கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
இந்தப் படைப்பின் நூலகப் பக்கத்தினை பார்வையிட பின்வரும் இணைப்புக்குச் செல்லவும்: Tamil Times 1985.01

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EditCorial ..................................... 2
An inglorious end,..................... 3.
British Liberals
expreSS Concern........................ 4
The Marinar Massacre............... 4
Sri Lanka's reign of terror........... 7
OIW er 10,000 arr Sted & shipped................................. 8
LaWS to starve, enslave & Bannihilate the Tamils. 9
TETS Ste
fundamental problem............... 12
Why TULF rejected proposal.................................. 13
State Terrorism - Diary of the occupied Tamil areas......... 14
Lambs to the slaughter............ 18
Obituary: Dr Thambyahpillai. 23
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Rev. Father Mall tian, aged 37 parish Church in the Willage Sri Lankan TipTthe MaT1:Tn-1 1" Was g LI Yı In2-d (of EA I" 11 y men throug til Way" while 1 hili: Wollki dressed in his casso TOSary, to all SWel" church docr ät 1 1111 illy fi. Thereafter, the door opeil and sh aged 12 and 14 year: church.
After killing the p Went to the nullery pound, ordered the DL LSide. Eind louted W: the Blessed Sacral III ETI", ES til is tille : killed by troops in M last one month. On Melist Millist, ja singhamı, I was killi Uller5 ind their lys) Several people of TäIl t}wards the ch gunfire, were also II the arily and it is many as 20 wETe ki The body of the dragged away by the back do Cor. Despite Bishops of Maril Illa T a ident Jaya Wardene | the body fOT a ChT authorities have not the requests.
Murder condemne
The cold-blooded clergy Ian has bee mned by church dig Tights organisations
The Bishop of M Re". ThUIl:15. Sa VLIII plored the killing ol "Cruel, inhuman, an En gainst a man of G
 

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5PSKILL PRIEST | HS CHURCH
INNERY RANSACKED
lpillai Mary Baspriest of St Anne's of Waikalai in the "In Tamil to Wil of | clown by a group h the church winto "Tills lle di JI. ck and holding his
a klock Col his Ún SLInday, Januh(: soldi: E"S bToke" 1st dead two boys, 5. Will Were i1. Lhe
Iriest, the Soldiers in the same coinnun 5. to line up El Llables i lolLldi lg |E: II, second priest to be Ian Tar during the |}ecember" 31, İı George Jey'a Taed along with two dies; b) LITTıt,
the locality who urch on hearing achine-gunned by reported that as lled on the spot. dead priest was army through the pleast from the ld Jaffra to Presfor the release of istia Tibul Tial, the so far acceded to
11 LIrder of this Il roundly condeIlitaries and civil
in Sri Larkā. Hi! Ilmar, the Fight dara laya ga Il dethe priest as a unthinkable act d'.
Cll' di Ill Basil, HL'11 g. Le Archbishop of Westminster, has sent a III essage of sympathy to the Bishop of Mannar, expressing his deep distress at the killing of a priest by golwe" millert troups.
Efforts made by the Sri Lankan guvernment and the state-Controlled media to cover Lip this gruesome mur. der have been denounced by church leaders. The claim by the Ministry of State that the army killings followed When an army patrol was shot at while passing the church was dismissed with titter disbelief and contempt,
Protest at cover-up
The Bishop of Mannar has protested against "the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and other means of gov. ernment IIlass media for beaming out false news that arms and ammunition were found in the Catholic church at Waikalai and that the church Was Lised as a base to attack the security forces." Bishop Savundaranayagam said inпосепt civilians had been killed and the Security forces had also unlawfully entered a convent near the church. The Bishop said there were fears that this sort of action would increase. He appealed to President Jaya Wardene to ensure it would not happen again.
In another statement, Bishop Frank Marcus Fernando, President of the Roman Catholic Bishops Conference in Sri Lanka, said the media had reported the army was attacked by terrorists from the church, but his information was that the arily had allched an unprovoked attack on the church and its priest,
Urging the government to hold an ill partial inquiry at the highest level, Bishop Fernando said the version in the local press could prejudice the public a Irld Create Lum necessary tension in the north and the south,
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ONE FLAG ONE ANTHE
At a recent meeting held in Sri Lanka, the Minister of National Security, Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, is reported to have said
that "the draft legislation for the
resolution of the ethnic problem submitted to the APC (All-Party Conference) would be implemented only if the Tamil people gave up the Eelam dem and and recognisd the National Flag, National Anthem and Sinhala as the official language.
On Our side let us tell him loud and clear: "You have no right to dictate to the Tamil people what they should demand and what they should ?nOt.
Yoи атd your goverттетt have lost all legal, constitutionall and moral right to do this, because all Sinhala-dominated governments have broken the contract that the Tamil people entered into at the time of independence. You have been responsible for in mu merable breaches of faith. You have discriтiтated agaiтst атd oppressed the Tamil people for almost four decades. You have killed ата тайтеd thousатds ирот thousands of Tamils. You and your agents have burnt and destroyed tens of thousands of our homes and properties. Hun
dreds of Our u schoolgirls ha
Even as we Tamils are lan fails and arm being subjected ture. Your n Squads are rav Tamil hommel
vетgeатсе от тale атd fета Your troop Tamil village obliterated the to the torch, ou schools, and li you are eтgag: genocide of th We have told will tell it agai Tamil people ni allegiance to Sinhala - dom ment. The Situ government ha Such a pass ceased to have right to deman to your State Anthem, its C laws includin Only Official I The fact is th тетt have violс of the Rule of L with the Tami Nou) that th laid down his p
IT'S BARBARISM,
The spectacle of Sri Lankan politicians dragging the noble teachings of the Great Buddha so often to eacplain and justify the sheer barbarism that is being enacted in Sri Lanka is truly revolting and disgusting.
Mr Lalith Athlu llathrmudalli, on his appointment as Minister of National Security, made a beelime to Dalada Maligawa, the sacred Buddhist temple at Kandy, to invoke Lord Buddha's blessings to perform his tasks. Within the few months of his appointment, he has presided over some of the worst crimes against humanity - Over 1,300 Tamil civilians kil
led, their upon properties loote many other for all committe Татil people under his cont Despite this a this hypocriti Buddhist Mir addressed a cre Buddhist pinko voke the blessin and security f the nation', sa As Buddhist, best to resol through me Buddhist hist problems oft
 

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:M, ONE LANGUAGE . .
}отет ата ерет e been violated. yrite, over 10,000 guishing in your camps and are to gruesome torarauding death. ging traditional unds, uvreakcing yоитg атd old, le, rich and poor. s have shelled and virtually т. You, have put markets, shops, oraries. In short, 2d in mass-scale 2 Tamil people.
this before and and again. The o loтgerоиреату the Sri Lanka nated governation under this as developed to that you have any authority or d our allegiance 2, its Flag, its onstitution and 'g the Sinhala атguage Act. at your goреттиted ерету сатот aw in its dealing , people. le Minister has re-conditions for
the resolution of the ethnic problem, let us put down. Our terms which we believe the Tamil people everywhere will re a dily support. Resto re citizenship and voting rights to the plantation Tamils; freeze State-aided colonisation of the northern and eastern provinces with Sinhala people brought from other areas; put an end to the discrimination against us on grounds of language, religion or ethnic origin in regard to eтрloyтетt and educatiот, repeal the Sinhala Only Official Language Act and make Tamil also an official language throughout the island; withdraw the armed forces from the north and east and repeal the Sirth Amendment to the Constitution. In short, every citizen of Sri Lanka should be entitled to equal rights irrespective of his ethnic origin, language Or religion. Then one can think of оте соитtrу иvith tшyо тationalities without oppressing each Other.
If these terms are met, them the Tamil people may be persuaded to abandon the demand for a separate state. This will happen not because the Minister has demanded it, but in the eacercise of their inalienable right of self-determination.
NOT BUDDHISM
en raped, their d and burnt and ms of atrocities, d against the by the troops rol. trocious record, cal counterfeit ister recently Ud attending a tma' held to ingS On the police orces defending 1279.
we will try our 7e this problem доtiatiот . . . ory reveals that his nature were
tackled with understanding
and tact.'
Under the preteact of fighting “terrorism, the Minister has caused the incarceration of over 15,000 Tamils, including young women, all of whom are being subjected to the most inhuman forms of torture. His troops continue to kill innocent Tamil civilians and destroy their property. The recent brutal killing of Catholic priest Reverend Manuelpillai Bastain in his own church is typical of the murderous activities of the Minister’s death squads on whose behalf
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ANINGLOR
The collapse of the All Party Conference (APC) initiated in the aftermath of the July 1983 island-wide anti-Tamil violence, in which an estimated 2,000 T a m i l s p e r i s h e d a n d s e v e r a l thousand homes and businesses w e re p ut to the to r c h , and convened in January 1984, has signalled the end to the attempt to arrive at a peaceful solution to the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic problem in violence-torn Sri Lanka, once described as a paradise isle.
President Junius Jayawardene brought the curtain down on the longrunning drama of the APC on December 16 when he told the depleted delegations assembled, that their task had now come to an end. Despite the fact that no group had expressed agreement, the President announced that there was a "consensus in Support of the two draft proposals placed before the conference. One proposal envisaged 4,500 organisations (Gramodaya Mandalayas) at village level, 250 elected bodies running higher level local government (Pradeshiya Sabhas) and a third tier of 25 District Councils to cover the whole island.
The second proposal was for a 75member second chamber of Parliament called the Council of State, which was to be more in the nature of an advisory body while also having the
power to initiate municate its view fundamental righ regional matters affecting national Hardly any group Wise, including p the President endorsed these pro hoped that “all t deliberations they help bring at leas and stability in t wound up the confe place the proposal and that "in the government will h Sion and introduce tion in Parliamen What followed r the stranglehold forces representir Sinhala-Buddhist he political process So long as the two al parties were in t ated political solu grant of the legitin of the Tamil peop
Mounting opposi The Supreme Co ist clergy rejected the yellow-robed threatening to roll
he was invoking Buddhist blessings!
The Minister's claim that as Buddhists they would try to resolve the problem peacefully, with tact and understanding is belied by the most draconian and inhuman measures imposed on the Tamil people. It is difficult, almost impossible, to find today a single other country in the world where such measures are in operation.
What is Buddhistic about forcibly evacuating 200,000 Tamils living along the northeast, northern and north-western coastal belt by the imposition of a so-called prohibited 2One? Is it Buddhistic to render them homeless refugees overnight, forcing them to live in temples, churches and under trees? It is hardly an act of Buddhist compassion to deprive over 50,000 poor Tamil fishermen of their livelihood by denying them the right to go to sea. It is certainly mot Buddh
ism to permit Tamil homes ( uvo men and t ministerial cov crimes. It cani kindness to p from cultivati, opening their mimg their facto eattended curfeu not Buddhist to rive Tamils o transport tha mothers to giv homes or in b their way to ho іт тату deaths the new born.
Attacking th, and the infirm hospitals in T urgently meede plies including thetics and ot drugs can har reflect Buddhis The Buddha eacpect shrines a erected in his

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egislation and com's on bills affecting S, language rights, and other issues unity and integrity. , political or otherOwerful Sections of 's ruli ng party, posals. However, he he hard work and had put in would some peace, unity he country' - and trence, promising to S before the people final analysis the ave to make a decinecessary legislat. evealed once again the reactionary g the ideology of gemony have on the es of the country.
main Sinhala politic- i
heir grip, no negoti
tion involving the ,
nate national rights le was possible.
tion
uncil of the Buddhthe proposals and bandwagon was against the govern
ment in an island-wide campaign. Jayawardene's Cabinet Minister and the so-called champion of the SinhalaBuddhist cause, Mr Cyril Mathew, broke ranks and addressed a ninepage communication to MPs, Ministers, Buddhist monks and his 'Sinhala friends', expressing his fear that the draft proposals “very nearly grants them (Tamils) the Eelam that they desire'.
When the former Prime Minister, Mrs Sirima Bandaramaike’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party, with cynical opportunism, joined the campaign of the mounting opposition, the fate of the President's proposals was sealed.
In the face of this growing campaign, sections within the ruling party itself began to sing a different tune. The Minister of National Security, Mr Lalith Athulathmudali, who said on December 16 that the "APC had helped to create a better understanding of the problem and the emergence of a basis for an ultimate solution, did an aboutturn and told a public meeting on December 19 that the draft legislation submitted to the APC would be implemented only if the people of the north gave up the Eelam demand and recognised the National Flag, Anthem and Sinhala as the official language.
Prime Minister Mr R. Premadasa,
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troops to loot und rape Tamil hen engage in er-ups of these not be Buddhist revent Tamils ng their crops, shops and runries by means of S. It certainly is plerance to depcar and bus tS compelling 2 birth in their ullock-carts on Spital resulting
of mothers and
2 sick, the old by denying the amil areas of d medical supoxygeт, атаеsher life-saving dly be said to сотрassiот.
VaS too noble to rid Statues to be тате in places
from uv here poor Muslim peasants are ejected (as in Pottuvil in the eastern province) from their homes and land and replaced by so-called Buddhist Sinhalese.
All these and many more countless acts in which the government, the Minister and his minions are engaged in, are not in pursuance of the teachings of the great Buddha. These counterfeit Buddhists are engaged in douymright crimes of barbarism agaiтst iттосетt, итітvolved, defenceless Tamil civilians, including the sick, the old, the infirm, women and children.
'Let All Beings Be Well And Happy' is the basic precept of Buddhism. However the counterfeit Buddhist politicians and prelates of Sri Lanka would appear to have altered this tenet in accordance with their chauvinist ideology. "Let all beings, eaccept Tamils, be well and happy', would seem to be their guiding philosophy.

