Sri Lanka's July Jinx: From Anti-Tamil Pogrom to Latest Crisis, Nation's Struggle With 'Black Mark' on History
News 18For Sri Lanka, the month of July continues to remain a “black mark” on its history that it tries to wash off but to no avail. This is also the month that is observed as ‘Black July’ by Sri Lankan Tamils after the anti-Tamil pogrom. On July 29, 1987, the India-Sri Lanka accord was signed by India’s then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President JR Jayawardene in an effort to resolve the Sri Lankan Civil war. A Supreme Court judgment by Judge KT Thomas also stated that Gandhi was killed by Prabhakaran as vengeance for sending the IPKF to Lanka and subsequent alleged IPKF atrocities against Sri Lankan Tamils. Cut to the present, Sri Lanka’s Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has said that embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will step down on July 13, another date in a month in which Sri Lanka has seen fallouts.
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