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Editorial..................................... 2
Don't help the Tamils - Jayawardene ........................ 3 July 1983 Sri Lankan Massacre................................... 4.
Secord World TaTi Convention......................, 6
NeWS Blackout on Mossad......... 7
Crime Of Génocide – 10 internal matter.......................... B
Jaffna Library rises froT teases................... 10
Jayawardene threatens Muslims.................................. 11
WOrld PSS headileS ......... 12,13
Ethnic Solidarity among
Working class.................. 14 Media File,............................. 17
Jayawardene government
ambushed in the South........... 18
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JAYAи7. DON
"The Presidento to President Rea comment made knowledge of th American admi States. His visit marginal refere Before his depart Jaya Warderle 10t humility, pompousl was going at the President of the III ( try in the world. Wi the Sri Lankan eml expensive publicity
Dr. Rajastırıldı.
FOR MEN IL THERE WIL BEA MEM(
Fifty-three Tamils dtյm On July 25 til were bTutally killi squads of the Sri La within the maximu in Colombo as parl attack on the Tail We salute and h() of these 53 marty supreme sacrifice Tamil people, Of t ja sunda Tam des Twi and we quote Dr. Da was his friend:
"But Of II thile : most Wicked single
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ярEмEAPPEAцs тоus. 'T HELP TAMILS
f Sri Lanka took a baby elephant with him as a gift gan and brought forth the mouse" was the cynical by a well-informed columnist who had first-hand e low-key attention given to Jayawardene by the mistration during his recent visit to the United to the UK was less publicised and received only nce in the British media.
urg to the US MT known for his y declared that he
invitation of the st powerful counithin the US itself, bassy mounted an F and advertising
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achiewed III artyrld 27, 1983, They ed by the death Ikan government Im SCcurity pri80Il t of the genocidal ils irl July 1983,
lour the memory "r's who paid the I half of the 13, Dr S. Raes special mention Wid. Selbourne who
times of July, the event - though it
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Campaign to bolster Lup Jayawardene's visit. The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal carried double-page advertisements.
Whoever thought that this type of self-induced publicity would help cower up the gross violations of human rights and the atrocities committed against the Tamil people must hawe been badly disappointed. On the ewe of the President's arrival, Amnesty International released its latest 60page report documenting in detail the Se Veral extrajudicial executions Carried out by his security forces. The Tamils of USA had managed to collect sufficient money to put out a halfpage advertisement under the title "Holocaust of Tamils in Sri Lanka - Island of Tea Ts'.
The large government sponsored advertisements helped only to draw attention to the SITlall counter advertisements by the LTS Tarmils which did mot fail to document the atrocities committed against the Tamil people
of Sri Lanka.
With allost evangelical fervour, the President delved into his now familiar theme of "international terTris II' which he had successfully imported into Sri Lanka with his invitation to the Israeli Mossad. The Ilore he referred to "Tamil terrorism", the more he was questioned about Ta II il grie van Ces and the violatil of hu II la Il rights ir 1 STi Lanka, The additional Liller wing factor was the pickets and protest der Il Carlstrations which he had to encounter both in the
US Illi the UK.
Although Sri Lanka is only a dot in the World IIlap, Jayawardele always
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The failure on the part of President Jayawardene of Sri Lanka to condemn the violence in July 1983 when Tamils were beaten, hacked or burned to death in the streets, on buses and on trains . . in many parts of the island . . and their houses and shops were burned and looted', and also his failure to "see fit to utter one single word of sympathy for the victims of the violence and the destruction', was described by Mr Paul Sieghart of the International Commission of Jurists as “a mis judgment of monumental proportions'. Far from being a misjudgment, the reaction of the President then Was a Calculated, Conscious and deliberate act of Omission.
How could one have expected the President to act otherwise when the violence unleashed upon the Tamil people was masterminded, planned, organised and executed with menacing military precision by goon squads owing allegience to several government ministers and by substantial sections of the security forces? That is why, despite the demand from all international human rights bodies, and in complete but not uncharacteristic breach of the undertaking given to the United Nations Sub-Commission On Human Rights, the government has persistently refused to order an impartial inquiry into the July 1983 violence.
That is why the gruesome slaughter of 53 Tamil detainees in a Colombo jail on July 25 and 27 last year, as part of the statesponsored pogrom against the Tamil people, still remains uninvestigated. That is why not a single member of the Sri Lankan security forces who participated in the July 1983 carnage and destruction has faced any prosecution. And that is why Ministers and MPs who, in July 1983, went about inciting the mobs in the streets with exhortations of "Jayaweva', continue to hold positions of power.
Not Content with the ha VOC and destruction Wrought upon
THEY SHA
the Tamil pe the governm with its diabc gate the Tam arrests, tort hundreds o Presidential 1 of the Tanis July 1983” ha quent as the The so-cal Conference V aim of a neg of the ethnic ruse to buy t the President following th 1983. The de plicable post RTC Withou meaningful s and rejecting of the Indi (which was during the F visit to New Claimed that ti was a purely clearly demc Jayawardene never Serious legitimate gi Tamil people.
"What are t the rhetorical dene is report corresponden the later raise to how he p Tamil grievan is the man w election mar four areas of which gave ri for a separate the man who the Tam i U Front up the g long years of interminable ( “Tamil grievar He is the m the "Annexure Prime Ministe Osals for me vances' incluc of regional c areas. NOW ht and asks a 'What are the Tamils' This
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ALL BE FREE
ople in July 1983, ent has continued lical plan to subjupeople with mass Ire and killing of Tamil civilians. hreats of "the end and "repetition of ve become as frey are menacing. led Round Table with the professed otiated settlement problem was only a ime to Consolidate 's shaky position e chaos of July liberate and inexponement of the any serious or teps being taken the "good offices' an Government earlier welcome) President's recent Delhi, where he he "Tamil problem' y internal matter, on Strate that the government was about meeting the "ievances of the
heir grievances' is question Jayawared to have asked a t in London when ed the question as roposed to meet Ces! Jayawardene ho in 1977 in his ifesto identified Tamil grievances se to the demand Tamil state. He is led the leaders of nited Liberation arden path for two ea parties, having liscussions about Ces'. an who agreed to C' with the Indian , setting out propting "Tamil grieing the setting up Duncils for Tami
goes to London foreign reporter grievances of the man Cannot be
trusted. He is a political cheat like all other Sinhala leaders who preceded him since 1948. In August 1983, we commented editorially: “To the Tamil people of Sri Lanka, the conduct of the President has come as no surprise. Such back-tracking and breach of faith are characteristic of Mr Jayawardene or for that matter, of all previous Sri Lankan governments. Betrayed time and time again, very few Tamils can possibly harbour any more illusions. . . The current prevarication and dilly-dallying by the President. . . are in full accord with the reputation that successive Sri Lankan governments have buit Over the years that they can never be trusted. The Tamil people of Sri Lanka knew it all along. India and the World Will come to realise this soon, if they have not done so already'.
These words sound prophetic in the context of the current conduct of President Jayawardene. But they also reflect the experience of the Tamil people at the hands of Sinhala leaders for decades.
Jayawardene, under whom state terrorism has reached new heights in Sri Lanka, raised the banner of "fighting against international terrorism' during his recent visit to the United States. He made speeches soothing to the ears of President Reagan from whom Jayawardene expected support to fight the Tamils, describing them as “terrorists”.
But the recent outbreak of violence in the South of the country - attacks on police stations, setting ablaze courthouses, student unrest leading to the attacking and burning of public service vehicles following police brutality against university students - is an indicator of the crisis which is very much close to his Presidential Palace. He may soon have to send his emissaries round the world seeking help to "fight
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"DON"THELP Bow TAMILS' - PAGE 1 Jayawardene
talks big. He referred to himself as the 103rd Head of State of Sri Lanka. When it came to questions such as democracy, treatment of Tamils and human rights, his characteristic hypocrisy and technique of doubles
peak and doublethink were truly re
vealing.
The President described Sri Lanka as a five-star democracy where there was universal franchise, concealing the fact that, in his five-star democracy, the life of the elected parliament had been extended for a further period of six years without an election and that nearly a million Tamils still remain deprived of citizenship or voting rights.
Characterising all the Tamils of Sri Lanka who seek entry into Western countries as supporters of "terrorists', the President appealed to the governments of these countries not to help the Tamils by admitting them. Although deprived of educational and employment opportunities because of the racial discrimination practised in Sri Lanka and subjected to frequent bouts of mob violence, the Tamils should not be admitted into Western countries, according to Mr Jayawardene.
Motives
The motives of the President were clear for all to see. He wants the Tamils to be isolated and contained within Sri Lanka so that they can be suppressed and subjugated without the world knowing about it. Sri Lankan Tamils living abroad have become a thorn in the flesh of the President's scheme of things.
In the same breath as he appealed not to help the Tamils, the President cited the examples of his InspectorGeneral of Police, the AttorneyGeneral and a Senior Judge being Tamils, in an effort to show that there was no discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka.
He repeated this in London and New Delhi. He monotonously repeats this everywhere in Sri Lanka. For a President to cite three or four Tamils holding such positions almost in the evening of their careers after years of service in their chosen professions, is really to scrape the barrel.
The fact the IGP is a Tamil is neither here northere. The fact is that over 90 per cent of the 17,000-strong police are Sinhalese; ; almost 98 per cent of the country's armed forces are
Sinhalese personnel.
The fact that the in a senior positio only demonstrates mination against that the President three or four ex: holding senior pos where three millio: itself concrete pro racial discrimir that the Tamil IGP take cover during lence, in spite of t tions they held onl able plight in whic find themselves. they serve is to be pieces by a racist ) its naked discrimi Tamils.
The President from Colombo to the US Foreign A members that 'S other place to liv Lanka”. What othe Lankan Tamils ( other than Sri Lar Was Mr Jayaw: that the Muslims ( go to one of the Mi tries and Tamils leave Sri Lanka only? Sinhalese aI countries, includi UK, France, Ge) New Zealand, etc citizenship and pE settlement in tho property and busi They have even ist temples with priests brought frc that the President facts, but he was or attempt to justify the legitimate rig people.
“Separatist caus
In London, the Press that he wa, British Prime Min against those Tam the separatist cau in Sri Lanka. V Jayawardene was press the Sri Lan. ver they lived.
With the help c could get, with the mercenaries and draconian laws an ment emergency, Sponsored pogrom frequent intervals could hope to supp the Tamils in Sri
But he has no Tamils living abr become a serious

