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2 TAMILTIMES
|NDIRA, RAJIV
“Even if I die in the service of the nation, I Will be proud of it. Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.
These are the famous last zuvords Indira Gandhi uttered on October 20 only a day before she was cruelly gunned down. How many leaders of the uvorld, present or past, would have the right to utter such uvords with the remotest eacpectation of being believed by their people? If one looks around, there is none. That sums up the eacalted position which Indira held, not only in the hearts of her 750 million people, but also in the eyes of the avorld. The imposing array of international political figures who descended on New Delhi to pay their last respects to the departed Indira demonstrated her stature as a world figure.
To reach the helm of a subcontinent with a fifth of the world's population, 18 major languages, 300 dialects, a diversity of religious and ethnic groups and a caste-torn Society, is no mean task. Indira was at the helm for 16 long years while retaining the love and support of the vast majority of her people. She made India what it is - Strong, pouverful, united and respected. And she achieved this through her absolute commitment to the unity of India and secularism. India built on the sound foundation of the tuvo basic principles Qf unity in diversity and secularism has proved its strength and maturity by the smooth and orderly manner in awhich the country and its people overcame their unerpected tragedy and trauma and put Rajiv Gandhi at the helm.
Grief stricken he would have been at the tragic death of his beloved mother at the hands of trusted men who became assassins, ineaperienced, Surely he is with only four years in
politics to his feu days of hi. Prime Ministe played enorm character
The prompt in Uhich he de taneous violen in Delhi and sc the country d. Rafiy possesse be a great uworthy to ha illustrious an mother Mo SO appointed PM, mation on T"V ( condemned t/ had been unle Sikh communa ång day, heim Delhi and othe and ordered t, on sight anyon anti-Säkh viole
'PM EXER ON DELHI CIVIL, SEVA AAJIV’S TRO LE/WCE' ?tias it report in The don) filed by pondent. Hea, civil and polic lure to take prevent the ay the risk of antic lzons avho avou, attend the flu, vered leader, H tra??? q72d tra4 Delhi, thus possible outb, violence in the the funeral.
After hava last rites, st
funeral, Rajiv
affected by the a first-hand eatent of thed ing. The fol ordered a sum be allocated for the victim. When allega appear that S.
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8 JAYAWARDENE
credit, uvithin the S appointment as "r, Rafia has disous strength and
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me other parts of emonstrated that S the potential to Prime Minister ve, succeeded his d incomparable
poner than he uvas
he addressed the and unreservedly he violence that ashed against the ity. On the followposed a curfew in er riot-torm places he army to shoot e upho engaged in 2nce and looting.
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Guardian” (Lonits Delhi corresdis rolled in the te Services forfaiprompt action to iolence. Even at zgomdsingy the milld have tvanted to
neral of their re
Rajio cancelled all asport services to preventing any reak of renewed ? Streets following
ing performed the raight from the
visited the areas 2 violence to gain cnocledge of the amage and Suffer
loving day, he
of £17 million to as compensation s of the violence. tions began to ome Congress (I)
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Party members were also involued in the violence, Rafia ordered an immediate inquiry. He Ordered the immediate release of all films and photographs seized by over-enthusiastic customs officials in an attempt to prevent them being sent abroad. After his unanimous confirmation as the Prime Minister by the entire Congress Parliamentary Party, he has nou” dissolved Parliament and decided to go before the Indian electorate in late LOecember to obtain the mandate of the people in his own right.
Such actions, in the midst of tragedy and trauma, speak for themselves. Within tuvo uveeks of his appointment, he has shown his mettle as a capable and effective leader with potential to develop as a great Prime Minister in the traditions of his great predecessors.
Te manner žn v/žc/ Presždent Jaya uvardene reacted to the genocidal violence against the Tamils in July-August 1983, his menacing silence for days ouvhen uncontrolled murder and arson uvere unuleashed against the Tamil people, his failure to condemn that violence or to take action against those members of the security forces who participated in the violence, his neglect to eacpress a Single syllable of sympathy for the victims of that violence and his total refusal to order an tinguiry into the violence even after it had occurred, stand in Stark contrast to the reaction and response of Rajiv in the conteat of the violence that erupted following the assasSination of Indira. With only four years ofeaperence in politics, Rajiv has proved himself to be a leader of the nation. On the contrary, despite his eacperience of forty-five years in politics, Jayawardene has demonstrated himself to be a mere leader of has tribe.

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NOVEMBER 1984
Namaste a
Two months before her assassination, Mrs Indira Gandhi was asked by foreign newsmen in the very garden in which she was later struck down, whether after the storming of the Golden Temple she could trust . . Sikh guards. She fondly looked at Sub-In: spector Beant Singh and replied: “When I have Sikhs like this around me then I don't believe I have anything to fear.'
It was a fact that soon after the Golden Temple incidents senior security advisers to her had transferred all her Sikh bodyguards out of the inner security circle, but Mrs Gandhi had them re-instated.
That was the tragedy. Ruling over the destinies of one-sixth of mankind. the Joan of Arc of India who strode like a colossus in world affairs for nearly two decades, seeing the advent and departure of many a world leader, resisting the wiles of US policies, the pressures of Pakistan, the chicanery of China and lately the jugglery of Jayawardene's Sri Lanka, having been showered with accolades like 'Mother India' and "Warrior Goddess' and who was responsible for the resurgence of a new dimension, honour and respectability for the Indian image in the world arena, had to pay the price for the trust she had reposed on her own Sikh bodyguards.
That trust and the price she paid for it have immortalised her in history by proving that she bore no ill will or malice towards the Sikh community in ordering the storming of the temple; &that she genuinely and sincerely believed the action she took was to preserve the unity of India, the land that she loved, the land that she was proud
of, the land for which she had made
supreme sacrifices and the land for whose unity and integrity she ultimately laid her life.
Domestic policies
To the capitalist countries her
domestic policies were anathema, her
Indian pride was profanity and her policy of non-alignment was nefarious. Dignified in triumph, graceful in defeat and courageous in convictions though she was, yet she had been maligned as 'cold-blooded by Nixon, dismissed as 'self-centred' on the very day of her assassination by Kissinger and decried all along as an arrogant and ruthless lady by the Western media.
Very few in the West attempted to interpret her actions in the context of the enormity of the task that was hers
An app by Ar
in ruling over the religious, caste-t Stricken 750 millic dia, which had st barely 35 years ago condemn the US, w militarisation of h all along compell funds meant for poverty to increas ing. Very few bot Maoist China for couraging and bre India.
Anti-imperialists
Yet, Mrs Gandhi, these wiles, taking perialist Stance, pl non-aligned policy closely with the s was able to elevate tion of the eighth llar nation in the world power in the World a world space club, ha ing satellites and ha an cosmonaut orbit Soviet President po. the "glorious daugl Indian people'.
To the Tamils of beacon light in thei * for Survival as a na thousands of Tamils refugee camps in Sr July 1983 pogrom, s by the Sinhalese ar. ing out for Tamil blo cision to Warn Presi and send in her Fore Lanka, Mrs Gandhi' of a saviour. They were not without fr dent Jayawardene spatch of Tamil homelands, to prolol suffering in ref Sinhalese areas an Indian offerto provi for their evacuation and despatched her ombo harbour wher siderable delay in entry.
In Mrs Gandhi's are nearly 50,000 Ta again breathing in p considerable pressu des potic Jayawar

ther
eCiation Vind
nulti-ethnic, multirn and povertypopulation of Inbod at 400 million Very few dared to hich by its regular stile Pakistan was ng her to divert he battle against ed defence spendhered to condemn continuously enwing Naxalites in
aCe
fighting against all a strong anti-imirsuing a positive and co-operating ocialist countries, India to the posigest industrialised , the fifth nuclear nd a country in the ving its own orbitving seen an Indithe Earth. As the inted out, she was hter of the great
Eelam, she was a r stormy struggle tion. To the many who were held in Lanka during the aid to be guarded ny which was cryOd, in her Swift delent Jayawardene, ign Minister to Sri is stature was that 'ealised that they ends. With Presidelaying the de efugees to their g their agony and gee camps it. putting off the e passenger ships she went ahead ships to the Colthere was a COn allowing the
ndia today there. nil refugees, once ace. She brought e to bear on the ene regime to
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negotiate a political settlement Lu the problems facing the Tamils. Her government had championed the cause of the Tamils in international forums.
When Mrs Gandhi was elected leader of the Congress Party in 1966, she had recalled some lines from Robert
Frost:
"The woods are lovely, dark and
deep, s But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep.' That Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi is no more, having been laid to eternal sleep by the long hands of destabilisation. The mortal remains of Mother India have returned to the soil she so dearly loved. She remains immortal, amongst others, in the minds of the Tamils of Eelam to whom she held out a promise and was in the process of fulfilling it when the end came. The Tamils of Eelam look forward to their beloved Priyadarshini's successor, Rajiv Gandhi, to achieve the completion of that promise - the promises made by Mother India.
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MGR FLOWN TO, U.S. FOR TREATMENT
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Me M.G. Ramachandran, was flown or November 4 to the United States by Special Air India aircraft for specialist treatment including a kidney transplant, at the Down State Medical Centre, Brooklyn, New York. m
The Chief Minister suffered a stroke on October 13. Following this, the right. side of his body - right arm and leg - as well as his speech were impaired. He was nevertheless conscious throughout and was being treated at Apollo Hospital.
Full of emotion
The late Mrs Indira Gandhi visited the Chief Minister in the hospital be
fore her assassination. "I will not mind
coming to a hospital to call on a friend. But I would not want to come as a patient,' Mrs Gandhi had remarked in a lighter vein during her visit. About her visit, Dr P.C. Reddy, Chairman of Apollo Hospitals who accompanied the late PM, said: "She went back to him, put her hand on his arm, and in a moment full of emotion, tears welled
up in both their eyes. Her feeling for the sick man was something that stood
out.'
Mr V. R. Nedunchezhian, the Tamil Nadu Finance Minister, has taken over duties as acting Chief Minister.

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MUSLIMPROTEST
The All Ceylon Muslim League has protested against the proposed confiscation of land belonging to Muslim peasants.
The proposal by the government to take over the land of nearly 15 acres will affect several Muslim families who have lived in the area for over 150 years. The land takeover is in connection with the Dhiga Vapi Sacred Town
The League, in
dum to President Stated that the de earlier conferenc President himself den by administra suggested a furth
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project.
SRI LANKA |INFLATION
HIGHESTINASA
According to an International Labour Organisation study of inflation for 1982 and 1983, Sri Lanka has the highest inflation rate in all Asia. It went up from 5.4 per cent in 1982 to 21.4 per cent last year, Second highest on the list was Bangladesh, where inflation doubled from 4.9 per cent to 10.6 per cent. The study, covering 73 countries, shows that the biggest increases in the rate of inflation in these two years have been in developing countries where the average increase has been 20 per cent.
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PATOHVVORK SOLUT
WON'T WORK
The President of Sri Lanka should realise that dismemberment of the island may be easy and its sell-out may also be easy but the retention of the nation as a solid polity calls for measures which are at once radically humanists and constitutionally viable, said Mr W.R. Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court judge of India.
He noted that Sri Lanka, which is in the throes of a political and constitutional crisis, should reach some constructive, accommodative Solution for its survival as a sovereign state. Tinkering with elemental problems like the ethnic Tamil question and half-hearted patchwork solutions are bound to fail. A real solution could arise only if there was a substantial offer of effective autonomy to the Tamils, who are ethnically, linguistically and territorially an important component of the island. .
At the bottom was gross discrimination and dangerous trends threatening the survival of the Tamil people and unless this problem was faced Squarely, expressions like 'extremism' and "terrorism' could not cut ice.
Today on account of Sinhalese
chauvinism the H men are inclined t with only crumb parties like the T effectively repres the common Tam regains confidenc part of the island This means tha . Sures with substa at the political lev in the civil servic be devised. Even method of decent ment, perhaps qu might have to be W the integrity of th ing as a reality the to have their gov broad framework tion.
Mr Krishna Iye number of intern investigated the at perpetrated on Ta state forces or act agencies. A wide bodies have found human rights are i Tamils of Sri Lan
MORE & MORE MONEY FOR GUNS
The already heavily reduced subsidies on welfare services in Sri Lanka will be cut still further in the next budget for 1985 in order to provide an extra Rs 2 billion for i defence and'anti-terrorist” activities. The government has also recently announced the cancellation of all development projects and withdrawal of all financial allocations to such projects for the purpose of expending those monies on "anti-terrorist' activities.
