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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 28, 2008
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Member of Parliament and Convener of the Civil Monitoring Committee, Mano Ganeshan, speaks about his experiences during the anti-Tamil riots in July 1983.
For more articles on July 1983, please click here .
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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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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 20, 2008
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25 years after Black July , the term “National Security” is used to thwart lot of things. V from the movie ‘V for Vendetta’ said “I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of the everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquility of...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 16, 2008
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Anoma Rajakaruna shares her photos of people in black and white. Anoma has captured many expressions and many environments. Every photograph speaks differently. As a film-maker, photographer and poet ,Anoma has well captured the many moods of men, women and children around the Island....... [view]
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