e is only one Tamil n in the judiciary that there is discriTamils. The fact is able to cite only amples of Tamils tions in a country 1 Tamils live, is in of of the extent of lation. The fact
and the AG had to the July 1983 viohe "powerful' posiy reveals the pitih these gentlemen The only purpose displayed as showregime to cover up nation against the
went all the way Washington to tell Affairs Committee inhalese have no fe other than Sri r place do the Sri or Muslims have hka to live? ardene suggesting of Sri Lanka could ddle Eastern counto South India and for the Sinhalese 'e living in various ng USA, Canada, rmany, Australia, ., having acquired rmanent rights of se countries, with ness interests. established Buddh'Sinhala-Buddhist' om Sri Lanka ! Not is ignorant of these lly making a feeble the suppression of hts of the Tamil
President told the s going to ask the ister to take action ils who were aiding ise and "terrorism' What in fact Mr Seeking was to supkan Tamils where
of all the arms he assistance of SAS the Mossad, with d a state of permaand through statehs at periodic and , Mr Jayawardene ress and Subjugate
Lanka. power over those oad and they have problem, for they
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SHATTERING OF ANILLUSION
I was in Colombo on 26 July when the usual announcement by Air Lanka, the country's only airline, put out its blurb, 'Visit Sri Lanka: A Taste of Paradise'. This advertisement, with pictures of the brand new hotels with expanses of beach and ocean and tables overflowing with lobsters and tropical fruits, routinely appears on national television, except that on this occasion the advertisement was not quite in good taste: the paradise isle was in flames, the houses and business establishments of the minority Tamil commmunity were being systematically burnt and looted by well-organised mobs belonging largely to the lumpen proletariats of the cities and small towns of Sri Lanka.
Brutality
"The brutality was unbelievable: homes and shops were burnt, cars were doused with gasoline and lit, sometimes with the occupants inside: some people were hacked to death, others burnt alive. Thirtyfive political prisoners were killed by irate regulars in the country's maximum security prison.
“The next day seventeen more were slaughtered in the same manmer. There was a total breakdown of law and order in the nation that had been touted by foreign governments as the model of stability, the apogee of free enterprise. A few days and the illusion was shattered: the house of cards had crumbled.'
From Political Violence and Future of D e m o c ra c y by G a na math Obeyesekera, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, USA.
actively engage in exposing the murder of innocent Tamil civilians, the destruction of their property, the torture, incommunicado detention and other violations of human rights.
So Mr Jayawardene raises the spectre of “terrorism” and “Marxism” and wants Western governments to shut them up. What about those Sinhalese racist groups, particularly in the UK, like the Sinhala Association and Sinhala Bala Mandalaya who are going round collecting thousands and thousands of pounds to "fight the Tamils'. If the Sinhala Buddhists do such things, it is called 'patriotism' but if Tamils do it, it is called "aiding terrorism'.

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THE JULY 1983 SR
The build-up of communal tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils which culminated in the massacre of over 2,000 Tamils in July 1983 has put the entire future of Sri Lanka in doubt. Foreign investment and tourism on which the country relies so heavily have been dealt a blow from which neither is likely to recover in the foreseeable future.
Since the underlying problems have not been settled, a resurgence of violence is likely to occur. Unless the rest of the world is made aware of what is going on, it is unlikely that the Sri Lankan government will take the necessary steps which might make it possible to avert another bloodbath. Who was behind the systematic and well-organised destruction of Tamil property and why so many lives (almost all of them Tamil) were lost is still unknown. Indeed, the most striking aspect of the holocaust is not that it occurred but that 10 months have now gone by and there has been no attempt by the Sri Lankan government to identify those responsible for a week that cost at least 2,000 Tamil lives and extensive destruction of their property and put 100,000 in refugee camps in the worst racial bloodbath the country has known.
The background
At least four factors have played a major role in what has been regarded as a purely racial problem.
The economic situation
An inherited stagnant economy and mismanagement by successive Sri Lankan governments has resulted in serious economic difficulty and spiralling unemployment.
It is a feature of the human race that in times of economic difficulty, they turn their insecurity on those of a different race, religion or colour which, in the Sri Lankan context, is the majority Sinhalese turning on the minority Tamils.
When these feelings are fanned by unscrupulous politicians, some of the Buddhist clergy and extremists, all that is needed is a spark to start an explosion.
The breakdown of law and order
The Bandaranaike regime (1957) saw the start of the deterioration of law and order. His idea of socialism was to allow the local thugs and hooligans to do as they wished, thus replacing law and order with the rule of the political thug.
By Dr Brian
Crime was not ment but by politi the power of the l the power of the p were put in a subo the Chief Justice out "the erosiar through executive was set for unco lence.
Crisis in politica media integrity
There has been in political integr ence, especially s teen fifties. Whe ment or at an ele nent, the Banda their term by prol and Jayawardene an election was n referendum is a s to an election, the in the Constitution
give the governm
they have an unse country.
The main role ( controlled media agation of half-tr stories which hav effect.
The racial proble The three main f problem have beel tory laws such 'Sinhala Only' At affected the emplc Tamils, Mrs Bar dardisation' for which had a hig effect on Tamil yo education and the Successive Sinhall ernments to either speaking areas ol trict Developmen tion effectively.
Attempts by Sin accommodate the with opposition by own camp and th The Bandaranai pact which, if in have been a maj race relations, wa; other than Jaya opposition. Can h the Tamils to trus act of Sheer Sinh This combinatio pushed the Tamil

