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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 20098456" data-attributes="member: 79514"><a href="http://pact.lk/24-july-1983/" target="_blank">24 July 1983</a>                                                Issues:                  <a href="http://pact.lk/issues/civilian-deaths/" target="_blank">Civilian deaths</a>, <a href="http://pact.lk/issues/communal-violence/" target="_blank">Communal violence</a>, <a href="http://pact.lk/issues/diaspora/" target="_blank">Diaspora</a>, <a href="http://pact.lk/issues/emergency-rule/" target="_blank">Emergency rule</a>, <a href="http://pact.lk/issues/human-rights/" target="_blank">Human rights</a> | 83,938 views | by                  <a href="http://pact.lk/author/pact/" target="_blank">pact team</a>                                                                             <a href="http://pact.lk/24-july-1983/" target="_blank">Widespread anti-Tamil communal violence, remembered as 'Black July'</a>                                              Anti-Tamil riots break out in parts of Colombo, and later spread  to other areas, lasting one week. The riots are in response to the  killing of 13 soldiers by the Tamil Tigers in Jaffna. The event is later  remembered as 'Black July'. Estimates of Tamil deaths vary from 387  (official figures) to 3,000 Tamils; 18,000 Tamil homes and 5,000 shops  were destroyed. Over 100,000 Tamils fled to India.  A state of emergency  is imposed.                                                                    <a href="http://pact.lk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/304.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://pact.lk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/304-197x300.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://pact.lk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/305.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://pact.lk/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/305-300x216.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Courtesy of the Sahajeevana Centre</blockquote>

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