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CONTENTS
Editorial........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sri Lanka's Militarisation for Final Solution..............3
SOThe Horne Truths ab Out Homelands............... 6
Citate of Authoritarianism...............?
Some Neglected aspects of
the Sri Lanka Ouestion........ 8
Political Paranoia............. O
Government Proposals are Una CCeptable.............. 12
Trying to Celebrate
Christmas......................... 14
Tamils in the Seychelles 16
Troubled Para dise ...,.,,..... 18
Classified Advertisements................ 20
Ceasefire Pane|. is . . . . . 24
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THE SRI LANK. h;Hined visits by Viri ile ICE-FITI IIT: provinces of Sri La the people living in island's minority "I Speaking M1 LIsli IIIs.
A notic ditcol ). by the Ciceral Mar (i. Pʼ. S, W'eer;isi bir Si E il 18 il the col III af tick c ts || 3 || fr TTL Y'E ti "Il TT || f Districts if Trict The Titicut further s! Ĉio f ficcors shoull en & Lu 13t TTH wel by Tail L4). ; The haП оп foreig the missive flesi, Cambined Security
M[]RE tham || H | |}{n kiluid Ind sii Tiimil
i'r Lluc l | Ty, listrici iling, :e: : The sia tirIgELIT, forma Parliame II, 1, who rep in the listrict A || || 14 14 ik, place: under ck my lestroy operatins 1: MT. (il Tesalinga Til e! "Why should they civili: 5 Whi live in lil I i ii I llliIlles I mad ImiI wlc iri fi * TTTlah Lie » 11 of thics. for Iriet MP 1sked. H hill been Lrrested ty il 11 il cox.ccpl for ; [iew the whereabouts if
it kW. Mr. Gilcsaling;III if the killings. Ninew ":l in Billical as Another eight. all oft gc, il nel clearly Will Ililit II i ti" i ty, yyre 1 f, Th. se: Ich-indM: Indur (ynı Wednesd C;ʻlp1LI riing rThilit;Ln Ts, ;
 

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'GNERS BANNED FROM TH & EAST SRI LANKA
AN government has ill foreigner's t the II and 'H', 'In пka. The majority of helse province's are the lmils und the Tamil
| Octobe: 1985 is & Lucki ager col Railways, Mr. iya, ti } till T:til Way Tyrollihis the "issue eigners int L'Illing 10 AILITAthapura, the hi lice Find Bi:Littic;" | );q', ates that "All Railway re that foreigners to ny of these H Teis". |hers With : [ Tcl Lille III '' Lillertaken by the frr:ęs III Lh: "Il III til
SKILLED SBURN
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lil civili: Islave lic:
hUluscs bli Trint diliwn W-ks i Bitti:) Ording 1,1 Mr. P. TILF McIllblic II 3rd resented Paldiruppu -8: 118 Los wie 1lLIlLe: er i flle se:1rch-andI t I richel i Ii the a reali. 1; Irged.
kill in IliriceIII TiarIlil fact helphical ti'n defig i sic given the iau thirities ... LIll Illin's," the suid thill l-48 by S. ver 1llese 1W i Wicks will were relesci, 1 t hiu:T klu:L:ıiT1cc: *; W, ("Tt"
Il Trited the ictis 'relined up and shor „Win || NL vici Tıber 13. helm Inver 4 wers 1
Inici connectic III Wildlı : kill(\! \\11 NLowe 111t}\:T est TUy Upcriitilis i II ay on the pretext of Illegedly involved in
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: reas of the ilçırılı and cast in Which hulls f : h:w: he kill. Several hundred huses halve been set ablaze and several thousands of ordiniry tLLLLLLL LLLLLL SLLLLLLLL LLLlLaL LLLLLaLLLL LL LLLLL S refugees to other parts. Ostensibly the offensive is against sle Caled Tunnil terrorists, but the victims have always bccin civilians.
There is I doubt that the primary III of the government in prohibiting f) Teigners wis iting the la Inil arcils is II ens L. Te that the L tsicle, WUTld is kep| totally in the dark als to what is actually haրրening in this. HTeas.
LEvcı previch Li sly, the governmenı hı:ıcıl placed several obstacles against foreign corresp 1lenis visiling the Tamil areas. They were subjected to censorship or LLLLaLL LSEtaESL L L S LLLLL LLLLLL HLLLLLS LLLLLKa forced by the security forces not ten transport l'oreign reporters, Al Itilit; s'y hk pints, heir Hmeras, Itch'iks etc. were confiscated and they were srcihly returned to (Colorin bico ti be: expelled. However, some reporters 'Intered the country under the guise of being tourists. Illinaged to enter the Timil areas il Hill filed their stries if Llr cities committed by the security forces LL LLa L aLS LL LLL LLL LLL LLLLLL [ : il of ill | fr | reigners is tiu cin & Lure thiit this docs Il it TULLII.
Politic:ll commen I:I tors III oloilyi seli : Tı uclı nımçıq silin iste:T Tikinti","e behirlıid thı: I nove to han foreigners from travelling til LLa S LLLL SLLLSSaaaS S LLLL LLLLaLSLL LLa virtual collaps of The Si-calcd ce:scire a til iil the Elbseilçe: of any positive LaaLYLLLaLL S L S LS S S LLLLLLaLLLLLL SLL Ilcgotiations, observers believe that the governme|| 1 is gct Lig Ticitly to 3" al 11:issive blitzkrieg il-peritikam partici li li i rly in the WIL V LIII liya, Mull:Lili WLL. I Tiihçi Thalıcc ziliki Battic:lli areas which will inclusic trial LLLLLLLLLL L LLLLL L LaaLLaLcaS SLLLL LL the jungles around then with a view to driving out or killing the Tamils in those areas. The guverninent Hims To achieve two purposes by this picration. Firstly, LLaS LLLLLLGGGESL atL LLLLLLL LLLL LLL LLLLaaS i reas Would diciny the lil III il Tmilitants, the 3:afety They prescltl y Wild applicii II have, in secondly it would facilitate the aLtLLtttLLLLLL t LLL LLLLLLaLLL LLaaaaS LLLLL thousands of Sinhalese brought from Litutkilic the G2 : 1 reis,

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Decemb
JA YA WARDENE's MESSAGE
President Jayawardene has abandoned even the pretence of seeking a negotiated solution to the crisis in Sri Lanka. His recent utterances, both within and outside Sri Lanka, indicate his intransigence, to seek an end to the ethnic conflict by military means. And they also reflect the callous and contemptuous disregard he and his government have always displayed towards the Tamil people, their rights and their lives.
When asked about the risk of alienating Tamilopinion if he opted for a military solution, he told his BBC interviewer on 25 October: “I think I am not afraid of alienating Tamil opinion'. This is not the first time that Jayawardene has shown such conspicuously blatant lack of respect for Tamil opinion. On July 11, 1983, he told d the London Daily Telegraph, “I have tried to be effective for sometime but I cannot. I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people now . . . Now we cannot think of them. Not about their lives or of their opinion about us . . . The more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here . . . really, if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy ...'. Within two weeks, the world witnessed the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities committed against the Tamil people. As the carnage continued for days, the President observed an eloquently menacing silence.
Everything that he does demonstrates that he is not serious about a peaceful political solution to the ethnic conflict. He denies the existence of an ethnic conflict, and characterises it as a "marxist conspiracy'. He refuses to admit that it is a political problem requiring a political solution. He told INDIA TODAY (15.12.85): “The Tamil problem is more a military problem and any military problem has to be tackled militarily”.
If that is his view, one wonders as to why he went through the subterfuge of a peace process at Thimphu in Bhutan and sent his Oueens Counsel brother with a coterie of bureaucrats to negotiate with the Tamil groups whom he now calumniates as “a gang of murderers. They are called boys, militants, radicals, but they are simply murderers' (India Today, 15.12.85). The President himself provided the answer in the same journal: “Yes. We were not ready earlier. Now we are acquiring arms and getting our soldiers trained. We are getting ready for a decisive military action . . . Already there is a strong feeling that we should stop all these talks and strike again'.
What about the so-called ceasefire? It was a smokescreen and a ploy to gain time, to build up the government's war machine. The Ceasefire Monitoring Committee appointed to monitor violations has been rendered ineffective. What useful purpose could be
 

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served by a monitoring body which cannot even publish its findings? Having agreed to the appointment of the CMC, the President suppresses their findings throughan. Emergency Regulation which he himself promulgates prohibiting the publication within or outside Sri Lanka of "any matter relating to the meetings and inquiries of the Committee'. It was during the 'ceasefire' that the security forces, in alliance with murderous gangs in the form of Home Guards' but armed to the teeth by the government, rampaged through towns and villages in the eastern province wreaking havoc and destruction and forcing thousands of terror-struck Tamils to flee. It was a "ceasefire' which never came into operation.
What do Jayawardene and his government mean by 'decisive military action? At a public function held in Colombo on 19 November, he likened the Tamil militants to mosquitoes and told his audience that the only way to destroy the mosquitoes was by “destroying their breeding places”. What are these breeding places'? The Tamil areas of the north and east of course. Already vast areas of the north and east have been depopulated and destroyed. What the President means by his 'decisive military action' is complete destruction of the Tamil area. - - The President has also announced how he proposed to achieve his stated objective: “I am not fully prepared to tackle Jaffna. I want to finish first with the other provinces. It is not difficult to handle Jaffna. We can cut off food and supplies to the peninsula and flush out the terrorists in a month's time', he told the India Today. So the agenda is ready - finish off other areas like Vavuniya, Mannar, Mullaitivu, Trincomalee and Batticaloa first; then cut off food and other supplies to the Jaffna peninsula to deliver the final blow. What about the civilian population in these areas? Who cares, they have also to be destroyed because they constitute the breeding places' That may sound dreadful coldblooded genocide. But that is how Jayawardene thinks and acts.
But what happens if India were to intervene in some way to stop this genocide? The President had a simple answer: “But if that happens, then all the Tamils living among the Sinhalese will be finished', was the blood curdling reply of this "Buddhist President.
Jayawardene's message is clear: "We are going to destroy the north and east which are the breeding places . of the Tamil mosquitoes; in case India intervenes in some way, then the Tamils in the rest of the country will also be finished.
Human history has had the misfortune of witnessing several maniacs afflicted with such a psychopathic condition. Hitler, Amin and Pol Pot immediately come to mind. But why the destinies of the island of Sri Lanka, which is said to have been thrice blessed by the Prince of Peace and Ahimsa, the Lord Buddha, should face the tragedy of being presided over by people with such predispositions is difficult to comprehend. May be it is KARMA, as the Buddha would have said.

