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The film is about a true story of a Sri Lankan Tamil doctor named Siva. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dheepan (2015) - A French crime drama film directed by Jacques Audiard tells the story of three Tamil refugees who flee the civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka and come to France, in the hope of reconstructing their lives.
There has been a series of virulent anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka, the most infamous of which is the 1983 Black July pogrom, which killed more than 5000 Tamils in a single week. [2] [13] The International Commission of Jurists described the violence of the pogrom as having "amounted to acts of genocide" in a report published in December 1983. [9]
The Mullivaikkal massacre was the mass killing of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils in 2009 during the closing stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which ended in May 2009 in a tiny strip of land in Mullivaikkal, Mullaitivu. The Sri Lankan government had designated a no-fire zone in Mullivaikkal towards the end of the war.
The 1989 Valvettiturai massacre occurred on 2 and 3 August 1989 in the small coastal town of Valvettiturai, on the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka. Sixty-four Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were killed by soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. The massacre followed an attack on the soldiers by rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. The ...
Veeramunai is a rural village in the Ampara District situated within the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.Most of the 4000 residents were Sri Lankan Tamils and were farmers. On 15 April 1954, a Muslim mob from neighbouring Sammanthurai (population size ~ 40,000) burned down nearly every house in Veeramunai after a Muslim magistrate was stabbed trying to settle a drunken quarrel between two Tamil ...
1984 Point Pedro massacre refers to the massacre of ethnic Sri Lankan Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Police in Point Pedro, a town in Northern Province, Sri Lanka.Police violence resulted in the deaths of at least 18 Tamils and also a high damage to the local property.
The 1981 anti-Tamil pogrom occurred in Sri Lanka during the months of June, July and August 1981. Organised Sinhala mobs looted and burnt Tamil shops and houses in Jaffna, Ratnapura, Balangoda, Kahawatte, Colombo and in the border villages in the Batticaloa and Amparai districts.
Soon after the explosion, the Sri Lanka Army soldiers went on a rampage, shooting at Tamil civilians and burning down houses and shops until about 8:30am. The house of Kathiramalai, the local head of the Sarvodaya voluntary organisation, was the first to be targeted for attack and his family members were shot dead. [6]