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'Who are the real culprits lehind the re:Cernt är ti-TaT i wiol Eric pe ir Sri Lanka? The government, hawing initially bla merci it or "Some powerful foreign power" an e Luph ETT IST I for Soviet i 'rhion), has now Commern Ceda CarTipaign of Willifying three left parties. Others have operly accused Sections of the governTient party itself, The attempt by President Jayawardena to hold an all-Party Colference on 20th July to "eliminate terrorism" collapsed Wher all Coppositior parties boycotte it. Agreeing to a suggestion by the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) to enlarge the scope of the Corference with a view to discussing all matters pertaining to the "Tam|| problem", the President sumToled another all-party Conference to be held on 27th July, ACCording to Mr. H.W..Jayawardene, the orther of the Presiciert who was se 11 as speciāle Tissary to le, Deli, the Presdent had intended to place the following five points for Consideration by the CuifETECE: " Full impler Tertation of District Dewelpe: Čin:i avs ard possible InCrease | r the Co LITTcils' powers,
The use of Tamil language as a rational langLage as provided in the Constitution: "Ameristy for political detainees provided the uSE of Wille Ce is aboardcored: " Discriti III ing the active ricola of the armed forces it the northern province
Ice the LSE of violence is elded; " Repeal of the Prevertior. Of Terroris IT Act. Presumably these were matters whic the Preside it had previously discussed With the leadership of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), But what the Presiderit had not reckoned with were the evil forces he had been assiduously nurturing and surrounding himself with over the years. In fact these forces had grown in strength with an abundance of state patronage and Tinisterial support. Using the Opportunity of the ambush in Jaffna on July 23 in which 13 soldiers were killed, the long-hatched plan of genocidal attack upon the Tamils was
pLit int0 BITTediati The President wait ard nights Df Hrs Dr and plunder before capitulate to the foi him. He was confrc alliance of sor Tie C Party stal Warts, se forces and above all of the Buddhist clerg Taasures agaist | leaders, They want tha" clamour al II Siri hala DECople'" Wt Finding common c forces, le nie wet ut noLucing the insan been unleashed aga Instead, his speech Terit to further violi Guardian correspor David Bergsford, C Presider's secord "The Presis grits le SPEEC:h was 1 otwa again he failed spe tl1E ELgrorm against INCONTROWERTE There is controve the plan for the Jl HTTil penple Was details 'worked uut C:rjade : Tid i Lulları within the governm duals concerned g echelors.
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3 effect. ed for four long days and Turder, pillage e Castle of TW to Ces that Surrounded inted with an unholy hf his Ministers, Hi5 :tions of the security text:Ste: y da Tamding extreme ha Tamils and their ed hiri" to give if to at Liral requst of the ich he dutifully did. a Lise with the sa e w|| ttered One Word dele Witold ITE: that had inst the Tamil people, I Was an encourage2il Ce, SO IT! Llch 50 till 12 ICET't fror' Columbo, Immeriting after FH TW appearance said, ng thy and rambling 'i rtii' I r t Flat brice cifically to Conde Tırı the Ta Til Illinority" LE EW|DENCE !ft ble E'will CE that ily Tlassacre of the Traster Thirdel af ld and executed with sa wagery by forces ir 5. - O right to the top
up locateri I Netheri Fi rE3p)" r"T bxa sed Jri S, ir Side i för Tätilo 1, ions, telex Tassages ich directly implicat=
of the rulirig party :s, So The Buddhist of the armed forces, Јгnexpectedly, figuris the Minister of
Collod-bl o odded ar 1 (d the July anti-Tamil iser of State, Mr. ris, iri His T Waddress
of 29th July said:
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WHEN Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sent his lawyer-brother, Mr. H.W. Jayawardene, to New Delhi and later “welcomed' the good offices of India to commence negotiations on the “Tamil problem'', it aroused a degree of hope in peoples' minds. The Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, having emphasised India's “natural concern' over the atrocities committed against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka, asserted that the problem called for immediate solution and pin-pointed two matters: (a) the question of the security of the life and property of the Tamils, and (b) the long term solution to the vexed question of Sinhala-Tamil relations. She promptly despatched her much respected and experienced foreign policy consultant, Mr. G. Parthasarathy, to Colombo for talks with the Sri Lankan President.
The President, in a press interview, is now reported to have said that the Tamil question was purely an internal matter and that India had no role to play. To the Tamil people of Sri Lanka, the conduct of the President has come as no surprise. Such back-tracking and breach of faith are characteristic of Mr. Jayawardene or, for that matter, of all previous Sri Lankan governments. Betrayed time and time again, very few Tamils can possibly harbour any more illuSOS.
At the time of negotiations with Britain for Independence, the Sinhala leaders agreed that the Tamil plantation population should be allocated 11 seats in the independent parliament. In 1948, within one year after independence, the United National Party (UNP) government deprived the “Indian' Tamils of their franchise and citizenship rights, thus rendering them voteless, voiceless and stateless overnight. At the time of independence and until almost 1956, the UNP and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the two mainstream Sinhala political parties, accepted the policy that English should be replaced by Sinhala and Tamil as official languages. But suddenly, in total defiance of Tamil opinion, Sinhala was declared the only official language in 1956 with the support of these two parties.
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In 1957, the then Prime Minister, the late Mr. S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, entered into a pact (B-C Pact) with the Tamil Federal Party leader, the late Mr. S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, primarily on three matters concerning the Tamil people - the question of the use of Tamil language in the administration of the country, setting up of regional councils for the northern and eastern provinces where Tam ils predominated, and the question of Colonisation and land distribution in these tWO provinces. This pact was unilaterally abrogated by Mr. Bandaranaike under pressure from racist sections of the Buddhist clergy, ably assisted by the present President, Mr. Jayawardene. In 1965, again the then Prime Minister, the late Mr. Dudley Senanayake, entered into an agreement with the late Mr. Chelvanayakam on some of the issues covered by the B-C Pact. This agreement too was not honoured. The present President was returned to power in July 1977 with a massive majority upon an election manifesto which declared that an all-party conference will be summoned to solve, without loss of time, Tamil grievances relating to discrimination in the use of Tamil language, colonisation and land distribution, employment in the state sector and higher education. This election pledge has not been fulfilled. The President has had long and protracted negotiations with the leadership of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) since August 1977. But neither he nor his government has done anythingtangible to implement any of the agreed proposals. The current prevarication and dilly-dallying by the President on the subject of using the “good offices' of the Indian government are in full accord with the reputation that successive Sri Lankan governments have built over the years that they can never be trusted. The Tamil people of Sri Lanka knew it all along. India and the world will come to realise this soon if they have not done so already. The unacceptable demand that the TULF should abandon “separatism' as a precondition for the commencement of talks is only a convenient excuse to wriggle out of the situation.
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LAST LETTER TO PRESIDENT
WE WILL C STRUGGLE TO
His Excellency J. R. Jayewardene President,
Colombo.
August 1983.
Your Excellency, Since your Excellency was elected to power in July 1977, have had occasion to write several letters to place before you various problems affecting the Tamil people. My colleagues and I have met Your Excellency and your ministers on numerous occasions to discuss matters concerning our people. I wish to thank Your Excellency for the unfailing courtesy of your replies to my letters and the cordiality of the talks we had during the last six years. As this may perhaps be the last letter write as Leader of the Opposition (which office I got quite by fortuitous circumstances) I hope you will pardon the length of this letter and my releasing it to the press (the almighty censor willings).
1977 ΤΟ 1983 The first letter wrote to Your Excellency was in August 1977, pleading for action to maintain law and order and to safeguard the lives and property of the Tamil people who were the victims of planned violence started by the Sinhala police in Jaffna on 16th August 1977, and carried out with ruthless efficiency by Sinhala hoodlums resulting in the deaths of about 300 Tamils, injury to over 10,000 people, raping of about 200 Tamilwomen, destruction and looting of property belonging to Tamils worth about a billion rupees and the driving out of their homes and evacuation to the north and east of about 50,000 Tamil people. (There can be no more eloquent testimony to the untter failure of the Government to solve this problem than the fact that I am writing this letter, after six years, in the wake of violence and destruction against against the person and property of Tamil people more brutal and more complete than any in the past). Over 100,000 Tamil people have been displaced and driven to refugee camps, their houses having been completely distroyed. The destruction and plunder of property belonging to Tamils will run into several billion rupees. The loss of life will exceed two thousand, though it is not yet possible to fix the number with any certainty as every family arriving in the north and east is coming
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with tales of cruel men, women and mobs and armed There appearS tC difference betweer and in 1983. In 1 S were fairly discipli llency is reported Delhi corresponde recent riots revea discipline in the ar is strong anti-Tam troops and in som encouraged rioting 8.8.83 morning). say the armed forc ved in the killing, lc of Tamils and the Vavuniya, Trincon other places.
THE DEMAND
STATE: It has become the
the violence again is due to the demar How then does violence againstTa parai and other pl What was the excu and the Islandwic Tamils in 1958? |t there was no quest a separate state att for a separate state grievances of the T lated over quarter ( repeated commun provinces in the fif and Army violenc eastern provinces Seventies. Your Excellency's itself in its 197 identified the gri Speaking people C tion, colonisation, nomic developme Some of them to state. Having dia correctly the Gove the proper treatme medicines were pri as prescriptions ar tered to the patien the condition has last six years of You ment? LANGUAGE Rlt Ministers of your

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AS LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION
(ONTINVUE TO LIBERATE OUR PLE” - AMIRTHALINGAM
killing and burning of children by Sinhala orces.
be one significant the situation in 1977 977 the armed forces ned but as Your Exceto have told the New nt of the B.B.C. 'the led a serious lack of med forces and there il feeling among the e cases they actually ". (A.J. R. news bulletin I will go further and es were directly involIoting and destruction ir property in Jaffna, malee, Colombo and
FOR A SEPARATE
stock excuse for all st Tamils to say that it hd for a separate state. one account for the mils in Colombo, Amaces in June 1956? se for Emergency'58 de holocaust against will be admitted that ion of any demand for hat time. The Cdemand ! is in fact the result of amil people, accumuof a century, including a riots in the Sinhala ties followed by police 2 in the northern and ; in the sixties and
United National Party 7 Election manifesto evances of the Tami ver language, educaemployment and eco2nt as having driven demand a separate agnosed the disease rnment failed to give nt. Even where certain scribed they remained d were never administ. Is it any surprise that deteriorated over the ir Excellency's Govern
GHTS OFTAMILS. Government have re
peatedly said that this Government had granted the language rights of the Tamils and that we should be grateful for it. In 1958 Mr. Bandaranaike passed the Tamil Language (Special Provisions) act which embodies the main principles of all subsequent legislation on Tamil language rights. But neither he nor the succeeding S.L.F.P. Government cared to implement the Act which remained a dead letter. On 8th January 1966, Your Excellency moved in Parliament the Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Regulations in accordance with the Dudley Senanayake - Chelvanayagam pact, on which the Tamil Federal Party supported the U.N.P to form the Government in 1965. But those regulations also were never implemented by the U.N.P. Government or the United Front Government that followed. The refusal of that Government to include those regulations in the 1972 Constitution and the walk-out by Tamil members, including Mr. K.W. Devanayagam of the U.N.P., from the Constituent Assembly are matters of history. Your Government included certain rights of the Tamil language in the 1978 Constitution. Though these fall short of the official status the Tamil-speaking people were agitating for, we welcomed the imporvements in the status accorded to Tamil as a National language. The Government has failed to implement the language provisions and your ministers are busy finding excuses for their nonimplementation over the last five years. Even elementary rights like correspondence in Tamil are not observed. Can any one blame the Tamil people, who have been struggling for their language rights for the last twenty seven years, if they refuse to be satisfied with more paper rights for their language? So much for the oft-repeated and much-vaunted language rights for which the T.U.L.F. is charged with being ungrateful. DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS. The second major concession made to the Tamils by this Government is said to be the establishment of District Development Councils as instruments of devolution of power. In the face of strong opposition from our own ranks, the T.U.L.F. accepted the District Development Councils.
