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Editorial...................... ... 2
Rajiv accuses Sri Lanka of killing Tamils ..., ..., ...,3
dira's Death: Eelam's Agony........ ...... 4 Tamils, Wirtual prisoners
Inter O'The Sir........................5
Sri Lanka's War Psychosis - second Wisit of
ex-CIA boss.............. Teachers' Union protests...........9 What Indira Gandhi meant to Sri Lankan Tamils. ... 10 Junius, your analogy is preposterOUS....... 11 Open letter to Athulathmudal. 12 The situation now..............., ... 13 Tamil rights must be
guaranteed "" is . . . . . 13 Tamil Tra WaiS., .....,1415 Miscellany...................ա. 16 Unarmed and under siege....... 17
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TAM 1000S KILL
A major offensive, ar War, has beer1 la LIn1( Lankan government a people. The operatio only against so-calle also aimed at the wh people.
Th[]LIsamids | []f Sinh been mara Luding the E breadth of the Il Orth provinces in the cour 1200 Tamils, mainly ing woninėnı and chill killed. Many more hal A day and night 48imposed during the cember 8 and 9 aild 11-hour break, anoth hour day andnight LI full day's Was Clamp northern province,
Ulder" cover of a blE security forces r a II10unted to Virtual | and every Tai Thilho II tirilidating and beati
MaSSiWe WiiColatio
Anyone who daredt est Tesista Ince to this T of his home was punishment-shot ar. blank гапge.
Although the Mini: Se{:Lu rity a r1 n1OLInced t "SL Spected te Tro Tists learns that as many a been rounded up, ma il Cent civilliams,
The Offensivith ceded by mass arres Colombo. The Lank: English fortnightly, reported: By Tuesda ber) the security forct CLI stody at least 4,00 Ombo." Any Tamil pe: road was picked up. Colombo Earhdits : 5 LibLu
METHODST

DECEMBER 1984
AREASUNDERSIEGE ED, MANY MORE ARRESTED
mounting to total hed by the Sri |gainst the Tamil 1 is directed mot di terrorists. but ole of the Tamil
ala troops have 2ntire length and erri and eastern se of which wer civilians, includTern, I have been ve been aTTested. hour curfew was Weekend of Del, after only an I continuous 24rfew lasting four bed down in the
nket curfew, the nounted What invasion of each le ha rassing, in1g up people.
(show the slightmassive violation given summa Ty ld killed at point
stry of National he arrest of 785 Tamil Times S Cover 3,500 hawe m areםf Whם my\
a north was prests of Tamils in a Gшагdiaп, ап of December 1
Ly 27th (Novem
5 at: 1int
Tariis in Collrson seen on the TIITIES III |rbs Were raided
and in mates arrested. Even Tamil govегпment and private employеes were picked up from their workplaces. Tiger hunting has developed into Tamil butchery,
The government and its Minister of National Security have not only attempted to cover Lup and play down the InLIImber of Tamils killed but als) have tried to make out that all the Tamilskilled Were "terrorists' or by standers Who I got ca Light in the Cros: fire.
Eyewitness accounts
Tamil Tiles has received direct and eyewitness accounts of the names, ages and other details of the majority of those killed by the armed forces. In almost all instances, the victims of the se cold-blooded killings hawe been civilia Tani5.
Foreign press i reporters hawe been refused entry into the northern and easteron pro Winces for' feä rt of the a TITny atrocities being exposed. Instead, the gover III ent has been engaged in a deliberately concocted campaign of lies through press statements fabri cated in Colombo and unfortunately the foreign media have repeated them Without proper verification. For instance, for die Week after the event, the Minister for National Security, Mr Athulathmudali, had denied reports of La aLaLLSaLaLLL LaLLLLL L K aHLHHLL civilians in the Mannar district by the arrily,
In this incident, following the death of an army officer in a mine explosion, the army Went on a killing spree, gunning down Tamil civilians in buses, fields, post offices and wherever they could spot a Tamil. When the former MP for Mannar in a telephone interwie w with a BBC Teportert gawe the details of the massa C TEE, the gover"Ilmellt had to adrillit the a T1 y excesses.
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Over 200 Tamil civilians were killed in Nedunkerny on December 1. Their bodies were im- : mediately burnt. Twenty-seven Tamils were shot dead on the same day in Mullaitivu. On December 2, 64 Tamils were arrested in Cheddikulam and later their bullet-ridden dead. bodies were found along the Manmar-Vavuniya road.
On December 3, following the death of an army officer in a shoot-out between the army and, some Tamil militants in Vayuniya, as many as 40 Tamils held in detemition in the Vavuniya Army Camp were kille d in cold blood, their bodies were burnt by the army. In apparent retaliation for the death of a single army officer in a land-тіте explosioт театr Mannar, 11 postal employees, including the Postmaster, were дитеd dоит at point-biатк. range at Murunkan; 65 Tamils in the village of Parapankandal (Mannar district), and another 42 Tamils at Cheddikulam weres killed on December 4.
The above grim recital represents only a few of the scores of incidents in which Several hundreds of Tamils have been indiscriminately and cruelly murdered by the Sri Lankan armed' forces within the first week of December. Reports of hundreds of Tamils being shot and killed throughout the northern and eastern provinces are reaching us daily. Details available with us confirm the killing of over 1,100 Tamils in the three weeks ending December 10. In addition to these killings hundreds of houses have been set om fire.
Despite the fraudulent claims of the government and the Minister of National Security in
m
particular abc being killed in counters”, all tha and arson hav being committe forces as reprist lian Tamilis amc The President, and the Minist Security have be cover-up of the mitted by the d President Ju dene is not only government, b Соттатder-tт armed forces. T are operating u and directions Athlu llathrmudal National Secui men are directly all actions of the As much as claim credit fo successes Scored services against they must be guilty of mur committed by th campaign of ти the President a of National Se chief archite appropriately t CatOrS.
They have m. to prevent the r civilians and 1 of their propert their part has b the campaign Tamils as a uv)
The 48-hour On December Tamil areas an tion of a cont curfew after O' break are design Tamil people a the сотtiтиatio ties by the seca
32.14Ο ΤΑΜΙLS
Between January and October 1984, a
total of 32,140 Tamils working in the
tea plantations and who were regarded
as 'stateless have been repatriated to: India by the Sri Lankan authorities. Of: these, 20,095 are adults and 12,045 are:
children.
Although the In under which this place, has expired. thorities are expe vious applications ting rid of as many they can.
 

RMURDER
ut “terrorists” ітаgiтату, “ет' acts of murder been and are i by the armed ls against civi
their property. . he government
er of National
ет етgaged iт а. eCCeSSeS CO1, теd forces. тіиs Jayеиvarthe head of the at is also the ,-Chief of the he armed forces nder the orders of Mr Lalith , the Minister of ity. These tuvo responsible for ! security forces. these tuvo men r the so-called by the security the terrorists', held liable and der and arsom le forces. In this 'rder and arson, nd his Minister curity are the cts, or more le arch-conspir
ade no attempt nurder of Tamil he destruction J. Any effort om een to intensify against the ole. curfew imposed 7 to cover the d the re-imposiітиоиs 61-hoит nly an 11-hour led to starve the ind to facilitate n of the atrocitrity forces. All
repatriated
lo-Sri Lanka Pact, repatriation takes the emigration auditing all the prewith a view to getand as quickly, as
President Jayawardene said in July 1983. It is in terms of this Presidential declaration that the Tamils of Sri Lanka are
their hundreds and this is done to make the Sinhala people
happy.
DECEMBER1984
food supplies to the north have been discontinued.
The mass of the Tamil people have not defied any law; mor have they taken up arms against the government. Yet they are subjected to the most draconian restrictions; they are being starved their homes are being violated and burned down; they are being arrested in their thousands; and they are being slaughtered.
| “I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people . . . uve cannot think of them, mor about their lives or their opinions . . . Really, if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy.' This is what
being starved and murdered in
Acts of murder and arson do mot become less criminal when the are committed by Presidents or Ministers or by their oageʼmts.
Today, Jaya uvardene and Athulathmudali are wanted men - wanted on charges of murder and arson committed адатst tтосетt, laи)-abiding, unarmed and defenceless Tamil civiliатs.
They may feel safe and protected because of the positions they occupy and the pover they wield today. The blood and tears of the innocent and the flames which engulf their һотes today иvill отe day сотsume and destroy these famatics. And that day is not far aиlay.
Even those plantation Tamils who would be entitled to gain Sri Lankan citiz en ship un der the P a ct appear to be willing to be repatriated because of the repeated racial mob violence they are subjected to.

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OECEMBERf 984
RAJIV ACCUSESSRI LANKA 'INDISCRIMINATEKILLING'C
The Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi lashed out at the Sri Lankan government for the current wave of indiscriminate killing of the island's Tamil minority in a statement issued on December 11.
Although preoccupied with the Indian elections and the Bhopal catastrophe, Rajiv Gandhi, in what observers described as his toughest statement, accused the Sri Lankan security forces of 'indiscriminate killing'.
Expressing 'grave concern' over the "rapidly deteriorating situation, Rajiv Gandhi referred to the "heavy loss of innocent lives' in the Tamil-dominated north and east of Sri Lanka. "Many Tamils of Indian origin who had settled in these areas are among the victims', he added.
Displaying his full knowledge of the draconian restrictive measures imposed by the Sri Lankan government in the Tamil areas, the Indian PM added: "Normal life has come to a standstill and the means of livelihood of the common people are disrupted.'
Timely intervention !
... This timely intervention of Rajiv iGandhi must have shattered some of the illusions entertained by Sri Lankan i ruling circles about the new PM's : concern for the Sri Lankan Tamils. The late Mrs Indira Gandhi's in terest in seeking justice for the Tamils was well known. Her view was that so far as the Sri Lankan Tamils were concerned, not only Tamil Nadu, but the entire Indian nation was interested. In the wake of the July 1983 anti-Tamil violence, the late Mrs Gan
dhi told the India “This is the fou that the sorrow ar country over the t) Sri Lanka have : Parliament. The a and sisters in Tan of the entire natio house today show one part of the political spectrun have been arouse nation beyond pa
Concrete meas
"We are closely tion and hope that Parliament and t shall be able to br phere more condu This will be a fir communal tensio. crete measures V political settlemel
Inaugurating t. coronation annivel the great Chola k Gandhi declared o the 'sympathy an the entire Indian Sri Lankan Tamil
Rajiv Gandhi, w his mother's polic ter his appointmer that the issue of th 'Was relevant not but also to the wł Asia and a mucl position has not c. continue the same to achieve some S acceptable to the T
TAMIL AREAS
FROM PAGE 1.
The Sri Lankan government commenced its latest military offensive with a well-orchestrated and muchpublicised imaginary threat of an invasion by 4,000 Tamil guerrillas from South India. It claimed that the Tamil militants planned to drive out the security forces from the northera Tamil areas and declare a separate state of Eelam before January 14th 1985.
The Indian authorities categorically, denied these scare stories and accused the Sri Lankan government of being "highly irresponsible'. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs characterised allegations of an "invasion' being
UNDERS
organised from ar "totally without b that the Sri Lanka engaged in buildin osis’.
Such denials did Lankan governme cided to implemen with the assistanc telligence Service. The government the most draconial trictions, transfo Tamil areas of t virtual concentrati the whole Tamil pop prisoners in their statement by SCO'

OF }FTAMILS
in Parliament: th successive week d concern felt in our agic development in ound expression in gony of our brothers il Nadu is the agony l. The debate in this that it is not in any country or of the that deep feelings d, but in our entire ty differences.
reS
watching the situawith the support of he Indian people we ing about an atmoscive to negotiations. st step to eliminate n and lead to conwhich can ensure a lt.’
he two-day 1,000th sary celebrations of ing, Rajaraja, Mrs n September 16 that d moral Support of nation was with the s'.
who vowed to follow ies, said shortly afut as Prime Minister e Sri Lankan Tamils only to Tamil Nadu, hole of India, South h wider field. Our hanged and we will initiative and work ort of a Settlement 'amils in Sri Lanka.”
|EGE
ly part of India as asis” and charged in government was g up a "war psych
lot matter to the Sri nt which had deits diabolical plan 2 of the Israeli In
has now enforced and inhuman resrming the entire he country into a on camp in which ulation have become own homes (see C-HRC on page 5).
1 ARMNINGMETS 3
MINISTER, POLICEMAN
& DRIVER
BURNT TO DEATH
Rev. George Jeyaraja singam, Methodist Minister, Police Constable Jesudasan Roche, and a driver, Abdul Cader Sulaiman, were waylaid by a group of army men, shot and burnt to death in the van in which the victims were travelling on December 13 from Mannar to Murunkan in northern Sri Lanka.
Rev. Jeyarajasingam was to have travelled to the UK on December 16 to
follow a three-month course. Shortly
before he and the other two met their death at the hands of the death squads of the Sri Lankan army, the Minister had met the Government Agent of Mannar who persuaded him to postpone his travel to Colombo owing to the dangers involved in such a long journey. : , :
Postpone his trip
The Reverend decided to postpone his trip and set off in the Datsun van which was known to everybody in the area as a vehicle belonging to the Methodist Church because of the word JEEVOTHAYAM painted on the sides.
The driver of the vehicle was Abdul Cader, a Muslim. On the way, a Tamil police constable, Jesudasan Roche, known to the priest, requested a lift in the van to go to Murunkan which was almost 30 miles away from Mannar.
On the way, a group of army men stopped the vehicle, shot all three at point-blank range and set fire to the van with the three inside.
During his lifetime, Rev. Jeyarajasingam was in charge of an agricultural farm, Jeevothayam, for displaced people.
A leading Methodist layman in Lon. don said: "If this could happen to a religious leader and a police constable, one can imagine what the ordinary. Tamil people are suffering from at the hands of the Sri Lankan army.'

