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CJ Report on serious violations...................... 12
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Tribute to Tarimuttu...... ...19
Indira Teassures Tämills............ 2
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ROUND TAB
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"You have such a b lia ment, how come it implement a promise identi?" Mrs Indira ( Prime Minister, is repr Mr Lalith Ath Lulathının Minister of National recently visited New
The "promise given which the Indian PM what has now come to ure C, which contair proposals Worked ol Lankan President an erınent in consultatio of the Tamil United Annexure "C"containe ional autonomy for th north and east of Sri.
The "good offices' ernment and the ser"
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The JS couple, Mr an who were kidnapped group of Tamil youth freed on May 16 at 8 time) unharmed and i COLI.ple had been ha Bishop's House, Jaffn making arrangements Colombo immediately.
Previously all Tamil Tamil Nadu and Indiau appealed for their relea: garayer and Mrs. NiIII: Two Tarmil political dicta Lankan government fc. tortured while in deter for their release, (See COIII till:1)

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"END OF TAMILS'
ig majority in Parwas not possible to given by your PresGandhi, the Indian JTtcd tc have asked of dali, the Sri Lankan ScCurity, when he Delhi.
by the President to IIhade reference is be known as "Annexled an agreed set of It between the Sri ld the Indian Govin with the leadership Liberation Front. 'd a proposal for reg|c Tamil areas of thc Lanka.
of the Indian gowwices of the India II
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dMrs Stanley Allen, allegedly by a small 1, on May 1 were 30p.m. (Sri Lanka Il good health. The Inded over at the a. The Bishop was for their return to
political parties, the Il Governments had 5 C. Rew, Fr... A. Sinla. Nithiyananthan, inees held by the Sri 1T Over a year, ard tion, also appcaled page 2 for editorial
PM's Special Envoy, Mr G. Parthasarathy, were made available for the All-Party Talks which began on January 20 on the basis of the proposals contained in the Annexure "C", for a negotiated settlement of the cthnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
However, once back in Sri Lanka, under pressure from the hardliners of his own party and the fascist and bigotted sections of the Buddhist clergy, President Jayawardene not uncharacteristically reneged on Annexure "C" and virtually disowned it,
No serious effort
Since then, the Round Table Conference has been postponed several times, going through appointment of committees and sub-committees but without any serious effort being made by the government to arrive at a negotiated settlement.
The Conference which reconvened on May 9 after a lapse of nearly two months has again been postponed. The reason given for the two-month adjournment by the government was to allow time for legislation to be prepared to give effect to the two items of consensus that the Round Table Conference had arrived at. But when the Conference reconvened, not even instructions had been given to the legal draftsmen to start drafting.
Instead, the government has used the recess to appoint Mr Athulaith muda li to the new post of Minister of National Security, and to start a major military offensive in the north.
Although the declaredaim of this offensive is "to flush out the Terrorists', its main victims have, by all account, been uninWolved civiliarls.
A.IIIy excesses have given a new dimension to the already complicated problem in Jaffna by involving a section of the Catholic
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As we go to press, we have received reports about the abduction of two US civilians by a relatively small militant Tamil group in the northern Tamil city of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. The couple, husband and wife, were taken as hostages and their abductors have demanded a sum of £1.4 million for their release.
They have also demanded that the Sri Lankan government release twenty Tamil political detainees held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, with an accompanying threat that the hostages would be killed if their demands are not met.
We learn that all Tamil political parties, the Jaffna Citizens Committee, the Jaffna branch of the Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality and Rev. Fr. Singarayer and Mrs Nirmala Nithiyananthan (two political detainees held under the PTA) have appealed for the release of the US couple immediately and unharmed.
While endorsing this appeal, we hasten to add that, from any standpoint - political, ideological, tactical, moral, pragmatic, of principle or otherwise - this act of abduction of the US civilian Couple is insupportable. And when we express this view, we have no doubt that we are reflecting the views and feelings of the general mass of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.
The Tamil Cause
The abduction is the latest instance of a continuing and escalating violence in Sri Lanka Spawned by the intransigence of the Sinhala government, its continued failure to recognise the basic civil and political rights of the Tamil people and its uncontrolled use of state terrorism against the people.
Acts of kidnapping and murder of innocent civilians do not serve the Tamil cause; on the contrary they are counter-productive and do irreparable harm to the integrity and justice of the Tamil cause. The irresponsible nature
POLITICS Ol
of this act is de embarrassmen' government of Tamil Nadu.
That such infantile ac serve only th further demons that it has prov excuse for awardene to c aSSistance Whi done by calling vention of the Squad. If anyon this particular surely be Presi and his govern
The Tamil pe at the hands ( kidnappers. In last year, thou including wom were killed a destroyed by a goon-Squads li henchmen of th Sri Lankan gc Tannis cried c Sinhala army a only looked th also joined an the attack.
We know ti Tamils have be tody and tor infamous Pre rorism Act, V denounced by Commission of report as conti Which are "a bl book of any civ We know tha town of Chunna this year, Sri personnel firec and at randami killing and C Scores of T including a pre a 68-year-old m that in March a Scores Of Tam hostages by th urity forces, Whereabout unknown.
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monstrated by the : caused to the India and that of
adventurist and ts objectively le oppressor is trated by the fact ided a convenient President Jayall in direct US ch he has already in for the interUS 'anti-terrorist' e felt happy about episode, it must dent Jayawardene ment.
ople have suffered of murderers and July-August 1983 sands of Tamils, len and children, ind their homes planned attack by ed by well-known he Ministers of the Vernment. When but for help, the nd the police not Ie other way but d participated in
hat hundreds of en taken into cusured under the vention of Terwhich has been the International Jurists ina recent aining provisions ot on the statute 'lised country'. it in the northern kam, on March 28 ankan Air Force | indiscriminately n the marketplace ritically injuring amil civilians, gnant woman and an. We also know nd April this year, is Were taken as e Sri Lankan secmany of whose s still rem a in
at on April 9, the Lady of Refuge in barded with Can
nonfire by Sri Lankan troops who jubilantly cried that this was the first opportunity they had to use the cannon in the Tamil areas.
We know that when 50 milion Tamils in Tamil Nadu reacted to these atrocities, President Jayawardene, in characteristic kidnapper-style, declared that Tamils in Sinhala areas "would be slaughtered' if India intervened to prevent the massacre of the Tamils in the North.
Government law-breaker
We know that to the Sri Lankan government, the Tamils living in the South will always be hostages and that it is no longer "concerned with their lives Or their opinions'. We know that the government has sought to secure the support of the US so that it may effectively manage the response of neighbouring India. Yes, we know all that and more.
it was Justice Brandeis of the US Supreme Court who said in 1928, "Our government is the omnipotent omnipresent teacher ... for good or ill it teaches a whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself ...'
The government of Sri Lanka has been a law-breaker for a long time. Among other things, it has practised kidnapping on a large scale through its security forces which over the years have abducted scores of Tamils, tortured and even killed many of them in custody. The government has also treated the Tamils living in Sinhala areas as hostages; and the ransom it demands is that the Tamil people accept their own national oppression; that they voluntarily submit to national subjugation. And any semblance of resistance shown against such oppression is normally followed by planned and state-inspired violence against the Tamil people and their property.
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Hummummumu authority or right to condemn any kidnapping or murder by others. But the Tamil people do not seek to follow the example of the Sri Lanka government. The Tamil people do not intend to emulate the terrorism of the Sri Lankan State.
We know that the government has set a bad example. But it is an example, as a people and as a nation, the Tamil people will not follow. The Tamil people do not seek to gain their freedom by
FOR AN
The widespread and unprecedented anti-Tamil violence in Sri Lanka in the months of JulyAugust 1983 in which thousands were massacred and their properties destroyed rendering over 150,000 homeless and destitute raised Serious international conCern at the time of their OCCurrence. The international media published reports of atrocities with banner headlines.
The government of Sri Lanka had to concede, in the face of irrefutable evidence, thatthe violence was pre-planned and highly organised; that the attacking groups had in their possession prepared lists of targets - individuals and properties - for attack; and that they carried out their dastardly deeds according to a set pattern and premeditated plan.
The government also admitted that sections of its security forces not only turned a blind eye, but also in many instances actively participated in the violence and looting. Specifically in two separate instances, in Jaffna and Trincomalee, the security forces went on a rampage killing innocent Tamil civilians and burning their property. Then there was the mass slaughter of 53 Tamil political detainees in the high security Welikade prison in Colombo.
To date, the government of Sri Lanka has not set up an investigation into the July-August 1983 violence. In any other country which claims to be civilised, the government itself would have promptly set up an inquiry in respect of incidents, relatively
taking away others. They do ure their humar ing the human | it is in this CO impelled to stat as We can that t the US civilian does not and support of the was wrong and and categorical
The struggle ple is a struggl
NTERNA
minor in scale
The Sri Lank the following c anCe tO the Uni Commission on Discrimination Minorities on A "The governn will leave no S identify and b courts all pers for the killings, tion and devast of who they are, ideologies alignments, the laWand the COu There will be r the same time, determined to necessary and nate any furthe sad events.'
Uninve
This assurar the case with t ernment, has r there is no in ernment has a filling its assu future. In the who planned July-August 1. lence, those W murders and those Section forces whic ticipated in the paged throug Jaffna and TI and maiming civilians, and Out the mass political de Welikade pris

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le freedom Of not seek to secrights by denyghts of others. text that We are as emphatically he kidnapping of ouple on May 10 annot have the Tamil people. It We say so openly
y. of the Tamil peoto be free from
oppression and exploitation. It is a struggle for justice and fairness and it draws its strength from the righteousness of its cause. It is the struggle of an ancient people with a rich heritage, a growing culture and One of the oldestianguages of the world, all of which they seek to foster, protect and preserve. Ht is astruggle of a people who stand up before the world and say, YES, WE TOO ARE A NATION'. That is what the right of Self-determination is all about.