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BRITISH LIBERALS EXPRESS CONCERN
Zerbanoo Gifford, the first Asian woman to be appointed to the National Executive Committee of any party spoke at the Liberal Party Council at Grantham recently.
She recommended a motion which called for lasting action on the plight of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.
"The motion,' she said, "showed true concern for the rights of the Tamils subjugated to violence and injustice by their own government.'
She called on the British government to exert pressure on President Jayawardene and let him know that such injustices "would not be tolerated by the British people'.
Mrs Gifford told Tamil Times that when she was in Sri Lanka last year she saw the fear in which Tamils lived. She said: "It is the duty of this
government to m Lankan governme excuse for wanto motivated violenc
INTHE SHADOW OF MUR ARSON AND LOOTING H WOMEN RAPEDAT GUNPC
“A sobbing young woman, eight months pregnant, whose husband is working overseas, told me she was raped by a soldier at gunpoint the
night before while other troops burned ...,
her mother's home, stated David Graves, of the London "Daily Telegraph, reporting from Jaffna.
David Graves was the first foreign reporter allowed into the Tamil areas after the government launched the latest offensive against the Tamils in late November '84. For weeks foreign reporters were banned from the Tamil areas and they were fed with only government hand-outs.
Referring to the APC talks held on December 14, David Graves in his dispatch which appeared in the 'Daily Telegraph of December 17, states: “The only talk on the front line in Jaffna was death and fear' where the *Sri Lankan armed forces had unleashed a bloody campaign . . . and where they "are committing the most grotesque crimes away from international notice.'
David Graves added: Jaffna may be only 300 miles north of Colombo, but it is a world apart.
It is under siege. The 800,000 inhabitants of the peninsula live in the shadow of murder, arson, bombings and looting.
In Colombo, the Government and the state-owned media say these are carried out by Tamil terrorists. Everyone
in Jaffna says the troops.
Appalling storie:
As the first fo reach Jaffna sin rebel offensive l spent three days li appalling stories and intimidation.
I saw two bodies Vadducoddai, eigh na, where Dr Ne former MP for troops shot dead 4 The people are i On Saturday anar the centre of Ja mediately dozens children ran aw: have been so ma opening fire indis A few hours la exploded in Stam hotel. Yesterday r to-dawn curfew w me the bomb was to frighten out re could be shot as
The soldiers ar. Buddhists, and S Tamils are Hindu regard themselve criminated agair won independen 1948.
In fairness, I
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Name Age 1. K.T. Rajendram 67 2. Mrs Sellammah Murugam 60 3. M. Navaratnam 54 4. K. Atchuthan 34 5. Ramalingam Letchumanan 50 6. R. Kandasamy 50 7. Ponnaiah Alagaiah 65 8. Alagaiah Kalimuthu 31 9. Ponnampalam . . 50 10. Karuppaiah Perumal 52 11. Tharmaratamam 45 12. S. Rengaiah 55 13. Suppaiah 75 14. A. Thirunavukarasu. 55 15. S. Subramaniam 65 ချို့ကြွာ 16. Mathias Miyasus 55 17. Mrs A. John Baptist 26 18. Poosary Kandasamy 47 ake clear to the Sri 19. K. 63 20. M. Jeyakumar 32 nt that there .15 O 21. M. Alles 52
acts of politically 22. Theogu Isidore e.' 23. Marimuthu Sella 19 SS 24. Rajagopal Rajaratnam 16 25. S. Sebastiampillai 42 )ER 26. Nallu 30 27. R. Subramaniam 56 28. Anthonyan 45 29. Sinnaiah Rasiah 22 30. A. Kalimuthu 60 31. Saverian Santhiogu 34 NT 32. Santhogu Fernando 32 33. S. Ramiah 50 o 34. Ms R.A., Baby Nona 75 y are committed by 35. Mrs Hemawathie Banda 45 36. Sellaiah Shanmuganathan 43 37. A.S. Fernando 48 S 38.N. Subramaniam
39. Antony Yoganathan 18 reign journalist to 撒 iš 器 n . S. A3S3 T3L3 IIl 2e , the start of the || || 3. j. šaliai 22 ast month, I have 43. Soosai Antony 52 stening to a series of 糕 Ni ဗွို . Emmanuel Soosaiappu 5 of rape, massacre 46. A. Francis Moraes 28 a w 47. Gabriel Jeevanandam 40 lying in the fields at 48. J. Croos Thasan 25 ut miles west of Jaff- 49. Arumugam Sundararajah 45 el Tiruchel 50. K. Paneerselvam 27 elan Tirucheivan, a 51. S. Alphonsus Croos 35 the area, claimed 52. Appathurai Veerasingam 40 ) civilians last week. ရှိါးမျိုး|| aញុ
... alta W. SIUa 1 fear for their lives. 65 kDye William) 60 my patrol stopped in 56. Alexander Martin Rajakumar 32 fna town, and im- 57. Yಳ್ಲ: ធ្លla
58. A.T. Noel Emmanue of men, women and 59. Kassim Sammedu ly. They say there 60. S.K. Arumugam ny cases of troops 器 Pulendran
. Ftamasamy 45 criminately 63. Saveeri Kadukka 60 er at 8.15, a bomb 64. Yoganathan (Sothi) 18 ey Road, near my 65. Majeed horning, as the dusk- 66. Мs Sebamalai Mary Rani 28 67. Sellaiah as lifted, people told 68. Ragunathan set off by the army 69. Soosai Anthonimuthu 52 iden 70. Seeman Santhiapillai 45 Si: tS t they 71. Seeman Santhiapillai CUeW Orea KerS. 72. Borgia 28 from the south, are 73. Kanthan Thamby 20 74. Subramaniam Ramiah 55 eak ဖဲ့ဖူးဖူရှီ 器 75. S. Kathiravelu 55 s, speak Tamil, an 76. Saveeriam Selvam 57 s as a minority dis- 14 bodies could not be identified. Approst since Sri Lanka ximately 17 bodies were buried by ree from Britain in latives.
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THE MANNAR
MASSACRE
Your Excelency will remember that it was only on the 12th of August this year that the burning down of the
Mannar Bazaar and the killing of per
sonnel made a terrific impact not only on the country, but also on the world, causing serious damage to the image of the country, something we too least desire. It is therefore unthinkable that even before the people of the district could forget the shocking incidents of August 12th, army personnel should so callously commit the following savage acts of brutality described in detail below on the poor defenceless citizens of this district. The incidents we describe have been checked and rechecked and are not mere hearsay.
At about 11 a.m. on the 4th of December 1984 an army vehicle was reported to have been blown up by a landmine somewhere near the Jubilee Road Junction on the Mannar-Madawachchiya road. One soldier lost his life and six were injured. Following this incident the army unleashed a wave of savagery detailed below on innocent citizens inhabiting a seven-mile stretch of road. Your Excellercy would Surely understand the sheer ferocious brutality of these acts on the part of those whom we depend on to defend us peace-loving citizens: a) Army personnel marched into the Murunkan Post Office, lined up the officers working there against the wall and opened fire on them killing four of them on the spot, leaving for dead the other six, including the Post Master who survived with serious injuries. b) Thereafter for a horrendous five hours or more, army personnel attacked with machinegun fire innocent people living on the roadside om a stretch of road for a distance of about Seven miles from the place of the incident. Innocent people who have nothing at all to do with the incident concerning the army vehicle were mercilessly mown down by machinegun fire. c) A CTB bus going from Mannar to Vavuniya was stopped by army perSonnel and all the persons aboard were ordered to alight. The Sinhala conductor, Kuda Devage Jeyasena, whose bravery We record with gratefulness, told the army men that he was a Sinhalese and was responsible for the safety of the passengers and added that he would have to be killed if the passengers were to be harmed. The soldiers promptly obliged by shooting him dead first and after lining up the male passengers including the Muslim driver of the bus, shot seventeen of them dead. d) Another CTB bus coming from Vavuniya to Mannar was similarly
MINISTER
COV
“Thirty-two ter when the army had been subje attack at the 1 Man mar-Muru National Secur Athulathmudali ment explainin army Of Seve northern Tamil Lanka, on Dec. This cover-up Lankan Ministe posed by the Ma mittee headed b lic Bishop. Ir addressed to th dent, Junius Ja his “careful and to ensure that j Citizens' Comn upon him to “tak those responsib Savagery and b people'.
Reproduced O full text of t addressed to th ing two emerge Mannar Citizens December 7 and following were
treated and about dead, the other p. severe injuries. e) The village o which is away fror attacked by heli umbrella cover p copters, an army village and opene civilians. The de twelve, including v was a young lady her breast. The i three toes blown O died. We begin to w inhuman savagery Dharma Divipaya f) In the village o 16 people were k Sinhalese ladies, R 75 years and Hema forty-five. g) Apart from th acts of Savagery, premises, a priv tractors, and lorri nately burned. Wal and looting were f frenzied army per
Ninety bodies of tims of the arm

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rorists were killed opened fire after it cted to a landmine 2th milepost on the nkan road,” said ity Minister Lalith in a press stateg the killing by the ral Tamils in the town of Mannar, Sri ember 4.
attempt by the Sri r has now been exannar Citizens Comy the Roman Cathoa memorandum e Sri Lankan Presiyawardene, seeking personal attention ustice is done', the mittee have called e due action against le for the acts of utality on innocent
in this page is the he memorandum e President followncy meetings of the Committee held on 9, 1984 at which the present:
His Lordship the Bishop of Mannar, Rev. Fr. Xavier Croos, Vicar General, Mannar Diocese and VicePresident, Mannar District Citizens Committee; Rev. Bro. Hillary Joseph F.S.C., Vice-President, Mannar District Citizens Committee, Retired Principal, Director, De La Salle House; Mr John Thasan, Attorney, Joint Secretary, Mannar
District Citizens Committee; Mr K. Akbar, Secretary to District Minister of Mannar, Member of the Waqf Board, Colombo; Mr S.H.M. Rasheed, JP, Chief Trustee, Grand Bazzar Jumma Mosque, Joint Secretary, People's Committee, President Mannar Traders Association; Mr J.L. Selvarajah, Retired ASP; Mr S. Christopher, President Mannar Lions' Club, Proprietor, St Antony's Stores, Mannar; Mr K. Kunaratnam, Retired ACCD; Mr K. V. Muthaliyar, Manager Hatton National Bank; Mr N.M. Iqbal, Inservice Adviser, Department of Education; Mr H.M. Nizam, JP, Chairman, Mannar Town East Gramodaya Mandalaya; Mr S.S. Thajudeen, Proprietor, Messrs C.S. Sulaiman & Sons; Mr K. Panchalingam, Government Contractor.
twenty persons shot assengers sustained
f Parappan kandal n the main road was icopters. With the rovided by the heli
jeep went into the ed fire on innocent ath toll here was women, one of whom nursing an infant at nfant escaped with ff while the mother fonder whether such 7 is possible in this
f Uthavayan kulam, illed including two .A. Baby Nona aged awathie Banda aged
e abovementioned houses, mills, shop ate nursing home, es were indiscrimihton killing, burning reely indulged in b
"Sommel.
the unfortunate vicy massacre were
brought to the Mannar and Murunkan Hospitals for post-mortem examination and identification. We also understand that several more bodies, in slush and mud, highly decomposed were buried on the spot by villagers as there was no transport available and the state of the bodies will not permit of transport.
We are, to say the least, Your Excellency, most surprised at the denials over the radio and TV of these blatant acts of army savagery.
The people of this district are living in fear and trepidation, ready at any moment to leave home and hearth and run for their very lives. Almost the entire population goes into places of worship to spend sleepless nights. Such is the psychological impact that no house is lit at nights for fear of attack by the army. We wish to emphasise that these statements are true facts and not conjectures or wild guesses. s
We attach for Your Excellency's personal perusal a carefully verified statement of the identified dead. (The statement was disallowed by the censor.) It will be noted that almost all
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FROM PAGE 3 who was not prepared to be upstaged by the Minister of National Security in the succession stakes, raised a series of questions at the annual sessions of the ruling United National Party throwing serious doubt on the draft proposals. He asked: O Will these proposals which are now before us, safeguard the unity and integrity of our country? O Will the sovereignty of our country be further stabilised? O Will the unity, peace and discipline in our country be protected or else will it change the present set-up? O Will there be a threat to the unitary character of Sri Lanka? O Will it be a hindrance to the unity of our people? O Will these proposals destabilise and disrupt justice and fair play to the different ethnic groups who have made this country their motherland?
What was significant, if not sinister, was that the Prime Minister did mot proceed to answer his questions.
The Tamil United Liberation Front also rejected the proposals stating that the "two bills before the Conference do not embody the scheme of autonomy which could be accepted by the Tamil people or their accredited representatives, the TULF'.
Government abandons proposals
Not unexpectedly the President and his government eventually announced the dropping of the proposals following a Cabinet meeting held on December 26.
The fact that t accept the propos weighed heavily of decision to abando What became deci tion and the mounti Buddhist clergy, th Sections of the Cyl and most of all Free dom Party Jayawardene’s plig va and Venkatram Today' (January 15 ma now provides ir those who see it 'retributive justice then Prime Minist daranaike, almost gional autonomy in daranaike-Chelval was Jayawardene force its abrogatio march of Buddhist
What emerged whole exercise of almost a year, was indecisiveness of th government on the ( other the refusal Freedom Party and gy to join in an effo ated just settlemer to moderate Tamil was any party tha cused of wrecking th credit should go to attended the APC f to the end in spite pressure from with ranks to withdraw C proposals initial
FROM PAGE 1.
Active and popular
The murdered clergyman had his early education at St Patrick's College, Jaffna, and his theological training at St Paul's Seminary in Trichy in South India and the National Seminary at Ampitiya, Kandy, in central Sri Lanka.
He was an active and popular religious leader who had dedicated himSelf to work for the poor. He worked hard among the Tamil refugees who had fled from the plantations following the violent racial attacks in August 1981.
The priest must have become a marked man because of the committed efforts he made to help those poor people who had become victims of a series of recent reprisals by the security forces in the Mannar district. He was also the Youth Chaplain of the Mannar Diocese.
From all accounts, it would seem that the killing was a pre-planned Operation.
FROM PREVIOU
those who have bee years of age. We Excellency's abil. own conclusion on episode in the hist Mannar.
In the name of Society' which Yol determined to esta we are certain You ernment firmly be Your Excellency t into these tragic e tion against those of savagery and b. people and take all restore peace and noted for its peace enable the people tenor of their liv. ruinat caelum”.
We also request see that adequat paid to families wł deprived of their b those who have be to those who hav

