Ethnic Conflict and Violence in Sri Lanka (1983)

International Commission of Jurists (Virginia Leary) · ICJ (1983)

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ICJ's contemporaneous Tier-A documentation of the Black July 1983 pogrom. Established the use of electoral rolls to identify Tamil households, the organised nature of the attacks, and the passive or facilitative role of segments of the police and military in many incidents. Cited by Tambiah 1986, by OISL 2015, and by the case file in /case/suppression/black-july-1983.

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https://www.icj.org/wp-content/uploads/1984/04/Sri-Lanka-violence-1983.pdf

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