Autumn Golds
Wow, if it wasn’t already high enough, my respect for Tyrion only grew during this latest episode of ‘Game of Thrones’.
He tried to make the most out of his situation with Sansa. He even tried to make her feel better by laughing, even though he wanted to be with someone else himself. Oh, and the fact that he didn’t rape her also set off my feels for him. And I just loved what he said to Joffrey during the banquet. That prick deserves whatever curse comes his way.
"1474 Tamils of the Northern Peninsula have filed writ application No. CA (Writ) 125/2013, pleading for relief from the Appeal Court, against steps by the ruling Rajapaksa regime to grab an area of approximately 25.8 square kilometres (6381 acres), including their traditional homes….The petitioners state that the so called land acquisition is flawed in several ways, and point out that proper procedures have not been followed, and that there is no proper public purpose to be served for which their land is to be taken over, as set out in the petition.
The petition demonstrates that the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo City itself spans an area of 37.21 square kilometers and that the approximately 25.8 square kilometres of Jaffna Peninsula lands to be acquired is about ‘two-third the entire land area on which Colombo City is established’.
"— Colombo Telegraph,’1474 Northern Tamils Petition Appeal Court To Help Prevent Grab Of Their Homes By Rajapaksa Regime’ (via itsbeenablast)
The right to live in their own land of the Tamil people of this country is being taken away by this government. Never before in the history of this country has land been grabbed from a community like the way it is being done today. - Hon. Sumanthiran in SL Parliament, on Land Grabs and the Prevention of Terrorism Act
Watch this, it’s a great speech.
London, United Kingdom. May 18th, 2013.
Tamil protesters gather around photographs of those killed during the Sri Lankan civil war.
Thousands of Tamils march through central London to commemorate those killed during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war and to call on Prime Minister David Cameron to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, to be held on Colombo in November 2013.
(© Rob Pinney / www.robpinney.com)
Sri Lanka: No Progress 4 Years On
Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This week marks the fourth anniversary of the brutal civil war’s end.
Since the end of the 26-year-long civil war, the Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has resisted taking meaningful steps to investigate and prosecute alleged war crimes by government forces and the LTTE, end the crackdown against the independent media and human rights activists, and stop ongoing abuses against suspected LTTE supporters. Government pledges to address the concerns of the ethnic Tamil population have gone unfulfilled.
Since 2009 the government has increasingly restricted fundamental liberties, imperiling Sri Lanka’s democratic system. Government officials have threatened, and unknown assailants have attacked, members of the media, civil society, and the political opposition.
Photo: Soldiers stand guard near internally displaced Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils at a camp in Vavuniya on November 21, 2009. © 2009 Reuters
My community seems to have repeatedly told me that, because I’m a girl, I have to do everything within a certain period of time. I need to get a degree before I’m twenty-one (hasn’t happened yet), get a boyfriend right after that (ha ha, that’s funny), find a job (nope), and get married before 26, so I can have kids before 30.
I just want to tell people that you can’t plan life like that! Stuff happens that can throw you off your course.
You can plan life however much you want, but most likely it won’t turn out the way you expected it to.
(Source: fallonious, via goldenhourglass)
I feel like the book, ‘Black Beauty’ is an allegory for how slaves were treated back in the day.
I WANT A BABY TIGER SO CUTE OMG
What the hell is this? Stop trying to make pets out of animals that were never meant to be pets. Put that tiger back where it belongs in the jungle, with it’s own kind!
(Source: paulwelsey)
