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"A destroyed classroom at Pooneryn School. The school was shelled by government forces as well as eventually destroyed by the retreating LTTE during the final phases of the war."
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"P. Mathusanth amidst the remains of his old classroom."
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"Thayudsan lost his father during the war as well as his own right leg and arm. He wants to be an engineer when he grows up."
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"The Killinochchi Central College was heavily damaged during the war."
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"N. Nirupan, a student at Pandiyankulam School lost sight in one of his eyes from shrapnel."
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Art & Oppression: Artist's Statement

Ashok Sinha

Portraits of Silence

From 1983 to 2009, Sri Lanka was gripped by an ethnic civil war that killed as many as 100,000. During the final phases of the war, civilians were caught in unforgiving crossfire between the advancing Sri Lankan Army and retreating separatists of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Portraits of Silence is a series about the schoolchildren who lived in the Northern Province, a stronghold of the LTTE, and were directly affected by displacement, malnutrition, and warfare.

Ashok Sinha

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Ashok Sinha

Portraits of Silence