A story of a survivor: Black July 1983

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Dr. Colvin R Desilva (Doctrate in Political Science London): In Parliment, During the passing of the Sinhala Only Act in 1956, he spoke his famous last words: One language two nations or Two languages one nation. "Do we want a single nation or do we want two nations? Do we want a single state or do we want two? Do we want one Ceylon or do we want two? And above all, do we want an independent Ceylon which must necessarily be united and a single Ceylon, or two bleeding halves of Ceylon which can be gobbled up by every ravaging imperialist that may happen to range the Indian ocean? These are issues that in fact we have been discussing under the form and appearance of language issue."His predictions came true a few years later with the formation and subsequent civil war between the separatist movement and the Sri Lankan government, in 1971 with the JVP insurrection and the ceylon government closing the North Korean Embassy in Ceylon.