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4 TAM TIMES
(Sukhran, reporting from Jaffna
Lamp posts without banana plants bound to them; telegraph posts without coconut, palmyrah or arecanut palms secured to them; streets without coconut leaf decorations hoisted over them; houses without black flags or improvised umbrella clothing fluttering in front of them; walls without messages of obeisance displayed om them -
Those were the rarities in Jaffna
in the early days of November.
The butchers, the vegetable vendors and the grocers had all closed business. The bars, the restaurants and the taverns had all put up their shutters. The bazaars were closed and the markets were empty, barring the dogs and the crows. The courts heard no trials, the schools had no children and the offices lacked employees.
That was Eelam during the first three days of November.
There wasn't a soul without a heavy heart, without moist eyes and without shattered hopes.
Nation orphaned
From mansions to mud and wattle huts, from the Left to the Right and from the old to the young - there was grief, there was despair, there was anguish and there was anxiety in experiencing the shock, the helplessness and the irredeemability of having lost a friend in need, a saviour in despair and a fountain of hope.
The light had gone out of their lives. In every family it was a personal bereavement.
An entire Nation felt orphaned. So devastating the end had been; and so deafening the ensuing silence had been.
The entire Tamil Nation had been plummeted into shock, disbelief, melancholy and misery.
That was how the Tamil nation reacted to the reality of the loss of Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, acknowledged in life as a leader of 750 million people and authenticated in death as a leader of 750 plus 3.5 million people by the tiny Tamil Nation, shackled and shelled in Sri Lanka.
Never before had the Tamil Nation transformed itself into one collective
INDIRAS DEA EELAMAS AG
funeral house to she passing away of a
Attained in
The “Eelal Nadu', daily published fron all in a nutshell v
* Screamed: “The tu'
layas — Jaffna, cea “Indira, an interm had eartended her ha
poor, to the downt
oppressed, attained crates, like Jesus C Mahatma,” it conclu "That is the natural
For day after da inundated with not column of news and out Mrs Gandhi b advertisements by stitutions crying th the departed leade
Several pro
Even as the gun Mrs Gandhi on her winding its way thr millions in Delhi, children were marc cessions, several Sc some of them sever traversing the stre motest corners of
Some took out gia Gandhi in the pro were greeted in rev tional oil lamps b gateway of every waved in salutatio eakle sticks and be Mrs Gandhi. Some along public addr which youths del funeral orations. W and men were m hearing them.
Some incensed yo effigies of the assa
cinerated them.
Last Post,
The Last Postwa minibus and ever
their horns in har
nuteS.
The Gun Salute w young militants, C death and on the da detonating an expl minutes, reverber: punctuated the othe
 
 
 
 
 

d their tears at the leader.
artyrdom
he national Tamil Eelam soil, had it hen its headlines nble of the Hima: ses to function.’’ tional leader, who nd of support to the "odden and to the martyrdom like Sohrist and like the ded in an editorial. process of history.' y, its pages were only column after appreciations abut also with paid individuals and ineir hearts out for
r.
Ocessions
carriage bearing last journey was ough the mourning men, women and hing in silent pro!ores of them, and all miles in length, ets of even the reEelam. int cut-outs of Mrs cession and these erence with tradirought out to the
home. Tiny tots
l, leaflets stuck to
aring portraits of processions took
ess systems over ivered emotional
"omen wept aloud oved to tears on
uths dragged along ssins and then in
Gun Salute
sounded by every
y Van resonating
mony for two mi
as executed by the n the day of her of her funeral, by )sive every thirty tions from which rwise eerie silence
DECEMBER 1984
s 塞
r (\
of Eelam.
Even as Mrs Gandhi's cortege arrived at its final riverside destination, the human rivers in silent march in Eelam were pouring into their respective destinations - the venues of condolence meetings. تتة
Temple services
As the flames leapt high in the air at the banks of the Jumna from camphor, ghee and sandalwood, engulfing the mortal remains of Mrs Gandhi, in temples throughout Eelam, jets of yellow flames shot up from camphor aaradhanais at services held in her memory.
The temple bells that pealed in a crescendo for thirty minutes throughout Eelam to mark her transformation from ashes to ashes, seemed to echo and re-echo the immortal words of Sage Valluvar that "a help rendered in time of need, however small it may be, should be regarded as much larger tham the earth itself.
It was therefore not surprising that the citizens” committees of Eelam appealed to the Indian High Commissioner to arrange for a part of the ashes to be sent to Eelam to pay the respects of the Tamil Nation and then to sprinkle on the shores of Keerimalai - for the Nation had gone through the processes of a funeral, having staged a "Hamlet' without the Prince of Denmark. W
“Adopted children'
Hundreds of poems were penned by poets to pay homage to Mrs Gandhi and either published in newspapers or printed and distributed free to the people, and out of themi came a moving tribute from a nine-year-old Tamilspeaking Muslim schoolboy - Mohammed Naleem, which captured the stark reality and the anxiety of the Tamil Nation (Eela Nadu, 5.11.84):
66... Mount Everest you were Filling our hearts with succour. Oh, our most beloved Indira, Departed from us you are Leaving us in despair - The children you adopted!
A tower of strength you were To people with no rights, Orphaned we are 99 with no saviour in sight" . . .

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DECENERg8.
"TAMILS, VIRTUAL PRIS(
“The 1amil areas of Sri Lanka have been converted into almost a concentration camp in which al Tamil people have become virtual prisoners. This is the effect of the latest round of draconian measures announced by the Sri Lankan Minister of National Security,' the Human Rights Council of the Standing Committee of Tamils (SCOTHRC) stated in a press statement released on December 3.
The statement added: "The measures announced include the creation of a "no-go area' along the northern and eastern coast of the island; ban on the free ownership and use of all private vehicles including cars, minibuses, motorcycles and bicycles; declaration of the whole of the northern Tamil Jaffna district as a security zone; prohibition of all rail and other forms of travel to and from Jaffna district without special permits; rationing on fuels; restriction om free movement of people within the Tamil areas and the requirement that no one except registered householders shall live in their homes.
"By any standards, these measures are extremely draconian.
No-go area
"The "no-go area extends to 100 metres inland from the coastline of the entire northern and eastern provinces. The thousands living within this zone have been required to move inland, thus creating a massive refugee problem overnight. The government has not made any arrangements for alternative accommodation. The worst hit are the most vulnerable families of fishermen who depend on the sea for their livelihood and the substantial majority of them are very
poor indeed. The evacuate their h all their worldly night have be homeless.
Under militarys
"For the last : Lankan navy has villages with a vi population to aba. many of them in returned to theil they had no othe when the shellin government, und imaginary threat India, has proce "no-go' Zone, ther tire Tamil people encircled and put
"The so-called 4,000 Tamil guerr. pure invention by ime in order to jus unprecedented m posed to terrorise spite of the repea nials of the Indian Lankan governme carry on this well aganda of an imag into effect a long-l and prepared with not excluding the service.
Naked military of
"It is no secret 1 government Was t back from enforci solution to the eth Lanka by the conce Indian governmen Gandhi before her
CATHOLIC VIEW
NOT FOR SINHALESE
The Bishops Conference of Sri Lanka, after 25 years of ethnic violence (since 1956), came out with a statement of its stand on the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka “Towards Rebuilding of Sri Lanka Nation'.
The statement was prepared by the Bishops after the July 1983 holocaust with the help of Father Tissa Balasur
iya and released on 10th June 1984. The '
original was in English.
Soon after its release, all the Bishops left for Rome with copies of this statement. In Rome, the Pope praised their efforts with regard to their stand for human rights.
At home, the pastoral was translated immediately into Tamil and serialised in the Catholic weekly 'Pathukavalan.
Although all the Bi. Sinhalese Bishops, tures to it and enjoy Pope, some secula have called them tC them to be more
foolish and wanted to get into the han(
aSSeS.
At first, the exc nating it among tl lics was some diffi and then expedien
Has the Cathol
dered its conscien Supremo in Sri Lan
Papal authority ha by Presidential di

TAMILTIMES5
NERS IN THEIR HOMEs
have been forced to mes, leaving behind Ossessions and overme destitute and
ege w
w months, the Sri been shelling coastal w to terrorising the don their homes and fact did. But they homes - because
place to go g abated. Now the r the pretext of an ned invasion from ded to declare the by enabling the enund theirareas to be inder military siege. invasion threat by llas from India is a the Sri Lankan regtify to the world the easures it has imthe Tamil people. In ted categorical degovernment, the Sri nt is determined to -orchestrated propginary threat to put aid plan, conceived foreign assistance Israeli intelligence
fensive
hat the Sri Lankan o some extent held ng a total military unic conflict in Sri rn displayed by the t and Mrs Indira assassination. Now
hops, including the had put their signaed the praise of the r power seems to one side and asked prudent' and less the statement not s and minds of the
se for not dissemie Sinhalese Cathoulty in translation, y.
: Church surrene to the temporal a? Or is it that the
been superceded at?
the government of Sri Lanka would appear to have taken advantage of her assassination and the present preoccupation of the Indian leaders in their elections to launch this massive military offensive against the Tamil people as a whole. It hopes to liquidate all resistance from the Tamil side before the Indian elections are over. As a cover for this naked military offensive, the government has manufactured scare stories of "threatened invasions', 'fleets of boats carrying Tamil terrorists being repulsed', and wildly exaggerated accounts of "terrorist attacks'.
"To act against Tamil militants who engage in violence is one thing. But to impose such stringent measures against a whole section of the people is another. Restrictions on the use of
private vehicles, including bicycles, in
areas where there is no efficiently functioning transport service and the imposition of a daily curfew from 4.00p.m. to 8.00a.m. are calculated to prevent the Tamil people from going about their ordinary day to day life and turn them into virtual prisoners in their own homes.
The measures are so stringent that every section of the people would be affected. Peasants, schoolchildren, the sick and the infirm, all would appear to need special permits to move about, go to their farms, schools, hospitals or local shops. The Sri Lankan security forces are held in such fear that the Tamil people would hardly dare go to the military authorities to obtain permits.
Already the Tamil areas are suffering from an acute shortage of food and medical supplies. This is partly due to government policy of preventing movement of supplies and substantially because of the fact that farmers are unable to go to the farms to cultivate, fishermen are prevented from going to the sea, and shops and markets remain closed most of the time. The result is one that is apparently anticipated and hoped for by an inhuman government - destitution and starvation of a people.
"Never in the history of any democratic country have such inhuman and draconian measures been imposed against a section of its people even in times of war. Under the pretext of countering "terrorism' the government is collectively punishing the Tamil people.
“These inhuman measures should shock the conscience of the civilised world and there ought to be a universal demand that the Sri Lankan government withdraw these measures forthwith.'

