gunathilaka (@melanirgk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My interview with CIVICUS on the criminalisation of protest in #SriLanka. Thousands from the 2022 #Aragalaya still face legal persecution, delayed justice & daily hardships. #NPP campaign promises to ensure justice remain unmet. #HumanRights #lka lens.civicus.org/interview/arre…