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Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka Forestry Institute opened in Nuwara Eliya colombopage.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from colombopage.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Forty years ago, mobs in Sri Lanka burned 13 people alive, part of a week-long pogrom that turbocharged simmering ethnic unrest into all-out civil war.-'Pogrom' - Ethnic tensions between the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese majority and the largely Hindu and Christian Tamil minority had long simmered, and worsened after ex-colonial ruler Britain quit in 1948. ....
The Black July massacre occurred in Sri Lanka 40 years ago, accelerating ethnic tensions and leading to a 26-year civil war that caused 100,000 deaths and delayed the country s development. The violence started after an attack by Tamil rebels on Sinhalese soldiers in 1983, with the backlash targeting largely Hindu and Christian Tamils. The Tamil minority still dreams of political autonomy, with successive governments "promising and not doing," according to Tamil legislator M. A. Sumanthiran. ....