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SRI LANKAS MI
FOR FINAL
HE PEACE efforts by R al
bring about a negotiated politi solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka would appear to be in the doldru II 15. Thost-t:t||c{1o Ce:15efire engineered by India has virtually collapsed. While attacks by Talil militants on security personnel continue, Sri Lanka newspapers are replete with daily accounts of the armed forces raiding Tamil militant "hideouts' and killing and arresting hundreds of t c Torists in the course of 'security operations, an euphemism for acts of indiscriminate reprisals and retaliation against civilian Tallils and their property,
While Rajiv Gandhi is attempting to turn the screw on the Tanilinilitant groups in Tamil Nadu, the Sri Lankan government has been making full use of the interregnum provided by the "ceasefire to launch a massive buildup of men and I weapons. The unprecedented: This drive together with the Tuition of a lear-war psychosis among the country's majority Sinhala population would appear to confirm the Tamil suspicion that the Jayawardene regime is not Seriously intent on a peaceful Solution. All the indications are that the government is feverishly engaged in the militarisation of the country to seck.a "final solution by military Ileans. President Jayawarden confiIIIImeld this · When hle [cold" INL) IAN TODAY' (15 December) that his government was "getting ready for a decisive Illilitary action".
till Israel Terror Tactics
Even as the ill-fated 1984 All Party Conference was in progress, the Sri Lankan government had begun to bleef upits military machine, It is nt) morte a secret that the Israeli Secret Service has been actively engaged in training the Sri Lankan security forces. Reliable reports indicate that some Israeli service personnellare even in Wolved in military operations against Tamil guerillas. It was ÇQıceeded by the goyler ırıncını Lin the Sri Lankan parliament that scores of Israelis have been admitted into the COLT try without their having to fulfil the normal visa requirements,
NO doubt the retaliatory burning and destruction of hones, and sometimes Whole villages, and the hundreds (of Tamils, wht)have Fallen
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victims to repris startip of Israelip operated in the opposition" i Sri language Weekly. October 1985) st are scattered a Some Ian sensi intelligence servi and trainers, as the government's network. Others work with army Force units in Мапу people ddựisers | HIld träi I'W' titi's IT the пostП шпех escalating terra civilias". "I'll
The Secret President Jayawa Prime Minister, P: Tis liitelliII lä accident, and pol in that Teeting IST:lecli -SriTL{1T1k;{| the Minister if Llith l'Ath Lillat underplay the country's securit Jayawa Tidenci do about his fricInd
I "INDIATO I 1985). "And Isra have mylinde international po helping my soldie iny Soldiers w host fff eitt
SAS Mercenar As part of I induction of fo Sri Lankas sccu st TLl ct Tes, the int(); contractal Keeny Meely Channel Islands, a dubito. Is backg SASBI i Eishlller: maj) Ti reorganisa: services ankl Irai Supplies personn authoritarian III Sullt lätte of () KMS Ileccillic: Lanka has bee Milister I of Nat c) Ilceded thalt Lil “Lir Hii ni Ig Ihc S. censisting ( f polis

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allkillings, bear the solicy and practice is e West ''Bk'' AT | Lanka English "FOREWARD" (15 it cd, "These Israelis round the country. tive positions in the tes, both as advisers well as operatives in counter-intelligence are attached to and and Special Task hLe north land east. hold these Israeli iners responsible foT inflicting reprisals in
pected places lind or , tactics Ili ziguinst
Teeting between fdene and the Israeli Shimon Peres.in a te () CtibčTwišly itical CobserweTs note the strength of the connectic. Will National Security, 1 Thudali, tries to Israeli role in the y set-up, President ës: 1) LI Tlilce w Tals ship with Israel. He DAY (15 December lisare ou friends. pendent 'views on Ilitics. Israelis || LTU ITS. WEI Getti F 2 arms had got blown
katenti Israel".
ies | he process of the 'eign elements int() rity and intelligence Wernment cntered b) Li [ a ye: ro:Ago, with Services (KMS), ia based company, with Ound tL) provide excharics to undertake |tion of the Security Illing. This Company clind training for cքimes . I like the EA n. The PTęsience of s, and theiгi гоle iп Sгі 1 admitted by the ional Security. Wh() ney a Tecngaged in |ccial Task Force :eo: , T1 TT äänilis",
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The Sri Lankan Special Task Force, (STF) has achieved, within the brief period of its creation and existence, a notoriety for indiscriminate retaliatory attackson civilian Tamils and their property. An independent commission which inquired into the so-called Tamil-Muslim clashes in April this year in the castern province call the circlusion th; the STF was instrumental in not only inciting the violence, but also played a direct role in the des LTLlci () thus: Ilds of homes. Where the operational control of the STFlies remains a mystery for it is neither under the control of the Army Commander Tor the Police Chief. Reliable reports and una Inswered questions raised in the island's parliament hint that the STF is under the ct IIIToll (of MT- || R.:1Wi Jaya warden:, the President’s ston,
Costly Exercise
The conspicuously costly exercise of militarisation that is taking place in an island which does not face any visible or invisible external threat is hardt) believe. The security forces ha We Con l'Imenced, and in 5) Inc. cas:s Completed. I ICLL) wat ing :: Ill Tc:- equipping 14 old airfields built by the British during World War II, Three of these airfields, Sigiriya, Koggoda and Katuku Tunda ha ve been ricopened and the existing ILIIN Ways : [ Wa WLuniya, Anu radhap Lira, Minneriya, Batticaloa, Wecrawilla, Amparai and China Bay in Trin Lomalee are being Te-laid and extended. Hundreds of families living around airfields of Palali in Jaffna Hind Battical 3:1 || hawe beten, Jrdered, or a Te under orders, to evaculte their homesto facilitate extension Works.
The Boeing Corporation of USA has been awarded a contract of 5 million dollars for the construction of analternative international airpor lo the () me in Colomb (), near the castern se: port city of Trinconnalee. It is also believed that the security forces have shifted their main operatical lase from KH, Lunayakt:, 70) k III i Illyrth of Colombo, to the regional airport at R:lt:IT:lla. Il | l5 km s Luth of Col 11b). A large number of new army and STF posts have been cstablished in the northern and castern provinces,
The g, ve TT ments Fort og T; IT IT : ( ) militarisation has include : considerable increase in the lumber

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of men under arms. The most alarming of the government's efforts is the creation of a para-military force, called the Home Guards, which “form the Sword arm of Sinhala chauvinism". Without propertraining and discipline, they come from the racially motivated thuggish sections within the Sinhala community. Recruited for their only qualification
of loyalty to the ruling party's
politicians, they have been provided with lethal weapons which they use with indiscriminate ease to gun down Tamil civilians.
The government also had freely distributed arms to Sinhala settlers in the Tamil areas, ostensibly for self protection; but these armed elements, together with the armed rabble constituting the Home Guards, are engaged in a campaign of murder and arson, pillage and plunder, rape and terror in the Tamil 2 TCS.
A 100,000 Army
In August this year, the government decided, on a
recommendation from the President, to raise a National Auxiliary Force of 10,000 and 100 officers at a capital cost of Rs.2.5 million for buildings, equipment and weapons, and recurrent cost of Rs. 16 million for salaries, travelling etc. to augment the country's 20,000 armed forces. The Minister of National Security at a recent meeting announced the government's intention to raise a permanent army of 100,000 troops. He also announced in parliament in late October this year the formation of four new battalions, but he refused to give precise details on 'security grounds. Reliable reports reveal that the government has already commenced a four month military training course at Mawathagama for 200,000 Sinnhalese (all single males) who are expected to be sent to colonise Tamil areas.
All police personnel are to be given commando-type training. A special police commando unit of 1300 is to be established by direct recruitment. Increased salaries will be paid to those serving in the police commando unit. While a Sub-Inspector in the normal police force would receive Rs.1000, when he joins the STF, he would receive Rs.5000. An ordinary police constable who would normally receive Rs.900 would find his salary increased to Rs.2000.
Already school cadets and Home Guards are being sent to Pakistan for training. The Manpower unit of the
Ministry of Educatio and Employment,
recruits for a trainin army. The 500, all them graduates and qualified, will jointl for a period of five then be posted as
schools throughout training includes ju commando techniqu
A Movement in A
In early October Lanka governmen through parliament Mobilisation is and Forces Bill... T condemned by the latest attempt by th militarise public extensively, enab conscription of all population. The setting up of a Na Force, any other Au Para-Military For Guard and a Civil D According to the to the legislation, th a youth and young, in arms' and it is into the existing military security forces. Thc be liable for milita year and will serve NAF is liable to be service by the Presi “prevention or su rebellion or insurrec disturbance'.
The opposition organisations in already commented purposes behind th and the creation o they fear would b military arm of th crush any oppositio
A Selective Forc Although every liable to be called u NAF under the Ac Advisory Council a Authority appoint in charge who en decide as to who v the NAF. Recruitm selectivity is desig that the NAF will persons recommer by Ministers, politicians belong United National P: These suppleme not necessarily operational con

