Black July remains one of the darkest chapters in Sri Lanka’s post-independence history. Every year, SLC commemorates July 1983, when the Sri Lankan state committed a 7-day anti-Tamil pogrom, killing around 3,000 Tamil
Black July 1983 remains one of the darkest chapters in Sri Lanka’s post‐independence history. Over the course of just seven days - from 24th to 30th July 1983 - a state-enabled pogrom unleashed
Learning from history requires an attitudinal shift at both societal and governmental levels. Recognising the colonial roots of ethnic tensions and discriminatory laws should inspire a commitment to building a more just and
Forty years ago today, on 23rd July 1983, a mass anti-Tamil pogrom broke out in Sri Lanka, in which an estimated 3,000 Tamil people died at the hands of Sinhalese mobs. Since then,
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