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Conto from page 3 Your Excellency started this exercise in July 1979 and what have we achieved in the matter of actual development during the last four years? On the eve of the elections to the D.D.C. in 1981 your Government's Sinhala police mutinied in Jaffna and burnt half of Jaffna town including the headquarters of the T.U.L.F., the house of the M.P. for Jaffna and the Jaffna Public Library with its invaluable collection of 97,OOO books. Two of your ministers were in Jaffna supervising operations including the arrest of T.U.L.F. members of Parliament and the nefarious things done in connection with the elections on 4th June, 1981. In spite of all these we entered the District Development Councils. After two years it cannot be denied that the Government has failed to make them function effectively. The attitude and actions of the Government in the matter reveal a want of earnestness and lack of a sense of urgency in implementing even meagre concessions made to the Tamil people. THE HAND OF FRIENDSHP. Ministers and the Government-controlled press have repeatedly charged the T.U.L.F. with failing to grasp the hand of friendship proffered by Your Excellency Whenever we were invited for disCuSsions with the Government, even when the Tamil people had been the victims of violence instigated by your own party men as in 1981, we responded and participated. Whatever the T.U.L.F. agreed to do was unfailingly carried out by us. We cannot be blamed for certain happenings which were beyond our control. We are not the Government responsible for law and order in our areas. But can Your Excellency say that the Government has carried out the matters it agreed to do in the Inter-Party Committee talks that went on for thirteen months. may mention some of the matters: 1. District Development Councils - nothing done to make them effective as agreed. 2. Posting a majority of Tam il speaking policemen in Tamil areas Carried out in Jaffna District but not done in any of the other Tamil
districts as promised. Most of the trouble we had in Trincomalee
and Vavuniya in June and July could have been avoided if this had been implemented. 3. Recruitment of more Tamils into the police and the armed forces so as to make these Services function in a non partisan way in times of ethnic tension. This promise has not been kept by the Government. 4. Compensation for victims of Police violence in May-June has been only partially paid. It has not been paid to victims in Chunnakam
and Kan kesant the Inter-Party two million Out rupees awarde C mando Commis Jaffna Public paid from the P 5. Though pros tiated against S men responsib arson in Chunn santurai in May of them Wasarre at the Mallak Court and now been transferred the Victims dar testify. 6. Home-guard lished as promis were sent up a police.
7. Agreements Punnaikudah ho the Keviliyama Batticaloa Distr implemented ul etter tO YOur EX these two matt
8. The Govern moved the illega Statue at Vavuni Your Excellency remove it at the of the Inter-Pa August 1981. It is so absolutely moving an irrit people illegally
Sinhala public Tamil people ex Sinhala chauvin Wise?
9. The promis Government wit ment Of Tam is i were not kept. Ti and counterma retary to the Min mentation rega in the Tamil Dist to discuss at le
1 O. The agree Executive Com Vavuniya and M members So as majority in thes rity in the Exec and the subseq Of a U.N. P. men tive Committee resignation oft the failure to CC was pointed out nation of the sa good examples ment promises

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rai as agreed to at Committee. Only Of the ten miliOn by the Lionel Ferision to the burnt Library has been resident's Fund.
ecutions were iniOme of the Police le for killing and akam and Kanke- une 1981 none sted and produced am Magistrate's these cases have to Colombo Where e not appear and
S Were not estabsed though names nd cleared by the
eached about the using scheme and du village in the ict have not been p to date. I Wrote a cellency regarding ers last month.
ment has not reily erected Buddha ya junction though f gave the order to very first meeting rty Committee in F the Government f powerless in reant to the Tami erected by certain servants, can the pect justice where ism dictates other
es made by the n regard to employin the public Sector he circulars issued nded by the Secistry of Plan implerding employment rictsaretoo sordid ngth here.
ment to limit the mittees in Mannar, Mulaitiwu to three s not to make the e D.D.C.'s a minoutive Committees, uent appointment nber to the Execuin Vavuniya, the his member When y::ply with the law and the later nomime man again are of the way Govern
are kept.
I have mentioned above a few of the matters which were agreed upon at the Inter-Party Committee in order to show why we regarded bilateral talks between the T.U.L.F. and the Government as a futile exercise. The Prime Minister asked us in Parliament why we did not attend the all-party conference summoned by Your Excellency. When other parties had not responded to the invitation the all party conference would have been only a continuation of the Inter-Party meeting we had for more than a year and with the result I have shown above. I was constrained to reply to the Prime Minister in Parliament that we did not think any useful purpose would be served by bilateral talks between us and the Government when 90% of the matters agreed upon in earlier talks was never implemented. Violence against the Tamil people and the Sixth Amendment Incidents of army men shooting and killing people in Jaffna and some youths killing some service personnel or some civilian has been going on for a few years. However much we may deprecate this situation it had become part of the reality in Jaffna. Assaults by members of the armed forces on pedestrians, cyclists or motor cyclists with iron rods or long poles they carried in their trucks and jeeps, or injury to person or damage to windscreen or glasses of motor vehicles or even window panes of houses by being pelted with stones from army and navy vehicles have been almost daily occurrences in Jaffna. Many people who complained to us preferred not to make complaints to the police for fear of reprisals. On the afternoon of the 29th July my own car was pelted with a stone from a passing navy vehicle and my windscreen was smashed. I complained to the Naval commander at Karainagar who promised to look into it. In this background of continual harassment, assault and humiliation of the people by armed forces behaving like an army of occupation is it surprising if youths who attack these service personnel tend to be looked upon as heroes? One has to live in this atmosphere of interminable harassment to understand this attitude. This routine is upset periodically when some serviceman is shot. Reprisals against innocent civilians follow immediately. As happened at Kantharmadam in Jaffna on the 18th May, and at Vavuniya on the 1st June, all houses, shops and business places in the vicinity were attacked, looted and burnt and innocent people were beaten up and killed. The usual excuse is that some members of the armed forces had mutinied anf gone on a rampage. Prior to 1981 it was the Sinhala police that behaved in this
manner. After the police force in Jaffna
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Contd from page 4 was made majority Tamil there was no
trouble from the police. Now it is the
army and the navy in Jaffna; the army, the air force and the police in Vavuniya; the police, the army, the navy and the air force all Combined in Trincomalee; and the army in Mannar that attack the people. In Mannar I saw with my own eyes the car of the D.D.C. Chairman Smashed and his driver and ulerk beaten up by army men from the Thalladi camp on 25th July. Have the Tamil people no right to freedom from these attacks on their person and property by the police and the armed forces? Is not the Government bound to pay heed to the feelings of these innocent victims? Your Excellency, in your broadcast to the nation on T.V. and the radio, at the height of attacks on Tamils by Sinhala mobs and armed forces, you stated that you had to pay heed to the demand and national feeling of the Sinhala people and therefore you were introducing the sixth amendment to the constitution. The voice of the Tamil people crying for justice and the right to live and safeguard their hardearned property goes unheeded. At a time when murder, arson and plunder are being perpetrated against the Tamil people the Government surrenders to the aspirations of the marauding mobs and enacts the sixth amendment. would most humbly submit to Your Excellency that this is a further outrage on our people and their right to peacefully agitate for their political rights and freedom. This amendment embodies the justice of the lynch mob where you further punish and humuliate the victim and not the criminal; the oppressed and not the oppressor. The events of the last two months: Trincomalee. Violence against Tamil people did not break out suddenly as a result of the killing of thirteen soldiers in Jaffna on the night of the 23rd July. It actually started on a planned basis with the attack on Mansion Hotel in Trincomalee on the 3rd June. The police and the army who searched these premises before the attack by the market Sinhala hoodlums definitely stand implicated in this attack. They not only failed to stop the attack and destruction of this hotel but even failed to take action to arrest the perpetrators of the crime. The violence that was started on the 3rd June went on with ebb and flow for over two months till about two days ago. Twenty seven Tamils have been killed during this period as,against one Sinhalese.
FATE OF 6OO UNKNOWN
As the Government itself admitted, about 15O Navy personnel went on a rampage and destroyed about 200 Tamil business
places and houses it in six hours on the ni With the assistance army about 200 hou burnt in the Trinco 1,500 persons who v less had to seek sh school buildings. As suffering they had were not sufficient, the Navy forcibly put refugees into buses night of the 24th Ju unknown destinatio. this matter to Your the next morning, yo informed they had back to the estates. Y to learn that a goo were voters in Tril whom had permit lan lands in Trincomalee persons in the prese in the plantation dist This action of the N racially motivated an of the armed forces i How can you expect have confidence in t tect them and their pr killers and looters? There seems to be a drive the Tamils out terrorising them. Th weera of the Minist Trincomalee and the with the police and S the height of the Created fear in the people that a powe Government is invo lical plot against th Trincomalee.
DESTRUCTION C TEMPLES. In the Course of the la ten Hindu temples district have been d personnel who ran July had set fire to Sivan Temple, brok had desecrated the of the temple. It will mention here that | against Tamil peop 1981 and in 1983 been targets of attac Hindu Temples inclu Peradeniya Universi Reports by refugees areas indicate that temples in the plant one at Bandarawela, last week. In this situation thes ment party member tion in which they ho Sound hypocritical.

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Trincomalee town ht of the 26th July.
of the police and Ses of Tamils Were malee District and here rendered homeliter as refugees in
if the loss and the already undergone the Commander of about 600 of these at 1 a.m. on the ly and took them to ns. When | brought Excellency's notice I said that you were volunteered to go Ou will be surprised number Of them hcomalee most of ds and some private 2. The fate of these nt spate of violence ricts in not known. avy is typical of the d partisan conduct n the present crisis. the Tamil people to hese forces to prooperty from Sinhala
calculated move to .
of Trincomalee by e visit of Mr. Jayary of Industries to discussions he had ervice personnel at disturbances have minds of the Tamil rful section of the lved in this diabole Tamil people of
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ast two months over in the Trincomalee estroyed. The Navy riot on the 26th of
the Chariot of the en the Nandhi and
3Ctu S3CtOrU not be out of place to h the riots directed e in 1958, 1977, indu temples have k. In 1977 eighteen lding the one at the ty were destroyed. from the plantation number of Hindu ation areas, like the have been destroyed
peeches of Governs about the venerad the Hindu temples
MASSACREBY THE ARMED FORCES IN JAFFNA According to the figures available now over 50 innocent persons have been killed by the army in Jaffna during the last few weeks. In the Tinnevely and Kantharmadam areas about twenty people including University lecturers. engineers, students and even housewives have been shot in their homes and beds. The detachment of the army stationed at Mathagal had taken charge of a private mini-bus on the morning of the 24th and gone on a rampage spraying bullets on people walking on the roads, travelling in buses and in shops and markets. They had killed about thirteen persons including students, C.T.B. (m- ployees, an accountant and traders. It is the feelings of these trigger-happy killers that the Government feels obliged to pay heed to. In the eyes of the Government, their killing innocent Tamils does not seem to be a serious matter. But if any of these killers are killed it becomes a very serious matter. I wish to ask Your Excellency in all earnestness what action has the Government taken to stop this killing by the armed forces? They have got used to killing Tamils with impunity. In several instances, where innocent persons were killed in Jaffna and where courts have returned homicide verdicts, no action has been taken against the offenders. Are not the lives of Tamils entitled to the protection of the law? The armed forces are indulging in killing and maiming people; robbing and destroying their property. I have received complaints from people at Palay and Kankesanturai that even their goats are shot and removed by the army. They dare not protest. Are we wrong in demanding that these armed forces be removed from Our areas?
MISCONDUCT OF THE ARMED FORCES IN VAVUNYA. There have been many incidents of violence in which the armed forces were involved in Vavuniya and Mankulam areas during the last few weeks. I have an affidavit sworn by one Velu Subramaniam, a labourer of Thatchankulam, stating how his wife was raped by two airforce men on the night of the 30th July and how they had wanted the daughter to be made available to them
the next day. A lorry belonging to the
Puloly M. P.C.S. in Jaffna was returning from Anuradhapura transporting kerosene and diesel which vere in short supply in Jaffna on the night of the 25th July. The lorry was set on fire and totally destroyed at Nochchimoddai, a few miles to the north of Vavuniya and the four occupants were killed and the decomposed bodies were discovered a few miles away. Villagers whom I have
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Contcl. from page 5 questioned have said that this was the work of Air-force men. Private buses and lorries plying between Colombo and Jaffna have been attacked and seriously damaged and passengers and occupants injured several times during the last three months by the army men stationed at Mankulam. I complained to the Prime Minister regarding this matter during Your Excellency's absence from the Island. The police and members of the armed forces have now started systematically harassing and intimidating the Tamil refugees from the plantation areas who have settled down in Vavuniya after the 1977 riots. Tamil women working in the fields have been taken into Army trucks and dumped in the police station. Where can these people go when the Tamils all over the plantation districts are being attacked and driven to refugee camps? The action of the Naval Commander in forcibly removing Tamil refugees from Trincomalee to the estates and the harassment by the police and armed forces of the refugees long settled in Vavuniya make one think whether all these are part of a plan to drive the Tamils out of even Vavuniya.
