Welikada prison massacre

The Welikada Prison Massacre took place during the 1983 Black July pogrom against Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Fifty-three prisoners were killed inside a high-security prison.[1] No one has been convicted of crimes relating to these incidents.[2]

  1. ^ Welikada Massacre Colombo Telegraph – 9 August 2019
  2. ^ Govt. yet to pay compensation to July '83 victims Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine Daily News Lanka – 30 March 2004