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6 TAMILTIMES
SRI LANKA'S "W
The war psychosis built up to a deafening crescendo by President Junius Jayawardene seems to have ended up anti-climax.
General Vernon Walters, President Reagan's roving ambassador at large and ex-Deputy Director of the CIA, made his second visit to Sri Lanka in twelve months, reportedly in response to an urgent appeal to the USA by the Sri Lankan Government to discuss the so-called worsening security situation in northern Sri Lanka and the possibility of obtaining “high technology arms'.
It was noteworthy that there were “inspired leaks” to the Press from “diplomatic sources', both in Colombo and Washington of this latest visit of General Walters even before he had boarded the plane for Colombo, in stark contrast to his first and clandestine mission to Colombo in November 1983 which was described as a courtesy call to have a cup of tea with President Jayawardene.
No sooner had he finished sipping his Sri Lankan brew, Walters was found to have breved another conspiracy for his alma mater, producing the Israel-Sri Lanka and Israel-USA agreements that paved the way for Mossad to sneak into Sri Lanka.
Machiavellian motives
It appears that the purpose of the visit of Walters and the "inspired leaks' had three objectives in mind.
Firstly, Washington wanted Rajiv Gandhi to know that the secondary deposits from that poorly differentiated cancer by the name of "US vital interests' extended up to even as far as Sri Lanka. In doing so, they were also indulging in an act of kite-flying to gauge the strength and weaknesses of Rajiv.
Secondly, Colombo wanted to make full use of the war psychosis based on calumny, distortion and fabrication of facts that it had taken great pains to whip up, to wrest as much as possible arms aid from the USA, in particular sophisticated modern weaponry which were capable of homing in on their targets. What Sri Lanka's uniformed vandals lacked by way of courage, skill and experience, President Jayawardene et all thought could be offset by possession of superior military hardware.
Thirdly, both Colombo and Washington wanted psychological pressure to be brought on TULF leader Mr Amir
thalingam to accep that were going to the last session of til ence (APC). The draconian emerge the North which h away every clause tion of Human laimed on Decemb arbitrary arrest around 1,500 innc were meant to anni am's morale compl rise him into surr and convictions of the RTC.
To what ext Machiavellian obje
Rajiv's rebuke
If Washington w Rajiv Gandhi gent interests in Sri La Rajiv's reaction w Even as the Colom progress, India's ' er” Rajiv Gandhi ( lhi what was widel the "strongest state by India on the Tal ing the Sri Lankan armed forces about killings of Tamil civ
And vhen Presi cial envoy flew int meeting President was mot entertain with Mr Gandhian with sitting down v men to hear home Sion after the Delhi military solution w. the Tamil problem remarkably brief volume of the pom ceded Walters' vis Delhi.
Rajiv had prova Washington. He w rattled by anyone. . brook any nonsens
Lailith's Churchill
The concurrence with the Delhi con military solution m stab in the back mudali who had ( indulging in Church declaring, ʻwe shal beaches!'
Eric Silver repo.
to the "Guardian', ber 10, 1984):
A Political Comen
 

LOECEMBER 1984
AR PSYCHOSIS'
t whatever crumbs pe offered to him at Le All Party Conferclamping down of ncy regulations in ad in effect taken of the UN Declaratights, first procer 10, 1948 and the and detention of cent Tamil youth hilate Amirthalingetely and to pressuendering the rights the Tamil nation at
ent have the se ctives succeeded?
as trying to nudge ly about its vested Inka, the tempo of "as quite different. bo conclave was in no -nonsense leadletonated from Dey acknowledged as ment issued so far” mil problem, warngovernment and its the indiscriminate 1ilians in Sri Lanka. lent Reagan's speto New Delhi after , Jayawardene, he ed to an audience d had to be content with Foreign Office truths. The concludiscussions that “a as mot the answer to s in Sri Lanka' was
in contrast to the
pous leak that preit to Colombo and
2d his strength to as mot going to be He was not going to from any quarter.
ian rhetoric
of General Walters lusion dismissing a ust have come as a o Lailith Athulathonly recently been illian war rhetoric, l fight them on the
rted from Colombo Thursday (Decem
The National Security Minister, Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, came close to acknowledging that the fight is on now against the northern Tamils as a whole, and not just the gunmen, when he asked in Parliament last month: “Who is a terrorist?' Is it the person who uses the gun? Or is he also not a terrorist who accompanies a terrorist with a gun? Is he also not a terrorist who gives a house to a person who has a gun and who wants to kill? Is he also Iot a terrorist who watches the movement of the army and then goes and tells a terrorist: do not go that way, the army is around.' Colombo's attempt to bring pressure on the USA to bolster its military arsenal does not seem to have produced much result, at least for the time being. Colombo was oozing with such confidence that it would succeed in wresting an arms deal that even before the talks began the state-controlled "Daily News' had started ranting and raving over President Jayawardene's 'shopping list'.
David Graves, reporting from Colombo to the "Daily Telegraph' had the following to say, (December 12, 1984):
"The United States has refused to give a firm commitment to supply arms to Sri Lanka to fight the rebel Tamil separatists in the north of the island, diplomatic sources in Colombo said. yesterday.
Washington has also told the Sri Lankan government it is “unhappy' about the activities of security forces after repeated allegations of indiscriminate killing of Tamil civilians . . . “Although President Jayawardene presented an extensive “shopping list' for arms and equipment to General Bernard Walters, President Reagan's roving Ambassador-atlarge, during his visit to Colombo earlier this week, the envoy refused to give any commitment to supply them, the sources said.' As much as Washington feels that it is within its legitimate rights and vital interests to maintain an inventory of the military hardware of neighbouring countries like Cuba and Nicaragua and to ensure that they do not exceed in quality and quantity what is reasonably required for their defence, likewise there is no reason why India; should not have every right to keep a . watchful eye on the arms flow into Sri Lanka.
Bullying Amirthalingam
The third objective of the Colombo. enclave is to bully Amirthalingam into submission at the APC. At the time

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this column is being written the narathon 61-hour curfew is on in the Tamil areas and Amirthalingam has flown into Colombo from Madras to attend the APC. He is reported to have complained to President Jayawardene about the grave food shortages in the devastated Tamil areas and the President, having pinched the child, is now in the process of rocking the cradle by promising to send dry rations and food stamps for distribution.
It is very clear that President Jayawardene is intent on keeping this diabolical farce of political dialogue going on to throw dust in the eyes of the world and to buy time to achieve a military solution and Amirthalingam's continued participation is only giving credibility to the sinister and dangerous fraud that Jayawardene is indulging in.
Sri Lankan Goebbels
In the process of building up a war psychosis, the Sri Lankan government employed Goebbelsian tactics of flooding the media with planned disinformation about 4,000 guerrillas waiting on the South Indian coast to invade Sri Lanka, the flotilla of 18 boats with 180 men that attempted the crossing and were chased back by air force helicopters (that practised chasing and not killing), January 14th - the D-day for declaration of Eelam and the choice of civilian targets by guerrillas.
While dismissing these silly claims as balderdash, even though it is the right type of sensationalism that would be picked up by news hungry media men, the claim of civilian targets merits a close analysis.
The guerrilla raids on the Dollar and Kent farms in the Vavuniya district and the incidents at the fishing hamlets of Nayaru and Kokilai in the Mullaitivu district, were exploited to the full to bolster this disinformation campaign whipped up by the government.
infiltration of Tamil areas
It is no secret that successive governments in Sri Lanka were consistently and systematically involved in mass colonisation of Tamil homelands with Sinhalese people with deliberate intention of altering the ethnic composition of those areas. With the arrivall of Mossad and the "agricultural advisers' from Israel, the expertise of West Bank settlements was made available to the colonisation-bent Sinhalese rulers.
The "Saturday Review' had reported
Map of Sri Lankas Sinhalese colonis homelands since 1 areas and arrows lands "captured' by colonisation. Blac indicate areas of a Colonisation nOW. District; 2. Mullaitiv 3. Vavuniya Distric 4. Mannar District.
as far back as Sep “The Sri Lankan g tions ought to be namely to infiltrat Sinhalese settle methods and tE Israelis . . . so the not only to boost anti-terrorist drive sinister purpose 0 advice in the techn new settlements til the Tamil homela
Colonisation Of Va
The thrust of th Sinhalese colonisati the crucial Vavuniy districts. Vavuniya v it was part of the homeland of 'Vanni by the great Pand Tamil king who ha resistance against oniser.
Vavuniya marked territory of the Tam the ethnic composit the borders of Eelam pushed back. In fact ernment had annou of a “new Vavuniya ( ing the existing (Tar trict to three Sinhale ernment Agents' di joining Anuradhap. new Vavuniya distri had a Sinhalese m was shelved at that protest of the TUL pursued again with planning since the .
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vuniya
2 state-sponsored
on was aimed at 'a and Mullaitivu was crucial in that traditional Tamil , once ruled over ara Wanmiyan, a put up a heroic he European col
the border of the ils. By changing on of Vavuniya, were going to be in 1980, the govced the creation istrict' by annexil) Vavuniya disse Assistant Govisions in the adra district. The ... would have thus jority. The plan time due to the but was being great vigour and ly 1983 pogrom. f Sinhalese em
ployees were being recruited to the offices of the District Minister and Government Agents of Vavuniya. A move was under way to shift the office of the District Minister of Vavuniya to Madawachchi which was to be one of the new Sinhalese divisions to be absorbed into the new Vavuniya district. •
Likewise, plans were under way to shift the office of the Government Agent to a new Sinhalese division earmarked for annexation to the new Vavuniya district.
Terrorist label for Gandhiyam
Alongside these covert plans for Vavuniya there was already set in motion a more overt and ruthless form of colomisation. In the wake of the pogroms of 1977, 1981 and 1983, thousands of Tamil refugees, in particular Indian workers who had been uprooted from the tea and rubber plantations, had been settled in several farms in the Vavuniya district.
This refugee rehabilitation programme had been mainly carried out by the Gandhiyam movement, whose work had been recognised and funded by several international bodies like Oxfam, World Vision International, Asia Fund for Human Development, NOVIB of Holland, CARE and several other agencies from the USA, UK and Australia.
Over the last two years, the armed forces have pillaged and plundered Gandhiyam property, arrested its live wire - Dr S. Rajasunderam (and later had him clubbed to death in prison) and terrorised and threw out the Tamil

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refugee settlers. In their place they brought in Sinhalese IRCs (Island Reconvicted Criminals) and settled them. Many of these criminals so settled belonged to the private armies of some minister or other and were de facto members of the 4,000-strong fourth wing of the armed forces announced by the National Security Minister earlier this year and which was to be mobilised during moments of "internal strife'.
The Dollar and Kent farms in the Vavuniya district were two such farms that had belonged to the Gandhiyam movement. The criminals colonised in these farms had been armed by the army and had carried out a consistent campaign of terror against adjoining Tamil villages with the full connivance of the army and were responsible for the hijacking of a passen
ger coach in Vavuniya in August this
year and for the rape, plunder and murder of the Tamil commuters travelling in it. These are the socalled civilian targets attacked and destroyed by the Tamil guerrillas last month. It was to protect this type of Sinhalese civilian that Athulathmudali had stuck out his Oxford tongue and corrosive ways and declared war on the Tamil nation.
Lying with impudence
The Sri Lankan government followed up its Kent and Dollar farm sob stories with fraudulent disinformation about the violence that had erupted in the fishing villages of Nayaru and Kokilai in the Mullaitivu district. This is how Donovan Moldrich reported it for “The Times” (3.12.84) from Colombo:
"The government last night drastically reduced the figures it had earlier released over the number of Sinhalese fishermen allegedly killed at Nayaru and Kokilai, two villages 10 miles north of Mullaitivu, and said the total murdered by Tamil separatist rebels was only 11.
“Yesterday morning, Dr Wickrema Weerasooria, chairman of the media committee, said 27 had been killed at Nayaru and 30 at Kokilai. In the afternoon, the state-owned radio said
29 had died at Nayaru and 30 at
Kokilai, making a total of 59.
"Then, last night, the same radio said the total killed in both villages was only 11 . . .’, That clearly proves that Sri Lanka's despotic regime not only tells lies but tells them with utter impudence and
immorality and that it was hell-bent on whipping up a war psychosis.
The roots of the violence at Kokilai and Nayaru had its origins in the state of tension prevailing in these fishing villages as a result of the ruthless eviction of the inhabitant Tamil fishermen of these areas by the government
g
and colonising th fishermen from thi south of Sri Lanka.
act of violence that
and had nothing guerrillas.
The state-spons technique employe lages of the Mulla. closer analysis.
Migrant fisherme
The fishing villag district are situat East coastal bel Kokillai to Chundi Nayaru, Cemmala laitivu, Valayan M Pokkanai and Maa immemorial these tional fishing area villagers resident experiences the N winds from Dece. and the South West
to September.
During the mor Monsoon blows, tl West coast becom fishing due to the the Sinhalese fish areas, in particulal Negombo, Colom have traditionally months to the Nort were welcomed by men, put up tempo coastline and carr specting the unwri among fishermen, vade spots where men of the area ope good example of i existence.
Everything went till the chauvinist S saw in this method beach-head to colo ly important c( Sinhalese fisherm ethnic balance of t Tamil populated
By this time, th peaceful negotiat gaining and co-ops political leaders rulers for a greate functions and for of regional auto principle of regio the day-to-day aff Tamil homelands East, While rema
ful to the gover were proving futi economic chaos the Tamils were more and more levels of the stat The cry for the the de facto stat

