Photos selected by Michael Roberts & Rendered Accessible by David Sansoni of Sydney
Commencing with a ‘shot’ of passers-by and ordinary citizens assaulting and ridiculing a Tamil person at Galle Road in Colpetty
… seconded by Chandragupta Amerasinghe’s striking picture of the assailants and killers at Borella Junction where the pogrom began on the weekend when the Army personnel killed in Jaffna were scheduled for burial [a remarkable, brave & ingenious snapshot act because those snapped were killers on the rampage]
Tamil residents of Colombo as refugees in their own city
These images have been inserted as an act of consciousness-raising in support of the arguments and data served up by Sugath Kulatunga in his articles this week within TPS on Black Monday and Black Friday in July 1983.