TIONAL INGURY
ind magnitude. an delegate gave ategorical assurted Nations Subthe Prevention of and Protection of ugust 22, 1983: ment of Sri Lanka tone unturned to pring before the ons responsible violence, destrucation. Regardless , their status, their and political full force of the rts will be applied. no exceptions. At the government is ) do everything possible to elimirecurrence of the
stigated
ce, as is usually ne Sri Lanka govtot been kept, and lication the govly intention of fullance even in the meantime, those and executed the 83 anti-Tamil vioho carried out the he acts of arson, of the security | actively parViolence and rannthe streets of ncomalee, killing innocent Tamil hose who carried murder of Tamil a i ne es in the Continue in their
positions of power and prestige uninvestigated and unpunished. The price paid by those who suffered from the July-August violence is too high for the international community to allow the government of Sri Lanka to neglect, fail and refuse to carry out its duty to institute an acceptable impartial investigation and punish those responsible for the violence against the Tamil people and their property.
The International Commission of Jurists, in their latest Report, released in March 1984, has declared that what it finds "most extraordinary is that, to this day, there has been no attempt to find out the truth through an official, public and impartial inquiry, when the situation in the country cries out for nothing less."
The TAMIL RESCUE APPEAL and the CAMPAIGN FOR THE DEFENCE OF TAMIL RIGHTS, two exp a triate Tamil organisations operating in Britain, have published a document indicting the government of Sri Lanka as the planner, organiser and the perpetrator of the JulyAugust violence against the Tamils. In fact, the indictment charges the government with murder, arson, thuggery and intimidation with a view to terrorise and subjugate the Tamil people.
The fact that the government is directly implicated in the violence against the Tamils, the fact that it has so far failed to keep its promise to the UNSub-Commission in August last year, the fact that one
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A POINT OF VIEW
SRI LANKA AT THE
From a correspondent
A spectre is haunting the Sinhala people. It is a grim one. In the next 30 years or even less, the natural sovereign unity of the island of Sri Lanka which the British bequeathed with callous disregard for the rights of the minority ethnic groups in the country is likely to be torn asunder by domestic wars fought within the country; they will be wars which will receive active encouragement from the rival power blocs. They will be wars which will probably be fought by proxy by the competing superpowers.
There are three possibilities in the event. The United States will obtain rest and recreational facilities and perhaps even refuelling facilities for their nuclear submarines and their aircraft and their fleets hovering in the Indian Ocean. The question arises as to how India will view this development.
Secondly the Soviets may at last realise their dream of a warm water port in the Indian Ocean. The People's Republic of Sri Lanka emphasis is mine - author) is not a far off goal. The upper crust of Sri Lankan society is not any different from recent examples of the collapse or nearcollapse of what seemed at first stable regimes. Balfour's famous dictum reform or we perish is not very popular with pubescent societies in the underdeveloping world.
The third possibility is an Indian takeover. Oddly enough, it may never happen with Mrs Gandhi. But once there is a fragile centre with leaders seeking to distract the popular attention, foreign adventure is invariably the way of diverting mass discontent from domestic problems. An Indian takeover has international parallels in Cyprus and for that matter even within India itself, the occupation of Kashmir, Hyderabad and Goa are the outstanding examples.
CRISIS OF THE
PRESIDENCY
There are defects in the 1978 Constitution, the Second Republic, as it is called, which could act as catalysts to the process of disintegration. There is also the oft-repeated statement of the "demonstration effect'. All of these can be catastrophic. The crisis of the presidency in the months of July and Augsut 1983 indicated dangerous lacuna in the constitution.
We have largely, though not wholly, imitated the Gaullist French model. But the Presidents of France acted in manners and
styles different fror Lanka. Charles de party conflict, talk France and often 1 France itself. Georg live long enough b himself in the muc Major issues like th Market engaged his pedestrian sort were ter,
Valerie d'Estaing petty problems; he c necine party warfa provoked. And Fra fines himself to the icy. In each instanc bore his fair share : iness of adversarial
Seeks confidenc
The point being President, once ele fidence of all the pec for him or not. Th does not go to war w even though there h vokation there. Nor fight a war with an
Arising from this ical culture that em tices referred to in t The Pesident of Sri ticipant in the polit himself in common troversies. Not so th fact, the latter main ence (or aloofness) Pompidou, Chirac, had to bear the brun ing.
The involvement Lanka in controvers once a partisan in French presidents a counterparts have problem in Sri Lan. combines the func head of state as we prime minister. Sc makes pronouncer separatist demand which advocate su which had best be le prime minister - tricky, especially ir does not matter wh assuage the wounde thereafter; but what
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n the President of Sri Gaulle rose above the 2d of the grandeur of hought of himself as ges Pompidou did not ut he did not involve i and dirt of politics. he European Common attention. Others of a left to his prime minis
glossed over France's lid not engage in interre even when gravely ncois Mitterrand conbroad headlines of polse, the Prime Minister in the day-to-day buspolitics.
made here is that the acted, seeks the conple whether they voted le President of France with Brittany or Corsica as been sufficient prodid Abraham Lincoln other nationality.
is the fact of the polithanates from the prache previous paragraph. Lankais an active parical game. He involves place day-to-day conle French President. In tains a dignified insol
and Mendes-France, Barre and Mauroy have tofday-to-day politick
of the President of Sri sial issues makes him at party politics which nd even their American sought to avoid. The ka is that the President tions of an executive ll as most aspects of a , when the President ments proscribing the and banning parties ch policies - matters ft to Parliament and his the situation becomes a multi-racial state. It at the President says to 'd feelings of the victims the states at first is what
FOCUS OF ATTENTION
The second lacuna in the constitution is the absence of a nominal or constitutional head of state. Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, Governor-General 1953-1962, was called upon by the Prime Minister to handle the grave anarchic conditions of 1958. Mr William Gopallawa, Governor-General 19621977, bore some of the blame for putting down the insurrection of 1971. The Prime Ministers as a result were able to avoid some of the blame.
In 1977, 1979, 1981 and 1983, it is the President of Sri Lanka who became the focus of attention. To deal with a JVP insurrection that cuts across community, caste, and religion is not as serious a problem as going to war with a nationality universally regarded by the Sinhalese as their traditional foe. It is a different matter when a President sets himself up as the Commander-in-Chief of the forces that are at war with the Tamil liberation movement. And the movement will probably not confine itself to the Northern and Eastern provinces. The question in some people’s minds is whether we are taking a fast train to Ulster and thence to Cyprus.
In a world with wide media coverage, we cannot avoid the practices employed by other non-state organisations (like the PLO). One does not need to go into details, but one can well imagine the island becoming an inferno.
NATIONAL SUICIDE?
And reason ceases where mob hysteria begins. Is Sri Lanka well on the road to national suicide?
This article in some way tries to answer tangentially the question as to what would become of the Round Table Talks. Any intelligent guesswork would have, even before the Talks began, indicated that at least one of the major political forces in the country will keep out of the saving formula that it will support a "viable solution'. This is poor logic. Why does this force not help in the arrival of an amicable settlement?
On the other hand, this force and its subsidiaries are waiting to say that any agreement that is arrived at will be 'death to the Sinhala race'. It is a platform on which a sweeping victory can be obtained by a candidate of a coalition.
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of action. You must listen to the sittingroom gossip in the fashionable boudoirs and salons of Bambalapitiya, Kollupitiya, Colombo 7, and even to the billingsgate spoken in the local fish markets. This is a war to the death. The Tamils, they say, deserve no quarter.
The idea of a Round Table Conference solving the problems that confront the island can only be a convivial get-together. No Round Table Conferences solved anything. The Round Table Conferences of 1930 and 1931 between Britain and the Indians failed to produce worthwhile results except for a fast by Gandhi on the “vivisection' of India. Even this fast unto death undertaken by Gandhi failed. So did the successful death fasts accomplished by Irish prisoners. These did not achieve anything. Only Potti Sriramulu in Andhra succeeded.
The Sinhala leaders will have to offer something tangible which the Tamil leaders will be able to put across to their people. But for this to happen there must be a change of heart on both sides, not only among the electors, but among the bureaucrats and the political elites. There is no evidence of such a transformation. We are enjoying a short period of calm before the tornado engulfs us.
FAILURE OF PAST METHODS
It is to the advantage of the Sinhala elites to maintain the island as a single sovereign entity. This cannot be done by political chicanery, by 'stealing Tamil leaders elected on one ticket to become showpieces of the government so that the whole will be impressed by this window-dressing. The past has indicated that these methods failed. If anything they aggravated the situation. Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva's election to the Board of Ministers only made the All-Ceylon Tamil Congress more determined. G.G. Ponnambalam's acceptance of office in the government of D.S. Senanayake was one reason for the birth of the Tamil Federal Party. Mrs Bandaranaike’s refusal to negotiate with the Tamil Federalists and her alliance with Alfred Durayappah and C. Kumarasuriar, was, among other more grave political blunders, responsible for the formation of the Tamil United Liberation Front.
Given the abject failure of these tactics, the Sinhala political elites have a few limited options available to them to save the island's imminent disintegration. If there is a fragile unity today, it is enforced by terror and military brutality. The military in fact realise that only a political solution can save the day.
The District Development Councils were a breakthrough but they failed because ministers were unwilling to devolve powers, the finances were not
forthcoming and t Sinhala bureaucrats sabotage the scheme the end the Tamil Ul obtained what M.A. context described as 1 was an eleventh minute effort by C. save the unity of Inc maimed, moth-eaten
s
tah.
