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Initially, the government responded by saying that the detainees had rioted and that the massacre was an outcome of an attempt to control the rioting. Then it was claimed that the police were unable to protect the detainees in the face of superior mob force. Eventually, the government charged a few
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It was organised by the military establishment to thwart an attempt by the detainees to go on hunger strike in the subsequent days to protest their detention.
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190:It was organised by local Sinhala
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