e TULF did not ls would not have the government's its own proposals. ive was the rejecg campaign by the extremist Sinhala il Mathew variety y the Sri Lanka Of President ht, Mervyn De Silani wrote in “India 1985): 'His dilemonic amusement to as Some kind of '. In 1958, when the er, S.W. R.D. Banonceded Tamil rethe famous Banayakam pact, it who managed to n by organising a S.'
learly from this the APC, lasting the vacillation and 2 President and his ne hand and on the of the Sri Lanka the Buddhist clerrt to find a negotiit acceptable even opinion. If there t could not be ache Conference, that the TULF which rom the beginning of the tremendous in and outside its once the Annexure y agreed to by the
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President were later unilaterally jettisoned by the President.
Inglorious end
The most crucial factor which brought the APC to an inglorious end was the government's failure to create a climate in the country in which a negotiated solution could have been arrived at. The government's extravagant and massive offensive against the Tamil people in general, putting thousands of them in detention in army camps and permitting its troops to commit unprecedented acts of arson, murder and other forms of atrocities accompanied by giving wide publicity in the state-controlled media to wildly exaggerated accounts of “terrorist' attacks, a government initiated campaign of a "National Defence Fund', an appeal to the Sinhala people to volunteer to fight the Tamils from dividing the country, and a loathsome and well-orchestrated campaign to whip up anti-Tamil hysteria and a war psychosis based on an imaginary 'invasion' by Tamil militants from South India, is hardly the action of a government which wanted to produce a political and Social climate of respect for the rights of the Tamil people in the country. On this basis a solution could have been found.
Every action and speech by the government's leaders from the President downwards was consciously calculated to undermine that necessary climate and incite the Sinhala people against the Tamils.
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n killed are over 50 do not doubt Your ty to draw your
this most Savage Ory of the army in
the 'Dharmishta tr Excellency is SO blish and in which r Excellency's govlieves, we request 0 order an inquiry vents, take due ac"esponsible for acts utality on innocent necessary action to alim to this district and tranquility and o resume the even es — “Fiat justitia
Your Excellency to compensation is o have been cruelly ead-winners and to en injured and also lost their houses,
MUSLIMS PROTEST AGAINST PLANNED ENCROACHMENTS
Planned encroachments by Sinhalese om lands belonging to the Muslim people are at the rate of five families week and for every 25 houses a Budd ist shrine has been built”, the Sri Lank Muslim Council has stated in memorandum to the Sri Lankan Pres dent, Junius Jayawardene.
Dr Al Haj Badi-Udin Mohamed, oı, behalf of the Sri Lanka Muslim Council, has voiced strong objections against "planned and co-ordinated encroachments on Muslim lands in the Pottuvil area in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka”.
vehicles, and other valuable property. We further request Your Excellency that your authority as Head of State will be available to our people with due assurance that incidents of this nature will never be repeated.

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SRI LANKA ARMY’S REIG TERROR HOLDSTAMILS IN
Sri Lankan forces are conducting a harsh and remorseless campaign of intimidation among the island's Tamil minority. By means of random murder, indiscriminate shooting, beatings, torture and plunder, ill-disciplined and trigger-happy soldiers keep the Tamils in the north in a state of constant fear. With the vanishing of reason, the fight against Tamil separatist terrorists now has the shrill tones of naked ethnic struggle. The predominantly Sinhalese Army seems to have a free hand as it cracks down on the civilian population in the overwhelmingly Tamil Northern Province.
Military restrictions, and the army's Savage response to Tamil terrorism, have almost shut down the economy of this region. At least 25,000 fishermen are prohibited from fishing, the sea having been declared out of bounds, and there is growing anxiety in fishing communities, and among civic leaders, that unless food is brought into areas already chronically short of supplies, people will begin to starve.
Women have been selling their necklaces and bangles to buy food, but few dealers now have any money left to buy their jewellery, even at low prices.
FrOm TreWOr FjS
Many thousands women and childre and to Europe. T. have been rounde army camps. The know where they come Sri Lanka's There is strong ex torture and murde army custody.
“Women have be People are dying to 5am curfew. J oxygen and ana
Rigid curfew and plex regulations an duced transport skeleton services. I to get to Work and and raw materials. grip on the jugular ( tories are closing; t. has dwindled. It is ble to freight goods Ombo by road.
People are dying not be taken to hosp
By means of random murder, indiscriminate shoot torture and plunder, ill-disciplined and trigger-happy the Tamils in the north in a State of constant fear. .
been looting and burning houses.'
APPEAL FORNEUTRAL OBSE TO PREVENT MASSACRE OF
The Human Rights Council of the Standing Committee of Tamils has appealed for neutral observers to be sent to Sri Lanka to prevent the atrocities which are being committed on the Tamils of Sri Lanka by the government and its troops.
The London-based HRC recently sent telegrams to the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and India. The following is the text of the telegram:
The stark headlines in British press - Troops tackling rebels in divided Sri Lanka terrorise Tamils' (Daily Telegraph, 17. 12.84), “Sri Lankan arany's reign of terror holds Tamils in thrall' (The Times, 31.12.84) and Fishing ban raises spectre of starvation for Tamils' (The Times, 2.1.85) reflect only to a small extent the state of constant fear and despair in which e Tamils in the Northern Province are now living.
Hundreds have been killed during
indiscriminate sho Thousands have be their whereabouts Army reprisals inclu looting and random markets, farmers in going children, bus gers, etc.
“25,000 fishermen coastal 'surveillanc starving refugees, bl has not provided the ban on fishing has population of a majo for the past one m supplies and raw ma as special permits enter and leave the The threat of starva The daily 12-hour c all private transpor cles, are causing seriously ill patient hospital in time. Doc' issued with curfew
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V of THIRALL.
lock, Jaffna
of people, mostly have fled to India Ousands of youths l up and held in r parents do not re: they have bedisappeared ones. idence of beating, “ of young men in
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5am curfew. Jaffna Hospital is running out of vital drugs, oxygen and anaesthetics.
Meanwhile, thousands of displaced people, driven from their homes in army “combing out' operations, are in refugee camps.
There is no longer any proper law enforcement. There are no policemen to be seen on the streets of Jaffna, chief city of the north. They stay in their sandbagged police posts. Troops move only in large armoured convoys. The army's rampages, massacres and brutality have swung even moderate Tamil opinion against the authorities.
in selling their necklaces and bangles to buy food. . because they cannot be taken to hospital in the 6pm affna Hospital is running out of Vital drugs,
esthetics. ”
a plethora of comd permits have re
to overw Orked 'eople find it hard to transport food The army has its of commerce. Facrade in most shops pecoming impossi
to and from Col
because they canpital in the 6pm to
ing, beatings, 7 soldiers keep . Troops have
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oting by troops. en arrested and are not known. de arson, raping, iring at crowds in rice fields, schoolloads of passen
2xpelled from the Zone' are now t the government m any relief. The lso deprived the source of protein bnth. Other food erials are scarce are required to northern region. ion is very real. rfew and ban on including bicyhany deaths as cannot get to a ors have not been asses and ambu
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The army and police are despised.
Father Michael Samy, Vicar-Generall of Jaffna, said: "This is a reign of terror.'
The Bishop of Jaffna said: "People live in fright and despair. They feel helpless. There is no equality or democracy left here any more. Tamils are being treated as second class citizens.' A young clerk, typical of a number of people interviewed, said: "Everyone here is afraid. You know that the army has killed people for no reason and has shot them down on the streets. Those who can afford it are getting out of Sri Lanka. If I had the money I would go, too. Those who will be left will be the old, the poor and the very young.'
The North is now in a state of chaos and high nervous tension. The civil power's hold on the situation is not strong. Hundreds of guerrillas, estimates range from 1,000 to 5,000 or more, are committed to fighting for Eelam, a separate Tamil state in the north and east.
The army hits back with massive round-ups and interrogation of youths. Troops have been looting and burning houses. Many women have complained of being robbed of jewellery. A civil servant said: "To the army every Tamil is now a terrorist.'
It is part of the Sri Lankan tragedy that the Government has come to define the long smouldering Tamil question as simply one of terrorist eradication. Sinhalese antipathy to Tamils, rooted in ancient fears of conquest, has been stirred up.
The Government's case is that it is acting firmly against a terrorist threat to the country's integrity.
But the Tamils, who form a fifth of the 15 million population, believe that the army is being used to subjugate them to settle historic scores. (By kind courtesy of THE TIMES, 31.12.84)

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ovER 10.000 ARRESTED& SHI.
Security personnel Swooped down on several areas in north Sri Lanka, carrying out searches and arrests, especially of youth.
On Monday, December 17, army perSonnel surrounded the Thirunelvely area and carried out a meticulous search, arresting several youths.
Residents of Thirunelvely area, which was combed out on Monday, complained of looting and rape of a young, pregnant WOman.
On Tuesday December 18, the security forces laid siege to Kaladdy, near Thirunelvely, and arrested several youths.
Wednesday December 19, turned out to be a BLACK DAY for Jaffna town. Armed personnel blocked all the entry and exit points of the town round about 8 am, catching almost everyone by surprise. They even checked the wards in the Jaffna General Hospital, the nurses' quarters, shops and other institutions in the Grand Bazaar area. According to eye-witness reports,
more than 1,000 youths were taken away for questioning in a convoy of nearly 40 vehicles which had converged om the area from the Gurunagar Camp.
Forced to stand
Till the detainees were taken away in the buses and vehicles commandeered by the armed forces, they were forced to stand or squat in the stinking drains skirting the Jaffna Hospital, under the burning sun.
A shop-keeper in the town area told the media that during Wednesday's search he lost Rs.1,000/- which he had entrusted to an employee for the
purchase of cigar short supply in Jal Asked whether he the Army High C highway robbery, you. I don't want
Earlier, the ar. Chulipuram, Math daitheruppu and TI arresting hundred
In Chulipuram, alleged that theil were raped in the c Informed sourc escalating search males especially b of age, are not me terrorisation, but taking'.
These sources between 10,000 ar especially youths, custody to ensure t Lankan armed for The Mothers’ MO planning once agai protest at these ind of innocent youngst mitted by uniform the guise of searc the withdrawal of t cy measures which North into a “pris
Here are some those arrested in v Jaffna peninsula: A llai - 100, Chulipur: — 300 ; Jaffna Alaveddy, Siruvila 60, Thirunelvely-K (These are approx Some of the arr been released but transported or shij
APPEALTOUN TO STOP ARMY AROCES
The Jaffna Citizens Committee (JCC) has appealed to the United Nations and the International Red Cross to prevent further atrocities by the Sri Lankan troops.
The appeal followed the unprecedented violence and indiscriminate killing and mass arrests of Tamil civilians by soldiers during the last five weeks.
Mr R. Balasubramaniam, Secretary of the non-political Jaffna Citizens Committee said: “We must be protected to prevent further massacres by troops. The government is supposed to protect the people, yet the Army is killing us. We need impartial observers to tell the world What is happening.”
NOW GO JEWELLE
LONGER MANGOE
Not long ago, when visitor, businessma official, came to Ja been treated to Jai fondly called in
Amba”. The Sinhal to have an insatiabl delicious fruits. Th the South with box distribution among waiting kith and ki that the sweet Jaffr betweem the Simh gave rise to the “Ambe Yaluwa” wh

