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COMMON WEALTH CONFERENCE
- SPECIAL ISSUE
0p NOWEMBER 1983
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ABOVE
A COITII m On a dwertl sement which appears in the foreign newspapers and journals
LEFT A Tamil youth stripped naked before being burnt alive, while the killers are dancing. The victim is bleeding. This happened at the main bus stand in Borella, Colombo B, at 1.30a.T. On 24th July. Signboard at the bus stop reads "New Parliatent"

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On November 24, the Heads of countries of the Commonwealth will meet at New Delhi. Unless the Conference considers the position and plight of all the people who constitute the Commonwealth, there is no meaning in meeting every four years.
Obviously, the invasion of Grenada by the US will become a matter for discussion. By the same token the plight of nearly 3 million Tamil-speaking people of Sri Lanka must be a matter that should concern the Heads of State. If not for anything else, the July 1983 massacre of the Tamils and the consequent displacement of several hundred thousand of them ought to engage the minds of those attending the Conference.
The Government of Sri Lanka will, no doubt, attempt to thwart any effort to raise this matter on the grounds that the "Tamil problem' is an internal matter for Sri Lanka and that any discussion at Conference level would constitute an "interference in its internal affairs'. When fundamental and elementary rights of a people are at stake, such as their right to life, property, security, citizenship, franchise and rights which other members of the same country enjoy, when violation of basic human rights is incontrovertibly established by independent bodies of international repute, then, the position of such people becomes the concern of all humanity and any attempt to cover up and thwart any discussion on technical grounds should be discounted. Such is the case with South Africa where the actions of the racist regime against the black people have been the subject of discussion before many an international forum. The question of the position of the Tamils of Sri Lanka is no less different.
The "Tamil problem’ should be of singular concern to the Commonwealth which is nothing but a group of Countries which had been previously colonised by the British and been part of the British empire. At the time Britain took control of the Island, then known as Ceylon, the traditional areas of the Tamil people, the Northern and Eastern provinces, were administered separately from the rest of the Island. In 1833, the British brought the whole island under a unified administration and thus brought to an end centuries of separate political and administrative existence of the Tamil areas from the rest of the island. When the British granted independence in 1948, they left it in a unified form with certain constitutional safeguards for the protection of the rights of the minority Tamils.
Disregarding both the spirit and letter of the consitutional safeguards, successive governments of the country, which came to be dominated by the numerically strong (70 per cent) Sinhalese, imposed on the Tamil people severe disabilities.
Within one year after independence, 1.2 million Tamils working in the plantations were deprived of citizenship and their right to vote. Overnight, not only did they lose their basic rights, but also, as a direct resulit, the Tamilis lost almost 50 per cent of rep
 
 

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esentation in the elected assembly. Of this 1.2 milon, nearly 300,000 have been forcibly repatriated to ndia, a mere 100,000 have been given citizenship ind the rest have up to date remained stateless and roteless. These people have been subjected to the worst form of discrimination and oppression during he last 35 years. The Commonwealth Heads of Sstate have repeatedly and justifiably waxed elouent against the racist regime of South Africa. They ven adopted the Gleneagles Agreement to cut off sporting links with that country. But up to now they have ignored the plight of a million Tamil plantation Norkers who have been denied their basic rights merely because they happen to be Tamils. They have allowed successive Sri Lankan governments to parade before World forums as paragons of democracy when they had continued to deny a million people their basic rights on racial grounds. The time has now come for the Commonwealth to take up the question of these people and their rights.
The other most urgent matter that should concern the Commonwealth is the repeated racial pogroms to which the Tamil people of Sri Lanka have been subjected. From 1958, they have been frequently attacked by racist gangs of Sinhalese while State security forces watched approvingly. Within the last six years, the attacks have become more frequent, more widespread, more vicious, even barbaric.
The July 1983 attack on the Tamil people assumed genocidal proportions. Seventy per cent of Tamil homes and property everywhere except Jaffna were burnt down, destroyed or looted. Their women were aped and children burnt in their own houses. All this happened before the very eyes of the security forces Nho in many instances actively joined the mob's renzied attacks. Tamil businessmen were Cornpletely burnt down and destroyed in scores of towns n an orgy of arson. Traditional Tamil cities like Trincomalee were razed to the ground by sections of the security forces. Many hundred thousand Tamils have been rendered homeless and destitute and are living as refugees in the land of their birth. The slaughter of over 50 Tamil political detainees within the high security prison at Colombo was as unprecedented as it was gruesome.
Up to date, neither the President nor his ministers has condemned the violence or the perpetrators. On the contrary, the Ministers are going about spreading Further anti-Tamil progaganda. Tamil properties including business premises have been confiscated under emergency laws. In the Tamil eastern province, Tamil people are being driven away from their villages and are being replaced with Sinhalese "colonists' under ministerial and "priestly' leadership.
Today, the entirety of the Tamil people are without representation in the elected assemblies of the country. Their MPs have been forced to forfeit their seats. Their parties are virtually banned. Many of them, fearing for their lives, have fled to India. Tamil youths are

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CYRIL MATHEW"S DA
The Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs alias Minister of Anti-Tamil Industry in President Jayewardene's Cabinet, Mr Cyril Mathew, has become the most commented upon personality in the international media, due to his role in the July violence against the Tamils.
He is the author of several anti-Tamil books and pamphlets including Diabolical Conspiracy and Who is the Tiger?. The Diabolical Conspiracy, which is a diatribe against Tamil university lecturers for their : ged favouritism to Tamil undergraduates, proclaims: 'Sri Lanka is a Sinhala Buddhist country although nonSi halese and Non-Buddhists too have lived here for a long time. This fact should never beforgotten by the Sinhala Buddhists as well as by the non-Sinhalese and the non-Buddhists.'
In keeping with his mono-religious philosophy, Mr Cyril Mathew has, for a long time, been propagating his pet theory
that there were 72 Tamil Northern Sri Lanka which that they should priests installed “Sinhala Buddhis around each Bud could sustain the Recently, at an ern Sri Lankan Mathew renewed Buddhists to co, Northern and E. with an view to gi Vihares in the Tam is our duty to safe temples and mak dhists to live in c temples.'
Not content with Lanka to alter the population mix in Mathew now has gc
EDITORIAL
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"disappearing' after arrest by security forces.
In short, the Tamil people face genocide in Sri Lanka.
In the meantime, the Sri Lanka government is engaged in arming itself to the teeth with lethal weaponry mainly from the Western countries, including Britain. A contingent from the Lankan army is being trained in Wiltshire in England. All this for what? The "final solution' for the Tamils?
The Commonwealth Heads of State have a duty and a responsibility to consider the plight of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Government of Sri Lanka should be called upon to account for its inhuman treatment of the Tamil people working in the plantations, for its culpability in the crimes against the Tamil people and its gross dereliction of duty to protect their rights, lives and property.
THONDA
The well-cultivoate Lankan governmer leaders to drive a w genous Tamils and (plantation Tamils) misfired with Mr TI a Cabinet Minister ments in the rece treatment of Tamils His tirade agains Mr Gamini Dissana & Development, th was being made to their settlements provoked a count Dissanayake.
Mir Thondaman charge that the Ju Tamils was the cul laid-out plan to des belongings of the TI urity forces indulge would appear to h extremist Sinhala C
The unperturbe suggested in the c conference, that the ern and Eastern accorded 'special st also stated that, o TULF MPs of thei had agreed with M. TULF leader, to lic the Tamil people.
Political observi daman's current c ranks among the T mon position. Whi statements might sistent with his co

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Buddhist shrines in the ld Eastern provinces of ad gone into disuse and be restored, Buddhist erein and a colony of should be established ha Vihare so that they emple and the priests. eting held in the southwn of Galle, Mr Cyril his call to the Sinhala onise and inhabit the stern Tamil provinces arding the 270 Buddha il areas. He declared: "It guard and protect these way for Sinhala Budlose proximity to those
his campaign within Sri lemographic profile and Tamil areas, Mr Cyril neinternational. He has
addressed a profusely documented publication to the UNESCO chief in Paris, Dr Amadou Mahathar M'Bow. His appeal to the UN organisation is "to safeguard and preserve the cultural property of Lanka endangered by racial prejudice, unlawful occupation and wilful destruction'. Mr Mathew has addressed this appeal in his capacity as President of the Congress of Buddhist Associations of State Corporations and President of the foundation for the Restoration and Protection of Buddhist Shrines in Lanka. ܫ
Incidentally, it is to be observed that many State Corporation vehicles were used to transport Sinhala racist thugs in July to attack Tamils and destroy Hindu temples. When told of this latest publication by Mr Mathew, one of his Cabinet colleagues
said: “He is the Minister of Industries; but I
have never seen a document published concerning industry in Sri Lanka.'
MAN ON THE WAY OUT
d strategy of the Sri it and other Sinhalese edge between the indiTamils of Indian origin would appear to have nondaman, while being , making many stateht past criticising the
as a whole. his Cabinet colleague "ake, Minister of Lands at a concerted attempt lrive the Tamils out of nder various pretexts r-statement from Mr
s widely publishedd y violence against the hinatiaon of a carefully roy the properties and mils and that the secin acts of lawlessness, ve irked some of his binet colleagues.
Mr Thondaman also irse of a recent press Tamils and the Northbrovinces should be us' like Kashmir. He ng to the vacation of arliamentary seats, he A Amirthalingam, the k after the interests of
s see in Mr Thonduct a closing of the mils to evolve a comhis much publicised t be considered connued membership of
the Cabinet, it is said that he is no longer keen to be content to remain in the Cabinet as a silent spectator, and that he is prepared to take the risk of being sacked. The Ceylon Workers' Congress's refusal to attend the all-Party conference summoned by the President is said to reflect the defiant mood of the C.W.C. and of Mr Thondaman. Mr Thondaman appears to have lost all confidence in President Jayewardene's ability to control the anti-Tamil outpourings of his Sinhala Cabinet colleagues.
TAMIL, NADU WILL PROTECT LIBERATION FIGHTERS
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M.G. Ramachandran, said his Government would always protect the Eelam “liberation fighters'. Mr Ramachandran said that the Prime Minister's envoy, Mr G. Parthasarathi, met him and discussed with him matters relating to the Tamils in Sri Lanka before leaving for the Indian Ocean island.
The Chief Minister said whatever charges the Sri Lankan President Mr Jayewardene might raise against him, he would protect the liberation fighters who had sought asylum here. Mr Ramachandran said that they were quite cultured, as must be evident from the fact that though the thugs and anti-social Sinhalese resorted to massacre of the Tamils with the connivance of the Government there, they did not kill a single Sinhalese when they liberated Tamil leaders from the Sri Lankan jail.