This will treble such expenditure, now in the region of around Rs 1 billion. a
Most of the new expenditure will be on the purchase of more sophisticated armaments from the US, Britain and other imperialist countries. In addition, the government intends to spend between Rs 3 to 5 billion on the purchase of new naval craft, according to the SUN (1979/ 84).
Expenditure on the recruitment, salaries, etc., of instructors from Mossad, Shin Beth and the former SAS mercenaries is not included in these figures.
REV. THANI REMEMBER
Father Xavier S. (Rome), MA, M. Li (Lond), was remel the fourth annivers the Founder of the nisation of Tamil was the driving fol conferences held d Madras (1968), Par (1940).
At the Fifth ICT Madurai, Father awarded the Postl Degree of Doctor first anniversary
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resident and all his ) take a stiff position s offered to Tamil ULF. No party can 2nt the Tamils until l man in Sri Lanka in being an integral 's polity. t a series of meaIntial representation el of administration, e, police and army, more important, a alisation of governasi-federal in status orked out, retaining 2 nation but concedright of the Tamils ernment within the of the sovereign na
r added: "A large ational bodies have rocities in Sri Lanka mils directly by the ively abetted by its
spectrum of such l unanimously that in grave perill for the ka.
NAYAGAM ED Thani Nayagam bb tt (Annamalai), PhD mbered on 1.9.84 on iary of his death. As International OrgaResearch in 1964, he ce behind the three uring his lifetimeis (1970), and Jaffna
Conference held in Thaninayagam was umous Honour of a of Literature on the of his death.
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Inaugurating a Japanese-aided hospital near Colombo, the Sri Lankan President Mr Jayewardene is reported to have asserted ("The Hindu, Sept 19), that 'like Japan, Sri Lanka has been an independent nation for anunbroken period of tuvo thousand yearS.
Though there were ups and downs we never bowed our heads to a foreigner. In 1815 we willingly accepted the British kings as our kings in place of Sri Wickramarajasinghe uvho uvas from South India. Jayawardemepura uvas the capital of the last Sinhala king Parakramabahu.”
Even allowing for the fact that Mr Jayewardene was speaking as a representative of the Sinhalese in a predominantly Sinhala area, to an almost eacclusively Sinhala audience and in Sinhalese, it is nevertheless incomprehensible hou a responsible Head of State could pack so much of chauvinistic absurdity, downright subversion of history and transparent travesty of truth in so few uvords.
While the years of domination by General MacArthur's army of occupation may not technically be considered subjugation of Japan by a foreign power, Ceylon was under Portuguese, Dutch and British colonial rule for over four centuries.
Prior to the advent of the colonial masters, the Tamils of the island had their own in dependent and sovereign kingdom in the north and the north-east.
It was the Jaffna Tamil king Sent hil i Kumaram uy ho fought against the Portuguese and was captured in 1619, taken to Goa and hanged there. He did not receive any help from the Sinhalese rulers of either Kandy or Kotte. Later it was Captain Varnakulanathan who hailed from the Valvettiturai - Point Pedro area in the North (places that are very much in the news today) who carried on the fight against the colonisers for three years. There is no record of the Sinhalese ever having raised so much as even a little finger to aid him in his struggle for freedom.
In the circumstances, one can only uvonder at the enormity of his politicall legerdemain when Mr Jayewardeme asserts the Simhalese uvillingly
ference to freedom under Sri Wickramarajasinghe for the simple reason that he had his origin in South India. Need one look for any more pointed reference to indicate Tamil and In

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STAMIL TIMES
SRI LANKA - A SUBJECTED
The scale, the frequency and the ferocity of the physical violence against the Tamil minority and their property, the role of the security forces and mobs abelonging to the majority Sinhala community in this violence and the govern. ment’s apparent failure to provide security of life and property to the Tamil people taken together with the many legislative and administrative measures taken against them raises the question whether the Tamil people gof Sri Lanka have been and are being subjected to the crime of genocide within the terms of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Genocide is a crime under international law and Article II of the Genocide Convention provides: *In the present Convention, genocide imeans any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing member of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; i(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part: (d) Imposing measures intended to pre
vent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group.' The Tamil people of Sri Lanka constitute a group within the meaning of Article II and the crime of genocide has been committed against them by "acts' which fall under (a), (b) and (c) of the Said Article.
Article III of the Convention provides:
"The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; ो * (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to coms mit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.” Article IV of the Genocide Convention provides that all persons, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals, shall be liable to punishment if they commit any of the acts referred to in the preceding paragraph.
In the case of Sri Lanka, the evidence is incontrovertible that succesSive governments, public officials including service personnel, and private individuals in the form of goon squads and groups of violent Sinhalese have committed acts of genocide within the
by P. RAJA
meaning of Artic
Tamil people.
Acts of genocide the Tamil people a all in character - religious, linguisti imposing condition to bring about the p of the Tamil people
The Tamil peopl been subjected to calculated to brir destruction either in the following in
(a) The depriva damental rights of citizenship, and ( million Tamil peo (b) Continuation “stateless' Tamil p to which other peo (c) Repatriation 0 of them against til -(d) The deprivatio resulted in the los cent of Tamil repre ment, and to that e say in the affairs national and local has an adverse im or ability to protec cally and otherwis
(e) The discrimin lowed by the gove) land distribution a Sinhalese people O areas of northern vinces constitutes vival of the cultura al and economic ex people as a distin (f) The imposition sole official langua tional homelands ( constitutes a threa the Tamil peop nationality. (g) The practice of tion of Tamil areas in education is air sive weakening of and lead to their destruction as a di (h) The burning an raries containing the heritage of th deliberate destru Tamil literary, rel personalities, cu market squares, etc., are aimed a

NOVEMBER 1984
RE THE TAMILS O GENOCDE2
NAYAGAM
le II against the
committed against re multi-dimension
physical, mental, c, cultural and by is of life calculated physical destruction in whole or in part. e of Sri Lanka have
"conditions of life ng about physical in whole or in part Stan CeS:
tion of the funf (i) nationality, (ii) iii) franchise to a ple; of a category of eople without rights ple are entitled to: if a large number neir will; n of franchise has ss of nearly 50 per esentation in Parliaxtent the loss of any
of government at level, which in turn pact on their power t themselves physi$e ; "
atory practice fol'nment in regard to und colonisation by f traditional Tamil and eastern proa threat to the surl, linguistic, politicistence of the Tamil ct nationality.
of Sinhala as the ge even in the tradiIf the Tamil people to the existence of le as a distinct
economic deprivaand discrimination ned at the progresthe Tamil people eventual physical istinct nationality. d destruction of libistorical records of Tamil people, the tion of statues of igious and political tural landmarks, businesses, homes, t the cultural and
physical destruction of the Tamil people.
Ever since 1956, the Tamil people have been subjected to violence, including "killing' and 'causing serious bodily or mental harm': -- 1956: Over 100 Tamils killed and several more injured following the riots which broke out after the passage of the Sinhala only Act; 1958: Over 1,000 Tamils were killed and many thousands seriously injured
and properties of many thousands of
Tamils burnt or destroyed. 1977: In the anti-Tamil disturbances which were described as 10 times wOrse tham that of 1958, thousands Of Tamils were killed and seriously injured and their property burnt. 1981: May-June - The police went on a rampage, killed Tamils and destroyed their property; the Jaffna Public Library which was regarded as a repository of the cultural heritage of Tamils, was burned down with a priceless collection of 95,000 books including historical manuscripts. 1981: August - Anti-Tamil violence in which an unknown number of Tamils killed, injured and their property destroyed. * ' > ・ : 1983: May-June - Violence including murder and arson om a considerable Scale against Tamils in Jaffna Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, and Trincomalee districts. 1983: July - Island-wide anti-Tamil Violence on an unprecedented scale; Over 2,000 killed, several thousand injured and almost all the properties of Tamils in the south of the country looted and destroyed, most of their businesses burnt or destroyed. It has been conceded that sections of the security forces took part or actively encouraged the violence. 1983: July 25 and 27 - 52 Tamil detainees killed in the state's prison. 1983: July 24 and 26 - The government has admitted the killing of several scores of Tamils in Jaffna and Trincomalee by the security forces.
On every occasion mentioned above, the killings of Tamil people have been accompanied by arson and destruction of their property.
The Government
In almost all instances referred to above, the government has failed, neglected or refused to prevent the violence against the Tamil people or their property. The government has also failed to properly investigate and identify the persons or groups of persons
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responsible for the violence and punish them. Even where the persons were identified or capable of identification, the government had failed to take action.
The failure, neglect and for refusal to prevent the recurrence of violence against the Tamil people, and again its failure, neglect and/or refusal to investigate, identify and push those responsible for the violence against the Tamil people is tantamount to conspiracy and complicity in acts of genocide against the Tamil people.
The Armed Forces There is irrefutable evidence that, on so many occasions, members of the police and armed services have either colluded and/or actively participated in acts of violence, including killing and causing serious bodily harm, against the Tamil people. It is not a case of indisciplined men in the armed services letting loose violence against the people indiscriminately.
Their violence is reserved for and directed at the Tamils as an ethnic group and their property. The number of occasions on which the armed Services had been on rampages killing people and burning houses and other property prove beyond doubt that they are guilty of committing acts of genocide against the Tamil people.
Private Individuals Since 1956, the Tamil people have been subjected on many occasions to violence, including killing and serious bodily harm, by gangs of Sinhalese people who fall into the category of private individuals.
The ICJ Report on Ethnic Conflict
and Violence in Sri Lanka, 1981, stated:
“As a minimum the Tamils are entitled to protection of their physical security within Sri Lanka. This protection can no longer be taken for granted.'
The ICJ Report of March 1984 stated: *Communal riots in which Tamils are killed, maimed, robbed and rendered homeless are no longer isolated episodes; they are beginning to become a pernicious habit.'
Since the island-wide anti-Tamil violence of July 1983, the government has permitted its security forces to engage in mass-scale killing of innocent Tamil civilians, including women and children, under the pretext of combatting terrorism.
The Report of the Amnesty International released in June 1984 details the extrajudicial killings in which the security forces have engaged in since July 1983. Several hundred innocent Tamils, including women and childiren, have died at the hands of the
Security forces Sir In apparent ret and isolated acts them, the securit and continue to m the course of wh and towns have b ing thousands of their burnt-out ho The city of Jaffr Valvettiturai, Po kam, Mannar, Va vu, have been rep arson and destruc forces.
The governmen nowledged, in the evidence, that in the security forc destroyed 123 hom es belonging to Ta Mannar on August indiscriminate inc the Catholic Bisho "It is like an army ing everything in
The following ex spot reports of col the continuing viol Tamil people at the ity forces:
Several thousand ing by the Sri Lanka camp on the northe ernment continues With the Israeli Sec ... according to so camp for refugees h Village ofAtchuveli, titurai which was Week by the Sri Lan, 2,500 civilians are : into the camp.
"The section of Va tween the coastal h was completely des opposition sources numbers of Tamils incidents in Jaffna' Hospital Street."
(Th
女 女 'Anti-terrorist poli to about 100 fisherme primitive houses an village of Valvettitu east of Jaffna.
When I arrived (14.8.84) afternoon, a was rising from th clustered along thes, the houses and sho, main street were su About 20 village through a maze of a could see the huts locals were terrifie selves in case the s fire. When they spott ing towards us, they rickety Morris Mino om our way.