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ettes, which are in Efna at the moment. would complain to ommand about the he said, "No thank to be harassed. med forces raided tagal, Sillalai, Panhenmaradchy areas s of youth. Some parents have young daughters Ourse of the Search. es say that these es and arrests of etween 12-32 years rely of a pattern of also of 'hostage
go on to say that ld 15,000 hostages, are to be taken into he safety of the Sri
"CeS, vement of Jaffna is n to demonstrate in iscriminate arrests ters, the rapes comed personnel under hes and to demand he recent emergenhave converted the pn'. of the statistics of arious areas in the \maicottai 100, Sillaam - 400, Kaithady Town - 1,200; Įm and Elavalai — Kalviyamkadu — 80 imate figures). 'ested youths have t most have been pped down South.
LD ERY, NO
JAFFNA ES
a Sinhalese, be he a un or a government ffna, he would have fna mangoes, very
Sinhala “Yapana a people appeared te appetite for these Ley would return to kes of mangoes for gst their anxiously n. The relationship a mangoes created alese and Tamils Sinhala expression ich When translated
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SAS, MOSSAD AND NOW GURKHA MERCENARIES
It is common knowledge that the Sri Lankan government has employed the Services of ex-SAS mercenaries and the Israeli Mossad to assist its security Services.
Now according to reliable sources the government have decided to hire Gurkha mercenaries from Hong Kong to assist the security services, particularly to guard vital installations.
meant 'Mango friend' to denote an intimate and sweet relationship between two people.
However, with the massive intrusion of Sinhala troops into Tamil areas it Would appear that the Jaffna mango has lost its traditional demand in the South. Not that the Sinhala people have developed a distaste for these mangoes. But now it would appear that the Sinhala troops have begun to return with much more valuable and attactive gifts for their kith and kin - gold jewellery, hi-fi sets, wrist-watches, etc. Not that the traditionallytightfisted Jaffna Tamil has become Suddenly so generous as to afford such expensive gifts to the Sinhala troops. The Tamil mam or woman has no longer any choice in the matter.
In the "holy war to save Buddhism and the Sinhala race, the Sinhala troops enter Tamil homes and among other 'heroic deeds' relieve the inmates of all their valuables including gold bangles, chains, rings, wristWatches, etc. If a Tamil woman wore a 'pottu' ( a red dot on the centre of the forehead), it was presumed that she was married and therefore in possession of a "Thalikkody' (the traditional matrimonial chain weighing several Ounces of gold). If such a woman denies having a 'Thalikkody', the troops engaged in this 'holy war would mot take no for an answer. The woman concerned would be subjected to physical violence, stripping her naked or other forms of cruel and degrading treatment until the much desired "Thalikkody' was produced.
Small wonder some Sinhala women who happen to be relatives of returning troops from the northern battlefront of this "holy war' are sporting gold jewellery which they never had before. Some of them are said to be even wearing the 'Thalikkody' although it is not customary for Sinhala women to wear it.
Jaffna mangoes may be sweet, but gold appears to be sweeter. The mangoes may have produced drops and drops of Sweet nectar, but to deprive a Tamil woman of her “Thalikkody” produces tears which she would shed until her death.

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WITH LOVE FROM ISRAEL
LAWS TO
STARVE, ENSLAV & ANNHLATE THETAMILS OF
SRI LANKA
The Tamil people have experienced collective reprisals from the marauding Sri I.ankan troops and racist mob violence during the often repeated anti-Tamil pogroms for the last three decades. However the latest draconian measures announced by the Minister of National Security on November 28 and implemented with unprecedented severity have institutionalised collective punishment within the legal framework of the country.
In this exercise, there is ample demonstration that the Israeli advisers have had a deep involvement. The measures promulgated in the form of Emergency Regulations closely reSemble the various Military Orders that have been in operation in the occupied West Bank aimed at collectively penalising the Arabs and Palestinians to ensure Israeli hegemony over them and Set up Jewish Settlements in the occupied territories. In their report, 'The West Bank and the Rule of Law, the International Commission of Jurists said: “The concept of personal responsibility is essential to the rule of law. Laws and practices which impose punitive measures upon non-offenders are inherently unjust and oppressive. The imposition of collective punishment involves taking summary action without any trial or the possibility of judicial review. The intention is to achieve immediate results through the intimidation of whole sectors of the population. Another intention is that through punishing entire groups for the acts of an individual community pressure will be brought to hear against the individual.
Over the last 13 years of the occupation, collective and vicarious punishment in various forms has been part of the Israeli policy of keeping the West Bank people under check.'
Although the Israeli connection with the Sri Lankan authorities, especially the security services, came to public knowledge only since 1984, the Sri Lankan security services have time and time again penalised the Tamil population collectively for several
years. For instan they went on a down half the city Several Tamil civ 1981, they ran ber market squares, S ing presses, the Ja of private vehicles of the northern T: 1983, they burnt do Tamil city of Trin Several civilians. other crimes of wi murder were att, plined men in the 3 government conve take any action by take any action b disciplinary or cr
Israeli expertise
However, since t involvement of the Services, particula pattern of operatio an Security forces
ble imprint of Israe
in the West Bank. coastal villages lik Vettiturai and Ma Jaffna, the roundi between certain a Tamil villages, and sing, torturing and prolonged periods, advice and practic It was and is no occupied West Ba military to move in an area where an activity has taken bulldoze and demo longing to uninvol matter of few hou. people are render Report, page 79). become widely pre areas of Sri Lank troops are indiscri and destroying pro with people in then

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ce, in August 1977, ampage and burnt of Jaffna and killed ilians. In May-June Serk and set ablaze hops, houses, printffna Library, scores , etc, in many parts amil areas. In July wn half the eastern comalee and killed
These and many despread arson and ributed to indisciforces, although the niently chose not to instituting neither y instituting either iminal proceedings
he much publicised Israeli Intelligence rly the Mossad, the ms by the Sri Lankhas borne the indelili expertise applied Naval shelling of e Point Pedro, Valthagal in northern ng-up of all males ages from several l assaulting, harasdetaining them for Smack of Israeli
ce. t uncommon in the nk for the Israeli large numbers into incident of guerilla place, and attack, lish properties beved civilians. “In a rs, totally innocent ed homeleSS” (ICJ This practice has valent in the Tamil a, except that the iminate in burning perties, sometimes h. A case in point is
the burning down of approximately 120 homes and properties in the north western Tamil district of Mannar on August 12 last year as a reprisal for the death of one soldier in a land-mine explosion. Setting ablaze properties belonging to Tamils has become a standard practice for the security forces.
Rounding-up operations involving the arrest of several hundreds of Tamil males at a time, and not infrequently Tamil young girls, from villages in the morthern and eastern provinces, detaining and torturing them, began om a regular basis in the middle of 1984 since the Israeli involvememnt became more and more active. An estimated 10,000 Tamils, particularly those between the ages of 16 and 40 are today detained in the Sri Lankan army camps. These types of operations have mot been unusual in the West Bank for a number of years: "The authorities move speedily in a dragnet fashion and arrest all persons in the vicinity. These individuals are then interrogated, harassed, humiliated and punished by being forced to stand in the sun or rain for hours. It is understandable that some routine security check is legitimate to enable police to apprehend the suspects; however, it is often clear that the soldiers are merely using the opportunity to take revenge for what has just happened. This is revealed by the fact that the intensity of harassment, the length of detention and severity of the punishment is noticeably (dis)proportionate to the seriousness of the incident' (page 79, ICJ Report om the West Bank, 1980).
While revenge-seeking retaliatory reprisals are part of the Israeli security policy and practice, the Sri Lankan security forces have been more callous, ruthless and indiscriminate in their operations against Tamils and their properties. For instance, in exacting revenge for the death of one soldier, on December 4 last year the troopS Went On a rampage of murder
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and arson killing over 102 Tamil civilians in Mannar and burning properties. People were gunned down in streets, in a post office, in the fields, in their homes and in buses.
Collective punishment institutionalised
The hitherto unwritten practice of inflicting collective punishment upon the Tamil people has now assumed legislative institutionalisation with the enactment of certain Emergency Regulations in late November last year. A comparison of the Regulations with the Military Orders made by the Israelis for the West Bank would demonstrate beyond any doubt the scale and extent of Israeli involvement even in the legislative processes affecting the rights and lives of the people of Sri Lanka.
The government has openly conceded that these Emergency Regulations are aimed at the Tamil people collectively. On 28.11.84, the Minister of National Security told the Sri Lankan Parliament:
"Many of the restrictions which are the aim of the new regulations are certainly unpleasant and likely to affect the lives of many persons, not themselves responsible for the current situation which has made the promulgation of these regulations necessary.”
While it cannot be doubted that groups of Tamil militants have engaged in occasional acts of political violence which the government regard as acts of terrorism, the vast mass of the Tamil people living in areas affected by these regulations have not taken up arms against the government. In spite of the severe depredations to which they have been subjected to over the years, they have remained, and still do remain, lawabiding and defenceless people comitted to lead a normal civilian life. According to the Minister himself, "these regulations in pose severe hardships on persons living in the relevant areas in the country, and they undisputedly do . . ."
Prohibited Zone
The Emergency Regulations (Establishment of a Prohibited Zone) Regulation No.1 of 1984 declared the creation of a Prohibited Zone comprising: (1) All that area within a limit of 100 metres landwards and a limit of five miles seawards extending from Mullaitivu to Mannar along the North Eastern, Northern and West Coast; (b) The waters of the Jaffna Lagoon;
and (c) The roadway covering a distance of 25.20 milles from Ponnalai to Jaffna,
The regulation n. for any person to e. in the Prohibited Z( whatsoever withou the Superintendent imposition of the zo given authority to within it.
The purpose bel ment of the Prohib. out by the Minister liament that “there small area of la Northern coast c01 human habitation ties' for "the effecti security forces'. could not guarantee tioning of the forc Man's Land in the f Zone - a cordon sa lished in this man
Scale of the trage
The sheer exten human tragedy br government's atter form of “human hal activities' in this 's lievably horrendou O An estimated 20 who have lived for 'small area compr. hibited Zone hav homeless overnigh has not made any accommodation e They have been re with no other plac become refugees and temples. O Fishing has be waters of the north Lankan governmen1 the mainly Tamil
... is causing g
threatening thousa starvation, church munity leaders Catholic Church fishing villages in ban is hurting the ties, which catch al Lanka's fish and tenths of their pro Vicar-General of Greater Jaffna al are not getting eno been watching t Another month oft disaster.' With a l route to avoid the rols, I drove to th Myliddy, 12 miles many people are have sold jeweller sure, to buy food reporting from Ja 2.1.85) O The Citizens northern coastal to

akes it an offence ter into or remain ne for any purpose , the authority of of Police. Since the le, no one has been
enter or remain
ind the establishted Zone was spelt when he told Parshould be even this nd bordering the npletely free from and human activive operation of the Ie added that he the effective funces unless “this No orm of a Prohibited nitaire - is estab
ler,
dy
and scale of the ught about by the mpt to prohibit any bitation and human mall area is unbe
S: 0,000 Tamil people generations in this ised within the Pro'e been rendered t. The government provision for their ven temporarily. quired to evacuate e to go. They have living in churches
en banned in the ern coast. “The Sri t's ban on fishing in north of the island reat hardship and nds of people with
and fishing comsay. The Roman is trying to feed the north . . . The
fishing communiout two-fifths of Sri
get about sevenein from fish. The affna said . . . In one, 3,000 families ugh to eat. “I have hem deteriorate. his and you will see wyer who picked a dreaded army pat
2 fishing village of
rom Jaffna. Today estitute and many y, the family trea' (Trevor Fishlock fna, THE TIMES,
3ommittee of the w'n of Walvettiturai
JANUARY 1985
has, in a memorandum addressed to the Sri Lankan President, revealed the wide-ranging drastic consequences fo their area following the imposition ( the Prohibited Zone. Among othe. matters they drew his attention to the following: O Almost 40 per cent of the population of the district who have lived along the northern coastline from Ponnalai to Point Pedro, would fall within the Zone; O The fish industry of the area which produces 25 per cent and during particular seasons as high as 40 per cent of the country's fish production would come to a halt and result in inescapable starvation and deaths. The fisheries harbours at Myliddy, Nagarkovil and Point Pedro would fall into disuse: O The Prohibited Zone along the coastline embraced almost all the schools of the area, some of them nationally renowned like the Hartley College and the Methodist Girls High School. O Fifty per cent of the population of the Valvettiturai Urban Council area (13,982 living in 7.8 sq kms.) fall within the Zone. Seven schools, including five major ones, the hospital, post office, Urban Council office, three crematoria and a burial ground fall within the prohibited area; O The impression given in the government-controlled media that the Prohibited Zone comprises a sandy tract was wrong. The area covered a large amot at of huts (their only homes) of fishing families and houses of the relatively well-to-do, some of them architecturally significant and as old as 200 years; O The Prohibited Zone encompassed important trunk routes including several bus routes. O Even with full state support, evacuation of all people from the Zone would require at least a month and to carry out the order to evacuate within hours was humanly impossible. There was not a place or places within the Jaffna peninsula to house all the evacuees.
With the establishment of the Prohibited Zone, the Tamil people have virtually become encircled and besieged. As the Minister said, the land and the sea along the northern coast has been made "completely free from human habitation and human activities', giving a free hand to the security forces which have acquired a worldwide reputation for their indiscipline and indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians.
It is feared that the forcible evacuation of the Tamil people from the entire area of the northern coastline is intended to achieve a much more sinister and malevolent purpose. In the West Bank, the Israelis used the power to declare certain areas "closed', not only to set up military posts, but also "as a prelude to expropriating land, and building settlements on it'. Just as many thousands of Sinhala people have colonised and are colonising vast tracts of traditional Tamil heartlands in the Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Mullaitivu and Vavuniya districts under state-organised and funded colonisa

