Tracing Conscience in a Time of War:
Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka, 1960s-2000s
by Harini Amarasuriya and Jonathan Spencer
The Tamil caption reads “In 1985, comrade Joe with comrade Padmanabha and comrade Ketheeshwaran in Kumbakonam.” The image is watermarked EPIC (Eelam Peoples Information Centre) which was the news-service of the undivided Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). The two comrades in the picture were both killed by the LTTE in later years. With thanks to Balasingham Skanthakumar for help on the background.