DECEMBER 1984
m with Sinhalese south west and the t was an ipso facto arose amidst them o do with Tamil
red colonisation
in the fishing vilivu district merits
es in the Mullaitivu along the North stretching from ulam and include Silavaththai, Muladam, Ambalavan thalan. From time lave been the tradiof the poor Tamil there. Sri Lanka orth East Monsoon mber to February Monsoon from May
ths when the SW, Le Sinhalese South es unsuitable for turbulent seas and ermen from those o Puttalam, Chilaw, oo and Kalutara, migrated for three h East coast. They 7 the Tamil fisherrary huts allong the ied out fishing, retten code of ethics such as not to inpermanent fisherrate. It used to be a inter-communal co
fine till the 1970s, inhalese politicians of migrant fishing a ise this strategicala stal area with in and reverse the his overwhelmingly omeland.
nearly 25 years of ons, political barration by the Tamil with the Sinhalese. say in government reasonable degree omy based on the nal councils to run irs of the traditional
n the North and the
ling loyal and faith
ment in Colombo, ... With the general nd unemployment, ing singled out for scrimination at all Structure.
e-establishment of Df Eelam as it had
existed at the time the whole of Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon at that time) went to the European colonisers, had begun.
Opposed as they were to any form of equality of status to the Tamils, these chauvinist Sinhalese politicians embarked on a process of eroding the traditional Tamil areas claimed by Eelam with the ulterior motive of claiming them as Sinhalese areas if and when such an Eelam became a reality. The North and East of Sri Lanka was a geographically continuous land mass and there was also ethnic contiguity of the Tamils inhabiting these areas.
The Mullaitivu district formed the narrowest belt of ethnic contiguity, virtually an isthmus, between the North and the East. Massive statesponsored colonisation of the Eastern Tamil homelands with Sinhalese had gone on since 1948 and though Tamils, were still a majority in the East, if the isthmus of Mullaitivu could be taken over by a Sinhalese transplantation the Sinhalese could not only bisect the Tamil homelands but also claim that the East could not belong to Eelam because of its significant Sinhalese minority.
Migrants become encroachers
The Sinhalese thrust of colonisation into the isthmus of Mullaitivu thus began. Sinhalese chauvinistic politi-, cians with a say in the SW coastal belts pushed the migrant Sinhalese fishermen from these areas to settle down permanently along the NE coast, to encroach upon crown lands in these areas, and in addition to fighting, to embark on planting agricultural crops in the crown lands so misappropriated. They were promised subsequent. ownership of the encroached lands, government loans to establish themSelves and also protection by the armed forces. This colonisation was in full swing when, in 1976, the TULF, the party that had won almost all the Tamil Seats in Parliament, formally adopted a resolution committing itself, to the achievement of a sovereign, independent, socialist state of Eelam. That heralded an acceleration of the thrust of Sinhalese colonisation of Mullaitivu. In addition to the fishermen colonisers from the SW, now Sinhalese fishermen from even the deep South, in particular from Balapitiya, Hikkaduwa, Galle and even Matara, were
b10tlight int0 Millaitill, And along with them came a new class of fishermen to the NE coast, the fishing mudalalis (the capitalist fisherman who owns fleets of boats and fishing equipment and who has under him several wage-earning fishermen, whose
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TEACHERs UNION
Mr H.N. Fernando, the General Se cretary of the Ceylon Teachers Union, the majority of whose members are Sinhalese, issued the following press statement protesting against the latest draconian measures imposed by the government against the Tamil people: This government which has been crushing the democratic rights and squeezing the standard of living of the people from its very inception, has demonstrated that it is now marching towards a naked military occupation in the Northern Peninsula, with the imposing of restrictions on the movements of the civilian population in the Jaffna district.
Putting the most inhuman Pass Law in South Africa to shame, the government of Junius Richard Jayawardene has totally banned the use of private vehicles including private buses and curtailed the movements of the civilIlian population to two hours in the morning from 6.00 to 8.00 and two hours in the afternoon from 2.00 to 4.00, apart from imposing curfew from 4.00pm to 6.00am. Notwithstanding this, the government has declared a
stretch in the sea East totally proh All these, wear have completely existence of the c the North. The e brought to a stand population will be as most will be means to earn a
Under house arr
Listing of occup holds and prohibit tertain anyone n breaks up family l hand the governm all the newly impos brought the entire the North under ho1 gross violation of Charter adopted by to which Sri Lanka
We therefore wis on the fact that the government are no North itself. The T that were sealed o
JAFFNA G.A. DETALS ARMY
ATROCES TO PRESIDENT
The Acting Government Agent of Jaffna, Mr M. Panchalingam, met the Sri Lankan President recently and submitted details of excesses committed by the security forces within the Jaffna district from July this year. The G.A. also submitted a list of complaints presented by affected Tamil civilians, along with photographs.
The names and other particulars of
those who were killed and injured during the indiscriminate shooting by the army at Kannathiddy, Jaffna, the details of the 40 houses at Achchuveli, 44 houses at Valalai, and 22 houses at Urelu which were set on fire and destroyed by the army and the names of those killed in these places were also presented by the G.A. to the President. Further, the G.A. furnished details of complaints from residents of Jaffna whose jewellery and other valuables were stolen by army personnel under the pretext of carrying out search operations. Among the various complaints, one related how a Hindu priest (a vegetarian) was forced to eat fish by some army men at Mathagal.
40 TAM DETAN KILLED ARMY (
Forty Tamil politica the Vavuniya army Sri Lanka were sho army on Decemb bodies were burnt coldblooded slaught in apparent reprisal single soldier in a
army personnel anc militants in Vavu from the army cam
Murderous minio
Predictably, the
Minister, Mr Athula the rescue of his in with a story that th were killed in the co to escape. How a escapees were kill vived with injuries i the Minister would answer because the the Tamil detainees shot and killed.

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ROTESTsAGAINST ERNMENTACTION
the North and the ited. compelled to state opardised the very ilian population in nomic life will be ill and the civilian ushed to starvation deprived of their ving.
st
ants in the houseng the right to enit listed virtually fe and on the other ent, in effect, with ed restrictions, has amil population in lise arrest. This is a he Human Rights the United Nations is also a signatory. h to lay emphasis se schemas of this t restricted to the rade Union offices ff during the 1980
July strike still remain as they aré. There is no necessity to write out the long list of opposition meetings that were broken up by government sponsored goon-squads. There was no shame on the part of the government to employ its goondas to quieten the judiciary. This government that tried to implicate the Left organisations with the '83 Tamil pogrom is now trying to make the public believe that the Left is now in tow with the “insurgents' through multi-coloured posters. The Prevention of Terrorism Act that was brought to force at the expense of the North is now being openly used to repress the Left organisations. The repression begun in the North will eventually march on to the South.
We therefore call upon all democratic-loving organisations and individuals to join together in totally condemning these obnoxious, repressive and undemocratic laws of this totalitarian government while taking this opportunity to warn every organisation and individual that this will only be the opening of a new chapter that will bring the entire country under a bloody dictatorship.
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detainees held in camp in northern and killed by the r 3. Their dead y the army. This r was carried out for the death of a hoot-out between a group of Tamil ya many miles on the same day.
ational Security mudali, came to rderous minions Tamil detainees "se of an attempt
the attempted
and nome sura question which ever be able to uth was that all ere deliberately
DEATH THREATS AGAINST MINISTERS
A series of death threats have been received by several of the Sri Lankan Cabinet Ministers, according to a report in the 'ISLAND' of 18.11.84. In the wake of these threats, security measures for Ministers have been stepped up.
The most, intriguing aspect of this report is that the signatories to these threatening letters are a group identifying themselves as members of the Sri Lankan security forces.
COMMANDoSTOBE MOVED
The police commandos who were based near Hartley College in Jaffna district are to be moved out. This decision was made at a meeting between the Jaffna Military Co-ordinat-ing Officer, the Government Agent and education officials held recently.
The students of Hartley College have been boycotting classes demanding the removal of the police commandos following the burning of the College Library and science laboratory by army personnel. With the removal of the police commandos, there is now the prospect of college attendance returning to normal.

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WHAT INDIRA GANDH MEANT TO SRI LANK
The cruel hands of the assassins have removed the only shield against genocide that the Sri Lankan Tamils had in the person of Indira Gandhi. This sentence sums up the deep feeling of loss felt by the Tamils in every nook and corner of Sri Lanka. In the terrible months of June, July and August 1983, when the planned attack on Tamils, started in Trincomalee in June, reached a crescendo in the last week of July, the Sri Lanka Government failed to take any action to stop the murder, arson, looting and rape unleashed against Tamils and their property. There was not even a word of sympathy to the victims from the President and his Ministers but there was a telephone call to the President, Mr J. R. Jayewardene, from New Delhi on July 28, which jolted the Sri Lanka Government out of its callous disregard of its elementary duty of maintaining law and order and safeguarding the lives and property of the Tamil minority. Indira Gandhi followed this solicitous telephone conversation with sending her Minister for External Affairs, Mr P.V. Narasimha Rao to Colombo the same day. It was only after this action by the Prime Minister of India that orders to shoot the murderers and looters were given to the Sri Lanka armed forces and attempts were made to bring the situation gradually under control.
intense awareness w
I had the privilege of being in touch with Indira Gandhi from 1979 when she was out of power and acquainting her with the situation that was developing in Sri Lanka against the Tamils. From the very first meeting my wife and I had with her, I was impressed with the deep knowledge of the facts and the intense awareness of the problem that she had. At the several Subsequent meetings my colleagues and I had with her, we were amazed that in the midst of the multifarious problems she had to cope with, Indira Gandhi could find the time to learn precisely every detail of the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka and remember it. When talking to her about these problems one got the impression of dealing with a computerlike mind which could store all relevant information and pull them out whenever required.
The Nehrus always enjoyed a Special place in the affection of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. From the early thirties, pictures of Nehru with his wife Kamala and his daughter Indira
slandling on eith thousands of T Lanka. At a ti Tamil workers w were the targets ( propaganda by S A.E. Goonasingh went to Sri Lanl organised them i union called the gress, the prect Ceylon Workers
Long before I sited Ceylon to c leader of the S mayake, the futur Tamils of Indian the citizenship l passed, Nehru, a India, refused to and Pakistani C. was calculated to tataion Tamils í the political strel the island as a v Throughout t Nehru, the India tained that the Ta in Sri Lanka ha citizenship rights country. Unfort death it was duri Lal Bahadur Sha the repatriation Tamils was signe and genuine conc Tamils in Sri Lan his daughter Indi Open expression June 1983, when India indicated to ernment its conce Regulation 15 ( police and the arr of the the bodies the security for inquiry or post-m It was pointed out amounted to an security forces impunity.
Concern of evel
This innocuous Over violation of voked a howl óf Lanka press and f benches in the Sr They called it inte the internal affair of the last speech ment I had to p( rights violations il concern of every ( could protest aga