VIOLENCE IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.
Reports have from Tamil refugees who have been the victims of violence in Colombo and other districts including plantation areas indicate a definite pattern in the attack. in most places the attackers had come in C.T.B. buses. On the coastline in Colombo trains had been stopped at several places to enable the looters to get down and attack each lane at Wellawatte and other places. The police and the armed forces had given all assistance and encouragement to the looters and arsonists. They shared the spoils in the looting and had shouted 'Jayawewa' while passing mobs in action. Wherever Tamils resisted the looters had withdrawn, but the armed forces had entered those areas and shot and killed the Tamils who resisted the attack. I have definite reports that this happened in the Sea Street area in Colombo. Several of the so-called looters who were reported to have been shot and killed by the armed forces had entered those areas and shot and killed the Tamils who resisted the attack. I have definite reports that this happened in the Sea Street area in Colombo. Several of the so-called looters who were reported to have been shot and killed by the armed forces on 29th July were Tamils who were trying to safeguard their property or were fleeing from the pursuing mobs. It is in this situation where the armed forces were seriously wanting in discipline and were
motivated by 'strong which made them ent we appealed to Your guard the lives an people from the m Tamil armed forces mobs by getting the United Nations or of cannot understandh expects troops with feeling" to protect th admitted by Your E armed forces actually I am surprised at y( ment to the Prime M the Sri Lanka armed of dealing with the sit be running with the with the hound. The failed in the elemer guarding the lives an cent Tamils (most of v the Northern and Eas supported the U.N.P. feited the moral right sorry I have to say llency, particularly be cast to the nation. The Tamil people do left parties had any h them. They regard th cate the Communist rence to certain darkf ter of State as being win the sympathy a Western Powers. Th only an attempt to dr across the trail. The people is pure ethni well ahead and exec ness by forces close the same forces that a in July, 1980; atta chandra and others a Buddhist Congress Ha before the houses of forces include thearm Mr. Cyril Mathew alw Parliament. THEATTACKON RESIDENCE OF PRESIDENT AND RESIDENCE OFT THE OPPOSITION One of the first house the early hours of th 25th was the private r sithamparam, M.P. fc dent of the T.U.L.F. were alerted at the h impending attack, bil made to stop it. His ca
was looted and comp wife and daughter ha save their lives. Securi on the scene several There was an attack Mr. Murugiah of Upal 25th of July. Operati
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anti-Tamil feeling" courage rioting that Excellency to safedi property of our utinous and antiand the hysteric assistance of the friendly countries. owYour Excellency 'strong anti-Tamil e Tamils. When it is xcellency that the encouraged rioting, bur reported stateinister of India that forces are capable uation. They cannot
hare and hunting e Government has tary duty of safed property of innowhom living outside stern provinces had ), and thereby foret to rule them. I am this to Your Excecause of your broad
not believe that the and in the attack on |e attempt to impliParty and the refeorces by the Minis
calculated only to nd support of the is is, in their view, aw a 'red' herring attack on the Famil c violence planned uted with ruthlesso the Government, ttacked the Strikers Icked Prof. Saratat a meeting at the Iland demonstrated the judges. These ed forces for whom ays holds a brief in
THE PRIVATE HET.U.L.F. THE OFFICIAL HE LEADER OF
. is to be attacked in he morning of the sidence of Mr.Sivair Nallur and PresiPolice authorities ighest level of the ut no attempt was Ir was burnt, house
letely burnt and his d to Scale a wall to typersonnel arrived
hours later.
On the house of Associates on the Dns appear to have
been directed by certain important personages of the U.N. P. Some of those men had entered my official residence which adjoins that house and robbed the belongings of the members of my staff who were living there. They jumped over the parapet wall and went into 'Sravasti for safety. They were chased away by the employees. Fortunately for them Mr.Nihal Seniviratne, the Secretary-General of Parliament, sent them to the refugee camps. The police officers who escorted them had been abusing me in the villest of language and had sworn to cut me to pieces if I went to Colombo. These are the custodians of the law who are ertrusted with the duty of protecting Tamil Members of Parliament. realised how correct Your Excellency and the Prime Minister were in advising me not to travel to Colombo and that you could not give me protection. Your subsequent offer appears to have been for purely political reasons and for the consumption of the world when a bill so intimately affecting the members of the T.U.L.F. was being rushed through.
THE MASSACRE IN THE WELKADE PRISON.
The blackest episode in the dark fortnight following the 23rd July was the massacre of the political prisoners at the Welikade prison. The Government cannot absolve itself of its responsibility, particularly when it had happened a second time. The judicial inquiry was held without anybody to watch the interests of the victims. There are several relevant questions which go un-answered. How did the Sinhala prisoners get out of their cells? How did the prisoners get the lethal weapons like axes, iron rods, knives and clubs into their hands? If they had overpowered the prison officials why were not the firearms available to them used on the violent prisoners? When a few days later some Tamil prisoners in Jaffna tried to escape four of them were shot dead. When on the second occasion eighteen Tamil prisoners were killed why were the Sinhalese prisoners not shot? The lives of the Sinhala prisoners are not doubt precious. But does not the same rule apply to Tamil prisoners? was shocked when some Tamil refugees told me that a responsible Minister had stated in the refugee camp that the Sinhalese people were pacified only after the massacre at Welikade prison. The Tamil people are driven to the irresistible conclusion that prison authorities and army personnel were involved in the deliberate murder of these 53 Tamil political prisoners.
RELEF AND REHABILITATION MEASURES.
In these circumstances, Your Excellency
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THE SIXTH AMENDMENT T
A CONSTITUTI
The Sixth Amendment to Sri Lanka's Constitution which prohibits political parties and individuals from demanding or advocating a separate state for the Tamil-speaking people as a solution to the intractable ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka constitutes an outrage and a gross violation of fundamental human rights recognised and guaranteed by the United Nations and other international charters. The fact that the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka approved the amendment as constitutional does not make it any less outrageous. Not that the learned Judges had any other choice in the matter. Only a few weeks previously, gangs of thugs, presumably belonging to the ruling United National Party, had attacked the homes of three Supreme Court judges formerely holding that a private citizens's (Mrs. Vivienne Goonewardene) consti
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will not be surprised if the Tamil people lookaskant at the relief and rehabilitation measures announced by the Government. The move to vest all affected property in the Government looks to them a method of expropriating what the looters have not taken. The announcement regarding relief to workers who lost their employment is making the Tamil people think that the prime concern of the Government is the employment of Sinhala workers who have lost their earnings as a result of the destruction of factories where they were working. The reported departure of the International Red Cross Representatives who were here to assist in rehabilitation work creates further doubt regarding the way the whole matter is being handled. The Government should dispel these fears and announce their plans to rehabilitate Tamil refugees who have lost their homes and means of livelihood and cannot go back to their former places. It will be cruel to compel them to go back to the same place again. Top priority should be given to the case of these people who have no houses to go to and who will have to languish in refugee camps unless immediate arrangements are made to settle them in safe areas. THE SOLUTION. The Tamil people are being attacked and killed; their homes are being burnt and destroyed; their business places are looted and burnt; they are driven to refugee camps in their tens of thousands and are transported to the north and east by sea and by air. Tamil prisoners are being killed by Sinhala prisoners. Tamil University students are being chased out by Sinhala students. In the wake of
tutionally gurarano violated by the Sr she was subjected grading treatment. the offending pol ment promptly ann to Inspector grade judges' homes so the contempt the S for the Supreme C The Sixth Amend for the Court's ruli country vas con violentrioting andra history, when mur plunder and arson
day and when th forces had gone abetting maraudin hoodlums in their
of death and destrt
these intolerable si ships to which the been subjected, Your ment had enacted th to the Costitution to and to drive the elec of the Tamils out
consider this amenc rage on our people peacefully agitate foi and freedom. Your E that as a self-respec not allow these me voice and our will ti This amendment is timise through a legi tion of the Sinhalam have no political fr property or right to
This is the 'demand of the Sinhala pec Government has bo The Tamil people fro are being driven ir North and East by Even there, they a humiliated and kill armed forces. The T democratic and non trying to win the f mental rights of th nation. assure You
will continue to stri violent means to from this horrible O
With kind regards.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) A. Amirt LEADER OF OPPOS TARY GENERAL. T.

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O. LANKAS CONSTITUTION
DNAL OUTRAGE
eed rights had been Lanka police in that to inhuman and deInstead of penalising ceman, the governounced his promotion and the attack on the on followed. Such is ri Lankan rulers have ourt of the land ment was submitted ng at a time when the sulsed by the most mpage in the country's der, mutilation, rape, were the order of the e country's security berserk aiding and g gangs of thugs and anti-Tamil campaign iction. In this context
ufferings and hardTamil people have Excellency's Governhe sixth amendment proscribe our party cted representatives of Parliament. We ment a further outand their right to r their political rights xcellency will agree ting people we canasures to stifle our ) resist oppression. pnly seeking to legial device the convicobs that the Tamils aedom, no right to life. and national feeling ple" to which the wed. m all over the lsland to ghettoes in the the Sinhala mobs. re being harassed, ed by the Sinhala U.L.F. has, through fiolent means, been 'eedom and fundae oppressed Tamil Excellency that we ve through all nonberate our people pression.
nalingam. TION AND SECRE.L.F.
and having regard to the treatment meted out to the three judges only a few weeks earlier, one should be endowed with an enormous amount of naivete to expect the judges to properly and impartially express their judicial view as to the constitutionality or otherwise of the amendment. Had they given a ruling disapproving the government's proposal, probably they would not have returned to their homes in one piece! The government's case in support of the amendment put before the Supreme Court violates the United Nations Charter on freedom of expression. Sri Lanka is a member of the United Nations and therefore is subject to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the UN on 10th December, 1948. Article 19 of the Declaration provides: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.' The government's case was put by the State's Counsel as follows: the amendment was against the demand for a separate state. Freedom of thought and conscience was the freedom to hold belief personally. It did not include the right to manifestone's thoughts. Hitherto it was no offence to advocate a separate state. Even a person from outside the Country could not advocate a separate state. Even a foreigner who advocated Eelam would be culpable if he came into the country. In short, one could think within himself that a separate state was the only solution if the Tamils are to escape from the horrors of recurrent violence, but he could not communicate this thought directly or indirectly to any one else, even to his wife The draconian nature of the provisions of the Sixth Amendment is more mani
-fest in the penalties it imposes. (a) Civic disability; (b) forfeiture of movable and immovable property; (c) deprivation of civic rights; (d) if a person happens to be a member of parliament, he or she would automatically cease to hold office; (f) if it is a political party, or other organisation or association, it shall for all purposes be proscribed; (g) any person who held office in such a party or association or organisation would be suject to penalties (a) to (d) above.
The deprivation of civic rights would be for a period of up to seven years. For the purposes of the Amendment, "civic rights"
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neaS (a) the right to obtain a passport; (b) the right to sit for any public examination; (c) the right to own any immovable property; (d) the right to engage in any trade ol other occupation, by or under any law. this would include practising any profes sion. The sheer severity of the penalties is illustrated by the following exchange between the Judges and the State Counsel on the question of forfeiture of property: Chief Justice: What is movable property? Counsel; it includes everything. Chief Justice" Even bed and bedding? Justice Wimalaratne: Even clothes? Counsel: Yes Chief Justice: Then he would be left standing naked on the road. Further, every Member of Parliament, Judicial Officer or other State Officers, including those practising professions and othersholding posts in State Corporations, are required to take an oath, within one month of the coming into operation of the Amendment, stating
that he will not 'directly or indirectly, in or outside Sri Lanka, support, espouse, or promote, finance, encourage or advocate the establishment of a separate State within the territory of the Republic of Sri Lanka'. Anyone who fails to take the oath will automatically cease to hold the post. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (referred to as the UN Covenants) recognise two basic political axioms: (a) All peoples have the right of selfdetermination; (b) Discrimination against any group on grounds of race, religion, language, political opinion etc is wrong. Article 1 (1) of the UN Covenants state: "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social
and cultural developrent. Article 26 of the UN CovenantS States: "All persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law, in this respect the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to al perSons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." In the Sri Lankan context, the demand for the right of self-determination by the Tamil-speaking people in conformity with Article 1 (1) of the UN Covenants arose
in the light of the gross violation of the
SRI LANKA
IHIRLE
Arri Wilson dene’s role ir lence THE NEAR GENO anka has been da
press as two gro Savagely attacking to the horror and in tourists. It is a pic government woulc President Jayawar did not know of t civilians. But, grad accounts, telephon sheets coming cla country, a picture not only implicates the government a but suggests a pla nated operation re fomented race riot Of these reports at the most detailed ched come from a Netherlands, the Weskgroep, whos returned from Sri party group of ma vers based in the C the same conclusic was deliberately S ment and was car use of thugs, cont by members of a ruling party close prime minister. The British media Sri Lankan goverr told us that the ric by Sinhalese ange soldiers by Tamilt Sinhalese all-party organisation produ contrary. Censorsh been imposed in e to defuse the pe effects of terroris deliberately lifted
news of the mur Kaugnati
rights and protect Article 26 by suci of Sri Lanka since The July 1983 m speaking people is fact that they nc physical protectior be subjected to proportion if they C choose to exercis expression. Besid itself has throught outlawed the right people to even exp of self-determinati UN Covenants.