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MINISTER DEWANAYAGAMV
THE GREAT
Mr K.W. Dewanayagam, Minister of Home Affairs in ewardene's Cabinet, has complained that over 25,000 unlawfully grabbed large areas of fertile land in the Bat earmarked for distribution among landless Tamils.
Addressing a specially convened press conference on Minister alleged that a Buddhist monk, Ven. Seelalank known as the Dimbulagala priest, had openly incited Si people to illegally occupy the land. He accused high Mahaveli Authority (which is under Mr GaminiDissanaya of Land and Land Development) of conspiracy in suppor ful encroachment by the provision of transport, food sup ing materials to the squatters.
Charging the country's newspapers with partiality, th that certain newspapers were highlighting only the en land by the Tamils but closing their eyes to land-grabbin ese. This is causing resentment among the Tamils, the
The press conference called by Mr Dewanayagam was precipitated by a report in the English daily Sun of October 17, 1983, under the banner headline, 'Stateless persons encouraged to encroach on State land in N-E'. The Sun is published by the extreme Sinhala chauvinist outfit, the Davasa Group of Newspapers.
Before the press conference, the Minister had protested at the contents of this report in a letter to the newspaper. The letter said:
"I find a publication in your journal of the 17th issue entitled 'Stateless persons encouraged to encroach on State land in N-E'. While reading through the article, it is clear that the facts relate only to Vavuniya and the Northern Region. You have just coupled Batticaloa and the East, just to embrace the Tamil areas.
"For one thing, the reference to Batticaloa is factually wrong. There is no organised exercise to form human buffer Zones by stateless persons anywhere in the recent past. I am very much concerned, because this gives a mischievous twist to involve the poiticians of the Batticaloa district, specially when the Eastern Province largely supports the United National Party and the government.
"Out of the 12 Members of Parliament, 10 are UNP members, and if there is any buffer zone, it will be against the TULF although there are so many statements recklessly made with regard to organisations like the Sarvodaya, Red Barna and SEDEC, which I suppose those organisations will answer too, but I must say it does untold damage to the goodwill of these organisations who have always come to the rescue of the people on a national cause. I commend your paper being keen to highlight illegal activities as encroachment om state land; I only regret that when an encroachment on a gigantic scale is taking
place at Wadamunai in torate by the Sinhales blissfully silent.
“This encroachment by the Dimbulagala Bu by open advertisement tember called on the p over 25,000 people have bank of the Maduru Oy. Mahaveli Scheme a development and settle "Millions of rupees a area as foreign aid
O BUDDHIST
O MEDIA SLA O MAHAVEL
spearheaded this encro that have been made regard to encroachme Development Ministe only on paper.
'Please do not involv district when we are i with this business, just reported the encroach in the North, your sen have no doubt, promp with regard to the e1 Sinhalese in the Kalku East. I hope you will gi this so that the facts 1 At the press confe agam went on to deal a called the actions b Buddhist priest who Sinhalese illegally or Maduru Oya after 1 turbances”.
Charging that Ma involved in the Dewanayagam Said ewardene had told the

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S SEELALANKARATHERO
AND GRAB
resident JaySinhalese had icaloa district
Dctober 18, the ra Thero, also hala Buddhist officials of the ke, the Minister ring the unlawolies and build
Minister said croachment of by the SinhalMinister said.
the Kalkudah elece people, you are
is highly organised ddhist priest, who on the list of Sepeopleto come, and occupied the right a. This is under the hd plan for the ment of the people. re poured into this and a priest has
Development he should resign if people were allowed to settle on state land at their will and pleasure. He also told N.G.P. Panditharatne that if the priest is settling people, he should hand over the chairmanship for the implementation of the Mahaveli settlement scheme to the Dimbulagala priest.
Mr Dewanayagam said: "We as a minority are members of the United National Party because it is a party with no barriers of race, caste or creed. But, it seems, from President Jayewardene's speech at the executive committee that he is disturbed about certain members trying to make the UNP a Sinhala Buddhist only party. The President told those people that they should quit the party and form one of their own, for the UNP is open to all nationals of Sri Lanka.
"It is the Tamils who have sacrificed their lives for the sake of UNP. Always the Tamil members of the UNP are being harassed by both the Tamil extremists and the others. TULF President M. Sivasithamparam and A. Amirthalingam are making capital of the situation by referring to the Madura Oya right bank illegal settlements of Sinhalese. It is a nerve-wracking state of affairs for me.
He lamented: 'My grievance is that this encroachment is of international consequence with the TULF rhetoric about it
MONK ACCUSED OF 'LAND GRABBING' MMED FOR PARTIALITY OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY
achment. The laws very rigorous with ht by the Mahaveli very recently are
us in the Batticaloa no way connected as you sensationally ment by the Indians se offair play will, I you to do the same croachment by the lah electorate in the e due publication to ay be known.” ence Mr Dewanaylength with what he the "Dimbulagala had settled 25,000 the right bank of e recent July dis
aveli officials were croachment, Mir resident J.R. Jayinister of Mahaveli
in India. The priest's actions have disrupted the entire normal life of villages in Kalkudah electorate, where the encroachment is occurring in Wadamune and Mathavarni on zone 6 and 7 of the right bank of Madura Oya.
"It is very distressing that nobody has attempted to stop this action of the priest, who has broken all principles of government policy.'
Following Minister Dewanayagam's press conference, the Buddhist monk, who is playing the lead role in the land-grabbing exercise, issued a press statement which was given prominence in the Weekend of October 23, 1983. In this statement, the Dimbulagala monk declared that the Sinhalese squatters 'could only be evicted if all illegal settlers of Indian origin and other nationals were also evicted from State land in the Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts.
Monk's violent threat
Suppressing the fact that in these areas most of the settlers of Indian Tamil origin

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Minister of Home Affairs and MP for Kalkudah, K.W. Dewanayagam, in the letter to the Weekend, an English Sunday newspaper, says the 'Dambulagala monk is posiuvely engaging in anti-government activities, and is a positive danger to the security of the nation'.
Referring to the Weekend's interview with Ven. Seelalankara Thero, Mr Dewanayagam said:
"The Dimulagala monk has spoken out on the encroachment saying that he has settled Tamils and Muslims among Sinhalese. I believe when he says this, just as the Catholics believe when the Pope speaks ex cathedra because it is the truth, so also the Venerable priest thinks that when he says anything it is the truth. This is not true. The whole of the encroachment is marked by the names of the places from where they came so as to preserve their identity, there is not a single Muslim or Tamil name. I went round personally to all the places and talked to some of them.
“Does the priest expect the people of this country to believe that after the incidents on July 24 and thereafter that the Tamils will opt to live side by side as a community when they are still fearing to come back to their own homes in the affected areas, where they have lived for years in amity and now they fear them as their bitterest enemies?
went there after being displaced as a result of racial violence directed at them since 1958, the monk accused the Minister of encouraging illegal settlements. The monk said: "In 1971 or 19172, the present Home Affairs Minister K.W. Dewanayagam brought Indian Tamils to Kalkudah and settled them in the area.'
Referring to a statement by District Minister Mr Paul Perera that the Sinhalese encroachers should vacate the illegally occupied land, the Dimbulagala priest charged that the District Minister was indulging in an anti-national exercise and jeopardising the welfare of the nation.
"If he comes to Dimbulagala colonisation scheme to evict the people that we have settled, I will give him a blow with my umbrella, the monk said.
Challenging the view taken by District Minister Paul Perera, Ven Seelalankara Thero said most of the settlers in Dimbulagala were UNP supporters who had come from various parts of the country.
Minister's rejoinder
Minister Dewanayagam made a detailed reply to the monk's claims and allegations in a letter to the press. (See above).
“Apart from thi falsehoods. I do I controversy over t allow statements This is not the fi. encroach into thi number of people allow him. He agai I did not allow hi. SLFP regime. Th.
'He talks of the indulging in an a think the acting I have taken up til whether his umbre ing District Minis cannot understand should preach the
“What a trag have nests to rest his hea
indulging in the il. He is positivel government activi danger to the secu
Holocaust of Jul
His present action whole world, and been included an enemies of the Go anti-Tamil atrociti priest to start this holocaust of Tamil appears on the sce communal disturb: and 1977 alike.
ʻWhat is this sha saying “that we shi Lanka and protect country'; what is Lanka, when he ma - I who am part o united Lanka he sp 20 years fought th against all its polici the people of my di whom 48,000 voted election, much m Jaffna district. "It is this priest wi anti-government phraseology he m sovereignty. He is a have been dealt w breakers.
“His vague stater believe that there Indians settled in The 1971 census g sons of Indian orig "The reduction is Of this total numb

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there are a number of bt wish to enter into a is matter, but I cannot to go uncontradicted. st time he has tried to area. He brought a in 1972 and I did not tried in 1977; then also n. This was during the s is his third attempt.
acting District Minister nti-national exercise. I istrict Minister should e challenge and seen Ula will break or the acter's head will break. I a Buddhist monk who
precepts of the holy one
less persons, others are citizens. The Indian
Tamils form only 1.2 per cent of the popu
lation of the Batticaloa district. The per-, centage is very much less than the
Mannar-Bullaitivu area where it is 13 per
cent. These persons were settled in the fol
lowing areas. In the 1971 communal dis
turbances the people who were drawn from
up country came and settled down in
Punanai.
"Let us examine the reasons why they came. They were driven out from the areas where they lived and made the place their homes. They came and settled on very difficult terrain where there are no irrigation facilities and not even drinking water and where there were no future prospects of development of this area. But on the con
edy, foxes have holes and the birds of the air restin, but man has no place in this country to because he is of Indian origin'
egal acts such as these. engaging in antities and is a positive rity of the nation.
y 24
is being watched by the this is an act which has d pointed out by the fernment as continuing es, specially for this
just after the July 24
minorities. He always ene after there is such ince; hedid so in 1971
low boxing he is doing, uld stand for a united the sovereignty of the he talking of a united rches into my electorate the Government of the aks of; who for the last TULF at every stage s and I who am keeping trict with me; people of for the President in this re than the whole of
o is now an ally of the
forces under the uths of protecting the law-breaker and should h like any other law
ents lead the people to are large numbers of he Batticaloa district. res the number of per
as 3,868.
lue to the repatriation. * 60 per cent are state
trary, the priest’s encroachers are not persons harassed or chased out of their homes. They came because they want to get land which is being developed by the Government, with special facilities and Government assistance.
Arson by government officers
“When these poor people were driven away they came to places where they thought they will have security of persons and property and elementary human rights which
any human being is entitled to. The last Government tried to evict them through its forest officers. They burnt their huts and prosecuted them in the Batticaloa courts. I appeared and defended them. I in turn filed actions for arson against their officers, some of whom were Assistant Conservators of Forest. The officers appeared before the magistrate and when asked by the magistrate whether they had set fire to the huts, they admitted that they did so and the magistrate asked them to come ready to go to jail, because one cannot set fire to somebody else's house even if it is in your land.
*Faced with a problem where his officers had unwittingly placed themselves in this predicament, Mr Felix Dias Bandaranaike called me for a conference to settle this question. In the conference we discussed the illegality and otherwise of these people of Indian origin settling on Crown land; when a person of Indian origin irrespective of the fact that he is an Indian, if he is a citizen, why cannot he have the same rights and privileges like any other citizens. It was decided that people of Indian origin were given LDO permits in the Wadamunai scheme. There is a pact or agreement drawn up between me and Felix Dias Bandaranaike called the Bandaranaike
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DETENTION,
Any impartial observer of the history of Sri Lanka will surely admit that within living memory the Tamil areas in Sri Lanka, especially Jaffna, were the most law abiding and peaceful land in all Sri Lanka. But now, even Tamils will admit, may even proudly proclaim, that violence is widespread in Tamil lands. How did this come about? A clear understanding of this issue is the key to the solution of the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka.
In all humility I submit my own analysis for consideration of men of goodwill. After independence D.S. Senanayake proceeded to take away the voting rights of one million Tamils in the hill country. He firmly refused to make concessions to minorities and made the Sinhalese the undisputed rulers of the land. He started State colonisation of Tamil lands and planted Buddhist shrines in Tamil lands. Bandaranaike followed this with his Sinhala Only Language bill and supremacy for the Buddhist religion. He drove the Tamils out of Government Service. He made the Tamils second class citizens in Sri Lanka. J.R. Jayawardene took up the trail and, with the use of thugs organised by Cyril Mathew, Premadass, Athulatmudali and Gamini Dissanayake and with the full might of the armed services of Sri Lanka, he has set in motion the economic and physical liquidation of the Tamil race in Sri Lanka. Pashed to the wall, unable to go further, with their very lives at stake, the Tamils and specially the youth have taken up arms in self-defence. This is the inevitable law of Karma, action and reaction. What we have witnessed sofar, frightening though it be, is just the beginning of the genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Crying shame
Under the so-called Dharmista regime of President J.R.Jayewardene in Sri Lanka, anyone can be arrested and detained without trial, and anyone can be murdered and buried without inquest. Still, Sri Lanka is claimed to be a model democracy of the third world, praised and supported by the capitalist governments of the world, led by America and followed by Germany, Japan, Britain and the Arabs. This situation is a crying shame to the intelligence and conscience of 20th century humanity.
Although the Prevention of Terrorism Act refers to the whole of Sri Lanka, its application has been reserved fo the Tamils and particularly the Tamil youth.
Under the Prevention of Terrorism Act of Sri Lanka a person can be detained for periods up to 18 months (renewable by order every three months) if the Minister has reason to believe or suspect that any person is connected with or concerned in any unlawful activity. Unlawful activity
TORTU - SRI LA
by S.A. DA
Bachelor of Architectu Australia; Diploma in Leeds, England Assoc Institute of British Ar Royal Town Planning President, Gandhiyam Sri Lanka.
includes even pasting is punishable with dea' There have been r when Judges of Col detainees to be kept Dutifully the detainee Remand Prison, their Prison Registers and th the Prevention of Ter and the detainees bro Army Camps. Such Buddha Dharmista in
The bitter pill of ) rorism Act has been su apparently humanistic appeal within twenty Board of Three membe circumvent the Int Rights considerations. cation of this provision are seen. In my own c. was given on the last da days after my arrest, b days. Fraud on a natic side the capacity of thi nated Government an I was arrested and de nearly murdered, und this inhuman Act and record my experier awardene’s jails so tha itself from the agony of endured.
I am now 59 years of honesty, intelligence a from humble village c an architect and town Australia, the Unitec and Kenya. With the Only Act in 1958, I architect under the Sr and went overseas, as no honourable place Lanka.
The statements of at this time still ring Nadesan, an eminent come to the parting depart in peace; and . said: "One language, t fully vindicated their In 1972, I came b devote myself heart a