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l, Youth Affairs as chosen 500 course with the Sinhalese, 70 of he rest 'A' Level 2 armed services years. They will eachers in state he island. Their gle warfare and
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rmS. ... his year, the Sri steamrolered na single day the Supplementary is enactment, pposition as the e government to life more es compulsory sections of the Act, enables the |tional Auxiliary kiliary Force, any ’e, , the Home efence Force. explanatory note e NAF would “be adults movement 2nded to augment and para-military pse called up will ry training every for 10 years. The called for active dent to deal with pression of any tion or other civil
and civil rights Sri Lanka have upon the sinister e new legislation ' the NAF which ecome the pararuling party to l.
young person is for service in the , it is the Reserve ld the Competent d by the Minister oy the power to ill be admitted to ent on the basis of ned to guarantee comprise only of led and approved
Ps and local ng to the ruling ty.
tary forces need be under the mand of the
Commander of the Armed Forces. Under the Act, the President is empowered to place them under the operational control of "any fit and proper person designated by name or office". For instance, if the President so decides, he could appoint his son, Mr. Ravi Jayawardene, who holds no official position in the regular forces, to command and control the NAF or any other Supplementary Force created under the Act.
The fact that the Act empowers the President to call up the NAF and other. Supplementary Forces for active service to deal with "prevention or suppression of any rebellion or insurrection or other civil disturbance', would enable the President to activate the Forces even in a situation where there is no actual or imminent rebellion, insurrection or other civil disturbance. He could call them into active service under the pretext of taking steps for the prevention of those eventualities. Further, it is to be noted that the phrase "other civil disturbance" is not specifically defined in the Act. This being so, it is highly probable, on past record, the government will be in a position to characterise all opposition campaigns and trade union action as “civil disturbances' and use the NAF and other para military forces to suppress them.
Spending Spree
The government has also been engaged in a spending spree on arms purchases on a massive scale. So much so, it is reported that sleazy international arms dealers, from far away Brazil to nearby Singapore, are found in the empty tourist Colombo hotels to make the right connection with agents of the relevant Ministers. Strange as it may sound, for a little island of 25,000 square miles, there are no less than five Ministries in charge of the subject of security. Arms contracts are clinched in cutthroat and unbelievable competition, not at the conference tables of the Defence Ministry presided over by President Jawawardene, but on the gambling and dining tables of Colombo's casinos and hotels.
Sri Lanka's business' world has established more than 50 agencies of international arms manufacturers, sellers and agency houses in Colombo alone which act as local representatives for an assortment of international arms suppliers. A local agency representing an aircraft company, which had started with marketing ball-point pens, today has

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DECEMBER 1985
, SITUATION WORSEN
The following is the text of a personal letter dated 21 November Leader in Sri Lanka to a friend in the USA. We reproduce it with th author and recipient because of the topicality of its contents. Fo have deleted the names which might identify the parties and exp
The situation here in Sri Lanka has not improved worsening. Under the cover of a ceasefire declared at the the Armed Forces are doing so many things which India is From last month all foreigners have been forbidden to ent inhabited by the Tamils and therefore, the outside worl exactly what is happening here. What is happening here iss to what is happening in South Africa but because India has over Sri Lanka, other countries are not raising their voic true that thousands of refugees have come to the Jaffna Trincomalee and other places. The aim of the Governme. settle the Sinhalese in Trinco, Batticaloa and the other tow. Province and thus make it a Sinhalese Province. The Tam the Province will not be able to return to their former place We are not experiencing yet a shortage of food, becaus used to a simple life and are easily satisfied with ordinary fo terrible shortage of fuel here now. Due to the activities Government is unable to bring and sell the fuel the people know how and when all these is going to end. The politica India has only made matters worse for us. We have placec God and we are continuing to pray for a just solution to ol
also please continue to help us by your prayers.
a firm foothold in the armament business.
Mr. Lawrence Sim Zecha, a director of Brazil’s Bandeirante Ltd, who was in Colombo recently, said the competition was "unbelievable'. He said though his company offered Tucano ground attack aircraft (each costing 1.3 million US dollars) with a credit package of 20 per cent down payment and an eight year instalment period, the Sri Lanka government was not even interested in looking at the specifications. Obviously Mr. Zecho had failed to make the right connection with the relevant Minister or his agent.
Arms Purchase Chaos
The chaos in the arms purchases by the government is such that very often substandard items are dumped and those responsible, get away with impunity. In one instance, the government had purchased a whole plane-load of ammunition and small arms, but a substantial part of it was found to be sub-standard. The agent who brought in the consignment is now believed to be in custody on suspicion that he had tried to sell the rejects to the Tamil militants.
Official sources say that there are many instances where arms and equipment have been bought by different Ministries at varying prices. The opposition MP, Lakshman Jayakoddy, recently referred in the Sri Lanka parliament to a tender calling for the purchase of shotguns, but where the lowest tender was not accepted. In this case, he said, a gun which could have been bought for 27 US dollars each had actually been bought at 47 US dollars each.
Arm supplies from various sc US, UK, Paki China, South Malaysia, Taiwa private internat The government SF-260 convert aircraft from Sia Italy, capable of of total weight 5 ground missiles 7.26 calibre mac used in com operations, the already in servic by foreign merce six Rhodesians w paid a monthly Rs. 100,000 fo Lakshman Jayak in Parliament questioned the Marchettis whic 250 MPH and po the government finish off whole a
Arms Deaf Wi Bell helicopte through arms Singapore. Lak MP, referred ir purchase of 212 a cost of Rs.10 m boats at a cost of Devro class gu supplied by contracted to S naval patrol boa also has purc Cougar patrol bo guns. China has with at least 30 assault rifles.

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addressed by a Church e kind permission of its r obvious reasons, we pse them to retaliation: and is definitely request of India, nable to control. er the territories does not know omething similar thrown a blanket of protest. It is Peninsula from ht seems to be to hs of the Eastern ils who have left s of residence. e our people are od. But there is a of the militants, need. We do not l intervention of our full trust in
ur problem. You
to Sri Lanka come ources including the stan, South Korea, Africa, Singapore, an, Israel and other ional arms dealers. recently acquired six ed military training Marchetti of Milan in carrying four bombs 300 kg or four air-toand armed with two hine guns. Normally bat and bombing Sia Marchettis are e in Sri Lanka flown 'nary pilots including ho are believed to be salary of at least r their service. oddy, MP, speaking on October 8, purpose of the Sia n travelled at 200 to sed the question: Did intend to bomb and reas?
th US
's have been acquired dealers based in Ishman Jayakoddy, Parliament to the ttack helicopters at a illion each and gun RS.278 million. Two in boats have been Israel which has upply six more fast ts. The government hased nine British ats fitted with 20 mm
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Modern infantry gear, including armoured cars, anti-landmine vehicles etc. are reported to have been purchased from South Africa. American made Small arms including M16 and AK47 rifles have been purchased from Pakistan which has, in addition, undertaken to provide training to several hundred Home Guards, cadets and soldiers. It is believed that Pakistan and Israel are acting by proxy for the US in the supply of arms to Sri Lanka. To what extent these supplies form part of the arms deal Sri Lanka entered into with the US last year for 71 million dollars is not clear.
It is difficult to imagine that Sri Lanka, with the highest per capita foreign borrowing in the world, has thought it fit to squander away its scarce resources on this wasteful and destructive armament drive.
In August this year, the Finance Minister, Ronnie de Mel, revealed that the government was spending Rs. 16 million a day on defence. This figure has certainly increased many fold since then owing to additional purchases of weapons.
The government obtained approval from parliament on October 8 this year for a Supplementary estimate of Rs.833.37 million for the Ministry of Defence. This additional sum was for purchases made up to June 1985 over and above the provision made in the 1985 budget, and the Supplementary Estimate represented the advances the Treasury had already made for these purchases. Of the Rs.833.37 million spent, Rs.389.67 million was for the Air Force, Rs.217.56 million for the Navy and Rs. 14.3 million for the police. Again on October 24, the Minister of National Security moved another Supplementary Estimate for Rs.580 million for the army.
The Budget for 1986 presented by the Finance Minister in November this year made provision for Rs.5,830,000,000 for expenditure on defence in 1986 which represented over 15 per cent of total expenditure. The high profile armament procurement programme of the government is best illustrated when one notes that the 1986 budget provision for education is only Rs.3.6 billion whereas the defence provision is Rs.5.83 billion.
The comment in 'INDIA TODAY' (October 15) aptly describes the plight of Sri Lanka: “For Sri Lanka, the ethnic strife is now a Frankenstein with an insatiable appetite for blood and cash, none of which the island can afford to pay now'.