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D THUGS
on Jaya Mvarr artifanmi Vifo
CIDE Of Tamils in Sri epicted by the British ups of black people and killing each other Convenience of British ture that Sri Lanka's altogether approve - dene claiming that he he army's attacks on ually, with eyewitness e information and fact Indestinely out of the is building up which s leading members of and their associates, nned and wel coordiminiscent of the CIA s' in Guyana in 1964. nd fact sheets, two of and carefully researsolidarity group in the Stichting Sri Lanka e members have just anka, and from an allinly Sinhalese obserountry. Both come to ons - that the violence tarted by the govern"ried out through the rolled and organised
faction of the UNP to Premadasa, the
, fed mainly through ment sources, have its were triggered off r at the killing of 13 errorists. But both the group and the Dutch uce evidence to the
lip, they point out, had arly June, ostensibly ossibly inflammatory t activity. But it was to Communicate the
ders of the Soldiers
gimnas
on guaranteed under Cessive governments
1948. assacre of the Tamiconcrete proof of the it only do not have but also they would attacks of genocidal or any section of them e their right of free es, the government he Sixth Amendment, of the Tamil-speaking ress openly their right on guaranteed by the
(who, in fact, had been ambushed by guerrillas after the gang rape of three tamil Schoolgirls by their unit). Information about the ambush (but not the rapes), the names of the dead soldiers and the date of their proposed cremation was placed by the government information department in most major newspapers. The bodies, which were not handed over directly to relatives, were then brought to Colombo and cremated in the main cemetery in front of a large gathering. The next day gangs of thugs were out on the streets and the attacks started. These thugs have been an increasingly important part of the Sri Lankan political scene over the last few years. They are like storm troopers, employed by rightwing politicians and used freely at election time to intimidate, for example, voters. Earlier this year, as the Dutch group points out in its report, at least two MPs went in person to police stations to release their thugs, who had been arrested for attacking political opponents. In the present violence, the army, police and gangs of thugs acted in conjunction. According to the report from the Sinhalese all-party group, small gangs of men provided with householders lists burned Tamil houses and flats (in Sinhaleseowned buildings, only the contents of Tamil homes were destroyed). They did this expertly, within sight of the President's house, a few yards away from the prime minister's residence, in blocks adjacent to or opposite police stations - taking care, on a hot dry morning, not to start fires which would spread to adjoining Sinhalese or Statedòwned property. Accidents and violations of discipline were few. Some of us saw truck loads of soldiers cheering on the arsonists bands. In Mount Lavinia, a suburb of Colombo, thugs were led by UNP Councillor Tissa Abeysekara. In Jaela and Wattala, Joseph Michael, deputy minister of Labour, was seen leading his thugs. In the Maradana area of Colombo, thugs brought in from up to 1 OO miles away (and loyal to Premadasa, to M.H. Mohamed the transport minister and to Cyril Mattew, Minister of Industries) were identified by eye witnesses. As the Netherlands group comments, there were some remarkable similarities to the post-election violence of 1977. But this time, with over 1,000 dead"and 80,000 held under appalling conditions in refugee camps (where essential medical aid is kept locked up in government warehouses), violence by far exceeds that of any previous phase. The move to the North is resulting in an enforced and
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COVER-UP OF MASSA
in the orgy of violence that engulfed almost the whole of the Tamil speaking people of Sri Lanka in July, the most despicable, cowardly and gruesome act of criminality was enacted within the walls of the high security Welikade prison in Colombo when 52 Tamils held under the much maligned Prevention of Terrorism Act were hacked and clubbed to death within their cells in two instalments, on 25th and 27th July, 1983. Soon after the first slaughter, the Government claimed that the detainees were murdered by fellow Sinhalese prisoners. The Government's story has been treated abroad with derision and total disbelief, for in a high security prison like Welikade, it would have been virtually impossible for such a mass scale massacre to take place without the active participation of or at least the passive collusion of the prison staff and other security forces. As the Guardian (London) correspondent, David Beresford, reported from Colombo, after the killings on the 25th, anticipating further attacks, the remaining Tamil detainees made repeated representaions to the prison authorities at the highest level for protection. Despite this, at 4.30 p.m. on July 27th, a crowd wielding axes, iron bars, spikes, wooden clubs and knives attacked and killed a further 18 Tamil detainees. If the surviving Tamils had not fought a pitched battle with broken table legs none would have survived to tell the tale. Again the Government claimed that they were killed by Sinhalese prisoners who went out of control. The Chief Magistrate of Colombo, Mr. Keerthi Srilal Wijewardene, who held an inquest after the killings on 25th July, whilst returning a verdict of homicide, confirmed the Government's initial claim that the Tamil detainees had been killed by fellow Sinhala prisoners having earlier
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unprecedented division of the countryeffectively into Tamil and Sinhalese area. This, together with the government's ominous announcement that it will take over all damaged property in the South, suggests that the repression is likely to continue and, possibly, intensify.
The crisis has already meant the rise to prominence of officials and ministers close to the right wing of the UNP. A particularly interesting appointment is that of Douglas Liyanage, secretary to the Minister of State. Liyanage was
over-powered the
declared that "none
or a, , , officers sum could have done circumstances to p At the inquest Mr. Commissioner of Pi de Silva, Superinten Liyanage Don Jayati Mr. Mahinda Satura tenant, gave evidenc their evidence was
* Normalythere wer for security purpose the killings, they we from the armed ser
* There were betwe convicted prisoners stairs of the buildi
Tamil detainees w ground floor.
* At about 2 p.m. o 400 Sinhalese pris the main door leadir overpowered jail g went into the cell detainees were helc
* When Superinten the blowing of wh p.m. on 25.7.83, he of the chapel sect heard a big commot of prisoners barric and prevented him from entering the se way into the lobby a prisoners were bar and thereafter he h guards were trying prisoners but failed. ding sound of obje SCreams. He called
involved in a right-w backed army coup ag naike's government
As the Netherlands
wardene, 'the miracle democracy with deve mic growth in a wor owjettisoned democ on the road taken b Kwan Yew. What t have shown is that control down this ro By kind courtesy of
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CRE IN THE PRISON
prison guards. He of the prison officers moned to the Scene nything under the event the attack".
C.T. Jansz, Acting isons, M Alexis Leo dent of Prisons, Mr. ssa, a jail guard, and inghe, Second Lieue. The substance of as follows;
e only prison officers s, but at the time of -re provided guards vices.
n 8OO to 850 other housed in the upng while 73 of the
ere housed in the
in 25th July 300 to oners broke through ng into the lobby and uard Jayatissa and s where the Tamil and attacked them.
dent de Silvae heard listles around 2.15 ran in the direction ion from where he ion. A large number aded the entrance
and other officers ction. He forced his nd saw 3OO to 400 ging on cell doors heard screams. The
to push away the
He heard the thud2cts on bodies and for assistance from
—
fing, allegedly CIAlainst Mrs Bandarain 1961.
group put it, Jayaman who combined lopment and econoild of recession, has -racy and openly set y Marcos and Lee he last few weeks he is not in sole ad. O "We'viv Statesman"-
army guards but none of them could contain the prisoners. After a few minutes he saw the prisoners moving back upstairs. All the inmates of B3 and C3 wing had been battered to death. * Mr. C.T. Jansz, Acting Commissioner of Prisons, went to the scene around 2p.m. He saw 300 to 400 prisoners with weapons. He, along with other officers including army personnel, was unsuccessful in controlling the crowd of prisoners. He contacted the Borella police who could not give the assistance he wanted. When the police arrived they were reluctant to enter from the main entrance as it was guarded by the Army. Evidence, almost identical, was given by various witnesses at the induest held in respect of the killings on 27th July. The Chief Jailer, Mr. M. Karunaratna said in evidence that he had advance information that the Tamil detainees were going to be attacked again. The main question is: Why was there no additional security provided in the light of this information? The most unbelievable part of the whole evidence is that none of the officers was able to identify even one of the 400 prisoners who participated in these two murderous attacks. Almost all of them have testified that they tried to prevent the attack but they were overpowered. During these two episodes which must have lasted quite some time (to break open bar doors of several cells and club
to death 35 prisoners, it must have taken at least half an hour) how is it that they could not identify a single attacker? They including the Superintendent of Prisons, say that 300 to 400 stood at the entrance to the lobby and prevented them from going in! If that was so, why didn't the officers use force-that would have been necessary to disperse the crowd and gain entry? Had they used just minimum force, some of the 'rioting' prisoners would have been injured and by their injuries at least some participants would have been identified. How is it that the army which came on the scene did not use their weapons to disperse the crowd and prevent the continuation of the killings which were repeated on the 27th? The fact that all the detainees killed were Tamils and held under the Prevention of Terorism Act and the fact that not a single person among the killers has been identified lends support to the widely held belief that the slaughter was carried out with the full participation of and/or connivance of the prison staff and other security forces.
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The Sri Lankan Government's propaganda machinery would like the world to believe that the atrocities recently committed against the Tamil speaking people is the result of the killing of 13 army personnel allegedly by unidentified Tamil youths on 22nd July, 1983. The following diary (extracted from an affidavit sworn by a person presently in detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act) of atrocities committed in and around Trincomalee in the month of June, long before the killing of 13 army men, demonstrates clearly the sustained and continuous campaign of harassment, torture, arson and murder. What happened in June, 1983 pales into insignificance compared with the horrors of July, 1983. 3rd June - Trincomaiee Town Attempt to throw petrol bomb at Yal Cafe. 4th June - Trincomalee Town a) Mansion Hotel attacked and set alight. b) Van belonging to Mansion Hotel set on fire. c) All the furniture in the hotel damaged. The local police failed and neglected to genuinely investigate these offences. A special team of officers from Colombo then, came and recorded statements and a 'B' Report was submitted to the Magistrate who issued warrants for the arrests of the suspects. The local police have up-to-date deliberately failed and neglected to apprehend three of the Suspects who are freely moving around in the town.
5th June - Villa ng kulam 8 houses belonging to Tamils burnt. 5th J U ne - Panku lam Murder of N.Sriskandarasa 5th June - China Bay Pillaiyar Temple set on fire. 7th June - Mullippaththanai Murder of S. Rajathurai. 8th June - Trincomalee Town Chariot belonging to Sivan Temple burnt 9th June - Uppuveli Sub-Postmaster shot at - escaped. 9th June - Huskisson Road Samson's house bombed. 1 Oth June - TrinCormalee TOW n Two bombs thrown at Mr. R. Sambanthan, M.P.'s house. 11th June - Dockyard Bomb thrown at Gandhi Hotel. 13th June - Central Road Bombs thrown at four shops belonging to Tamils and four injured, and shops damaged.
13th June - Main Street Bomb thrown at furniture shop. 13th June - China Bay Prima Factory employees attacked, five injured.