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tion programmes and accompanied by violence and terror against the traditional Tamil and Muslim inhabitants of the area, the northern coastline could eventually become ringed not only with military camps but also with settlements of Sinhala people brought from elsewhere in the country.
One could notice a remarkable convergence of policy and practice between the Israeli plan of Jewishisation of the West Bank and the Scheme for Sinhalisation of traditional Tamil homelands in Sri Lanka.
The basic cornerstone of Israeli policy in regard to the West Bank is illustrated in the following two quotations: “Expand and deepen Jewish settlements in areas where the contiguity of the Arab population is prominent and where they number considerably more than the Jewish population; examine the possibility of diluting existing Arab population concentrations.” (From a secret memorandum from the District Commissioner of the Northern District to the Israeli Prime Minister, March 1976)
"The disposition of the settlements must be carried out not only around the settlements of the minorities, but also in between them, this in accordance with the settlement policy adopted in Galilee and in other parts of the country.' - World Zionist Organisation, Plan for the 'development of settlements in Judea and Samaria, 1979-83.
In Sri Lanka, the policies of Successive Sinhala-dominated governments have been remarkably indentical to that of the Israelis.
“Under the guise of combatting “terrorism" by the Tamil Tigers, the military have moved into the predominatly Tamil areas in the North, assuming broad authorities under the 1979 Prevention of Terrorism Act. Acts of state terrorism in the North, particularly during March and April 1984, have taken on the form of collective punishment'. Since early 1984, Israeli security advisers have been called in to train Lankan security personnel. Already, the structural similarities between the Tamils of Sri Lanka and the Palestinians are notable - again, policies centred on land, control, demography, and terror combine in order to consolidate a configuration of Sinhala hegemony. Right-wing Buddhists who view the Sinhalese as chosen guardians of Buddhism, have already paved the way - "To some extent the Tamils are cast in the role of the Philistines, “good' kings being those who, like Dutthagamani, smote the Tamils hip and thigh, and did so, partly at least, with religious motives." In order to break up areas of contiguous Tamil habitation, inroads into predominantly Tamil areas in the Eastern and Northern provinces have been made by Sinhalese settlers, supported by government and police, and encouraged by right-wing Buddhist clergy, acting like the local equivalent of Gush Emunim. Over the past year this scheme to create "chequered patterns of settlement” has been supplemented by the establishment of army camps in the
north. The Jaffna being turned into Sinhala chauvinis ment of state powe the psychological the basis of an anal on the West Bank dict the forms Isra Sri Lanka is takin, - Jan Ne Israel's R( — Exporting V
Security Zone
The Emergency lishment of a “Secu tion No.1 of 1984, tricts of Jaffna ar "Security Zone' iss to the provisions ment” Military Or placed by Military the same provisior whole of the West B "closed area.
The Israeli Mil alia, contained pro prevention of mo within, from and int the prohibition, res tion of ownership a the closure, contro roads'; the requ. identity cards eve leaves his home; re hold members, etc
Its Sri Lankan Emergency (Est, ''Security Zone') 1984 makes provisio following:
(a) All persons mus their National identit them for inspection by the security forc (b) No person shall Security Zone withou ing the Assistant Go the Division in whic (c) No person reside ity Zone shall posses: motor cycle, lorry, bus, or pedal-cycle authorisation from th (d) Even if one has w to possess a motor ve cycle, he shall use i roads and during si use of vehicles is rest to 8.30am towards Jal from Jaffna. (e) Only motor vehi assigned colour can roads. (f) The number of a fuel have been redu no one other than a shall possess fuel in Authorised dealers a supplying to any pers excess of 10 litres. (g) The security forc to remove any arti thing which they r impediment or a bar ment irrespective of pediment or barrier i temporary nature.

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used as an instruagain calls to mind timate of Israel. On sis of Israeli policies ne could almost preli security advice in
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lbstantially similar of Israeli governder No.3 (later reOrder No.378 with s) under which the ank was declared a
tary Order, inter visions relating to vement of people o the "closed area'; riction and reguland use of vehicles' ol or regulation of irement to carry ry time a person gistration of house
counterpart, the ablishment of a Regulation No.1 of in inter alia, for the
t carry with then y cards and produce whenever required es; enter or leave the previously informvernment Agent of h he resides; it within the Securany motor vehicle, motor coach, omniwithout the written e police of the area. ritten authorisation hicle, etc., or pedalt only on specified ecified times. The ricted between 6am fna and 2pm to 4pm
les painted in the e used on specified
thorised dealers of ed to fourteen and
authorised dealer excess of 10 litres. re prohibited from bn or vehicle fuel in
es are empowered les, substance or gard as a visual sier against movewhether such imof a permanent or
(h) A premises, vehicle or equipment which is believed by the security forces to have been used in the commission of an offence, may be liable to search, seizure, removal or detention.
Normal life crippled
These restrictions upon the lives and rights of the Tamil people are, to say the least, most draconian and oppressive. Within the short time they have been in operation, normal life within the area of the security zone has been crippled. There is a virtual cessation of movement of people in pursuit of their day-to-day life because of the virtual ban on the use of all private vehicles including bicycles.
Although there is provision for use of private vehicles with special permits, no machinery has been yet set up for the issue of such permits. The only form of public transport, the bus service, has been severely curtailed by extended curfews and other restrictions, and operates only for a few hours a day and that too on 'approved routes'. There is an acute shortage of petrol and other fuel because of the 10-litre restriction. Even doctors travelling to and from hospitals are compelled to use ambulances.
In the absence of any other form of transport, the once discarded bullockcarts are the only mode of transport of people and goods. And even these bullock-carts are allowed to be used only during specified times of the day - 6.30am to 8.30am and 2.30pm to 4.30pm - and along "approved roads'. People with serious illnesses are literally dying unable to be transported to a hospital in time. Child-births are taking place at home and in bullock-carts On the way to hospitals and many mothers and babies have died due to lack of medical attention in time.
Agricultural produce is not reaching the markets and shops causing acute shortage. The farmers who normally work during early mornings and late afternoons are prevented from undertaking their normal farming activities due to the 6.00pm to 6am curfew. Recently the soldiers shot dead a man and two women for being in their fields just half an hour after the beginning of the curfew. "Riigid eurfew and a plethora of complex regulations and (permits) have reduced transport to skeleton services. People find it hard to get to work and to transport food and raw materials. The army has its grip on the jugular of commerce. Factories are closing, trade in most shops has dwindled. It is becoming impossible to freight goods to and from Colombo by road. People are dying because they cannot be taken by hospital during the 6pm to 6am curfew. Jaffna Hospital is running out of vital drugs,
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By Dr Nihal Jayewickrema — former Per
The following were introductory remarks made by Dr Nihal Jayewickrema at a recent seminar on National Harmony held at the Scott Hall Methodist College, Colombo.
Some of you have read in the newspapers a series of articles containing the results of part of the research done by Mr Jehan Perera, a young Sri Lankan now studying at Harvard. He visited different parts of the country and met people, made friends with them and sometimes lived with them in their village homes. He was seeking to ascertain the Sinhala perception of the ethnic problem.
Many decisions are taken or not taken by our political leadership because of what, we are told, that body of people described as the 'Sinhala masses” either desire or do not desire. We are told, for instance, that those who stand in the way of genuine devolution of power are the 'Sinhala masses'.
At the two recent by-elections held in Minneriya and Kundasale, at least one political party complained that the Lion Flag (not the national flag) flies only over seven provinces now, and pledged to hoist it in the other two provinces as well if the 'Sinhala masses' voted for that party's candidates, because those who spoke from platforms on behalf of that party probably believed that was what the 'Sinhala masses' genuinely desired.
Therefore, there was nothing intrinsically wrong, I suppose, in Jehan Perera wanting to find out for himself what it is that the much-maligned 'Sinhala masses' actually feel and think and believe in, at least in regard to the ethnic problem.
In the village of Warawewa, deep into the heartland of Raja Rata, a relatively self-sufficient peasant community told him they were in favour of a political rather tham a military Solution. They had no objection to regional autonomy, provided the centre had ultimate control over the autonomous regions. In the village of Balalla, across the coconut belt of Kurunegala, he found a receptive community that recognised the existence of Tamil grievances and was willing to accept regional autonomy if it could be shown to be a viable solution which would not slide towards a separate state. Among the working class in Colombo, opinion was unanimous that the minority Tamils were not entitled to equality of status with the majority Sinhalese. Most of those interviewed favoured a military solution and believed the "terrorists' could be surgically wiped out
without much diff near unanimous a of regional auton(
Moving further also in Colombo, affluent profess perception was tl the real problem, ism” could be eli problem would be The majority, Buddhists, stresse the armed forces were against any autonomy.
Fundamental pro
If Jehan Perera Sions are reasona should be at least those present tod would like to proc tell them that, in damental problem with is not one of t denial or violatio How else would yo tion in which, for ir find themselves in admission to the n engineering facult ties in the academ secured the nece aggregates for a excluded because is now placed on d. tham om merit. Oft from Kandy, 40 f Matara, 198 from Colombo.
If you regard Matara as exclusiv Colombo as mixec of those qualified being denied univ day are Tamils.
I am not here political point, bec for example, 1975, On the application that year, Galle which had appro population, were tled to 29 places in But only 18 actua basis of merit fro) so from Jaffna.
Similarly, while available in the E ence faculties tha 20, 24 had quali comparison to 56
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manent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Sri Lanka
culty. Opinion was gainst the granting my, p the social ladder, among the more onal classes the at “terrorism' was and that if "terrorninated, the Tamil
solved. particularly the d the need to give more power, and form of regional
)blem
''S research conclubly accurate, there a few hawks among ay. If there are, I eed immediately to
my view, the funthat we are faced errorism, but of the n of human rights. u describe the situastance, 530 students today? They sought nedical, science and ies of our universiic year 1983/84, and 2ssary grades and dmission, but were of the emphasis that istrict quotas rather his number, 23 were rom Galle, 45 from Jaffna and 224 from
Kandy, Galle and 2 Sinhala areas, and , then the majority
students who are ersity education to
trying to score a ause the position in, was mot any better. of the district quota und Jaffna, both of kimately the same 2ach declared entithe medical faculty. ly qualified on the Galle, 61 had done
the places declared ngineering and Sciyear for each was ied from Galle in from Jaffna.
uman rights law, to e, to which our goves, requires access n to be determined
"on the basis of capacity', has there not
been, for nearly two decades now, a violation of a human right?
How else would you describe the position in regard to employment in the state sector? Between 1977 and 1981, there were 9,965 vacancies that occurred in the clerical service. Those vacancies were filled by the appointment of 9,326 Sinhalese and 492 Tamils; i.e. 93.6 per cent Sinhalese and 4.9 per cent Tamils. 29,218 teachers were recruited during the same period, of whom 25,553 or 87.5 per cent were Sinhalese, as against 2,084 or 7.1 per cent Tamils.
Quite apart from international human rights law, our own Constitution prohibits discrimination om ethnic grounds, but can it be seriously contended by anyone that at least in the matter of selecting clerks to the state service, there has been no discrimination.
And if you shut out the average Tamil youth from education as well as from employment, what is it that you expect him to do? Even the cultivation of chillies and onions for the domestic market is not an economically viable enterprise in today's free and liberalised economy.
No mere goodwill
If you agree with me that minority communities no longer have to depend upon the tolerance and goodwill of the majority for their existence or livelihood, and that they have rights in common with, and no less than, anyone else; and that, as far as the Tamilspeaking people of the Northern Province are concerned, at least some of those rights have been denied or violated in recent years, it will be easier to understand a community that voted for the acceptance of the Soulbury Constitution and joined the late Mr D.S. Senanayake in charting the course of this newly independent country, and thereby entered the mainstream of Sri Lankan political life, found it necessary to assemble at Vaddukkodai on May 14, 1976, and declare not only that they, the Tamils of Ceylon, were a separate nation distinct and apart from the Sinhalese; but also that they were resolved to establish the separate State of Tamil Eelam: a declaration that was enforced a year later at the general election of July 1977 by the large majority of the Tamil-speaking people of the Northern Province.
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sovereign states Withim its natural borers. As I understand it, the right of self-determination, which any minority community is entitled to exercise, acquires different meanings in different contexts. The native Africans of Namibia are entitled to their own sovereign and independent state in the territory which South Africa still regards as one of its dependent territories.
But the position in Sri Lanka is different from that in South Africa - at least in some respects. We profess to respect human rights, democratic principles and the rule of law. We have made commitments to the international community that we shall do so. We have recognised the right of other states to complain to international tribunals if we cannot do so. We have sought and obtained representation in these international tribunals in order that we may thereby monitor the performance of other states and ensure that they fulfil their obligations in the same way that we do.
And, if we occasionally overlook minor irritations like holding a general election, we have devised other machinery, such as the All Party Conference, through which national problems may yet be resolved.
In that context, the right of selfdetermination means the right of a minority community to freely determine its political status and freely pursue its economic, Social and cultural development within the sovereign and independent state to which they already belong, and in which they already live.
This, they are seeking to do by asking for regional autonomy, for an Opportunity to participate in the decision-making process at the centre, for freedom from discrimination at least in the matter of education and employment, and for the restoration of other basic human rights.
Some among them obviously feel that they have waited too long in vain; made too many pacts which have not been honoured; relied on too many promises that have not been kept.
It is good for us to remind ourselves that time does not stand still - not even in what we are told is paradise - and that a document as sanctified as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
WH PRESI
“We are constrain two Bills before thi embody the schi which could be acc people or their acc tive, the TULF,' s lingam, the leader Liberation Front, i on behalf of his Party Conference Wound up on 21.12 The following is TULF Statement:
6In response to President Jayawan ber 28, 1983, the TU the All Party Con for January 10, 19 certain proposals arrive at an accept present problems community in Sri
When those pro doned, the TULF w Withdrawn from t we continued to par the search for an alternative to our d pendent State of T Mrs Indira Ganc Minister of India, good offices to ena to be reached and Mr G. Parthasara big part in persua continue the negot In view of certair some people on I) matter, it behoves r On record, India ha factor working for Solution.
In the very first s at the Conference, though we were ele to work for a sep acceptable and vi offered, we were mend it to our pec
Even in the face positive response or Government Memb the majority Sinha avoided the respon Out - We contin because of our part non-violence an inte is the path of nego We indicated that a Tamil linguistic r the Northern and E granting regional Tamil nation as con osals placed before
 
