#BlackJuly

47 Roots

47Roots

THREAD: 37 years ago - an anti-Tamil pogrom took place in Sri Lanka by Sinhala mobs backed by the then UNP government and state forces. The violence saw the deaths

PEARL Action

PEARL_Action

THREAD: On the eve of #BlackJuly, we are redrawing attention to the months preceding the violence. An often repeated myth is that the 1983 Black July pogroms were a response

Sarah Kellapatha

saararrr

Today marks 37 years since the start of Black July - an anti-Tamil pogrom which took place across Sri Lanka for an entire week in July 1983. On the night

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