The Vanni
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/651360878/the-vanni
by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock
The Vanni is supported by: Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner, God of Small Things), Jon Snow (Newscaster, Channel 4), Frances Harrison (BBC and Author, Still Counting the Dead), Callum Macrae (Film Maker, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields), Vairamuttu Varadakumar (Executive Secretary, Tamil Information Centre), Liv Torres (Secretary General, Norwegian People's Aid), Roma Tearne (Author, The Road to Urbino) Beate Arnestad(Filmmaker, My Daughter the Terrorist) and is being produced with the involvement of a number of survivors of the conflict.
In 2009, the civil war fought between the Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam reached a brutal climax.
In the North East of the island, on a spit of sandy beach, over 300,000 Tamil civilians were caught between the opposing sides.
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There have been many Sri Lankan Tamil poets who addressed the issue of thw Sri Lankan War. It is truly a tragedy!!
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