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And my parents were buddhist and we lived, grew up with buddhist temples. then in 1983, when the southern sri lankans, mostly buddhists, began to attack innocent tamils in the country, and i saw it happening right in front of my eyes. i could not make sense of it. you know, what i was experiencing what i was seeing was so horrible, i had no words to understand it. because i m part of that problem you know, these are the buddhists, these are the sinhalese, of my group, my community, attacking these tamils. so that was the turning point. and i realised that we justified those attacks, that violence, by way of a particular past and a particular history and the idea of the religion. it is the 1983 blackjuly riots in the southern parts of sri lanka, in colombo, which escalated the war. that attack on innocent tamils in colombo, in wellawatte, which i saw. ....
In 1983, when the mostly buddhists began to attack innocent tamils in the country, and i saw it happen right in front of my eyes. i could not make sense of it, what i was experiencing, what i was seeing was horrible, i had no words to understand it because i am part of that problem. are the buddhists, these are the sinhalese, of my group, my community, attacking these tamils. so that was the turning point. and i realised we justified those attacks, that violence, by way of a particular past and a particular history and the idea of the religion. it is the 1983 blackjuly riots in the southern parts of sri lanka, in colombo, which escalated the war. that attack on innocent tamils in colombo, in wellawatte, which i saw. you re referring, of course, to 1983 when the civil war broke out between the tamil ....
And we lived, grew up with buddhist temples. then in 1983, when the southern sri lankans, mostly buddhists, began to attack innocent tamils in the country, and i saw it happening right in front of my eyes. i could not make sense of it. you know, what i was experiencing what i was seeing was so horrible, i had no words to understand it. because i m part of that problem you know, these are the buddhists, these are the sinhalese, of my group, my community, attacking these tamils. so that was the turning point. and i realised that we justified those attacks, that violence, by way of a particular past and a particular history and the idea of the religion. it is the 1983 blackjuly riots in the southern parts of sri lanka, in colombo, which escalated the war. that attack on innocent tamils in colombo, in wellawatte, which i saw. ....