"Although I was un firmation of earlier
-

e March-April 1983. iation to individual of violence against forces have made ke reprisal raids in h several villages an set ablaze, driv'amils to flee from mes.
and the villages of t Pedro, Chunnauniya and Mullaitiatedly subjected to
ion by the security
has publicly ackface of irrefutable ne operation alone, S set on fire and es and shop premismils in the town of 11, 1984. This act of
ineration provoked
) of Mannar to say:
of invasion, flatten
its path.'
tracts from on-therespondents reveal ince suffered by the hands of the Secur
refugees from shelln navy have fled to a rn coast as the govits operation staged ret Service advisers rurces in Colombo, a as been set up at the mot far from Valvetshelled earlier this kan navy. More than said to have moved
Ivettiturai lying beighway and the sea “troyed. Sri Lankan claimed that large were killed in new main street - the
e Guardian, 10.9.84)
女 ★ - ドー ceyesterday set fire n's huts and a dozen shops in the Tamil rai, 16 miles morth
there westerday pall of black smoke e fishermen's huts fore. The remains of is destroyed in the aouldering. 's led us gingerly leys from which we being burned. The of showing thenecial police opened d some police conbundled us into our taxi and urged us
able to obtain conharges that Valvet
TAMILTIMES Z.
titurai was shelled from the Sea with heavy losses of property, the villagers alleged yesterday that the shore was being machine-gunned for up to two hours every night by the navy.'
The Guardian, 15.884)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
'Officials in Mannar's port, 195 miles north of Colombo, said they had seen soldiers setting fire to the shops. They also accused the army of shooting two civilians. • દ
“Other army attacks on three nearbý villages on Sunday and Monday left five dead and about 30 shops and houses burned, they added. Residents in several towns in the Tamil-dominated north have claimed that soldiers randomly attacked civilians to a venge rebel operations. The government has vigorously denied these charges. Officials who asked not to be named said about 30 soldiers arrived from a nearby military base on Sunday, looted a liquor store and set fire to the main bazaar.
"Soldiers shot a man outside his cafe and threw his body inside it to burn, they added. A teacher was shot dead as he looked out of his front door. The soldiers, who stayed an hour, had slipped out of their base and could not be controlled by the local commander, one official said. "Meanwhile, in Jaffna, the frightened capital of Sri Lanka's north, funeral parlours are the only businesses sure to open round the clock these days. With residents staying indoors for fear of being caught in cross-fire between Tamil separatist guerrillas and the army, almost all shops were shut.
Taxi drivers rarely venture out. One was shot dead in his cab on Friday. On one almost deserted street, one Roman Catholic told journalists he was too frightened to go to Sunday mass. "We are afraid we will get shot."
"The general hospital is working overtime but with only half its staff, doctors said. The rest have been afraid to come to work since the building was hit by gunfire on August 5 and 6. But the funeral parlours, with names like New Bright House and White House, provide a 24hour service for victims of the latest round of violence.'
Financial Times, 16.884) 女。女 女 女
"Nineteen years old and pregnant, Mrs Kalavathi Thangathurai lay beside her husband on the dirt floor of their home, a mud-walled palm-thatched room in a compound housing 30 or more of their relatives.
"It was 9.30pm at night, and hurtling through the nodding palmyahs came what one man later described as a "fiery star'. It struck a corner upright of their shanty and exploded, showering fragments which pierced holes in bicycle wheels, in saucepans and in the walls. Kalavathi died. Her husband was injured. -
The random killing of Kalavathi is paralleled by the equally random killing of Captain Mohan Das in Point Pedro. The captain was having some trouble with one of his industrial endeavours and

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called at the Post Office to make a long-distance telephone ca II. As he left he became caught up in a vengeful sweep through the little township by armed police who roared out of their camp after an ambush by Tamil extremists.
"They seized 20 gallons of petrol from the filling station near by, shot the captain, and drove off spraying bullets at houses and people along the way.
'A cyclist died at the next crossroads, an old lady visiting relatives for a wedding was shot through both feet - which have since been amputated. A mille further om, a 17year-old boy was shot. At the hospital he was refused admittance by the police guard and later he bled to death, according to the local citizens' committee. -
The police commandos called at Hartley College, one of the most distinguished education establishments in the north . . . Some 7,500 books from the school library were pulled from their shelves, piled up and burned. In classrooms and laboratories the old wooden furniture was likewise heaped up, soaked with petrol and set om fire. ”
(Times, 25.984) The action of the security forces must be presumed to be in accordance with government orders or directions. To rebut this resumption, the government must take action against those offending sections of its security forces, including criminal prosecution for arson and murder. To date, the government has done no such thing, nor is there the slightest hint that it proposes to do so. On the contrary, the government and its ministers have been and are engaged in a cover-up of the atrocities committed by the security forces.
The thousands of Tamils seeking asylum or refugee status in Europe, America and Australia, the 40,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in South India, and the voluntary migration of thousands of able-bodied qualified Tamils to different parts of the world are all indicative of the extent and severity of oppression, deprivation and violence to which the Tamil people in Sri Lanka are subjected.
When a Cabinet Minister of the Sri Lankan government, Mr Gamini DisSanayake, publicly and openly declares that the blood of every Tamil (3 million) will be sacrificed to the country in four minutes in the event India were to intervene, and when the President himself threatens a repetition of the July 1983 anti-Tamil violence if the Muslims and Tamils continue with their campaign against employing the Services of the Israeli Secret Service, they betray an attitude of mind which is essentially genocidal in character. From all the evidence of the events of the last three and a half decades. that irresistable conclusion is that the Tamil people in Sri Lanka are being Subjected to the crime of g nocide.
Hլ TR MN
Chief guest Presid dene had to liste truths when he att vention of the Cey gress (CWC) at Hall, Wella watt September 16.
Although CWC P. ter S. Thondamar enough to Presid asserting that it is " that a healthy soll problem can be fo keep down the sha President and his other CWC official . Particularly sha of Mr Jaya Peri Sul of the Reception ( delegates from th Thondaman himse critical and disapp his speech.
All these criticis the presence of f
from the ICFTU.
Describing the plantation workers Lanka face after
government of whi ent Minister, Mr ' “The cold-bloode innocent, the emer
brutality, the deg
values, is ripping ric of our society. "Human rights a
foot and a wave of
ing the land”. . He also mentio) was meeting in a si tragedy. Lives ar and So much inno shed.
Security
Commenting ol
statement that 90,0 tion workers of Il Soon become citize Thondaman said t than citizenship, cern of the statel He a s ke di w citizenship, if the continue to be ex life, employment
two or three yeal
The arrests of plantation worker
pects was addin
insecurity on the
The plantation Mr Thomadaman.

NOVEMBER 1984 gg
MAN RIGHTS ARE
MPLED UNDER FOOT ISTER TELLS PRESIDENT
ent J. R. Jayewarto some homended the 28th Conlon Workers Conhe Ramakrishna 2, Colombo, on
esident and Miniswas ingratiating ent Jayewardene, only in your period tion to the ethnic und, he could not rp criticism of the government from s and delegates.
p was the speech lderam, Chairman 3ommittee, and of le floor. Minister If could mot keep a jointed note out of
ms were made in raternal delegates
situation that the and people of Sri Seven years of a ch he is a prominThondaman said:
d massacre of the gence of the cult of radation of moral apart the very fab:
re trampled under bitterness is sweep
led that the CWC tuation of 'national e being daily lost 'ent blood is being
the President's 00 stateless plantadian origin would ns of Sri Lanka, Mr at security, rather 7as the main con ss workers today. hat good was e people were to Osed to the loss of nd property every
numbers of young as “terrorists” susto the sense of blantations.
ystem today, said continues despite
some changes, basically on the lines of the "highly authoritarian structure of labour relations and a super-exploitation of the workers', that prevailed in colonial times.
Describing the conditions of life of plantation workers, the Minister said: "The bulk of estate workers still live in crowded 10 feet by 12 feet enclosures covered by a zinc roof, often exposed to the elements, in primitive squalor in much the same way their iforefathers lived, or even worse.
“Community facilities, are insignificant. Low wages have resulted in
"HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING TRAMPLED UNDER FOOTANDA NEW WAVE OF BITTERNESSIS SWEEPING THE LAND
- Mr Thomadaman
malnutrition, stunting, high infant mortality, and slow death. (Island, 1719)
Explaining why his organisation, although part of the government, had been compelled to join the general Strike of plantation workers for higher pay, Mr. Thondaman said that it had "no alternative'.
'The wage increase that was accorded to the plantation workers between 1977-1980 was soon eroded by rising prices and by 1982 the real income had gone down below the 1977 level . . . By early 1984, a critical stage has been reached.” (Ibid.)
Unhelpful
With regard to the committee appointed after the strike was called off to recommend, within a stipulated period of time, wage increases for plantation workers — á comittee of which Mr Thondaman himself is a member - the Minister said:
"I regret to say that the representatives of the two corporations are not adopting a helpful attitude to work out a just wage for the plantation workers, and therefore the report is being delayed.' 、き
Mr Thondaman, however, was careful not to draw attention to the fact that the Minister in charge of the two plantation corporations that he criticised is nome other than President J. R. Jayewardene !
Whilst saying that the plight of the

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NOVEMBER1984
ARMY ATROCITIES RAMPAGE OFM
Reports of widespread rampages by
the army in the Tamil areas and parti
cularly in the northern Jaffna district and the eastern Batticaloa district are reaching us almost daily. These re: ports indicate a new level in the campaign of arson and murder, increasing in its scale, intensity and brutality ever since the last week of October. It is no longer a case of random shooting and isolated acts of arson by indisciplined sections of the army.
The widespread nature of the incidents, and the number of the personnel involved including senior officers, demonstrate a cold and deliberate policy of extermination put into practice. The choice that the government offers through this policy is either submit to state terrorism or be exterminated.
Too numerous
The atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces during three weeks from the end of October are too numerous and horrendous to itemise individually. For the record a few of them are reported below. A Two Tamil youths were shot and killed by the army along Palaly Road on 28.10.84.
Three Tamil youths were shot and killed in Tellipalai on 29.10.84. On the same day, the army chased the people on the main road leading to Jaffna from Kokuyvil and Kondavil, collected the bicycles, piled them up, trucks were driven over the pile and it was then set on fire. Under cover of an intensive search operation in various
parts of Jaffna, a jewellery, money
from homes.
* The shelling o the sea continued al houses were da # Several fishing away by naval fishing village of ( lies have taken re ches. ★ The Hindu pri thy temple in M: youths were “tak and their wherea A unit of the a the train in Jaffna On 1.1184 continu the windows on ei until they reached fired directly into sers-by all along t two persons were lai, and the othe several injured ar ★ On 2.11.84, the rampage following which two army aged. In the cour eight Tamil civili: Several injured, name of N. Velupi As there were no h of the mine explos through Atchuve naru, setting abla Many of the houses valuables by arm they were set on
Fifteen houses W burnt down in Ur
plantation workers today was directly due to their 'exclusion from the political process in 1947, Mr Thondaman also forgot to mention that it was the UNP government of which Mr J.R. Jayewardene was then a prominent member which was responsible for this 'exclusion' which, he claimed, had led to these workers having only one representative (himself) in Parliament when their numbers warranted 10.
Political observers comment that the CWC convention reflected the growing restiveness of its members at the failure of government, of which Mr Thondaman is a member, to find an adequate solution to their immense and growing problems. While not prepared to take the CWC and himself out of the government, Mr Thondaman has, nevertheless, been compelled to reflect the bitterness felt by his members.
IMMINIS”
The Minister of N: Lailith Athulaithimil new circular whic ment officials in and eastern provi the Batticaloa, malee. Vavuniya, districts, would b nally for any los property belonging In the event, any lo
SCHOOL
Residents of the mó of Valvettiturai ha test campaign ag ment's confiscatio to the people of th being confiscated
tend the Valvettit
and army camp.
.

ON THE INCREASE
TAMILTIMES 9
JRDER 8, ARSON
my personnel looted and other valuables
coastal areas from nd in 29.10.84 SeverImaged in Mathagal.
boats were taken personnel from the hillalai. Many famiuge in nearby chur
st of Murugamoorthagal and several en for o questioning” bouts is not known. rmy which boarded to travel to Colombo ously fired through her side of the train Kodikamam. They houses and at pashe way. As a result, killed, one at Meesar at Punkan kulam, ld houses damaged. army went on a a mine explosion in vehicles were damse of the rampage, ans were killed and one person by the llai was burnt alive. puses nearthe scene ion, the army drove ti and ThondamaZe over 60 houses. were looted of their y personnel before fire. ere looted and later elu. A grape farm
containing 2,500 plants was reduced to ashes. At Urumpirai, eight houses were looted by army personnel and then set ablaze. At least about 50 persons are reported to have been killed or seriously injured. This included Tharmakulasingam of Urumpirai, Kanthasamy and his son Thevakumar of Urelu, Shanthan (23) and many others.
