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Sri Lanka blocks Black July inquiry, picks its own committee
Sri Lanka blocks Black July inquiry, picks its own committee by Thara Thu, 05/11/2026 - 15:51 Body Sinhala mobs burn Tamil property in Colombo during the Black July pogrom in 1983. File photograph A government MP has moved to set up a parliamentary select committee on the 1983 Black July pogrom, weeks after the Sri Lankan government blocked a Tamil MP’s call for a presidential commission of inquiry into the killing of thousands of Tamils. National People’s Power (NPP) Jaffna MP Rajeevan Jeyachandramoorthy was due to present the proposal in Parliament on Tuesday (3 November), according to repo…