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There was also a series of anti-Tamil pogroms in 1977, following the United National Party's (UNP) coming to power, which further increased hostility. The quota affecting political representation became another cause for contention between Sinhalese and Tamil people. In 1972, the policy of standardization, which restricted Tamils' entry into universities, strained the already tenuous political relationship between the elites of the Tamil and Sinhalese communities. Throughout the 1960s, protests, and state repression in response, created further animosity. However, after the Tamil people gave an overwhelming mandate to the Tamil nationalist Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party), which had agreed to a subordinate status for the Tamil language, the leftist parties eventually abandoned their support for parity. Only the leftist parties opposed this, holding out for parity between the two languages. In 1958, the Tamil political leadership acquiesced to a formula of Sinhala as the official language, but with a 'reasonable use of Tamil' being allowed. Political parties and groups representing Tamil Sri Lankans felt that the implementation of the Sinhala Only Act deprived the Tamil populations in the north and east of the country of their right to fully participate in government and as an injustice against ethnic minorities. Protests against the Sinhala-only policy by Tamils and by the nation's leftist parties were met with mob violence that eventually escalated into the riots of 1958. This new act replaced English with Sinhala as the nation's official language. The use of Sinhala, spoken by 75 percent, and Tamil, spoken by 25 percent, had been restricted by various policies during the colonial period. Up until that time, English was the country's official language, despite being spoken by only five percent of the population.

In 1956, the Official Language Act, commonly known as the Sinhala Only Act, was introduced. Sinhalese leaders saw this imbalance as a problem that needed rectifying. By 1956, 50% of clerical jobs were held by Tamils, although they were a minority of the country's population. As a result the colonial administration recruited many English-speaking Tamils to the civil service and other professions on a merit basis. Main article: Origins of the Sri Lankan civil warĭuring the period of British colonial rule, many Sri Lankan Tamils, particularly those from the Jaffna peninsula, benefited greatly from educational facilities established by American missionaries. July became a period of remembrance for the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora community around the world. Black July is generally seen as the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War between the Tamil militants and the government of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Tamils fled to other countries in the ensuing years, and a large number of Tamil youth joined militant groups. The NGO International Commission of Jurists described the pogrom as a genocide in a report published in December 1983. The economic cost of the riots was estimated to be $300 million. Around 8,000 homes and 5,000 shops were destroyed. Estimates of the death toll range between 400 and 3,000, and 150,000 people became homeless. Over seven days, mainly Sinhalese mobs attacked, burned, looted, and killed Tamil civilians. On the night of 24 July 1983, anti-Tamil rioting started in the capital city of Colombo and then spread to other parts of the country. Although initially orchestrated by members of the ruling UNP, the pogrom soon escalated into mass violence with significant public participation. The pogrom was premeditated, and was finally triggered by a deadly ambush on 23 July 1983, which caused the death of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers, by the Tamil militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

We have added new Fire Tablets and Kobo e-readers and also some e-book deals.īestselling Kindle e-books $1.Black July ( Tamil: கறுப்பு யூலை, romanized: Kaṟuppu Yūlai Sinhala: කළු ජූලිය Kalu Juliya) was an anti- Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983. We have updated this list on 12 AM on Black Friday and will be updating it all day. We have put together a list of the best devices around so you can pick something up and save some money.

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