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Some Home TU
About Homeland
Florence Ram Aluwihare
What is a Homeland or better still a Traditional Homeland? This query is posed at a time when homelands here and elsewhere are and have been a source of controversy. About three weeks ago, I was surprised to read a bold caption (The Island 22 August), “Militants are Racist' says Lalith in London when addressing members of the World Federation of Sri Lankan Associations. About the same time a senior journalist had written about the “barbaric terrorists”, emphasising that “they kill their kith and kin". Lalith's reason for describing them as racist was reported thus "they speak of Homelands, the Language of Apartheid". Did one expect such an explanation from a scholarly and responsible Minister? Curiously enough, the term homelands does not apply only to the human species. US Societies for the Protection of Endangered Species speak of the traditional homeland of the small dusky sparrows as having been the salt marshes of islands off the west coast of America. Recently the Marchioness of Tavistock chartered a plane to send back to China, for a park in Peking, a rare species of deer, since this animal's homeland had been the palace gardens of Chinese royalty.
Ebb and Flow
Although I can claim to be a zoology graduate, I am certainly not qualified to delve into the fields of either the political scientist or sociologist, so may I be permitted to quote relevant excerpts from the lecture titled "Realities and dreams: the ebb and flow in the politics of separatism". The lecture was delivered by Professor Morris-Jones for the International Centre for Ethnic Studies. Professor Morris-Jones is recognised not only as an expert on Indian affairs but also O Ethno-Nationalism and Commonwealth Studies and as such he ended his academic career as Director of Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. Professor Morris-Jones, interviewed by Qadri Ismail for The Island had referred to homelands, amongst other matters, when answering questions about India. He said: "India is certainly a nation, but one which contains separate groups with fairly clear identities and areas of regional concentrations which I suppose you have to call nationalities. Meaning by that something which is a clear identity in terms of language and a HOMELAND, but which is compatible with membership of a larger nation. I think this distinction between nation and nationality is quite useful because it enables one to indicate grades of identity. So I would describe
India as a multi-nation: course is is a state” (TI August).
Sovereignty-Associ
Professor Morris-Jon homelands in general te the viewpoint of ou separatism the attribute perhaps the most interes ethnic movements wil different sets of dema whether the population aim to speak are territor or instead, dispersed at polity of which they are concentrated, demands ( point on a well defin extends from the dimi decentralised administr measure of devolution regional autonomy, t looser confederation, "sovereignity associatic Quebec. "Obviously in ethnic movements is “recognition of a dis identity”. . . There are t that we may well movements become dol are weak or when successful and thus demands escalate out of of despair?'
Whilst I was drafting across two further homelands, M.A.H. about Mohamed Ali ISLAND of 11 Septem was the discipline of hundred million followe him to "wrench from th of the British and Hind the Muslims of the subc Pakistanis and their ch people without fear o persecution. (The bold one is tempted to pose many in Pakistan fear persecution in their ho same day (i.e. 11 Sept Mallawaaratcy under tl thoughts on how tc extremism and violen “stupid notion of tradit May we leave it to read the views of this writer C and scholarly analysis of Jones?
Permanent Solutio
We too have our si fields, such as history, journalism and sociolo outstanding members Religions Organisatio
 

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nation. And of HE ISLAND 21
tion s also spoke of ms thus: "From discussing of of a homeland is ting. For, clearly tend to make ds according to for which they ally concentrated large among the part. If they are an be located at a 'd range, which utive to merely ation, through a of powers, to ) federalism to to the status of on” devised by the case of most a desire for tinctive cultural woquestions also consider: “Do mant when they they have been reconciled? Do confidence or out
his article I came references to Ispahani writing Jinnah in THE per affirms that it Mr Jinnah's one rs which enabled e unwilling hands is a homeland for ontinent in which ldren live as free f domination or is mine). Today a question. How domination and melands? On the mber) G. Ratna e caption "Some combat Tamil e' writes of the onal homelands" rs to adopt either the more explicit Professor Morris
| y holars in various politicial science, y, as well as some of the United All have made
invaluable contributions - to peace. One
must also mention the Citizens Committee for National Harmony, the Movement for Inter-racial Justice and Equality and the Civil Rights Movement. How often have their suggestions fallen on deaf ears and met blind eyes. It was however heartening to read in the ISLAND of 11 September the point of view of the Ven. Sirimalwatte Sri Ananda Mahanayake Thero which he expressed when speaking to the newly appointed Brigadier Cyril Ranatunga, Commander Joint Forces. The Mahanayake Thero was adamant that there should be no further delay in solving the national crisis. He emphasised that "the present crisis needs a permanent solution, rather than temporary patching up”. He added that "every citizen of the country no matter to which race or religion he belonged must be ensured the freedom to enter any part of the country and make any corner of the country his home without fear or pressure (bold is mine).
Can any right thinking intelligent Sri Lankan disagree with these sentiments? But our rulers must recognise that Government sponsored settlements of tens of thousands of new residents anywhere in the country is a very different proposition and can be a source of much tension, misunderstanding and ill will. It can never promote communal amity and peace.
Vote-catching Tactics . - It was a pleasure to read all that His Excellency the President said when addressing election meetings just prior to the polling day. He spoke of leading the country to victory, in his own way. If that way is similar to Mahatma Gandhi's peaceful pathway to victory, (as is suggested by the report of the President's speech in the press) then and only then, all must surely support him, even to the point of accepting the President, for a time, as a benevolent dictator. During those days when speaking he covered a wide range of subjects and included the years from 1926 through to 1933 and the decision to make Sinhalese and Tamil official languages. He recognized S.W. R.D. Bandaranaike as the intellectual who pioneered the need for a federal form of Government as long ago as 1926 in multinational and multireligious nations. He presented his audience with a historical survey briefly commenting on the BC Pact of 1957 and the DC Pact of 1965 and So on. We were able to read rather more than bold headlines: we could read between the lines and readily understand the sources of the present sad conflict. Vote-catching tactics of politicians and the system of "adversary democracy" has led to this impasse. S.D. Bandaranayake bitterly criticises what he calls the Westminster model and rightly so. Must we continue to lose time and dilly daily until it is too late? When will sanity and wisdom prevail?
May I mention one name only, not because his views are wiser than the views of others but because he has been an

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CW calls for independent Appeals System
At läst half of a|| ||rmmigration Act prisoners want to leave the UK at the first opportunity, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants JCWI) claimed in a recent report.
Yet routine delays and inefficient record keeping which characterise Horte Office procedures mean that detainees spend an average of six Weeks in prison, The report Clairns that the Horne Office could cut delays, reduce public expenditure and relieve the prisons of the burden of extra detainees
by taking advantage of Woluntary
departure or temporary release
ргоvisioп5.
The JCWI report calls for an
independent appeals system for all those facing deportation, rapid processing of applications for asylum and a directory at all points of arrival in the English language and appropriate languages and contact numbers for all нrdvisогү sнгvices.
For further irformafior, please contact: The Refugee Forur, 42 Atary Street, YYLLLLLLLz LLLLLLYYS TS KLL0000S
Ноппе Trшth5 — сопtiпшесі
Coutstanding young pcrson fra JT1 the Eige: of 16 when he had the listinction of touring India, Pakistan and China as a member of Sri Lanka's Davis Cup Tennis Team. From that time he hals, W T H W Tds and scholarships here, in Pakistan and the USA. Jehan Perera (who incidentally is the grandson of a UNP senator Dr. M.G. Perera) spent two years on leave from Harvard while holding the Knox Fellowship to study communal conflict, full time in Sri Lanka. He lived with rural families iI Anura dhapura and Kurunegala and even studied plaughing technologies in Sri Lanka. This brilliant and versatile yoLungschicolaris dedic:.tcd til finding a way to solve thic present tragic situation. I wish to suggest that interested politicians and others should read the pamphlet which was published in August 1984 by the Centre for Society and Religion, 81, Deans Road, Colomb. 10. A second booklet was published early this yearon "Articles on the Ethnic Probler". Jehan in 1985 chdorses SWRD's 1926 viewpoint. Did we have to delay for four decades? Now: Te Worldwide hals, federalism led to separation says Jehan.
Tille: situation is grave and urgent and Ei decisib is called for such Els federalis 11 or regional autonomy. We urge our rulers to give all Sri Lankans the solace of living in a progressive Tulti-ling Lial "Asian Switzerland' rather than in a "war-torn" Lebanon, where civil strife would not only Tilean the tragic loss of thousands of lives, but would also creatl: total chals and ILITI) back the pages of our history half a century (ir milre:
Corresy' def"Larika (Fuar'lılı"
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Deploring the 'e principles andt increasing coпс aШfЛОгїfагїалі5 г) the current proft in Spain, called for a peacefuls general election
The Literar tre Lera Parti Coringress were ( leader of the Br ECDDTTsc5 Mr Paramert.
The following
by the Swiss F without Coppositi Uf the Liberill IIlt "This Congress1. deplores the
rights, i thic Twili democratic pri csicalation of Witol
2. Inotes that constitute an i peaceful solutic conflict: 3. Ilotcs that thi: and social imista decline of ecc) 3T so threates the values:
4. Eclieves that
(Gcllcral Electi reduced the participation oft in the political LIII derrillined thei
5. believes th: concentration of has produced Luthoritarianism the prospects of the current probl
f. helic was that devolution of pe objective; ... calls on the La Inka and the T Lup()In a prColo)ngäI and Tenewel II e settle the conflict 8, urges the g Lanka, India Col Thissione f U-Jitcd Natirls good and secure refugees, priillar i Sri La Ilık or TI

