Relationship to other riots==  I have tagged this section with POV and Factual as I find no evidence that multiple race riots occurred in 1970's  What does the following mean , that S.W.R.D. 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 1958 under the leadership of Sinhala nationalist prime minister S.W.R.D. 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 1983.  ::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 1958 riots.[citation needed].    ==