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Sri Lanka: Remembering 23rd Of July 1983

Posted 23 July 2012 21:59 GMT

Shubha remembers the dark days of the Sinhalese-Tamil riots in Sri Lanka which began on the 23rd of July 1983, in the aftermath of a funeral of 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers, who were ambushed and killed by the LTTE in Jaffna.

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