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LANKANM
Senewiratne*
followed by punishal interference and aw was replaced by blitician. The courts rdinate position and has complained ab
of the judiciary
action'. The stage introllable mob vio
integrity and
a serious downturn ity since Independince the late ninedefeat in Parliation seemed immiranaikes extended
oguing Parliament
simply decided that lot necessary! If a uitable alternative latter would not be . Such actions may ent longer life, but ttling effect on the
of the governmenthas been the propuths and one-sided
e an inflammatory
em itself
actors in the racial h highly discriminaas Bandaranaike’s it which adversely yment prospects of ldaranaike's 'stanuniversity entrants hly discriminatory uth seeking tertiary onsistent failure of se dominated govdevelop the Tamilto enable the DisCouncils to func
halese politicians to
Tamils have met extremists in their e Buddhist clergy. e-Chelvanayakam plemented, would r step forward in sabotaged by none wardene, then in e seriously expect him now after this alese chauvinism? of factors has into demanding a
ASSACRE
separate State, and a section of their youth into violence.
The July 1983 violence
The most outstanding feature of the violence was that within hours of its eruption, there was clear and unequivocal evidence of organisation. The scheduled burial with pomp and pageantry of thirteen soldiers killed in the ambush was a serious error of judgment if not a deliberate attempt to incite the Sinhala masses.
In the initial outburst of the night of 24th July, which could be attributed to mob violence, the feature that stands out is that Jayawardene, with his capital aflame, failed to declare a curfew. Rather than deliberate inactivity, it is possible that the situation was too overpowering for the 78-year-old President.
The following morning, people not normally resident in Colombo were transported to the city and began a systematic destruction of Tamil lives and property. Who sent them and who authorised the use of government vehicles for their transport have not been settled but invites speculation very damaging to the government and some of its ministers.
The prepared lists of Tamil property which they carried, could not have been made, nor could the systematic methods of destruction used have been learned overnight.
After the Colombo destruction, there was a progressive destruction of Tamil lives and property in a very definitely organised “march” in sequential fashion from Kandy to the towns in the tea estate areas.
Jayawardene's silence during the four days of violence was deafening. When he finally did appear on televi
ision, his address to the nation was no
more than an apology to the Sinhalese people for not proscribing the TULF. Not a word of concern was expressed at the devastation of Tamil lives and property.
If ever there was a tactless and unstatesmanlike address by an leader at a time of national crisis, this was it. To say that the Tamils have lost confidence in Jayawardene and his Ministers would be an understatement.
The government must carry full responsibility for the two massacres of Tamils held in the Welikada goal for whose safety they were responsible.
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lure to enquire into who was responsible for the July 1983 violence as he did
after the 1977 violence (the Sansoni Commission), despite an undertaking given to a United Nations Subcommittee that he would do so, is as damning as anything such an enquiry could unearth.
During the massive destruction of life and property, the armed forces and police did nothing and in many instances assisted the mobs by Supplying them with petrol.
This underscores once again that during times of national violence, the Security Forces of Sri Lanka are only for the security of a section of the population, i.e. the Sinhalese people. The Tamil massacre would have been much more comprehensive had it not been for the bravery of more civilised Sinhalese who literally hid Tamils in their homes, running terrible risks themselves.
The aftermath
There have been serious repercussions both at home and abroad.
The damage done to the economy by Tamil professionals and industrialists leaving Sri Lanka in droves cannot yet be assessed fully. It would be naive to believe that these businessmen will reinvest in this volatile country.
Tourism has suffered a devastating blow and many hotels face bankruptcy.
The Sri Lankan image abroad has taken its worst beating in history. More damaging than anything a Sri Lankan Tamil abroad can say are publications by the International Commission of Jurists, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, the World Council of Churches and Amnesty International, which have come out with blistering reports about the violation of human rights in Sri Lanka.
The last named has also repeatedly requested the withdrawal of laws that enable the Security Forces to perpetrate torture and murder without fear of investigation.
Government attempts to win the propaganda war by listing members of the Security Forces killed, have not made a major impact. If men don uniforms, equip themselves with sophisticated weapons and get killed in the process, is it a cause for complaint or justification for turning their guns on the Tamil community in Jaffna who have nothing to do with the violence of a section of their youth? The continuing security of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka is in considerable doubt. Jayawardene's statement that he cannot guarantee
the safety of the Ta there is a threat frc justifiably criticise tice whom the
threatened with im
Lawlessness
If Jayawardene the safety of his c. quit his position ins lawlessness, embar ature and pushing totalitarianism.
The current probl minate killing of in particular the Tam by the armed force Some of them may terrorists they are a watching their acti India. If and whe there will be a blo( make the July 198: trivial.
The most worryi potential for inter) this domestic cond already assisting armed forces which payment for the str in Trincomalee.
India, by sendi Minister at the heig has made her pres feel threatened by t Sence in Trincomal turning a blind eyi youth training there ise the situation wo Lanka into another
Grandiose view
The author is neit terrorist nor a cha with the grandios Lanka belongs only He does not supp terrorism of the Ti terrorism of the Se the political terrori, governments prese their political dish concern is the stopp Sri Lanka. Histori has been settled by
If a division of bring peace to Sri L more acceptable to blooded Sinhalese, conflict that could with a massive loss ty and total disrupti * Dr Brian Senewil Chir. (Cantab), MD FRACP. Consultant cess Alexandra HC Australia.

mils in Colombo if m India, has been i by the Chief JusPresident has peachment.
cannot guarantee itizens, he should tead of promoting rassing the legisl
democracy into
em is the indiscrinocent Tamils, in il youth in Jaffna s in the hope that be terrorists. The after are probably vities from South n they retaliate, bdbath that would 3 massacre Seem
ng prospect is the nationalisation of flict. America is
the Sri Lankan may be advance ategic naval base
ng her Foreign ght of the trouble, ence felt and will he Americam preee. South India is e to the militant . To internationaluld be to turn Sri
Lebanon.
her a Tamil Tiger uvinist Simhalese e view that Sri to the Sinhalese. ort the guerrilla gers, the military curity Forces or sm of Sri Lankan nt or past with onesty. His only bing of violence in cally, no conflict 7 terrorism.
the country will anka, this will be the author, a fullthan an internal go on for decades of life and properon of the country. ratne, M.A., MBB . FRCP. (Lond.), Physician, Prinspital, Brisbane,
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2,000 murdered. . . 100,000 made homeless 53 political prisoners slaughtered in the cells Mass arrests & torture
FIGHT PRESIDENT JAYAWARDENE'S REIGN OF TERROR
Demonstration
SAT 28 JULY 84
Assemble 12.30 HYDE PARK
RALLY ch TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Eelam Solidarity Campaign
DEWANESAN NESIAH LEAVES FOR USA
Jaffna's Government Agent, Mr Devanesan Nesiah left for the USA at the end of last month. He is the recipient of a John F. Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to follow a post-graduate course in Public Administration at Harvard.
It was expected that Mr N. Vamadeva, a former Commissioner of the Marketing Department, would succeed him. Meanwhile, Additional GA, Jaffna, Mr M. Panchalingam is acting for GA, Jaffna.

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A PARADISE, BUT.
Notes from the diary of Mr Mark Fisher, MP for Stoke in the UK Parliament. Mr Fisher recently visited Sri Lanka, along with several other MPs, as an invitee of the Sri Lankan government
All the brochures and magazines in the plan describe Sri Lanka as an island paradise.
They are right. Or would be, if it were not for the killings and riots of the last twelve months, in which thousands of Tamils have died and tens of thousands have seen their homes burnt, their businesses destroyed and their families in refugee camps.
There are long beaches of white sand, fringed by palm trees; enormously friendly and courteous people; a riot of tropical flowers everywhere; strange and delicious fruits, papaya and mango; the sound of cicadas and exotic coloured birds.
And soldiers and policemen all around with loaded rifles.
Our programme is packed from the moment we step out of the plane. Separate meetings with all the senior government ministers and with every shade of opposition opinion, Parliamentary, banned Tamil MPs, civil rights leaders, academics, clergy, judges, newspaper editors, released political prisoners. To their credit the government allow us, indeed help us, to see everyone and everything that We Want.
The picture that emerges is grim. Both the government and the Tamils
agree that the Ta only be finally sc solution, devolvir the Tamil area, a action on either : But the commo Solution, between government will that the Tamils w. and fragile. And
“Army of occupa
Every week tha a solution more di of the governmen tion' in the Tamil Tamil fears and tions of the tamil further army ret circle of violence
We travel to t Jaffna and Trin plane. My fear of by the sight, as take-off, of a lad pair of steps and a ing on to the wing half a dozen rive In Jaffna we a numerous abuses torture of suspects cobras; midnight quests after death burnt; the "disapp for months at a til tion of prison, c being given to re I am here to see a Tamil living il Home Office want his wife and three I visit Shan's (only a mille from
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t passes makes such fficult as the actions t's “army of occupaareas daily harden distrust, and the acTiger groups lead to taliation. A vicious
and fear exists.
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where armed forces shot down nine people in March, including a pregnant woman) and learn from them what it feels like to be living in a constant state of anxiety and fear.
Back in Colombo we have a long session with the President. He is an intelligent and impressive man, walking a tightrope between satisfying Tamil grievances (and possibly provoking a Sinhalese backlash and more riots) and refusing them, thus pushing Tamils further into the arms of the Tigers.
Already every Tamil in the northern province, including senior Tamil government officials, refers to the Tigers as "the boys' and sees them as the one sure defence against an undisciplined army.
I fly out two days before the rest of the delegation, to get back to the Finance Bill Committee. It will need a political miracle to prevent an escalation of events in Sri Lanka which will lead inevitably to further government infringements of civil rights, more totalitariam government and more repressive legislation.
SECOND
WORLD TAM CONVENTON
The Second International Tamil Convention has resolved to create an organisation at international level to secure the rights of the Tamil people. It has also called for an impartial inquiry into the violation of the rights of Sri Lanka Tamils in recent times. In a resolution, the conference called upon the various Tamil political groups in Sri Lanka to unite in their struggle against the Jayawardene government.
The most remarkable aspect of the Conference was the participation of delegates from Tamil Nadu from all political parties. Among the participants from Tamil Nadu were Mr K. Rajaram, MLA and Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly representing the AIDIMIK; Era Anbarasu, MP and Convenor of Tamil Nadu Congress (II) representing the Tuling Congress (I); Era Janarthanam, MILA and President of World Tamil Youth Federation, representing AIDMK; T. Gopalasamy, MP representing the DMK; His Holiness Sri Gnanasambanda Desika Swamikal, Aadheenakarthar, Madurai Aadheenam; T.P. Radhakrishnan, Legal Adviser to DMK representing the DMK; Senchi Ramachandran, MLA representing the DMK; P. Nedumaran, MP and President of Kamaraj Congress; K.