TAMILTIMES7
ATE of AUTHORITARANISM RDISES DURABLESOLUTION'-
Liberal International
rosion of human rights, the violation of liberal democratic reescalation of violence in Sri Lanka, and holding that "the entration of power in the state has produced a climate of which jeopardises the prospects of a durable solution to lar, the Liberal International, at its recent Congress held шpon the Sri Lankan goverпптепt to eпteгinto пеgotiations olution to the ethnic conflict and to hold an in mediate
so as to legitimise the government process." ternational includes the Derocratic Party of the US, and es of the UK, Canada, West Germany etc. Present at the Giscard D'Estaing, former President of France, David Steel, itish Liberal Party, Martin Hungerman, the West German lister and Simon Weil, ex-President of the European
resolution proposed 'arty was adopted, on, at the Congress
cilational:
erosion of human litti of liberal inciples" and the en cc in Sri Lanka; hese developments mpediment to the Il of the ethnic
5 cscalating wiolence bility has led to a nic development and
survival of Liberal
he postponement of on for six years has possibility for the ne Sri Lankan people: brocess and thereby
confidence in it;
it the increasing ' power in the state : climatic of which jeopardises a durable solution to
CIL: only an island-wide wct will realise his
government of Sri amil groups to agree tion of the ceasefir: gotiations in Order tc)
peacefully; overnlicInts of Sri and the High or Refugees of the to develop plans for di facilities for TT1il ily in the region (i.e., Tamil Nadu);
9. calls on the member states of the Ulid Na Lions to contribute financially to those facilities and to take all diplomatic steps lecded in order to promote a peaceful seitlement of the ethnic conflict Ind the restration of liberal Walues in Sri Lanka;
1 O. calls for an immediate General Election so as to legitimise the government process in Sri Lanka and thus restore the authority essential foT a just settlement acceptable to all рагtics;
11. calls for the removal of all political disabilities imposed on indi will Luals and groups sed as to ens L1Te the widest possible participation in a General Election:
12. calls on all member parties anl groups of the Liberal International to extend their fullest support for the restoration of peace and liberal values in Sri Lanka, by the adoption of the above means, and to urge their respective governments to do likewise,"
Amongst members of the Liberal International who supported this notion were the Democratic Party of the United States, the Free Democratic Party of Germany, the Liberal Party of Britain, the Union for French DeTocracy of France and the Liberal party of Canada. The Sri Lankan members if the Liberal II1 teII1:ti I1al a Te the Sri L:a T1k:1T1 Liberal Group (formerly led by Childra Zbysl I al Id now by Mars Mohlidcen, byth of the Marga Institute), and the Council for Liberal Democracy (Joint Secret ries Charaka Alaratunga and Asith El Pe:TL: TH).

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Some neglected a Lanka qu
OME relevant but, comparatively speaking, neglected aspects of the Sri Lanka question should be looked at. One is Tamil resentment at the Sinhala notion that it is only by the kind permission of the Sinhala majority that Tamils can enjoy the rights of citizens.
"The island was and is ours. But out of the goodness of our hearts we are prepared to tolerate you, provided of course you behave properly." Thus the Sinhalese to the Tamils. Many Sinhalese harbour the sentiment and quite a few express it. Old and widespread, the attitude is one that Sinhalese parents pass on effortlessly and unconsciously to their children. -
Tamils contest the historical basis for such an attitude but at this stage it is the truth of human psychology rather than of history that should exercise us. History's facts, in any case, are hard to establish to everyone's satisfaction. Governed by the universal laws of human psychology, Sri Lanka's Tamils have hated the idea that while Sinhalese rights are innate, Tamil rights are Sinhala gift.
Sinhalese attitude
Yet it is an idea that is instinctively accepted by many a Sinhalese, whether of “low” or "high” caste, whether educated in an undeveloped village or of Oxbridge variety, whether sprung from the lowlands or belonging to the Kandy hills. That we in India are only too familiar with similar or corresponding attitudes and have paid a high price for them is of course true. We know that political solutions are delayed or sabotaged by such popular attitudes.
When Sinhalese politicians speak of what the people want they generally have the Sinhala-speaking masses in mind. "His handicap," a distinguished Sri Lankan once said to me, referring to another distinguished Sri Lankan, “is that he is not one of the people". The latter's disqualification was that he had been born to Tamil-speakers.
The changing complexion of the Eastern province is another crucial element in the Lankan picture. In 1946, 8.4 per cent of this province’s population was Sinhalese: by 1981 the figure rose to 24.9 per cent. Now the percentage is probably higher.
Freedom of movement is a citizen's right in every democratic country. But many countries also recognise and heed a region's attachment to its linguistic, ethnic and cultural complexion. It was Tripura's transformation from a tribal majority area to a Bengali-majority State that fuelled fears all over our north-east.
Foreigners migrating into this region is not the only worry of the seven sisters of the north-east. Assam, Meghalaya,
By Rajmohan
Nagaland, Mizoram, M and Arunachal are also languages and cultur submerged by an influ from other parts of Indi: our north-east is to understood and respect India.
Sponsor
Does Sri Lanka’s S understand and respec fears in the Eastern p block a citizen's wish t province is one thing: b finance and give incent scale resettlement o traditional Tamil areas Colombo has done for provoke Tamil fears and
It is in the district which is a part of the E that the change has bee About a third of population are now S And Muslims constitute half of the Tamil speake Muslims speak Tamil ensured an alliance be Hindu Tamils. Aware th their community lives Sinhalese predominate province's Muslims have the Sinhalese.
Population position
Trincomalee takes in t of the Eastern province. district of Batticaloa, Batticaloa is the district 1981 census gave the foll the three districts.
Trincomalee: Sinhales 86,743; Muslims 74,40 6,767. Batticaloa: Si Tamils 234,348; Muslim Tamils 3,868. Amp 146,371; Tamils 78,315; Indian Tamils 1,410. province: Sinhalese 399,406; Muslims 315,20 12,045.
That the Muslims ca role is obvious from thes a Hindu-Muslim allia province may not join a or unit or be politic joining. We should not elections, because of a understanding, the Liberation Front (TUL four of the 12 seats province.
In the Northern pro won all 14 seats. The 19 following percentages

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spects of the Sri lestion
Gandhi
Manipur, Tripura keen to save their es from being x of population a. This anxiety of a large extent ed by the rest of
Sinhala majority it similar Tamil rovince? Not to o live in another ut to sponsor and ives for a largef Sinhalese in , which is what years, can only anger. of Trincomalee, Eastern province, in most dramatic. Trincomalee's inhala Speakers. slightly less than ers. That Lanka's has not always tween them and hat 70 per cent of in areas where , the Eastern often sided with
he northern third
Below it lies the to the south of of Amparai. The owing figures for
e, 86,341; Tamils i; Indian Tamils nhalese 10,646; is 79,317; Indian arai: Sinhalese Muslims 161,481;
Total for the 43,358; Tamils }1; Indian Tamils
n play a decisive e figures. Without hce the Eastern
Tamil homeland ally stable after : that in the 1977 Sinhalese-Muslim
Tamil United F) could win only
in the Eastern
vince the TULF
31 census gave the or the Northern
province. Sinhalese 3.0; Tamils 92.1.
Muslims 4.7. There have been some accusations recently of an attempt to resettle Sinhalese in the Vavuniya and Mannar districts of the Northern province.
Muslims in the Eastern province are not necessarily against Tamil autonomy. But they say, "Leave Amparai alone.” Muslim strength in Amparai is an old story and owes nothing to resettlement, but the increase in Amparai's Sinhalese percentage was assisted substantially by
resettlement.
Community relations し
We have noted the connection between the Muslim factor and what may be called the hostage factor. The safety of their kith and kin in Colombo, Kandy, Kurunegala and Puttalam (to name some Lankan districts where Muslims are a significant percentage) weighs greatly with the Muslims of the Eastern province. Of Lanka's 1,056,972 Muslims (1981 census), 741,771 live in Sinhalese-majority areas. We can assume, however, that other considerations are also at work: HinduMuslim relations in India must be one of them.
The hostage factor also troubles a large number of Tamils. Of the 1871,535 Sri Lanka Tamils (1981 census), over half a million (514,332 to be exact) reside outside the Northern and Eastern provinces. Hence the reported Sinhala remark that if it will require only ten hours for Indian forces to take Sri Lanka, it will require only five hours for the Sinhalese majority to deal with half a million Tamil hostages.
Recent emigrations must have reduced the numbers, but in 1981 Colombo had
. 165,952 Lanka Tamils and 21,504 Indian
Tamils. Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Puttalam, Gampaha and Badulla are other districts with a large Lanka Tamil presence. The future safety of Tamils in Sinhala areas lies in emigration or in a Sinhala-Tamil
agreement.
Tamils of Indian origin or tea garden Tamils are another 825,000 or so at present. In the past they have often had to face violent Sinhalese reacting to acts of
Tamils in Jaffna or Batticaloa. These
"Indian” Tamils are actually aware of the hostage factor. Only 75,000 of them live in the north and the east, which is why their leader, Mr. Thondaman, says: “We support Tamil Eelam but that will not solve our problem.”
To complete the picture it should be added that of the island's 11 million Sinhalese only 276,507 live in Tamil majority areas.
The “quota” factor has a historical significance and also a relevance across

