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Black July (Tamil: கறுப்பு யூலை, romanized: Kaṟuppu Yūlai; Sinhala: කළු ජූලිය, romanized: Kalu Juliya) was an anti-Tamil pogrom [5] that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983.
There has been a series 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 week. [2] [13] The International Commission of Jurists described the violence of the pogrom as having "amounted to acts of genocide" in a report published in December 1983. [9]
A scene of Kali Andhi. Black storms, locally called Kali Andhi, Kali Nheri in South Asia (Hindi: काली आँधी, Punjabi: کالی نھیری, Urdu: کالی آندھی, literal meaning: Black Storm) are violent dust squalls that occur in the late-spring in the northwestern parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain region of the Indian Subcontinent.
On 26 July 1956, S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, the leader of the Federal Party commented on the violence and expressed his wish for an investigation: "The Hon. Prime Minister announced that he was going to appoint a commission of inquiry into the riots at Gal Oya and elsewhere in the Batticaloa District.
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The social organization of the people of the Jaffna kingdom was based on a caste system and a matrilineal kudi system similar to the caste structure of South India. [72] [73] The Aryacakravarti kings and their immediate family claimed Brahma-Kshatriya status, meaning Brahmins who took to martial life. [74]