SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Government backs racist pogrom in Sri Lanka

Socialist Action No. 20, 29 July 1983 · p. 12 of the scan · 312 words

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Stop the M Oiset (TU) Ltd, London E2 THE NATIONAL Front have declared their intention to return to Tottenham on Saturday 30 July.

Earlier this year, in May, the NF held a bymeeting High Cross School in the of TotThey were defended by hundreds of police and groups of their Instant Response Unit whot violently attacked the counter-demonstrators, making 35 arrests.

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Their intention Saturday is to hold a raly at the school and lay Posters Posters up all over London white patriots' which assembles at 12 noon, Tottenham Hale, tion Road, N17 on Saturday 30 July. RIOTERS went on the rampage in Colombo, Sri Lanka this week killing scores of the minoriTamil-speaking people and destroying their property.

Press reports indicate that government security forces did little to prevent the pogrom. Other reports indicated that there had been a of Tamil prisoners held under the island's infamous Prevention of Terrorism Act at the Welikade prison.

The 3.5 million Tamils in Ceylon are demanding greater autonomy. The government have met their demands, with repression, exposed in an Amnesty International report published this month, by sanctioning mob violence against the Tamils.

The Tamils have fought back Tamil youth have engaged in armed actions organised by "Tigers' "Tigers' ambushed and killed 13 government troops last weekend INDIA Bay of India after four Tamil women were raped providing the occasion for the Colombo It will take some time for the true extent of this week's killings to become known since police able to bury • or cremate bodies without enquiry o Civil rights lawyers have described this as a 'licence to kill'.

The Tamil conmunity in organising protests against the killthe repressive actions of the More information can be obtained from the Sr Lanka Research and nformation Group , 9 Grays Inn Buildings Roseberr) Avenue, London ECI.

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