Relationship to other riots  I have tagged this section with POV and Factual as I find no evidence that multiple race riots occurred in s  What does the following mean  that SWRD Bandaranaike  organised these riots please take some care when editing the meanings not clear   Of the series of events the most notable one apart from the Black July event happened in  under the leadership of Sinhala nationalist prime minister SWRD Bandaranaike husband and father of Sri Lankan prime ministers Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Kumaratunga   The following sentences are stongly POV and have not been supported by references    Historians note it was the timely action of part Tamil Chief of Staff Brigadier Mutucumaru that saved the life of many Tamil civilians in the face of inaction by then government very reminiscent of what happened in   It has been reported that Vellupillai Prabhakaran leader of the LTTE became convinced of the need for armed struggle for Tamil independence from Sri Lanka because of the massacres and rapes in the  riotscitation needed