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Veeramani, Secretary-General of Dravida Kala gam ; A.S. Manavaithamby, President of Malaiaga Thamilar Maruvalvu Kalagam; A.K. Jainudeen, MP representing the Janjivan Ram Congress; K.R. Ramasamy, President, Dravida Kalagam, Malaysia and Dr W.M. Sethuraman. The bringing together of representatives of such diverse and rival groupings of Tamil Nadu and seeing them appearing and speaking with one voice on the problems facing the Tamil people of Sri Lanka is an achievement in itself for which the Convenors of the Convention, and particularly Dr Winston Panchacharam, the brain behind the Convention, deserve unreserved congratulations.
An im pressive and welldocumented Souvenir entitled "The Story of Tamil Eelam” was published and distributed to mark the holding of the Convention. A rare but forthright article for a Sinhala Buddhist to write appears in the Souvenir.
This article entitled "The July 1983 Sri Lankan Massacre' is by Dr Brian Senewiratne, presently of Brisbane, Australia. The concluding sentence of his article is most revealing: "If a division of the country will bring peace to Sri Lanka, this will be more acceptable to the author, a fullblooded Sinhalese, than an internal conflict that could go on for decades with a massive loss of life and property and total disruption of the country.'
Resolutions adopted
The Convention resolved to establish a Tamil International and for this purpose elected a five-member work
M
The government banned the public rial relating to th issue' as part of censorship of new The ban has be Section 14 of the PI ism Act (an Act wl On the statute boc country according al Commission of fers to material th gious, racial or mony or feelings of between the differe religious groups.
This section has before, even in th sustained and vici cist propaganda c tions of the media dignatories or ext the Buddhist clerg The government' ment of the openi interests section' the severance of di with Israel 14 year
ing group to unde
organisational tas ternational will h objectives:
a. to secure the of the Tamil peopl existence provides human action;
b. to secure the
JAYAWARDENE’S “FW
“We are a Five Star Democracy . . . Our strongest bond is the mutual commitment to democracy. Modern democracy in Sri Lanka is fifty years old', declared the Dharmista (Righteous and Just) President of Sri Lanka, Mr J.R. Jayawardene, during his recent visit to the United States.
People have heard of Five Star hotels and Four Star petrol. Never of a Five Star democracy. No wonder Mr Jayawardene's listeners were bewildered. But Sri Lanka is unique and particularly its politicians in power.
Let us examine some of the ingredients that go to constitute Jayawardene’s Five Star democracy:
# The leader of the country's largest opposition party (and a former Prime Minister at that) and several others banned from political and parliamentary life by the imposition of civic disabilities.
Five racial p country's Tamil p 1977 when Mr Jay power.
il Private armi power going about opposition parties and breaking up til forces of law and
eye.
Ar Di Senfranch three million Tam representation in bodies by the ena Amendment to th
* Overruling judgments by Col mentS.
★ Extend the elected for six ye without electional amendment.

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ws вцдскоштом OSSAD'ACTIVITES
of Sri Lanka has ation of any 'matee Sri Lanka-Israeli a comprehensive s in the country. en imposed under 'evention of Terrornich is an ugly blot bk of any civilised to the InternationJurists), vhich relat will cause relicommunal disharfill-will or hostility ent communities or
lever been invoked e face of the most ous anti-Tamil raarried on by sec, certain political remist sections of Ey.
S recent announceng of the “Israeli in Colombo, after plomatic relations Sago, sparked off
widespread opposition in Sri Lanka, particularly among the country's seven per cent Muslim population.
The government had sought and obtained the services of personnel from Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to work with the Sri Lankan security forces to combat what they describe as "Tamil terrorism'.
Several Muslim organisations, the Tamil-Muslim United Front and other opposition parties have strongly condemned the government's move, and the government's action to ban news relating to the 'Israeli connection' represents an attempt to arrest and contain the growing opposition.
The use by the government of the provisions of the Prevention of Terorrism Act, which had hitherto been applied against the Tamils, for the purpose of imposing this has brought home to many Sinhalese people the truth that the government would not hesitate to apply the full force of the draconian provisions of the Act to suppress all opposition.
rtake the detailed ks. The Tamil Inave the following
physical well-being e because physical s the base for all
cultural identity of
the Tamil people because their culture is a rich and ancient culture and because it is a culture which has much to give to the world;
c. to secure the human rights of the Tamil people because these are rights which spring from the inherent dignity of man and the Tamil people seek PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 20
E STAR DEMOCRACY
ogroms against the opulation since July tawardene came to
es of politicians in violently attacking and trade unions heir meetings while order turn a blind
ise and deprive ils of any political parliament or local ctment of the Sixth e Constitution.
of Supreme Court lstitutional amend
life of parliament ars to twelve years ld by constitutional
Arrest and detain opposition politicians on trumped-up charges and later release them after the government's purposes have been achieved.
Use of torture and incommunicado detention and a licence to the security forces to carry out extrajudicial execution of Tamils.
* Open police stations in University campuses to suppress student activity.
Claim to have 50 years of universal adult franchise while continuing. the deprivation of nationality, citizenship and franchise to a million Tamils.
Muzzling the press with rigorous and frequent censorship.
A Ban opposition parties and newspapers under Emergency rule.
* Promotion of police officers found guilty by the courts.

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“CRIME OF GE NTERNAMAT
Two Australian Members of Parliament, Mr Lewis Kent and Mr Hollis, have raised the question of the violence against Tamils of Sri Lanka in the Australian Parliament. On two separate occasions, Mr Kent on May 7 and Mr Hollis on May 31, raised the question, taking up the position that the genocidal attacks on the Tamil people of Sri Lanka could no longer be regarded as only an internal matter. Both these MPs attended a Human Rights Conference on Sri Lanka recently held in Madras.
The following is the text of their speeches:
Mr Kent (Hotham): During Easter I attended an international conference in Madras hosted by the Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu government. The conference was opened by the Speaker of the State Assembly and its purpose was to discuss the sad plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka. People of very diverse political opinion like my colleague the honourable member for Macarthur - (Mr Hollis), a Conservative member of Parliament, from West Germany, a Canadian jurist, a Norwegian human rights activist and I, just to mention a few, assembled at short notice thousands of miles from our homelands in response to a call to oppose racial violence and to defend the human rights of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
Raise our voices
"There was no other reason or motive to abandon our Easter holidays with our families but to raise our voices against the genocide perpetrated on Tamils by the government of Sri Lanka. Both my colleague and I went to Madras to express Australia's horror and revulsion at the racial violence and the continuing persecution and killing of Tamils.
"We raised our voices against killings, unlawful imprisonment and torture of Tamils because these events have not held the attention of the Western media. Since July 1983, the Sri Lankan government has exposed the Tamil minority to continuous and organised racial violence. Hundreds of Tamils were killed and are still being killed.
"Tamil property is being destroyed and hundreds of Tamils are being held in prisons without charge or trial. The security forces are being given a licence to kill as the government has brought in regulations to
allow the police without any inqu
Opened fire
"As late as Ma Sri Lankan arme on the civilian Women and chill district, killing 12 ing over 50 other very little mentic the killing of on London more tha still headline nev
"Such neglect b the Sri Lanka gov execute the genc Tamils in Sri L noticed by the res' er the West mor til put pressure on dene to stop the
“The crime of cannot be an inte Sri Lankan gove tinuous violation ( of a minority con violence is a conc
Forty-five years a
by while Hitler w chambers to prepa to the Jewish pr
both the West and
against fascism.
about persecutic minority, but no about it and 6 mil Today, 40 years l plays the same l ance about the pe lion Tamils in Sri
"It is true that O expressed its con that are taking p wise tranquil islan Minister for Immi Affairs (Mr West) reunions for Sri Li mendable.
"However, immi mot the solution. more than 50,0t though the Tami leave their homela lived for 3,000 yea to their lives an them flee and sett where. They do n their homes and prepared to stay dignity and for mination.'
“I have discusse Tamils with the M
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NocIDE Is No
ER” - Australian MPs
o dispose of bodies try or inquest.
rch of this year the d forces opened fire population, men, iren, in the Jaffna Tamils and wounds. These events get n in our media, but e white woman in n a fortnight ago is
S. y the media allows ernment to plan and cide of 2/2 million anka virtually unof the world. Neithhe East is willing to President Jayewarkillings. genocide is not and rnal matter for the ernment. The conof the human rights cerns us all; racial ern for humankind. ago the world stood as building the gas are his final solution oblem. The world, the East, warned It was concerned on of the Jewish one did anything lion Jews perished. ater, the world disatent racist ignorsecution of 2/2 mil
Lanka.
ur government has tern for the events
lace on that other- .
d. The action of the gration and Ethnic to speed up family ankans is also com
gration of Tamils is Already there are )0 refugees even Es do not want to nd where they have rs. Only the threat d property makes e temporarily elseDit want to abandon families. They are and fight for their national self-deter
d the plight of the inister for Foreign
Affairs (Mr Hayden). I know that he is well briefed and concerned. However, our concern and its expression to the Sri Lankan government are not enough. We should use our good offices in international circles to raise our voice and concern so that international pressure is brought about on the Jayewardene government to stop the persecution of the Tamils in their own homeland and to bring those who committed atrocities to justice, according to law.'
Mr Hollis: (Macarthur): 'My grievance today is for the people of the island of Sri Lanka. I grieve especially for the Tamil community, but indeed, I grieve for all the people of the beautiful island, for violence inflicts its wounds on those who are the targets of violence as well as those who perpetrate it.
"There has been a long history of communal violence in Sri Lanka. The number of lives lost or the scale of destruction of property have not held the attention of the media in this country for very long. Part of the reason for this lack of interest is the way in which the outbreaks are covered. They have been reported, whenever this was possible, using local news sources, tourist accounts and the censored writings of a handful of foreign correspondents.
"These reports have not been distinguished by detailed investigation of causes, confirmation of the facts by independent inquiry or any of the other qualities that Western journalism has aspired to in recent decades. 'Sri Lanka has experienced many episodes of bloodbaths. There was a bloodbath in 1958, 1965, 1971, 1977 and 1981. In July 1983 the Tamils in Sri Lanka were victims of the worst violence ever seen in the history of that country. In just over one week hundreds of Tamils were killed and tens of thousands made homeless. Homes and business establishments belonging to Tamils were burnt to the ground. Tamil political prisoners in maximum security jails were massacred, innocent Tamil civilians - men, women and children alike - were indiscriminately killed by racist hooligans, including Sinhala police and army personnel.
“Today the Sinhala government which stood by when Sinhala mobs took knives and torches to their Tamil neighbours is once again not only allowing passions to rise but also allowing Tamils to be murdered.