 

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ed to state that the is Conference do not eme of autonomy epted by the Tamil redited representaaid Mr A. Amirthaof the Tamil United in a statement made party after the All (APC) was formally .84. the full text of the
an invitation from ordene dated DecemLF agreed to attend ference summoned 184, on the basis of to enable them to table Solution to the facing the Tamil Lanka. posals were abanould normally have he conference. But ticipate and pursue acceptable viable lemand for an indeTamil Eelam. lhi, the late Prime who "offered her ble a final Solution her Special Envoy thy, played a very ding the TULF to iatory process.
aspersions cast by ndia's role in this me to place this fact as been the biggest a peaceful political
statement We made we indicated that cted om a mandate arate State, if an able alternative is willing to recomple. of total absence of 1 the part of leading pers - even when a Opposition party sibility by walking led to participate y's commitment to egral part of which tiation. a solution based om egion, consisting of Eastern Provinces, autonomy to the tained in the propthis conference by
the Ceylon Workers Congress, may be one we could recommend to the Tamil people.
We also said that the regional body should be 'empowered to enact laws and exercise thereto on certain specified listed subjects, including the maintenance of internal law and Order in the region, the administration of justice, social and economic development, cultural matters and land policy'.
A careful study of the provisions of the draft bills placed before the Conference will convince anyone that they fall far short of the regional autonomy indicated above.
When we accepted the scheme of District Development Councils in 1980, it was clearly understood that it was not meant to be an alternative to our demand for a separate State.
It was hoped that it may help to solve some of the pressing problems, like colonisation, and ease tensions thereby creating the climate for a solution to the larger political question.
The total failure of the Government to work that scheme in the proper spirit has largely contributed to the present situation. The repetition of the provisions of the same law in the present draft is totally unacceptable to the Tamil people.
The bills do not embody a proper scheme of devolution or autonomy. Devolution to the larger unit should be done by the Constitution and that unit may delegate any functions to the Smaller unit.
I am surprised that even these meagre and inadequate provisions are being opposed by some responsible perSons.
We have endeavoured both in the All Party Conference and in informal discussions outside to work out a peaceful Solution.
Time is running out. The Tamil areas are under virtual siege. Normal life has come to a standstill. Death, arson, rape and looting, stalk our areas. Starvation is staring the poor people in the face.
This is the grim reality of the situation in the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
We are constrained to state that the two Bills before this Conference do not embody any scheme of autonomy which could be accepted by the Tamil people, or their accredited representatives, the Tamil United Liberation Front.9

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NOWEMBER 8, 1984
TORTURE ADMISSION BY LALITH? The Batticaloa citizens” committee told visiting Minister of Internal Security Mr Lalith Athulathmudali that the government should use the "lie detector' on prisoners detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), instead of torturing them to get at the truth. Lalith replied that he too liked it that way but there were others who thought otherwise.
SIX YOUTHS AR RESTED: The army arrested six innocent Tamil youth residing at Thirumagal Road, Ariyalai West.
NOVEMBER 9, 1984
100 YOUTHS ARRESTED: At Vavuniya 100 Tamil youths were arrested by the Army for mot being in possession of their National Identity cards. The arrests were under the PTA.
NOWEMBER 10, 1984
TEMPLE DESECRATED: Troops desecrated the Anaikottai Mootha Vinayagar Temple today romping about its sanctum in boots and harassing the priest, under the guise of looking for terrorists.
25 AR RESTED: 25 people including Tamil students and fishermen who were waiting for a bus at the Mullaitivu bus-stand, were arrested by the troops under the PTA.
NOVEMBER 12, 1984
LALITH'S MEN THROWACID: S. Selvarani, a 24-year-old female undergraduate of the University of Jaffna, had acid thrown on her face by army men from convoy at Thinnaiveli. She was cycling her way to the campus when the incident occurred.
ARSON: Two houses were set om fire by troops, one at Paravi Painthan and the other at Thirunagar old colony - both at Kilinochchi.
NoveMBER 13, 1984
MORE ACID THROWING: Lalith Athulathmudali's troops today continued their acid-throwing campaign on Tamil ladies. Mrs Arasaratnam and Mrs Maurthalingam (both teachers) and a student from the Vem
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INTDIRA P 0 ST ARRESTED: Te taken into custo Vattakachchi und ting up posters W picture.
500 YOUTHS AR forces took into c ery Tamil youth chi. Some were ti and assaulted. In arrested under th through the town behind them. Lat bodies of three ( strewn along th with bullets.
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RESTED: Security 'ustody virtually evin sight at Kilinoched up to lamp-posts
all, about 500 were e PTA and paraded with their hands tied er om in the day, the )f them were found e roadside, riddled
ER 15, 1984 స్ట్రీ
BY NAVY Samia fisherman from
went out fishing in his morning, had his then he picked up a loating in the sea. It
vy had laid mines in
area. Meanwhile, a rfew has been deharbour area, which le command of the uring these hours. It nds to all civilians at
STS AT NUWARA ty forces extended
repression of Tamils
land town of Nuwara 7 set fire to a shop Tamil and arrested on Tamil youths and
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at Tellippalai, said that shortly after Indira's death he was travelling in the Jaffna-Colombo train. As the train was on the move at Pungankulam and Meesalai, troops travelling in the train had shot and killed several Tamil
youths who were putting up black flags by the wayside.
NOVEMBER 16, 1984
RAPED & RUN OVER: A Tamil woman named Kumari Theresa Augustine from Puloly East in the Jaffna district was raped by the soldiers and later run over by an army truck. This incident happened near the village of Achchuvely.
COACH ATTACKED: A private coach belonging to "Pillayar Vilas' plying from Colombo to Jaffna with Tamil passengers was attacked at Negombo by Sinhalese thugs. The bus was damaged and many passengers seriously injured. Every passenger was relieved of his belongings by the thugs.
NoveMBER 18, 1984
SIX KILLED AT KOPAY: The army went on a shooting spree at Kopay killing six including a young girl and injuring several others. Two of the dead have been identified as Kandasamy Sivasubramaniam (45 years) and Sadasiram Manimaran (16 years). The incident occurred near the third milepost on the Point Pedro road at Kaddapirai. The troops are said to have thrown a bomb into a garage where some youths were repairing a van and then emptied several rounds of ammunition on innocent civilians who were around. There were no guerrillas anywhere mear the place. It was another incident for the government to talk about 'exchange of fire between troops and terrorists' and about 'civilians who might have been caught in the cross-fire'
ARMY INTIMIDATION AT IN DIRA MEETING: A public meetin, organised at the Hindu Kalyana Mandapam, Nallur, by the TULF to pay homage to the late Indira Gandhi was the scene of intimidation by the army. As the meeting was in progress a convoy of trucks and armoured cars drove up and went round and round the building with the guns in the armoured vehicles pointing menacingly at the
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crowds at the meeting. Most of the people ran away. The meeting was being addressed by the TULF leaders including Messrs Amirthalingam and Sivasithamparam.
NOVEMBER 19, 1984
ARMY RAMPAGE AT TELLIPPALAI: Following a land mine explosion which killed Colonel Ariyapperuma at Varuthalai Vilan. Tellippalai, the army went on the rampage in the area, wreaking havoc, setting fire to several houses of civilians in the area. The houses of the following have been completely razed to the ground: T. Kandavanam (headmaster of village school), . Sinnadurai (businessman), T. Gunaratnam (teacher), S. Thiruchelvam (retired engineer), N. Karunamoorthy (electricity board foreman), S.Segaratnasingam, Mrs A. Selvamanikkam, and Mrs R. Nalliah. Several houses have been looted by the security forces. Two lorries belonging to a factory have been set on fire by the troops. Over 1,000 people have abandoned their homes and sought refuge at the Mavidapuram Thalaiyiddy Vyra var temple and the Veemankamam Church.
NOVEMBER 20, 1984
EN GIN E E RS, BEGGA RS, WOMEN, AMONG THOSE KILLED: Several hours after an attack on the Chavakachcheri Police Station by Tamil guerrillas, the army settled their score by shooting and killing Miss Nandini (30 years), Mrs Nagamma Murugesu (60 years), Mr Nadarajah and an unidentified beggar in the Chavakachcheri area. They also broke into several houses in the area, stole the valuables and smashed up the houses. Apparently, in another act of reprisal carried out at the Sinhalese city of Anuradhapura, the army opened fire on two Tamil electrical engineers attached to the Electricity Board - Mr Ponnambalam (Meesalai) and Mr Paramsothy and killed them. In fear, seven other Tamil officers attached to the Electricity Board sought refuge at the Anuradhapura Police Station only to be put behind bars there: Mr Velupillai (engineer), Mr Mahesam (accountant), Mr Bhaskaran (administrative assistant), Mr Thanotheram (accountant), Mr Mailvaganan (storekeeper), Mr Ratnasabapathy (electrical superintendent), and Mr Balasingam (chief clerk). Mr Kandasamy, the chief engineer, is reported missing. COLOMBO BURNS AGAIN: Shops belonging to Tamils were set on fire in Colombo in the Maradana, Borella and Thimbirigasyaya areas while a Tamil was stabbed to death at Borella.
LALITH TO RECLAIM TAMIL HOMELANDS: A Sinhalese newspaper has quoted Minister Lalith Athu
lathmudali as say ment proposes t0 claim of tradition shortly by colonis trict with Sinhale fishermen. Has th out of the bag emergency regul November 28, 1984 land 100 metres
Seashore of the evacuating thousa lians from their ho and home grab fol proposed colonisa
EXODUS? The Ja received 3,034 ap) ports from Tamil: weeks, it was rept an indication of the of Tamils who are every day to save
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250 ARRESTED A
In the village of Ka
caloa District, ab cluding women and taken into custody and locked up in po. under the PTA.
NEGOMBO, NI BURN: Some sł Tamils were set o and Nuwara Eliya
NOVEMBE
NEW MARKETD out 50 troops arri with crowbars, irc weapons and com the Kodikamam Ne The threequarters had been construt provided by the loc thority at a cost 0.
16 TAMILYOUTH innocent Tamil you custody at Ramakr watte, Maligawatte Colombo under the
NOVEMBE
MORE SHOOTINC Jaffna four more c shot and killed by forces travelling t fired shots indiscr the windows killing ing a 7-year-old b Batticaloa, two fi been shot at and three Tamil fisherr At Kaluwaanchikuc district 123 Tamils been taken into c
PTA.
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4,800 YOUTHS A the last few days

