Seeing Beyond the Black Smoke of July 1983 . by Thomas Johnpulle."In 1971 there were 25,000 Sinhalas in the Jaffna district but after the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 and resultant racial violence, this number fell to around 4,000. Then it fell to zero where it remains until this day. By 1991 there were over 30,000 Muslims until they too were wiped out from Jaffna and today their number is zero."