Events highlighted include the Disenfranchisement of Indian Origin Tamils in 1948 which stripped them of citizenship , the Sinhala Only Act and the ensuing anti-Tamil pogrom in 1956 and 1958 , the Tamil Conference incident in 1974 , the Burning of Jaffna library by Sinhala politicians in 1981 and the anti-Tamil pogroms in 1977 and 1983 all of which had occurred before the rise of an organized Tamil military struggle
Tamil Conference incident
1974 Tamil conference incident
2015 Northern Province Council resolution on genocide of Tamils