"...suffering in common unifies more than joy does.
Where national memories are concerned, griefs are of more value than
triumphs, for they impose duties, and require a common effort...A nation is
therefore a large-scale solidarity, constituted by the feeling of
the sacrifices that one has made in the past and of those that one
is prepared to make in the future..."
Ernest Renan in What is
a nation? 1882
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2008 |
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South African Tamils
commemorate Black July, 25 July 2008
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Rally in Sydney, 25 July 2008
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British Tamils Forum - Candlelight Vigil,
24 July 2008
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Rally in Washington, USA 24 July 2008
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25th
Anniversary of July 83 commemorated in Zurich, 13 July 2008
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25th Anniversary of Genocide'83 in
Amsterdam, 23 July 2008
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Lest
We Forget - Charles Somasundrum, 23 July 2008
"I give these few examples
from personal knowledge, to show that Black July was not just a
passing incident. Readers will themselves, be aware of many more
such incidents where they were involved or where friends or kin
were involved. These incidents must never be forgotten. They
should be passed on to children and grandchildren. I see a time
in a free Eelam when the 23rd of July will be observed by all Eelamites, who
will remember the many acts of Tamil heroism in the face of a bloodthirsty
Sinhala mob, which was aware that they had the state behind them."
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July 1983 Pogrom - Victims and Rascals
- Sachi Sri Kantha, 23 July 2008
"American humorist Russell Baker (born 1925) once wrote in his column, “History
is constantly being revised these days. It’s because there is a glut of
historians. Revising history is the only way to keep them busy” It is
unfortunate that the anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983 also has
been a victim of distortions in the hands of licensed Sinhalese
historians. .. That the virulent seeds for the anti-Tamil pogrom
of 1983 were sown nearly nine months earlier in the first
executive presidential election held in October 20, 1982 was
noted by a few international journalists ...
The Wall Street Journal of Oct.29, 1982, editorially commented on
President Jayewardene’s victory with an irreverent caption, “Sri
Lanka Keeps Its Rascals In”..."
more
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2007 |
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கனடாவில் கறுப்பு ஜூலை நினைவாக 'சாவிலும் வாழ்வோம்", 25 July
2007
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'83
Black July Rememberance Vigil in Melbourne 25 July 2007
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Peace Rally by Tamil Americans - Capitol Hill,
Washington , 23 July 2007 - "We, the Tamil Americans, hereby proclaim that Eelam Tamils
constitute a Nation"
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சுவிசில்
கறுப்பு ஜூலை நினைவாக "சாவிலும் வாழ்வோம்" நினைவு கூரல், 22 July 2007
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2006 |
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Sri Lanka's Week
of Shame - July 1983 Massacre: Long Term Consequences,
Brian Senewiratne, 23 July 2006 |
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Black July remembrance held in Australian cities,
July 2006 |
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சாவிலும் வாழ்வோம்
கறுப்பு யுலை நினைவு கூர்வு [சிட்னியல் கறுப்பு யுலை நினைவு நிகழ்வில்
ஆற்றிய உரை] - M.Thanapalasingham, 23 July 2006 |
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Ana Pararajasingham
- Remembering Black July 1983 - Address at a public meeting in Sydney
attended by Australian Parliamentarians, 23 July 2006 |
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Mass Rally at Hyde Park,
London on 25 July 2006 organised by Tamil Youth Organisation, United Kingdom
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Thousands gather in Hyde Park remembrance, 25 July
2006 |
 Black July in Switzerland - July 2006
சுவிசில் நடைபெற்ற கறுப்பு யூலை - 2006 நிகழ்வின் படத்தொகுப்பு
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On 23rd Anniversary of Genocide'83
Precursor to what was to befall on Tamils
on Black July in 1983, Esan Satkunarajah, 23 July 2006
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On 23rd Anniversary of Genocide'83
Remembering Black July Of The Failed State, Dr J.S.A Jeyaretnam,
12 July 2006
On 23rd Anniversary of Genocide'83
Former Sri Lanka President J.R. Jayawardene's liability
- Statement by Asian Human Rights Commission 17 July 2006 together with
comment by tamilnation.org
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On 23rd Anniversary of Genocide'83
Black July 1983:
An Epochal Episode In Tamil Freedom Fight, Dharakan, 30 June 2006
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Thousands
of Tamil Canadians Say Thank You to Canada as they Remember "Black
July"
Video
Presentation |
| 2004 |
| 21st Anniversary of Genocide'83
Commemorated in Jaffna - 25 July 2004 - "The post Black July witnessed an
exodus of tens of thousands of Tamils to western countries and neighbouring
Tamil Nadu state in
India as refugees"... |
| On 21st Anniversary of Genocide'83 -
Revisiting the White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) Editorials on the anti-Tamil
riots of July 1983 - Sachi Sri Kantha, 24 July 2004 |
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Sri Lanka President Kumaratunga's 'Apology' for Genocide'83, 25 July 2004 |
| On 21st Anniversary of Genocide'83
Facing up to the dark legacy of state-sponsored riots - Asian
Human Rights Commission |
| 2003 |
| On 20th Anniversary of Genocide'83 -
Twenty years on - riots that led to war - Frances Harrison, BBC correspondent in
Colombo, 23 July 2003 |
| 2001 |
| On 18th Anniversary of Genocide'83 -
"The Memory of July 1983 Anti-Tamil Pogrom Must Remain High" - Asian Human
Rights Commission |
| 2000 |
| On 17th Anniversary of Genocide'83 - State Terror: Black July
'83 Revisited - Ana Pararajasingham, 23 July 2000 |
| 1999 |
| On 16th Anniversary of Genocide'83
எண்பத்து முன்று ஜூலை..
- A Poem by Raj Swarnan |
| 1998 |
| On 15th Anniversary of Genocide'83 -
Year 16: the Holocaust Continues - S
Sathananthan & Sabiha Sumar, 28 July 1998 |
| On 15th Anniversary of Genocide'83 -
The Charge is
Genocide - the Struggle is for Freedom... Nadesan Satyendra, 18 July 1998
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| 1994 |
| On 11th Anniversary of Genocide'83 -
Demonstration in London, 23 July 1983 |
| 1993 |
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On 10th Anniversary of Genocide'83 - London
Demonstration & Meeting at Trafalgar Square, 24 July 1993 |
| On 10th Anniversary of Genocide'83
"No
inquiry, leave alone an impartial one, has been held into the admittedly planned
violence against the Tamil people" - Letter to UK Prime Minister from
International Federation of Tamils, 24 July 1993 |
| 1991 |
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On 8th Anniversary of Genocide'83 - London
March by International Federation of Tamils, 20 July 1991 |
| 1984 |
| On 1st Anniversary of Genocide'83"
No impartial inquiry has taken
place" - more than 50 British Members of Parliament, in the Guardian, 28 July
1984 |
