{"id":155764,"date":"2026-04-19T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155764"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:03:47","slug":"colonial-wounds-the-untold-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/19\/colonial-wounds-the-untold-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial Wounds: The Untold Atrocities of the British Empire in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HelaNomad\">Hela Nomad: In Search of Helese<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colonial Wounds: The Untold Atrocities of the British Empire in Sri Lanka\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vgprX1XKCuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonial Wounds: The Untold Atrocities of the British Empire in Sri Lanka \ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A story of pain, resilience, and survival. For over 150 years, the island of Sri Lanka \u2014 once a proud and sovereign land \u2014 was held under the shadow of the British Empire. Behind romanticised myths of railways, tea, and civilisation,\u201d lies a darker truth: scorched earth campaigns, mass executions, cultural erasure, and ecological devastation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This documentary uncovers the forgotten horrors of British colonial rule \u2014 from the Uva-Wellassa Liberation Struggle of 1818 to the massacre of elephants, and the destruction of ancient irrigation systems to the rise of resistance movements across communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hela Nomad: In Search of Helese Colonial Wounds: The Untold Atrocities of the British Empire in Sri Lanka \ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f&nbsp; A story of pain, resilience, and survival. For over 150 years, the island of Sri Lanka \u2014 once a proud and sovereign land \u2014 was held under the shadow of the British Empire. Behind romanticised myths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155765,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155764\/revisions\/155765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}