Two Muslim youths' were shot by the army — Aziz Amjad of Jaffna died on the spot and Abdul Cafoor was seriously injured. # Several houses were set on fire by the army in Karaveddy.
On 6.11.84, three Tamil youths were shot by the army in Urumpirai, two of them died on the spot and the other was seriously injured.
Eight Tamils were shot and killed in Mullaitheevu on 6.11.84 by the army in the course of a large-scale search operation.
der Following a shoot-out between the army and Tamil militants on 9.11.84 in Jaffna city, the army went on a rampage indiscriminately shooting at civilians, killing 10 people and injuring 45 persons. Those killed included Saravanamuthu (46), Manoharan (19), a boy of 12, Kulendran (29) and Jeyakumar (22). Army personnel going in a jeep threw acid at Selvarani, an undergraduate girl at the University of Jaffna as she was walking to attend lectures. She is badly injured and was admitted to Jaffna Hospital. fir Several Hindu temples have been raided by the army in the Jaffna district.
TER THREATENS GOVT.
tional Security, Mr dali, has issued a states that governhe Tamil northern ces, particularly in Mullaitivu, TrincoMannar and Jaffna » held liable persos or theft of any to the government. SS or theft, whether
OFFICIALS
any official is suspected or not, would mean automatic suspension from service without any inquiry whatsoever. This measure would no doubt operate mainly against those officials in the north and east who mainly happen to be Tamils. The trade unions have protested against the minister's new draconian measure.
LAND FOR POLICE STATION
thern coastal town ve mounted a proainst the govern
of land belonging area. The land is o enlarge and exrai police station
If the confiscation of the land goes ahead, 67 families would be affected.
Part of the land proposed to be confiscated incorporates the playground of Chithampara College. a leading school in the area. Teachers and parents are terrified at the proposal

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...”
SRI LANKA- A MOSSA
A Political Commen
DAVID MATNA I has gone and AZRAIL KARNI has arrived in Sri Lanka last month to be the permanent head of the Israeli interests section in Sri Lanka and to direct Mossad activities.
In a cavalier display of Supreme Zionist arrogance, Matnai, before he left, delivered a below-the-belt blow to his hosts, by way of a bull in a china shop interview given to the Island'. While President Jayewardene was straining every sinew to tell the world that Sri Lanka was forced to bring the Israelis in because India had lobbied and thwarted other sources of assistance coming to Sri Lanka, Matnai spilled the beans by disclosing that even before the July 1983 riots the Sri Lankan government had been brokering for a honeymoon with Israel. .
“The Economist' disclosed the identity of the broker. It was President Reagan's special envoy, General Walters, who had acted as the "marriage broker' and drafted the agreements, one signed between Sri Lanka and Israel and the other between Israel and the USA.
Costly Cup of tea
'. It must be recalled that at the time it happened, the Government and its kept press described General Walters' visit as a routine stop in Sri Lanka en route from Pakistan to the Maldives, during which he had "a cup of tea with President Jayewardene. It certainly
must have been the most expensive
cup of tea in the world with ex-police Superintendent Mahath throwing all his experience from the Internal Security Division (ISID. — Sri Lanka’s equivalent of the CIA) to provide the highest possible security at the airport and half a dozen helicopters flying General Walters and his men 25 miles away to the President's house and back - all within a space of three hours
Perhaps the most painful Matnai thrust on President Jayewardene was that the Israelis accepted the Sri Lankan honeymoon because they had no foothold in Asia since being expelled from the continent and they had seized the opportunity provided by the Jayewardene government to re-establish their presence in Asia. In other Words, Israel was interested in the dowry and not the dam Sel!
The Israel-Sri has just started Junius Jayewarde rattling bunch of m cruciating pain, th Now Matnai and the spotlight and { and Richard Murp Azrail Karni is op suites at the Supt Plaza at Colpetty, interests section a beat a retreat afte) fighters bombed H which housed thei centre. Karni, 61 ye Israeli diplomat, cc in Asian affairs an
Murphy's clandes
Close on the heel Colombo another Richard W. Mur Secretary of the US who heads the Sou East sections. A se counting wide expe tise in Middle East Murphy had serve economic counsell and Asian countr Ambassador in Sy and the Philippine
If General Walte) cup of tea, Murp participate in the de Chancery of the US ombo”. That’s what ropes said!
r Countering India
The Murphy mi
have two distinct (
Murphy presided Strategic conclave ( dors in the region
co-ordinate US sche And, what were th
A report from R. LOS ANGELES TI] SUN (29.11.84), stat ence in Colombo of the states of the In
"presided over by M
its “ central con creasingly dominan and how to counter Jaye wardene’s, S obliges ! ' &
Murphy also atte to selected media m
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NOVEMBER 1984
D & WOA
tary by Chanakyan
Lanka honeymoon and already poor he and his sabreinisters are in exanks to Matnai. Walters are out of 2nter Azrail Karni hy ! * * * erating from three er luxury Liberty where the Israeli nd Mossad had to r Tamil Liberation otel Lanka Oberoi, r initial command ars old, is a Senior unting a speciality d State terrorism!
tine mission
s of Karni came to 'heavyweight' - hy, an assistant State Department, Ith Asia and Near nior US diplomat, Brience and experand Asiam affairs, d as political and or in several Arab ies, and later as ria, Saudi Arabia
S. rs came to have "a phy had come “to dication of the new S Embassy in Colthe Colombo dead
ssion appeared objectives.
in Colombo Over a of all US Ambassaof South Asia to mes for the region. ese schemes! on Tempest to the MES, quoted in the ed that the conferUS ambassadors of dian sub-continent, Ir Murphy, had as *ern India's init role in South Asia it! How President ri Lanka readily
mpted to play down len in Colombo, but nents made earlier
on by Dean Hinton, US envoy in Pakistam, that the US would back dictator Zia ul-Haq's military regime at Rawalpindi (not surprising, as most military dictatorship in the world have the Eagle's backing) in any armed conflict with (the late) Mrs Indira Gandhi’s government. . . .
Now working overtime in Pakistan, he has brazenly dropped even the customary US pretence that arming of Pakistan is directed against the Soviet threat in Afghanistan or the bogey of an attack on Pakistan by Afghanistan, thereby acknowledging the fact that the target is India. It is also during Hinton's patronage of Pakistan that the Sikh armed attacks in Amritsar and the stockpiling of weapons in the Golden Temple reached their peak, ultimately leading to the cold-blooded murder of Mrs Indira Gandhi. *
Preparing plans for the assassination of political leaders whom they do not like has been a traditional pastime of the CIA, the latest exercise being the production of a manual of terrorism, techniques of assassination, etc., for use by the Contras who sympathise with the ousted Nicaraguan dictator Somoza against the Sandinist leaders pf socialist Nicaragua. . . . .
The timing of the Colombo conclave less than a fortnight before the assassination of Mrs Gandhi and its main item on the agenda, do raise Some eyebrows when taken together with the fact that Murphy had given a pat on the back to Hinton in Colombo by describing him as a “very responsible and diligent diplomat”
Full DPL status for Israel
The second purpose of Murphy's visit to Sri Lanka was to wield the whip against Junius Jayewardene's regime vis-a-vis the originally agreed scheme to grant the Israelis full diplomatic status at the level of an embassy in Sri Lanka.
Junius had been hedging this promise and keeping the Israelis at "Interests section' level, owing to the overwhelming hostility of the Arab States. W ni s
Sri Lanka's charge d'affaires in Saudi Arabia was summoned to its Foreign Office and given a tongue lashing. Saudi Arabia had refused to sign the promised protocol to donate 171 million Saudi Riyals to provide funds for the right bank developmentNOVEMBER84
scheme for the Maduru Oya project. Saudi funds expected to bridge budgetary deficits in Sri Lanka were also not forthcoming. Saudi Arabia was also refusing to accept a new Sri Lankan ambassador and shelved its plans to open a Consulate in Colombo. Iraq, Sri Lanka's most important Arab tea buyer, had downgraded its representa
tion in Sri Lanka and was getting
ready to call off all Sri Lankan imports and other Arab states were to follow suit. Egypt had kept away from Sri Lankan tea auctions. Kuwait and some other Arab states have either halted or tailed off the recruitment of Sri Lankan labour, now totalling over 300,000 in the Middle East and accounting for over 6 billion Sri Lankan rupees in foreign exchange every year, the second highest foreign exchange earner for Sri Lanka after tea exports.
The Jordanian Foreign Minister has warned his Sri Lankan counterpart to reconsider the Israeli connection. Iran had recalled its newly appointed Ambassador to Sri Lanka while en route from Bombay. Urged by Syria and the PLO, the OPEC oil ministers were contemplating punitive measures against Sri Lanka.
It is understood that President Junius has been told in no uncertain terms that the US will not tolerate any more vacillation on the part of Sri Lanka in elevating the status of Israelis in Sri Lanka. The anxiety of the US is understandable, as revealed by a despatch in ARABIA (August, 1984): "Apparently, the US does not want to be openly involved in the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict. It has therefore encouraged Israel, its protege, to act on its behalf. . . The Israeli Foreign Minister David Kimche visited Washington in May (1984) and was given an assurance that the Reagan
administration would encourage the Israeli presence in Sri Lanka, Kenya, Liberia and Bolivia. US Congressman Howard Berman has even put forward
a bill proposing that the administration give $20 million to Israel to fund its foreign projects.'
Annexure C: US Sabotage?
Another interesting comment made by Murphyto selected mediamen in Colombo was that the US was thankful to President Jayewardene for allowing its warships free use of Sri Lanka's ports.
The ISLAND. (28.10.84) quoted Mr Murphy as saying that the US does not want bases in the South Asian region' because “the defence strategies of the United States do not necessitate such bases' and that "bases at times were a liability'.
What Mr Murphy was trying to say
was that 'Diego Garcia' and 'Boddam'
in the Indian Oce ment US bases
sufficient for the and what they w
were for ports, it
fuelling, servicin for their warship That explains W
inistration had op
being accepted a Conference in Sr Junius Jayeward
In the course August 1984 befor the sub-committe Representatives c on Human Right Schaffer, US Dep ary of State for S had stated that l play a helpful ro situation, and ha made by Mrs Indi ified it by saying ment had not end efforts and cited proposal virtually paving the way together of distric provincial council That suggests th of 'Uncle Sam' had Al Party Confere cause in terms of ', malee and its harb in the administra who were wiser to Sam' than 'Dirty
Sri Lanka - I Outsid
When the BLITZ f plete with the stren
ters, a few months
tude of the Voice
transmissions due
Sri Lanka, there w refused to swallow sensationalism
Now it has com "horse's mouth'
Mr Richard Mul Lankan media me month that the VOA in Sri Lanka 'would station outside the This is the static
Tamil and anti-Inc
to be beamed to tl This is the station my, subterfuge, going to be transm India, and thereby the militarisation ( region
According to the between Junius Ja VOA, the 1,000 acre station will be buj
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n and other permaSouth Asia were moment for the US re shopping around that region for reand other supplies and submarines. ly the Reagan admiposed "Annexure C
the Round Table Lanka and forced ne to jettison it. f his testimony in the joint meeting of of the US House of n Asian Affairs and , Mr Howard B.S. ty Assistant Secretouth Asian Affairs, ndia had sought to e in the Sri Lanka lauded the efforts ra Gandhi but qualthat the US governbrsed all the Indian the "Annexure C' mooted by India, for the grouping t councils to form a
at the messy hands
stretched out to the hce in Colombo, beAnnexure C'Trincopour would fall withtion of the Tamils,
the Wiles of 'Uncle Dick'.
biggest VOA e USA
irst reported, comgth of the transmitback, on the magniof America (VOA) to commence from are quite a few who it as a bitter pill of
straight from the
phy boasted to Sri n in Colombo last station to be set up be the biggest VOA United States'.
from which antian broadcasts are e Asian continent rom which calumnd subversion is itted to destabilise pave the way for the Indian Ocean
agreement signed ewardene and the On which the VOA I will be virtually
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USA territory in Sri Lanka. All US technicians and broadcasters working at the VOA will have DPL status and be immune from the normal laws of the land. Their equipment and person all belongings will be waived of customs duties and other taxes.
