Forbidden history: Black July
Black July is the name used to refer to the anti-Tamil pogroms and riots in srilanka during July 1983. It left anywhere between 3000 - 6000 Tamils dead and over one and half million Tamils homeless and displaced. Chapter 1: The time of the monarchs Long before the times of Christ, it is said that people from various parts of India migrated to the tiny island of srilanka. One such group travelled from Bengal with a prince who was exiled by his father and another left the southern parts of India to a new home, which they would have hope held a future of peace. It is believed that the men from Bengal were the first to reach the island around 500 B.C. The other group made there not longer after - sometime around 350 B.C. There are other scholars who claim that it was people from Southern India (all of whom then spoke various dialects of Tamil, which has now become Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam) who reached the island first. There is no way to ascertain who were the first immigra...