1956 anti-Tamil pogrom
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title:
1956 anti-Tamil pogrom
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The 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom, also known as the Gal Oya riots, was the first organised pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamils in the Dominion of Ceylon. It began with anti-Tamil rioting in Colombo, followed by anti-Sinhalese rioting in Batticaloa. The worst of the violence took place in the Gal Oya valley, where local majority Sinhalese colonists and employees of the Gal Oya Development Board commandeered government vehicles, dynamite and weapons and massacred minority Tamils. It is estimated that over
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First major Sinhalese-Tamil clash in Ceylon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_anti-Tamil_pogrom
date created:
2008-12-11T22:11:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T22:31:15Z
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