Anatomy of an Anti-Tamil Pogrom: Thirtieth Anniversary of “Black July” 1983.
by
D.B.S. Jeyaraj-26 July 2013
“Shops, Banks, Offices and Restaurants in the Capital’s crowded City Centre and Main Streets being burnt while the Police look on. Thousands of houses ransacked and burnt, sometimes with women and children inside. Goon squads battering passengers to death in trains and on station platforms and, without hindrance, publicly burning men and women to death on the streets! Remand prisoners and political detainees in the country’s top prison being massacred.The armed forces joining in and sometimes organizing this pogrom against members of Sri Lanka’s two Sri Lankan minority communities. The nation’s President and top ranking cabinet members publicly justifying the pogrom!”
(Introductory Paragraph from “Sri Lanka”The holocaust and After”by C.R. Hensman writing under the pseudonym L.Piyadasa)