QUEBEC
An alternative is thes that the Parti Quebec has advocated for Qui customs and monetar In all other matter: sovereign state. To a cannot be construed Sixth Amendment. A not be confined to c Defence, communica icy can be under the A third possibility which provides the TI imum autonomy. It version of the Parti Q can be similar to th tried to avert the rea Stillanother cours Sri Lanka into a f Americans have aske done. A demand on world sympathy.
To argue that ther ple in the Sinhalese a There are more Mio than there are in Pak Albanians in Serbia Albania. There are til in Britain. There are 1 majority groups kill minority ethnic grc could behave no Indians, the Serbs or have to live in peac non-Sinhala races.
Unitary set-up
The most objection present unitary set unadulterated supre! Cabinet of pan-Sir Tamil ministers are
The continuance ( sure guarantee of the of the artificial stat achieve a compromi above calls forth for seems to emanate fro who occupies the Although President incorporated into the Tamil demonology, f after him, there will c we will have a compo rus, Beirut and Leb. the superpowers deal bled waters?

he Colombo-centred were determined to rom the beginning. In hited Liberation Front Jinnah in a different he CR formula, which lour and fifty-ninth Rajagopalachariar to lia. Jinnah called it “a and truncated Pakis
EXAMPLE
overeignty association ois of Rene Levesque Lebec. In short, it is a y union with Ottawa. s Quebec will be a dvocate such a course as a violation of the and the subjects need ustoms and finance. tions and foreign polcontrol of Colombo. is a confederal system amil areas with maxcould be a modified uebecois's position. It e CR formula which lity of Pakistan. e will be to transform ederal set-up. Many d why this cannot be these lines could win
are more Tamil peoreas is a spurious one. slems in India today istan. There are more (Yugoslavia) than in hree million Irishmen no racial stereotypes of ing members of the ups. The Sinhalese lifferently from the the British once they ful co-existence with
able is to maintain the -up which provides macy and power to a hala ministers (the powerless). of the status quo is a break-up of the unity e of Sri Lanka. To e on the lines stated statesmanship. That m the one incumbent presidency today. ayawardene has been current vocabulary of w Tamils realise that ome the deluge. Then Linding of Ulster, Cypnon. And would not ly love to fish in trou
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TERRORISTS' WHC PSYOHOPAT
In the absence of elected representatives for the Tamil-speaking areas of Sri Lanka (the whereabouts of the Tamil MPs who have been locked out of Parliament is not known, barring Mr A. Amirthalingam issuing statement after statement from Madras, and Mr M. Sivasithamparam sweating it out over the same exercise), the Jaffna Citizens Committee has come to the fore and has had the courage of conviction to do what one would have normally expected from the political leadership.
In the aftermath of the rape of Jaffna from April 9th to 12th, they moved into the people to make a survey of the damage done. The "Eela Nadu' newspaper also threw its columns open, free of charge, to carry details and even photographs of people dead or missing, following the rampage of the khakied psychopaths of the Sri Lanka security services.
Up to April 26th, 78 people have been listed dead or missing. The following are the details:
APRIL 9, 1984
1. Mr Mahadeva, 50 years, survived cancer, heart attacks and diabetes; ardent devotee of Saint Sai Baba; employee of Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka, shot down at entrance to his office. 2. Mr Selladurai, a Mason, shot at Chundikuli. 3. Mr. Duraisingam, employee of Ceylon Transport Board (Northern Region) shot at Jaffna bus stand while on duty.
4. Mr T. Yogarajah, dumb since birth; shot at the entrance of the ice factory belonging to the Fishermen's Co-operative in the North.
From our Jaffna
5. Unidentified per helicopter at Sinna Ka 6. Unidentified per helicopter at Cey-Nor tory. 7, 8. Two unidenti burntinside a carat Su adjoining the Buddhi 9. Mr P. Asaipillai, Ceylon Railway, shot: station.
APRIL 10, 1984
10. Mr S. Ponnamba. office assistant at the Department and S employed as Secretary ing Home, Thinnaive. entrance to his home. 11. Mr V. Para darmadam, Jaffna 12. Mir V. Paramaka shot at Jaffna Police 13. Mr K.D. Wilvara Road, Jaffna. 14,15. Mr N. Rajad daivel, both shot at junction, Jaffna.
APRIL 11, 1984 16, 17. Mr P. Dharm Rasiah (62 years), sc Neeraviady, Jaffna. 18-21. Mr Masilar and two others sł Jaffna. 22. Mr M. Mahroof Navalar Road, Jaffna
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Correspondent on, shot from a 23. Unidentified person, shot at Navalar dai (Market), Jaffna. Road-K.K.S. Road junction, Jaffna. son, shot from a 24. An employee, name not known, of Norwegian Aid) fac- James Garage, shot at Point Pedro Road
fied bodies, found indaralingam garage, it temple in Jaffna.
an employee of the at the Jaffna Railway
lam, 62 years, retired
Attorney General's ecretariat, Jaffna, of the Central Nursli, Jaffna, shot at the
manathan, Kan
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mani, Mir Thayalan lot at Anaipanthy,
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Victoria Road junction. 25-31. Seven dead bodies found on Rasavinthodam Road, Jaffna. (Names not known) 32-35. Four partly charred dead bodies, unidentified, found at the railway crossing on Navalar Road, Jaffna. 36-49. Fourteen partly charred dead bodies, unidentified, found under the culvert adjoining the Buddhist temple in Jaffna. 50-51. A man and woman going double on a push cycle at Kurumbachitty, nine miles away from Jaffna, shot dead. 52. A man shot dead at Irupiddy, seven miles away from Jaffna.
APRIL 12, 1984
53. Mir Nallanathar alias Kullandhali, driver of car no.CN4203, shot dead and
burnt with car at Kokuvil, just outside Jaffna.
54. Mr W. Ambalavaner, 43 years, shot at Kokuvil. 55. Mr Christie James, from Gurunagar, Jaffna, shot near the Buddhist temple.
56. An unidentified person, found shot dead on Stanley Road, behind the Railway Department, Jaffna.
APRIL 24, 1984
57-62. Six decomposing dead bodies, unidentified, washed ashore on the sea beach, Jaffna. 63. Mr Sebastian Sundararajan alias Illango, shot at Gurunagar.
MISSING
64-69. Six Muslim youths from Jaffna. 70. Mr Vasanthakumar, Urumpirai. 71. Mr Gunaratnam, Urumpirai. 72. Mr Navaratnarajah, Atchuvely. 73. Mr Jeyachandran, Punnalai Kadduvan. 74. Mr Ketheeswaran, comalee). 75. Mr Masilamani Kathirgamathamby, Anaicottai. . 76. Mr Jesudasan Anton, Gurunagar. 77. Mr Viswalingam Sivarajah, Erlalai. 78. Mr Jenarat Jenito, Chavakachcheri.
This list is by no means exhaustive. A greater proportion of the bereaved might not have volunteered information either due to grief or fearing reprisals.
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civilians, including women, on March 28 at Chunnakam. The pictures appearing on this page give the lic to thic claim of the Minister that those killed were "terrorists'.
Since March 28, over 250 Tamil civilians, including women, have been killed by the security forces.

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Send indian troops to Sri Lanka - Lokh Sabha members
NEW DELHI, March 29: Mr Raa Anbarasu, Indira Congress member of Parliament today demanded in the Lokh Sabh that the Indian Government should move its Air Force and Navy to Sri Lanka immediately to save the Tamils from massacre.
Members of the Indira Congress (Tamil Nadu), Janata and DMK, staged a walkout from the Chambers when the Speaker disallowed a resolution on Sri Lanka to be taken up for a full debate.
Madras law students storm Sri Lankan mission
MADRAS, March 29: Students from the Law College, Madras, marched in on the Sri Lankan mission in Madras in a wave of angry protest at the massacre of Tamils in Jaffna. Their attempts to invade the mission were prevented by the police.
Uproar in Tamil Nadu Assembly MGR urges indira to intervene
MADRAS, March 30: The adjournment time of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly saw a deluge of motions by almost all Opposition Parties on the massacre in Sri Lanka.
In an atmosphere charged with emotion, Mr Nedunchezian, Minister in the State government of Mr M.G. Ramachandran, explained that the Chief Minister has already telexed Mrs Indira Gandhi to intervene in Sri Lanka and putan end to the
aSSaCe.
"India Today' incinerated
MADRAS, March 31: A demonstration by Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil youth in Madras today culminated in the incineration of copies of the now infamous India Today magazine in front of the Sri Lankan mission in Madras. The youth claimed that the India Today story describing training camps in Tamil Nadu for Eelam fighters as a diabolical lie and a CIA plant. They also shouted slogans against the massacre of innocent pedestrians by the security forces at Chunnakam, six miles off Jaffna.
Effigies of JR, Reagan Set on fire
MADRAS, March 31: Sri Lankan Tamil students in Madras today demonstrated in front of the American Consulate at Madras today, protesting against the aid Reagan's regime was giving to JRs junta for the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka. A petition demanding Reagan keep his hands off Sri Lanka was handed over to the American diplomats by the youth.
The angry demonstration then proceeded to set fire to effigies of JR and
Reagan, resulting i strators being arrest( police. The demonst caused two hours c American Consulate.
Janata-Fo protest in "l
NEW DELHI, Ma Government must tal the renewed attacks Lanka, insisted Mir leader of the Janata Indian Parliament, s Sabha today.
This matter was liamentarians of the
Indian CO Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, March failed to express solic nations all over the wi that India expressed the violence against 1 explained Mr S.J.S. Commissioner in Sri the Secretary to the Affairs of the Sri La Colombo today.
"We are CO Indian Horr
NEW DELHI, April ter of Home Affairs, 1 ing in the Lokh Sabha cannot remain indi described as the "in Lanka. He said that Lanka affected even to be repatriated to India had to be conc
The Deputy Minist Mr A.A. Rahim c Indian hysteria gene responsible positions government and said loose on the Tamils in deep concern and re. India, in particular, State.