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re - Melbourne, Town Planning - iate, Royal hitects, Associate, Institute, London;
Society,
osters on walls and h. ldiculous instances rts have ordered in Remand Prison. ; were taken to the names entered in en the provisions of orism Act invoked ught for torture to is the working of Sri Lanka. Prevention of Terugar coated with an provision to allow days of arrest to a rs. This is purely to ernational Human Yet, in the applidiabolical intrigues ase, the appeal form te for appeal, twenty ut post-dated by ten 1nal scale is not outs vile Sinhala domii its security forces. tained, tortured and er the provisions of I wish to place on ces in J. R. Jayt posterity may save body and soul I have
age. By dint of sheer nd hard work, I rose onditions to work as planner in Sri Lanka,
Kingdom, Nigeria bassing of the Sinhala resigned my post as Lanka Government I truly felt there was for a Tamil in Sri
wo senior politicians in my ears. Senator Q.C., said: "We have of the ways. Let us )r Colvin R. De Silva vo nations.” Time has foresight.
ack to Sri Lanka to ld soul to alleviate the
suffering of my people, the Tamils. After intense study, by reading and personal observation of many systems around the world, in Europe, America, Israel, Africa and the Far East, I chose the Gandhian model as most suited to the genius and traditions of the soul of my people and proceeded to systematically bring my people to the Gandhiyam way of life.
Gandhiyam
Together with Dr Rajasundaram of Vavuniya, a tireless energetic worker, in five years we had built up a sound network of District Centres throughout the traditional homelands of the Tamils in Sri Lanka - in Jaffna, Killinochchi, Mannar, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa. At the time of our arrest, 450 pre- schools, with an average of thirty students each, were providing daily milk and triposha and kindergarten teaching facilities to village children. Twelve model one-acre farms in Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa were showing the villagers the simplest, safest and quickest way to economic, social and cultural revival. Mobile clinics, equipped with basic preventive and curative medicines were making regular rounds to outlying villages. A training centre was preparing thirty to forty young women every three months for Gandhiyam work in their own villages. In addition Gandhiyam with other social service organisations was assisting 5,000 refugee families from tea estates to settle down to a safe life among traditional Tamil villages. The quality and quantity of Gandhiyam work impressed foreign aid organisations and Tamils living overseas so much that we were receiving and operating on a yearly budget of Rs. 5,000,000.
All the time we were aware that the Sinhala Government was keeping its watchful eyes over us. In April 1983 the Government took the decisive step to arrest me and Dr Rajasundaram.
The charges on which we were arrested, as told in the indictment given to us on 22nd July 1983, three and a half months after arrest and solitary confinement and torture of body and mind, were:
1. Meeting Uma Maheswaran and not informing the police;
2. Meeting Santhathiar and not informing the police;
3. Assisting Uma Maheswaran and Santhathiar to escape to India.
We could have been sentenced to fifteen to twenty years imprisonment on these charged.
I have experienced partial freedom and enjoyed it. I wanted total freedom for myself and my people. Instead, I was caught up in total bondage. It was hell. Now I realise total freedom could be heaven indeed.

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Knock on my door.
A 1 1.30pm on 7th April 1983, there was a knock on my door at room no.9 at the YMCA in Colombo. I answered the door, CID and police officers walked in, led by Mr Punya De Silva, ASP, CID. They opened all cupboards, drawers, boxes, seized all personal documents and ordered me to follow them without any clothes for change. I was taken to the 4th floor of the CID office in the Fort and allowed to sleep 3.n the office table. Next morning, as I sat with fear and confusion, CID officers arreared with grim faces and grinding in threatening to dismember me and throw me into the sea. In all fairness, I saw compassion in the faces of some officers and one officer had thoughtfully brought me breakfast from his home. I was questioned by Mr Wijetileke (CID) who was very polite but another officer was constantly threatening me. He rushed at me with clenched fists, and bit me on the shoulders, ordered me to raise my arms and stand in that position for nearly half an hour.
Next day, Mr Punya De Silva interrogated me. At the end of his interrogation, this officer had the courage of his conviction to say 'Mr David I have examined hundreds of people connected with terrorism. In your sincerity and self-sacrifice I have no doubt. I may not agree with your ideals but to the end I will respect you as a gentleman.' A great load was taken off my head. To my dying day, I will remember with gratitude Mr Punya De Silva and Mr Wiljetileke who treated me with extreme politeness and kindness.
was stripped
That evening I was told that the Minister of Defence had ordered me to be detained in the Army Camp at Panagoda. Mr Wiljetileke took me to Panagoda and handed me over the the Army. Immediately after he left nearly 20 soldiers surrounded me and ordered me into a corner. Someone gave a command and a soldier hit me on my chest. I urinated. They ordered me to take off my shirt and trousers. All of them had a hearty laugh at my nudity and there were loud obscene comments. They ordered me to walk past the soldiers and, as I went, they struck me with hands and legs. I was taken to a solitary cell and locked up. In the morning, fellow Tamil detainees distributing brushes for cleaning and pouring tea cheered me up. From then on during morning and evening inspection, Commander Udagampala would threaten to kill me. Soldiers on guard would come with leather belts and razor blades and order me to put my hands out of the iron-grill door, threatening to cut off my fingers. They would order me to stand up on the concrete bench, keep my hands raised and rotate. They would scold me in obscene language and curse the Tamils. I was notable to meet a lawyer for a fortnight. Immediately I met
Mr Kumaralingan my experience an communicate this
Army would reta grams with very h. to the President, A three days, the Kumaralingam’s c in hand cuffs for fc tinuously. I was n two weeks and n material.
There is some detention and imp. rorists butamong til there were many il
There was Jayac who had no connec activity. He had agent to obtain worl the agent, to get ri over to the CID wh detention. e nearly prison and still is in prison.
There was Balasi nearly blind. He ha to dig a well. He w detention. With the Sinhalese advocates before the mass prison.
There was Gana from Vavuniya. A into the shop where he was not there, b youth who attacked He was detained and prison.
There were many posters. There we attended classes or There were youths books on Eelam, Tamils.
There was Dr S. years old, who after the Tamils at Trin sonnel, had called themselves.
There was Kovai editor of 'Suthanth advocating Eelam o
All were classed and tortured, irresp and treated worse 1 inals.
The extent of the dictive nature of th of Tamils under the Terrorism Act can above accounts.
Drunken Comma
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Advocate, I told him of requested him not to ith anyone fearing the te. But he sent telenly exaggerated details ny and Police chiefs. In Army got wind of mplaint and I was put rdays and nights con: allowed to bathe for
allowed any reading
ustification for arrest, sonment of actual tere detainees at Panagoda nocent people.
is, a young man of 24, ion with any "terrorist' iven Rs. 50,000 to an in the Middle East and i of him, handed him o promptly put him in
escaped at Welikade detention at Batticaloa
gam, aman of 50 years, i transported dymanite as arrested and was in assistance of powerful he was released just murders at Welikade
shalingam, aged 26, gun had been thrown he was working when y certain unidentified
Air Force personnel. murdered at Welikade
rouths who had carried re youths who had
Marxist philosophy. who were taken with a separate state for
A. Dharmalingam, 75 he savage massacres of omalee by Navy perhe Tamils to defend
Mahesan, 46 years old, ran' who was openly er the past decade.
s terrorists, detained ctive of age or status an condemned crim
rresponsible and vinarrests and detention famous Prevention of be gauged from the
ler
m was brought to the ), the attack on the nevery frequent and every other day and e mood, Commander
Udugampola would come drunk, with a glass of arrac in his hand, and opened the cells, stripped the detainees and assaulted and kicked and cursed them. I could hear cries of pain and groans throughout the nights and early mornings and see naked colleagues hanging head down from high window bars. I saw naked detainees being chased around the courtyard and being assaulted and kicked by six to eight soldiers with PVC pipes and iron rods in their hands.
One day Commander Uduggampola came drunk and opened my cell, ordered me to strip and lie face down on a concrete bench. He ordered three soldiers to trample my back and legs and hit me on my buttocks. They left me exhausted on the bench.
On another day, he came drunk, entered my room with shoes in his hand and hit me on my head and face. My lips split and started bleeding. He ordered me to wash, and left me to sleep naked throughout the night.
Rajasundaram Severely Attacked
In comparison to the torture meeted out to the other detainees I must admit I was mildly treated. Dr Rajasundaram was severely attacked, his left hand dislocated, his ear drums broken and left on several occasions unconscious on the floor. Manickam Thassan and Robert were singled out for ferocious attacks and for weeks after the attack, they would drag themselves to take their meals, in severe pain and often unable to walk.
More than the physical torment the psychological torment was the most unbearable. Eelam was the centre of all obscenities and every soldier, whenever he left like it, would cast rude remarks about Tamils.
One day Dr Rajasundaram was ordered to walk on all fours, hands and legs, and bark like a dog. We were very often ordered to carry out food on our heads and walk briskly. On another occasion, a youth was ordered to crawl through mud and water around the courtyard. Ingenious ways were devised to destroy the self-respect and spirit of the detainees.
Sadistic habit
One of the most unbearable incidents at Panagoda army camp was the sadistic habit of regularly bringing school cadets between the ages of fifteen to twenty at weekends and allowing them to watch, grin and cast remarks at us as we were ordered to run and remove our food placed on the floor in front of them. A running commentary on each of us was given by some soldiers to these boys. The Army is perhaps taking care to raise a new generation of Tamil-haters, to maim and torture Tamils in years to come.
There was a corporal with morbid curiosity to see nudes. He ordered me one day to undress in my cell. I refused and from that

