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REMEMBRANCE DAY STATE TERROR BLACK JULY OF 1983 REVISITED

At a time when Sri Lankan Tamils were seeking refuge from the violence and political persecution of Sri Lanka’s Anti-Tamil Pogrom of July 1983, there is one day in the year when we make a special effort to remember upon this one day, we remember those that suffered, those that fought, and those that died. TELO Leaders and Fifty three Tamil prisoners were murdered in the maximum security Welikade prison and 3000 Tamils were slaughtered for no reason other than the fact that they were Tamils.

TELO Admin