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ALLENABRAHAM OF JAFFNA THERE is a renewed interest in Professor Allen Abraham an his studies in Astronomy with the reappearance of Halley Comet. Jaffna College will produce in the near future publication giving more information in historical perspective ( Allen Abraham as a man, an outstanding teacher ( Mathematics, an astronomer, a Tamil scholar and a Christia layman.
A publication of the Royal Astronomical Society giving a li of Fellows and Associates published in February, 1921 has th name Allen Abraham, B.A., Professor of Mathematics, Jaffn College, Vaddukoddai, Ceylon first on the list, since the listisi alphabetical order. On scrutinising the document I find th there were about 759 Fellows in 1921 and Professor Alle Abraham was the first native Ceylonese to be admitted as Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, on the 12th c January, 1912. There was one other person who was admittedt the Fellowship from Ceylon before Professor Abraham on 111909 and he was an Englishman, Alec Joscelyn Bamford B.A Associate Astronomer for the Government of Ceylor Observatory, Colombo, Ceylon. The same document revea that Professor Allen Abraham was the eighth native Asian to b admitted to the Fellowship which includes six from India an one from Japan. What is very interesting is that most of th others who were admitted as Fellows of the Royal Astronomica Society were all working in established institutions o observatories with many facilities available for scanning th skies and for making appropriate records, but Allen Abrahar alias Subramaniar Ambalavanar made his observations with very small telescope (presented by a missionary astronome from USA, in the early 19th century) aided also by observation of the naked eye with the help of his students and colleagues a
Karaitivu, Jaffna.
the Palk Strait. Because Sinhalese felt that Tamils had an unwarranted share of university seats, there were reservations for Sinhalese students. Many Tamil boys who were shut out despite their high grades took to the gun and the grenade.
On a wider front it was the language factor that injected the iron into the Tamil soul. The Sinhala-only path wounded Tamil sentiment as nothing else did. And a painful milestone along this path was the burning of the precious and deeplycherished Jaffna library. .
The rivalry factor in the relationship among the various Tamil groups has received some attention in the Indian press. But the following words in “Tamil Information”, a privately circulated journal Serving the cause of Lanka's Tamils, merit a wider audience. “Tamil society has also to learn to look inward. A clinical introspection is essential. Every, society carries with it some canker in its: vitals, which if not cleansed, can lead to its own destruction. Intolerance and factionalism, inability to accept a contrary point of view, self-inflated egoism, malice. and mud-slinging are neither healthy nor happy attributes in a people fighting. oppression and waging a struggle for liberation. **
“If this debilitating process is not. thecked in time, that will be a sure way of defeating ourselves before the enemy defeats us. All guns need steady hands but if they are used in the cause of liberation they need clean hands as well." . . .
(Indian Express)
The Li
WHAT I enjoy m England are ou especially the Comr hold around midn As we sit in the flic deeply the sense C the darkness. The on! Even if there know that the dar into the new dawn deeply moved wi about a symbolic passing darkness. prophets longed God's light would endless dark of crl Christ, we believe but not so as permanently with have is just the darkness, and t darkness will not c
I saw that text la of El Salvador’s Oscar Romero. I seen how friends Central America Spirit to write po the Christmas stor new chapter, writ especially this y Province. Light despair , eternal baby. We shall rea Matthew, Luke ar Christmas - but W

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The following quotation from one of the unpublished lecture "notes of Professor Allen Abraham written in the early part of this century entitled, “The Place of Astronomy in the Elementary School Education" throws some light on the remarkable observatory skill of the learner astronomer
"Some people think that the telescope and other astronomical instruments are indispensable for the study of Astronomy. This is a wrong notion. The human eye is the astronomical instrument, provided by nature. How great were its instruments before the invention of the telescope. Quick as thought, in a glance it commands a widely extended field and in a few moments it surveys the whole course of the sky. In giving a grasp of the whole field showing the relation and connection of the different parts, it
is superior to the telescope. In addition to the unaided eye, the
oldest astronomical instrument, there are a few simple appliances of great value for beginners. The plumbline, the protractor, the
gnomon and the sundial belong to this class of simple
instruments. They would put so much meaning into the subjects connected with them. A flood of light would be poured upon some of the dark places of Geography, if the girls and boys be made to find the latitude of the school building by finding the elevation of the pole star by the protractor or by measuring the height of the
: gnomon and the length of its shadow or if they were made to
determine the arrow of the clock from a reading of the sundial or by noting the transit of a star across the plumbline. The ancients had no astronomical instruments such as we have. They did much by the simplest of all astronomical instruments, the gnomon. Much can be done with it in an elementary school.”
There are several more published and unpublished articles of Professor Abraham which will be compiled into a book very
soon adding to the many invaluable publications of Jaffna
A. KADIRGAMAR, Principal Jaffna College
College.
Lost about Christmas in Lr candle-lit services, munion Service that we ight on Christmas Eve. kering shadows, we feel f God's light shining in in we switch the lights was a power cut, we kness would soon fade ing day. No matter how e are, we are talking light that shines in a But the event that the for was one in which shine in the seemingly elty and oppression. In that light did so shineto flood the world dazzling light. What we light shining in the he promise that the vercome it. st year above the tomb murdered archbishop, recent years, I have in South Africa and have been used by the verful new chapters to y. Now that story has a ten in Sri Lanka, and ear, in the Eastern n darkness, hope in trength in a new-born d these old truths from d John once again this e shall also read what
ght Shines in the Darkness'
Rev. JOHN KENNEDY
Methodist Minister in Batticaloa (197378), presently in charge of Old Ford Methodist Church, Danesdale Road, London ES. Rev. Kennedy has been concerned in recent years with the Christian contribution to the liberation struggle in Central America.
God is writing among you in Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Amparai. We already pray for you - help us now to learn from you.

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1Ο ΤΑΜΙLTIMES
POLITICAL PARAN |E. FASTEMERGINC
زف لی i نر زادهٔ ۹ ذی : i دفاهم . . . . . .iiiiن i -
Ystry two say y Mits sovy Yass,
CCORDING ίΟ al internationally famed psychiatrist, the diversity of human behaviour in the fields of health and disease results from the individual's unique organisation of personality traits which in turn determines his behaviour. This diversity of human behaviour provides for medical men one of the most interesting aspects of their work.
In medical parlance, personality consists of a sum-total of inter-actions
between many different traits of the individual. And certain traits are so,
prominent or pronounced that they
exert a major influence on his
thinking, feeling and behaviour. A paranoid patient poses a problem not only to clinical practice but very often to society itself.
It is time however that those in Sri Lanka took note of the fact that a new
type of paranoid patient... is fast-his
emerging. I mean the political paranoiac. And if no proper controls are exercised, the number of aspirants to political power who may be afflicted by this malady may soon reach epidemic proportions, especially in a small country like Sri Lanka which is already being threatened with the crisis of a teeming population.
The symptoms of political paranoia are basically the same as that of ordinary paranoia, though the two symptoms manifest themselves in varying degrees. A paranoid patientis unsure of himself and his mood is one of tension and anxiety. In the political paranoiac, there is suppressed tension and anxiety and also a limitless degree of exuberance and garrulity.
Although a paranoid patient has little cherished hopes, aspirations or ambitions, the political paranoiac has an unhealthy and sometimes an uncontrollable excess of it. It is a pathological tendency for a paranoid patient to keep aloof or remain in seclusion. Potentates afflicted by political paranoia keep not aloof but aloft and drift in the dizziness of the clouds without as much as a look at the things below them.
“Ego-centrism” is a trait common to both the ordinary paranoiac and the political paranoiac. While the ordinary paranoiac is egocentric in
By Augustines
that he holds the cor universe centres in h paranoiac holds the but to a lesser or hul that the country universe, thankfully) The ordinary para no beliefs or ideas paranoiac professes t never practises, whil inscrutable and far-fe to say that many of
political paranoiac ul
defeat and disillusion
The ordinary paran a goal has been atta disenchanted and
revolutionary. But
paranoiac the atta cherished goal make more dominant ar Hitler is an example.
If an ordinary pal personality Sc political paranoiac
4 personality at all ti
many paranoid patie the ambit of medical are several who remai political paranoiac, clearly outside thear of medical practice, a misfortune to society self. . Then, of course, b paranoiac and the or have their delusions. paranoiac they I thankfully, at the ne the ordinary paran persist. Again the or usually change practitioners. But paranoiac only ch parties when it suit with the facility of a c flirt with half a d succession. ܆":
A paranoid , hypersensitive and hostile reaction to qu political paranoiacal treated with contem and persistence 1 dangerous consequel of criticism will have hide is impenetra therefore insensitive feeling.
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viction that the
m, the political ame conviction nbler degree in (and not the centres in him. loid patient has The political
eliefs which he e his ideas arë “i
tohed. Needless
he ideas of the timately end in
ment. . . oiac, even when ned, remains a
disgruntled
n the political inment of a s: the paranoia ld destructive.
anoiac projects
ometimes, ... ...the.
projects his mes. Although nts come within practice, there in outside it. The
of course, is
nbit of any kind nd that is more a than to his own
oth the political -
dinary paranoiac In the political nay disappear xt elections. In oiac they may linary paranoiac S medical
the political anges political him, and that oquette who will ozen lovers in
patient is
often displays a estioning. In the y questioning is tuous disregard night lead to ces. No amount any effect as his oly thick and
to any kind of
ot infrequently
t
S . carries himself to the top of the world in flights of his own imagination. A political paranoiac carries himself to the top of the world on the wings of his electors after which he starts to "look in the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.” No
amount of persuasion thereafter can bring him back to earth.
And lastly, a paranoiac is sometime
co-operative. But the political
paranoiac seldom or never is. He is
supreme and infallible. His actions are always right and beyond question. His word is often law. If he changes his ; political colours, like a
chameleon, we have only to admire his feat. If he decides that a free press
is bad for a democracy, it is the unassailable truth. Or if he decides that a "little bit of totalitarianism' is good for a democracy, or even a dictatorship is better than democracy, we dare not challenge him.
Sri Lanka has certainly had quite a number of political paranoiacs almost from the time the country obtained its Independence, and thankfully they had been effectively treated at successive elections.
I believe there is in Sri Lanka a Mental Health Act which was introduced to look after the health of paranoid patients. There is certainly a way of treating the ordinary paranoiac. But there is doubtless no way of treating the political paranoiac. He can only be treated at the elections that follow.
Fewer Allowed to Settle in the UK
The number of immigrants allowed to, settle in the United Kingdom during 1984 was the lowest since statistics were first compiled in 1962, according to the Home Office latest figures.
The number of people accepted from. the 'New' Commonwealth and Pakistan fell to 24,800, that is 2750 fewer than in 1983. The refusal rate differed considerably between Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It was about 1 in 2 from Bangladesh, 1 in 7 from India and 1 in 4 from Pakistan. .....ام - Removals and 'voluntary departures' also went up during 1984, 630 as against 550 in 1983. The number of deportation orders enforced in 1984 was 920 compared with 810 in 1983.