ng that the governput an end to the Tamil homelands Ing the Jaffna disse ex-convicts and Minister let the cat ' The draconian tions gazetted on created a no man's in depth from the orthern Province, nds of Tamil civimes. Was this land the purpose of this ion?
fina Secretariat has lications for passover the last two rted today. This is increasing number fleeing the country
their lives.
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T BATTICALOA: luda vil in the Battiput 250 Tamils, inchildren have been by the armed forces ice vehicle garages
UWARA ELIYA ops belonging to n fire at Negombo
R. 23. 1984
ESTROYED : Abved tonight armed on rods and other pletely demolished w Market building. 2ompleted building cted out of funds al government au
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S, ARRESTS: In ivilians have been he army. Security y train to Jaffna iminately through our Tamils includby. At Waharai in shing boats have destroyed, killing hen in the process. i in the Batticaloa and Muslims have ustody under the
RRESTED: Over 800 Tamil youths
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have been held in custody under the PTA. Tamil youth have been taken into custody wherever they were seen - at offices, at restaurants, on the roads, in buses and at their homes. Every Tamil youth is now a terrorist. Meanwhile, draconian emergency laws that remove every vestige of human rights have been announced for the North (details published in December 1984 issue of Tamil Times and this issue elsewhere).
HELICOPTER ATTACK: In a novel display of barbarism, the Sri Lanka Air Force today dropped from a helicopter at Alvai Thikkam a log, 7 feet in length and 1 foot in diameter. The log landed through the roof of a house Smashing up a TV set and other furniture and just missing the six-month
old infant of Mr K. Gunasegaram, the
unfortunate owner of the house.
LEAVE JAFFNA PENINSULA: LALITH: Speaking in Parliament after announcing draconian emergency laws prohibiting movement of Tamils to and from Jaffna, Mr Lalith Athulath mudali displayed a Gestapo sense of humour in appealing to the people of Jaffna to leave the Jaffna peninsula immediately to save more loss of lives. The people of Jaffna may go to reside with their relatives and friends in other parts of Sri Lanka, he added, in an ominous pointer towards the ruthless massacre that was being planned for Jaffna.
)ECEMBER 1, 1984
ATTEMPT TO MURDER INDIAN DETANEES: Fourteen captains of Indian fishing boats who are being kept in remand custody at Anuradhapura having being captured by the Sri Lanka Navy under the pretext of trespassing on Sri Lankan waters had a narrow shave with death. Certain Sinhalese persons believed to be jail guards had set fire at 6pm today to the prison wing holding the detainees in an attempt to burn them alive. But the fire was detected in time and the detainees noved out to 'safer areas'.
HEBCILICOPTER AT"TACK: 200 KILLED: Security forces straffed Tamil civilians from helicopters at Nedunkerny near Vavuniya and dropped incendiary bombs on houses, killing over 200 people and destroying hundreds of houses.
FIRING SQUAD: 27 MURDERED: Tamil civilians of the village of Periyakuiam near Vavuniya were lined up and fired upon by death squads of the army. 27 people were killed and many more injured.
DECEMBER. 2, 1984
PM INCITES SINHALESE: A public speech made by the Prime Minister R. Premadasa yesterday inciting the Sinhalese people to violence against

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the Tamils is being repeatedly broadcast over the Sri Lanka broadcasting Corporation every hour. It appeals, inter alia, to the Sinhalese people to rise in crusade against those Tamils who are seeking to carve out an “Eelam” for themselves. It exhortS the Sinhalese people not to rely on the security forces.
64 KHILLED AT CHIETTIKULAM: 64 innocent Tamil civilians who were rounded up at Chettikulam, near Vavuniya, by security forces, were later found to be dead, their bulletridden bodies being strewn by the roadside.
beceMBER 3, 1984
52 PRISONERS KILLED: 52 innocent Tamil detainees who were being held at the Army camp at Vavuniya were summarily executed by the Sinhala Army. This comes in the wake of the Welikade Prison killing (53) of July 1983 and the Chunnakam Prison killing (27) of April 1984. The government fabricates that the Vavuniya detainees were shot when trying to escape from the camp. Meanwhile, all
Tamil detainees held in Batticaloa have been shifted to army camps at Boosa and Tangalle and are held as "hostages'. TAMIL TV -- RADIO MEN SENT HOME: All Tamil employees of the state-owned Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation and Sri Lanka Rupavahini (TV) Corporation are being sent on compulsory leave with effect from today.
40 MASSACRED: More than 40 Tamil civilians from the village of Othiyamalai, near Nedumkerny have been massacred to death by the soldiers. The government claimed that Tamil guerrillas massacred them to put the blame on the troops Out of the 40, 27 were Tamil youths aged between 16 and 32. They had been arrested and then taken to the Village Council building where after tying their hands behind their backs they had been shot dead.
DECEMBER 4, 1984
PUTTILAM BURNS: Sinha lese workers from the State Transport Board at Puttalam buried down 25 houses belonging to Tamils in the area. The police turned a blind eye.
100 KILLED AT VAVUNIYA : More than 100 Tamil civiljams were massacred at Vavuniya by the soldiers and Sinhalese thugs. Vavuniya Hospital sources said that there was a constant stream of dead bodies flowing into the hospital mortuary, which has been stretched to 20 times its capacity.
GOVT. ARMS SINHALESE CIVILIANS: The Government distributed free arms and ammunition and hand grenades to all Sinhalese living in the
Ta m i l distri c Sinhalese village to attack Tamils
POSTAL STAFE Soldiers stormed at Morunkan and master and nin They then left th victims were dea ter and five othe rious injuries. 27
were indiscrimin Several houses a
37 BUS COMM ERED: A Stati bus plying betw Vavuniya was or Soldiers. All ordered to alig Muslim driver a ductor — Kuda who had the dec tell the army th though Tamil, and that no one without killing baric soldiers c shot down Jaya lined up all male driver, totallin, them down.
In a similar inc bus was stopped between Vavuni, 20 Tamil passeng The Goebbel
claimed that th
carried out by beSmirch the im angels!
50 KILLED AT DAL: At Parapp. nar District, ove ing a schooltea years), were sh( soldiers.
16 KILLED AT ULAM: In this
Mannar, Tamil lunch during p were ordered tol through their hea
ing two Sinhales
UYILANKULA] INGS: The Soldi. houses and shop, and also killed a actual number more, as the boC of those killed w on fire. Several
paddy fields an unidentifiable, d bodies were bur
villagers. The v
Mannar.
PARAPPANKA FEEDING MC KILLED: A y feeding her ind during random
She died on the
 
 
 
 

and adjoining and exhorted them
SLAUGHTERED: nt0 the POSt Office shot down the Post
other employees. nking that all their ... But the Postmass survived with Sether Tamil civilians tely shot dead and d shops set om fire.
UTERS BUTCHTransport Board en Murunkan and dered to stop by the ) a SS en gers were t. The bus had a nd a Sinhalese condewage Jayasena, ncy and bravery to at the passengers, vere in his charge could harm them im first. The barid just that. They sena first and them passengers and the g 17, and gunned
ident, another state at the 11th mille post ya and Mamnar and sers were shot dead. Sian State , media ese raids had been Tamil guerrillas to age () of the army
PARAPPANKANankandal in the Man50 civilians, includher (Mrs John, 50 it and killed by the
OOTRUVAYANKarming village mear rillages having their addy transplanting e down and were shot ds. 16 people, include women died.
I - ARSON, KILLrs set fire to about 20 belonging to Tamils least 17 people. The illed could be much es of a good number re heaped up and set thers were killed in swamps and their ad and decomposing d by the wayside by lage is situated near
NDAL - BREASTHER, 11 OTHERS ung mother breastnt child was killed looting by the army. spot while three toes
JANUARY 1985
were blown off the unfortunate infant. Eleven other Tamil civilians had also been killed in this shooting spree for which air cover had been provided by Air Force helicopters. Parappankandal is another village situated close to Mannar.
SINHALESE VILLAGERS RAMPAGE: Sinhalese villagers in the Vavuniya District, armed by the government, contributed to the carnage by attacking Asikulam, a Tamil village, killing 6 and injuring 12. They also razed to the ground 5 houses.
DECEMBER 5, 1984
SINHALESE THUGS ATTACK: Sinhalese goon squads armed by the government attacked and destroyed an entire Tamil village at Tennamarawadi in the Trincomalee District. 165 Tamil families were rendered homeless and sought refuge in adjoining villages. The government has refused any help to these refugees.
DOCTOR, ENGINEER SLAUGHTERED: At Keppitipola (a Kandyan town), a Tamil doctor and a Tamil engineer were done to death by Sinhalese thugs.
DECEMBER 6, 1984
FOOD SUPPLIES CUT OFF: Food supplies have been completely cut off by the government to the Tamil homelands in the North in an attempt to starve the Tamils to death and eventual submission. Meanwhile, special trains are being run to the North carrying arms and ammunition to the soldiers and thugs engaging the Tamil nation at war. Meanwhile, the State radio has announced that the governments of USA and France have pledged arms support to wipe out the Tamil liberation fighters.
DECEMBER 7, 1984
JOINT RAIDS BY GOONDAS, ARMY: Sinhalse goondas armed by the government and the army carried out a joint operation at the village of Tiryyai in the Trincomalee District. Tamil civilians were ordered to assemble at the village playground and then set upon and assaulted mercilessly by the army and the goondas till their hands and legs ached and they could assault no longer. This soccer game resulted in 150 Tamils being injured and 15 being reported grievously hurt.
PLANTATION TAMILS BLITZED: There have been reports of widespread atacks yesterday on innocent Tamil plantation workers already living below the poverty line. Sinhalese thugs are reported to have attacked Tamil workers at Ruwanwella, Hatton and