Raise SI problem ir
NEW DELHI, Apr: Lokh Sabha today, Lokh Dal member of Indian Government t Rights violations ir Human Rights Com Nations. He also urg take steps to protect of Tamils in Sri Lan about economic sa Lanka.

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E INDAN SCENE
12 of the demond by the Tamil Nadu ration is said to have f utter chaos at the
Ward bloc okh Sabha”
:ch 31: ʻThe Indian ce very serious note of against Tamils in Sri Subramania Swamy,
Party group in the peaking in the Lokh
also raised by ParForward Bloc today.
ncern for In Tamils
31: "India has not larity with oppressed orld. It is on this basis deep concern about he Tamils in Jaffna,” Chatwal, Indian High Lanka, when he met Ministry of Foreign Inkan government in
}ncerned': he Minister
3: The Indian MinisMr B.C. Sethi, speak, said today that India ferent to what are Lernal affairs' of Sri the massacre in Sri he Tamils who were India and therefore rned.
er of Foreign Affairs, ondemned the antirated by persons in in the Sri Lankan that the violence let Sri Lanka has caused ret to the citizens of in the Tamil Nadu
Lankan the U.N.
6: Speaking in the r Rasheed Masood, arliament, urged the sponsor the Human
Sri Lanka at the hittee of the United d the government to le lives and property (a and also to bring Actions against Sri
"Take other steps' - says DMK MADRAS, April 6: The Working Committee of the DMK resolved today that with the failure of the Round Table Talks in Sri Lanka, the Indian Government should consider alternative steps to solve the threat to the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Find a political Solution – Indira tels JR
NEW DELHI, April 6: The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has urged President Jayawardene of Sri Lanka to find an immediate political solution to the problems of Tamils in Sri Lanka, it was disclosed in the Lokh Sabha today by Mr Narasimha Rao, Minister of Foreign Affairs. She had also advised President Jayawardene that another outburst of racial riots in Sri Lanka would create inevitable repercussions in India.
Several MPs made a request to the Indian Government to demand that a UN peacekeeping force be despatched to Sri Lanka.
"Solidarity messages' For religious day
MADRAS, April 13: In separate messages issued to mark the New Year ceremonies of the Tamil people, both M.G. Ramachandran, the Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu state, and Mr Karunanidhi, leader of the leading opposition party, have urged the Indian Tamils to consider it as a day to resolve to fight the atrocities committed on the Tamils of Sri Lanka.
"Send troops to Sri Lanka, or we demand separation' - DMK
MADRAS, April 15: Unless the Indian Government sends troops to save the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the DMK would be forced to resurrect its abandoned policy for a separate state for Tamils in India, warned Mr M. Karunanithy, leader of the DMK at a massive rally held in Madras today. He urged all members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly to resign en bloc to drive their point home to Delhi.
The rally jointly organised by the DMK, Dravida Kazhagam, Congress (Kamraj) and the Workers' Party was preceded by a long procession.
MP tears up "India Today' in Lokh Sabha
NEW DELHI, April 15: Indira Congress MP, Mr Chandrapal Chalani, tore up a copy of the India Today magazine in the Lokh Sabha today. Another Indira Congress MP, Mr K.K. Dhiwari, refuted the magazine's claim that Tamil terrorists were being trained on Indian soil and berated the magazine for its unpatriotic, treacherous aCt.

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Several MPs from the Indira Congress, Janata and CP(M-L) demanded a full debate on the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Speaker agreed to consider
1.
39,394 Tamil refugees in India - Minister
MADRAS, April 15: Mrs Gomathi Srinivasan, State Minister for Social Security, disclosed in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly today that between 28.7.83 and 31.1.84 a total of 39,394 Tamils have fled from Sri Lanka and entered India as refugees.
She also disclosed that the central government has instructed that these refugees
should be accommodated in India on
humanitarian grounds, till conditions return to normal in Sri Lanka.
JR's "Destroy Tamils' threat - AIADMK expresses concern
MADRAS, April 16: The ruling AIADMK party of Mr M.G. Ramachandran has expressed concern at President JR's threat that if India intervened militarily in Sri Lanka that would be “the end for Tamils in his country.
The working committee of the party which met today pointed out to President JR that Tamils in Sri Lanka were only fighting for their basic human rights.
AIl Party Conference in Tamil Nadu
MADRAS, April 18: A four-hour discussion took place at an All-Party Conference summoned by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.G. Ramachandran, to evolve a strategy to help Tamils in Sri Lanka. It was decided to make a final decision after seeking the opinion of three parties which had not attended the confab.
Confab of 17 Opposition Parties in New Delhi
MADRAS, April 17: Seventeen Opposition Parties which met in New Delhi today found consensus in demanding equal rights for Tamils as for Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.
Indira-MGR taks in New Delhi
MADRAS, April 19: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M.G. Ramachandran, had today an hour-long discussion in New Delhi behind closed doors on the development of the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka.
Indian fishermen attacked by Sri Lankan Navy MADRAS, April 21: The Ramnad Fishermen's Union has protested about wanton attacks on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy men who are said to be manning a zone of surveillance in the Palk Straits separating India and Sri Lanka. Its President Mr S. Marimuttu has complained
that these attacks hav Lanka's territorial w
International
to back Ta
DELHI, April 24: A way to host an Inter New Delhi to expr struggle of the Tam being said that pro including Yassir Ara Kennedy and pro Human Rights activi lingness to participa
A secretariat has Delhi, supervised b ex-MP for Jaffna, te
fab.
MGR ur and LTT MADRAS, April 25 dran, Chief Ministe today that he has Tamil youth leader and Umamaheswar them to forget their the interests of Tan He was speaking a Human Rights viola in Madras.
The Secretary-Ge A. Amirthalingam, to all youth organis Speaking furthel advised people like return to Sri Lanka Tamil people there He dismissed a S claim that Tamil ter in India as fictitious Lankan GovernmeI Lankan Tamils wel they were not alon Internationa adjudicate on MADRAS, April 2 World Tamil Youtl ras today resolved Court should adju
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TRINCO DEAL 8 THE AN
In announcing to Parliament on April 5 that the Cabinet had decided to award the oil tank farm at Trincomalee (henceforth to be called the Trincomalee Entrepot Project) to a consortium of Oroleum (Pvt) Ltd of Singapore, Tradinaft of Switzerland, and Oiltanking of West Germany, with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation retaining l6 per cent of the shares, Minister Cyril Mathew said:
It is very unlikely, or for that matter impossible, for Sri Lanka to get another group of companies as uninvolved politically, non-controversial, and acceptable technically, financially and commercially as this group to handle the Trincomalee Tank Farm project.' (Hansard, col.966)
What the minister did not tel Parliament was that two of the three companies involved are proxies for the former Coastal Corporation, the US firm to whom the government had originally decided to lease the tank farm, but which it had to abandon formally owing to the international and domestic scandal its decision caused.
As was mentioned in earlier articles in Forward (which first broke the story) the Cabinet approved on October 7 1981 an agreement between the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and the Coastal Corporation USA for an oil tank farm at Trincomalee. For this purpose, Coastal Corporation USA set up a subsidiary firm, which was incorporated in Sri Lanka as Coastal (Bermuda) Ltd, Singapore. The two promoters of this firm were Douglas Henry Miller and Colin Nicholas Refe.
The decision to award the oil tank farm to the US firm was made without calling for tenders. The amount they had to pay was a mere 25,000 US dollars. But what was much worse was the fact that Coastal Corporation's main customer was the US Navy which was looking for fuelling facilities for its Sixth Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
The exposure of this underhand deal by Forward and Aththa caused a domestic and later, international furore.
So much so that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was compelled to make discreet inquiries from our Ambassador in the USA, Mr Ernest Corea, about Coastal Corporation Ltd.
Ambassador Corea engaged the prestigious Wall Street firm Dunn and Bradstreet to make this inquiry.
This firm reported back that Coastal Corporation was in the red. Its operating loss of 54 million dollars in 1980 had been nearly doubled to 98 million dollars in 1981. Moreover, Mr O.S. Wyatt, its chairman, and Mr Sam P. Wilson, its Senior Vice-President, had been fined 40,000 dollars by the US District Court at Houston for "criminal misdemeanour in contravening US energy regulations'.
The communicatio sador Corea and our made clear the keen administration in this The US State D. reported, briefed th Wyattabout the “sensi In February 1982 reported that the reached had been call Corea informed his m State Department was ional and domestic dif government may have fuel was given exclusiv in the original agreen might have different v Ambassador Corea opinion of an Admini Murphy, that the abilit US Navy was essential project, and that US firmed this.
In the face of this 'st back-flipped.
It instructed the Cl approved agreement. notice was published c tenders for the oil tani Seven offers were ré new offer from Coasta Apart from the thr formed the consortiu awarded the tender, from Pacific Resourc Ommeron of Holland Corporation of India. C Sri Lanka governme Export from the USSR the 100 tanks back in dition, set up the farm the CPC for operations
international furore
While the governme what to do, the interna furore over this deal connection with the ration’s geo-strategic pl and widely known. became known in trade in Sri Lanka that the of Corporation as the mc Sri Lanka commercial Faced with this dile poration made a new I As Minister Mathew (Hansard, col. 965):
'Coastal Corporatic their offer and Oroleu apore submitted an of consisting of Orol Tradinaft, Switzerlanc West Germany.'