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day till I left Panagoda, whenever he was on duty he would subject me to "mild' torture. He would order me to stand on the bench in the cell with hands raised for hours on end, or to keep jumping in the cell, or to keep turning round and round for hours. There was no use complaining as that would have brought more torture. Once I complained against a corporal, so he and the sergeant on duty handcuffed me to the iron gate of the cell but released me in half an hour on news of the arrival of the Commander.
During the days I was kept handcuffed for for days and nights continuously, one cold night my hands and legs became benumbed. I felt the numbiness creeping towards my chest. I was in mortal panic. An uncontrollable shiver seized me. I was falling away from the concrete bench. All the while the corporal on duty was calmly watching me as if he wished me to wriggle to death. I remembered that the compassionate sergeant (referred to later) was on duty and I called out to him. He came, removed the handcuffs, rubbed down my hands and legs, brought a blanket and asked me to lie down and sleep. I told him that if the Commander came he would punish me and him too. He said the Commander was on leave and not to worry and have a sound sleep as he was in charge that night.
Detainees beaten to death
However, torture remains etched in my mind. When Commander Udugampola was away, another young commissioned officer came drunk one day, ordered us, about 34 in all, naked into the courtyard. It was a cold rainy night and there were 3 inches of water in the courtyard 30' x 60'. He asked us to lie flat on the ground and drag ourselves on our hands and knees up and down in the courtyard pool. The officer and the soldiers were highly thrilled at this ingenious method and were rocking with laughter for days after the event.
I later heard from other colleagues, at Welikade where I got a chance to talk to them, that detainees had been beaten to death at Gurunagar and Elephant Pass Camps. Bottles, iron rods and sticks had been driven into rectums. Chilli powder was applied and its smoke forced through nostrils and mouth. They were beaten with iron bars and iron pipes until they bled, cut with broken bottles, beaten and kicked unconscious, starved for days, forced to eat food with excess salt and kept chained to walls with hands raised for long periods continuously. Some were in detention for over two and a half years and had undergone torture all this time.
Compassionate Sergeant
In the midst of all these bodily and mental tortures, a pure ray of boundless compassion has left an indelible mark on my
soul. I experienced to
content the compass Buddha. This is the na Sinhalese Army Sergea were being beaten and
he would look with when all was quiet, ope balm and rub us dow warm clothes.
All the sad moments is as nothing for the ra panionship of this gre and how great Sri Lank its leaders could have hundredth part of the soul of this sergeant.
Transfer to Welikade
Around the middle detainees bringing brus tea whispered that we Welikade prison. Ther torture. We could have to talk to others and rea Generally, there were jokes and laughter in news. The day of par come on 27th June 198 Welikade prison in a trucks, armoured car enough for a full-scal passionate sergeant, u utter disdain of the Ar remarked: "I will take Jaffna and bring them coach!'. This is the me and falsehood.
At Welikade prison physical attack but th toilet facilities and sani the first two weeks al bowel disease. Some prison hospital but Sinhala prison doctors was full of stones and t and insipid.
Only fifteen minut outdoor exercise: foi minutes we were locke Ten minutes was allow tion and toilet. If we toilet at any other time beg the jailers to open done with great reluc with rude remarks.
To youth ward
The case against I daram was taken up in Road on July 22, 198 daram requested the the Remand Prison Prison. The judge a transferred to the Yol the Reverend Fathers Dr Jeyakularajah, M Kovai Mahesan, on J

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he very limit of its on of the great ure and action of a t. As the detainees icked and hung up ar-filled eyes and the cells and apply and cover us with
have gone through e meeting and comut soul. How noble a would have been if had in their soul a
compassion in the
of June 1983, the hes and brooms and were to be taken to e would be no more visitors, be allowed d books and papers.
smiles, sometimes the cells, after this tial deliverance did 3. We were taken to convoy of military s and jeeps, large e battle. The comnable to contain his my's tactics, openly
these 34 people to back alone in a CTB asure between truth
there was no fear of a condition of food, tation were poor. In most all contracted were taken to the ill-treated by the and nurses. The rice he food was tasteless
es was allowed for
23 hours and 45 i up in solitary cells. ed for morning abluwanted to go to the we had to shout and our gates, which was ance and sometimes
e and Dr Rajasunthe courts at Buller's 5 when Dr Rajasunidge to transfer us to rom the Detention reed and both were th Ward, along with Dr Dharmalingan, Nithiananthan and ly 23, 1983.
Prison Slaughter
On July 25, 1983 the Sinhala prisoners attacked the detainees in the Chapel Section of the prison and murdered 35 persons among whom were Kuttimany, Jegan and Thangathurai. From eyewitness accounts, Kuttimany's eyes were gouged and his blood drunk by his attackers. After killing six Tamils including Kuttimany in one wing, theattackers killed 29 Tamils in the other wing. A boy of 16 years, Mylvaganam, had been spared by the attackers and was crouching in a cell. A jail guard spotted him and stabbed him to death.
The 35 dead were heaped in front of the statue of Gautama Buddha in the yard of Wel ika de prison, as Minister Athulathmudaliso aptly described as a 'sacrifice to appease the blood thirsty cravings of the Sinhala demons'.
Some who were yet alive raised their heads and called for help but were beaten down to death in the heap.
The attackers then made entry into the other wing through openings in the first floor but the jailers there refused to give the keys and persuaded them to leave.
Second Massacre
28 Tamil detainees in this wing were transferred to the ground floor of the Youth Ward and nine of us were accommodated on the First Floor. All was quiet on the 26th. On the 27th at 2.30pm there was shouting around Youth Ward and armed prisoners scaled boundary walls and started to break open gates in the Youth Ward. Nearly 40 prisoners armed with axes, swords, crowbars, iron pipes and wooden legs appeared before our door and started to break the lock. Dr Rajasundaram walked up to the door and pleaded with them too spare us as we were not involved in any robberies or murders and as Hindus we did not believe in violence and as Buddhists they should not kill. The door suddenly opened and Dr Rajasundaram was dragged out and hit with an iron rod on the head. He fell among the crowd. The rest of us broke the chairs and tables and managed to keep the crowd at bay for half an hour. The Army arrived, threw tear gas bombs and dispersed the crowd. Then the two soldiers lined up eight of us and were taking aim to shoot when the Commander called out from below to them to come down. Then the soldiers chased us down and all who escaped death were lined up on the footpath in front of the Youth Ward. As we walked out, we saw corpses of our colleagues around us and we heard prisoners shouting that it was a pity we were allowed to live.
We were ordered to run into a mini-van and removed out of the prison compound and loaded into an Army truck. We were ordered to lie face down on the floor of the truck and a few who raised their heads were trampled down by the soldiers. All along

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the way to Katunayak e Airport some soldiers kept cursing the Tamils and Eelam ai using obscene language. We were kept at the airport till early morning. We were refused even water. We were then taken into an Air Force plane, ordered to sit with out heads down until we reached Batticaloa Airport. From there we were taken in an open van to Batticaloa prison. Here, we were received with sympathy and smiles. Hot tea was served to us. We felt we had returned to sanity and some measure of safety.
The Escape
Batticaloa prison by comparison was heaven on earth. We were behind bars, of course, but there was human dignity. In Batticaloa we learned that a maximum security prison was being built in a feverish hurry at Homagama in the Sinhala area. With all the nightmarish experience of the past, we could well imagine what hell it would be for the rest of our lives. We resolved to break jail even in the face of death and after meticulous co-ordinated activity from inside and out, we broke jail on September 23, 1983. We are happy that all the political prisoners have escaped from the clutches of the blood-thirsty Sinhala savages. We have dedicated ourselves, if necessary at the cost of our lives, to free the Tamils from the strangle-hold of the Sinhala demons.
Aftermissing Uma Maheswaran's Group with which I was to escape, I was finally traced and brought back to safety by his comrades. The ingenuity and the expertise with which they organised and executed my escape is a thrilling episode in the history of the Tamils and I hope some day to relate it in detail so that future generations of Tamils may know that, even in the darkest hour, there was courage and bravery among the Tamils reaching down to humble homes in villages and jungles.
Dedicate Myself
The Sri Lanka Government is already making massive military preparations, backed by the full financial, material and technical skill of all the capitalist countries of the world, to execute this dire deed. I cry out to the conscience of men of goodwill around the world, particularly to the Tamils spread around the globe, to do their utmost to prevent this holocaust and save the Tamils from the clutches of the Sinhala racists. For myself, I dedicate my body and soul, every breath of my existence, to this cause. Tamils in Sri Lanka have hesitated to read the writing on the wall, held on to their wealth and property and lost it all in the flood of Sinhala attacks. Let not the Sri Lankan Tamils overseas cling on to their wealth and lie idle and see their brethren sink into oblivion in the land of their birth.
S.A. DAVID MADRAS
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"DUSHTA" GAMIN
8. HS RAC
Mr Gamini Dissanayke, the Minister of Lands and Land Development in President Jayewardene's Cabinet has suddenly become the champion of the Sinhalese and of Buddhism. He is trying to outbid the notoriously racist Industries Minister, Mr Cyril Mathew, in the war-cry against the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. He is no longer the simple and amiable Gamini known to his contemporaries in the Ceylon Law College. Now he is often referred to as “Dutu Gamini', which he seems to encourage. Dutu Gamini was the Sinhalese king who defeated the Tamil king Elara in a battle around 200 BC according the legend-filled Sinhala Chronicle, Mahavamsa.
Incidentally, Gamini Dissanayake was one of the two ministers (the other being Cyril Mathew) who was present in Jaffna in May-June 1981 when the Jaffna Public Library and half of Jaffna City were burnt down by security personnel who went on a rampage through the city and its environs.
The struggle for succession to President Jayewardene, who is 77, has begun in earnest within the ruling United National Party and Gamini Dissanayake is one of the pretenders to the Jayewardene mantle.
On September 5, 1983, Gamini Dissanayake addressed the Executive Com
PUBLIC MEETING ΟΝ
HUMAN RIGHTSIN
SRI LANKA
Speakers
Tony Benn Jeremy Corbyn, MP John Chowcatt (ASMTS) Rajes Balasubramaniam
Thursday December 1st at 7.00p.m.
at Hampstead Town Hall (Belsize Park Tube Station) Haverstock Hill London, NW3
mittee of the Lanka Jath Union. Here are som Dushta Gamini's racist speech: O Even today Thondal Parliament support thalingham and the strug the north for their rig priests and Sinhala y enraged by this. We havi great difficulty. O Who attacked you? S tected you? Sinhalese. attack and protect you.
BATTI
It has now become cli termind behind the Batt the course of which 4 detainees escaped to free David, the President of was also detained along the Prevention of terror Ever since the slaug political detainees in th imum security prison in 25th and 27th this yea detainees had been liv prospect of themselves No sooner they were tra ombo to the Battical decided to escape.
Mr David provided t view was that it was bett course ofanescape atter dered in their own cells
Different groups
The Tamil political belonged to different lil some belonged to no included those belong Liberation Organisatic (PLOT), Eelam Peo) Liberation Front (EP Tigers of Tamil Eelam eration Organisation ( Revolutionary Organis situation was made m fact that there was a d even hostility among t In this context, a un seemed almost impo template.
Mr David, whose and ability was beyonc the rallying point. In 1 initiated discussions v belonging to the PLO go along with a coll escape. After strenuol succeeded in bringin

