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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 30, 2008
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I don’t think I had the slightest inkling of a problem between the sinhala and tamil people in Sri Lanka, until July 1983. But I should have.
In the heady days of the 1977 election, a good 13 years before I could vote, I remember my father quite nonchalantly relating a story: at some...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 27, 2008
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Prominent Tamil civil society activist Shanthi Sachithanandan shares her experiences of the July 1983 anti-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka.
For the Sinhala version of the interview, click here and visit the Vikalpa YouTube Channel for more short videos on the events of July 1983....... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 26, 2008
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From my Diary Notes written in Cell No.1, Negombo Remand Prison, (July 31st-Sept 24th 1983)
I had my own gruesome experience of the Black July. It was 29th July at midnight that I received a telephone call from my friend and party comrade AJMO Dr. Indra Kumar of his father’s...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 25, 2008
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by Austin Fernando
In July 1983, my Accountant Mr. Vallipuram at the Cooperative Department lived off Castle Street where his neighbour was a notorious Sinhalese thug. Until ‘Black July’ Vallipuram once told me that, that thug was the ‘assailant select’ in his mind, whenever he...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 24, 2008
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Photo by Chandragupta Amarasinghe
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What happened in mid-1983 and in the last week of July 1983 was obscene, a monumental atrocity, a disaster for Sri Lanka. In a context marked by the push for self-determination by the principal forces representing the Sri Lankan Tamils and an...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 23, 2008
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Tamil National Alliance MP Mr. R. Sampanthan speaks of the anti-Tamil riots of July 1983.
Speaking of the “terrible experience for all Tamil people in Sri Lanka” he says that the riot was “premeditated pogrom… largely believed to be with the support of very...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 23, 2008
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July usually passes me by without too much notice, beyond the vague worry that there might be a Tiger attack on Colombo, and a few flashbacks to that weekend in 1983. But this time it’s been a bit different. I’ve found myself reliving that day a lot more this year. It isn’t the fact that...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 22, 2008
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AFLAME - Remembering Black July, 1983
What is a poem
to a man hiding
in the cellar
of his neighbor’s house,
breathing the way
his hostess spices
lentils and mutton,
while son and daughter
keep quiet,
not one word
allowed
in the mother tongue,
and wife strokes
her neck,...... [view]
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