![The Lasting Colonial Legacy of Sri Lanka’s Black July Pogroms](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/Association_of_Ceylon_Chiefs.jpg)
In the summer of 1983, ethnic violence swept the island nation of Sri Lanka. Known as Black July, the outbreak of communal violence between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority communities left thousands dead and hundreds missing. Four decades later, the legacy of the violence lives on, searing Sri Lanka‘s social and political landscape. This [...]