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&a Estate Workers of this modern "gems' from that
lan has spoken in ng Mr Amirgle of the people in ts. Our Buddhist ouths have been calmed them with
nhalese. Who proIt is we who can
O They are bringing an army from India. It will take 14 hours to come from India. In 14 minutes, the blood of every Tamil in the country can be sacrificed to the land, by us. O It is not written on anyone's forehead that he is an Indian tamil or a Jaffna Tamil, a Batticaloa Tamil or up-country Tamil, Hindu Tamil or Christian Tamil. All are Tamils. O We have decided to colonise four districts including Mannar with Sinhalese people by destroying forests. A majority of Sinhalese will be settled there. If you like, you also can migrate there.
CALOA
ar that the mascaloa jailbreak, in 2 Tamil political dom, was Mr S.A. Gandhiyam, who with others under ism Act. hter of 52 Tamil ne Welikade maxColombo on July r, the rest of the ing in fear of the also being killed. nsferred from Coloa jail, they had
he inspiration. His er to be killed in the mpt than to be mur
letainees in the jail eration groups and roups at all. They ng to the Peoples in of Tamil Eelam bles Revolutionary RLEF), Liberation , Tamil Eelam LibITELO) and Eelam ation (EROS). The ore difficult by the egree of rivalry and he different groups. ted escape attempt sible even to con
ledication, honesty question, provided he first instance, he rith some detainees who undertook to :ctive plan for the s efforts, Mir David g together the dif
JALBREAK
ferent factions to agree on the escape plan.
Being an architect by profession, Mr David made out a plan of the entire jail structure. Specific tasks were allocated to individuals belonging to the different groups. Once the escape plan was agreed by all the groups, messages were smuggled out to the organisations outside to make the necessary arrangements.
Pian advanced
A 24-hour watch was kept over a period of six weeks to observe the movement of security personnel who were guarding the jail. Jailers' movements and their change of duty patterns were subjected to minute scrutiny. A large map of the surrounding countryside, compasses and first aid equipment were obtained.
The original plan to break jail on September 26th had to be advanced to the 23rd. This was because they received information that some of the detainees were to be transferred to Colombo to appear before a Court on September 26th.
The response from outside was not of the same degree from the different organisations. The PLOT would seem to have taken a major part from outside. While the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam provided transport and other facilities to its members once they broke jail, the PLOT would appear to have organised the transportation of the others up to Trincomalee from where the respective organisations took charge of their members.
The meticulous way in which the escape was planned and executed was remarkable to say the least. However, it is regrettable that the collective effort made from within the jail was not made use of to bring about the much needed unity outside among the different groups. Instead, one witnesses the sad spectacle of rival claims being made as to the respective roles in the escape effort thereby creating further disunity.

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SRI LANKAN CHARGED WI
COMPLAINT TO
The President of the Tamil United Liberation Front, Mr. M. Sivastamparam, has addressed a detailed complaint to the Hon. Kurt Herndl, Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights at the United Nations concerning the violence and discrimination the Tamil people of Sri Lanka have been subjected tu and particularly in respect of the July 1983 anti-Tamil
pogrom.
The following are extracts from Mr Sivasithamparam's letter:
Ostensibly the Government gives as its excuse the unfortunate killing of 13 Sinhalese soldiers in the Tamil district of Jaffna peninsula. No explanation is given as to the cause of the incident, the constant and perpetual hectoring and harassment of innocent civilians taken for questioning to torture camps and subjected to inhuman indignities in clear violation of the Sri Lanka Constitution of 1978 which solemnly declares that torture is abolished. In actual fact torture has become a way of life for the army of occupation in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. The horrors of state terrorism in the Tamil areas cries forth for an independent commission of jurists appointed by an international body which should be empowered to apportion the blame and order the restitution of property and just and due compensation to the victims. In all this violence by the state, no Sinhala civilian has been attacked or subjected to harassment in the Tamil areas.
In the six years that President J. R. Jayewardene's government has been in existence, there have been four violent antiTamil "pogromising campaigns perpetrated on a people with a proud history who have also sustained, as well as contributed immensely, to the economic development of Sri Lanka. All this, despite the fact that substantial numbers of the Tamil population are denied franchise and citizenship rights and are treated like helots in the country of their birth.
In 1977, President Jayewardene proffered the excuse that the armed forces had been infiltrated by soldiers specially recruited by Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike's 1970-77 United Front Government. It was his undertaking to us, the members of parliament representing the Tamil United Liberation Front, that he would weed the army of these disturbing elements. Not
merely was such a
ident undertook t Tamil minority e proportion to theil and the armed forc a fair visibility in ments for the m. order. I categorice increasing the Tam. force in the Jaffna
continues, six year to provide the sam ration by Mrs Si agents. We have t any credence in the which are obvious sumption.
The Sinhala-d perpetrated acts ol on the civilian pop towns of the Tamil vince as well as in lated Trincomalee Lanka. I appeal to 1 opinion in the vari isations, legislature unions, churches a heed to the systema minority which is in the geographic stituted administra to as Sri Lanka. It charging the Gover the following acts ( petration of actroc
1) On 16th Al police violence resu 300 Tamils, injury raping of about 200 tion and looting o Tamils worth abou expulsion from the Sinhalese district people. I categoric forces were directl looting and destru property in Jaf comalee, Colombc President is report Delhi correspond recent riots reveal cipline in the arr strong anti-Tamil and in some cases rioting". Because ernment to exerci cipline, the same p uglier form in the pogroms of 1981

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GOVERNMENT AROCES
UNITED NATIONS
romise made. The Presrecruit members of the hnic group at least in population to the police es so that they may have these two vital instruaintenance of law and ly state that other than l personnel in the police beninsula, the President after he came to office, excuses of army infiltrimavo Bandaranaike’s herefore ceased to place se “official explanations“ y meant for world con
ominated armed forces unspeakable barbarity ulation in the cities and majority Northern Prothe heavily Tamil popudistrict in east Sri the liberal body of world ous international organs, political parties, trade nd other bodies to pay tic pogromisation of a ntitled to its due rights
and artificially conlive expression referred ke the responsibility of ment of Sri Lanka with fbarbarity and the perties:
gust 1977, systematic ted in the death of some to over 10,000 people, Tamil women, destrucproperty belonging to a billion rupees and the homes in the southern f some 50,000 Tamil ly state that the armed involved in the killing, ion of Tamils and their a, Vanuniya, Trinand other places. The to have told the New ht of the BBC, "the a serious lack of dis'd forces and there is eling among the troops ey actually encouraged the inability of govthe much needed distern was repeated in an nti-Tamil rioting and nd 1983. In fact the
armed forces not merely 'actually encouraged the rioting", they actively encouraged looting and arson and in numerous instances were involved in murder and pillage. We do not hear of the British armed forces going on a rampage against the three million Irishmen in England when a British soldier is killed in Belfast. Our party would, however, make it clear that it stands for the Gandhian principles of non-violence and non-cooperation to achieve its ultimate goals.
2) Prior to 1977, there was systematic and organised violence against the Tamil minority. In 1956, just eight years after Sri Lanka obtained its independence, the Sinhalese mob organised by Sinhalese political leaders in the governing party of that time led attacks of murder, arson and looting against the Tamils. In 1958, the incidence of violence was at its peak, though the events of July-August 1983 make 1958 appear a street brawl. It was the same in 1961. Army violence in the Tamil districts thereafter became the prevalent method of dealing with the civilian population.
3) The most barbaric and inhuman acts of man's cruelty to man took place in the months of June, July and August 1983. On 3rd June 1983, the Mansion Hotel in Trincomalee was attacked. Thereafter violence prevailed on an ongoing basis. Sinhala hoodlums actively encouraged by the army were responsible for looting, damage to property and the killing of 31 Tamils.
4) On 26th July, the Government admitted that 150 naval men had gone on the rampage and destroyed about 200 Tamil business places and houses in Trincomalee town in six hours. With police assistance another 200 Tamil houses were burnt in Trincomalee district and 1,500 people were rendered homeless. To make matters worse, a responsible officer such as the commander of the navy forcibly transported 600 of the refugees to unknown destinations. These people were voters in the Trincomalee district but they were sent back to the plantations from whence they had arrived. Government officials from Colombo had been to Trincomalee a number of times to hatch this diabolical plot.
5) In the Tamil populated district of Vavuniya, it was no different. The wife of a Tamil man was raped by two air force men on 30th July. The next day they wanted the daughter made available to them. On 25th

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Above: After looting the first house and setting it onfire, the loote the contents of the opposite house. They are helping themselves
Below: Sinhala women and children did not escape the urge to children carry away a suitcase full of things.
 
 

rs are busy emptying to an electric Cooker.
loot. See how small
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the size or weight of articles
bove: Another scene of looting
d not matter. Articles from a Tamil house, including beds and 'essing table being carried away. Below: Looters carry away a frigerator. This is taking place during curfew hours in the esence of a large Crowd