If the conditions of were going to be chan suddenly, elementary

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ERICAN CONNECTION
n between AmbasForeign Office also interest of the US deal. partment had, he firm's Chairman iveness' of the deal. , after the CDN original agreement ed off, Ambassador asters that while the sensitive to the regficulties Sri Lanka’s to face if US naval e rights as envisaged lent, "the Pentagon iews”.
also reported the tration spokesman, y to store fuel for the to the viability of the trade sources con
nk' the government
PC not to sign the On April 8, 1982 a alling for 'worldwide'
farm. :ceived, including a | Corporation. 'ee firms that later m that was finally there were tenders es Inc. USA, Van and the Indian Oil )n the request of the nt, Neftchimprom , also offered to put to serviceable conand hand it over to
nt was considering tional and domestic pecame louder. Its Reagan administans became obvious Dn top of this, it and political circles er of the Indian Oil st advantageous to y. mma, Coastal Cor
lOV6. put it in Parliament
n USA withdrew (Pvt) Ltd of Singer of a joint group eum (Pvt) Ltd, and Oil Tanking,
the original tender ed so radically and rocedures required
that fresh tenders should be called for. But this did not suit the governmentor, for that matter, Coastal Corporation and its promOterS.
The reason why Coastal Corporation decided to back out was not far to seek.
The Managing Director of Oroleum, which made the new proposals for a consortium, was none other than the same Douglas Henry Miller who had been one of the co-promoters of the original company that Coastal had incorporated in Sri Lanka.
As for Tradinaft, a company with mainly Pakistani capital although located in Switzerland, one of its directors was none other than the other co-promoter of Coastal Colin Nicholas Refe.
Both Mr Miller and Mr Refe were present at the signing of the latest and final agreement in Colombo on April 12, according to the Island of the next day. Mr Miller signed for Oroleum, while a lawyer signed for Tradinaft, with director Colin Refe looking benevolently on.
Distinction
It was thus a case of a distinction without a difference. "Worldwide' tenders had resulted in the oil tank farm being awarded to Coastal Corporation under the guise of subsidiaries.
Mr Mathew has claimed that the new deal would not affect the security interests of either Sri Lanka, or any other country' (Hansard, col.967) because it precludes the foreign investor from renting tanks or storing or supplying oil for military purposes.
Mr Mathew must be deliberately naive. What the agreement actually says is that while the foreign investor is given 'exclusive rights' in this regard, it is only required to "take all steps reasonably within its powers' to see that oil is not supplied for military purposes.
Recent history abounds with examples of the US government and firms deliberately breaking solemn undertakings.
One of these is the admission of the former US ambassador to Japan that the US regularly brought nuclear-armed ships into Japanese ports for fuelling and service although bound by Japanese law not to do SO.
Nor is there any prohibition on the foreign investor leasing out tanks or subcontracting to third parties, who are not bound by these obligations.
Indeed, Article 67 of the agreements gives the foreign investors powers which should not be unreasonably withheld’ to transfer shares to third parties.
The Trincomalee tank farm issue is by no means settled. All that has happened is a deception.
By courtesy of “FORWARD, 1.5.84

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MINISTER'S STATEMENT -
FALSE AND P.
The Bishop of Jaffna, Rev. B. Deogupillai has denounced the statement of the Sri Lankan Minister of National Security, Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, that the church premises of Our Lady of Refuge in Jaffna had been used to booby-trap the security forces, as tendentious, preposterous and absolutely false.
In two letters dated 14th and 16th April, addressed to President Jayawardene, the Bishop has also accused the army of attacking the church on April 9th with cannon fire several times and causing severe damage and that the soldiers had expressed their happiness for having had the chance to use the cannon for the first time in Jaffna and against the church.
The text of the Bishop's letter dated April 14 addressed to the President said:
"I was rather surprised to read in The Daily News of Friday, April 13, 1984 on p.ll the following statement reported to have been made by the Hon. Athulathmudali, Minister of National Security, on Wednesday, 11th April 1984: “The Minister said that the terrorists had misused the church to booby-trap the forces. The wire used to detonate the explosives meant to blow up a military convoy had led into the church. The church authorities, who knew the real situation, had made no complaint.'
Unpleasant duty
"I have the unpleasant duty to deny completely this tendentious statement. The statement refers to the bomb-blast that took
- Bishop
place at about 1.30p 9th 1984 on the Hos the church of Our Jaffna town. It is abs used to detonate the into the church'. I Jubilee celebration
Lady of Dolours, w rated in this church 1984, new electric
recently erected ro within the church switch of these la church, which is mc from the Hospital Ri it by a parapet wall. locked from 12.00 Monday, April 9th locked from 12.00 Parish Priest. There not have had access the new lamps, whi 1.30p.m.
"It is preposterou authorities of the ch the terrorists. The P of the church and another street. From Parish Priest cannot; the Hospital Road, large church. He did ish House on Monda 12.00 noon till abou
BISHOP CORREOTS REPO
The Bishop of Jaffna, the Rt Rev. Dr B. Deogupillai, has written correcting the report which appeared in the Tamil Times (April 1984) on page 6, entitled 'Facts behind the attack on Naga Vihare and Sinhala school'. The text of his letter to Tamil Times is as follows:
"Though the attack on the Church of Our Lady of Refuge in Jaffna town took place on 9th April 1984, and the attacks on Naga Vihara in Jaffna town and on the Sinhala School on 10th April 1984, there is absolutely no truth in the rumour that the attack on Naga Vihara and the Sinhala School was carried out by the Catholics of Jaffna.
'Naga Vihara is situated far away from the Church of Our Lady of Refuge, in the commercial area with completely a Hindu surrounding. The Catholic Church in Jaffna has had no difficulties in the past with the Buddhists in Jaffna. But the people of the North in general have been perturbed by the statements and activities of the Hon. Minister Cyril Mathew, namely, to restore ancient Buddhist Shrines in the
Jaffna Peninsula and with Sinhala Buddhi equally perturbed by to the Maha Sangha to the North and East t the attack on Naga taneous reaction from In fact, among those the Naga Vihara there lims.
"The Catholics h against the Sinhala S. Government Tamil S children, adjoining til (This school forme Catholic Church, bef schools by the state). the Sinhala School to tion from the people
"The Catholics in calm during the above and continued to pra mony based on justic Editor's Note: We are Bishop for correcting and apologise for thi

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ARMY ATTACK ON CHURCH
TENDENTIOUS, ABSOLUTELY REPOSTEROUS’
of Jaffna
.m. on Monday, April bital Road, just behind Lady of Refuge in olutely false that "wire explosives . . . had led in view of the Golden of the Feast of Our thich was to be celebon Friday, April 13 lamp-posts had been und the church but compound. The main imps was inside the bre than fifty feet away pad and separated from The church is usually noon to 3.00p.m. On 1984 the church was noon as usual by the fore, an outsider could to the main switch of ch is in the church, at
s to suggest that the urch knew the plan of arish House is in front access to it is from the Parish House, the see what takes place on which is behind this | not go out of the Pary, April 9th 1984 from t 3.30p.m.
RT
colonise those places sts. They have been the President's advice convert the Tamils of o Buddhism. Hence, Vihara was a sponthe people in general. killed by the army at were even some Mus
ave had no grouse chool, since there is a chool for the Catholic he Church compound ly belonged to the ore the takeover of our
Hence the attack on to was a natural reacin general. affna remained quite -mentioned incidents y for “peace and hare.
grateful to the Rt Rev. our report. We regret
2 errorCorS.
"He only heard the blast, shooting on the church and into the closed Parish House and had to lie on the floor to save himself. At about 3.30p.m. he and his companion were taken by two members of the Security Forces to the Hospital Road, the scene of the bomb-blast. After interrogation the Army personnel were satisfied that the bomb-blast had been detonated from a battery in a car which had been halted on the road.
"I am really distressed that a senior Minister of your Cabinet has made such a damaging statement, without checking up the facts of the case. If he had consulted the Government Agent of Jaffna, he would not have made such a statement.'
Cannon attack on church
In his letter of April 16th addressed to the President, the Bishop states:
"On Monday, April 9th 1984, the large church of Our Lady of Refuge in Jaffna town was attacked by the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka with cannon fire several times, and very badly damaged. The Government Agent of Jaffna, Mr Devanesan Nesiah visited the church on 10th April 1984 and saw personally the vast damage sustained by this church as a result of the attack by the Armed Forces. He would have reported the matter to the authorities.
"They were happy
"It has been reported to me that the soldiers who used the cannon on this church on 9th April 1984 had said that they were happy that they had the chance to use the cannon for the first time in Jaffna and against this church. Therefore, we have reason to believe that the attack on this church by cannon fire was done deliberately.
Hence, I have the unpleasant duty to lodge a protest against this irresponsible action of the Armed Forces and claim from you compensation for the damages caused to this church by the Armed Forces, so that we may undertake early the necessary repairs to this damaged church, which is a Parish church constantly used by our faithful. The Government Agent of Jaffna would be in a position to assess the compensation to be paid to us.'
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SRI LANKA - A MOUNTING TRAGEDY OF ER
ICJ REPORT ACCUSES SERIOUS V
Serious violations of the Rule of Law and Sri Lanka's obligations under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, tampering with the country's constitution for short-term party-political advantage, failure to investigate the July 1983 anti-Tamil violence and the murder of 52 Tamil political detainees in a Colombo top security jail, excesses by the security forces and the government's failure to take action, the draconian character of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, the extraordinary powers given to the security forces to dispose of dead bodies without inquests or postmortems, the attack on the judiciary etc., are some of the many aspects dealt with in a 100-page Report recently released by the International Commission of Jurists entitled “SRI LANKA -- A MOUNTING TR AGRETOY OF ERRORS”.
Unparalleles Sinities
The Report, dated March 1984, is the result of a Mission to Sri Lanka in January 1984 on behalf of the ICJ by Mr Paul Sieghart, chairman of Justice, the British section of the ICJ, who according to the Secretary-General, Niall McDermot, ‘had unparalleled opportunities to discuss the present situation concerning the Rule of Law and the legal protection of human rights in meetings with President Jayawardene, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Internal Security, the Chief Justice, the Secretaries of the Ministries of Defence and Justice, the Additional Solicitor-General and others. In consequence, he has been able to set out authoritatively the Government's standpoint on many important issues.'