TRAINC (
13th June - Pan Gunapala's house 14th June - Pan 4 Wayside Hindu 15th June - Trin A house belong attached to Railwa opposite the Trinc burnt. 15th June - Upp A Tam C.T.B. front of Uppuveli 17th June - Kinr swo murders: 1 (Name not Know 18th June - Anp| Three houses belc 20th June - Siva Three houses bel( 21st June - Thoc Six houses belon 21st June - Kovi Six houses belon 22nd June - Sing Three houses belc 24th June - Trin Bomb thrown into and Wilson. 24th June - Siva" Two houses belo 25th June - Siva" 30 houses belon 26th June - Tric Bomb thrown at 27th une - Kith a) Minibus called" to a Tamil attack gun shot injuries; gers (all Tamils) é 27th June - Upp| b) Alvarpillai and Alvarpillai's wife a admitted to hosp 27th June - Anu I c) 10 shops belon belonging to Sinh 27th June - Kith d) Thirunavu kara Cut and burnt to 27th June - Kith e) Two Hindu Te 27th June - Cen f) Bomb thrown a 28th June - Thir Navy to ruk into
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FATROCITIES IN OMALEE
ku lam
2 Set on fire. mathavach chj
shrines damaged. Comalee Town ing to a Tamil clerk y Department situated omalee Railway Station
uveli amployee's house, in Police Ouarters, burnt.
ya ) Saunthararasa 2) n). uvalipuram onging to Tamils burnt. yOqa purarm Dnging to Tamils Burnt iuvapillaiyar ging to Tamils burnt. laddy ging to Tamils burnt. ganagar onging to Tamils burnt. comalee Town
the houses of Mendis
yogapuram nging to Tamils burnt. yogapuram ging to Tamils burnt.
malee Town Nescafe Hotel. ul Ootrue "island' and belonging ed; several Sustained bus burnt, 1 7 passendmitted to hospital. uveli Ramanan Cut to death. nd three other children tal with cut injuries. 'adhapura Junction ging to Tamils and two
alese burnt. ul Ootrue Su, Seetha and Usha death.
u i Ootrue mples set on fire.
ral Road It Rajamani Stores. ukka da loor
Custody Sabaratnam,
thalingam (Indian toule and handed them armed Criminals who the three of them and | On the road. Sabaratpot and the other two hospital some time
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ch Hotel and Restau
rant set on fire. 28th June - Pan mathava ch Chi
Hindu Temple set on fire. 29th June- Pankulam 7th Channel Three murders- Rajagopal, Thavaman and One Other. 29th June - Palaioottru 30 houses belonging to Tamils burnt. 29th June - Pankulam Track No.4 Nine houses belonging to Tamils burnt. 3Oth June -(Not known) a) Santhirarasa and Selvarasa cut to death.
3Oth June - Nachchikulam b) 30 houses belonging to Tamils burnt. 30th June - Navatti kuda at China Bay close to Air Force Guarters. c) 32 houses belonging to Tamils burnt. d) Catholic Ashram set on fire. 3Oth June - Vilveri e) 30 houses belonging to Tamils burnt. 3Oth June - Paraiyan kulam f) Four murders: Vadivel, Chinniah, Poopayee and Valliammah. g) Four sustained injuries, admitted to hospital: Ratnarasa 80 years, Muthulux my 30 years, Selvasamy 20 years, Muthukumaru 7 years. h.) 27 houses destroyed.
3Oth June - Central Road i) Kalai Magal shop burnt. 3Oth June - Dock Yard j) Navy Officer Sivanathan who participated in the arrest of some criminals attacked by Sinhalese Naval personnel. k) Navy personnel Sebastian's house attacked and badly damaged. In all, 19 Tamil persons including women and children have been killed and more that 100 Tamil persons injured and many of them warded in hospital. 214 houses belonging to the Tamil people have been burnt and the families who lived in the said houses rendered homeless. 21 shops belonging to Tamil people, 8 Hindu Temples, 1 Temple Chariot and 1 Catholic Ashram have also been burnt or damaged.
WEST LONDON TAM IL
SCHOOL.
The West London Tamil School will reopen on September 10,1983 at 9.30 a.m. at Stanhope Middle School, Mansell Road, Greenford, Middlesex. , Instruction in Tami is provided for all age groupS. Classes will continue to be held in Vocal Music, Weena, Violin and Bharata Natyam. For further information, please contact the Headmaster on O1-904 3937.

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During the reign of terror and murder unleashed in Jaffna by the Lankan army on the night of July 23 and the whole of July 24, over a hundred people, including women and children, are known to have been killed. People were killed in thier homes, in buses, along the streets and in short, at random. An army detatchment stationed at Mathagal in the Jaffna District had hijacked a private mini-bus on the morning of the 24th and gone on a rampage spraying bullets from their machine guns on people walking along the street, travelling in buses, in the shops and markets. The following are some of the several incidents of atrocities committed by the
army: * At 6.30 a.m. Thillaiambalam Kandaswamy, a Security Guard of the KKS Cement Factory, was run over and killed by an army vehicle. * Yogarajah Sandirasegaram (34) shot and killed at Kankesanturai. * Thurai Rajendiram (24), a trader by profession, was killed at Pandaterruppu along with an elderly man. *AnthonypillaiWimalathasan (29)Journalist, Thambu Kothandavani (40) Carpenter, M. Sinnathamby (24) Accounts Clerk and another unidentified person of about 30 years who were travelling in a minibus from Sandilipay towards Jaffna were shot dead. * Manipay - 7.30 a.m., CTB bus (route No.782) was stopped at the Market, passengers lined up on the public highway and male passengers shot at point blank range with machine guns. Straying
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FFNA
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Hindu College, V. Ident, Manipay Hindu waran (19) Student, Jayendram
ollege,
(16) Student, Jaffna Hindu College * Another seriously injured person had his arm amputated and is warded at the Tellipalai Government Hospital.
* The Soldiers returned to their camp at Mathagal via Chankanai firing bursts of machine gunfire at people on the streets all along the way.
* Between 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. these same soldiers shot dead 11 people at Kantharmadam. Some of them were :-
Sinnathamby Saravanamuttu (82) retired teacher, Kala Parameswaran (59) Family
Planning Officer, Sivananthan (30) Manager, Rathi Watch Works, Sivam (13), Pararajasingham, Land Development Officer, Thamby Thuraiswamy (50) Lorry Owner/Driver, S. Sathiyadevan (17) Salesman * The following were shot dead in their homes: Sivalingam (37) Engineer, Krishnaanandan (32) Shopkeeper, Ramaswamy Nagarajah (23), Thavendran (19). * 24th July - 2p.m. A person seriously injured the previous day complained to the Police and this resulted in the army attacking several houses in the complainant's village, Valithundal near Keerimalai. One person was killed, David Amirthanandam (about 70). * Several houses in the village were looted by the soldiers. Five persons were abducted and Severely assaulted and dumped on the wayside by the army Camp.

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SRI LANKA’S NAT
A SMOKN
The first year of the reign of Junius Richard Jayawardene was inaugurated with an orgy of arson, looting and murder directed against the Tamil people, and its sixth year is marked by similar scenes of carnage. The smoke from a hundred burning bazaars billows into the sky, and the goon squads of the UNP, lumpen Sinhala hoodlums, and the government's Storm troopers, in and out of uniform, are at their gory and incendiary pastime. Bellicose utterances unleashed the hounds of war in August 1977, and the recent declaration of Jaffna as a "battlefield" and ringing commands to exterminate the militant Tamil guerillas have merely escalated the bloody conflict. No government has the right to squeal when its forces are outwitted in a legitimate theatre of war by the openly designated enemy. To wreak summary vengeance, thereafter, against innocent and defenceless Tamils in the South through a calculated carnivalia of pillage and destruction is the hallmark of a cowardly and irresponsible bully. What price the resounding expressions of the rule of law, the preservation of order, Dharmishta, and an all-powerful Presidency Tamil blood spatters the pavements and half-Scorched bodies litter the roads Jayawardene has involved the atavistic impulses of the Sinhala terrorist rabble once again in his mad career. The killings are unlikely to stop - how many more sacrifices are required before the Sinhala Moloch is appeased? Will the ultimate horror in the Welikade Prison which has given the Tamil people fifty three new heroes to mourn provide the shock of revelation to a besotted regime? It is a salutary task to retrace our steps. BROKEN PROMISES In the long catalogue of promises made by the UNP to a wilting and skeletonised populace six years ago, broken since then with an unfeeling and unfailing regularity, there appeared in its manifesto the following brave and decisive proclamation regarding the Tamil Problem'. "In the interests of national integration and unity so necessary for the economic development of the whole country the Party feels such problems should be solved without loss of time. The Party, when it comes to power, will take all possible steps to remedy their grievances in such fields as (1) Education; (2) Colonisation; (3) Use of Tamil Language; (4) Employment in the public and semi-public corporations. We will summon an All-Party Conference and implement its decision'. Why did the Party, elected to power with So abundant and impressive a majority,
so consistently an neglect to pursue it events after July 19 brought home to it strategies had fai foundly, to stem the tent and open rese and tortured histo
Ouestion" in Sri Li round table has
logical instrument of a burning issue-a side of every Gover
dence. But over the years
made by successi\ bring all concerne table to prevent national disintegra Confrontation. The pledge on its mas many political grou social organisation minded the Goverr in its Manifesto, re honour the underta tragic impasse, cor sive legislation, mil continuing Emerge dues of sabre-ratt have lost any Cap once possessed to resolution of what cal question. On resistance has stiff youth of the North selves to defend Ta regional aspiration yearning for selfnow provide, in th community, the ar fenceless populat gap has been bridg eclipsed fear. The complete.
MONOLITHC M
It is instructive, at the major instrume violation of its elec the Government ha a solution of the Ta a new Constitutio Parlimentary majc President, and an ir remacy stretching North and East ha theatres of war, Prevention Of Ter minus Sudden Em off bilateral dialo (assisted by pow side) have reflected and 'showing th between, to softer to indicate the S

AUGUST 1983
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS IONAL QUESTION
NG RUIN?
d almost studiousy s own formula, when 177 must surely have that other tactics and ed, and failed protide of Tamil disconintment? In the long ry of the 'National
anka the device of a )een accepted as a
peaceful settlement of running sore in the hment since indepen
no effort has been te administrations to d groups around a he inevitable drift to tion and communal i U.N. P. ran up the thead in 1977 and ps and religious and s have frequently rement of the promise iterating the need to king in the face of the mpounded by represitary occupations and 2ncies. These techniling and intimidation acity they may have mitigate or assist the is essentially a politithe contrary, Tamil ened and the militant have steeled themmill honour, safeguard s, and symbolize the determination. They he view of the Tamil med shield for a deion. The generation ged and empathy has cycle of 'solidarity is
MAJORITY
this point, to review 2nts of policy (in clear toral promise) which as employed to secure mil issue. Fortified by in, a near-monolithic prity, an omnipotent nviolable political supnow to 1989, the ave been turned into while the infamous rorism Act (plus or ergencies) and an ongue with the TULIF 2r brokers on either "gunboat diplomacy" e flag" in turn. In Tamil obduracy and inhala lion was not
altogether toothless, rehearsed and unrehearsed acts of violence and arson were employed in the North and South. It is patently clear that these tactics (whether carrot or stick, alternately or in tandem) have failed to produce a solution. In fact they have contributed to an increasing of militancy and racial consciousness, and a saddening resort to violence, intimidation and terror on an increasing Scale. A great deal of light on the reluctance of the Government to utilize the best available national consensus has now been shed by the leading deus ex machina - Prof. A.J. Wilson- in two recent articles: (1) "Racial strife in Sri Lanka: the role of an intermediary'Conflict Ouarterly Spring -Summer 1982; (2) "Sri Lanka and its future: Sinhalese versus Tamils". The States of South Asia Problems of National Integration; Edited by A.J.Wilson and D. Dalton (London, 1982). The selfconfessed confidante and advisor of Sri Lanka's Establishment Mafia lays bare with a clinical candour the descent into the pit of communal disharmony, and indicates, with a no less disarming Veracity, his special role as an intermediary since the middle of 1979. An un precedented and sweeping embargo on quotation prevents reference to the first article, but, embedded in the second, is this revelatory admission. 'It was at this point that an intermediary in the person of the present author offered his good offices to the Executive President of the Republic with a view to bringing the TULF and Government spokemen together to the negotiating table. President Jayewardene accepted the arguments that this intermediary offered against the convening of aroundtable conference". (p.309). The substitute device of a nondescript Commission produced the District Development Councils Scheme - in essence the principal formula of its dissenting protagonist, Wilson himself. The backstage intrigue on display is reminiscent of a Byzantime Court. Concocted in such a climate, lacking a proper national recommendation, the D.D.C. system has proved a damp squib from the start, neither alleviating Tamil fears nor redressing any grievances. Both in theory and practice this exercise in the supposed devolution of power has signally failed to accommodate any genuine measures of regional auonomy, or satisfy the aspirations of a clearly expressed national identity. Subsequent events have merely confirmed the inadequacy of bilateral talks in an environment of continuing repression, and the futility of manipulated
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Concess Ions Obtained through elitist barter arrangements behind the backs of the people,
FROM RESISTANCE TO LIBERATION. Battered beyond endurance the Tamil people have turned sporadic resistances into a national liberation struggle. The near-total boycott of the May 18th local government pols in Jaffna nas proviced, perhaps, the spectacular coup-de-grace to the basic design of the Wilsonian strategy, and laid to rest the ineffectual logistics of the incompatible union between an emasculated TULF and an unwilling UNP which has tried and failed miserably to embody the Sinha lese Consensus, despilte repeated electoral intimidation. The national solidarity and distinctive ardour of the Tami people deserve better than the artful temporiZings and piecemeal fumblings of their elite representatives. The Cruise missile from New Brunswick may Wel have flown its last mission. The self-indulgence of some individuals must give way, Sooner or later, to the right of a whole people to participate in the responsibility of Conducting theiraffairs. Frustration and disillusion in both Sinhala and Tamil camps must give way to a clear and realistic socio-political programme to re-establish national unity and bring about a lasting solution to the Tamil duestion. Any such agreement should embody the strictest constitutional safeguards for the appropriate expression of Tamil self-determination, within or without a unitary state, and a self-respecting regional autonomy based on genuine procedures of a democratic devolution of power from the centre. All recognized political parties should participate in discussions leading to the best terms for a negotiated settlement, and the ensuring agreement would need to be guaranteed by their support. A roundtable in any other context would fail to get off the ground. The recent fiasco of a desperately called roundtable on grounds untenable to the entre Opposition has demonstrated in unmis takeable terms the significance of the real issues at Stake. TULF SEES LIGHT The TULF has apparently (at its Mannar Convention on 23rd and 24th July) seen the light at the end of a squalid tunnel of discrimination, oppression, intimidation, double-dealing and terror, and learned to shrug off the yoke of selfimportant and self-appointed intermediaries. Its new plan offers a new hope for the future of their people, and no settlement can fail to ignore these basic demands. They are worthy of restatement because they represent the aspirations of a people, united through
Suffering and Strug (1) Recognition of
the Tamil people, (2 (3) Repeal of the Pr. Act, (4) Withdrawa from amil areas, (5 for those detained Of Terrorism Act.