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July, a truck transporting oil to Tamil districts in short supply was set on fire and four men were killed by air force men. During June-August 1983 private buses and vans plying between the capital city of Colombo and the Tamil Jaffna peninsula were systematically attacked and damaged by army men stationed in Mankulam. Tamil women in Vavuniya district have been forced into army trucks and crowded into police stations.
6) The foulest acts of violence were enacted in Colombo with the assistance of government party supporters and state-owned public transport - buses and trains. Ninety per cent of Tamil houses and business establishments have been destroyed and over 2,000 Tamil lives lost. The damage to business establishments is estimated at some S500 million. Over 100,000 Tamils have been rendered homeless and were housed in refugee camps before they were transported to Jaffna. The state imagines that its responsibilities are over and there is much reason to doubt whether aid channelled through government sources will reach the refugees or enter the pockets of government placemen especially in a country where corruption has become a way of life. As if to encourage the murder and arson, President Jayewardene, in a broadcast to the nation on TV and radio on 29th July 1983, stated that he had "to pay heed to the demand and national feeling of the Sinhala people' and he was therefore introducing the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution outlawing the demand for a separate state. The President’s statement indicates a yawning gap in the Constitution. There is no dignified head of the state who can rise above the political conflict and hold the scales evenly. In 1958, the prime mininster, Solomon Bandaranaike, handed all power to the Governor-General, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, and within days an ugly situation was brought under control. Sri Lanka's President Jayewardene in the present crisis proved himself to be no more than a sectional leader who did not care for the lives and property of an important minority such as the Tamils, many of whom in fact had supported him at the presidential election.
7) Other acts of violence should be brought to the attention of the world. In JulyAugust 1983, fifty innocent persons were killed by the army in Jaffna of whom 20 were university lecturers, engineers, students and housewives, reminiscent of the worst days of General Yahya Khan’s collapsing rule in Bangladesh. Despite homicide verdicts by judicial officers, no action was taken by the state.
8) If there is anything that can match the most uncivilised days of Nazidom, it was the burning of the precious library of pristine learning in the Tamil city of Jaffna. But worse and more foul has been the destruction of the temples of our Gods and the
images of our Gods then comalee district. Not o' 1958, 1977 and 1981, H been the targets of attac In 1977 alone 18 Hil attacked.
9) The most inexcusab ligence was the savager der of 52 Tamil politica them suspects, others a state’s maximum securi We have reason to belie were condoned, if not in state. A proper and tho is bound to reveal that the governing party c been involved.
Our party, The Tami Front, at various times mode of peaceful co-exi ewardene Government. the Distric Developme as a way of sharing pow and of achieving for ol needed autonomy they since Sri Lanka obtai Our faith has been mis in many ways been sh Jayewardene Governm
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selves in the Trinly in 1983, but in indu temples have k and desecration. du temples were
e act of state negutilation and murprisoners (some of waiting trial) in the y gaol in Welikade. fe that the murders fact inspired by the ough investigation political leaderrs in ould possibly have
United Liberation
tried to come to a stence with the JayWe agreed to work ht Councils scheme rer at the periphery ir people the much
had been seeking ned independence. placed and we have ort-changed by the ent on the under
takings it had given us in the past four years. ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔
The sharp evidence of a lack of a civilised code of conduct which can restrain a government and its hoodlums calls for investigation at the highest international level. Democratic life in Sri Lanka has almost come to a standstill because of state interference with the judiciary, the forces of law and order, with presidential commissions of inquiry, the free press and even publicspirited individuals. That is why, on behalf of the Tamil United Liberation Front, I would request the Secretary-General of the United Nations to press the Government of Sri Lanka to submit all relevant information on the recent communal violence against the Tamils and pogroms on the Tamils in Sri Lanka to the Commission on Human Rights at its fortieth session.
I make this request in keeping with Resolution 1983/16 of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. I am prepared to present myself with a delegation from our Front when the matter is raised so that we might correct any inaccurate information or information out of context submitted by the Government of Sri Lanka which in this instance must be treated as a hostile party.
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TAML. NOBEL LAUREAT A HIGHLY HONC
Professor Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, nephew of Sir C.V. Raman, another Indian Nobel Laureate in Physics, was born on October 19, 1910, at Lahore and had his early education in the Presidency College, Madras. He obtained his doctorate from Cambridge in 1933 and worked at Trinity College, Cambridge University, as a Fellow from 1933 to 1937 before he joined as a Research Associate at Chicago University. He was made a Morton D Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Astrophysics and Physics at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago in 1946 in recognition of his merit and contributions, especially by the renowned astronomer and colleague, Otto Sturve. His main work which the Royal Swedish Academy has just recognised and cited was actually completed in 1939.
Professor Chandrasekhar is a recipient of several awards and medals for his work in
JAYEWARDENE’S ARYAN NOSE
The myth of Aryan-Sinhala connection assumed a new “nosey” dimension during a recent discussion on a motion calling for the protection of Buddhist shrines, in the Sri Lankan Parliameft
Mr W.J.M. Lokubandara, Minister of Indigenous Medicine, told Parliament that there appeared to be a close connection between the people of North India and the Sinhala people of Sri Lanka. They are all Aryans, he proclaimed.
To prove his point, the Minister said: "This was evident from the fact that the people of these two regions had similar features. Mrs Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, had a nose which was similar to that of President Jayewardene. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr A. Amirthalingham, however, did not have that kind of nose.'
One MP belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, who has done some research into Mr J.R. Jayewardene's ancestry, was heard to say: “If the Minister's nosey logic was correct, then Mrs Gandhi must have an Arab ancestry, for Mr Jayewardene certainly has such ancestry.'
Prof. Chandrase
the areas of m astronomy, astrop such as the Brucel ical Society of the P
THE LIBRA
'We're frightened They'll take our job They work from ea Its unfair in this cliu To slave in such a v So what we’ve don right!
Why are all our doc And not good Sinha Some dirty work ha And Tamil Tigers Whilst the land is o We decided tht this
They're living up in And all have gold v A local Tamil alway But this time we'll
We'll teach them to And Jaffna Town w
Let's set fire to the And ignite each poc Their local paper, t But what about the Will no one call as They'll just look the
So Jafna's now a f A place of smoulde The market and th To antagonise the Why that was very Their library we've Their only one.
If we stop them rea And make sure the Our boys down sou They'll take all the
 

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E - S. CHANDRASEKHAR - URED SCIENTIST
Medal of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences in 1957 and Royal Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1962. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and Royal Society and was editor of the distinguished Astrophysical Journal. He authored several valuable books such as the An Introduction of Stellar Structure (1939), Principle of Stellar Dynamics (1942), Radiative Transfer (1950), Hydrodynamics and Hydromagnetic Stability (1961), Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (1969) etc apart from several research publications.
Professor Chandrasekhar combines the best scientific and cultural traditions of the East and the West, while still rooted in Indian culture and ethos. He has maintained a keen interest in the affairs of the athematics, physics, country of his birth even as he is a naturalhysics and cosmogeny, ised American citizen since 19}. His preMedal of the Astronom Sent interests in the study of 'black holes.
acific in 1952, Romford Link, October 30, 1983
ARY Jaffna, June 1981
They're so clever! And more money they can earn,
is away, So we'll lead the Tamil Devils quite a dancel
ly morning till midnight,
mate, If people in the outside world,
way, Complain of what was done,
2 was bad, but serve them We'll tell them that they're "talking through their
hat'. We'll say it was the terrorists who started all the
tors Tamils? fun!
lese? We're sure the British fools will swallow that
s gone on, that we know,
rosper, We'll say "It's just like Belfast!
n its knees, So why should you complain?
state of things must go. Don't poke your nose in other people's shit!
We say 'You're no better!
Jaffna, You also law distain,
e hear, Irishmen will tell those facts fit!' s will come back!
lo damage, But do they fit? Or are they lies? know fear Does a British army rob and loot and burn?
'll burn and loot and sack Are there really British police thugs,
Who truth and law despise? market, We'll ask you to face the facts now in return!
o man’s shop, Are British Papers censored?
3t ́ S he first to burn! Are they government-controlled?
gy And is the truth suppressed and out of reach? p:
You know the answer surely? You don't need to be told, We value here the freedom of our speech
}ther way, as law we spurn!
heral pile,
ng ash - MORAL My little shops all gone, Is it a "Taste of Paradise? vernment? Or maybe a glimpse of Hell
ash! Are people in Sri Lanka really free? ired! There is an Ancient proverb,
And that to you we'll tell, There are none so blind as those who will not see.
ing, (The author is a European who was teaching in Sri cannot learn, Lanka until recently. This poem refers to the burning will have a better chance, off affna Public Library and parts of Jaffna City in p positions, May-June 1981).
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THONDAMAN ACCUSES (
Ceylon Workers Congress President Mr S. Thondaman, Minister of Rural Development, has accused his Cabinet colleague Mr Gamini Dissanayake, Minister of Lands & Development, of failing to give shape and content to a decision of the Cabinet to regularise the land holdings of 'stateless persons and other people of Indian origin' living in the Northern province. Mr Thondaman made this accusation in a wideranging press interview during his recent visit to India.
Mr Thondaman said: "The failure of the Minister of Lands & Development to give shape and content to a decision of the Cabinet to regularise the land holdings of stateless persons and other people of Indian
origin in the North thro the Minister of Rural ment and the Preside Workers Congress has tributory factor to this which we are witnessin
“Instead of impleme policy of regularising people of Indian origi where they were transp as refugees after the pre concerted attempt was drive them out of their ious false pretexts. This sified around the midd police and security pers a wave of terror, intim
The frank assertion only last week of the
Prime Minister Mrs Gandhi, that a
dangerous situation was developing in Sri
Lanka over the fate of the Tamils, under
lines the fact that nothing has been done
since the day the worst kind of state ter
rorism was let loose on the ethnic minority
some three months ago to reveal any inten
tion to set matters right. The leaders of the
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) have been waiting for a reconciliatory
programme to be initiated by President Jayewardene, but so far he has made no worthwhile move in this direction. Instead, his government has launched a propaganda campaign, the thrust of which was that the armed forces had only put down what (in its view) was a new wave of homicidal violence by (Tamil) terrorists. The fact that several hundreds of Tamils were brutally done to death by army men following which some thousands of them had to flee the country for safety, has been suppressed. A contrived attempt to oversimplify the problem has been made by assertion that strenuous efforts were set in motion since 1977 to redress the real grievances of the Tamil community. A great deal has also been said about the district development, councils and a decentralised budgetary system, though neither of them has made any visible difference to the status of the Tamils. The development programmes which the Government has claimed were specially designed for north and east Sri Lanka, have not take the shape they were designed to. Nor has the constitutional provision recognising Tamil
JAYEWARDENE MUST
as a national lang minorities on a footing Sinhala majority. Whet
the services or adm versities, the Tamil criminated against, w made to look as tho grown acute through ved.
President Jayewarc playing for time; he m very risky path. He is resumption of the dipl a solution to the intr ated by the Indian G G. Parthasarathy visi cial envoy of the Prin have it that Mir Jayev first to have discussio
(By kind courtesy of "THE
 

NOVEMBER 1983
ABINET
gh a dialogue with dustrial Developht of the Ceylon been a major conad state of affairs ; today.
ting the declared he settlements of is in these areas, orted and dumped vious holocausts, a nade by officials to oldings under varwas further intene of July when the bnnel set in motion dating the settlers
COLLEAGUE
and driving them away.'
Using the state-controlled Lankan media, which always has ample provision for anti-Tamil propaganda, Mr Dissanayake in a counter-blast against Mir Thondaman and the C.W.C. has accused
that "their main concern was to pursue their
political interests of expanding their domain to new frontiers . . . Mr Thondaman's C.W.C. is billeting stateless people in colonies in the Northern districts quite unconcerned with the security perspective of the country. The TULF and its terrorists are thereafter permitted to do what they like with these innocent people and, if Dr Rajasunderam is an example, even enfold them into the terrorist and Eelamist cause.'
ACT GUICKLY
lage placed the of equality with the her it is entry into
ssion to the unis have been disaile on paper it was gh issues that had neglect were resol
ene appears to be ght also be taking a Invillingto permita imatic efforts to find ate problems initivernment when Mr ed the Island as spee Minister. Reports ardene would prefer is with Mrs Gandhi
INDU’, Editorial, 29.10.83)
- THE HINDU
during his forthcoming visit to New Delhi to attend the Conference of Heads of Commonwealth Governments. It is a matter of speculation whether he will at all visit India. He is, in the meanwhile, supposed to confer with some Opposition parties in Sri Lanka on the Tamil minority issue, although it is clear that any decision taken at such a conference wil be infructuous if the TULF is not a participant. This has been commented upon by no less a leader than Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike when she eclared that the Jayewardene Government's conduction negotiations with the Tamils, “has not inspired confidence among the Sinhalese or the Tamils'. There is really no way of arriving at an enduring solution without involving the TULF in the rightful manner. Although the Tamil leaders have been insisting that they stand for a separate State - Eelam -- Mr A. Amirthalingam has publicly observed that it was up to Mr Jayewardene to offer a viable alternative. And it is here that they should continue to seek the help of the Indian Government. Mrs Gandhi has assurd Sri Lanka that India has no intention at all of interfering in its internal affairs but "it cannot also remain unconcerned about the plight of the Tamil people there'. This sums up the position correctly. The meaning is clear, and Mr Jayewardene needs to act quickly to make significant moves to assuage the feelings of those persecuted and bring to an end the discriminatory policies and provocative measures that have been the root cause of unprecedented violence.

