Kalutara prison riots

Anti-Tamil pogroms
in Sri Lanka
Gal Oya (1956)
1958 pogrom
1977 pogrom
1981 pogrom
Black July (1983)

The Kalutara Prison Riots occurred on 12 December 1997, at the high-security prison in Kalutara, Sri Lanka.[1] Three minority Tamil political prisoners were killed by majority Sinhalese prisoners. No one has yet been convicted for these crimes.[2]

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