Ministers and his M re-think their stand ran(dom holocatusts
a permanent apoca
26th July 1983.
POSTSCRIPT The Sixth Annen(inne and passed in par Parliament, in the t nal orgasm. On 5t put the very basi negotiated settlem Ouestion in the utr Zied piece of legis ground for any dispa evaluation of the i: wil have the effect ( Tamil opinion and pressing those vie manner, but, more ral, rationa and ind thinking on the na been rendered tabo ment is intended to the majority comm tionalist channels, a Sinhala Buddist inte tution. The movem has now reached the its fanatic course, a Lanka looks likely t pressures of militat precept and practic wings for nearly Sinhala Buddhist C forced its way to the and captured the ve power. What chance for the Tamil peop round-tables tO di SC aspirations or argue determination, re human rights, or a national identity in accommodating atr to dialogue is Stil. Op spokesmen, but at what ends? Thoug Tamil People has phoenix of Tamil re. their destiny must smouldering ashes C and an overwhelmin in any remaining ve magnamimity. Wha the strength of an ic
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6th AUGUST 198

TAM | T M ES 1 5
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ge. Self-determination of ') Regional autonomy, evention of Terrorism | of the armec forces } An amnesty Schem Linder the Prevent( )
The President. In , APS would do well to without delay before are transformed into | lypse.
int Conceived in ast
| C | tn a batin-Spra l' mala roes Of the Commi In August 1983 nas S of a peaceful or nefnt of the "Tann|| most peril. This frenslation destroys the assionate or objective Ssues involved, and Df Outlawing not only the freedom of exWS in a democratic ominously even libeependent Sinhalese tional Guestion has O. The Sixth Amendunite the thinking of unity in narrow naSwell as to enshrine Brests in the Constient began in 1956 2 inflamed apogee of nd the fi tre Of Sri o be dictated by the ht Sinhala Buddhist le. Confined to the three decades, the ampaign has now Centre of the stage ry Citadels of State 3, if any, is there left ble to sit dowh at cuSS their aims and 2 their case for Selfgonal autonomy, recognition of their a conciliatory and nosphere? The door ben, Say Government what price and to h the voice of the been muffled, the sistance and faith in surely rise from the of bitterness, despair gloss of confidence estiges of Sinhalese t remains, always, IS dea whose time has
R/CHARD LEE
B3.
On April 6, 1983, Rajasundaram was arrested and taken to the Gurunagar Army Camp in Jaffna, after the Sri Lankan Police raided the Gandhiyam office in Vavuniya. Not even his family knew of his whereabouts until the following day. He was confined to a small Cell and tortured so as to break his iron will. His lawyers and his wife were allowed to see him just once. On April 23 his Attorneyat-Law Mr. Kumaralingam sent a telegram to the Sri Lankan President reporting Rajasundaram's weak State of health as a result of the torture, but nothing was done. He was then transferred to Panagoda Army Camp VA"here he nderwent further torture. Confessions were then extracted from him under threat of more serious treatment". Later he was brought to Colombo Welkade Jail. Rajasundaram and eight others were moved out of their cells immediately after the July 25 killings in Welikade Jai and kept in a padlocked hall upstairs in the same block. In spite of their repeated representations to the prison hierarchy for better security they were given nothing but bland assurances. On July 27 at 2.30 p.m. these nine heard shouts outside their hall and later saw crowds coming towards them with axes, crowbars and Sticks. Rajasundaram was unfortunate enough to open the door and was hit on his neck with an iron bar. This Cowardly act of attacking a man who was unarmed and weakened by months of brutal torture ended the life of one of the noblest of Tamil sons. He leaves behind his wife - Shanthi- and three children, Raji (1 2), Ramanan (9) and Arthavan (8). Dr. Shanthi now runs the Vavuniya Clinic and carries on the work Rajasundaram devoted his life to. They may have mutilated his body, strangled his neck, denied him sleep for many a day and finally killed him as an enemy, but his spirit lives on and will lead future generations of Tamils to mould their lives on his example, till they reach their goal - Eelam. The quotation in the article of 'Wanninesan" in the Tamil Times of May 1983 aptly describes the spirit of our revered friend, Dr. Rajasundaram. "My Soul that knows no weariness will
go On: Till my country gains its own promised land; And though they crack my skull and even kill me, On my skull, engraved in raw blood, they will read This is a Tamil who would never surrender To the brutish enemies of freedom' '.
Arul Emmanuel
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THE COMMOWWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS UVARGES “F//WAI/VC/AL BOYCO77'' OF SAR/ LAWKA
The Massachusetts House of
Representatives unanimously adopted a Resolution filed Representative Marie E. Howe (D- Somerville) and the Eelam Tamil
ASSOCiation of America, headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, urging the divestment and withdrawal of public funds and pension revenues from businesses that are Owned by Organizations based in Sri Lanka. In filing this Resolution on behalf of the Eelam Tami's, Representative Howe stated, "it is urgent that the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are made aware of the gross violation of human rights by the Government of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, against the Tamil population. Government Sponsored terrorism against the minority people of this lsland just South of India will not be tolerated and hopefully the citizens of Massachusetts Will boycott all products and Companies with interest based in Sri Lanka. The following is the text of the resolution adopted:
Whereas, The Tamils of Eelam, who number three million Hindus, Christians and Moslems and occupy eight thousand Square miles, live as an Opresed minority in Sri Lanka, where the majority is composed of ten million Sinhalese, most of whom are Buddhists, and whereas, from ancient times two nations, the Sinhalese and Tamils possessed distinct languages, religions, cultures and clearly demarcated geographic territories until the British, who were characteristically oblivious to the difference between these two separate nations, imposed one rule for the purpose of Colonial administrative unification; and whereas, since 1948, when the British departed the island and two unwilling nations were consequently left under auritary government structure, the majority Sinhalese faction has subverted denocratic principles to become the new masters of the Tamil-speaking people; And whereas, further evidencing the discriminatory and intimidating policies of the majority, security
forces recently went on a rampage in the northern prov
incial capital of Jaffna, Burning shops and more than one hundred and fifty houses, almost all of which were owned by Tamils, Who make up approximately twenty percent of the population of the Island once called Ceylon, thereby leaving more than five hundred people homeless; And whereas, at least One civilian was killed by crossfire in overnight fighting between naval troops and unidentified people, and at Paranthan, on the rail line between Jaffna and Colombo, policemen attacked a crowd of train passengers headed North for the Tamil-speaking area, injuring an undetermined number of civilians;
And whereas, according to the International Commission of Jurists, many of the provisions of the Sri Lankan Prevention of Terrorism Act and Public Security
Act are contrary to accepted
principles of the rule of law, internationally accepted minimum standards of Criminal procedure, and also to be contrary to the provisions of the Sri Lankan Constitut On, and whereas, the Massachusetts House of Representatives does not wish the Commonwealth to contribute to the revenues of Sri Lanka because of its violations of the human rignts of the Tamils; And whereas, the Massachusetts House of Representatives does not wish the Commonwealth to invest in Sinhalese interests or in those of any other party that practises discrimination against the Tamil inhabitants Of Eelam; and whereas, Consistent with its Condemnation of moral WrongS done in the name of the Sinhalese people by their government, the Massachusetts House of Representatives hereby endorses a policy of financial boycott by the Commonwealth, thereby dissociating itself from the abiding evil of Sinhalese oppression in Sri Lanka; Therefore be it resolved, that the Massachusetts House of Representatives urges the immediate divestment and withdrawal of all Public funds or pension revenues from any business organizations that are owned by interests based in Sri Lanka, and urges all officers of the Commonwealth to exercise their best offices to accomplish the said objective with the greateSt SS Se of urgency: and be it further resolved, that copies of these resolutions be forwarded by the Cleark of the House of Representatives to the

AUGUST 1983
President of the United States, Secretary of State, U.N. Ambassador, Presiding Officer of each branch of Congress and the members thereof from this
Jayawardene of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister R. Premadasa and the Presiding Officers of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. HOUSE OFREPRESENTATIVES
Commonwealth, President
ADOPTED, JUNE 9, 1983."
@
Sri Thilla iam palam, Hon. Thomas P. O’Neil, Speaker of.
US Congress and T.Sritharan (left to right)
WEST LONDON TAMIL SCHOOL
ANNUAL PRIZE GIVING
The large hall of Greenford High School was packed to capacity for the annual prizegiving of the West London Tamil School On July 16. The large audience included prominent members of the Tamil community, Mr. Harry Greenway, Member of Parliament for Ealing, Mr. Doug Barratt of the Unified Community Action Group and representatives from Ealing Borough Council. Dr. Rhodes Boyson, former education minister, the guest of honour, presented a magnificent range of silver Cups, shields and other prizes, donated by parents and Wellwishers, including the Brindavanam Music Society, Brent Tamil Association, the General Union of Eelam Students, London Tamil Sangam and the League of Friends of Jaffna University, The opening ceremony of the lighting of the lamp was performed by Mrs Rhodes Boyson. The Headmaster, Dr. Niththyananthan, gave a moving address.
Speaking of the conflicting influences of home and school to which a child growing up in an alien Culture is exposed, he emphasised the importance of cultivating a Sense of personal identity in Such a situation. In introducing the child to the language of his forbears, the school opened to him the gateway to a literature going back to the year 2000 BC, enriching his life and all those with whom he
came into Contact. Dr. Niththyananthan concluded his speech with the well known Tamil quotation. "Education is the greatest gift any parent can bestow on his children." In reply, Dr. Boyson spoke of his admiration for the high standards of the Tamil community in Britain and their dedication to the importance of family life. The school was an achievement of which the entire Community could be proud, he declared.
The speeches were succeeded by Captivating performances by the pupils who, dressed in the traditional Costume of the homeland, delighted their audience with Tamil songs, sketches and dances in which they displayed an astonishing virtuosity. This moving occasion reflected the rapid progress of the school from
its small beginnings in a meeting of parents in 1978. It was a vindication of the vision of its founder, Mr. C.J.T. Thamotheram, and a just recompense for the dedicated labours of the Staff and the financial sacrifices of the parents. It was a personal triumph for the headmaster, Dr. R. Niththyananthan, who put in So much time and effort into its Organisation. It was altogether an occasion of which teachers, children and parents can be justly proud and which will be remembered for many years to COrne.

