Kalutara prison riots

The Kalutara Prison Riots occurred on December 12, 1997, at the high-security prison in Kalutara, Sri Lanka. Three minority Tamil political prisoners were killed by majority Sinhalese prisoners. No one has yet been convicted for these crimes.

Anti-Tamil pogroms in Sri Lanka
Gal Oya (1956)
1958 pogrom
1977 pogrom
Black July (1983)

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Coups, rebellions, and revolts in Sri Lanka

Attempted
coups and
rebellions

Monarchical Sri Lanka	Velakkara revolt (1084) First Polonnaruwa War of Succession (1110-1153) Queen Sugala rebellion (1157–1158) Ruhuna Rebellion (1160) Rajarata Rebellion (1168) Second Polonnaruwa War of Succession (1186–1187) Kandyan independence movement (1470s) Kangara arachchi Revolt (1603) 1st Kuruvita rala Revolt (1603) 2nd Kuruvita rala Revolt (1616–1619) Nikapitiye Bandara Revolt (1616–1617)
British Ceylon	Sri Lankan independence movement Great Rebellion of 1817–1818 (1817–1818) Matale rebellion (1848) Temperance movement (1895) Suriya-Mal Movement (1933–1939) Cocos Islands mutiny (1942)
Sri Lanka (1948–present)	1962 Ceylonese coup d'état attempt (1962) 1966 alleged Ceylonese coup d'état attempt (1966) 1971 JVP insurrection (1971) Sri Lankan Civil War (1983) 1987–1989 JVP insurrection (1987–1989) 2015 alleged Sri Lankan coup d'état attempt (2015) 2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis (2018)

Riots and
civil disorder

1915 Ceylonese riots (1915)
1953 Ceylonese Hartal (1953)
1956 Ceylonese riots (1956)
1958 Ceylonese riots (1958)
1977 Sri Lankan riots (1977)
Burning of Jaffna Public Library (1981)
Black July (1983)
Welikada prison massacre (1983)
1987 Trincomalee riots (1987)
Kalutara prison riots (1997)
Bindunuwewa massacre (2000)
Mawanella riots (2001)
Beruwala riots (2002)
2012 Welikada prison riot (2012)
2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka (2014)
2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka (2018)
2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka (2019)
Mahara prison riot (2020)

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