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The event which came to be known as ‘Black July’ started off after the LTTE ambushed a Sri Lankan military convoy on the 23rd of July outside Jaffna, in Northern Sri Lanka. The attack results in 15 Sinhalese soldiers dying. In order to prevent repercussions from the majority Sinhalese populations, the government decided to bury the soldiers on the sly in Colombo. However, this didn’t go according to plan as the Sinhalese population gained knowledge of the LTTE attack and deaths that occurred as a result. As a result, Tamil homes were burnt, Sinhalese mobs killed and looted in vengeance for the deaths of the Sinhalese soldiers. Many of the Tamil minority felt unsafe in a place they had once called home, thus deciding to leave the country. Nevertheless, the majority of the Sinhalese people did in fact try to help them regardless of the actions of the Sinhalese mobs by granting them sanctuary in their own houses.
Source: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~perer20p/classweb/Politics%20-%20World%20Politics/originethnicconflict.html