DECEMBER 1984
AN TAMILS By A. Amirthalingam
er slde used to adorn 'amil homes in Sri me when plantation 'ere disorganised and of virulent anti-Indian Sinhalese leaders like e, it was Nehru who ka (Ceylon then) and into a powerful trade Ceylon Indian Conursor of the present Congress. independence, he viliscuss with the then imhallese, D. S., Semaestatus and rights of origin. In 1948, when aws of Ceylon were S Prime Minister of agree to the Indian itizenship Act which decitizenise the planand thereby weaken ngth of the Tamils in whole. he stewardship of n Government mainamils of Indian origin ad to be given full and absorbed in that junately, after his ng the premiership of stri that the pact for of 525,000 plantation d. The farsightedness 'ern of Nehru for the ka were passed on to ra Gandhi. The first of concern came in the Government of o the Sri Lanka Gov2rn over Emergency A), permitting the ned forces to dispose of persons killed by ces without judicial ortem examination. t that this regulation open licence to the to kill Tamils with
ryone
indication of concern
human rights proprotest in the Sri rom the Government i Lanka Parliament. erference by India in s of Sri Lanka. In one es I made in Parliabint out that human h any country are the
one and if Sri Lanka,
inst violation of the
rights of the coloured people in South Africa why could not India protest against inhuman treatment of Tamiliş in Sri Lanka. ; : .
The holocaust against the Tamils in July 1983 followed on the heels of the promulgation of these regulations and India's role became inevitable. There was only one leader in the world who had the courage and the moral stature to call upon the Sri Lanka government to put a stop to the genocide being perpetrated against the Tamils. It was this action by Indira Gandhi that sa ved the lives of thousands of Tamils. There was no question of any overbearing conduct on her part. The quiet dignity and the moral stature of Indira Gandhi were such that her offer of good offices was readily accepted by Mr Jayewardene.
Her deep sympathy
It was in this background that I went to New Delhi on August 14 and was privileged to discuss the whole prob; lem fully with the Prime Minister for over an hour. Her deep sympathy for the sufferings of the people and genuine concern for their future gave solace and soothed my agitated mind. In spite of the deep feeling there was no question of any hasty action or any attitude of hectoring towards the Sri Lanka Government. I was made to realise that she was conscious of the delicacies involved in dealing with another state.
At the same time I felt that the moral authority of a world statesman will act as an effective shield for the Tamil people. She knew every detail concerning the distribution of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka and the centres of violence against them and had already throught out possible lines of Solving the problem. She had told Mr H. W. Jayewardene, brother of the President and his special emissary, that district councils would not meet the aspirations of the Tamil people and that the Sri Lanka Government should go beyond them. I had the feeling that the fate of the Tamils was safe in her hands and we also accepted her good offices and agreed to attend the AllParty Conference and negotiate with the Sri Lanka President, contrary to our earlier decision not to.
Although the process of negotiation has got protracted and Mr Jayewardene has gone back on various matters agreed to with Indira Gandhi and her special envoy Mr G. Parthasarathi, SO
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DECEMBER1984.
JUNIUs, Your ANALc
To say the least, I was amused to read of the analogy that the President has sought to draw between the recent unhappy events in India that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi and those events that took place in Sri Lanka in July 1983. , , , To draw a parallel between the feelings aroused as a result of the assassination of a popular Prime Minister like Indira Gandhi with those aroused în Sri Lanka by the killing of 13 soldiers in a popular guerrilla struggle against a government which has, for years, been using the army to harass and kill innocent Tamils is simply prepOSterous. -
What happened in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi was entirely spontaneous. Nobody could have anticipated the assassination. On the contrary, the July events in Sri Lanka were entirely premeditated and pre-planned. Even the government admitted that it was organised
Simply an excuse
The leaders behind the mobs had electoral lists showing where the Tamils lived. Just as in 1982 the killing of an Israeli diplomat in London was the excuse for the pre-planned Israeli invasion of Lebanon, so also the killing of 13 soldiers in Jaffna on July 23 was simply an excuse for the planned pog. rom unleashed on the Tamils.
In Sri Lanka, the armed forces eitherlooked the other way or partici pated in the communal violence against the Tamils. No such thing happened in India.
In Sri Lanka, when the President appeared on TV after four days, he did not utter a word of condemnation of the communal violence against the Tamils, nor did he call a halt to the anti-Tamil terror. Instead, he justified the action of the Sinhala mobs as a
- N. SHAN
ON his return fr
attending the f
Gandhi, the Sri Junius Jayawa statement:
6I thought to n Were the events killing in Jaffna July 1983 by Tam resulted in the ri acts in Colombo the island.
The Sri Lanka the whole Sin blamed and are unfairly for thos penings which w few Sinhalese.
I hope and trus no repetition of Lanka, India or All nations th: democratic freed ate to eradicate aftermath - riot groups.
Indians and S much to learn fr pened. We shou petition of the act countrymen; we working togeth eradicate terror
In India, some for a separate sta Lanka, some Ta. Sam e, se ekin “Eelam
"natural reaction' cate them by pr against parties an advocated a sepal On the other ha Prime Minister mediately went om
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long as she lived, the Tamil people of Sri Lanka felt that she would somehow or other work out their salvation. Her Sudden death makes them feel orphaned and face their future with trepidation. They are yet hopeful that her son, the Prime Minister, Mr Rajiv Gandhi, with the advice of veterans like Mr G. Parthasarathi, Mr Narasimha Rao and Mr M. K. Rasgotra (External Affairs Secretary) Will continue the same policy and achieve what she would have achieved for them. Such is the deep faith the Tamils of Sri Lanka had in Indira Gandhi and continue to have even after her death.
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GY is PREPoSTEROUS
MUGATHIASAN
m New Delhi after uneral and Indira Lankan President, rdene, said in a
yself how similar that followed the of 13. Sinhalese in il terrorists, which oting and criminal and other parts of
government and hala race Were still being blamed e unfortunate haprecommitted by a
t that there will be these events in Sri
anywhere else. at love peace and loms must co-operterrorism and its ing between racial
Sri Lankams have 'om what has hapld prevent the retions of some of our look forward to er with India to ism in the future. Sikhs are agitating te, Kalistan. In Sri mils are doing the g to establish
ana went on to plaomising legislation di organisations that rate State.
nd, the new, Indian Rajiv Gandhi imthe air and on TV to
call upon the Hindus "to stop this madness' and went on to recall the part played by the Sikhs in the Indian independence movement.
It is wrong to suggest that the victim in India was a Hindu. Indira Gandhi was not shot because she was a Hindu, but because she was the Prime Minister who ordered the troops in to the Holy Shrine of the Sikhs. In the same way, the soldiers who were killed in Jaffna on July 23 were not killed be. cause they were Buddhists, but be. cause they were soldiers who had gone there to kill.
Foreign assistance?
The President seems to complain of foreign assistance. Is that not true of most other similar movements? Does not Sri Lanka recognise the PLO, whose openly declared aim is to liberate Palestine by armed struggle? Is it not true that the bulk of the money and the arms of the IRA are sent to them by Irish-Americans?
Why does the President not place before the people of Sri Lanka the better example of Great Britain where, despite the assassination of the Queen's uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and the near-successful attempt at assassinating almost the entire British Cabinet, there was no anti-Irish pogrom in Britain?
The demand for Kalistan by the Sikhs in India is a religious demand. The Sikhs are not a race. They belong to one religion. But, they are all Punjabis who have a separate state, in fact, two states. It is the same illogical demand, in terms of modern political thinking, as that which led to the creation of Pakistan and Israel. But, the demand for Eelam - irrespective of whether we agree with it or not - is a secular demand for a separate state for the Tamils who are a race. ... i
VERNMENT STOPS USE
OF TRANSMITTERS
government has dethe use of transmitmunications now in ht corporations and S. s been prompted by io broadcasts made militant groups by frequencies. Radio unications and pagsed by various govt ons and private secin their day-to-day
Once the suspension is effected, the government hopes to monitor the other services in operation and locate "pirate stations'.
Broadcasting news, rhessages
A Tamil militant group has been broadcasting news and messages in Tamil, Sinhalese and English for the last few months. The government's attempts to locate or obstruct these broadcasts have proved a failure so far. −

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OPEN LETTER (2) TO
THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL SE
Dear Mr Athulathmudali,
On your taking up appointment as Minister of National Security, you pompously proclaimed that you would promptly resign your portfolio if the police or security forces acted in an indisciplined manner. Since your appointment, there have been more rampages by the security forces in the Tamil areas than at any time in the past. Hundreds of houses and shop premises have been burnt and destroyed. The Hartley College library and science laboratory were burnt down.
The Jaffna Multi-Purpose Co-operative Store with several million rupees worth of goods was set ablaze and destroyed. The government itself admitted that during one night alone, 123 homes and shops were set alight by
a rampaging group of army men in
Mannar. In Valvettiturai, Vavuniya, Point Pedro, Chunnakam, Atchuveli, Kokkuvill, Urelu, Mathagall, Jaffna city and in almost the entire northern province, the security forces have been engaged in an unmitigated campaign of murder and arson since your appointment.
Livelihoods and homes
... Thousands of Tamils have lost their livelihood and their homes. Yet, contrary to what you promised at the time of your appointment you continue to hold your portfolio. Further, being a much more Sophisticated person tham many of your ministerial colleagues, you have very often ventured to explain away or cover up the atrocities committed by your marauding troops. Mr Minister, to date, not a single police, army, navy or air force officer has been charged with any offence in the Courts in spite of the innumerable criminal acts they have committed. Yet you had the effrontery to claim in your interview with "The Hindu' (29.9.84) correspondent, "I could say no government has taken so much action against the security force misbehaviour as the government of Sri Lanka. By this single statement, you have demonstrated that you are a living example of the truth of the assertion that politics is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
What action did you take against the 200 policemen who went berserk (this I was admitted by your government in parliament) and gutted to the ground the Jaffna Public Library with its priceless collection of 95,000 books,
historical scripts, on t. What action marauders W Jaffna city ir ing, several Press, sever the Jaffna M iters and ma Mr Minist take against cold-blooded of over 75 Tal diren, on Jul Peninsula? W against the a rampage on down 163 hou. armadam in you take agai Smashed up and its vehic 4.1983? What ac the 130 nav, through the ( government a 26 and burnt erties? What against those Multi-Purpose homes and : Several house: Valvettiturai, - all this appointment? I could cite dents of this n. your governn any action wl
Not a single
Mr Ministe tioned as to even a single even a single forces, you st you have tak cases is to ta with dishonou vices for arsor please, Mr Mi ber, the name who have so your claim is You also h could not inst criminal proc member of th
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locuments and manue night of June 1, 1981? lid you take against your hen they burnt down half cluding the market buildshops, the Eela Nadu l bookshops, the home of P, the TULF headquarly other buildings? :r, what action did you hose who committed the murder in broad daylight nils, including schoolchill24, 1983 in the Jaffna that action did you take rmy men who went on a May 18, 1983 and burnt. ses in and around KanthJaffna? What action did nst the air force men who the Gandhiyam offices les in Vavuniya in June. tion did you take against v men who rampaged ity of Trincomalee (the dmitted this too) on July down hundreds of propaction have you taken who burnt the Jaffna Co-operative Store, 123 shops in Mannar, and S and shops at Atchuveli, Jaffna and other places, occurring since your
a hundred more inciature in respect of which ment has failed to taker hatsoever.
Court-martial
', when you were queswhy there has not been ! court-martial against member of the security |ted that the only action n in respect of certain rminate their services r! Termination of Serand murder? Could you hister, publish the numand the ranks of those far been terminated if true? ave claimed that you tute a court-martial Or edings against a single 2 security services bewas prepared to come ve evidence Does that ster, that there is not a the Sri Lankan securo is honest, disciplined
DECEMBER 1984
and has a sense of duty to come forward and give evidence against those who commit murder and arson? Are you, therefore, admitting that the entirety of the armed forces is composed of arsonists and murderers and those who either cover up for them or collude with them? Let us take the Mannar incident in which 123 homes were burnt down. You conceded in the interview with "The Hindu' that "Army Commander, Col. Boris Marks tried heroically' to prevent his men going on this rampage but failed. Hence in this case you would have had the direct eyewitness evidence of the Army Commander himself. Yet we have still to hear of a court-martial or a criminal prosecution against even a single officer in the Mammar rampage!
Explain away failure
You tried to explain away your government's failure to institute an impartial judicial investigation into the massacre of 53 Tamil political detainees in the Welikade prison on July 25 and 27. You claimed that a 'judicial inquiry' was held by a magistrate and that no further action was possible because no one came forward and identified those responsible. Firstly, as a lawyer with a Masters degree from Oxford, you ought to know that the 'judicial inquiry' to which you refer was only an inquest to establish the cause of death and the verdict was one of homicide.
Secondly, is it your contention, Mr Minister, that none of the prison officers, including the Deputy Superintendent of Prison, who were there when the massacres took place and who claimed that they tried hard to prevent the massacre taking place, was able to identify even one of the assailants (who numbered about 500 on July 25 and 400 on July 27)? -
If the prison officers did not themselves participate in the massacre, then it would be reasonable to assume that they ought to be able to identify at least Some of the assailants. A proper independent judicial investigation would have unearthed the truth. But your government has refused to Order Such an investigation thus giving validity to the inference that your government was and is engaged in a total cover-up operation. P. R. Shanthi 15, 11.84

