National Film Board of Canada/Library and Archives Canada (PA-155518)
On May 28, 1934, a miracle happened.
In a modest farmhouse in Corbeil, Ontario, Canada, parents Oliva and Elzire Dionne welcomed five additions to their family: Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie. Soon they would become the first known set of quintuplets to survive infancy.
Their novelty made the Dionne sisters almost instantly internationally popular. “Five Babies Named; Continue to Gain,” announced
The New York Times in its May 31, 1934, paper; similar articles lauded subsequent birthdays. At age three their daily routines were captured in an anthropological newsreel by the production company Pathegrams, which narrated “A Day at Home” for the Dionne quints; the toddlers were pictured “shining up a gorgeous smile,” “learning rhythm in their own nursery school,” and, in the late afternoon, “tak[ing] a glass of milk.”
Posted on July 8th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The
Tamil Separatist Movement appears to have started its Genocide charge in 2014. 28 Members of the
Northern Provincial Council and 5 members of the Eastern Provincial Council
sent a joint letter on 17
th August 2014, to United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Navi Pillay.
The letter said
, The
Tamil people strongly believe that they have been, and continue to be subject
to Genocide by Sri Lanka. The Tamils were massacred in groups, their temples
and churches were bombed, and their iconic Jaffna Public library was burnt down
in 1981 with its collection of largest and oldest priceless irreplaceable Tamil
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Colombo, May 17: The annual ceremonies held by the Sri Lankan armed forces on May 19, to mark the defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the observances held by Tamil political leaders on May 18 to mark what they consider genocide”, keep alive the conflict between Sinhalese and Tamil nationalisms, which have marked post-independence Sri Lankan politics.
This year, to prevent the Tamils from commemorating their dead at Mulliwaikkal (the scene of mass killings at the tail of the 30-year war) the Lankan government has used the COVID-19 pandemic to isolate the place along with the adjacent areas of Mullaitivu, Pudukudiyiruppu, and Mulliyawali.