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Ratnapura. At Ruwanwella, the line rooms (single-roomed shelters where entire families live) of Tamil workers have been attacked and destroyed. Several Tamil-owned shops have also been burnt down at Hatton and Ratnapura.
DECEMBER 7, 1984
1,000 TAMIL YOUTHS AR RESTED IN COLOMBO: Over the last 48 hours, about 1,000 Tamil youths have been arrested in Colombo. Those who could prove that they were normal Colombo residents were later released. Others, including innocent Tamil youths who had been sent to Colombo by their parents to escape murder or arrest by soldiers in the North, were detained under the PTA. They had been merely following Athulathmudali's advice to the Tamils ten days ago to leave Jaffna!
42 HOUR CURFEW: A 42 hour curfew has been clamped down in the entire Northern Province today.
WAR MINISTER TRUMPETS: Lalith Athulathmudali, Internal Security Minister and de facto Commander-inchief of the armed forces and the paramilitary thugs, announced today that the Sri Lanka Government has obtained 'sophisticated weapons' from "friendly countries' to wipe out the Tamil militants.
MOSSAD SHIP I PLOSION: Report Bombay say that “Maguli Malta', said missioned by the Isr er armed shipments the Bombay harbou plosion. It is said th thorities were getti the ship, the Jewish (one Raymond) ha suicide explosion, kil crew and destroying mational Smuggler b. deen Rayaf Sony wh arrived by that ship custody.
MASS ARRESTS
Over 200 innocent T ported to have been security forces today Dutch Fort in Jaffn
ARSON AT CHIL Several Tamil house and destroyed at Ch by Sinhalese thugs, homeless.
PRISONERS, DE PED TO COLOM serving jail sentence, om situated within the innocent Tamil youth ady were shipped to KKS harbour today. "
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N SUICIDE EXs reaching us from a cargo vessel - to have been comaeli Mossad to delivto Sri Lanka sank in r after a suicide exlat when Indian aung ready to inspect
captain of the ship ld triggered off a ling himself and the the ship. An Intery the name of Mohi0 is believed to have ) is in Indian police
AT KATHADY: amil youths are rerounded up by the and detained at the a under the PTA.
AW, NEGOMBO: Is Were set om fire ilaw and Negombo rendering hundreds
TAINEES SHIP. BO: 270 prisoners s at the Jaffna prisJaffna Fort and 161 Sarrested at Kaith
Colombo from the They were taken by
special train from Jaffna to KKS and troops accompanying them fired indiscriminately through the train windows injuring several on the wayside.
THE COST OF BEING ALIVE! The following is the price list of some essential food items at Jaffna now: brinjals per kilo Rs. 25; potato es per kilo Rs. 30; long beans per kilo Rs25; green chillies per kilo Rs45; tomatoes per kilo Rs20; cabbage per kilo Rs.25; coconut each Rs15; Rice per kilo Rs15. The cause? Restricted zones; prohibited Zones; curfews; stoppages of transport; army rampages
THONDA ALSO WHACKED The Tamil Minister of Rural Industrial Development in the JR government and President of the Ceylon Workers Congress (the largest trade union in Sri Lanka and comprising Tamil plantation workers), Mr S. Thondaman, met President Jayawardene and complained that his trade union office at Vavuniya has been burnt down by the soldiers and the blame put om Tamil guerrillas! He also complained about indiscriminate harassment and arrest of Tamil people in the plantations and in Colombo.
DECEMBER 8, 1984
900 ARRESTED AT MULLAITIVU: Nearly 900 innocent Tamil youths were rounded up in the Mullaitivu district by the security forces and detained under the PTA.
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LAMBS TOT
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The sword of Damocles hangs over every Tamil youth, the moment he attains the age of 16 years. To the government of Sri Lanka, every Tamil youth between the age of 16 and 35 years is a terrorist and has to be Wiped out.
The Sinhala Gestapo leaders of Sri
Lanka, in their ruthless pursuit of this age group, ha veso far killed thousands of innocent Tamil youths and detained
several thousands more in concentratiот сатрs.
. Parameswaran — Pandatheriippu . Ponniah - Siththankerney
Wigneswararajah -- Chulipuram Rajah -- Maanthoppu Shanmugam - Pandatherippu
. Ravichandran -- Nawalapitiya
Chandrasekaran -- Mathagal Sounderarajah — Chulipuram
. Kathiramalairajah — Chulipuram
Jeyamurugam — Kondavil
. Sriskandarajah — Anaikottai
Bhaskaran - Anaikotai Sithamparanathan — Kokuvil
Mudialagan - Anaikottai
. Rajendran — Vannarpannai . Thavachelvam – Kokuvil . Padmanatham — Kokuvil . Packiyanathan -- Ooddumadam . Dharmalingam -- Karainagar
Karam — Kokuvi Parameswaran - Thavady Nth
. Kandappu – Kokuvil
Selvaratnam – Kokuvil Somaskandarajah – Vaddukoddai W Gunnalingam — Anaikottai Alfred – Kokuvil Gulasegaram -- Kondavil W Premachandran — Anaikottai Mailirajah — Anaikottai Shanmugasunderam - Anaikottai Sharvanamdam — Kokuvil Rajakumar — Kokuvil
. Gnanapragasam — Kokuvil W
Selvarajah — Anaikottai
. Alagaratnam — Kokuvil W
. Maharoopan – Kokuvil . Sivananthan – Anaikottai . Arulananthan -- Amaikottai '.غزلۂ: . Kirubaharan — Anaikottai
. Vasantharajah – Amaikottai . Vivekamantham - Vannarpannai . Rasanayagam - Anaikottai . Krishnananthan — Kokuvil
Mahendran - Kokuvil
. Francis - Anaikottai
Raves - Anaikottai Nesaratnam - Manipay
. Wigneswaran - Anaikottai . Sathyanesan — Anaikottai
Sundarasegaram — Anaikottai Thiruchelvanathan – Kokuvil
Rajendradas - Kokuvil W
. Vimalananthan - Inuvil East . Selvamurugan – Vannarpannai . Amirthalingam — Anaikottai . Puvastha – Vannarpannai ... Ramanathan - Kondavil . Saânthakumar — Anaikottai . Muthurajah – Kokuvil . Tharmapala — Anaikottai . Sriskandarajah — Kokuvil
The most cold-b Tamilyouths so fa 1984 When an estin youths were rippe families and a got shipped to Colomb of slaughter.
As in the past, th liquidated in bat under cover of gol ques that they we to escape from c
R. Iruthayarajah . D. Udayakumar — A.E. Udayarajah .
. Kamalanatham . Sunderam — A . Sriskandarajah
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Sivarajah – M . Suresh – Pani . Jeyachristie — Jesuratnam – . Vijayakumar - S.S. Anandarajah K. Thiruchelvam - S. Anton Reynold M.A. Mariadas - P. Thangarajah - A.F. Fernando -
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— Anaikottai -- Kokuvil Kokuvil ah - Kaladdy - Erlalai . Ponnalai . Erlalai
Pungudutivu athagal pulam
Sillalai Pandatheriippu - Sillalai – Sillalai — Pandatheriippu – Sillalai
Pandatheriippu - Chamkamai
Mathagal Chamkamai
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Mathagal ndatheriippu - Pandatheriippu - Pandatheriippu - Vadukoddai Pandatheriippu lalai
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These youths, though lambs to the slaughter, are nevertheless martyrs to the cause of the liberation of the Tamil Nation.
Listed below are the names of the first batch of 'lambs' shipped to Colombo on December 14, 1984, by a cargo ship from the Kankesanthurai harbour. Five busloads of them were taken from the Jaffna Fort along KKS Road to the harbour in a massive convoy of armoured vehicles ant trucks. -
. R. Devadas - Pandatherippu . Ragunathan - Pandatherippu . Ravindran — Pandatheriippu
. Gajendran — Pandatheriippu
Udayakumar — Pandatheriippu . Muththulingasamy — Mirusuvil . Rajendran - Thondaimannar
Satchithanandan - Pathaimeni Jeevan – Thondaimannar Sivalingam - Thondaimannar Chandran — Palaly . Pangarajah - Palaly . Kathirvelautham — Thondaimanmar . Keetheswaran – lavalai
Yogeeswaran — Thondaimannar ... Ganeswaran - Thorndaimanmar oseph Peter — Palaly
. Yogachandran — Thondaimannar Duraisingam — Thondaimanmar Appoorvasingam - Thondaimannar Selvam – Thondaimannar . Thavarajah — Thondaimannar . Sudhakaram – Thondaimannar
Subramaniam - Atchuvely . Navabalan — Kokuvil . Varnasingam — Thondaimannar I. Chandrasegaran — Thondaimannar K. Rajendran - Thondaimannar M. Ravichandran - Thondaimannar A. Bhaskaramohan - Maviddapuram K. Rajasingam — Kaithady I. Naguleswaran – Mulaitivu I. Sivananthan – Kaithady K. Skandarajalh — Madduvil K. Logidas — Kaithady S. Subramaniam - Kaithady N.A. Wadivel - Kaithady
P. Indram — Kaithady K. Sivagnanasunderam — Kaithady K. Sivananthan – Kaithady S. Sivakumar – Kaithady M. Pushparajah - Kaithady
P. Wignarajah - Jaffna K. Selvanayagam - Kaithady I. Thayaparan — Jaffna | S. Naguleswaran - Kaithady
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FROM PAGE 11 oxygen and anaesthetics (Trevor Fishlock from Jaffna, THE TIMES, 31.12.84).
Shortage of medicines
The Jaffna General Hospital has been deprived of medical supplies from the end of July 1984. Despite repeated requests from the Jaffna Medical Superintendent to the Minister of Health, the requirements of the hospitals have not been met.
"Staff told me they see many victims of army beatings. Typically, boys emerge from interrogation and spells in custody with multiple bruises caused by thrashings with PVC pipes filled with sand. Some have heel fractures, having been suspended and beaten on the feet.
A doctor said: “I see about five of these cases a week, but remember that many victims do not seek treatment because they are afraid or because it is impossible to travel. The army is behaving atrociously. Troops think they have been sent here to make us submit.'
Recently, one of the medical staff (escaped with her life when troops opened fire on two buses in Jaffna, killing five poeple, the doctor said. And a man and his ten-year-old son were shot out of hand on the street last Week.
Another doctor said: “We can only do life or death operations now, so people are suffering. We are not getting our drugs and anaesthetics from Colombo (250 miles to the south). Four X-ray machines are broken down - we cannot get anyone to repair them. We have one machine which is partly working.'
He paused and added: "We thinn these people want to annihilate us.' (Trevor Fishlock, from Jaffna, THE TIMES, 2.185)
SLAUGHTER FROM PREVIOUS PAGE
M. Dhanapalasingam -- Siththankerny S. Gunam — Gurunagar J. Charles Jeganathan - Madagal M. Thiruvilangam — Mandaitivu A.J. Selvarajah - Sillalai N.J. Arunakumaran - Pandatherinou
. Mohanadas - Matale . Sivakumar – Kokuvil . Vignamoorthy – Kokuvil . Sukumar – Kokuvil . Sivarajah – Anaikottai
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The Secretary of Committee has no appeal to expatriat with urgently need er, m0 One from Out without the gover
Military terror
“Sri Lankan Arm leashed a bloody Tamil north where ting the most grot from internationa David Graves of th (London). He adde only 300 miles nort is a world apart. It 800,000 inhabitant live in the shadow bombings and looti foreign reporter to have spent three series of appallin massacre and inti bodies lying in the dai eight miles we Dr Neelan Tiruche for the area, claim 40 civilians last w Trevor Fishlock (London), 31.12.84, an forces are cond remorseless campa among the island's means of random minate shooting, bé plunder, ill-discip happy soldiers kee north in a state of
Many thousands Women and childre and to Europe. Th have been rounde army camps. The know where they come Sri Lanka's There is strong ex torture and murde
FROM PAGE 4 troops were courte stopped me. But to ance with me they thrusting their rifle There are no tea police killed by til Government say: terrorise the popul ing them.
Of the scores of spoke, not one gave if not active, supp despite recent mu
and Sinhalese citiz
The 'terrorists' a sons, brothers and ing, in the eyes of th protect and liberat

the Jaffna Hospital w made an urgent e Tamils to respond 2d supplies. Howevside is able to assist
ment's consent.
ned Forces had uncampaign' in the they are commitesque crimes away notice’, reported e 'Daily Telegraph' d: "Jaffna may be h of Colombo, but it is under siege. The of the peninsula of murder, arson, ng . . . As the first reach Jaffna. . . . I days listening to a g stories of rape, midation. I saw two fields at Vaddukodst of Jaffna, where lvam, a former MP ed troops shot dead eek.’ k of THE TIMES reported: “Sri Lankucting a harsh and aign of intimidation Tamil minority. By murder, indiscrieatings, torture and lined and triggerp the Tamils in the
constant fear. of people, mostly n, have fled to India housands of youths d up and held in ir parents do mot are: they have bedisappeared ones. idence of beating, er of young men in
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army custody.
Meanwhile, thousands of displaced people, driven from their homes in army “combing out operations, are in refugee camps.
Father Michael Samy, Vicar-Generall of Jaffna, said: "This is a reign of terror.’
The Bishop of Jaffna said: "People live in fright and despair. They feel helpless. There is no equality or democracy left here any more. Tamils are being treated as second-class citizens.' The International Commission of Jurists declared in their 1980 report: The most effective means, however, through which the military authorities exercised their large and widely discretionary power of restricting the freedom of movement of the inhabitants of the West Bankis the identification card . . . The harsh agony and humiliations of Palestinian life may be summed up in this Israeli identity card.
This is no less true of the plight of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. While it is a requirement of all Tamils to have their identity cards in their possession, it is common for the Security forces to confiscate these cards from people and later arrest and detain them for mot producing the very cards which they had previously confiscated.
An invented threat of "invasion' by 4,000 Tamil militants from South India before January 14, 1985, was used by the government to justify the imposition of the most draconian and inhuman measures against the Tamil people. January 14 came and passed without the “invasion' materialising. Now the Minister of National Security has conjured up another date, April 14, 1985, for this imaginary invasion. So, the reign of terror, arson, murder, rape, torture, starvation, aimed at the annihilation of the Tamil people, will continue with unmitigated cruelty, inhumanity and ferocity.
ous whenever they a Tamil acquaintwere hostile, often es into his stomach. rs for soldiers and he rebels and the s the separatists ation into support
people to whom I anything but tacit, port to the rebels, rders of informers
ES, re simply people's
husbands - fight1e Jaffna Tamils, to e the community.
HOLLAND DEPORTS 45 TAMLS
The Dutch government has secretly deported 45 young Tamils to Sri Lanka, in violation of the understanding with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This action is the first of its kind taken by a Western government since the arrival in Western Europe of a large number of Tamils after the violence against them in July 1983.
The 45 Tamils arrived at Amsterdam Schipol Airport on January 11 with one-way tickets for East Berlin. They were arrested in the transit lounge just before they boarded a flight for Berlin and put on the Air Lanka flight back to Colombo.

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OBITUARY Dr Tham
byahpillai, who passed away in L o n d om On 4. 12.84, Was an a Stro-phy Sicist of international repute. He was attached to the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London as a Re響, Search Fellow.
Born at Vannarpannai, Jaffna, on 21.9.25, he had his early education at St Patrick's College, Jaffna, and later at the University of Ceylon where he was awarded a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies in the UK. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1953, and returned to Ceylon as Lecturer in Physics.
But Ceylon could not benefit from the genius of Thamby (as he was popularly known) for more than six years, for soon after the second antiTamil pogrom of 1958, he saw the writing on the wall very clearly, something which only intellectuals of the calibre of Professor C. Suntharalingam could foresee at that early stage. The parting of the ways had come.
Dr ThamOt
Thamby
Thamby's depal and achievements recounted in the Emeritus of Physi FRS, of the Imperi
- ce and Technology
“. . . In June of 19 whether it would be Work in London a political situation that he could not c versity. Fortunate as a Research ASSi at Imperial Colle moved to this cou
Resumed resear
'In Manchester fC had worked on the ray intensity varia fore resumed his area of physics at I course of the Sul five years he acqu reputation for his W ship between cosm and geomagnetic a elucidation of the d the sidereal variati The results of this v in some thirty publi remain as a Scient
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ture from Ceylon thereafter are best words of Professor 2s, H. Elliott, CBE, al College of Scien', Londo 58 he wrote to ask possibleto come to is he felt that the in Ceylon was such ontinue at the Unily an appointment stant was available ge and in 1959 he ntry.
Ch
r his PhD thesis he
Subject of cosmic tions and he thereresearches in this mperial College. In bsequent twentyired a world-wide ork in the relationic rays and solar ctivity and for his ifficult problem of On of cosmic rays. work are described shed papers which ific memorial and
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record of his important contribution to this branch of Science.
“Thamby was a familiar figure at International Conferences throughout the world and as an established authority was often called upon to review the state of progress in research in his area on those occasions. He will be Sadly missed not only at Imperial College but in Laboratories and InStitutions in many other lands.
Thamby was a claSSic example of a generation of Tamil intellectuals who had become distinguished academicians all over the world and whose services were lost to Sri Lanka as a result of being treated as second class citizens in the land of their birth.
Thamby was an ardent lover of Tamil language and culture. He was a connoisseur of Tamil art forms, in particular, classical music and dance. A founder-member of the London Tamil Sangam, he functioned actively on its Executive for several years - as a member, as a Vice-President, and later in 1977-78 as the President, during which period he had the distinction of welcoming M.G. Ramachandran, the Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu state, to London.
He is survived by his wife, Meenalo
sani, and daughters SivakamaSundari
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