Channel 4: Prabhakaran’s son’s killing
Posted on March 13th, 2012
Posted on March 13th, 2012
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13 March 2012
Callum Macrae
Film Producer, Channel 4
Horseferry Road, London SW 1, UK
Dear Callum Macrae:
Once upon a time, as a young Geology student at the University
of London, walking into the Geology Museum at South Kensington, and
being met by display case after display case of Ceylon gems and
geological structures, my blood curdled with resentment towards colonial
Britishers for plundering the geological wealth from my Ceylon, and I
always preambled my description of these British colonial ‘whites’ as “Those damn white bastards…” When
they left Ceylon in 1948, they did not consider having display case
after display case of Ceylon gems and geological structures at the
Colombo Museum, after 131 years of colonial rule. That was my anger.
