The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and riots in Ceylon, also known as the 58 riots, refer to the first island-wide ethnic riots and pogrom to target the minority...
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The 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom, also known as the Gal Oya riots, was the first organised pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamils in the Dominion of Ceylon. It began...
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The 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka followed the 1977 general elections in Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalistic Tamil United Liberation...
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anti-Tamil pogrom or Gal Oya massacre/riots were the first ethnic riots that targeted the minority Tamils in independent Sri Lanka. 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom...
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rape of Tamil women by Sinhalese mobs were documented during the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom. This continued in the 1960s with the deployment of the Sri Lankan...
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Government. The leader of the LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran, cited the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom as one of the factors that led him to militancy. In 1975, he assassinated...
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of virulent anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka, the most infamous of which is the 1983 Black July pogrom, which killed more than 5000 Tamils in a single...
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List of riots in Sri Lanka (redirect from List of anti-minority pogroms in Sri Lanka)
Eastern Province. The total number of deaths was reportedly 150. 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom − Also known as the '58 riots. They were a watershed event for the...
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classified as pogroms. 1824: Providence, RI – Hard Scrabble Riots 1829: Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati riots of 1829 1829: Charlestown, Massachusetts – anti-Catholic...
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Black July (redirect from 1983 anti-Tamil riots)
Black July (Tamil: கறுப்பு யூலை, romanized: Kaṟuppu Yūlai; Sinhala: කළු ජූලිය, romanized: Kalu Juliya) was an anti-Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka...
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The 1983 anti Tamil pogrom in Trincomalee was organised violence by Sinhalese mobs and security forces, which targeted the Tamil population of Trincomalee...
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Sri Lankan civil war (redirect from Sri Lankan Tamil Dramas)
anti-Tamil pogrom and the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom, in which Sinhalese mobs attacked hundreds of Tamils in Sinhalese-majority areas. Sinhalese in Tamil-majority...
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Persecution (section Sri Lankan Tamils)
Widespread attacks on Sri Lankan Tamils came in the form of island wide ethnic riots, including The 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and the Black July riots. Further...
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livelihood of Sri Lankan Tamils since time immemorial. After anti-Tamil pogroms in 1956, 1958 and 1977 and police brutality against Tamils protesting against...
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Persecution of Buddhists (redirect from Anti-Buddhism)
Portuguese and Dutch East India Company respectively. During the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom, Tamil rioters attacked the Sri Naga Vihara in Jaffna and the Nagadeepa...
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individuals. Black July (Tamil: கறுப்பு யூலை, romanized: Kaṟuppu Yūlai; Sinhala: කළු ජූලිය, romanized: Kalu Juliya) was an anti-Tamil pogrom that occurred in...
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minority Tamil communities have been strained. Rising ethnic and political tensions following the Sinhala Only Act, along with ethnic pogroms carried out...
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Genocide of indigenous peoples (category Anti-indigenous racism)
individuals' informed consent. The crackdown on the Sri Lankan Tamils during the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and the Sri Lankan Civil War have been described as genocidal...
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Valvettithurai (category Articles containing Tamil-language text)
including their Thandayal (Tamil for sea captain) known as Kanagaratnam Thambapillai. As an effect of the 1958 anti-Tamil pogroms, severals students from...
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The 1985 anti-Tamil violence in Karaitivu refers to the organised violence directed at the Tamil civilian population of Karaitivu, Ampara by Sri Lankan...
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Karaiyar (category Social groups of Tamil Nadu)
as a result of government sponsored riots and acts such as the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom and the Standardisation act. Educated Karaiyar youths from Jaffna...
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language. The Tamils saw the act as linguistic, cultural and economic discrimination against them. Anti-Tamil pogroms in 1956 and 1958 resulted in deaths...
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4 February Independence is gained as the Dominion of Ceylon. 1958 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom 1971 1971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by...
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Welikada Prison Massacre took place during the 1983 Black July pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fifty-three prisoners were...
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Burning of Jaffna Public Library (category Anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka)
library was opened to the public. Sri Lanka portal 1980s portal 1981 Anti-Tamil pogrom Book burning Cultural genocide Destruction of Library of Alexandria...
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M. Karunanidhi (category CS1 Tamil-language sources (ta))
Amirthalingam, the head of the Tamil United Liberation Front. After 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom and 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom, his administration was at the forefront...
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separatist Tamil group LTTE killing 13 Sinhalese soldiers, the largest anti-Tamil pogrom occurred in 1983, leaving between 2,000 and 3,000 of Tamils killed...
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anti-Tamil pogrom in 1956 and 1958, the Tamil Conference incident in 1974, the Burning of Jaffna library by Sinhala politicians in 1981 and the anti-Tamil...
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Bindunuwewa massacre (category Anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka)
centre of Bindunuwewa, Sri Lanka, resulting in the deaths of 26 minority Tamil political prisoners by a mob of Sinhalese.[1] The low-security detention...
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