The sophisticated broadcasting and receiving equipment that will be brought into Sri Lanka will be immune. from inspection by Sri Lanka, leaving: the US to use it as it wishes against any country in Asia, whether it is Sri Lanka's friend or foe. w
The equipment could also be used freely for co-ordinating communication with the US Sixth Fleet, in whatever action it might be involved in
against whichever country in the re
gion.
It is understood that negotiations are now going on between the VOA and the Sri Lankan Government to amend the Sri Lankan laws suitably to enable the VOA to acquire outright ownership of the 1,000 acres on which the station is to be situated, to prevent Sri Lanka from ever repossessing the land or inspecting what goes on there.
CA man - VOA head
It is also not merely incidental that the new director of the VOA appointed. by the Reagan administration is Eugene Pell, a diehard antagonist of the socialist and developing countries, a very close associate of the CIA, who has experience in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, a master in promoting hostility between states, an expert adept in the art of disinformation, anda specialistin destabilisation and subversion of governments.
The curious development in Sri
Lankan politics is that, under the
pressure of the struggle forced upon them against an ever increasing
oppression and state terror, the
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Dear Mr Athulathmudali,
INTERVIEW WI
I read your rather extensive interview with Mr N. Ram, the correspondent of "The Hindu (Sept 19, 1984). You have given this interview in your capacity as the Minister of National Security in President Jayawardene's Cabinet in the course of which you touched on many topics. I also note that you have of late become the chief spokesman for the government not only on matters of national security but on every subject including the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka.
I presume you have been selected for this task because of your ability to conceal the crude chauvinistic positions of the government with a superficial layer, although quite transparent, of intellectual justification. I am sure, despite donning the garb of a Sinhala nationalist, your education at Oxford assists you in this rather dubious role. Mr Minister, you seem to complain about the area around the central highland city of Kandy being shown as a Tamil area in a map published in an Indian weekly. Why? Apparently because the Kandyan areas have traditionally been inhabited by Sinhalese, although at present the majority of the people living in areas around Kandy like Nuwara Eliya Gampala, Pusselawe and Hatton are Tamils working in the tea plantations. - . . ;
Most of them have lived in these areas for over a century. If this reasoning is right, then why do you, like other Sinhala extremist leaders, object to areas like Trincomalee, Vavuniya and Amparai, which have traditionally and predominantly been occupied by Tamil speaking people, being called Tamil areas?
Historical fact
Is it not à fact that the northern and eastern provinces have always been regarded, referred to and known as Tamil areas (Demala Pradesha)? Was it not a historical fact that the Sinhala leaders of the Ceylon National Congress refused a seat for the Tamils in Colombo in 1921 om the basis that the Tamils have their seats in the TamilSpeaking provinces, thus causing the Split in the CNC and the departure of its founder President, Sir P. Arunachalam? The present President himself recognised the northern and eastern provinces as Tamil areas when he said in the course of his speech in the State Council on May 24, 1944, "I had always the intention that
Tamil should bes speaking provinci should be the offi Tamil-speaking p.
If there were "
vinces” in 1944, ha
to exist as such? Of course, ha Tamil language (
through the Sinha
and having prog deliberate policy tional Tamil are: east with Sinhales side, the next log like you and other is to deny and dep acter of the north vinces through a ated Sinhala Stat
“Sri Lanka belo
- ans, Sinhalese, T
seem on the face non-chauvinistic Veneer of respect state-aided Sinha traditional Tamil
Plantation Tami
If you are genui) do you and your cate lands in the like the Gall Oya Mahaveli project and thousands O who suffer witho estates? Even w Tamils, driven o. Sinhala racist go areas like Vavul laitivu and Trincc Mr Minister, au forces to burn th troy their huts , forcibly evict, tu
them in the mid(
Even as I Wri tracts of land in Tamil district of cleared of Tamils colonisation! Wha ernment are up to numerical Streng ple even in their t. to achieve the subjugating them
Mr Minister, ir also contended th trict Councils a decentralisation Councils based on tion. because 'dis

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NOVEMBER 1984
INISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY
TH THE HINDU
poken in the Tamiles, and that Tamil rial language in the rovinceS.'
Tamill-speaking prove they now ceased
ving deprived the f its official status la Only Act of 1956, essively followed a of colonising tradils of the north and e brought from outical step for people Sinhala chauvinists rive the Tamil charern and eastern proprocess of accelere-aided colonisation. ngs to all Sri Lankamils and Muslims' of it a laudable and principle. It gives a ability to the naked ala aggression into
territory.
ls
ne, Mr Minister, why government mot alloirrigation schemes , Maduru Oya and s to the thousands f plantation Tamils ut work on the tea nem these plantation ut of the estates by ons, go and settle în niya, Mannar, Mulmalee, why do you, thorise your armed eir Settlements, desand cultivation and ansport and dump lle' of nowhere? te this letter, large the predominantly Vavuniya are being to facilitate Sinhala ut you and your gov) is to undermine the th of the Tamil peoaditional homelands diabolical design of
l.
your interview you at you favoured Disthe basic unit of instead of Regional provincial demarcatricts, by and large,
pre- -
express a early much better than the provinces.
It is your President Jayewardene who co-authored 'Annexure C” which provided for Regional Councils as the unit of devolution. When the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) refused to participate in the All Party Conference on the ground that "Annexure C fell short of their demand for a single united Regional Council for the northern and eastern provinces, it was your President who persuaded the
TULF to participate in Conference
promising that TULF's demand could also be discussed at the Conference.
What did your President do once the APC started? He unceremoniously jettisoned "Annexure C', thus adding himself to the notorious line-up of Sinhala leaders who had acquired a remarkable record for dishonouring agreements and undertakings which they had solemnly signed.
Mr Minister, the arguments you put | against decentralisation on a provincial basis is truly ingenious - people in the north and east are not homogenous; they are divided into Tamils, Muslims, Catholics, Christians and Hindus; some people are educationally developed and others are backward; Sinhalese are also liv
ing in these areas in considerable num
bers; in Mannar, the Muslims and
Sinhalese constitute 40 per cent and
there is a Catholic majority; in Vavuniya, the Tamils are 50 per cent and
Sinhalese are 20 per cent. (This is in
fact not correct - according to the 1981 census, 76 per cent are Tamil speaking and 16 per cent a re
. Sinhalese.) In short, therefore, provin
cial-wise decentralisation is not realistic
Substantial number
Mr Minister, unlike you and many of
your 'Sinhala-Buddhist leaders, who
use the expressions 'Sinhala' and 'Buddhist' interchangeably or to de
note the ethno-religious grouping of
Sinhala-Buddhists, ignoring the fact that there are a substantial number of Catholics and Christians among the Sinhalese, the Tamil people regard all those who speak the Tamil language as "Tamil speaking people'; and this expression included the Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Christians and in fact atheists too.NOVEMBER 1984
It is also a fact that the Muslim population of the north and the east, and for that matter, the substantial majority of those Muslims who live outside these areas are all Tamil speaking. In spite of the aggressive implementation of the policy of colonising Tamil areas with Sinhalese, the Tamil Speaking people of the north and east constitute over 85 per cent of the population in these provinces.
The case for autonomy for the north and east arises from the discrimination and oppression of the Tamil speaking people irrespective of their religious persuasions.
When Sinhala was made the official language it disadvantaged all the Tamil speaking people including the Muslims. When lands in the north and east are colonised by Sinha lese brought from outside, it affects the Tamils and Muslims alike. When Sinhala racist violence is let loose, it does not discriminate or differentiate
between Tamil Hindus and Tamil
Catholics or Christians.
Discrimination
The discrimination in education and
employment is faced equally by all members of the Tamil speaking community. When the state security forces go on their regular and repeated rampages of murder and arson, the entire
Tamil speaking community, whether they be Muslims, Tamils, Hindus,
Catholies or Christians become victims.
The demand for autonomy for the northern and eastern provinces is based om the fundamental principle that the Tamil speaking people have an imalienable right to preserve, protect and promote their linguistic and cultural heritage and identity in a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural Sri Lanka.
It is the failure to recognise this basic democratic principle by successive Sinhala-Buddhist dominated governments and the basic fallacy that the Sinhala-Buddhists have a pre-ordained right of linguistic, religious, cultural and territorial domination throughout Sri Lanka which are the root causes for the present crisis that afflicts the country.
Mr Minister, I will deal with your role as Minister of National Security, the role of your armed forces and other matters you have touched upon during your interview in my next letter.
R. SHANTHII Colombo 4, 30.10.84
ʻTAMIL R ONARR
All Tamil refuge Lanka from count quest for refugee fused would be a Colombo, the Sri National Security, mudali told a pres Ombo on October The Minister, ir questions from r decision of the S repatriate to Sri Tamils who had Switzerland, said t will arrest the refu Switzerland on arr port. The Ministe. contradicts the hy the Sri Lankan Ar va, Mr Jayantha I previously told th returning Tamils any fear of action thorities.
The thousands of ly youths who ar.
PARALLE ADMINIST The Tamils in the lived in a fear psych military occupatio Sinhala intellectual lished in the Sri I ISLAND. During th na district the grou] Northern inhabitan to reconsider their to the role of the m the government h legitimacy of the leadership by delay tlement.
In their report, th of the Committee velopment (CRD) emergence of a pa tion by the Tamily noted that the com creasingly relying "This cannot be des Operations.'
“It is now appare our society which r July 1983 has reac unarmed, innocen citizens are being gulfed by indiscr. Conveying to fell perceptions of the remarked that to th in Jaffna seemed to manner, but the mo tor Soon observes ce in the people's beh
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قلتقال للطلثل سسسسسسسسسسسسـسـصـ EFUGEES WILL BE ARRESTED VAL - MINISTER
s returning to Sr.
ies where their re- ”
tatus had been reested on arrival in ankan Minister of Mr Lalith Athulathi eonference in Col1. answer to specific porters about the viss authorities to Lanka about 1,700 sought refuge in hat 'if necessary we gees returning from val at Colombo Air's menacing threat pocritical claim of hbassador in Genehanapala, who had e media that the need not entertain by Sri Lankan au
Tamils, particular2 in countries like
TRATION
Northern Province hosis and a sense of n, said a group of is in a report pubuankan newspaper eir visit to the Jaffp observed that the ts were beginning attitude in relation ilitant youth since ad weakened the moderate Tamil ing a political set
Sinhala members for Rational Dealso spoke of the rallel administrauth in Jaffna and mon man was inin this new power. royed by military
t that the crisis in anifested itself in ed a level where and uninvolved increasingly enminate violence. w Sinhalese the Tamils, the group casual visitor life go on in a normal re discerning visirtain peculiarities viour.
West Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and the UK, fled from Sri Lanka due to the continuing represSion, arbitrary arrests, detention and torture to which Tamils are subjected. International human rights bodies like Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists have documented gross violations of basic human rights including indiscriminate killing of Tamil civilians.
The decision of the Swiss authorities to deny refugee status to the Tamils in this context has been roundly condemned by human rights organisations. They have pointed out that the Swiss government would be knowingly send ing Tamils to Sri Lanka to be arrested tortured and even killed, in violation of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the status of refugees. .
The Swiss government's move is als the more incomprehensible in the con text of the statement of Mr Rudoph Friedrich, the Minister of Justice, which conceded "one cannot guarantee that they (Tamils) would not be in danger if they return'. Mr Kistler of the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police said: "We have to be sure in each individual case, however, that persons being sent back are not exposed to danger. We do realise that the situation in Sri Lanka is unstable and that there is local repression.''' In addition to the continuing cam paign by human rights bodies against the decision of the Swiss government, several hundred Tamils fasted in pro-. test in a church in Berne, where the largest number of Tamil refugees are housed. w The Sri Lanka Solidarity Committee based in Geneva, Caritas and the Swiss League for Human Rights are leading the campaign to obtain the reversal of the government's decision:
SAY IT INSINHALA
The Tamil village of Vepankulam. situated in he Cheddikulam Asst. Govt. Agents' Division in the northern province has been renamed by the government of Sri Lanka. Hereafter, the village will be called KOHOBEGASWEWE. .
