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- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C 

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'83 Black July Rememberance Vigil in Melbourne

[see also Sanmugam Sabesan - ஜூலை 1983 – ஜூலை 2007 – எதிர் விளைவுகள் 
and Indictment Against Sri Lanka: Genocide '83 ]


 Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at Melbourne City Square
(Cnr of Swanston St. & Collins Street), from 2.30pm till 6.00pm.
Contact: Sivakumar - 9803 4554; 0404 894 591

Remembering July 1983

 

"Clearly this was not a spontaneous upsurge of communal hatred among the Sinhala people.. It was a series of deliberate acts, executed in accordance with a concerted plan, conceived and organised well in advance. But who were the planners?... Communal riots in which Tamils are killed, maimed, robbed and rendered homeless are no longer isolated episodes; they are beginning to become a pernicious habit." Paul Sieghart Q.C. in his  Report of a Mission to Sri Lanka on behalf of the International Commission of Jurists and its British Section, Justice, March 1984

"Under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, acts of murder committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such are considered as acts of genocide. The evidence points clearly to the conclusion that the violence of the Sinhala rioters on the Tamils (in July/August 1983) amounted to acts of genocide."The International Commission of Jurists Review, December 1983

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