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"TAM ISSUE -
NDAS
CONCERN TO
BE EXPECTED"
- Mrs Bandaranalike
Former Premier Mrs Bandaranaike, underlining again "the limited, if useful' role that India can play in the Sri Lankan ethnic crisis, has said that the Jayewardene Government's conduct on negotiations with the Tamils has not inspired confidence among the Sinhalese or the Tamils.
"If you are interested in negotiations, you cannot ask one party to come to the table after giving up its main demand . . . it's not the way to open talks, if you are serious,” the Opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party leader said.
Mrs Bandaranaike's statement in a press interview, candidly underlined the basic difference with the President, Mr Jayewardene's United National Party, the other major Sinhala party, on the key question, “Should the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) give up separatism before the negotiations.
When there was no one here to break the deadlock in the rival approaches to the Government and TULF, “then it is useful to secure the good offices of Mrs Gandhi to break the deadlock'. 'That is the role Mrs Gandhi can plan, and I think that is what she is trying to play.
The former Premier said, though, it is our problem, basically a problem for Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, one cannot expect India not to be concerned.'
First, there were Indian citizens here. Then, there was the strong feeling in Tamil Nadu. "We must realise that Mrs Gandhi is very concerned about that . . . naturally, we are all politicians and we must accept political facts.
Endorsing "the understandable stand that the Tamil party must finally recounce separatism, but it need not be before the negotiations, Mrs Bandaranalike stressed that the Tamils had voted for a separate State.
If the TULF leader, Mr A. Amirthalingam, were to turn back on that mandate, he must get approval of at least his party at a conference. But what are they to tell the conference,' Mrs Bandaranaike asked.
"If they get some concrete offers, some practical alternative proposals, then they can tell their people: 'Let's consider this, let's discuss, this is what is offered. We are going to have a conference with all the major parties and let us at least negotiate. The TULF can try to persuade their people.”
“NDIA
REFUGI
The Prime Minister has made it quite clea India cannot and wil Tamil refugees from of the ethnic violenc At her press confe she said a dangerous ing in Sri Lanka over minority and India v about it. She sincere Lankan President, M and his party would ta problem and try to res ing an extreme positi The Prime Minist once again that Indial of interfering in its i. could not also remail the plight of the Tan bulk of the Sri Lanl inhabiting the island ese, if not longer, imp not be treated as alier tled to equal rights.
Asked about specia asarathy's next visit, it was postponed earli Mr Jayewardene, who consult other parties talking to him. But n set for the visit as the was still awaiting worc President about it.
Meanwhile, the assumed a more serio of the impending loss United Liberation F. Sri Lanka Parliament made a reference to it attention to the conse the Tamil community in Parliament in the constitutional amenc
USA COndemn1
TNASS FOR TA
An official resolution Nadu State Assembly veyed the full suppor struggle of the Sri La their rights. The resc struggle would be cri The resolution, iu requested Prime Min expedite her efforts t gue between the Sri and the Tamil leade permanent political s problem.
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WILL NOT TAKE
ES FROM SRI LANKA"
Mrs Indira Gandhi, to all concerned that not take millions of ri Lanka in the wake
there. "ence on October 13, ituation was developthe fate of the Tamil as deeply concerned y hoped that the Sri r J. R. Jayewardene, ke a fresh look at this olve it without adopt)Ω. r assured Sri Lanka had no intention at all nternal affairs, but it unconcerned about lil people there. The a Tamils have been as long as the Sinhallying that they could ls who were not enti
| envoy Mr G. ParthMrs Gandhi said that *r at the suggestion of wanted more time to in Sri Lanka before ) new dates had been Government of India from the Sri Lankan
famil problem had us dimension in view of seats of the Tamil ont members of the The Prime Minister presumably to draw quences of depriving of its representation wake of the recent ment requiring all
members to take an oath of loyalty to the concept of a unitary state.
She stressed the need for direct contact between the Sri Lankan Government and the leaders of the Tamil community to negotiate a reasonable political settlement acceptable to both sides. The implication of this observation was that India could offer its good offices in bringing about a settlement if the two sides were ready to negotiate a lasting solution to the ethnic problem. But it could not on its own evolve such a settlement without the co-operation of both sides.
The Prime Minister spoke of the sad situation in Sri Lanka with considerable restraint in reply to several questions on the Subject because she did not want to say anything harsh about the dilatory tactics of the Jayewardene Government, which was apparently bent on dragging its feet to gain time to avoid any serious negotiations except on its own terms. The Indian fears about Sri Lankan intentions became clear from the reports that Mr Jayewardene had called a a conference of all Sinhalese parties, including the Communist Party, on which the recently imposed ban had been specially lifted to enable its participation, to a discussion on the Tamil problem from which, strangely enough, the TULF is being deliberately kept out.
It is against this general background that India has been voicing its fears about the dangers of a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka which could create a grave situation. The question that many diplomatic observers in Delhi keep on asking is how long would India be able to avoid getting embroiled in such a tragic development if, in the wake of fresh riots in the island, it is faced with an exodus of panicstricken Tamils fleeing for their lives.
ed for its aid to Colombo & Trinco base
EMBLY'S FULL SUPPORT MIL STRUGGLE
dopted by the Tamil on October 25 “conof the House for the ka Tamils to secure ution hoped that the wned with success.
its operative part, ter Indira Gandhi to arrange for a dialoankan Government in order to find a lution to the ethnic
nveyed its grateful ade by Chief Minis
ter MGR and the Prime Minister in bringing redress to the sufferings of Sri Lanka Tamils.
The resolution:
O Called upon the US Government not to supply arms or other materials to Sri Lanka Government, taking into account the fact that the Jayewardene Government and its army and the police had aided and abetted the crimes against Sri Lanka Tamils during the July riots. The resolution further seeks to condemn the US for its proposed aid to Sri Lanka, ignoring its own human rights plank and its obligation to help the
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Tamil victims of ethnic riots in the island. O Called upon the US to give up its plan for setting up a naval basee in Trincomalee. O Sought to describe the 6th amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution as barbarous and uncalled for and demanded its immediate withdrawal. O Further demanded of the Sri Lankan Government to arrange for a round table conference of all, including Tamil representatives without any precondition in order to find a solution which will ensure total and complete security for Tamils and their rights. O Thanked the Indian Government for including the State Electricity Minister S. Ramachandran in the Indian delegation to the 38th session of the UN Assembly.
O Congratulated S. Ramachandran for placing on the records of the world the feelings and aspirations of 5 crore Tamil people over the ethnic killings in Sri Lanka.
O Further conveyed the full support of the House for the struggle of the Sri Lankan Tamils to secure their rights. The resolution hoped that the struggle would be crowned with success. O Further requested the Tamil Nadu Government to take all steps through the Government of India to secure the implementation of the suggestions contained in the resolution. O Also congratulated the public organisations and various political parties for their solidarity action, expressed through processions, demonstrations, strikes and hartals, all these within the bounds of the law. O Placed on record and endorsed the steps taken by the Chief Minister MGR to reflect the emotional upsurge of the people over the uncivilised and barbarous ethnic killings. It thanked Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for taking steps to stop the ethnic violence and for her good offices in the ratter.
SHOBA ARANGE
Shobana, daughter of Sathananthan of Mitcha Ratika Perinpanayagam Natya arrangetam on C lington Public Hall, Lol tive audience filled the
Though brought up milieu, Shobana has obv all the most demanc aspects of Bharatha Na mance included an expel Thandavam in addition ponents of a Bharatha N displayed grace and st dedication. The success the 14 year old Shobani motivate her to aim fore:
MINISTER FALSEHO
Chelvanayakam Pact v ditions, of which one wa land for Indians. The oth withdraw the cases aga and those who could no go back to the places fro The cases were accordi both sides.
Terms fulfilled
“ U nl i ke th e F Chelvanayakam Pact, th were fulfilled. I have debate referred to it Parliament and is part ( have the original with that what there was ab ments. They were tak ularised by the last Gc
There lie in the Northern houses Those empty clothes, the melancholy strain, The haunting rapes, the boundless pain, The ravaged hearts, the bloody stains, The breath of the innocent Tamils . . .
There lie in the prison walls Those restless souls, the relics of slaughter, Those mutilated bodies of defenceless martyrs Clothed in agony, soaked in crimson, The eyes of the innocent Tamils . . .
LSLSL
THE PLIGHT OF INNOCENT TAMILS
There lie the shattered The hard earned toil af The burning roofs, the The looting mobs, the 1 They laugh at the innoc
There lie in the highlan The estate slums, the d The blood of exploited Their homes in ashes, t The fate of the innocen

NOVEMBER 1983
NA TAMA
Mr & Mrs P. h, Surrey; pupil of held her Bharatha ctober 1, at Waldon. An appreciahall to capacity.
in the western ously grasped well ing and intricate tyam. The pefortly performed Siva to traditional comatya sequence. She imina inspired by of the arangetam of I will undoubtedly cellence in the art.
NALS MONKS Ο DS FROM PAGE 5
vith various cons the right to obtain her was that I was to inst those officers, t be settled were to m where they came. ngly discharged on
a n d a r a na i k e - e terms of this pact in the course of a and produced it in f the Hansard. I still
me. So you will see
out these encroachen note of and reg
"The settlers are scattered in various places at different times, because they came whenever there was a disturbance and were driven away, unlike the peaceful deliberate encroachment for pastures new. In 1977 when the Hon. Gamini Dissanayake came to my electorate he spoke to some of these Indian settlers who had come from Muwara Eliya district and he knew them. They gave him a reception and he promised to help them. Some of them were sent from the Hambantota district and from Kataragama to be settled here.
"What a tragedy - foxes have holes and the birds in the air have nests to rest in, but man has no place in this country to rest his head because he is of Indian origin.
"It is time we revised our sense of values. I am interested in trying to put the record
Wernment. straight!'
wellings, The night will pass and the day will come r years of labour, When good will triumph o'er evil, taring ruins, Terror and torture will vanish for ever, urdering thugs Peace and calm will reign supreme nt Tamils . . .
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NOVEMBER 1983
TULF MPs LOSE SEATS
ANURA REPLACES AMIR AS OPPOSITION
All sixteen members of the Sri Lankan Parliament belonging to the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) have lost their seats after boycotting sessions for three months. The MPs have all refused to swear an oath renouncing their call for a separate Tamil State.
The TULF has boycotted Parliament ever since the ethnic violence in July in which hundreds of Tamils were killed and their properties destroyed. In August, the government brought in the Sixth Constitutional Amendment requiring MPs to swear allegiance to a unitary state.
Under the 1978 Constitution, the TULF could in theory nominate its own successors to the seats which have now fallen vacant because of the three-month absence rule. But the TULF never had any intention of doing this, hoping to force by-elections to the seats in order to get some publicity for themselves by winning the seats again. This hope was dashed, however, when at the beginning of this month
the Government c tion laws to com elections to take
This has placec ficult position. T is still unwilling unless substantial
Meanwhile, th ident Jayewarden there can be no TULF until they call. One possible deadlock might b sympathisers as and allow them to 1 TULF might als by-elections unde Ilankai Tamil Aras eral Party, which call.
The TULF Ge Amirthalingam, w Opposition in Parl been replaced by ti Bandaranaike of t Party.
EUROPEAN-SRI LANKA SOLIDAR
GROUPS CONFERENCE
RESOLUTIONS
European-Sri Lankan Solidarity Groups from several countries of Europe met in Brussels for three days - November 4 to 6 - and discussed the current situation in Sri Lanka. Human rights violations, the violence against the Tamil people, the denial of citizenship and voting rights to Tamil plantation workers, and suppression of democratic and trade union rights in Sri Lanka were some of the subjects which were considered in detail by the conference.
The Conference adopted the following resolutions: O The Sri Lankan regime, by its actions during the last few years, has revealed all the characteristics of a racist dictatorship. The use of political thuggery and state terrorism has become a permanent feature in the Lankan political scene.
National
sel-determination O We note that the Tamil people of Sri Lanka are being subjected to violence repeatedly and more frequently since the assumption to power of the present government and are denied their fundamental rights. We recognise and support their right to national self-determination. O We recognise that the Sinhalese people are being subjected to and misled by mischievous and distorted anti-Tamil racist propaganda and consider that the forces behind this campaign should be exposed.
O We note that the whole are subjecte human and democ rights are being der organisations. Th rorism Act contain late internationa Nations Convenan
Denial of basic rights
O The Tamil pla been deprived of ba and franchise and semi-slave conditi their right to citize immediately restor
O We note that ations that foreigg Lanka governmer racially and politic mer, and request t make it conditional such discriminatio
O We are of the C military interventi cumstances would ution of the proble Sri Lanka and conc We demand that al ing programmes p governments to Sr forthwith.