This type of 'Sinhalisation' has been going on ever since 1948 particularly in the Tamil-dominated easterm province. In Batticaloa, Amparai and Trincomalee districts, hundreds of place names have been subject to 'Sinhalisation' over the years. Now the process is being accelerated
even in the northern province. .14 TA'...' - LTIMES
TAMLTRA
STATE TERRORIS
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SEPTEMBER 24, 1984
PENSIONERS PUNISHED :
Pensioners from the Achchuvely, Valvettiturai and Kankesanthurai areas queued up from the early hours of dawn at the Jaffna esplanade to collect their pensions. By mid-morning the rain came down in torrents drenching the hundreds of old men and women. The shivering pensioners did not budge from the queues and stood there till noon when the payment of pensions commenced. This was the result of the government suspending pension pay
ments from sub-post offices in thesę
area.S.
EXTORTION BY TROOPS: Government troops arrived at the Point Pedro bazaar. They burst into textile stores, helped themselves to items they fancied and walked out. They entered restaurants, ate whatever they liked and walked out. No bills. No payments. The shopowners' association of Point Pedro lodged a complaint with the Assistant Government Agent of Point Pedro about this extortion and robbery.
STUDENTS BOYCOTT: Students of schools in and around the Point Pedro area began a boycott of schools today. demanding the withdrawal of the armed forces from buildings they had commandeered in the immediate vicinity of schools, from where they were launching attacks on schoolboys. The boycott would continue till the demand was met.
VAWUNIYA UNDER SIEGE: There is great tension prevailing in Vavuniya. The little town goes dead shortly
after noon. All shops close at this time.
After the schoolchildren pass through the town at 2pm, it gives the appearance of a haunted town. Government employees working in Vavuniya are badly hit because all restaurants and even Small tea kiosks close at noon. People fear an impending army rampage.
MULLAITIVU “UNDER OCCUPATION: There is near pandemo
nium in the village of Mullaitivu following extensive combing out opera
tions by the army. Roads are deserted throughout the day. Security personnel
numbering about 10( and occupied three Kudiiruppu and M September 1984. In made a rigorous se About 400 youths W questioning by the a erected at Mulliyaw vu, and the residen under the pretext of youth in the hamlet uppu have been ro troops and taken av ing.' Seven Tamils Mullaitivu were kille had been burnt, pres their identity.
SEPTEMBEF MOTHERS BREA
ty-seven mothers
hundreds of mother had been taken capti forces met Brigadi atne, commanding t in the Jaffna distric ernment Agent of J: chalingam, had ar) ing. The mothers br unashamedly as the Brigadier to arrang their innocent child took place at a S Palaly. Some gov (Tamils) present at seen to be moved heart-rending pleas and broken down v
MONEY ORDE The government h issue of money orc Offices in the Jaffn great hardships to
MANNAR STU TEST: All student District have been for the last two days harassment of sc security forces.
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MCONTINUES
31 O 172431 Monday 7 1421 28 Monday 5 12 1926
2 uesda 2 1 edne 1 y 3 11 h ri 4. 1 1 iday 1 A 1 8 5 22:29 Saturday 5 12 1926 Saturday 3 10, 17243 3 2 9 1623 30 Sunday 6 1320 27 Sunday 41 1825
, arrived in buses Schools in Puthu ullaitivu on 24th
the night, they arch in the area. ere taken in for my to the camps allai and Mullaitits were harassed search. All Tamil
of Puthu Kudiirunded up by the vay for “question
from a farm in d and their bodies umably to destroy
25, 1984
AKDOWN: Six
representing the s whose children ive by the security er Nalin Senevirhe security forces t. The Tamil Govaffna, Mr M. Pan'anged this meetoke down and wept y pleaded with the for the release of ren. The meeting chool building at ernment officials the meeting were
to tears at the
of the depressed "omen.
RS STOPPED: as suspended the ers from all Post a district, causing people.
DENTS PROs from the Mannar boycotting classes protesting against hoolboys by the
OD : Sarath Mulunist MP for Kalagth in Parliament he atrocities being amil people by the river of blood is asserted the MP.
The massacre of the Tamils in the
North resembled the massacre of the Palestinians on Arab soil by Israel. A
military solution was not the answer to
the problems of the Tamils. That would destroy the whole country.
SEPTEMBER 26, 1984
150 YOUTH CAPTURED: In be sieged Mullaitivu, the army carried out a house-to-house search in the hamlets of Kumunaimunai, Thannerootru and Alambil and rounded up all "Tamil youth, numbering 150. They
were taken to army camps.
COMMANDOS NEAR LADIES COLLEGE: The TULF President, Mr M. Sivasithamparam has sent a telegram to President Jayawardeme asking him to move out the police commandos who had gone into a building adjoining the Methodist Ladies College and Hartley College in the Point Pedro area.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1984
FIRE ENGINE - NO DUTY RELIEF: President Jayawardene’s regime has refused to grant tax relief for the fire engine to be imported to Jaffna from the UK at £57,000 to cover 'cost and freight. Following repeated acts of arson by the security forces over the last few years the city of Jaffna went ablaze several times. The Jaffna local council, unable to persuade the Government to supply a fire engine for Jaffna, raised donations from the people of Jaffna totalling £57,000. It was expected that the Government would waive the customs duty of £15,000 for the import. But that was not to be. Now the public of Jaffna are making more donations to cover the import duty.
MOU RNING MOTHE R S - MARAUDING TROOPS: About 200 wailing mothers (Tamils) from the Mullaitivu district invade the Government Secretariat at Mullaitivu asking the Government Agent to take steps to restore to them their children who had been captured and taken away by the security forces. The Government Agent (Tamil) had already proceeded to Colombo on the previous day to
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make representations about the captured children. The mothers made rep- resentations to his deputy. Meanwhile, more hamlets in the Mullaitivu district are being scoured by the troops, with more children being taken captive.
fiPANIC AT KEERIMALAI: Panic and frenzy prevailed at the shrine area of Keerimalai as Government troops began a house-to-house search. The search extended to the Kadduvan and Myliddy areas in particular and Kankesanthurai in general. .
PANDEMONIUM AT PUNGANKULAM: A massive convoy of army vehicles proceeding along the Jaffna-Kandy road, covered by overflying helicopters, came to a halt Suddenly at the Pungankulam Railway Station, sending the people of the area running helter skelter for safety fearing an impending army rampage. But it proved to be a false alarm, as the convoy had stopped to change a deflated tyre of one of the vehicles.
COAST AL SHELLING: The shelling of the coastal fishing villages of the Point Pedro district from the Sea by the Sri Lankan Navy continues unabated. Fishermen in this area have not gone out fishing for the last two months out of fear and their families are virtually starving.
EXAMS? COME TO COLOMBO: The viva voce examination for the candidates who appeared for the English teachers training certificate final examination of the Jaffna Technical Institute at Kondavil is to be held in Colombo, it was announced :today. For the past several years these interviews had been held in Jaffna. It is feared that many of the candidates (Tamils) may not undertake the hazardous trip to Colombo out of fear and due to the continued curtailment of regular public transport to Colombo.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1984
MORE SHELLING. More shelling from the sea by the Sri Lanka Navy has been reported from the coastal villages of Polykandy and Thikkam. The shelling has shaved off the tops of several palmyrah palms. Fishermen from these areas have not gone to sea for several weeks and their families have been in dire straits.
TERROR AT POINT PEDRO: Sheer pandemonium reigned at Point Pedro when an army convoy arrived, emptying several rounds of sub-machine gun fire into the skies. People abandoned their homes and fled hither and thither to save their lives. It is reported that a large number of Tamil youth were captured by
the army and tal
SEPTEMB
ARMY KIDNA
ber some army m took one Sabana Partner Of Neem miya, Mannar R army camp at where his hands back and later h Sittampalam's ( house. The army explode a bomb r person in charge tions had been i Jayasinghe. As th get the bomb exp back and shot at S tained injuries to mach and fell un diers mistook him a placard stating executed for prov Ta mil milita mt 'Sinhalese Youth'. tained serious inј On the same day, belonging to the T believed to be by
OCTOBE
ARMY -- RAMPA NIYA: The resi Chairman of the Wa velopment Council was attacked and b second time by a gr civils. Mr Sittamb lost his position a when he refused
against separation
worthy that Mr S dence was ravag troops only a few
OOTOBEI
POINT PEDR( Point Pedro faced armed forces on t night the residence magistrate and bui the Customs Depa attacked. Today se troops roamed thro Tamil youth was troops near the Cus Minor employees w Pedro Post Office troops. Panic and te over. Shops, mark mained closed. Ro Serted. Telecommu tween Jaffna and mained severed.
DISHONOURA ANCE CORPC building belonging t
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em a Way.
R 30, 1984
”: On 30th Septem2n in civils forcibly lan, the Managing Rice Mill in Vavuad, to the nearby Eiratperiya kulan, ere tied behind his was taken to Mr X-DDC Chairman) personnel tried to ear the house. The of all these operalentified as Major soldiers could not loded, they turned abanathan. He Susthe head and stoconscious. The solor dead and placed that he had been iding funds to the s and signed it Even though he susuries, he survived. wo other rice mills amils were looted, the Same gang.
R 1, 1984
GE AT VAVUdence of the exavuniya district De, Mr Sittambalam, adly damaged for a oup of army men in alam of the TULF s DDC Chairman to take the oath last year. It is noteittambalam’s resied by marauding months back.
R 3, 1984
) ATTACKED : vet another blitz by he rampage. Last of the Point Pedro ldings belonging to rtment had been veral hundreds of ugh Point Pedro. A shot dead by thę toms Department. orking at the Point were attacked by nsion prevailed all ets and banks reads remained denication links bePoint Pedro re
BLE INSURRATION: The
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Merchants Association which was set Om fire by rampaging troops on April 9 this year had been covered by a com
prehensive insurance policy with the state-owned insurance corporation. But the corporation has rejected a claim for payments for the losses incurred. The Board of Directors of the association has taken a decision to file a suit against the Insurance Corporation's decision in courts.
MILL OWNER SHOT: A mill owner in Vavuniya, Mr Sabanathan, who was taken away at gun point by troops, has been admitted to the Jaffna Hospital with gun-shot injuries to his face. He underwent emergency surgery. The troops had shot him through his cheeks and dumped him in a lonely area.
OCTOBER 5, 1984
AVOID NIGHT TRAVEL - LALITH : Mr Lalith Athulathmudahi, Minister of Internal Security, has advised the Tamil people in the north to avoid travelling by night, as it could be dangerous Danger from whom? Marauding troops?
CORPSES IN THE SEA: Corpses of humans are said to be seen floating in the sea off Delft (an island off the 'Jaffna mainland). Corpses are seen more or less every day. They fear that the Sri Lankan navy is gunning down lonely fishermen out on the seas.
oCTOBER 7, 1984
SHELLING FROM THE SEA: Fishing families of Tamils living in the co a s tal v illages of M a m u mai, Thaalaiady and Chemppianpattu live in the jungles by night and in their villages by day. They no longer go out fishing. From about 10pm in the nights the Navy shells these villages from the sea. Men, women and children, and even pregnant women move over into the jungles by night. When they come back to their huts by day, they see tell-tale marks of the night's shelling on the walls and roofs of their huts.
HARASSMENT TO SEA COMMUTERS: 'Manimegalai and 'Kumudini', two passenger motorboats plying between Kurikadduvan and the island of Delft were accosted on the sea by the Navy and subject to search for several hours. 'Manimegalai' along with its 100 passengers was later taken to the Navy camp at Kavainagar.
OCTOBER 8, 1984
FISHERMAN SHOT DEAD : fisherman who went to sea at Allaipid
) the Jaffma United dy to catch beche-de-mer abounding in
umuumidi16TAMILTIMES
the area has been shot and killed by the Navy.
HARTLEY BLITZED A GAIN: Hartley College, Point Pedro, ravaged by the security forces, is reported to have suffered further attacks by marauding troops last night. The damage is being estimated.
