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Stark Images of Ethnic Retribution & Violence in Colombo, late July 1983 Source:Thuppahis Photos selected by Michael Roberts & Rendered Accessible by David Sansoni of Sydney Commencing with a ‘shot’ of passers-by and ordinary citizens assaulting and ridiculing a Tamil person at Galle Road in Colpetty … seconded by Chandragupta Amerasinghe’s striking picture of the assailants and killers at Borella Junction where the pogrom began on the weekend when the Army personnel killed in Jaffna were scheduled for burial [a remarkable, brave & ingenious snapshot act because those snapped were killers on the rampage] Tamil residents of Colombo as refugees in their own city  Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly to your inbox! ...