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As a student of international law, I recognise the domestic jurisdiction principle. Article 2, paragraph 7 of the United Nations Charter I support, but no country, I suggest, can stand by and say nothing while genocide is carried out against a minority in a country. The question of the so-called terrorist is often raised. I refer here to the so-called Tamil Tigers.
“I condemn violence wherever it occurs, but let us get this matter into perspective. The Tigers are a group of only a couple of hundred young people. I put it to you Mr Speaker, that if you had seen members of your own family raped and murdered and your homes burned, you too would probably become a freedom fighter yourself.
“Of course, the Sri Lanka government regards every young Tamil as a terrorist. It arrests them just on suspicion and many have died mysteriously in detention. If the Tamils engage in some form of civil disobedience, the army goes beserk, entering Tamil areas, shooting into houses, burning houses, and in general, acting as an undisciplined mob.
"There have been many outrages against human rights in Sri Lanka and, unfortunataely, time does not permit me to go into the many documented details I have in my possession, but I draw this House's attention to one episode that happened last year when 53 political prisoners were massacred in prison.
"It hardly rated a mention in our local media. On 26 July, the day after the killings, the government stated that several hundred prisoners in the jail including reconvicted criminals, defying orders from prison officers, broke into the wards of detainees under the Terrorism Law, including those convicted, and attacked them. In the clash that ensued, 35 detainees and prisoners died. An inquiry was held on 26 July returning verdicts of
NORTH-EAST DDCS DISOLVED
Colombo, June 25: The six District Development Councils of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka were today dissolved under Emergency Regulations by Prime Minister R. Premadasa, using powers vested with him as Minister of Local Government.
It is to be recalled that all six Councils had a TULF majority and became defunct since August 1983 when the elected representatives of the Tamils were disenfranchised from their seats by the government for refusing to take the oath against separatism.
homicide in all c the officer-in-char er investigation.
"That outcome i spite this official very next day on tainees were sul attack and a furt Mr Speaker, I a prisoners in a ma: break into anothe armed with kniv things and cause innocent people? ) believing that thi "Time does not p all the details but concerned at what Jaffna area in the where more com
So long as car-parks precedence o Multi-storeyec over homes f Irrelevant fac over the padc of our daily
I shall sing no celebo
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ases and directing ge to conduct furth
s unknown. But deinvestigation, the 27 July, Tamil deOject to a second her 18 were killed. sk you, how could kimum security jail er part of the jail, es and other such the deaths of 53 it really takes some s could happen. ermit me to go into ; I am particularly is happening in the north of Sri Lanka munal violence is
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going on. At this stage, I commend the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr West) for his sympathetic response on behalf of the Hawke Labour government to the plight of the detainees and the refugees caused by this communal violence last year. I personally saw the Minister, as I know other members did. We received a very sympathetic hearing and, of course, Australia took many of the refugees from this communal violence.
I believe, as I said before, that despite Article 2, paragraph 7, of the United Nations Charter, Australia has a role in regard to what is going on in Sri Lanka. We cannot stand idly by and see genocide being committed in this country.
NO CELEBRATORY SONG By CECIL RAJENDRA"
take
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hotels or people tores ly-fields SiStedrce
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ratory Song
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Stle & thorn ht the wrong
* Cecil Rajendra is Malaysia's most internationally acclaimed poet
So long as foreign investors devastate our estate and the voice of Capital speaks louder than the pleas of fishermen
So long as blind bulldozers are all'ouved unchecked to goиge our lатdscape and Multinationals licenced to run annuck across this land
I shall sing no celebratory song
So long as our rivers & streams our beaches, our air Our Oceans & trees our birds, our fish our butterflies & bees are strangled, stifled polluted, poisoned crushed, condemned . . . by lop-sided depelортетt
I shall sing no celebratory song
O MOtter һои) тату ѕитs go doирт This tongue will be of thistle & thorn until they right the wrong

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JAFFNA LIBRARY
FROM THE ASH
The marauders of the Sri Lankan police burned down the Jaffna Public Library with its priceless collection of books and materials on June 1, 1981. On June 4 1984, the first stage of the rebuilt library was declared open by the Tamil United Front leader, Mr A. Amirthalingam.
The commemorative souvenir issued by the Jaffna Public Library to mark the opening of the rehabilitated building on June 4th was in every way worthy of the occasion.
Besides carrying messages from a number of persons of repute, there were a number of very informative articles in English and Tamil on Jaffna, its people and their culture.
To quote from the preface, "The movement for a free public library in Jaffna came in the wake of universal franchise (1931) and the man behind it was Mr K.M. Chellappah. It became the town's library in 1935, when the urban council came forward to run the library.
After Independence, the city got municipal status and the first mayor, Mr Sam A. Sabapathy, secured the approval of the Municipal Council to construct a specially designed library building. The noted Indian architect Narasimhan designed the building in Dravidian style, and the first stage of the new edifice was completed and occupied in 1959.
A grateful people remember Fr J.M.F. Long, the Indian High Commissioner and the Asia Foundation as among those who helped to make their dream a reality . . .
"It was 1st June 1981 and the still
hours of the night collection, which of a great human try, was turned to ing, which was the of the North, daı
"It is, howevel thankful for tha shores of Sri L. beyond these shc that this was not j among the Tamil deep dent in the c system and a loss tional community
Reconstructing
“So they did n whom the bell toll tions and groups lied round to helt the library, resto restocking its bo(
A tribute has al publishers of thes Lanka's distingui. an author of bo tileke, who accept invitation to visit and make interim on his recomm necesary repairs were carried out Services started.
The souvenir co Mr K. Nesiah (C. Francis Joseph, M Mr N. Nadesan, nam (Municipal Chairman of the and Mrs Ropa' (Secretary).
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when this priceless was the repository culture in our counashes, and a buildarchitectural pride maged.
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bt send to find for ed. Instead, instituthe world over ralp in reconstructing ing its shelves and pks . . .” so been paid by the ouvenir to one of Sri shed librarians and oks, H.A.I. Gooneed the then Mayor's Jaffna in mid-1982, suggestions. It was endation that the to the North wing and four sectional
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The majestic building housing the Headquarters of the Jaffna Co-operative Stores that stood opposite the Jaffna General Hospital was demolished as a result of arson committed by the Sri Lankan security forces during the recent outbreak of violence in the North.
Such acts of violence have now become common occurrence in areas regarded as the traditional homelands of the Tamil people.
There appears to be a pattern in the selection of targets from time to time, for destruction. After demolishing the Jaffna Public Library a few years ago, the destructive forces turned their fury towards the only welfare institution in the mercantile sectorthe Jaffna Co-ops - in this part of the country, both of which are proud possessions of the Tamil people.
The damage caused is colossal. The stocks of the company amounting to several millions were burnt down, mot to mention the destruction of the fleet of vehicles, valuable machinery and other fixed assets, in the process.
This devastation has caused untold hardship to the large numbers of employees who look up to this institution for their livelihood.
Non-profiteering
The Jaffna Co-operative Stores has a character of its own which distinguishes it from other mercantile institutions. It was founded as early as in 1918 by a few leading residents of the Jaffna peninsula in order to cater to the crying need for a non-profiteering and comprehensive mercantile institution in Jaffna.
The company that started with a capital of Rs.8,000 - and six employees grew up to a position of eminence with 230 employees and seven branches. The turnover of the company for the year ended 31 March 1983 was Rs.128.5 million. 'Service before Self' was its motto and it lived up to this ideal all along, giving justifiable pride to the Tamil people.
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് ഭi്. ബ Jaffna Co-operative Stores
It served right along as an unofficial price controller and helped in the stabilisation of prices at reasonable levels in the market. As such, the institution came to be respected for its high level of business ethics and the manner in which it served the community at large.
Served the community
Welfare institutions of this nature could never go extinct. Those responsible for the attempt to destroy it are bound to get disappointed. Sooner or later, it will rise like the "Phoenix from the Ashes' to heights unattainable before.
It is heartening to note that in spite of the terrible set-back caused, the
business of the quickly resumed, native premises to the destroyed h patrons of the c tinuing to give operation and ac
The Board of D ing to the shari wishers, especi abroad, to invest pany by way of terest at 24 per enhance the cash
Considering the stitution and the rendering to the T is hoped that th ceive the suppor
SeVeS.
TRIBUNAL TO PROBE ETHNIC WOLENCE IN SRI LANKA MOOTED
The Organisation for the Protection of Human Rights in Sri Lanka is thinking of setting up a tribunal to enquire into the happenings in the island during the past two years, with special reference to the events of July 1983. Disclosing this to newsmen in Madras on July 8, the Organisation's president, Mr W.R. Krishna Iyer, former Judge of the Supreme Court, said the tribunal would have three or five members – outstanding public figures from India and abroad, to be selected soon. The tribunal would gather evidence from the victims, if the Sri Lanka government gave permission, or else meet the refugees in India and other countries.
Main Objective
This was one of the steps to be taken by the organisation whose main objective was to mobilise internation
al opinion again human rights in
Mr Krishna Iye satisfied that Mr the safest custodi rights and on th organising an effe their human right and Sinhalese ch
“Sri Lanka is i own terrorist ap) the entry of the British SAS and lo Trincomalee wat suppressing and Tamils in the isl
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making use of alterin close proximity eadquarters and the ompany were contheir unstinting cotive support. irectors are appealeholders and wellally those living monies in the comdeposits earning in, cent, in order to flow of the business. standing of the inservice it has been amil community, it eir appeal will ret that it richly de
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st the violation of Sri Lanka. r Said: “We are mow Jayawardene is not an of Tamils' human e other hand, he is ctive annihilation of is by military action auvinism.
internationalising its paratus by allowing Israeli Mossad, the etting the US use the ers with a view to even wiping out the and.
2velopments and the s in the island, espetive torture of prisonfessions, Smackot regime in Kam
TAMITMES 1.1
JAYAWARDEN THREATENS
MUSLMS
“If there are any Muslims in the party talking or acting against the polic f the government to establish relations with Israel and obtain its assistance, they should leave the party. Otherwise, they will be expelled. This was the substance of a speech delivered by President Jayawardene to the annual meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ruling United National Party held recently.
“Promising stern action against all those who campaigned against the government's decision to obtain Israeli advisers, Mr Jayawardene threatened a repetition of July 1983 if this campaign continued. He said that the police had to open fire and declare a curfew in the Eastern province because of demonstrations staged protesting against the government's action.
"Create trouble'
In Colombo too there were some attempts made to create trouble. It was some Muslims who were responsible for this campaign. Some Tamils and newspapers were also helping, said Mr Jayawardene.
Criticising some newspapers for supporting this campaign, Mr Jayawardene said, "I have warned them to stop this. Otherwise, these newspapers would have to be closed down.' He added, "a country can exist without newspapers but cannot exist without a government'.
"If the Tamils and Muslims create trouble, it is the Sinhalese who will suffer. If there are elements who act in such a manner as to push the Sinhalese into the sea, this government will not allow it. I do not like to be the head of a government if the future of the Sinha la ra ce is threatened,' Mr Jayawardene declared.
A Muslim Minister in Jayawardene's Cabinet, who did not want to be identified, said: "The President is not concerned about our feelings on the question of re-establishing relations with Israel. The Muslims have always supported the UNP, but now he is threatening to expel us when we express our feelings.
“He has made it clear that he is a Sinhalese President for the Sinhala people. The UNP has become a party of the Sinhalese, by the Sinhalese and for the Sinhalese. We are paying the penalty for supporting the UNP.