OCTOBER 9, 1984
PRINCIPALS MEET BRIGADIER: A delegation of school principals and educationists from the Jaffna district met Brigadier Nalin Seneviratne at the Guru Nagar Army Camp. They lodged an official protest over harassment of schoolboys by the security services, which had led to students keeping away from schools over the past few months. Building contractors were scared to recommence the renovation of Hartley College out of fear of reprisals by the army. The army camp and the police station at Point Pedro, housing commandos, have been set up adjoining Hartley College and Methodist Ladies College and children were scared to attend those schools. The Brigadier said that he would instruct Major Ariyapperuma in charge of Point Pedro regarding renovation work at Hartley. Shifting the police station and army camp at Point Pedro was beyond his powers, he said
OCTOBER 10, 1984
TRAVAILS OF MAGISTRATE: Mr T. Joganathan, Point Pedro’s Tamil magistrate who proceeded to Colombo on official business on October 2, came back to Point Pedro today to find the army occupying a part of his official residence, having broken into it. He has reported this matter to the Judicial Service Commission and has alleged theft of household property worth Rs.5,000. He has also protested about being rudely displaced from his residence in such fashion.
STUDENT DE MONSTRATIONS, HUN GER STRIKE:
Nearly 40,000 students, boys and girls, of the Jaffna district, launched a massive demonstration and protest fast today protesting against army excesses against them. This was the culmination of a series of protest fasts carried out in temples and churches by students of the Point Pedro areas over the last few weeks. The demonstrators, numbering about 5,000, marched Serveral miles in procession, shouting militant slogans, to the Jaffna Government Secretariat to meet the Government Agent. They gave details of the harassment meted out to them by the Security forces and urged him to take
up the matter wit the highest level. ' we are coming to sentations. Our out. Next time you will see only our clared to the Gov
MORE SHELL tal villages in Poi been shelled from Lankan Navy. Th villages of Uduth show coconut tree their heads shave People from thes Constantly on the
OOTOBEI
SEARCH AND
security forces m house-to-house sea Mandaitivu and th lai Kadduvan anc several Tamil you set fire to a house van. Great tensis these areas. Weep tured children are the offices of var
VIOLENCE IN army went bese Road, Brown Ro Road areas, assa innocent civilians assaulted include Visvanathan, Sil and Thanendran Board who were ( in this area and Ra tor from the “Eela all of whom have
. OCTOBE
EDUCATION LALITH: A di principals and * e Jaffna district me li, Mimister of Il Colombo today ti tions to him abou Tamil students.
SHORTAGE O is a desperate sho Jaffna General H government hosp Province. Patient empty-handed af by doctors as the virtually all drug pital sources said is now expecting age with six moi dage cloth, prob the scale of viole Jaffna District by
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the government at This is the last time you to make repreatience is running will not see us. You corpses, they deernment Agent.
ING: Several coasnt Pedro East have the sea by the Sri coastal line of the urai and Aliyavalai s standing bold with | off by the shelling. e villages are now
U.
R 11, 1984
CAPTURE: The
ounted an intensive |rch in the island of e villages of PunnaThyiddy and took th as captives. They at Punnallai Kaddupn is prevailing in ing mothers of capSeen queuing up at ious areas.
JAFFNA: The rk in the Navalar ad and Kasthuriar ulting and injuring on the road. Those Balasubramaniam, nnarasa, Devaraja of the Electricity arrying out repairs avindran, a composiy Nadu', Tamil daily, suffered injuries.
R 12, 1984
ISTS ME ET legation of School ducationists of the t Mr Athulath mudanternal Security, in ), make representa: t army excesses on
F DRUGS: There rtage of drugs in the ospital, the premier tal of the Northerm are returning home er being examined dispensary reports s “out of stock”. HOSthat the government the hospital to manths' supply of banbly precipitated by nce unleashed in the
government troops.
APTURED: The
e now taking away
NOVEMBER 1984
Tamil girls also as captives. In the village of Mayillankadu three young girls have been taken away. At Amirthakali, in the Batticaloa District, in the Eastern Province, Malar, a teenage sister of Poet Kasi Anandan, TULF activist now operating from Madras, has been taken away by the Security forces.
OCTOBER 14, 1984 CURFEW IN THE SEA: The gov
ernment has announced a curfew order for the seas off the Northern Province from 6pm to 6am. Brigadier Nalin Seneviratne had implemented a dusk to dawn curfew in certain areas of the Sea off the North for the last two weeks. Minister Athulathmudali has now extended it to the entire Northern Sea. That puts paid to the living of every fisherman in the North of Sri Lanka.
4 NEW ARMY CAMPS: Speaking to a Sinhalese audience at a Public meeting at Tambukkanna in the central Province, Minister Athulath mudali announced plans for a further militarisation of the Tamil homelands in the North. He said that four more army camps would be set up in the North:ł bisfił
NOW - A CO-ORDINATING CTTEE: A co-ordinating committee
of all the citizens' committees now
functioning in the North was inaugurated in Jaffna. These citizens committees have been necessitated as a result of the TULF, the main political party of the Tamils, being outlawed by the government in August 1983 and all Tamil MPs in the North losing their seats in Parliament.
TROOPS BESERK AT KILINOCHCHI: Security forces went beserk at Karadipoakku Junction at Kilinochchi, assaulting pedestrians in the street and smashing up parked cars, vans and motor-cycles. Several people were injured.
OCTOBER 16, 1984 KOKUVIL; UNDER SIEGE:
house-to-house search, harassment and assault were carried out by the army at Kokuvil East, plunging the area into panic and tension. Several Tamil youth were taken away as captives.
OCTOBER 17, 1984
LONE B OAT, DRIFTS ASHORE: A plastic outboard motorboat was found drifting on the Sea off the Northern coastal village of Uduthurai. The fate of the fishermer who went out in the boat is not known.NOVEMEBER 1984
"MISDEEDS"
CULTURAL
In its long and tragic post-Independence history, the Jaffna Peninsula, in fact, the entire Tamil speaking areas of the North and East of Sri Lanka, have gone through several agonising experiences, But the agony, the privations and the loss of human rights the people of this region have been subjected to in the last two years appear to be among the worst disasters suffered by any people in the world.
There is increasing evidence that violence is on the march in the North and it is no consolation that such violence is a chain reaction - a reaction to the Tamil liberation groups' guerrilla activities somewhere else, or retaliation by the armed forces by taking it on the innocent civilians.
During the last week of September and the early part of this month, even as this correspondent was travelling extensively in the area, the Northern Province had a long tally of "incidents' where the security forces (according to, the victims) unleashed 'unwarranted brutal assaults on innocent people'. The victims, quite a few of whom were met, are aware that the army mens characterise the assaults as 'reprisals, for the militants' activities like rob, bing banks and jewellery shops and raiding armouries' but they are unable to recall instances where the armed forces have been able to apprehend the culprit boys' and deal with them. "Instead, only innocent boys are rounded up and either returned later after torture or done away with, they noted. The determined hard-core liberation "boys' never get caught, said a senior Government official who is naturally not in a position that allows him to be identified. Even in rare instances where some boys' get caught, they consume the cyanide they carry with them and put an end to themselves, he observed. . −
Travelling by the only train operating to Jaffna, this correspondent saw virtually all the passengers getting tense as the train crossed into the Tamil areas. Military men in uniform, tough-looking guys with their loaded weapons in ready-to-shoot condition, spread themselves through the compartments. In fact, it looked like entering another country with the uniformed men getting hold of passengers at random and demanding a look at their identity cards.
findignity
At the Jaffna Railway Station as the day was wearing away, the crowd
By S. Par
surging out of the but none could es attention and perh Security forces. looks to a casual calm, but the Sup after he has been t He will see milit through the roads for a brush with th In their own. ho another Governm suffer "the indignit identity cards with as in South Africa on their looks. T evidence, warned expressing cautior At each place vis pondent, he heard the brutality unleas forces on the innoc tion in the shape o between the ages torture, burning ho the market place
The closer one mo areas, the more ap) "misdeeds of the S. Ver One Went, One C in mourning for sor ly killed by army upset for boys roul families. Perhaps this correspondent saying the army in ly went berserk. " dents' reported by
One of the dast security forces cor out in the Tamil at minate rounding u the ages of 18 and also older men an interrogation foll tants” act of terrori this rate in anoth
would be no yout
Tamil population,' ber of Parliament, am with understanc
Synonym for tort
In the weeks pre pondent’s visit, som from Valvettiturai were forcibly tak forces. In many parent who produce ary authorities. Th Adiapathan, Secret Citizens Committee

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F THE ARMY GENOCDE
masarathy"
platform was huge 2ape the gaze; the ps the wrath of the Jaffna town itself visitor normal and rficiality dissolves
ere for Some hours.
ry trucks roaring ut intervals “itching 2 other road users'.
meland, lamented
nt official, Tamils 7 of having to carry. them all the time "Don't take things: ake everything on he official, his tone and fear. : ited by this corresthe same story - hed by the security, ent civiliam populaf rounding up boys of 18 and 35 for uses, churches and and so on. oves to the different parent becomes the ervicemen. Where ould find the people nebody in the famimen or emotionally lded up from their For the 100th time, listened to people che North frequent The tally of ‘incithe people is long.
ardly acts by the hmonly spoken ab
eas is the indiscrip of boys between
35 (and sometimes. .
even women) for wing some milim somewhere. "At er 10 years there left among the aid a former MemMr V. Dharmalingable exaggeration.
re
eding this correse 650 boys, largely and Point Pedro, n by the armed ases, it was the
| them to the milit
: is what Mr K. C. ry of Valvettiturai has to say: 'Over
- the body was covered.
the loudspeaker the army asks people to bring to the Community Centre all youths of 18 to 25 years with their national identity cards for inquiry and immediate release. The people cooperate by producing the boys from their houses and expect them to be returned soon after honest interrogation. But no such thing takes place. Instead, the boys are taken to the Palaly camp and to distant places in the far south for interrogation, perhaps a synonym for torture. Notall the captured boys return even after torture. In every batch, some 25 per cent of the boys are missing.;
Lawyers and other knowledgeable people say that such acts by the military are in contravention of the new emergency regulation requiring that no person arrested shall remain in military custody for more than 48 hours, and also requiring that information of the arrest be communicated to the Government Agent concerned within that period. It appears that the regulation is being violated with impunity considering that some of the Government Agents themselves have not been able to give the approaching people the whereabouts of their missing children.
The experience of Mrs Rajalakshumy Pancharatnam of Anaicoddai is heart-rending. Some time in May, she produced her son Vihas, alias Babu, at the Jaffna police station on the army's direction. Two days later, she learnt the boy was in the Jaffna Hospital with injuries. But the Government Agent informed her later that against medical advice the boy had
- been taken to Colombo from the Jaffna
Hospital. A month later she was told that her son had died in Colombo; When she went to Colombo, she was allowed to see only the face of the body, while the remaining portion of
Another moving interview brought out the poignant tale of how brutally a 43-year-old person was assaulted in army custody. Alagaratnam Sivarmachandran of Mania mthoddam; Jaffna, a cottage industrialist, was
taken into custody at his doorstep and
moved to the Jaffna Stadium Camp along with five others from the locality, including his neighbour, Reginald. He amd the Others were asked tÔ Stand in a narrow trench the whole night and when he asked for water to drink, he was given a handful of stones. -
During the "questioning', the army removed his clothes, tied his hands,8 TAMILTIMES
and put him down face downwards. He was asked to implicate Reginald in certain things and when he said he was not aware of anything, he was beaten until he was unconscious. With a bleeding head injury he was asked to go home by bus when he could hardly walk. Later, he had to be operated on for haematoma (blood tumour) in the Jaffna Hospital. He is still confined to his house, unable to carry on his normal work. “What have I to do with the Tigers to deserve this barbarous treatment at the hands of the most indisciplined army in the world, asked Sivaramachandran. Or witness the fate of another boy who has not come back from military custody weeks after he was rounded up. The 21-year-old Kumara Kuruparan was nursing his sick father at Valvettiturai when he was asked for his identity card by army men who suddenly entered his house one afternoon in August. He produced it but that was not the end of it. He was taken away for interrogation but did not return home. "Did you not take steps to find out his whereabouts', the boy's father Was asked.
“For weeks I was in touch with the Government Agent and through him with the military authorities only to be told in the end that no boy of that description was ever was taken into custody, remonstrated Mr K.K. BalaSubramaniam, the boy's father, a senior lawyer and notary, advanced in years with the experience etched in his wrinkles. He had been operated on for kidney and heart troubles and was convalescing when his som was forcibly taken away. On the day he was met, he received a formal letter from the Army Commander Brigadier Balthassa, saying his boy was not in
military custody.
