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70 Years On: The First Act of Ethnic Cleansing in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's government launched its first post-independence act of ethnic cleansing against Tamils during the 1956 Gal Oya pogrom. It used discriminatory policies, state-sponsored Sinhalese colonisation, and official complicity in anti-Tamil violence to reshape the North-East's demographics, deepen ethnic conflict, and lay the foundations for decades of war and displacement.