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MARTYRED RAJASUN DAR, “THE MOVING SPIRIT OF GAND
It is given to few to work selt lessly for a cause in which they wholeheartedly believe and in that process make the supreme sacrifice of their own lives. The poignancy of such an invaluable "offering" is thrown into high relief when it is extracted by a cowardly and dastardly attack executed with all the brutality which human nature could descend to achieve. Such is the sacrifice which Rajasundaram was destined, if not privileged, to pay for his self-effacing and compassionate service to his less advantaged countrymen. That this assassination should have been committed by those professing the Buddha-dhamma should undoubtedly make the great Teacher of Compassion turn in his grave disgusted at the crimes committed in his venerated name. This "uththamapuththiran" was born on March 23rd, 1943, the third son of Mr. 8t. Mrs. Somasunderam, who were both teachers. The early parental grounding and upbringing prepared him for his future role, initially as a social worker among the poor and the underprivileged masses in the tea and rubber plantations, and later as General Secretary of Gandhiyam, Sri Lanka. Even as a student at Kokuvi Hindu College, he worked as Secretary of the Young Farmers Club. Later he attended Jaffna Hindu College where he was Troop leader of the Scouts. He wasn't one who paid lip service to religion, but he combined his deep religious convictions with whole-hearted dedication, and worked tirelessly for the cause of the stateless plantation workers. He lived a simple and austere life and was a vegetarian. He took a lively interest in Tamil cultural affairs. Rajasundaram entered Colombo Medical College in 1963, and on completing his studies started his medical career in the small estate hospitals at Lunugala and later at Pussellawa. In these places he had the special task of looking after the physical welfare of the plantation workers. He was a Council member of the Indian Workers Congress during this period. He became acquainted with the struggles, dreams and unrealised hopes of the estate workers and this motivated him to dedicate his energies towards alleviating their sordid plight and the parlous conditions under which they laboured. Since then, the welfare of the estate worker became the dominating concern in his life. His later position as General Secretary of Gandhiyam afforded him the opportunity to translate his missionary zeal into reality by labouring for
brutality - the victin riots. In 197O he marrie singham, and work in the Kandy Lake But his urge to Wor leged drove him to e Clinic in December Pathmanathan, he produce a half-hou "The Price of a Cup privations, the poo conditions, the expl vation wages rece workers in Sri Lan Gandhiyam, the br David and Dr. Rajas solely for the threef cating poverty, ign
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hs of the 1977 racial
d Dr. Shanthi Karalaed for a short period side Medical Centre. c with the underprivistablish the Vavuniya 1973. With Dr. R. Sri helped Granada T.V. programme entitled of Tea", showing the r living and working oitation and the starived by the estate
KG.
anchild of Mr. S.A. Indaram, was formed old purpose of eradi
among the underpriviledged Tamils in Sri Lanka. The early success it enjoyed is a tribute to the tireless efforts of Rajasundaram, who worked all hours of the day. He was available round the clock, when anyone needed his services. Mr. David referred to him as "the moving spirit of Gandhiyam'. Gandhiyam was the only group that was functioning successfully when the 1977 racial massacre uprooted and displaced thousands of Tamils. It offered relief and helped to resettle and rehabilitate over 40,000 people- a task so monumental, that in ordinary circumstances it could have been undertaken as a State venture. Rajasundaram and his wife kept "open house' for those who came maimed, destitute and bereft of all they possessed, both in 1977 and later in 1979 and 1981. They were the crucial unifying link between the Tamils in Jaffna, the Wanni and the plantation areas.
orance and disease Contd on page 15
L RESCUE APPEAL
ng Organisation for the Tamils of Sri Lanka
and assess the problems facing the Lanka and devise Ways and means of
such problems.
coordinate and disseniinate in for . ng to the Tanils of Sri Lanka and their d to counter hostile propaganda.
participated in the historic march of over 6000 through the Saturday, July 30, got together to discuss the curren plight i Lanka. The outcome was the formation of the Tamil Rescue
g Organisation of the Tamils of Sri Lanka living abroad, the peal will endeavour to present to the world the true facts ms facing the Tamils at home and the struggle they are at O Secure justice. They will seek to influence international ote of the denial of human and civil rights to the Tamils in Sri tgenocidal holocaust in Sri Lanka where possibly over one were brutally murdered, tens of thousands rendered feral thousand homes and business establishments belongpted and burnt has emphasised the need for a vibrant Janisation as one of the means available to the Tamils to tity as a people and to ensure their security and the integrity
eriod since the Appeal was formed we have set up an Office h, established meaningful contact with the national newsOnded in the Guardian to an advertisement in that paper | 17) inserted by the Sri Lanka Association of Britain and malicious propaganda. proposes to canvass opinion and support from National and es for the Tamil cause in a sustained manner. e Appeal is resolved to work in close collaboration and Tamil organisations in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Tamil cause. We require the full support of Tamils ur endeavour. Donations are WellCOme
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THE MAJOR DEVELOPMENT following the unprecedented state-sponsored terror and campaign of liquidation unleashed against the Tamils in Sri Lanka has been the acceptance - through the force of geopolitical circumstances rather than on a 'voluntarist' basis - of India's locus standi and, indeed, special interest in the in atter. This active role Concerns what needs to be done urgently in relation to the elementary security as well as the social, cultural, economic and political rights of the leading minority people in the island - who, if the 'Ceylon' and "Indian" Tamil streams can be taken together, constitute a fifth of the population. Not untrue to form, Mr. J. R. Jayewardene has been blowing cold and hot in his recent dealings with India, and its Government. A week ago, the Sri Lanka President "welcomed" (according to Mrs. Gandhi's statement in Parliament) the good offices of this nation in resolving the political crisis that has the Tamil question as its focus. His latest interview to a group of Indian journalists in Colombo (reported in detail by THE HINDU's Special Correspondent) is indicative of some kind of attempt to explain away (if not wriggle out of) the commitment, by suggesting that talks with the TULF on the Tamil question are a purely internal matter in which Indian 'good offices' might not be needed. This combined with the absence of any expression of remorse for the atrocities against the Tamils, does not constitute an ideal climate for the sensitive round of talks that will begin in Colombo with the Prime Minister's special envoy this week. One hopes one will not have to take Mr. Jayewardene literally in such matters, for after all the special role of the people and Government of India in finding a speedy and positive solution to the Sri Lanka Crisis has already been conceded in practice. Were that not the case, there would have been no question of the External Affairs Minister, Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao, flying to Sri Lanka for the initial round of bilateral talks on the situation, or of Indian ships being dispatched to Sri Lanka to bring succour to some of the victims, or of the Sri Lankan special emissary visiting New Delhi for the second round of talks, or of the TULF leader, Mr.A.Amirthalingam, coming to India for political talks virtually without official obstruction, or of Mr. G. Parthasarathy going to Colombo for the third round of talks on which a great deal of expectation has been placed by India as well as the Tamils of Sri Lanka. There are two or three aspects to be taken care of if the special Indian efforts are to succeed with the Sri Lanka autho
rities in the coming the continued asse deep interest in the and must not be def tions placed alongt The bottom line in
is that any further a and security of the and other people o Lanka are unaccep and Government of is the insistence, thr political means, tha rights of the Tamil
dealt with on the
respect through C( tions. lt follows tha Tami United Libera expected to partici riously if a gun, in t Amendment to the
to their heads; it me ting parties should that obtained before as the starting poin which in turn mea least a suspension
official response tot a separate Eelam. ought to be done inflamed passions, either in Sri Lanka ( the fundamental ta cour to the victims
their immediate fu and more risky tha Overall situation mu heroics, in a spirit of sibility as to the ach outcome. It is to be those like the "Tiger to individual acts of as a means of carryir and tend to function, provocateurs so fa the Tamils in Sri Lé will give the situatic masses a break. If bring about a politic tion of the Tamil que no occasion or pret those specialising in
politics among the queer the pitch - if I does appear that afe the framework of a the way to go. The i
involved must be ap
and on an urgent (whatever the shap
ever, for the propo ously by the Tamils, represented by the
Government must substantive measu

AUGUST 1983
RICKY ROAD AHEAD.
weeks. The first is rtion of a direct and matter, that cannot lected by any obstruche path by Colombo. the national position ssaults on the safety three million Tamils f Indian origin in Sri ptable to the people India. Related to this ough diplomatic and t the aspirations and community must be basis of equity and onstructive negotiaat the leaders of the tion Front cannot be Oate in the talks sehe form of the Sixth Constitution, is held ans that the negotiaregard the position the recent holocaust t for any discussion, hs there must be at of this crisis-related he political slogan of Secondly, nothing - in the form of rhetoric or deeds or in India - to make sk of bringing sucand of safeguarding ture more difficult in it already is. The st be dealt with sans realism and responlievable or desirable earnestly hoped that s" (who are wedded excitative terrorism' gout their objectives in practice, asagents as the interests of nka are concerned) on and the unarmed he Indian efforts to ally negotiated solustion are to take off, xt must be given to communal or "racist
Sinhala people to lot worse. Thirdly, it deral solution within united Sri Lanka is ssues and problems
oroached concretely
basis in the talks of the table). How
al to be taken serispecially the stream ULF, the Sri Lanka unch a numberi of es to demonstrate
that they are not regarded as second class citizens, a people under suspicion and siege, a political community that has to function under conditions of pogrom, legal ban and risk to life and property in its own land. In her interview given to THE HINDU in Colombo and published in uncensored form last Saturday, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike has (whatever the track record of her Sri Lanka Freedom Party on this front) expressed some positive sentiments on India's special role as well as on the way to resolve the Tamil question that has long eluded settlement in the politics of the island. Will the UNP Government headed by Mr.Jayewardene (despite its role in the atrocities and campaign to "teach the Tamils the lesson of their lives") see the dangers and the opportunities in the situation and act soberly and responsibly? By kind courtesy of THE HINDU (Edito
rial September 3, 1983
SARAJ ALANIKA ”S BLOODY SAVAMI
Sri Lanka's claim to being civilized is drowning in the blood of its Tamil minority that the Sinhalese majority slaughters and burns. New government measures Outlawing even peaceful Tamil separatism make more violence likelier. Sinhalese soldiers, sailors and policemen have joined the arsonists and murderers. Tourists fleeing Sri Lanka number the Tamil victims in the thousands. The troubles go back to the 19th century when the British imported Tamil workers to Sri Lanka - then the island of Ceylonfrom adjacent southern India. The Tamils are Hindu. the Sinhalese are Buddhists. The Tamils, as minorities often do, puta greateffort into education and carved enviable places for themSelves in theeconomy and the ranks of the British administration. When Sri Lanka became independent, after the Second World War, its envious Sinhalese majority, 72 per cent, often turned on thriving Tamils, 20 per cent. On one occasion, the Sinhalese police burned half the Tamil capital eity of Jaffna. Such savagery gave birth to the Tamil United Liberation Front With 1 8 members in Sri Lanka's 168-seat parliament. They advocate separation by democratic means. But the existence of the TULF only increased Sinhalese violence which finally turned young Tamils to terrorism.
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'GUARDIANS OF LAWE LAWLESSNESS
The Ceylon Workers Congress, of which the President is Mr S.Thondar man, a Minister in the present Government of Sri Lanka, has in a strongly worded Statement COndemned the “un precedented savagery” by organised groups which “went on a rampage, un checked for nearly a week, destroying and looting property, setting houses and establishments on fire, and killing and mai ming innocent and defenceless victims While the guardians of the law remained inactive and, in Some cases, even encouraged and assisted the lawlessness'. It is important to note that as a member of the Jayawardene Cabinet he is taking a position different from that of the Government and indirectly blames the Government for the anti-Tamil violence of July.
