Photos: Handing Over Nominations

Photo by Contributor/Perambara
Perambara has a great collection of photos from the 2010 election campaign (among other things). Perambara is a Sinhala news site, and also a collection of freelance photographers releasing some very high quality work. I check it almost every week cause it’s spot on photo-journalism, on Flickr. Another interesting feature is their collection of photos on the tsunami, five years later. It includes archival shots from then, and also the reconstruction (or not) that’s happened till today. The elections stuff is my favorite. They have cameramen right in Mahinda and Sarath’s faces, and people are freaking out.

Photo by Dinidu de Alwis/Perambara
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The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
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