05 Rioters, 1983 Borella Colombo

 

Photo by Chandragupta Amarasinghe

 

5. RIOTING MOB CELEBRATE AT SCENE OF VIOLENCE, Borella Junction, Colombo, 24/25 July 1983

 

These are bystanders as well as perpetrators of violence of the attacks on persons and properties deemed Tamil at Borella immediately after the funeral of 13 soldiers at Kanatte cemetery nearby. This was the scene of the initial attacks that sparked off the pogrom of July 1983, a horrendous episode involving both state functionaries and a small minority of the Sinhala populace,

 

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