Sri Lanka, Nov. 3 -- The 1983 communal riots, which are widely regarded as the immediate trigger for Sri Lanka's three-decade-long civil war, have come back into the political limelight, with 50 government MPs seeking a parliamentary inquiry into the incident.

In a motion placed on the Order Paper of Parliament, these legislators, including two Cabinet Ministers, Ramalingam Chandrasekar and Ananda Wijepala, ask for recommendations aimed at ensuring national harmony and providing relief to the affected people.

The MPs argue in the motion that it is the responsibility of the State to provide some just relief or dignified redress to all the people who were affected and aggrieved by the incident.

"The Black July, which took place in 1983,...