Remembering the 1958 pogrom

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Tamil Guardian's reference page on the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom, anchored on Tarzie Vittachi's contemporary book Emergency '58: The Story of the Ceylon Race Riots (1958). Pairs as the Tamil-source counterpart to the Sinhala-majority documentary record.

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