Artfully advocating peace

Artfully advocating peace

Jody Sabral, Aljazeera:

Three Danish artists have performed an "art protest" on the streets of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, to promote peace in the war-torn country.

Jan Egesborg, one of the street artists involved, told Aljazeera by telephone from Colombo on Monday: "With the present unrest in Sri Lanka we came to advocate for peace."

Egesborg, Pia Bertelsen, and Affex Ventura, who call themselves "Surrend", short for surrender, plastered stickers around the city centre with slogans that read: "Potentially prosperous society - of course you kill each other; Snow all year - of course you kill each other; Terrible beaches here - of course you kill each other; Food is as bad as in Denmark - of course you kill each other."

Egesborg said that the text plays with subtle irony, because Sri Lanka has beautiful beaches, good food, sun all year and is a potentially prosperous society.

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Up to 60,000 people have been displaced in the country's northeast, and hundreds have been killed since the recent conflict broke out between the military and the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) three months ago.