The Statement adds: "We are deeply grieved that this wave of violence has been unleashed even before the wounds inflicted by the criminals in August 1981 had healed. The vast majority of the peace loving Tamils, who by hard work and frugality have helped to build the economy of this country, have been rendered destitute overnight. There is substantial evidence to believe that the events of the last week of July are not a sudden and spontaneous outburst of the Sinhala population against the Tamils. It appears that a concerted
Contd from page 18
To stem this, President Junius Jayewardene advocated some measure of autonomy for the Tamils. But the Sinhalese majority wouldn't buy it. It preferred increasing repression, led by the forces of law and order, which Mr. Jayewardene now no longer can control. If he ordered them to stop killing Tamils, his troops might replace him with the usual, coldeyed, slimy colonel who is, no doubt, lurking under some stone, plotting. Presumably to forestall a military takeover, Mr. Jayewardene has now outlawed all separatist movements and said that people who advocate division of the country would be stripped of their civil rights. Sri Lanka's president has thus turned his back on his earlier willingness to give the Tamils some autonomy. And in so doing, he leaves them no choice but to become guerrillas. What else can they do when legitimate political action is denied them and they lose all their rights if they hold views the Sinhalese majority rejects? It is through such denial of civic rights that long-lasting, bloody guerrilla wars are made. By kind courtesy of The GAZETTE Montreal (Editorial, July 30, 1983)
attempt has beer carefully laid out of time to destroy gings of persons professions and t of the exercise ap community all av{ Condemn them tC captive labour. La workers have also Even before the ri the attack on the Mannar, Vavuniya had been Set in n that communal vic commenced with huts of settlers i were uprooted frc early hours of the bundled and broug Nuwara Eliya anc destitutes. The failure to regul: of stateless persor Indian origin in t dialogue with the N trial Development Ceylon Workers C major contributor state of affairs whi today. Instead, of implen policy of regularisi persons of Indian vvherethey'vvere tra as refugees after th a concerted attem|| drive them out of various false prete further intensified July when the pol personnel set in m intimidating the set away. . In order to legalis proposalvas prese of encroachments a in Sri Lanka, the Pl Activities of any individuals, ASSOC or body of person which includes so provisions of the Pt Act like detention 18 months, pow without giving cons Army or Navy to etc. thus branding in the backdrop O violence, the CW these acts of sav, and displacement in spite of the unsti the C.W.C. has ext ment and the whol

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’ - CWC -
made by means of a lan over a long period he houses and belonof Indian origin in the e trade. The objective ears to be to deny this nues of progress and a permanent state of ge number of estate
been affected. its began in Colombo, Tamil Settlers in the and Trincomalee areas otion. It is significant lence on a large scale
the burning of the n Trincomalee. They m their homes in the morning of 23rd July ht against their will to | Hatton and left as
arise the land holdings is and other people of he North, through a linister of Rural Indusand President of the ongress, has been a y factor to this sad ch we are witnessing
henting the declared ng the settlement of origin in these areas, nsported and dumped 2 previous holocausts, ot had been made to their holdings under :xes. This had been around the middle of ice and the security tion a-wave of terror lers and driving them
this programme a nted For Prevention nd Illicit Settlements evention of unlawful ndividual, group of ations, Organisation within Sri Lanka..." he of the obnoxious vention of Terrorism without trial for upto to G.A. or A.G.A. nt to authorize Police, demolish buildings ettlers as terrorists. recurring waves of C. points out that Jery, discrimination ave been practised ted cooperation that hded to the Govern
hearted support the Contd on page 24
people of Indian origin gave during the Presidential election and the referendum, that no compensation has been paid to date to the yictims of the earlier vioence, and none of those responsible have been punished. The C.W.C. is also compelled to reiterate that the plantation workers have been consistently denied wage increases, educational, medical, social and Welfare benefits extended to other sectors of the population which is once again a blatant act of discrimination. In this context, the granting of citizenship alone is insufficient as evidenced by the acts of discrimination and violence even against Tamil citizens of Sri Lanka. There should be a complete change of attitude for which the essential pre-requisite is the restructuring and re-orientation of the administrative machinery. The C.W.C. therefore authorises the office bearers - to discuss with His Excellency the President the various immediate and long term measures that need to be taken to enable the people of Indian origin to continue to live in this country with dignity, safety and security as equals with the rest of the population within the framework of a united Sri Lanka, and to report back the results of such discussions and settlement within one month from the date of this meeting."
SANS IN UK DEMAND
INTERNATIONAL
|NOURY
The Asian Collective, an umbrella organisation of Asians living in the UK, held a largely attended meeting at County Hall, London on August 25 to protest against the violence unleashed upon the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Representatives from several political Organisations also spoke at the Meeting condemning the State-sponsored terrorism against the Tami people. The following resolution was passed unanimously: THIS MEETING ORGANISED BY THE ASIAN COLLECTIVE OF EAST LONDON CONDEMNS THE STATE ORGANISED BARBARIC VIOLENCE ON THE TAMILS OF SRI LANKA THE MEETING DEMANDS: 1. IMMEDIATE RELEF FOR TAMIL REFUGEES, SUPERVISED BY TAMILSPEAKING PEOPLE. 2. IMMEDIATE REPEAL OF THE PREVENTION OF TERRORISMACT. 3. RELEASE OF ALLPOLITICAL PRSONERS.

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THE COU/WTARY: S/AR/IMMA VO
COLOMBO, Aug.21. Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and former Prime Minister, has said that the anti-secession law, adopted by the country's Parliament early this month, would not help solve the Tamil minority problem and would automatically divide the coun try. In an interview, Mrs. Bandaranaike, whose party had voted for the law, said: "This northern (Tamil) members of Parliament may not disavow separation. Then what will be the position. They may lose their parliamentary seats. Will they keep duiet after that. No.They will always find an alternative to carry out their campaign. They may receive sympathy internationally. At the same time the Tamil people in this country will not have an opportunity to express their views through the Supreme legislature of the country. This sort of legislation will be applicable to
peace-loving peopl will not pay heed t Mrs. Bandaranalike i that the Sixth Col ment (banning seces matically divide th Tamil-speaking peo sented in the futur “I hope tha theresh dialogue among all a view to finding a S also consider helpir they need our assist nent solution for th She said the Preside had attempted to recent lawlessness vities of a certain pC we should abandor and work for the people". - PTI.
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PROTEST IN SWITZERLAND
Eela Tamil Mantram (Switzerland) and Sri Lanka Solidarity Committee (Geneva) demonstrated opposite the United Nations in Geneva on 5th August 1983. Tamils in and around Switzerland - over 150 - gathered with permission of Geneva police authorities for the demonstration which started at 9 a.m. and terminated by 4 p.m. The demonstration was televised and broadcast throughout Switzerland.
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President Jayawardene has of late been
blowing hot and cold. After an initial
display of truculence, so characteristic of the typical bully, in which he refused to admit any wrong doing, he made a Sudden climb down and accepted that the holocaust in Sri Lanka represented not only a social and political crisis but also that it was at its deepest level a Crisis of civilisation itself. There are other truths that also have been revealed. The Sinhalese leader accepted that he had indeed approached the US, Britain, Pakistan and Australia for military aid. As a sop, he threw in India too, but that was a mere face-saver. Thus, the accusation first made by the UP correspondent (for which he was expelled from Sri Lanka) was only too true.
In sending his brother, Hector, to Delhi to parley with Mrs Gandhi, the President showed a glimmer of wisdom. Whether it will save his country from disintegration is, however, an open duestion. Many observers would be inclined to believe that concessions he now envisages for his country's Tamil population are too little and have come too late. But whether even these can be delivered is doubtful. His Sinhalese hardliners seem unlikely to countenance any concessions. ACcording to the gospel preached by his minister, Cyril Matthew, the only good Tamil is a dead Tamil and 'a final solution' of the Tamil problem along, presumably, the lines once advocated by the Nazis: Himmler is the one sure remedy for Sri Lanka's ills.
Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan army is little better than a rabble of rapists and killers who entered wholeheartedly in the antiTamil riots (another of Jayawardene's admissions) and would no doubt do so again, given the opportunity. Such is the volatile atmosphere in the country that Indian diplomats who were subjected to wilful attack by Sinhalese mobs might be given another dose of the same treatment.
This being the situation, Mr Jayawardene is having to appease his thuggish Supporters at home and try at the same time to placate a shocked and disturbed public opinion abroad. It is well nigh an impossible task. As you sow, so shall you reap. The Sri Lankan President is reaping the whirlwind.
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people who came to burn and pillage, carried lists of names and addresses. They knew exactly where to go. They
didn't search. They looked at a piece of paper, looked at a number and there
they were. Therefore, there was preplanning. We now understand from the information in the hands of the Government that these names and addresses were taken from the Register of Electors, from the Parliamentary Voters Lists, and were prepared very much in advance for an occasion such as this, the timing of which was left for various events which might or might not have happened or might or might not have been engineered. Having thus correctly assessed the nature and extent of the violence, the government have come up with a most despicable and scandalous story that some left parties were instrumental in inciting the July anti-Tamil rioting. Specifically the Nava Sama Samaj Party (NSSP), the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the Communist Party (CP-Moscow) have been banned and their leading members taken into custody. Vasudeva Nanyakkara, the leader of the NSSP and Rohana Wijeweera, the leader of the JVP have gone into hiding fearing that they might be killed in the same manner as the 55 Tamil detainees massacred in the Welikade prison. Rewards of Rs. 50,000 have been announced for any information leading to the arrest of either leader. The Sri Lankan government, from the President downwards, is using the county's State controlled media network to virtually hound those connected with the NSSP and JVP. Vasudeva in particular has been singled out for vicious attacks. Professor Tilak Ratnakara, reputed to be a pro-Sinhala Buddhist extremist, has appeared on TV dissecting and analysing Vasudeava's election speeches and party manifesto to depict him as an ally of the "Tigers', as a person who was prepared to betray the Sinhalese to the Tamils etc. We have no reason to hold a brief for the political or ideological positions of the NSSP or, for that matter any other left party. At best, on the national question, the NSSP stood for the right of Self determination, a principle recognised by the United Nations Covenants. But we are certain they never possitively advocated separation. We are not unaware of the serious polemical arguments between some Tamil groups whic believed in Eelam and the NSSP on this very issue. However, the propaganda machinary of the government is working full blast arousing the base chauvinistic instincts of the Sinhalese people against the lett parties with a view to destroying them politically and organisationally.
CONTEMPTIBLE The attempt on t ment to put the b|| attacks against til contemptible bu several reasons: * While it is true t left parties, the L Cumbed to the ra SLFP in a bid to governments, by a have been more problems of the T Their positions wi Tamil language ar tion workers are * The left parties, and the UVP havi the racist policie mainStream Sinh and SLFP. *They have denou attacks upon the * These parties mainly from trade workers and it is it would engage in á the factories in w Worked and rende * Politically and org these parties are popular support ei lese or Tamils. Ev they could not hav cial, organisation Sources that went execution of the rec upon the Tamils a *There is incontro the security force cipated in or failed against the Tamil had been used as entry through irc which were later gested that the col had been complete two small left pari * The governmen tha in Trincomale and went berserk and its suburbs. I want anyone to be
work of the left pa For these reasons
other reasons, the or for a multitude
Tamil speaking pe the rest of the wo the government's goats in these let people only know attacks upon ther had always been
porters of the tw. parties, the UN Par more so because, S in July 1977, th

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ATTEMPT
he part of the govername on the left for the he Tamils is not only also untenable for
hat the two traditional SSP and the CP, sucIcialist policies of the ) enter into coalition nd large, the left parties sympathetic to the amil speaking people. th regard to the use of d the rights of plantawell known. particularly the NSSP e publicly denounced s of the two major ala parties, the UNP
inced at all times racial Tamil people. derive their support unions and industrial hconceivable that they a campaign to destroy hich their supporters er them unemployed. anisationally speaking, very small with little ther among the Sinha'en if they wanted to, 'e mustered the finanal or manpower reinto the planning and ent islandwide attacks ind their property. vertible evidence that s either actively partito prevent the violence
people. Army trucks Oattering rams to gain in gates of factories burnt down. ls it suguntry's security forces ly taken over by these :ies?
it publicly confessed
e the Navy mutinied purning down the city Does the government lieve this too was the
rties?
and for a multitude of famil speaking people of other reasons, the pple or for that matter rld would not believe ttempt to find scapeit parties. The Tamil v too well that the n begining in 1956 initiated by the supo Sinhala rightwing ld the SLFP. The UNP ince it came to power e Tamils have been
subjected to widespread violence more than five occasions. Having permitted the most vicious rac attack on the Tamils and their proper and turned them into a community destitutes, the government and ti hirelings in the media have begui witch-hunt against the left. Fanning 1 flames of Sinhala chauvinism and Bu - dhist bigotry, fascist forces are at wo to foist upon the country a totalitaria regime. Uncle Sam is waiting in wings to set up bases in Trincoma and convert Sri Lanka into a ban, republic. The destruction in the riots of over 6C factories has resulted in over 100,000 Sinhalese workers becoming unemplo yed overnight. The economy of the country is in total disarray and the only way open to the government is to submit to the dictates of the International Monetary Fund and impose further economic burdens upon the people. Already prices of essential consumer commodities have gone through the roof making it impos sible for the average Sinhalese (forgf the Tamils for the moment) to mak. ends meet. There would and must come a time when anti-Tamil racist drug loose their potency and realities of economic hardship begin to surface in the form of popular un heavals. the govern ment and its advisers know this only to well and therefore they have alread commenced their campaign of pre-emp tive strikes against the left
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4. AN INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTC THE CAUSE OF THE CURRENTHOLs CAUST (TO INCLUDE THE KILLIN OF POLITICAL DETANEES AT WE KADA PRISON) 5. RIGHT OF SELF DETERMINATIC AND POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE FO, THE TAMIL SPEAKING PEOPLE Of SRI LANKA.
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