What the records say
- When
- 1977
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 300
- Coordinates
- 7.00° N, 81.00° E
- Description
- second islandwide Sinhalese-Tamil clash in Sri Lanka
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1977 anti-Tamil pogrom
Second islandwide Sinhalese-Tamil clash in Sri Lanka
The 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka followed the 1977 general elections in Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalistic Tamil United Liberation Front won a plurality of minority Sri Lankan Tamil votes. In the elections, the party stood for secession. An official government estimate put the death toll at 125, whereas other sources estimate that around 300 Tamils were killed by Sinhalese mobs.
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