Black Lives Matter and Reflections From a Civil War: The everyday discrimination against black people in the United States bears frightening similarities to the suppression of Tamils in Sri Lanka

Citation: Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. “Black Lives Matter and Reflections From a Civil War.” SAPIENS, November 22, 2016, sec. Essay / Reflections.

Excerpt: “The Black Lives Matter movement is seeking to put an end to the inequities faced by blacks in the United States. In Sri Lanka, the failure to redress unfair policies leveled against the Tamil people led to civil war.”