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Mayhem in Paradise
2,000 "may I haváicii, Sri Lanka”
TANS RALD ISLE
50,000 refugees flee from Sri Lankan riot horror
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E. More Are Slain as Sri Lankan Rioting Spreads From Capital to Central Hills
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CENTURY OF ETHNIC CONFLICT (Par
ETHNIC SOLIDARITYA THE WORKING CLASS (1 890-1 930) By Kumari Jayaward
Continued from last issue
The first part of this article dealt with the divisive consequences of ethnic and religious consciousness. There were, however, important periods in the labour history of Sri Lanka when class consciousness took precedence over ethnic and religious emotions.
The working class of the island, which had developed in the wake of plantation capitalism in the 19th century, was composed of all ethnic groups in the population - Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils, Indian Tamils, Malayalis, Moors, Malays, Burghers and Eurasians: workers also belonged to various religions (Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism), and in the case of the Sinhalese, Tamils and Malayalis, caste differences prevailed.
However, a consciousness of belonging to a class, of being subject to a class, of being subject in common to an oppressive system of low wages, long working hours and harsh conditions of work, together with an awareness that, as exploited workers, they had to organise and struggle for the improvement of their conditions, had already developed among the Sri Lanka urban workers by the late 19th century.
Such conscious joint action by labour against capital in colonial Sri Lanka, was a remarkable feature of the forty years between the first strike in the 1890s and the economic depression of the early 1930s. This was a period when, in spite of the current of chauvinist propaganda that
was popular from the 1880s onwards,
the workers were able to rise above caste, religious and ethnic divisions in the struggle for economic demands and economic rights. Moreover, the economic and political challenge of the Sri Lanka working class to British employers and officials historically preceded the agitation of the middle class nationalists, and also proved to be far more militant.
Early class struggles
Frederick Engels, at a reception in Vienna on September 14th, 1893, honouring his fifty years in the workers' movement, declared that the best reward for his endeavours was the
knowledge that th spread to the four c - "from the jails ( gold mines of Cal places like Austral He could have ad as he was speaking consciousness' am workers had occurr 12th 1893, sixty print ish firm of H. W. Ca for five days over payments. During t meeting of five h (mostly from the
other presses in Colc
which the country's - the Ceylon Print formed. Two hundre the union and a resol urging other worke unions.
Although the mc gain momentum, it liest expression of the printers, who w Section of the worke. to different eth Sinhalese, Tamils and were involved in languages. The lead ters' union was also President was a G Pinto), the Secretar Buultjens) and the bers were of dive many being Buddh Martinus Perera an Thus the first sp class action was bas darity and it is sig union's motto was ' and that this slogan displaced at the ina the union.
There were severa the turn of the ce laundry workers (18 workers (1896), Tim ters (1898), and por But the most milita actions was the stril w h en 5 , 0 0 0 Col (Sinhalese, Tamils a cessfully struck wo tious new regulation Municipality. The defiance, their abil

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movement had rners of the earth f Siberia and the ifornia to far-off a'. led Sri Lanka, for the first "flash of ng the Colombo ed; on September ers from the Britve, went on strike a delay in wage he strike, a public lundred workers newspapers and imbo) was held, at first trade union ers Union - was 'd printers jointed ution was passed, rs to form trade
ovement did not marked the earclass activity by 'ere an advanced rs. They belonged nic groups — and Burghers - printing in three ership of the prinmulti-ethnic; the oan (Dr. Lisboa7 a Burgher (A.E. committee memse communities, ist activists like d C. Don Bastian. ark of workinged on ethnic solinificant that the unity is strength was prominently gural meeting of
l other strikes at ntury, including 96), Jaffna Beedi s of Ceylon prin| workers (1901). nt of these class e in August 1906, ) m bo carter s ld Muslims), suc*k against vexas of the Colombo arters' show of ty to effectively
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These articles are based on a paper presented to a seminar of the Social Scientists Association and the Institute of Social Studies (The Hague) by Dr Kumari Jayawardena, Associate Professor, Colombo University, in December 1983. Reproduced by courtesy of the LANKA GUARDIAN.
establish control over the Pettah (the “native” commercial quarter of Colombo) and their aggressive challenge to the police and to government officials, became a part of folk history, remembered for many decades.
At the time of the strike, the ethnic solidarity among the workers was commented upon in the pages of the Ceylon Independent; one letter praised "the power of unity among the masses' and another signed "antislavery' said, "The carters' strike has supplied a splendid object lesson to all communities on the value of unity . . . the carters . . . are men of various castes and creeds . . . but they left all religious and racial differences aside and combined most effectively.
However, it was the railway strike of 1912 which proved for the first time the potential power of the working class, through joint action, to cripple economic activity in the country. This strike of railway workers (Sinhalese, Tamil, Malayali and Burgher) for higher wages and other demands spread to the entire railway network of the country. Middle-class support was forthcoming from all communities; the Sinhalese temperance leaders of the period helped in the formation of the Railway Workers' Association and Ponnambalam Arunachalam, who was one of the commissioners appointed to report on the workers' grievances, wrote a dissenting report strongly supporting their claims for higher wages and commenting perceptively that "Ceylon cannot expect to be untouched by the wave of discontent among the proletariat of the world'.
Arunachalam and the labour Movement
Pon nambalam Arunachalam was a pioneer, not only of political and Social reform, but also of labour organisations in Sri Lanka. He was one of the most gifted members of the colonial civil service and had wide contacts with Theosophists, British radicals, socialists and the British Labour Party. On his retirement in 1913, he

