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The 33rd anniversary the Black July pogrom that claimed thousands of Tamil lives was commemorated in Jaffna this week.
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Northern Provincial Council members Ananthy Sasitharan and M K Shivajilingam organized the remembrance event, which took place at Nallur Temple in Jaffna.
Lighting lamps in remembrance, Mr Shivajilingam labelled the pogrom “a genocide with more than 3000 innocent Tamils massacred”.
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