Sri Lanka: Report on a Visit to Sri Lanka (1983)

Amnesty International · Amnesty International (1983)

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Amnesty's contemporaneous Tier-A report on Black July, the Welikada prison killings of 25 and 27 July 1983, and the conditions of Tamil detainees under the PTA. Together with the ICJ 1983 report and Tambiah 1986, the primary international documentary record of the pogrom.

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https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa37/001/1983/en/

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