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emerged as the leading political figure of Sri Lanka, being elected the first President of the Ceylon National Congress in 1919. Unlike the moderate Sri Lanka leadership of the period, Arunachalam took a radical line on many issues, being especially forthright on questions affecting the working people.
He was far ahead of his colleagues in championing self-government and universal suffrage, and in 1917, writing of the World War, and the Russian Revolution, said, "The only hopeful thing about the present war is the refusal of the Russian people to fight and I hope the common people of all countries will do likewise. In no other way will this slaughter cease, unless you get together all the “statesmen' and capitalists and the rest of the ruling classes . . . and dispose of them somehow'. It is therefore not surprising that he influenced the younger, more militant Sri Lanka nationalists - one of his keen followers being A. E. Goonesinha, the future trade union leader.
Arunachalam had always been active in championing labour; he had, through the Social Service League, constantly highlighted the iniquities of the Master and Servant Ordinance of 1865, under which plantation workers who left their estates could be charged in court for breach of contract and returned to their former employers. In 1916 he spoke out against the conditions on the plantations, stating that "Being poor, ignorant and helpless (the worker was) unable to protect himself against the cupidity and tyranny of unscrupulous recruiters and bad employers'.
In 1919, the Ceylon Workers' Welfare League was formed with Arunachalam as President and Peri Sunderam, a Cambridge graduate of Indian Tamil origin, as Secretary. The Committee was a cross-section of professionals, Buddhist temperance leaders and journalists of many ethnic groups (Martinus Perera, K. Thiagarajah, Armand de Souza, C.H.Z. Fernando, Sam J. C. Kadirgamar, A.S. John and Dr I. David'.
In 1920, the League was transformed into the Ceylon Workers' Federation which was mainly composed of moderate elements. Arunachalam, however, continued to put forward a radical line and advocated the formation of trade unions. "It is only by organisation that you can be strong . . . A dozen men . . . one by one are easily overcome, but if they join together and work together they are strong and difficult to overcome’; he urged the working class to "make haste and form associations every
where', and to r when other meth eration had arou ers as members attracted many A.E. Goonesinha Silva, who wer militant unionis)
It is importan early nationalist movements unit Sons of all group, tions (the Social - founded by wamy, - the SO the Workers W Ceylon Workers Ceylon National
But communal developing in th nachalam had ( the Congress a field in 1923, Sinhalese leader opposed universa out against franc workers.
In contrast, tl the heyday of cla ity among the v unions were org sections of the C joint action was communal unit labour leaders O notably A. E. G pioned universa supported the fra an workers in S
A.E. Goonesinl class struggle
The early stru working class, W ers, were to p: organised class 1920s. In the yea First World W. shortages and prices led to agit port, governme workers in the Sectors.
An important period was the unionise the ra inaugural meeti presided over b. leading journal ist of Goan orig note that the me C.H.Z. Ferna: WOrkers im Sinh in Ta mil a m Malayalam.
Agitation am of the workin, these years; in was a strike o over the island,

ort to strike action ds failed. The Fedil 5,000 skilled worknd also, for a time, unger activists like and George E. de later to lead the of the 1920s. to record that the political and reform d middle-class perin common associaReform Association Ananda Coomarastial Service League, elfare League, the Federation and the Congress). discord was already e early 1920s; Aruisagreeements with ld left the political and by 1927, the ship in the Congress lfranchise and stood hise rights for Indian
le same period was ss and ethnic solidarforking class. Trade (anised among wide olombo workers and
taken on a basis of y; in addition, the f the period - most oonesinha - chaml suffrage and also anchise rights of Indiri Lanka.
na and
ggles of the Colombo ithout full-time leadlve the way for the confrontations of the rs after the end of the ar, there were food the consequent high ation among railway, it factory and other
public and private
joint activity of the attempt, in 1919, to ilway workers. This ng of 700 workers was ’Armand de Souza, a şt and political activn. It is interesting to ting was trilingual - do addressing the lese, Peri Sunderam C. M. Jacob in
ng many key sections
class increased in February 1920, there railway workers all ollowed in March the
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same year by a successful strike of 5,000 Colombo port workers for wage increases. But it was in 1922, under the leadership of A.E. Goonesinha, a nationalist and social democrat, that the Ceylon Labour Union was formed, giving the working class its first fulltime Union leader with a militant programme.
The first meeting of the Union was presided over by E.R. Tambimuttu, a member of the Legislative Council, who had earlier shown concern on labour issues. Soon after its formation, the new union succeeded in mobilising the Colombo workers and leading the country's first general strike, in February 1923, which lasted for three weeks. This strike of 20,000 workers of all sectors of the economy and all ethnic groups, was based on demands for long-delayed wage increases, which were eventually granted in 1925.
The general strike which was the greatest demonstration of power to that date by the working class, also produced its own leaders from different communities, including "Hambano Williamand'Yakha'John, veter. ans of earlier railway strikes, Kandasamy of the Wellawatte Mills, and Podisingho of the Government Factory. The class unity of the Colombo workers was commented upon by Goonesinha, who referred to "the wondrous manner in which the great masses of our artisan class have emerged from their age-long lethargy to vindicate their rights', adding that the "political salvation of the country would come through the sincere efforts of our masses'.
A.E. Goonesinha, who came to national prominence in the 1923 strike, was able to give the Colombo workers a dynamic, militant leadership, championing trade union and other democratic rights and forming the most radical political wing of the Ceylon National Congress. He was able to command the loyal support of workers of minority communities during the great struggles of the 1920s and this was reinforced by his admiration for Gandhi and the leaders of the Indian national movement and his frequent visits to India.
The leadership of the Ceylon Labour Union in the twenties also reflected the multi-ethnic nature of the island's working class. Associated with the Union's activities with Sinhala leaders like Goonesinha, C.H.Z. Fernando, George E. de Silva and Victor Corea, were Sri Lanka Tamils, including A.P..Thambiayah, who formed a branch of the union in Jaffna and organised the Kayts port workers and James Rutnam, who in 1929 led a

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strike at the Nuwara Eliya Grand Motor Dept. The Union Vice-President was K. Natesa Aiyar, an Indian Tamil journalist who was a member of the Legislative Council, and other union leaders included Muslims such as M.L.M. Reyal, a Municipal Councillor, one of the union's forceful Speakers and public speakers and M.IN.N. Haniffa and Cassim Ismail, who were lawyers. The union leadership was also not confined to Buddhists, but included several Christians - (C. H. Z. Fernando, Valentine Perera, Victor Corea and James Rutnam). When, under A.E. Goonesinha's leadership, the Ceylon Labour Party was formed in 1928, the Executive Committee was composed of many Sinhalese and Tamil persons, the latter including A. Mahadeva, Dr Muttiah and Mr & Mrs Satiyawagiswara Iyer.
In 1928, the All Ceylon Trades Union Congress was also formed, with officials from all ethnic groups. At the first sessions, A. E. Goonesinha, while attacking the Ceylon National Congress leadership as “designing politicians and pestferous adventurers', deplored the condition of the working class as "degraded and degrading' and called upon the newly formed Trade Union Congress to "free workers from their misery'. What is particularly worthy of emphasis is that he also laid great stress on the solidarity of the working class of all countries, extended fraternal greetings to many foreign labour organisations, including the Indian trade union movement, and aserted that the labour movement knew no differences of 'caste, colour or creed'.
Class Consciousness and militancy
One of the Ceylon Labour Union's biggest trade union successes of the 1920s was the port strike of 1927, when ethnic solidarity proved to be a key factor in the struggle. The port workers consisted of Sinhalese, Tamils and Malayalis - the minorities forming a large proportion of the unskilled labour force. The 13,000 strikers, who held out for three weeks, demanded wage increases; they were supported by donations of money and food from other sections of the working class and on this occasion, workers brought from India as "blacklegs' refused to replace the strikers.
The commercial life of the country was affected adversely by the strike and the government was forced to resort to arbitration, as a result of which the workers gained significant wage increases and more time off for
meals. The victo
spectacular mee
tions and process. which workers c were joined by da and red-shirted
ethnic unity on this strengthened by Natesa Aiyer, whi the strike be ext and hotel workers lesson’. Natesa A. support from India keepers, from who for the strikers, an Council, he raised t the government to increases demande
Solidarity on an was also forthco event; the Austra "Jervis Bay', whic port during the Strik for higher pay and Union office to show make contributions At a reception for return journey to Goonesinha, stated of the strike was a practical sympathy tween Asian and w. purpose of the rec was to instill into m ers of Sri Lanka “tha labourers all belon; fraternity of labour There were many strikes in the mid-tw a period of economic of the main export reaching record fig However, the clima phase of the 1920s wa tramway worker Brothers, which oc ary 1929. The wor were of all ethnic g ported in their strug the Colombo workin; eted the trams; in workers refused to duce of Boustards, the export and imp The strike had be for wages, leave among a small grou escalated into the n confrontation to that street battles, riotir by workers in the ra government factory who descended in According to the poli wildest disorder' buildings and gas i the Maradana Police on fire, resulting in p killed 5 and injured Describing this str