The Secretary-General of the ICJ, in his preface to the Report, states:
“The section of his report dealing with the law and institutions contains a clear analysis and critique of the constitutional provisions for the protection of human rights, the emergency legislation inforce, the powers and role of the armed forces and police, and the independence of the judiciary. In particular, certain police powers under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which has now been made permanent, are shown to be a serious violation of the Rule of Law and of Sri Lanka's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The same conclusion is reached in relation to the recent amendment of the Constitution which penalises anyone peacefully advocating separatism by depriving him of the right to be a member of parliament, to hold public office, or to engage in any trade or
profession which requires or other authorisation.
'Equally interesting a Sieghart's reflections ut efficacy of the draconia ernment has introduced with the terrorist activitie isation of Tamil extre Tamil Tigers, zvhich tj estimates at only 25 to 3 and no more than 100 or He finds some of these m productive as well as be national law.
July '83 v Having referred to
serious communal viol Report notes: The intervals between become shorter; their exte become wider; and the more intense. All these a situation that is getting ter. Communal riots in led, maimed, robbed an are no longer isolated epi ning to become a pernici
Referring to the against the Tamils, thi
During the communal v. of 1983 many lives were seems to have been able тату, ата estiтates par 400 or even more. It is pro were Tamils, but again n It is not in dispute that all Tamils, zuvere murdere that time on two separate days apart, but although formal inquest after each returned verdicts of homic to give an authoritative came about.” (pages 74.
No forebodings
But the greatest myste. tion of how these events i morning of 24 July, ma vent about their ordina ombo, with no forebolding of anything untoward. A streets were full of goond shops were on fire, Ta being destroyed, and Tan Nor was this merely the individuals: it is vouch ernment itself.’ (page 7

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these episodes have "nt over the island has violence has become re characteristics of a worse rather than betwhich Tamills are killd rendered homeless sodes, they are beginpus habit.” (page 15)
Fuly 1983 violence e Report states:
iolence in the summer lost, but so far no one 2 to say exactly how y widely up to around obable that all of them o one seems to be sure. 53 political prisoners, d in Welikade jail at occasions spaced two | a Magistrate held a of these events and cide, no one is yet able account of how they , 75)
ry surroundsthequesin fact started. On the ny people apparently ary business in Colis and no expectations nd then, suddenly, the as, Tamil houses and mil possessions uvere rails were being killed. observation of a few led for by the gov5)
"Clearly, this was not a spontaneous upsurge of communal hatred among the Sinhala people - nor was it, as has been suggested in some quarters, a popular response to the killing of 13 soldiers in an ambush by Tamil Tigers on the previous day, which was not even reported in the newspapers until after the riots began. It was a series of deliberate acts, executed in accordance with a concerted plan, conceived and organised well in advance. But who were the planners and organisers, responsible for what they began, and for all its foreseeable consequences in killings, maimings, and loss of property, necessarily followed by a major setback for Sri Lanka's economy?’ (page 77)
Criticising the government for its failure to carry out a public and impartial inquiry to find the truth behind the July 1983 anti-Tamil violence and the murder of 53 Tamil political detainees in the Colombo jail, the Report states:
'But what I find most extraordinary is that, to this day, there has been no attempt to find out the truth through an official, public and impartial enquiry, when the situation in the country cries out for nothing less. After the communal violence of 1977, the present administration appointed Mr M.C. Sansoni, a former Chief justice, to conduct a wide-ranging enquiry. When an incomparably smaller riot broke out in the London area of Brixton in April 1981, in which much property was damaged and some blood was drawn, but not a single life was lost, the British government immediately appointed a distinguished Lazio Lord to comduct an exhaustive enquiry into its causes, a task which he accomplished with immense care and punctilious impartiality, taking a mass of evidence, fully analysing all the causes and events, and making many valuable recommendations for their avoidance in the future. So long as no such enquiry is appointed in Sri Lanka, rumours vill continue to circulate, suspicion will point to many individuals and groups who cannot all be guilty, divisions between the communities can only be exacerbated, and the Government's task in preserving order, peace and harmony can only be made more difficult.' (page 78)
"Precisely the same considerations apply to the horrific events that took place at the same time within the secure precincts of Colombo's Welikade jail, in which 53 people in the State's custody lost their lives. Here too, there are theories galore, and many individuals and interests are under suspicion. A special team of police officers, under a Superintendent of Police, was appointed many months ago to investigate these events. At the time of my visit, it had still not completed its enquiries, nor did

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the Attorney-General's office even know how far they had proceeded. I have now been told that it has not been possible to find enough evidence to enable anyone to be prosecuted - a proposition which must stretch credulity.” (page 79)
"I regard the appointment of such an enquiry as one of the most important steps for the Gov
ernment to take in the immediate future.' (page 80)
Observing that the response of the government to the July 1983 violent events “was scarcely calculated to instil such confidence' in the Tamil people and accusing President Jayawardene of “a misjudgement of monumental proportions' for his failure to "utter one single word of sympathy for the victims of the violence', the Report States “. . . communal violence began on 24 fully 1983. For day after day, Tamils (of both the 'Sri Lankan' and Indian varieties) were beaten, hacked or burned to death in the streets, on buses, and on trains, not only in Colombo but in many other parts of the Island - sometimes in the sight of horrified foreign tourists. Their houses and shops were burned and looted. Yet the security forces seemed either unwilling or unable to stop it - indeed, in faffna and Trincomalee, some members of the armed forces themselves joined in the fray, claiming an admitted 51 lives. Seen from the Tamil point of view, either the Government had lost control of the situation, or it was deliberately standing by while they were being taught a lesson. The first massacre in Welikade jail took place on 25 July, and claimed another 35 lives. The second-allegedly foreseen by the prison staff-came two days later, and claimed another 18. Not until the very end of that second episode was a special army unit sent in, to save the lives of the few remaining Tamil political prisoners.' (page 19)
“And not until the fifth day, om 28 fully, did President fayawardene finally appear on television. In a brief address, he blamed the violence and destruction exclusively on the reaction of the Sinhala people' to the movement for the establishment of a separate Tamil state, and announced a Cabinet decision to bring in what in the event became the Sixth Amendment, designed the ensure that even peaceful supporters of separatism could not sit in parliament, and that "those who advocate the separation of the country lose their civic rights and cannot hold office, cannot practise professions, cannot join movements or organisations in this country. (page 20)
In the course of that address, the President did not see fit to utter one single word of sympathy for the victims of the violence and destruction which he lamented. If his concern was to re-establish communal harmony in the Island whose national unity he was so anxious to preserve by law, that was a misjudgement of monumental proportions: I have yet to meet a single Tamil at any level in Sri Lanka or out of it who does not remind me of this glaring omission at the first opportunity. Nor are they reas
sured by the programme tation of the victims wh; in fact since installed: six months later, aro Tamils are still in refu
For months after the consistently refused to with the TULF lead liament, unless they f separate Tamil State - couldnotdo, whether t itornot, since they wer explicit resolution of 1 been elected. Not a monwealth Heads of C Delhi later that year, lomacy on the part of 1 finally agree to a round the political parties in S TULF), as zuvell as som (pages 20, 21)
Emergent
On the use, or Emergency Regulati Security Ordinance, they "confer power arrestand detainsusp judicial review, to p. ties and to ban public had been recently u wing political parties newspapers, Suthan Review. "They also h the earlier Emergen publications, and sea ses, during the cam! dum for the extensio liament, without a g end of 1982.' The rep use of emergency pov publications during paign was not justifi
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2 violence, the President hold any discussions ers, in or out of Parirst fờrmally abjured a - something they clearly hey privately believed in e bound by their party's 976 on which they had intil after the ComGovernment Meeting in and some delicate dipndia, did the President l-table conference of all 'ri Lanka (including the ae other interest groups.
cy Powers rather the abuse of ons under the Public the Report notes that on the Executive to lects without charge or roscribe political parations'. These powers sed to proscribe leftand to ban two Tamil thiran and Saturday had been used during cy to ban opposition l their printing prespaign on the referenpn of the life of pareneral election, at the ort concludes that the vers to ban opposition the referendum camed.
dead bodies
mergency Regulation l invests the security er to dispose of dead
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bodies without inquests or postmortems, as a 'dangerous and obnoxious measure' which has (rightly) come under the most intense attack', the Report states:
"It may of course be pure coincidence, but I feel bound to draw attention to the fact that this Regulation was made precisely three days after the Jaffna Magistrate had returned a verdict of homicide at the inquest into the death in army custody on 10 April 1983 of K.T. Navaratnarajah, who died from no fewer than 35 external and internal injuries inflicted by blows and weapons - an incident in respect of which no one has yet been charged.
"On the face of it, such a regulation is an open invitation for abuse. If the Executive can prevent impartial and public inquiries into deaths in custody, or deaths at the hands of the security forces in other circumstances, that could open the way to the worst kinds of extrajudicial execution. But it is also a hostage to fortune for the authorities themselves: so long as such a regulation is in force, it will always be open to their opponents to cite it as an unanswerable demonstration of scandal, whitewash, and cover-up.' (page 42)
Doubting the claim that the approval of the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence was always obtained before the disposal of dead bodies, the Report states:
Since his appointment on 8 August 1983, he told me, he had conducted only three such enquiries, apart from authorising the burial of 13 soldiers who were ambushed and killed by Tamil Tigers on 23 July 1983. (This is puzzling, as there were also no magistrates' inquests into the deaths of most of the 51 civilians who were admittedly killed by the security forces within the following week.) (page 44)
I share the view of every other international observer who has so far expressed one on this subject that Emergency Regulation 15A is a dangerous and obnoxious measure, and I strongly recommend that it be revoked forthzuvith.ʼ (page 45)
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CALL FOR INTERNATIC
A two-day conference on violation of human rights in Sri Lanka, held in Madras, South India, on April 21 and 22, appointed a Committee empowering it to set up an international tribunal of justice to enquire into the July-August 1983 antiTamil violence.