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THE SITUA
Sri Lanka is reaching the year's end smeared in blood; the blood of wicked and innocent alike, men, women and children. This is no longer any paradise island (tourists, aid agencies and investors beware) but a new Devil's Island, its Buddha of peace become a reincarnation of Kali, the fanged destroyer. With one difference - this unique and hybrid Sri Lankan deity, whose principal temples and worshippers are located at Kotte and Gurunagar, Elephant Pass and Panagoda, is a deity of self-destruction, hell-bent on a holocaust which will consume the very ground it stands upon.
Meanwhile, Mankulam, Vavuniya,
Kaithady and (day by day) other battlefields of a tormented island have piled massacre upon massacre, multiplying the bodies of the fallen, and raising new cries of anguish which reach to high heaven.
What was long ago foreseeable - the inexorable spread of the conflict to the up-country estates (despite the efforts of Colombo to suppress news of it), the growing suzerainty of the USA over Sri Lanka, the hiring of mercenaries as the amount of dirty work increases, the gradual ruin of the economy and the political system - are all advancing in tandem.
Small men all
And in Colombo, the mediocre and frightened Sinhalese politicians - small men all, with delusions of grandeur, both paranoid and vicious ——— prefer self-immolation to a sane re
gard for the legitimate demands of the
Tamils; prefer US-inspired security (or "free-fire') zones to the devolution of powers; prefer killing and hara-kari to concessions; prefer to go down - as assuredly they will - fighting, rather than make the kind of political accommodation with the Tamils which would alone serve Sinhalese interests.
But then those whom the gods intend to destroy, they first make mad. Madness is the declaring of a 'no man's land' from Mannar to Mullaitivu,
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madness, the c
homelands with madness, the atte concentration cal ness, the phantor Madras in a doze. neSS, too, the re from Colombo of t nomic and aid a their resources fr ness, the tough-g tin-pot Athuilliath national moveme ger be fought off ings of a King K mands of human
Responsible for
*Terrorism' (anS ism) there is in Sri more ghastly in ʻachievementsʼ; bu is on Colombo’s ha who hold power - are, and the em political evil - hol for every burst of Sinhalese; and are tears of every w Sinhalese or Tami * Yet, the historica clearly arrived v cause has come i Indeed, I believe it World that the Tam determination repr to the integrity C polity, than the rational path to physical survival in ter: a disaster for which has been bro ombo’s suicidal re. with those of its Tamils.
The irreversible have made interna illes of some of talented and hardhave made gunmer their sons and gran
“TAMIL RIGHTS MUS - Say interna
A resolution pleading that the Tamil population of Sri Lanka should be, by appropriate legislations, granted the rights guaranteed by international instruments concerning racial and ethnic minorities was adopted by the general assembly of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers which met in Athens recently.
The meeting rec. cern at the continu and repressive pc Tamils in Sri Lank Lanka government ly all actions like rights and to solve political basis thro
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lonising of Tamil Sinhalese convicts; mpt to make a Tamil mp of Jaffna; mad
of "invaders' from catamarans; madentless provocation he international ecoencies to withdraw m Sri Lanka; mady posturings of the mudali, against a t which can mo lonwith the chest-beat)ng defying the dedignity and justice.
the tears
wering state terrorLanka, and always its "victories' and it the blood it sheds nds also. For, those puny men as they podiment of every d responsibility too gunfire, Tamil or responsible for the idow and orphan, l. all moment has also when the Tamils' mto the ascendant. is dawning on the il struggle for selfesents less a threat if the Sri Lankan only possible and their community's the general disasthe Sinhalese also, ught about by Col. usal to deal justly citizens who are
consequence is to l and external exSri Lanka’s most working people; to and "terrorists' of disons; to have set
in motion the very breakdown of the social order which Mossad, the SAS and the new US command-post in Colombo have been hired to - but can now never - repair; and to have brought into being, singlehanded and day by day, the very forces which a greater state force, arming to the teeth, . will now never master.
Under the surface, however, new movements of international opinion and Tamil action, as well as yet greater human disasters, are in the making. Covertly, and with the greatest cynicism, Colombo seeks political contact with the 'separatists', while at the same time pushing towards an unattainable final solution'; the strength of the militants grows rapidly, as it was always bound to do, while competition between them intensifies to prove by massacre and ambush the quality of their mettle; and foreign powers, licking their lips over the battle, jockey for geo-political position in a private game in which a recolonised Colombo, whatever it may think, is not even a player. And in Europe especially — and in private — politicians, foreign office representatives, aid and development agency officials, and human rights activists are now sitting down together to discuss concerted sanctions against Sri Lanka.
Speak for the whole
In the meantime, Sri Lanka and all its people bleed, burn and struggle; and as always, it is the most defenceless, the poorest, the voiceless, who must bear the heaviest crosses. Indeed, beyond race and the brutish bigotry unleashed by Colombo's benighted priests and bewitched politicians, stands a common people's interest in peace and a just settlement of human and community grievances. But since Colombo has lost its voice (and reason) crying out for ever more arms and ever less justice, it is the Tamils who have now begun to speak to the world for the whole of Sri Lanka.
TBE GUARANTEED' tiOnal laWyerS
rded its deep con'd brutal massacre licies against the and urged the Sri to stop immediatey to violate their the problem on a 1gh negotiations.
the Organisation
for the Protection of Human Rights, Mr W.R. Krishna Iyer, who attended the assembly, said there that the Jayewardene government had even induced some Western countries to refuse the fleeing Tamils the "refugee status'. This tragic success of that government could be nullified only by
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STYRESE MATHAGAL. S.)
வடிவி Mathagal-Kaanch was shelled from th FISHERMEN ATTACKED: Two for nearly an hour. fishermen were attacked by the Sri their homes and S Lanka Navy while out fishing in the adjoining paddyfie. Chempianpattru sea in the North. The hovered low with bl navy personnel smashed up the 6 h.p. outboard motor of their fibreglass boats, shelled the boats and assaulted the fishermen mercilessly. As the boats began to sink, the injured fisher- COLOMBO AR men jumped into the sea and were TINUE: Over the struggling to get ashore, when another Tamil youths, hai fishing boat rescued them. They have Batticaloa and Vat lodged a complaint with the Assistant arrested in Colom Government Agent in Point Pedro... :) who were either em
i or had come to Colc TAMIL YOUTHS ARRESTED IN business, were arre
COLOMBO: Twelve Tamil youths diana, Cinn a mol who had come to Colombo were Narahenpita areas. arrested by the police in a house at Maradana. They were said to be from MASSACREAT Kilimochchi. Urumpirai, two
`...” ...””့်နို် youths, who had mo OCTOBER 26, f98ક્રોમાં on seeing the arr عضدّ R convoy, Were purSl and shot dead. The armoured cars d houses and injured
Est ocTOBER 25, 1984
. OCTOBER
MORE ARRESTS IN COLOMBO: Two Tamil youths who went to Colombo to fly abroad om employment contracts and a schoolmaster who went to see them off were taken into MORE VILL A custody by the police. The arrested are SIEGE: The 'hous Pandari Selladurai (34 years), Velan assault and capture Poobalasingam (25 years), and Sinna- security forces con tamby Chandrabalan (26 years), all of Telippalai, Man from Kaithady West. Pesalai, Valvettitu The armed forces houses at Skandap. COMPLAINANT ARRESTED nochchi area. At Va TOO: an agricultural exten - Tamil youths ha ision officer from Kilinochchi who went attacked in the vil to the police station to complain about and Urikaadu. Sev ia robbery in the Agricultural Superin- have been taken a tendent's office in Kilinochchi was the Kilinochchi ar. arrested and remanded. It was said that this was in accordance with a new CANCER HOSP) government directive that com- TORS: There is no plainants about robberies in govern- cancer treatment c ment institutions should be remando^d Northern Province and questioned! ment's indifferenc cancer hospital for PIRACY BY ARMY: The Army the North, funds co commandeered a lorry from the Pan- public and severa datherriippu Multi-Purpose Co-opera- tions saw the sett tive Society to freeboot two fibreglass treatment centre f fishing boats that were anchored in the North, thereby sav Sambil harbour at Mathagal. and their familie
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ELLED: The poram coastline 2 sea by the Navy 7illagers fled from pent : the might in ds as helicopters zing searchlights.
28, 1984
RESTS CONlast three days 36 ing from Jaffna, 'uniya, have been bo. : These youths ployed in Colombo mbo on legitimate ested in the MaraGardens ; and
JRUMPIRAI: At innocent Tamil oved into a by-lane ival of an Army led by the convoy gunfire from the amaged several
many citizens.
G ES UN D E R e-to-house search, operations' of the inued in the areas ipay, Karainagar, ai and Kilinochchi. Set fire to several uram in the Kililvettiturai, several ve been brutally ages of Panthiady eral Tamil youths way as captives in
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ordeal of having to go to Colombo for treatment.
But several appeals to the government to appoint a doctor to this hospital fell om deaf ears and the hospital is still unable to commence work. The hospital committee has now decided to appeal directly to Foreign Missions in Colombo to extend the services of foreign doctors to man this hospital. Since the July 1983 pogrom, cancer patients from the North prefer to disintegrate to death in their homes than go to Colombo to face a more painful death.
öCTOBER 29. 1984
MORE SHELLING AT MATHIAGAL: Intensive shelling of the Mathagall coast took place tonight for two hours commencing at 8pm. Gunboats of the Sri Lanka Navy have been anchored in the sea off Mathagal between the Sembian harbour and Senthankulam for the past week and though there has been some degree of shelling every night, it was only today that the shelling moved into top gear. At least ten houses near the sea coast have been almost completely destroyed. People living near the coastline at Mathagal, Kanchipuram and Kusumanthurai fled their homes and spent the night in paddyfields.
TROOPS DISRUPT RELIGIOUS FUNCTION: Mavidappuram Kandasamy Temple, a Hindu shrine renowned even in India, had its annual "Sooran Porr' festival disrupted by the armed forces today. The troops were engaged in a 'house-to-house search attack and capture' operation barely 200 yards away from the shrine. As the festival was in progress a massive army convoy chose to wend its way in front of the temple with overflying helicopter cover, sending the devotees flving helter-skelter for safety.
STATE TERROR AT TELLIPPALAI: The hamlet of Mathanai at Tellippalai was subjected to a gruesome attack by the armed forces today. The thunder of heavy artillery fire re
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verberated through Tellippalai tonight as several armoured vehicles rolled through this quiet village. Several houses were damaged. Two Tamil youths who were killed had their bodies paraded through the streets; lanes and by ways, laid atop on armoured car. Subsequently their bodies were shoved into gunny-bags (like carcasses) by the troops and taken to the mortuary of Jaffna Hospital.
NOVEMBER 1, 1984
TROOPS SET URELU ABLAZE: Security forces went on the rampage today between Urumpirai and Urelu setting fire to several houses. A heavy smokescreen hung over the village of Urelu today. Urelu was like a haunted village, with virtually every resident having fled from his or her home to adjoining villages of Kopay, Kokuvil, Kondavil and Neervely. Others hid in neighbouring farms. When the residents fled, the troops are said to have entered their homes and helped themselves to cash and jewellery, and Smashed up TVs, video decks and radio sets. Afather (Thambipillai Kandasamy, 58 years), and two soms (K. Devakumar, 23 years and K. Sooriyakumar, 18 years), were herded to the rear of their house and shot dead by the troops. A labourer, Perumal (60 years), working in a neighbouring home, was also shot dead.
MURDER AT URUMPIRAI: Security forces opened fire on two innocent Tamil youths travelling on a motorcycle at Urumpirai and killed them in what is described as an absolutely unprovoked attack.
AR SON AT AT CHU VELY:
Marauding troops set fire to several houses at Atchuvely. The loss to property is said to run into several lakhs of
Rupees (several thousand pounds...
sterling).
JAFFNA MURDERS: Troops opened fire on the Jaffna bus station, killing a Tamil speaking Muslim schoolboy, Azeez Amjath (17 years), and injuring another, Abdul Gaffeor Javahir (16 years), both of whom were innocent civilians who had come to collect their daily newspapers. The troops had also opened fire on the Jaffna railway station injuring several, including 65-year-old S. Rasiah. Meanwhile, security forces travelling in the Jaffna-Colombo "Yal Devi Express train opened fire at commuters waiting at the Nedunkulam road railway crossing, killing Saanthan, a youth from Chankanai. These were all unprovoked attacks.
NOV3ME
VALLALAI B went berserk at three miles away orgy of arson, th Troops are said to random and ther away from their and plundered th lery. They had li tractors, lorries, radios and severa and Set them abla houses and 10 hu poor were comp. ground by the fi mains of one of year-old retired s pillai Eliyathamb dled with bullet house. The fires blazed well past people gathered tC troops had driven opened fire or grapefruit farm h and destroyed. In been rendered hor Christian orphana also attacked and
NOVEMB
INCINERATIO “Operation Incine paging security
Nachimar Kovilac outskirts of Jaffna were fired at a ho set on fire along wi a bicycle parked civilians were tak
MURDER AT Three Tamil youth on a motorcycle v
troops. Two of the
25 years and T. SI died on the spot. T Ranjan, was admi injuries.
MULLAITIVU K Tamil youths were others captured w out a search opera vu district.
DOCTORS A ARRESTED: D and Premachanc Ambiga Kamalana ba Manicavasagar dants Mrs Jeeva A Seetha Ravindran, ment Hospital at Eastern Province a remand custody

