Genocide of Tamils

Aug 2005

Courtesy of Tamil Nation, BBC, Tamil Canadian, AP and several other websites

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This site is dedicated to the Tamil victims tortured, raped and murdered by the Sinhalese community.

"The violence was vicious and bloody. But what distinguished it from many other communal Asian riots was the way that the mob singled out specific business premises. In street after street in Colombo groups of rioters hit only at shops and factories, as well as homes owned by Tamils. Their careful selectivity is apprarent now. In each street individual business premises were burnt down while others alongside stand unscathed. Troops and police (almost exclusively Sinhalese) either joined the rioters or stood idly by.The events were so well organised no one doubts that there was a master list of targets."

-Financial Times, 12 August 1983

''A 28 year old housewife, who returned from a Sri Lanka holiday with her husband and two daughters said the huts Tamils lived had been 'cleanly burned out', the arsonists evidently being anxious to ensure that no Sinhalese property was damaged.''

-Hindu, 29 July 1983

''The rioters seeking out Tamil homes and burning them had a particularly detailed knowledge of who lived where and who owned what.''

-London Times, 8 August 1983

"Motorists were dragged from their cars to be stoned and beaten with sticks... Others were cut down with knives and axes."

-London Daily Telegraph 26 July 1983

"Mobs of Sinhala youth rampaged through the streets, ransacking homes, shops and offices, looting them and setting them ablaze, as they sought out members of the Tamil ethnic minority."

- London Daily Telegraph 26 July 1983

"In Pettah, the old commercial heart of the city, row after row of sari boutiques, electronic dealers, rice sellers, car parts stores, lie shattered and scarred... Government officials yesterday estimated 20,000 businesses had been attacked in the city"

-London Guardian 28 July 1983