The conference was attended by delegates from several countries, including Australia, Canada, West Germany and the UK.
Dr David Selbourne of the Oxford University underlined the need for setting up an international tribunal to go into the killings in Sri Lanka. This suggestion was well taken by the other speakers from Canada, Australia and Norway. All of them said the international concern for the Tamils in Sri Lanka should be expressed clearly and vociferously so that there was no place for genocide anywhere in the world. Dr Selbourne wanted something to be done urgently to relieve the agony of the innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka jails. They should not be allowed to languish in prisons in perpetual fear.
Referring to the remark of the Sri Lanka President that he would continue to preserve democracy in the island, the British journalist said Mr J.R. Jayawardene would do well to pursue a different method if he really believed in democracy. The Prevention of Terrorism Act now in force in the island was the worst of its kind. The denial of human rights to the Tamils offended the rule of law and was repugnant to all basic canons of civil liberty.
Campaign needed: Madam Jayee Yedid of the Bar Association, Quebec, and Amnesty International, said that the happenings in Sri Lanka had not been fully publicised in countries outside the region. Most people in her country knew very little about the problem and considered Sri
KILLING O
Lanka a paradise in th international campaign to make people unders of the problem. Mau Tamil community frol Canada, were still to g the ethnic violence.
“Bid to wipe out Ta waran said that in th veillance and arresting refugees from Sri Lar forces were trying to w and for all. Referring t by Mr Rajaram that : when both the Sinhale: live again as brothers, the Tamils and the Sin live as brothers not in separate states.
Immediate withdraw regulations in Sri Lan police to dispose of de magisterial enquiry, v resolution adopted at human rights violation Sri Lanka recently. now become a licence island's security forces
By another resoluti called for the immed committee empowerec national tribunal of j independently and imp the killings in Sri L August 1983. The com documents and disse about the events conce human rights in Sri measures which it mig the light of the findin
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The resolution in this regard noted with peculiar dismay the long incarceration of Mrs Nirmala Nithyanandhan, a teacher, writer and women's rights activist, and Rev. Fr. Singarayar and called upon the Government of Sri Lanka to release them forthwith.
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TAMIL RESCUE APPEAL
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2. We resolve to economic institution bingers of a new p order based on parti as to create a truly Society assuring to : Freedom and Huma
3. Our commitmer Society imposes on in our personal lives
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7-POINT PLEDGE
CHELVA MEMORvited the Tamils of Sri llowing 7-point Pledge nniversary of the late lvanayakam which fell
ntinue our struggle for incipation by our steadruth and Ahimsa, conive, violence by nonourselves of racial the authentic ideal of Every country is my man is my kinsman”.
work the political and ns in our areas as harolitical and economic cipatory democracy so
Gandhian Sarvodaya all, Peace and Justice, in Dignity. it to create a Sarvodaya us a further obligation to reject the institution cept of class and other ggests a code of selfine of us.
Society we are after her obligation to share
with our fellow men a simple life-style, with a ceiling on each family's income, the rejection of the dowry system, women wearing the minimum of jewellery, and the adoption, so far as is possible, of the vow of swadeshi.
5. We shall endeavour to re-organise our education, formal and non-formal, integrating in it a system of libraries extending to all villages; not the least part of our education and vocational preparation, the opportunities that disabled children and young persons have are equal to those of non-disabled children and young persons.
6. We call upon our youth to form Shramadana Service Corps and invite local committees to help such service by forming Common Funds.
7. We resolve to conduct both festivals and domestic occasions on a subdued note so long as our goal is unrealised.
We are convinced that adoption of this 7-point Pledge, and its substantial fullfilment, will help to build our moral power by strength from within, and take us far on the road to future peace and prosperity.
Mr K. NESAH Chairman
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THREATS TO TAMIL STUDENTS
Young Tamils from Sri Lanka who are studying in London colleges have been threatened with violence by students from the majority Sinhala community of their home island.
A fight between Tamil and Sinhala students broke out recently at the North East London Polytechnic, people were injured and Tamils' cars were damaged, according to young Tamils.
Threatening notice
One student from the London College of Accountancy said: "When you leave the classrooms for a break you come back and find a threatening notice on your desk. The same notice was pinned to the board and a lecturer removed it.'
The notice, also circulated at the NELP, reads: “Warning, you Tamil bastard! Never ever think of returning to our Sinhala land. Sri Lanka for the Sinhalese only! Sri Lanka is the land for the Buddhist, not for the Hindu. The day you return, our brothers
will paint the street blood, and your brai to the dogs.
"Don't think you body of the blood reuined our country freedom in our holyl one day. We are wat Tamils!”
The government a ing to calls from Amm UK Immigrants Ac and Tamil groups to to Sri Lanka.
There have been civilians are falling v army and to police rorists, known asTig island. Hundreds of riots last summer.
(THE Gl
LOSS O HARMAC
Dear Sir,
As a concerned ol manoeuvrings that Sinhala-Tamil relati talks which the Pres

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s with your capitalist ny brain will be given
can hide behind the y British flag which 7 and gave you such and. We will have you ching you. Burn, kill
ppears to be respondesty International, the lvisory Service, MPs stop deporting Tamils
reports that innocent ictim to the Sri Lanka ooking for Tamil tergers, in the north of the Tamils were killed in
JARDIAN, 3.5.84) F )NY
pserver of the political
are occurring over ons at the round table ident of Sri Lanka has
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summoned, I am appalled, less by the pigheadedness of the politicians on both sides who fail to see the need to accommodate the genuine grievances of both communities, than by the chauvinism and intolerance on racial issues and the blocking of an equitable solution by some of the country's Buddhist monks.
Compassion
Buddhism emphasises Maitreya (goodwill) and compassion to all sentient beings.
What is disturbing is that few Buddhist monks have been publicly involved in any effort to restore peace and understanding among the communities. Ironically, again, Sri Lanka history has the story of the Buddha intervening to bring peace among two of its warring tribes. There are learned monks who speak of the pacifist message of the Buddha as a solution for global problems of war and peace. But many of these neglect the positive role they could play by applying what the Buddha taught to the
raging indigenous brutalities.
Asoka de Silva Colombo, Sri Lanka
(From SOUTH, April 1984 - (letters to the Editor)

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TAUT LITTLE ISLAN
Sri Lanka won't get peace by praye
accident. It needs presidential gu
Paradise cannot sustain a second descent into hell. Sri Lanka, the original Serendipity, incinerated its good name and a good part of its tourist revenues last July in a communal firestorm.
Today the same government which stood by when Sinhalese mobs took knives and torches to their Tamil neighbours, is once again allowing passions to rise. It has been lucky so far that the excesses of Tamilterrorists and of army counter-terrorists have been confined to the Tamil enclave in the north of the island.
But it will take more than serendipity to stop the conflict spreading to the rest of Sri Lanka and even across the Palk Strait to India.
Part of the problem
The one person who can stop this happening is Sri Lanka’s President. But these days the venerable Mr J.R. Jayawardene looks less like the solution than part of the problem. At 76, he should be as secure as a politician can be, with a clear run of five more years in the presidency and a par
Mr Jayawardene h baiter. Yet last July ar. showed that he has n for defying the popula ist) will.
He had a chance wounds by doing a secessionists, non-viol movement. A draft ag out last winter with from India who pro Tamils along.
The price of peace strengthening and con development council the Tamils something they seek. But ur extremists in his owr dhist clergy, the Presi the moderate Tamils tiative then passed tot both sides.
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ΜΑΥ 1984
NO WAY TO TAME TIGERS
The Minister of National Security, Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, went to New Delhi last week to reassure Mrs Indira Gandhi that Sri Lanka was still seeking a political solution to its communal conflict. By all accounts he succeeded, but up here in the Tamil heartland his protestation rings distinctly hollow.
What is questioned is not so much the government's sincerity as its will to negotiate a settlement acceptable to the bulk of the minority population, and the determination to make it stick.
The military deployment in the north has changed beyond recognition. The army is no longer playing soldiers. A company of hard-looking infantrymen, armed with sub-machineguns and barricaded behind a wall of sandbags and old lorry tyres, guards Jaffna airport. Others patrol the town in armoured personnel carriers, and control the Elephant Pass which links the Jaffna peninsula with the rest of the island.
Trains from Colombo no longer go as far as Jaffna. They stop at Kilinochchi, two hours bus ride away south of the pass. The railhead is heavily guarded by soldiers and sailors, and a detachment rides shotgun on the train all the way to and from the capital. The troops arrive at the station in a convoy led by an armoured personnel carrier with a machinegunner watching from the turret.
Short-term remedy
Yet this is far from a military solution either to the Tamil problem, or to the more limited one of terrorism. It is at best a short-term remedy. It will make it harder for the Tigers, in their various ideological splinters, to operate, just as the new maritime surveillance and ban on outboard motors will make it harder to bring in men and arms from south India.
The government will, however, still have to deal with the 900,000 Tamils who live in the north (plus another 900,000 elsewhere in the island). Outside the propaganda of Tamil exiles there is no evidence of a plot to drive them out or to kill them off.
Nor is there any sign that the new tough line is alienating public sympathy in Jaffna from the terrorists, said to number as many as 6,000 under arms or training in Tamil Nadu across the water. The Tigers are still getting shelter, from friends, if not from their families. If anything, last week's military excesses, in which more than 50 Tamil civilians were killed by the army, increased their support.
