Black July

Witness History: Archive 2013 - Een podcast door BBC World Service

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In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka. Hundreds, possibly thousands of Tamils were killed in the capital Colombo. The violence ended after a few days, but the killings had sparked off a civil war which would last for more than quarter of a century.(Photo: The aftermath of the violence in a street in Colombo. Credit: Associated Press)

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