All right, welcome to a whole new episode of Colonial Outcast, your semi-friendly anti-imperialist podcast where we collectively yearn for the dismantling of empire.

As we continue to center the ongoing genocide in Palestine, we're going to branch out and draw some historical parallels between what is happening now and the attempted genocide that

happened in Sri Lanka in the early to late 2000s. And if you're picking up on trends, yes,

both the United States and Israel were involved with Israel selling the Sri Lankan government

fighter bombers and various weaponry as they committed atrocities against the Tamil-milled people. Weaponized starvation, bombing safe zones, the destruction of infrastructure,

including hospitals, library schools, using white phosphorus on people, sound familiar. So to guide us

through this sad chapter in modern history, we have a Dishanti Sachi, a licensed clinical psychotherapist

and policy analyst. She has a master's in both clinical work and international policy from

Columbia University. She specializes in gender-based violence, including intimate partner

violence, sex trafficking, and honor killings. She's American from New York and of Sri Lankan to Mill descent.

She has been on CNN, NPR, Oprah Daly.

She currently has a clinical practice in New York and Los Angeles.

Thank you so much for coming on.

I'm glad we could finally make it happen.

Thank you for having me.

That's quite the generous intro.

You know, we do what we can over here. And you were saying earlier

that you did your master's thesis on peace conflict resolution around the world, but with a focus on

Sri Lanka. And you were at the UN when the war crimes investigation was happening in Sri Lanka?

Yeah. So, you know, I've grown up hearing about the genocide in Sri Lanka since I was very

little. 19, you know, these were stories that we talked about in our dinner table conversation.

So I always had an interest in why do these things happen and how can they be solved.

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