The charges consisted of : Both were imprisoned for life for these charges . Following imprisonment , They were allegedly subject to both physical and mental forms of torture . Dr. Rajasunderam was severely attacked , his left arm dislocated , his ear drums broken and left on several occasions unconscious on the floor . On 25 July 1983 , several Tamil inmates of the Welikada Prison , almost all of them exclusively detained under the PTA were attacked by Sinhala prisoners and guards as a part of the larger pogrom against Tamils . 35 including one 16-year-old were brutally murdered and dumped in front of a statue of the Buddha in the prison yard
pogrom against Tamils
Black July
Rajasundaram