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was marked by ngS, demonstraons in the city, in rrying red flags cers, drummerss volunteers. The occasion was also he support of K. even urged that nded to domestic ) "teach the man a yer also obtained traders and shopin he collected rice in the Legislative he issue and urged grant the wage d.
international level ning during this ian crew of the was in Colombo e, refused to work 7isited the Labour their support and to the strike fund. the crew on their Sri Lanka, A.E. that their support
rare instance of and solidarity behite workers; the eption he added, inds of the workut black and white ged to one great
other successful enties, which was boom, the prices s of the country ures around 1926. x of this militant |s the strike of 150 S of Bous tard urred in Februkers, who again roups, were Supgle by the rest of class, who pickddition, the port handle the prowho were also in
rt trade. un as a demand and overtime of workers but it ost violent class date. There were g and stoppages tlways, harbour, nd private firms o the streets. "e, 'scenes of the )ccurred when stallations near Station were set lice firing which 250. ke, Philip Gune
wardena, (a Left leader of the following decade), stated that "The workers rose to an extraordinary pitch of revolutionary enthusiasm and sacrifice to defend their class interests and smash the symbol of capitalist authority and displayed rare initiative and ability to cope with a critical situation; he further claimed that the strike weapon was "the manifestation of the class struggle at a fairly acute stage', and showed how the tramway strikers “who (were) not interested in the law and order of capitalist society' were not only able to "put out of commission the authority of the decadent capitalist society', but also to challenge "the armed forces of the mightiest empire the world has ever seen'. But this unparalleled display of class militancy in Sri Lanka was to prove the last important occasion, for many years, of ethnic solidarity and working-class unity.
In the years following the historic tramways strike, the working-class leadership was to take the Sinhalese workers the path of communal antagonism and ethnic conflict; however, one has to give credit to the leaders of the period up to 1929, for their non-communal positions, for as Neil Kuruppu has written:
"It is to the eternal credit of Goonesinha that for a while he was able to unite and organise under one banner, a large number of workers, including important sections in the harbour and railways . . . and so for a time, Sinhala and Indian workers joined hands to fight for their rights and better working conditions . . . ” (“Communalism and the Labour Movement' in Ethnicity and Social Change in Sri Lanka, Social Scientists Association, 1984.)
The forty years of class solidarity among the Sinhalese and minority workers needs to be highlighted and commemorated. Today, when the labour movement is going through a phase of false consciousness, and is being aroused and misdirected by ethnic passions, the earlier period of rational class conscious activity serves as a lesson and an inspiration. In this connection, one has to give credit not only to the leaders of the early strikes, but also to those oppressed and exploited sections of Sri Lanka society who jointly participated, irrespective of ethnic, religious or caste barriers, in the important struggles of the early years of the labour movement, against both capital and the colonial state.
To be continued with
The Anti-Malayali Agitation 1930s

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MEDAF
A CITY OF FEAR SLOW
As darkness falls over Jaffna, the 118,000 people living in the Tamil capital of Sri Lanka suddenly vanish indoors, leaving just the occasional army patrol to rumble through the Streets.
Jaffna is a city of fear - a product of the enmity and bitterness between 11 million Sinhalese living in the tearshaped island and 2,600,000 Tamils.
What causes the fear is itself the subject of contention between the two communities, which are said to have lost since Independence in 1948 more than 2,000 lives in racial bloodshed. The Sinhalese-dominated government in Colombo cites the reign of terror waged by Tamil guerrillas since 1975. The Tamils who live in Jaffna blame the 'state terrorism' by government troops.
To most visitors the only conclusion they can reach is that the two communities have difficulty in reaching an accommodation about anything, let alone solving the terror that stalks Jaffna and Tamil areas of the north
ern-eastern prov While the gene) continues, the c dying. Its youn fleeing abroad o the five guerrill Tamil Nadu im SO miles away acro The guerrillas, ment describes ists', say they are rate Tamil state mination from w education, univer Opportunities.
Separatism to t the Sinhalese ma, pect of commun ence fr0m Tam population of 50 Over the water, ar their own nation:
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In the centre of Jaffna the west wing of the white-domed public library is charred and gutted - left as a reminder of the night of June 11 1981, when police burned the building with the loss of Some 97,000 books, includ
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The last few weeks have seen a fresh wave of violence, qualitatively different to the existing pattern, being reported from Sri Lanka, still reeling under the concussion of the trauma of July 83.
The guns of the armed services, forever levelled at the Tamil youth, turned a full 180 degrees to kill a few Sinhalese undergrads and injure many.
What erupted as a private feud between merry-making medical students at Peradeniya and the police,
escalated into a fu tween the trigge President Jayawal tire campus popula All the campuses closed down by the resulted in the cd Colombo (battle-sc last year's pogr Tamils), taking to orgy of violence di ment property and The Tamil underg Jaffna campus, w
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FROM PAGE 1
is invidious to particularise in such a sea of murder - must be the killing of Dr Rajasundaram, the Secretary of the Gandhiyam movement.
I was proud to regard him as a friend, and will never forget him. For a believer in non-violence and the relief of the needy to be beaten to death in his cell by convicts, assisted by the security forces, is the reward in today's Sri Lanka, so it seems, for a man who deserved the world's greatest honours for his prodigious effort of rehabilitation and resettlement of the Tamil plantation refugees. The Sinhalese state claimed that he, like the noble Catholic priests whom I saw brought to trial in Colombo, was secretly in league with the
Tigers; but so, to other Tamils, insid Lanka.
Rather, he deser bered as a great al for the most dow world's workers; a dedication whos. dwarf those of his all, there is nothing Sri Lankan history President Jayawa Matthew or the wal But for men like Ra will always be a r honour; the honour bered with respect those whom he aid (From “Sri Lankan l the Eyes of the Wo Selbourne, Tamil T
FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
ing many priceless Tamil manuScripts.
At the end of Mahatma Gandhi Road are the charred remains of the Jaffna Co-operative store, which, Tamils say, was burned down by Some of the 3,000 troops based in the peninsula on the night of April 9 this year.
Nearby are burned-out shops - army retaliation, say Tamils, for guerrilla attacks. The army says the terrorists were responsible.
According to official figures, since July 1975, when Mr Alfred Duraiappa, mayor of Jaffna, was assassinated by terrorists, at least 50 members of the security forces, 11 politicians, 13 police informants, and 16 civilians have been killed.
Between May 16 and June 16 a further three policemen, seven suspected police informants, and a government official were murdered by guerrillas and there were 35 armed
gang robberies in eastern provinces.
However, Mr Ra subramamiam, a secretary of the Jal mittee, claimed the of cases of civilia and tortured by se He claimed that b. this year at least 6 dead, 17 went missi hospital treatment went on the ramp ambush of a milita pital Road, Jaffna, Mr Balasubrama are the figures abou information. Many been killed and the simply don't know,
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ll-scale battle be-hungry boys of dene and the ention of Sri Lanka. in Sri Lanka were government. This llege students of arred veterans of om a gainst the the streets in an rected at govern
buses. raduates from the whose Tamil col
), are millions of e and outside Sri
ves to be rememnd tireless fighter introdden of the man of energy and achievements persecutors. After positive for which y will remember rdene, or Cyril “ders of Welikade. jasundaram there memorial, always of being rememand affection by ed. Rulers Damned in rld', by Dr David imes, July 1983
the northern and
mailingham Balalawyer, who is fna Citizens Comre were hundreds ls being arrested curity forces. etween April 9-12 people were shot ng, and 47 needed after the army age following the ry convoy in Hos
liam said: "Those t which I have had more could have r bodies burned. I
of talks yesterday lene of Sri Lanka dhi again in New flying home.
Y TELEGRAPH
leagues had been assaulted and driven away from the Peradeniya campus by Sinhalese students just before the July 83 pogrom, took a principled stand and demonstrated against the injustice perpetrated on their Sinhalese brethren in the South.
In the wake of this skirmish, hundreds of Sinhalese undergraduates,
including several Buddhist monks,
were arrested and detained by the government. Sri Lanka's "War Minister', Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, was quick to claim that the campus troublemakers in the South had clandestine connections with the Northern “terrorists'.
Before the echoes of the shots fired in this commotion could die down, a bomb explosion ripped the sixth floor of Hotel Lanka Oberoi, a five-star hotel in the heart of Colombo, killing a stewardess. It was said to be a note of warning for a key member of the Israeli intelligence unit, Mossad, now in Sri Lanka. Within a few hours of this explosion, security services claimed to have discovered a more powerful bomb in the building housing Minister Athulathmudali's Ministry of Internal Security and diffused it.
Attacked
Within a few days, two police stations in the Sinhala districts of Polonarruwa and Amparai had been attacked by armed youth, who injured several policemen and made good with the arms and ammunition in those stations.
Almost simultaneously, Education Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe disclosed that handbills exhorting Sinhalese people to violence against the government had been distributed at Anura dhapura, the an cient Sinhalese capital of Sri Lanka. “Terrorism in the North, Let's start in the South', 'Rise to destroy the government that killed our students', they had read.
A few days later, in the southern coastal town of Tissamaharama, five Sinhalese youth had set fire to the building housing the Magistrate's Court and completely destroyed it.
At the time of going to press, there are unconfirmed reports of more police stations in the Sinhalese areas being attacked by youth. The armed Services have been placed on an island-wide alert.

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Political honesty was hardly a commodity for which President Jayawardene was well-known. But people understand him to be an educated man with a knowledge of the past history of Sri Lanka, from which he is often wont to quote during his long and rambling speeches.
However, when it suits him, he takes leave of his knowledge of history. Sri Lanka, except for brief interludes in its 2,000-year history, was never a united country. It was divided up among several kings ruling at the same time.
Even when the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century the country was divided into four kingdoms. It was the British, who, for the first time in modern history, united the whole country into a single administration unit in 1833. As a man of history, Jayawardene cannot be accused of ignorance of this historical fact.
Yet, in his much-commented fiveminute TV broadcast on July 29 1983,
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after a week of on ing silence, durin mayhem, rape, a were stalking ev Lanka, President clared, “Sri Lanka try for 2,500 years Even an infant of Sri Lanka was com and ruled by forei ing the South India guese, the Dutch a British ruled the w of their colonies f they granted indel Yet the Presider State Department l recent visit to the have declared, 'W BEEN CONQUER WILL BE . . .”
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