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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

MIA / sri lanka / clothing

Labels with ties to Sri Lanka, you've been put on notice.

Earlier this week, Sri Lanka's long civil war was declared over, after tens of thousands of casualties and government forces and the rebel Tamil Tigers both put untold numbers of civilians in harm's way. M.I.A., a Sri Lankan native, has been extremely vocal recently about the appalling human rights abuses happening in Sri Lanka. And on her Twitter, M.I.A. spent yesterday listing companies that manufacture in the country, helping to finance Sri Lanka's government in the process.

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