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DECEMBER 1985
Nuclear Carrier "Kiti
THE AMERICAN aircraft carrier, US Kitty Hawk, was in the Colombo harbour from November I () to 14. The "Kitty Hawk' which is a constituent part of the US Seventh Flce ႔; a crew of 5,300 and carries 87 aircraft. The giant LCCCLC CLLL LLTTT aLLLL LLLLLL lLLL S0S LLLLLLLE LCT L SLLLLLLGGLHHCHS was accorrpanied by three otherships which included two destroyers.
According to JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS and other authoritative and official nawal intelligence publications, a SLLLLTTS LLLCLS TGLL GLLLGGT LLLHLCLLL LL LlL LLL LlLGLL equipped to carry, and in fact do carry, nuclear II lissiles and weapons,
Theisse of the arrival of the Kitty Hawkin Coloro was raised in the Sri Lankan Parliament by the oppositio MP, Mr. Lakshmar Jayākoddy, Who said that Sri Lanki being a non-aligned country should not allow the i” OLLCCCC L CCCL TLa CCCTTLCCT LCCLLkL L LT TTTT carried nuclear warheads. The Foreign Minister, A.C.S. Наппеed, гер/ied that his govегпллепr had followed a consistent policy of not allowing nawal vessels саггyiлg nuclear warheads and weapons into the island's territorial Wakers, and allernpredt to assure that Sri Lanka Had "verified" that the Kitty Hawk and its other escort vessels did r7) har ve nuclear weapons on board while ir 7 the country's territorial Waters.
The truth of the Foreign Minister's reply is strongly doubted in Color board New Delhi. Sri Lanka his neither the capacity for the nerve, depending stric Jr. US handouts, to even raise the question of the presence of nuclear weapons on board the "Kitty Hawk. The giant carrier being virrally à 77 obile 7 Iclear när väl base of the US, it is highly in prohible that it jettisoned on the high Seas all its nuclear arsenal before it entered Lanka's territorial waters. """""""""""""""""
The Minister failed disclose hi () yw A Color I y both;idd carried out its "verification' exercise, Surely he could not have meant that the US authorities permitted Sri Lankan personnel to board the 'Kitty Hawk to carry out their inspection in international waters before it entered, Color 77b), ha rbcL T, Sri Lanka Was not e ve 7 in position) (c) | of rain a Verbal assurance from the US authorities that the carrier and its escort vessels did not carry nuclear LCCCCCLCL TaCLLCLS T LES TLCTTTT LLTLCLLC L CCGTlC LLL In either confir II.iing or denying the presence of nuclear Weapons. In fact, when questioned by reporters in Colombo, the Public Affairs Officer of the 'Kitty Hawk'.
Why cannot the Tamils of Sri Lanka have a government like that of Tamil Nadu in the North and East. I asked Mr. W. Daha na yake, MP for the si LutherIn Constituency of Galle, in Parliament when he spoke during the recent budget debate,
Mr. Daha hayı keşiş Che Goldest sterwing parlamentarian im Sri Lanki. During his younger days, he was a firebrand taking up L LLLLaa LL LLLLH LLLHHLLLLLLLLHH HHHLLLLHH a was a 1:Iber of the Lank: S: II: S: Thai: Party (LSSP). He later joined the Mahajana Eksath Perimuma Linder the leadership of the late Mr. S.W.R.D. Bandaranalike becoming Minister of EdLILEH [itJIl in the Bald TI liike: Cabinet. For a short i period, he beca IInc. Prime
Dahanayake For
Minister following Mr. Binda Tanaik, IlcI1bCT Luft hic: Lul Party. |այլ ԱԱԿr
Mr. Dahanayake his speech that thes LT bu bile:Wğı 5: The ot; &ll': Stime imagined. In Rjiv (:dhihid: autonomy alløwed than that prevail government should šolui tiom o they " could They should also of autonomy within t Lumited Sri Länkai. found in Russia III,

TAMILTIMES 11
y Hawkin Colombo
тілі "Kitty Hawk” from an American Helicopter
Lieutenant Art St.-Johr 7, J. G. stated that hic of Wicial position of the United States Navy with respect to nuclear Warheads and weapons on hoard the "Kitty Hawk" was to пеithегі сопfiгiт погоIелуі.
It was this policy of hic Writed State's which so ringer.cc/ New Zealand Prine Minister, David Lange, its to deny
decess of US Naval ships, to the Country's harbours, Despite New Zealand being a member of ANZLS. David
Länge created a Crisis by insisting har the US should S TTTLLLL T CCCCLLLLCLTL L TTTLG LLLLLLLCCCCCLH LLLGGS LLGCTCCCTL
New Zealand's territoria warers.
'Sri Lanka is
- リ 「」 7 ) N: VW || ZiL: H 7 TPI fs || Pr''sic': f
Jayawardene Premier David Lange, was the comment by
a veteran opposition poli ticia r2 in Colornbo, " ... Srî Lanka as a neither of the Non-Aligned Movement is a sigпаfогу Іо папу геSolшtioлs which baплеd ships
LCTCT LLTLLL TCCLHC CCCC LCCCCCCa CL LCLCLCCS LCCHLHLHHLS Sri Lanka While playing lipservice (o Ilie NAM. Jh.s r.) ved fшгtherandfшгtheraway froпп the ллоvеллелt алd towагls the US since 1977. The alacrity with which Sri Lanka organised a sports carnival for the crew of the USS Kitty Hawk, USS Fox, USS Hoel and the USS Wichita during LCLCT LLLTCLC TS LLTLL L TTTTLCLL LLLCLLLLCL LLLLLLLrLSlq
desire to please and serve US interests.
The 'Kitty Hawk which from inside resembles a fully
developed CLC LLCCH SuLLL L GLLm LGM LLLCLOLOLCHH LLTLL
ärd broadcasts LL CLLL LLL LLLLCaLLLLLSLL LaLLaL LLLL LLLLLLLCS printing press which produces its own newspaper for the crew firled, "The Frer'.
Federal Solution
जा = | | |} } the assassination Col Presently he is a ing United National
idill the cirš f Colutico.Il te thic present han elusive thing as idi;ı il Prime Mir hister, iaid that the regional shK.) Luld be: , Ind) I111 r: el in India, The
offer the Tamils a
accept with dignity. fer them a degree of he framework of a
Such systems were dcven in India. Why
should they not offer them something similar to what prevails in India?
Mr. Dahanayake added that Mr. Rajiv (G:a1dhi "W:us I th: b:5t fri:rıd Lf Sri Larıkı. He had sila Lcl at a Tc:cent press (:Inference that he w:is mot favouring ar y side, but wished III see peace TestTed in Sri Linkl. (Gandhi walls one , of thic grec: tcst praccIlākers, Bliss T Լ11ւ: peacemakers', Christ had said,
Mr. Daharı ayak: Ask cd, “Why : III (il the Tanils have a government like that of Tamil Nadu in the north and in the east within the framework of unity? The government must make that offer at the Il cxt Colfc.Tc1cc."