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a pity if he is not ab identity of the unif persons who actua boy's arrest. Many uniformed men do no numbers for facilitat A top official in t administration dr another act of army at destroying books Tamils' past and the is not cultural genoc he asked. -
The “security forc credit a hat-trick pe it was the Jaffna Pu troyed in 1981. Then of the Hartley Colle this year, followed the collection of 500ing to one Nagaman Point Pedro.
Founded by an En sionary Peter Perciv century ago, Hartley institution for the W achi area which h gineers, doctors, d servants and scienti Elizear (mathemat and Alwar Pillai (a servant), had the m in the vandals' path. library to go up ir years, the Point Ped Library was burn class-rooms and c; ensure that no book: Principal of the Col ter around, explai damage to the builc
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otent rage, says ethings at that. Supreme Cour“ it. But it will be to establish the 'med person or y effected the ay not know the sport distinctive ng identification. 2 Jaffna district w attention to "andalism aimed bertaining to the r culture. "If this de what else is?
es” have to their formance. First, blic Library, descame the burning e Library earlier ly the burning of pdd books belongVijayaratnam in
glish scholar misal Hartley over a College, an apex hole of Vadamaras produced enistinguished civil sts including Prof. ician of renown) distinguished civil isfortune of being The second major flames in three ro Hartley College along with the are was taken to were spared. The lege took this wriing the extensive ings and the furni
NOVEMBER 1984
____ ture. "The armed forces, mind you, avenged some defeat for the security forces at Thikkam, he noted.
Pointing to the building next door - 4 where the police commando unit is located - he noted that this kind of atmosphere is hardly conducive to study. The parents are afraid of sending the children to college as long as the commandos are in the neighbouring compound. Tò mark their solidarity with the Hartley boys and to express their concern over the random arrests and assaults by the armed. forces and the police commandos, tens of thousands of students kept away from school for a whole week.
The Principal said it was a matter deeper than the mere loss of learning days. He wondered whether the Government would with a sense of remorse arrange for assistance to restore and reconstitute the 100-year-old Library burnt down by security forces on September 1. -
This raised the question of what compensation the Government paidfor wanton destruction, again by the security forces, of the Jaffna Public Library in 1981 on the eve of the election to the DDC. The information showed that it had not heeded the recommendation of Lionel Fernando' that Rs.10 million be paid by the state for rebuilding the library, and the President instead had allotted just Rs.1 million from his relief fund for the purpose. "Burning libraries anywhere is an act of cultural genocide amounting to a crime against humanity. But when the acts are perpetrated by the very forces maintained by the revenues raised from the citizens, it is, to say the least, shocking,' he concluded.
* Mr S. Parthasarathy is a correspondent of the Indian daily THE HINDU.
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Two bombs went off at the Fort Railway Station, one inside and the other in the adjoining bus station causing Several injuries and damaging five buses and seven shops. Two died in Peliyagoda area when they meddled with a booby-trapped device. Ratnasabapathy Paripooranan, an Eelam revolutionary died in another such attack on the Kotaheana police station. Further explosions were reported near the state-owned broadcasting and television stations, Home Ministry offices in Independence Square, Guildford Crescent, Kynsey Road, Barnes Place and Saunders Street.
: The scale of the damage was not revealed fully and there was a news black-out in order to reassure the public. But, for the first time, "mobs' who attacked unarmed Tamil civilians before the very eyes of the 'security' forces, and the people who witnessed those 'courageous' acts "helplessly', were seen to be running in all directions, this time not chasing an odd man om a bicycle or an odd child — perplexed by its ignorance of the "crime' it had committed, but running away from an unknown, sleeping enemy. Those who preached and enacted the cult of violence for more than three decades against their own kind woke
up to find 'alarm doorsteps.
Ever since the bomb explosion v part of Colombo Oberoi Hotel, it b Tamil militants capacity to moun in the south of the om the oil pipeline on October 8th, velopment beyon . The fact that th not claim credit fo for the latest seri indicates that ot groups have also political violence The governmc solutions to poli reacted predictał the police and set profile presence where, and a stc paign, have been People are requ ty cards by Lal who said they wol do so by law. Th themselves be sea government build pect random che by security forces are burdened wit vigilant and exp thing or anybody and state securit are now being tra bomb disposal ur
BOMBATTACKSON OIL PIP
Aa attempt was made in the early hours of Monday 8th October 1984 to blast the pipelines carrying crude oil from Colombo port to Sapugaskande refinery and pipelines carrying fin* ished products from Kolonnawa storage to Colombo port via Bloemendhal storage. "The purpose was to blow up the pipeline and cause a major fire in the city of Colombo,' said a statement from the Ministry of National Security. s
Two explosives placed at the concrete bunker housing the main control valve of the pipelines connecting Kolonnawa and Bloemendhal storages, located at Bloemendhal Street Rail Crossing went off at 00.15 hours. This resulted in the bunker being blown apart and two of the five pipelines, namely the one carrying naphtha and the one carrying gasoil, being punctured at more than five points.
Debris from the explosion scattered more than fifty yards away. There had been no oil flowing at that time. If
pumping had been on, more than 100
gallons per minut passing in the pip the Assistant Gove presence of residu the gases present residue oils were
Shanty dwelling
About fifteen sh vicinity were dan trees near the ar. off.
Of the two explo along the pipeline from Colombo po Refinery, one exp The other was dis police party whic the rail track run pipelines immedi two explosions. It before the Nagal gate junction, lo pipelines. The on been about five fee
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relatively powerful /hich ripped through 's most prestigious ecame apparant that
had acquired the t attacks deep down country. The attack es, again in Colombo established this ded doubt. e ‘Tigers' (LTTE) did r these incidents and es of explosions also her Tamil militant entered the arena of
nt bent on military tical problems has bly. More powers to 2urity forces; a high of the army everyop and Search cam
ordered. ested to carry identiith Athulath mudali, uld soon be forced to ey are obliged to let |rched when entering lings and should excks in public places s. Furthermore, they h the duty of being 2cted to report any
suspicious. Private y guards and police lined by the military hits.
ELINES te would have been elines. According to rnment Analyst, the e oils had prevented from igniting. The too heavy to ignite.
anty dwellings in the naged and leaves of ea had been shaved
osive devices placed s carrying crude oil rt to Sapugaskande loded at 00.25 hours. covered intact by a h started searching ning parallel to the ately after the first was lying ten feet agam Street sluiceidged between two e that exploded had 2t ahead on the other ay track where the
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The one which was discovered is said to be twice as powerful as one used in Hotel Oberoi and the one found in the buildings of the Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka. It had 83 gelignite sticks in three bundles and a timing device set at 07.00 hours. A plastic container filled with petrol was found on top of the explosives in order to set fire to the crude oil which by itself is hard to ignite. Experts said that the device itself was 'expertly done and had it exploded the resulting fire could have spread to the refinery and the Colombo port.20 TAMIL TIMES
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“SRI LANKA, ISLAND
ROR: An Indictment Thornton and R. Nith than. Reviewed by DA BOURNIE.
As the general catastrophe of Sr understand why th Lanka deepens, and the plight of the been brought gradu Tamils, in particular, worsens, the politically and ecol duty to maintain the public record of own hatreds and h organised state crime and hoodlum the Tamils, in the S violence against them cannot be re- been brought (too sl laxed for a moment. That is why this fists clenched, by book - as would be the case with any persecution, a duty other book which seeks to keep public, only to themselve opinion fully alerted - is to be wel+ dignity itself. It is comed; a joint labour, written with colonial domination dedication and a just anger, by an tinct peoples, Dravi English and a Tamil author, Miss E.M. the latter a mischie Thornton and Dr R. Niththyananthan self-image; then a Indeed, their shared effort fully exem passage to indepe plifies the growing international British of the Sinh feach, arm-in-arm, of outrage and pro- and finally a thir test at the suffering and discrimina- growingly aggressi tion heaped, like burning coals, upon ity, rather than of the heads of the Tamils of Sri Lanka ter Ceylon's indepe Moreover, at a time when the domestic But it is also a sto and international press, and the the further it is p world's broadcasting agencies, are range of this book, being hounded, censored and intimi-, dual evolution of dated by the authorities in Colombo, in instruments for Ta a vain attempt to stop them reporting - the Federal Par the news of the political and economic boys', and with degeneration of Sri Lanka, the strug emerging - is chro gle to monitor by every available with the unfolding means the delinquencies of the regime mare of racial pO. plays a vital part in maintaining the Tamils. (It is a nig Spirit and courage of Tamils fighting be set to rest only for political and social justice in their the dream of se
homeland.
Draconian rule
Woven through the themes: the continu tion of racial viole presence (since the
Although there is little comfort in it, Jayawardene in th there is much useful and concisely ning of racial hat presented information in this book. tinuous perpetratio Indeed, in the Stygian darkness cast and arson without by racist excess, ugly religious bigot- culprits, as well a
ry, anti-Tamil paranoia and the gros- political accommo sest of human rights violations, we demands which ha must all turn the light of reason, pa- were never intende tiently sifting the facts - as Tamil But in conseque victims have for so long sifted the crimes and follies, embers of their lives and possessions - the Sinhalese as we
upon a barbarism of which the world of the corrupting i) has a right and duty to know the lence and discrim details. Already, Colombo is synony- Lanka's institution Emous for millions with pig-headed gradual subversior draconian rule, Machiavellian cruelty, constitutional rig increasing economic difficulty and liamentary system tourist danger; while the Tamil cause and the integrity C for all its own defensive (and, in meant, on the one creasingly, offensive) violence, stands to Sri Lanka's ecor for the universal cause of all embat- on the other, latte tled minority peoples who have first on the part of an in wept, then called out, and ultimately foreign governmer f Vught for t! to ir citizen rights, physical ment agencies, inv
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e Sinhalese have ally to their knees omically by their sterias; and why ame process, have owly), to their feet, the duty to resist which they owe mot s, but to human a history. first, of of two always disdian and Aryan” - vously used racial history of the joint indence from the alese and Tamils; ..y-year history of ve majority ethnicnation-building, afndence. ry, deeply complex ursued beyond the * in which the graseparate political mil representation ty, the TULF, the new formations nicled side by side of the long nightgroms against the htmare which will by the fulfilment of lf-determination.) account are pitiless Lous state organisace, the continuous mid-1940s) of J. R. e thick of the fameds, and the conn of murder, rapine punishment of the s of promises of a dation with Tamil fe never been - and di to be — delivered. 1ce of these rabid it is also a tale (for l as for the Tamils) pact of racial vionation upon all Sri . It has meant the and devastation of htS and the parof the rule of law the judges. It has and, great damage omic progress, but, ly, the recognition reasing number of s, aid and developstors, human rights ts, of the pariah oliticians and their ady – when their
NOVEMBER 1984
- blood-lust rises – to rum amok, howling
like beasts, from Colombo to Jaffna.
For at the centre of this text stand, the unrequited and unassimilable horrors of July 1983, with an appen dix eye-witness account of them, which in its unostentatious way has few equals in the literature of human suffering and degradation. Yet July 1983 was neither the climax nor the culmination of the Tamil martyrdom and the Tamil struggle. If it were, it would represent in human terms a bloody defeat om the funeral pyres and in the charnel houses of racist violence, and humanity itself cannot afford such defeats. Instead, we must believe that the future holds political relief for the sufferings of the Tamil people; whether its unfolding lies in the laps of the gods, the wiles of the politicians, the hands of the militants, or the geo-political interests of India and the Superpowers. But at least, with all Such publications as this, and their number is increasing, and with the equally increasing vigilance of international public opinion, no one, Tamik or non-Tamil, can any longer say that they "did not know what was happening in Sri Lanka. It also serves as a warning that, while any people bleeds as do the Tamils, no man or woman can sit idly with arms folded; nor can the Tamils themselves continue to argue, disunited, about means and ends, or about this leader and that organisation, at what is the eleventh hour in the life of their tormented nation.
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Mr Sri Thillaiampalam, President of the Eelam Tamil Asociation of America, has appealed to the government of Sri Lanka because the talks held so far have been a disappointing failure.
These observations were made by him while talking to newsmen at the conclusion of a recent visit to India during the course of which he had met leaders of political parties and key officials of the Indian government including Mr M.G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Mr Venkatraman, Vice-President of India and Mr G. Parthasarathy, Chairman of the Policy Planning Committee of the Ministry of External Affairs.
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