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EADER
ided to amend the elecel al candidates at bye anti-separatist oath. he TULF in a very difleadership of the party renounce separatism, concesions are offered.
Government of Presremains adamant that negotiations with the bandon their separatist vay out of this apparent for the TULF to field ndependent candidates ke the loyalty oath. The decide to contest the their old name, the Kadchi or Lanka Fedpre-dated the separatist
heral Secretary, Mr A. no became leader of the iament in July 1977 has le 34-year-old Mr Anura he Sri Lanka Freedom
Y
people of Sri Lanka as a d to gross violations of atic rights. Trade union ied to workers and their ë Prevention of Ters provisions which violly accepted United S.
ntation workers have sic rights of citizenship re compelled to live in ns. We demand that nship and franchise be d.
nere are serious allegaid granted to the Sri is being used in a ly discriminatory manat the donor countries before grant of aid, that is removed.
inion that any foreign n in the present cirot facilitate the resolis facing the people of mn such intervention. military aid and trainvided by all foreign Lanka be terminated
THONDAMAN CALLS FOR SPECIAL STATUS FOR TAMIL AREAS
Mr S. Thondaman, Rural Development Minister in the Jayewardene Cabinet, welcomed the idea of conferring 'special status' in the Sri Lanka constitution to the predominantly Tamil areas, on the lines of the special provision of the Indian constitution regarding the State of Jammu and Kashmir in India. This was one of the proposals submitted by him towards a lasting solution to the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka, said Mr Thondaman, in the course of a press interview at New Delhi. w
Mir Thondaman also said that he was continuing to be a member of the Sri Lankan Government so as to ensure the welfare and to remedy the problems facing the Tamil people of recent Indian origin in Sri Lanka.
Mr Thondaman admitted that the present Government had failed to implement certain undertakings that had been agreed on. He said that he had recommended to President Jayewardene that para-military units consisting of members from all communities should be set up on a regional basis. These units would be equipped to face any emergency such as an outbreak of communal violence.
HOMAGE PAD TO TAMILS KILLED
TN ASSEMBLY CONVEY'S CONCERN 8 ANGUISH
The Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a resolution on October 24 paying homage to the Tamils killed in the recent racial violence in Sri Lanka.
The resolution was moved from the Chair by the Speaker, Mr K. Rajaram. The resolution sought to convey the Assembly's "deep concern and anguish' at the ethnic violence in Sri Lanka where 'Sri Lanka Tamils, Tamils of Indian origin and Tamils who are Indian nationals have constantly been subjected to severe hardship for the past 30 years'.
"These Tamils have been denied their right to live, they have been massacred, they have been tortured in prisons, the modesty of their women has been outraged and their properties have been looted, set fire and destroyed, the resolution said.
The resolution noted that since July last 'inhuman atrocities, rape, setting on fire properties and terrorism' had been let loose by Sinhala fanatics and the Sri Lanka army and the police.
The House, through the resolution, paid its homage to those who had lost their lives during these ethnic disturbances and expressed its deep-felt sympathy and conveyed the condolences to the bereaved familes.
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K.A. Selliah, JP Born: 27 October 1904 Died: 5 October 1983 The death of Mr K. A. SELLIAH, B.Sc.Lond., Dip in Ed Lond., FPS (Lond), PRINCIPAL EMERITUS of JAFFNACOLLEGE, VADDUKODDAI has left a great void in the community of Jaffna, where he had served with utmost devotion till the end. Mr Selliah had a very initimate connection with the college from 1917 until the time of his death - a period of sixty-five years as student, teacher, vice-Principal, Principal, Welfare Officer, and member of the "Board of Directors'.
He succeeded the Rev. Dr. S.K.. Bunker as the first national Principal in 1947 and served with equal excellence until his retirement in 1968. He advocated hard work and simple living and had the unwav
ABOUT PI
ering faith in the den management. He also b of speech and the liberty opinion as the very ess During times of difficul a member of the Boar Selliah worked indefati ibly and helped to ovi with remarkable fortitl The life and work of not be concluded witho the annals of the histor and country. His ideal and his dedicated life of never be forgotten, b upheld in the portals Alma Mater.
He has fought the goc his course with unswe nity.
Besides many grievi and alumni, the famil children, MRS KAMA (COLOMBO), DR & ! LIAH (BATTICALOA MIRS BALAN SIEL UNIVERSITY), MISS (PRINCIPAL - UDU LEGE), MR CECI EDWARDS (CANA SATHI SELLIAH (C & MRSJEEVARATN
 
 

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ocratic system of elieved in freedom of expressing one's nce of democracy. y in the College, as I of Directors, Mr gably and responsrcome every crisis de.
this great man canut it being written in y of our community s and achievements devoted service will ut continue to be of his much loved
MRS MABEL VIJAYARATNAM
Mrs Mable Vijayaratnam, nee Hudson Thambirajah, passed away peacefully at the May Day Hospital, Croydon, on 12 October 1983. Her husband Mr C. Vijayaratham predeceased her a few years ago. She was a talented teacher for many years in Sri Lanka and was highly respected by all who knew her for her many virtues - the most outstanding of them all was her 'Great Humility'.
She leaves behind her only son Vijayarajan, brother and sister-in-law Mr and Mrs D.T. Wijayanathan, and a host of relations and friends to bemoan her loss.
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LEAFLET WAR AGAINST TAMILS AND MUSLIMS
Leaflets holding out threats to Tamil and Muslim minorities in Colombo are being freely distributed. Although the Sri Lanka Cabinet had recently denounced the distribution of such pamphlets the vicious leaflet warfare continues.
The leaflets in Sinhalese, issued in the name of the Sinhala Maha Sabha, carry a vicious attack on Tamils and Muslims. They have been mailed to prominent professionals, officials and traders belonging to these communities.
The leaflets inter alia state while Tamils had their own Tamil Nadu and Muslims 40 countries of the world, the Sinhalese Buddhists had only one land - Sri Lanka. They alleged that Tamils and Muslims controlled 90 per cent of trade and business in the island. The gem trade was entirely in the hands of Muslims and money-lending was controlled by Indian Tamils.
The leaflet also states that Tamils and Muslims with their tilting votes were actually wielding the power and this should not be allowed for long.
Meanwhile, the Sinhalese language press had stepped up a campaign against Tamils and Muslims and tried to justify the violence unleashed against the Tamil minority in the island in July-August.
TAMIL EELAM ON THE AIR
MADRAS - a radio station, styling itself as Voice of Tamil Eelam, was on the air on November 4th.
The maiden broadcast, heard by several people in the city on 41 metres, opened with a song "Vazhga Tamil Eelam”, described as the Tamil Eelam national anthem.
Inquiries with Sri Lankan Tamil Sources here indicated that the clandestine radio station has been set up by a militant youth organisation called Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOT), with equipment bought from West Germany.
PLOT is led by Mr K. Mukundan, alias Uma Maheswaram.
The location of the radio station could not be ascertained, but the sources said it was not operating from Indian territory.
Voice of Tamil Eelam will broadcast on 7000 kHz on the 4lm band. Times of broadcast: Saturday: 7 to 9p.m. Sunday: 7 to 9p.m. Wednesday: 7.30 to 8p.m.
PARTH MISSI(
It is reported that the Mrs Indira Gandhi’s Parthasarathy, and t. ident were concluded the former carrying w osals aimed at breaki ween the Lanka gover United Liberation F1
It is learnt that the giving up by the TU separate state in retur government agreeing for each of the nine pl The regional counci powers and functions would operate within unitary state. They through appropriate existing District D Act and would. com the merger of DDCs But this would be su the members of each ( have to be approved a district. The adm comalee Port, which where the Tamils at population, would b iction of the new regic continue to remain, central government c
Proposals unacce
From the standpoi proposals would har On the other hand, t hardliners would att negotiated settlement
Mir Jayewarden accepted the offer of the Indian Governme feet during the last t while the Ministers try whipping up Some Ministers accl. ernment of interfering of Sri Lanka and should mind its ow President was report India had nomore rol he request Mr Parth: trip to Colombo, Mr. celled his journey to ti month, thus avoidin meeting with Mrs. In
Mrs Gandhi's Ster
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recent talks between Special Envoy, Mr G. he Sri Lankan Preson November 10 with rith him certain propng the deadlock bet
'nment and the Tamil
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proposals include the LF of their call for a n for the Jayewardene to regional councils Covinces of the island. ls would have wide as yet undefined and the framework of a would be created
amendments to the evelopment Councils e into being through within each province. bject to acceptance by council and would also t a referendum in each inistration of Trinis in the East Province 'e 38 per cent of the e outside the jurisdbnal councils. It would as at present, under :ontrol
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nt of the Tamils, the dly seem acceptable. he Sinhala chauvinist empt to thwart any
:, having initially the 'good offices' by int, kept dragging his wo and a half months went about the counanti-Indian hysteria. lsed the Indian govin the internal affairs uggested that India business. Even the !d as having said that to play. Not only did sarathy postpone his ayewardene also canhe United Nations last g a personal summit dira Gandhi there.
message
Government and Mrs were angered by the dilatory tactics and a if this was that the
Indian UN representative raised the question of the involuntary flow of Tamil refugees into India from Sri Lanka at the recent special meeting of the UN Refugee Commission.
The invitation to Mr Parthasarathy from Mr Jayewardene to visit Colombo followed a meeting between the President and Mr Thondaman on his return from India. Presumably, the latter carried a sufficiently stern message from Mrs Gandhi.
A ploy
Political observers feel that the invitation to Mr Parthasarathy and his subsequent talks with the President was a ploy on the part of the latter to clear the way and avoid any embarrassing confrontation with Mrs Gandhi at New Delhi where the Commonwealth Heads of Government are scheduled to meet later this month. Once the Commonwealth Conference is out of the way, the Sri Lankan government is likely to behave no differently from what they have done in the past and avoid any serious committment to a negotiated settlement acceptable to the Tamils.
In any event the reported proposals submitted to Mr Parthasarathy in no way meet the just aspirations of the Tamil people. Only proposals based on a constitutionally guaranteed special autonomous status for the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka under which the Tamil people are granted the power to determine their destiny without having to face Sinhala oppression and violence, will make the Tamil people consider any negotiations worthwhile.
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