The caption reads:
"..The July 1983 massacres took place over the course of several days. After the first wave of violence, rumors were spreading that the Tigers were coming to Colombo. That’s when things got really bad.
Moumita Ahmed Closing Remarks at Leading Communities of Care
Moumita Ahmed, New York City Council for District 24, recited a poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam, a rebel Bengali poet famous for anticolonial poetry, in which she tells the audience of Leading Communities of Care to rise up for the rights of the South Asian community.