The Tigers may bide their time, but they have not been tamed. Nonetheless, despite the shootings, curfews and harassment of the terrorists' families, the Tamil politicians have not withdrawn from the round-table talks initiated by President J.R. Jayawardene in January. They are
looking over the militants, but they from Colombo.
"If the governmen turn the Tamil pub youth, they are bark the president of th eration Front, Mir argued this week. pening. More and in drawn to the milita them as heroes anc government to with Jaffna district as ani the police do their serving law and ord
Little faith
There is clearly in ernment will comply tle faith in the local they are not even iss Mr Athulathmudali strongman, has stal troops to pull them ( not only to cow the TI the majority Sinhal the Government is t
The Tamil leader that the TULF wo when the round-tal May 9.
He was cautious Tamils' demands, b door open to comp)
TRE POE
A Memorial Concert the distinguished ed who died on June 2. by poets, writers a world, was held at B in West Kensing to consisting of a wid friends, relations a symbiosis of poetry, – fine performanc specially loved.
The well-known opened the occasi moving 'Elegy to T by a touching and be two of Tambimuttu brothers Paulinus his niece Tamara, a Paulinus himself.
Tradition of sung
Shusha, the Persi: whose renditions of poetry Tambimutt

ir shoulders at the still hope for a lifeline
t think their tactics will lic against the militant ing up the wrong tree,” le Tamil United LibM. Sivasithamparam, “The opposite is haphore people are getting ant youth, looking on il saviours. I urge the iraw the army from the interim measure and let
normal duty of pre
s
o chance that the gov'. Ministers have solitTamil policemen that uing them with arms. , the President's new Ked too much on the out. They are in Jaffna amils, but to convince ese further south that aking care of things.
confirmed, however, uld still take its seats ble talks resumed on
in setting out the ut anxious to keep the romise. 'Our mandate
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from the Tamil voters in the 1977 elections was for the establishment of a separate Tamil state, he said, “but we have always stated that if the government and the Sinhalese parties offer an acceptable alternative, we shall place it before the people for acceptance or rejection.'
When I asked what might constitute an acceptable alternative, he replied: "It may be federalism, it may be a great degree of regional autonomy. We would certainly take it to the people.' He would not say in advance, however, whether the TULF would recommend approval. What was not acceptable, was the district councils, with little more power than the present village councils which the government has offered. But President Jayawardene seems to have set his sights against any further concessions.
In an interview with the fortnightly magazine India Today the President said last week that he could not introduce the more powerful regional councils demanded by the Tamils because the Sinhalese were against them.
"The TULF says I can solve this,' Mr Jayawardene argued, but I can't. I'm stuck. I'm a prisoner, not of any particular group but a prisoner of circumstances, law, the constitution and the political parties. I can't throw my weight about and say: do this, do that. I'm not a dictator.'
That may be correct and commendable, but it is hardly the stuff of statesmanshipor the answer to Jaffna's recurring cycle of violence and repression.
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BUTE TO TAMBIMUTTU IN TRY, MUSIC AND DANCE
for poet Tambimuttu, itor of Poetry London, 2nd last year mourned nd artists across the haratiya Vidya Bhavan n before an audience e cross-section of his ld admirers. It was a dance, music and song e of the art forms he
poet Francis Scarfe )n, reading his very ambimuttu', followed autiful performance of s songs by his younger Ind Chrysanthus, and ld one song written by
poetry
n singer and songwriter the tradition of sung I loved, gave a per
formance that would greatly have moved him. The first half of the concert culminated in a vibrant Bharata Natyam performance in the Valluvoor style by Tamil dancer Shobana Jeyasingh.
The famous poet David Gasgoyne, one of many whom Tambimuttu nurtured and encouraged in their early difficult years, opening the second half with a reading, was a very special blessing on the occasion, which was followed by a brilliant performance by Kandyan dancer Vipuli and her troupe, with special guest the famous cellist Rohan de Saram on the Kandyan Drum, combining his talents with hers to present a unique item in the history of the performing arts, as well as an astounding performance on the cello.
At the close of the Concert, Tambimuttu's daughter Shakuntala expressed her gratitude for this tribute to her father by singing a song that he had loved her to sing, a most moving close to the tribute to Tambimuttu that warmed the hearts of all those
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population of the north in the clashes that took place over the New Year. The bitterness among the Catholics can be judged from the statements to Reuters by Jaffna's Roman Catholic Bishop Deogupillai that "it is the army who is terrorising our people and not the terrorists'.
In addition, a virtual economic blockade of Jaffna by land and sea has come into force.
Food, fuel and other essential supplies are not getting through as lorry traffic has virtually ceased and the trains run irregularly up to Chavakacheri only.
Fish is in short supply as fishermen do not go to sea, fearful of the Navy's new cordon sanitaire. As most of these fishermen are also Catholics, bitterness among this religious community is at its zenith.
Although the curfew is officially only in force in Jaffna's municipal area, it exists in practice all over the peninsula.
Minister Lalith Athulathmudali, who masterminds the military offensive, has been at pains to insist that this does not signify that the search for a political solution has been abandoned, or that the government is once more seeking a 'soliution' through military force.
He has argued that this "flush-out' oper
ation is necessary to ution possible.
But all that the oper far is needless civilia dening of bitterness
In the meantime, P is busy keeping the his own advantage. Indian lobby, even National Security wa Delhi for “talks, and the fire by underwriti interview, the anti-In been whipped up by st and notably by the Pl Premadasa.
When asked wheth Premier that India we Lanka, the President they are trying to do.' 16.6.84) In reply to said: "I'm not going India. Mrs Gandhi Commissioner here' tell them. They acci thalingam tells them.
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by the India Today correspondent, the President replied: "I am not for it. The worst India can do is to invade us. If they invade us, that is the end of the Tamils in this country.'
While not allaying the artificially created fears among the Sinhala people about an “Indian invasion' (which Lalith Athulathmudali dismissed as imaginary after his disccussions with Indian leaders in New Delhi), President Jaywardene by this statement also sent shivers down Tamil spines at the veiled threat of genocidal annihilation of the Tamils.
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This Presidential threat provoked Mr S. Ramachandran, the Tamil Nadu Minister of Electricity, to ask: 'Possibly Mr Jayawardene was clarifying that his government is purely a racist regime. Is he the President of Sri Lanka or the President of the Sinhala race?'
With regard to a political solution through the Round Table Conference or any other form of dialogue, President Jayawardene, the man who boasted that he could do anything but turn a man into a woman and vice versa, mournfully confessed: "I'm stuck. I'm a prisoner, not of
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any particular group, but a prisoner of circumstances, law, the constitution and the political parties.' w
As for Annexure 'C', regional councils or even provincial assemblies, all he had to say was: "Even if I like the idea, my party may not like it. They are reacting to the attitude of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Or again: "How can I say I want regional councils when everyone else is against them?'
Dilly-dallying
Despite all the dilly-dallying, the President is determined to keep the farce of the Round Table Conference going, at least until he returns from his visit to the United States where he could pose as a leader and a statesman attempting a negotiated settlement.
Bearing his impending US visit always in his mind, the President returned to his traditional anti-Marxist theme, which would no doubt please the ears of President Reagan. In a speech he made at a Colombo meeting, he was at pains to emphasise to people in Sri Lanka and abroad that what the "terrorists' sought was not merely Eelam, but the establishment of a 'Marxist state' in Sri Lanka. He alleged that they received aid from "revolutionary' forces abroad.
All this was, no doubt, intended for consumption in the US, which President Jayawardene will visit soon in search of aid.
INDIRA A TO TAMA
Mrs Indira Gandhi mination to find a travails of the Tamil Mrs Gandhi gave t all-party delegation, Chief Minister, Mr C her for 45 minutes o immediate steps by problem.
Mr Ramachandra opposition who joir conference later, sai to the state with com dhi’s earnestness ar intractable issue.
Before giving his : come of the talks, th every party leader to to the newsmen.
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un and leaders of the tly addressed a press d they were returning plete faith in Mrs Ganld will to resolve the
assessment of the oute Chief Minister asked give his own separately
ommunist leader, Mr m, said the Centre prevent harassment of n the waters around avur district and the said that the safety of s around Sri Lanka rchandise moved to be ensured. Sri Lankan intruding into Indian
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alone can do something decisive.'
Mr Haja Sherif, leader of the Congress legislature party, said: "This solution has to be found. The Prime Minister fully shared the concern felt by all of us. She was also well informed about the goings-on in that country.'
He said after seeing the outcome of the next round of the round table talks beginning in Sri Lanka on May 9, the Prime Minister would take some concrete steps.
One of the suggestions made was that the government should raise the issue of atrocities on the Tamils in the Jaffna region at the United Nations Human Rights Commission. She promised to consider it.
At the end of the press conference, the Chief Minister appealed to the press, not only in Tamil Nadu but elsewhere to educate public opinion on the true happenings in that country and the sufferings of the Tamils. So much space was being devoted to highlight the Punjab problem, but not the hardships of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, he said. Mrs Gandhi was assisted in the talks by her principal secretary, Mr P.C. Alexander.
Besides the Chief Minister, those who represented the state were Mr Kalyanasundaram, Mr Mohammed Ismail and Mr S. Karyalar (Lokh Dal), Mr G. Moorthy and Mr Andi Thevar (Forward Bloc) and Mr Kumari Anandan (GKNC).
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of its own Ministers has publicly Confessed that sections of the government holding high positions were responsible for the July-August violence, that fact that the government, through its security forces, has killed OVer 200 Tamil civilians since March-April this year and the fact that the government and the State controlled media are seeking to cover up these atrocities, taken together, Compels us to support the call for an impartial inquiry to be conducted by a team of persons of international repute to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the July-August violence.
And the continuing violence in which many Tamil civilians are being killed makes it all the more imperative and urgent that such an inquiry takes place.
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