R 2, 1984
ITZED: Troops Vallalai, a village from Palaly, in an iggery and murder.
have opened fire at . as the people ran
omes entered them air cash and jewelned up two-wheeled TVs, video decks, tons of seed onions ze. Twenty-six large ts belonging to the etely razed to the re, the charred rethe residents, a 71choolteacher, Veluy, being found ridS in his burnt-out
are said to have midnight and when put out the fire, the back to the area and them. A large ad been set on fire all, 500 people have neless by the fire. A ge at Atchuvely was looted by the Army.
ER 6, 1984 -
N IN JAFFNA: ration of the ramforces turned to ly, a village on the town. Several shots use, which was then th a motorcycle and learby. Four Tamil en into custody.
UR UM PIRAI: Sriding squeezed up vere shot at by the m, K. Yoganathan, i Kumar, 25 years, he third youth, Sri ited to hospital with
KILLINGS: Seven shot dead and eight hen troops carried tion in the Mullaiti
ND NUR SES ctors Gowrimohan ran, nurses Mrs tham and Mrs Kiruand nursing attenlagadurai and Mrs all of the GovernBatticaloa in the nd who had been in or the last three
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weeks for allegedly treating Tamil guerrillas, were released conditionally today. They have been ordered not to move out of the Batticaloa area without obtaining police permission.
STUDENT BOYCOTT AT BATTICALOA: Schoolboys of Sivananda Vidyalayam, Batticaloa, began a three-day boycott of classes protesting. against the arrest of four of their colleagues by the armed forces and demanding their release.
NOVEMBER 198
REIGN OF TERROR IN JAFFNA: A bomb exploded in a deserted house at Kachcheri Nallur Road in Nallur when security forces raided it. No one was injured or killed as a result. The incensed troops decided to make a hasty retreat to their camp at Gurunagar but left a trail of destruction, firing indiscriminately as they sped along at houses and buildings along their route. Among those injured and admitted to hospital are Devarajah (56 years) of the Jaffma Kachcheri and little Miss Dharshini Shanmugarajah (7 years). The troops returned in massive numbers later on in the day and blasted the house in question at Nallur. They also carried out a houseto-house search, assault and capture operation in the area. Most residents in the Kachcheri Nallur Road area abandoned their homes and moved over to other areas of relative safety.
SEVERAL VILLAGES UNDER SIEGE: The villages of Vattakachchy, Ramanatha Puram, Puloly, Thumapalai, Vallai Kurichy and Urelu were under siege by the security forces who carried out a house-tohouse search, assault, arson and capture operation. A charred Datsun van stands in front of the Kilinochchi Kandasamy temple, bearing testimony to
the blitz.
SEVEN KILLED, 35 INJURED
IN ARMY SHOOTING SPREE:
Following the explosion of an incendi. ary device, the Sri Lankan army went on an indiscriminate shooting spree in the northern Jaffna city, killing 7 Tamils on the spot and injuring several others. Thirtyfive of the injured were admitted to the
Jaffna and Tellipalai hospitals.
The army personnel, some in a minibus and others in a truck, kept on firing at random as the vehicles were
driven along K.K.S. Road. Many peo
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ple walking along the road and standing at their door-steps were killed or
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DURING her lifetime, Mrs Indira Gandhi was revilled in public and in private by the ruling circles in Sri Lanka. Ranasinghe Premadasa, the Prime Minister carried on a relentless tirade against Indira and India.
Besides the assassins, the leading members of the ruling United National Party and the extreme racist sections in Sri Lanka must have been the happiest lot at the tragic death of Indira Gandhi who was described by the “Saturday Review' editor, Mr Gamini Navaratne, as "a peerless stateswoman who was an adornment to the entire human race'.
Peerless in their hypocrisy, the Sri
Lankan President and Prime Minister rose to the occasion. President Jayawardene described Indira's death as "an irreparable loss to India . . . a grievous blow to the Non-aligned Movement and the international community' and flew to Delhi to attend the funeral to shed a few crododile tears. Premier Premadasa declared that "India . . . has had no greater patriot”.
While the Tamil people in general were mourning the death of a true and trusted friend with a three-day hartal from 1st to 3rd November, the
Sri Lankan armed forces “celebrated”
the occasion with dancing and music in the streets of Jaffna. They danced a “baila” singing and shouting “Ammah Enge' (where is the mother now?). The music and dancing came to an abrupt end when a few incendiary devices exploded and “those who derived some
jackal satisfaction from her tragic
end' ran for their lives.
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THE state-controlled 'Daily News' (8.11.84) reporting on the appointment of Rajiv as the Prime Minister of India under the heading "What Rajiv Inherits', gave a list of the problem areas. Sri Lanka figures prominantly in the list along with Kashmir, Assam and Punjab. When and how did Rajiv inherit "Sri Lanka'? The 'Daily News' would appear to be learning some “realpolitik”!
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"THE Minister of Lands and Land Development (Mr Gamini Dissanayake, referred to the adverse activities of Mr Kumar Rupasinghe in the Scandinavian countries. The Minister of Foreign Affairs said that a new dimension had arisen in propaganda in that Sinhala persons were criticising the government for discriminating against the Tamils. Mr Gamini Navaratne of the “Saturday Review' had
been continuously a ernment. This is an minutes of the me Lankan Cabinet Su Economic Developm May, 1984, and signe to the Cabinet Mr asinghe.
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Despite Presider strong efforts to exp. of tyranny and mair terrorist groups the know from, among ports and from Tan way, it is only pro mise (the governmer am also referring reports of the last disappearing, and and houses and shop That Tamils are res offensive is natural. government of Sri law and order. There are very goo( way to follow the de
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FROM PREVIOUS injured. The firing army vehicles reac Palali which is abou Jaffna city.
Those who died ir kulenthiran (29), Dinesh Dillis (12), SaraVamamuthu (44 were not identified Those injured incl Nadarasah (64), P. I Sivalokanathan (3! Nageswaran (22), A vanantharajah (21), jah, A. Kaneshaling nam, Sellathurai, Mohanadas (16), T

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n translation of a by Ms Marit » Norwegian Parer 26, 1984: ds on Sri Lanka. I »mmittee's (Parttee on Foreign one will appraise anka according to on Norway's Co. loping Nations. I t that the govern-' s made to receive development aid continues its sysear-extermination
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reasons for Norvelopments close
DECEMBER 1984
ly. “Our entire development aid policy will fall into disrepute if we risk our development aid funds being used by one ethnic group to suppress another. (I would like to ask Minister Brusletten (Minister of Development Aid) whether we can be sure by any means that a certain proportion of the grant for Sri Lanka will go to projects in the Tamil areas, and what practical problems are encountered in that respect?'
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A CEYLON Transport board bus driver has been penalised for his failure to contribute to celebrate President Jayawardene’s birthday.
The driver, who was recently transferred from the Sri Lankan Southern town of Udugama to Galle, has been placed on 'standby' duty and gets work very infrequently.
The ruling UNIP-led Jathika Seva Sangamaya (JSS) of which the Industries Minister Mr Cyril Mathew is the President, recently collected money from all employees to celebrate Jayawardene's birthday. Most of the employees paid up for fear of the consequences. The driver in question declined to contribute because the JSS had misused the money collected last
year. -
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THE JSS has donated Rs500,000 to the so-called National Defence Fund to fight 'terrorism' Did this money come from the 'commission given to the JSS boss in connection with an oil refinery deal some two years ago by an Italian firm? Or did it come from the "loot' obtained during the July 1983 antiTamil violence in which the JSS members played no small part?
AVAILS PAGE 2Ontinued until the shed the camp at it eight miles from
ncluded, T. VarnaSivakumar (22), Manoharan (22), ), and others who
immediately. uded Nallathamby Pushpanathan (27), 9), Miss Malathi Ambalavamar SarKandiah Nadaraam (28), AlagaratSarojinithevi (38), hamotharam (43),
Selvarajah (29), Periyathamby, Veluppilai (43), Puvanenthiran, A. Vaithi (46), S. Joseph (24), Sivasuntharam (19), Koneswaran (10), S. David (14), Vigneswaran (12), Kathilingam (66), Gnamarathinam (62), Nagarasa (37), P. Marimuthu (40), M. - Thangarajah (28), S. Thiyagarajah (40), and Aiyathurai (20).
Two more Tamil civilians were shot and killed by the army on the same day near Jaffna Kachcheri. Editorial note: We are sorry that due to the troubled conditions in the Tamil areas, the later part of the diary after 7th November has not reached us at the time of going to press. 球

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UNARMED AND
Never before had the Tamil speaking people in the Northern Province, more particularly in the Jaffna Peninsula, faced such brutal and Savage onslaughts from the security forces. The President, Mr J. R. Jayawardene, is apparently un moved and is in no mood to respond to appeals to bring to an end “the barbar0uSmeSS Of thể: armed forces and to withdraw them totally, from their land.
Most of the people this correspondent talked to still do not subscribe to a separate Eelam (Tamil word to denote a separate sovereign state comprising all the Tamil speaking areas of Sri Lanka). They had been alienated by previous spells of rioting, official discrimination, and in Tamil majority areas by the rough treatment at the hands of the ill-disciplined, mainly Sinhalese security forces. Several of them noted that at this rate, a stage would be reached soon when the entire, population might decide on Separation as the only solution. s
The Tamils may cease to be recept. tive to appeals from the capital. Students, cab drivers, doctors, engineers, officers, petty officials, businessmen and politicians Speak with one voice;
about the undependability of the Gov
ernment when it comes to any kind of:
agreement on the future of the cultur-,
ally and linguistically distinct Tamil population in the island.
An un armed population, men,
women and children, feel they are kept.
under a kind of siege within the peninSula by an armed force of several thousand men. One bank official pointed out that when there was a robbery in the bank on a certain night and when the occurrence was reported promptly to the police and the army, neither of them cared to visit the Scene till the next morning; they felt safe to come only in broad daylight and sprayed bullets indiscriminately, killing passers-by. It was only when the doctors from the hospital opposite protested saying they would stop treating wounded servicemen, that the armed forces halt their madness, said one eyewitness. He also said policemen were not available for law and order duties as they were afraid to come out of the police station. This naturally encouraged criminals to indulge in vandalism.
Normal life disrupted
In other ways too, normal life remains disrupted. With a number of banks robbed, there is a dearth of money in circulation. One therefore sees a long queue of people at the two
banks, open for two hours a day. Shops
By S. Parth
are open only a fe them are well stod
The roads are ir disrepair. A high o Municipality expre the Government de Tamil areas of res. ment Should have routine maintenan the upkeep of roa Jaffna Hospital, O Second best hospita far behind Some o
No funds are fort ving its facilities, taining the servic level. Bus Services siderably and only between Colombo a go on like this - quacies in the infra brought about direc
Stories of reprisa
After this corresp Jaffna for some t forward With storie more and more fe following successiv in various parts of Vince.
To avenge the ac police and the arm
vehicles and deal W. a Savage manner.
Survivors in the V sacre (of Septembe gruesome tragedy While Kandasami Ravi, one of the Jaffna-bound bus army men, WaS t0 Christopher Bestia aja (20), a passenge Fort at 8pm on S forthcoming. Aroun bus was proceedin after a refreshment va, five Sturdy, ster of them in milita loaded rifles/sten neSS he could not c weapon), ordered th bus ten kilometres f got into it. 'I heard to the Tamils who killed nine army me in Mullaitheevu an Said.
The bus was carr. including a numbe intruders appeared was a change of dri and the driver (a replaced at the whe

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masarathy"
w hours. Not all of cked.
an awful state of fficial of the Jaffna ssed his regret that cision to starve the ources for developapplied even to e expenditure like ads. Likewise, the nce known as the l in the island, lags f the others.
hcoming for impromor even for maines at the present are curtailed conone train is running ind Jaffna. One can listing the inadeStructure of Jaffna tly by Government
ls
bondent had been in ime, people came s of army reprisal, arful and terrible, e acts of militants the Northern Pro
ts of militants, the by seize passenger ith the occupants in One of the few avuniya bus masr 11) narrated the / in gory detail.
Thurai, father of
passengers in the done to death by o dazed to speak, m Pilai Anandar
r who left Colombo.
eptember 10, was d 2.30am, when the g towards Jaffna halt at Rambevam-looking men, one ry uniform, with guns (in the dark
learly identify the .
e driver to stop the rom Vavuniya and
them calling death
pse terrorists had in the previous day d I got jittery, he
ying 46 passengers r of women. The fully drunk. There ver at Rambevava
Tamil) who was
el was pulled out of
the vehicle as he was crying 'Muruga.
Muruga and shot dead.
Some 15 passengers were asked te dismount and as they were fleeing the army men shot at their backs anc killed them. Some cried they were Muslims and some others mumbled "Buddha, Buddha', meaning they were Sinhalese and they were given a sound beating and ordered to disperse. I was hiding myself underneath a seat but they soon found me out and dragged me out beating me with the rifle but while another soldier kicked me on the face with his heavy boots. I crawled underneath the vehicle and as the attention of the army men got diverted to the two girl passengers, I and four others managed to escape to a village in the jungle some miles away and later to Jaffna.
17 persons massacred
Altogether 17 persons were massacred in the bus incident and some lost their legs or sustained gun shof injuries, according to Anandaraja Visibly shaking, he said he had decided to leave the country.
Vasanthakumar (20) spoke of the establishment of army camps in all the colleges in Mullaitheevu. He also spoke of the way the boys rounded up were treated - being ordered to lie flat on the floor and being beaten till they bled. Even 65 to 70-year-old people were taken into custody. With tears welling in his eyes, he described the barbarous manner in which some 20 boys and a 65-year-old man were shot dead by the armed forces and said that one of the terms for returning the bodies was that the parents should sig statements that they were all terror. ists'. One parent at least refused to sign such a statement and did not want the body of his ward on such a condition.
People live in fear
For some time it has been a regular feature for the naval vessels to fire projectiles from the Sea on the coastal village in Point Pedro, Valvettiturai, etc. In Point Pedro, as the Parish priest was preparing for the Sunday liturgy, the assault was on. Some projectiles hit the parish house and a splinter hit the high roof right above the altar. A few houses behind the church which were hit and damaged were shown to this correspondent by the people of the locality.
The people are in constant dread of being injured or killed as it happened on September 15 at Polygandy (quite Some distance from the coast) where Kalavathy was killed. Her husband

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Thangathurai, a cobbler by profession, who also sustained serious injury by one shell and was incapacitated for life, told this correspondent that one shell penetrated his wife's head. She was later admitted to hospital where she died.
The projectiles fired by the gunboat hit coconut trees and houses, even some distance away from the coast. On September 9, "one shell fell on my house”, said T. Ramachandran of Kunchcham Lane. The shell broke into fragments, breaking a large number of tiles. The impact was so great that the beam was broken into two. Mrs S. Nadanalingam was injured in her right ankle by a shell. Another shell was reported to have travelled threequarters of a mile, and bounced off after hitting a tree close to the parapet wall at an angle of 45.
The projectiles did not come only from the sea. They came from moving armoured vehicles too, hitting houses. Police commandos fired shells from moving vehicles in Point Pedro at the house of a retired postmaster. In another shelling, they killed one Sadacharam and crippled a 65-yearold woman, Mrs Chellappa, in the second week of September.
Jaffna citizens remember with awe the declaration of Mr Jayawardene calling upon the army to eliminate, in accordance with the laws of the land, the menace of terrorism in all its forms from the island and more especially from Jaffna district, and placing at its disposal all the resources of the state. This task supposed to have been completed before 1980 but remaining far from being accomplished, the people think that new methods are being adopted by the Government. They see a stark qualitative change in the methods of repression. s
They see the Israe methods and are no the tweedledum-tW difference between Beth.
In particular, the in the Chunnakham cated overnight by innocent people an acts involving the homes are attribut terminding. The p Israelis may be tend Government On Sett onists in the Tamil zone in Vavuniya, turai, Mullaitheevu lines of the Israe Palestinian homes and the banks of th
With the naval coastal areas becom ture and the naval sifying, fishermel fishing. K. Tharma) Singam Vignaswara tal village off Poin when they went ou August 6 in a trawle cepted by the navy back to the shore against venturing father to son for hur follow the Sea. Wha our living?” they a
What is in store ple? “The 100 per ( behaving like an oc 100 per cent Tamil situation motivatin - - an ideal setting noiseless genocide, Bishop of Jaffna, hands in despair.
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bombardment of hing a regular feaSurveillance intencannot go out raja (32) and Balan (19) from a coast Pedro said that it into the sea on r, they were inter7 men and driven with a warning out again. "From ldreds of years, we t do we do now for sked. for the Tamil peocent Sinhala army cupation army in a country creates a g ethnic genocide g for a slow and said Deogu Pillai, throwing up his
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FROM PAGE 8
labour he exploits for his profits). The mudalalis were unheard of in the NE coast up till then and the fishermen there had been self-employed, each one fishing for his own existence.
So, in addition to communal exploitatioan of the local Tamil fishermen, there also began a class exploitation of all fishermen, with the blows felt more heavily by the Tamils. Most of these fishing mudalalis were relatives of Sinhalese politicians and so, in addition to commanding wealth, they commanded real political power and political nepotism. The police and armed forces (who had set up camps in the area), were at their beck and call. The advent of President Jayawardene's chauvinist regime in 1977 saw the total fulfilment of promises held out - Ownership of misappropriate crown lands, instant credit facilities and provision of arms for terrorising and driving out the Tamil fishermel northwards. Thus, Tamil fishermen were driven out of Kokillai, Nayaru and Chemmalai into the deep north and the line of Sinhalese colonisation' was advancing, having settled well over 5,000 Sinhalese fishing families in these areas. Significant colonisation also took place in Silavaththai, Ambalavan Pokkamai, Maathalam and Chundikulam. "R
The racial pogroms of 1974, 1977 and 1983 saw the fury of attacks not only by the Sinhalese encroachers but also by the Sinhalese armed forces on Tamil fishermen in these areas. The feuds continued from day to day between the Sinhalese and Tamil members of these fishing communities with attacks and counter-attacks and what took place in early December was one such manifestation of the continuing feud, which: was blown out of proportion by the government to justify an impending massacre of the Tamil fishermen in these areas and a further accelerated anti-Tamil drive by sticking the "terrorist label' on them. joob
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FROM PAGE 13 an effective publicity for the butchery of human rights which the President and all his men in Sri Lanka were guilty of. "Colombo is guilty of state terrorism, genocidal in essence beyond description.'
The Sri Lankan problem had been banished to the background in the Western countries as their issues dominated the world. The Sri Lankan government, through its lobbies, has presented its case before the agencies concerned, exaggerating violently the problem of terrorism and Tamil Tigers and underplaying on an incon

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PARTING OF THE W
My first and rooted impression as a Tamil who was nurtured in Colombo
was to oppose any fractionalisation of
our island. My reasons were that such division would be geographically and economically not feasible, and that such separation could lead in turn to rifts and splits amongst each community itself. Such rifts would be healthy if nurtured in a democratic spirit, but could be disastrous if fashioned in the
belief by some that further divisions of
their own kind could ultimately advance their own ends.
Much of what has happened since, has changed my mind radically, and in understanding this, let us join some of our many historical insights. Right through Celyon's early history, the Sinhalese and Tamils had unfortunately little contact with each other, except during occasional skirmishes, and this was true of many ethnic groups in an era of slower communication.
The first true mingling of the groups emerged under the British. This was contributed to, amongst other things, by a strong centralised government by the world's dominant power of the time, the introduction of English as the common prime language, and as the
common source of access to education
and employment while a large majority of Sinhalese and Tamils spoke little or no English, they were dominated (as people in all countries) by their educated elite.
The Tamils, beset by a harsh agri
cultural environment, grasped the
ceivably low key “the blood, toil, tears and sweat' of the tormented Tamils, dreading death in the land where they had been living and fleeing as refugees, Mr Krishna Iyer said.
The former Supreme Court judge felt
that India has a role in 'militantising' .
world opinion and international concern for the Tamil martyrs of Sri Lanka. “Before our eyes, Hitlerite crimes are committed and so we must speak up and protest.' Capitals in the countries of the world should be informed more effectively than what we
have done, about the macabre happen
ings in Jaffna and Kandy.
If only the bloodbath that was now becoming Organised in Sri Lanka was
brought to the burning attention of the West, many donor countries might
decline aid to that island. Maybe the government of India has done something about this problem and surely the Prime Minister and her adviser were distressed and concerned but "we have not carried on a tearing and raging campaign which is the cry of the hour, he said.
By WAKELE
educational pol readily. This does dominant Sinhale forging unity an regain independe a whole. Even th mand originated lam was a 50/50 unified parliame The post-inde again set the stag. the minority from ly through the m Banda ran aike Sinhalese the offic the Tamils pursu their own languag er, have access to tion in their lang little opportunitie their own region, community langu followed by the eff anaike to thwart e al opportunities in the country led to tion of the educa north from the Lanka's society.
Almost gleeful k
I need hardly efforts by the TU government to he: which have been appalled by the a and looting of m only belies the ver of civilisation, but indecent. All this i; Out terrorists
How many wer businessmen who stability? These a the nation. How shown a semblanc being attacked? caches of arms t what were they c they were seized, i
of such seizure?
The violence att sified as “terrorist an army which ha its people, their h tions. Is it not gla army was fostered the government a can the governm most moderate of them any more?
The Tamils' on their own exercise the government a the people, exhibit

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to success more not detract from the se educated effort at d forming fronts to Ince for the nation as e original Tamil deby G.G. Ponnambarepresentation in a it of a united nation. endence era once for the alienation of the majority, mainedium of language. mot only ma de ial language, but let e their education in e. They did, howeva university educauage medium, with s for jobs even in where the majority age prevailed. This, orts by Mrs Bandarven their educationthe universities of an increased alienaited Tamils of the mainstream of Sri
illing
belabour the recent TLF and the Indian all this schism, all of
ignored, but I am lmost gleeful killing inorities, which not y essence of a sense
t is also sickeningly
in the name of wiping
e wage-earners and could only thrive on re the subversives of Come they have mot e of retaliation while Where were the hey possessed, and loing with them!? If s there any evidence Of course not. ributed to those class' has been against is trampled its land, omes and its instituringly true that this and encouraged by ut every turn? How 2nt expect even the Tamils to embrace
ly hope now lies in of autonomy, unless ting on behalf of all is equal impartiality
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The renewed interest among Tamil children in Britain in the learning of the Tamil language found concrete manifestation in the birth and growth of another Tamil school, in Croydon, in the south east of London.
A teacher and a few parents decided to set up a school to cater for Tamil children living in the south east of London in January this year. The school was formally inaugurated on January 14 in the Croydon Y.M.C.A. Later, the school was moved to Davison Centre, Croydon. There are nearly 30 children on the roll. Most of them,
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