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12TAMILTIMES
7GOVERNMENT Pl ARE UNACCEPTAB
This is an abridged version of an |းဖုံဖုံ the discussio interview With ዘMr. A. ector Jayawardene Amirthalingam, Secretary the Sri Lankan delega General of the Tamil United unnecessary COI) Liberation Front. challenging the cred
representative charac delegations. He s government did not a Tamil delegations representatives of th he contended that 1 too represented th
Q. Mr. Amirthalingam, there have been two rounds of talks in Bhutan between the Tamil delegations and the delegation representing the Sri Lankan government. What was the reason for the lack of success at the Tami
amil delegations
first round of talks?
position adopted by A. It was apparent that there was no and these exchanges real change in the government's days. Finally, Mr position. In fact the government accepted rather grud delegation came up with proposals was sufficient represe that had already been rejected by the interests as represer Tamils. It was absurd for the Tamil delegations a government delegation to do that. In possible to arrive at a Some respects, the proposals that with the groups prese were put forward by Mr. Hector Although there we Jayawardene were even less than proposals, they were those placed before the All Party to the Tamil delega Conference in 1984. The Tamil made StatementS r United Liberation Front had already Before the discussion rejected them. It was absurd for the further, the news of government to expect the Tamil Vavuniya reached us Liberation Groups and the TULF to the walkout I referrec accept them. There was no possibility v, for continuation of the talks on the Q. It would appea basis of the government proposals. S'Liberation Groups h; The talks, therefore, were doomed ceasefire. How ef from the start. ceasefire?
Q. What was the reason for the i. A. The ceasefirew collapse of the second round of talks at have come into effe Thimphu? - However, during th
period between 18 A. They came to a premature abrupt Y September during wh
end because of the reports we was presumed to be ir received about the large Scale år 500 Tamil massacre of Tamil civilians by the indiscriminately kille security forces in Vavuniya and - forces. This is Trincomalee. The massacre at being observed. Vavuniya resulting in the killing of over 200 Tamils occurred on 16 Q. Do you think that August, and we heard about it on the of a Ceasefire Monit BBC and Australian radios on 17 would have any impa August. It was clear that the Sri A. Certainly the app Lankan security forces were violating Monitoring Comn the ceasefire arrangements and killing improvement. How innocent civilians. We could not whether it would possibly continue the talks as if monitoring any vio nothing had happened. The talks the Committee has ended with the walkout by all six on the governr Tamil delegations. information, for its Q. Before the walkout, did the other facilities requi government delegation place any be effective. I think different proposals for discussion? the two nominees of A. There were several changes made Committee is to the original proposals. However, improvement. They

ROPOSALS
LE*
is started, Mr.
the leader of
tion, created an
roversy by,
ntials as to the er of the Tamil
aid that the cept that the six
vere the only
: Tamil people; he government
; Tamils. The hallenged the he government
ook almost two
Jayawardene singly that there ntation of Tamil ited by the six nd that it was final conclusion nt at Thimphu. e changes in the not acceptable tions and they ejecting them. s could proceed
the massacre at .
which ended in
to earlier.
that all the
ad agreed to the
fective is the
as supposed to ict on June 18. e three month
June and 18 ich the ceasefire operation, over eople were d by the security
the ceasefire is ""
T the appointment bring Committee
t? ointment of the littee is an ever, I doubt be effective in ations because, ) totally depend hent for its nobility and for ed if it wants to the inclusion of the ENLF in the dit welcome may be in a
says TULFleader
...'.
position to draw attentión fo the
violations of the ceasefire by the army
and to the true facts. The Monitoring Committee may have a deterrent effect on those who violate the ceasefire. I think only an independent international body like the Red Cross
or a group of persons from some non
aligned country should monitor the ceasefire, and that is the only way it could be done effectively.
Q. It would appear that the Sri Lanka
government is using the ceasefire period to build up its military strength
on a massive scale. The Minister of
National Security is talking about setting up a permanent army of 100,000. In this context, how genuine is the government about a peaceful negotiated settlement?
A. We raised this question with the
Indian government officials at the time the ceasefire was being
discussed. The position of the Sri
Lankan government as conveyed to
the Indian government was that the right of the Sri Lanka government to
strengthen its armed forces for the defence of the country could not be
questioned. It would therefore seem that the right of the Tamil militant
groups to increase their numbers and strength was also acknowledged as a
correspondingright.
Q. With the formation of the Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF), comprising four Liberation Groups,
the Tamil people hoped that other
groups also would come together. Is there any possibility that the PLOT will also join the Front?
A. Our efforts always have been
directed to bringing about unity
among all groups. Before the Thimphu talks we had discussions with the ENLF and PLOT separately. During and at the talks, all the groups adopted a common position. It is unfortunate that there is still some misunderstanding between the ENLF and PLOT. As far as the TULF is concerned, all the groups should get together in a united front to be effective and in the interest of serving the Tamil people. We will continue our efforts to bring about this unity.
O. The Federal Party in earlier years, and the TULF in more recent years. enjoyed virtual monopoly of
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representing the Tamil speaking people. Now that the Tamil Liberation Groups also have been recognised as representatives of the Tamil people, would you agree that the monopoly held by the TULF had come to an end?
A. Webf the TULF owe our position to the fact of having been elected by the Tamil people. The liberation groups have come to be recognised because of their struggle and sacrifices they hawe made, L Any settlement without their participation and c) CLITTehcic callot be effecti We. IT that context they have become recognised. But the ultimate representative character will have to be decided by the people. However, I am always of the view that the liberation groups having played a major part in the Tallil struggle in recent years is must be given a duc recognition and are entitled to their due place in any future set up in the Tanil areas,
Q. The killing of M. Alalasundaram and W. Dharrnalingam, two former TULF MPs, by some yet unidentified group must have come as a rude shock to you and a big blow for the TULF. Have you got any comment?
A. As you know, Mr. Dharmalingam was active in Tamil politics for over 35 years and served as a MP for 25 years, Mr. Alalasundaram, besides having been an MP, it was the Administrative Secretary of the TULF. They were two of the most active. Workers in the north. Mr. Alalasundaram was going round all the districts in Jaffna and supplying information about army atrocities and other developments not only to us in Madras, but also to foreign journalists who visited Jaffna.
In fact I regard the attack on these two TULF stalwarts as an attack on me personally, because if I had been there, surely I would hawe been the first target for Whoever was responsible for these killings. I think there is no point indcluding ourselves Lihat the killings were carried out by so the outsiders. There is no doubt that they were committed by some misguided Tamil elements. So strong was the reaction of the ordinary Tamil people against these murderous acts, those who were responsible for the killings have tried to disown responsibility or have trict to put the blame On Other groups, In fact this alle Tipt on their partis an indication of their realisation that they cannot take the people for granted, The people have old them in no
Lun minista kable tel tolerate these typ
The fact that
II I) LI I lt I HI LIL: 1 these two Tumarty'r lewe and affectio theIll. Hy w cwci In ay have been, pLITsue the mätte (l); Ilk Et Want to Cı in the ranks of th
Q. TAMIL TIM condern ned th conmented that maked tettoris III: with Tamil libe Would you agree
AI entirely; placards which w dead bodies had häving bet Tayed t it is an absolute those who gol el of Serving the Tai well occupying Withou L [ raising a | of the suffering T subjected to ger Dharmalingam : sacrificed their and their profe refusing to take th They continued and resources int.
of the people. something Totte II these Who Iki characterisation Take terroris
է: ՎիTTւ:Լ։լ :
(). It is known government haus S paper containing setting up of pro the Indian govern Tecti II (of the T the position
A. It is the Colli Tı groups that the p: the Working Papi Howewer, the Lit not yet readytc. counter proposal the security force Çömmit ce:15'tfir: think before long grips with the , pri We would like a Ll Tamil groups.
ayawa Tidene
Statements in a p effect that Lluc l 1 d accepted the pro the Working Pap lengthy memoral

TAMILTIMES13
ims that they will not e of actions anymore. several thousands of ded the fırıc: Tals of 's Wassy Ibolic of the in the people had for tragic, the incident We do not want to -I further because we *::it: further divisii e Tamil people.
MES has editorially ese killings and they were acts of and had nothing to do ration Dr freedom. with that view
agree. In fact the cr: left besides their | described thern as he Tamil people and falschill, Sille of ected on the pretext mil people arc: doing cabinet portfolios Little fingeron behalf amil people Who are | Cill attacks. BLI LI and Alalasundaran seats in Pirilent ssional careers by he oath of allegiance. o devote their time he cause and service I think there is I, in the thinking of lled them... Your of their skilling it as m" is absolutely
| that the Sri Lanka ubmitted a working proposals for the incial councils, and ment is awaiting the inil groups. What is
TT
( ) 1 view of Ill Taa Ilil roposals as stated in 2r 1re unacceptable. cration Groups are put forward their s on the basis that shave continued to : wicolations. But I Wehave to come to IbleII) and respond. nited response by all Because President
Imalde Certain "ess, in LCI view to the ian government had posals contained in er the TLULF senta Idul Til to the Indian
government setting out three basic positions: Firstly, we pointed out that the integrity of the Tail homeland of the northern and casteIn provinces as onë unit should be preserved, and that provincial councils being set up dividing the IWC) provinces would mewer tc | acceptable, Secondly, the I Wer (Wir land settlement and listribution in the north and east should be wested in the devolved authority. We pointed out that the government should not benefit from the illegal and immoral land Settlement policy which they had pursued for the last three decades thereby altering the demographic CUInposition in the TarTil areas. Thirdly, the main problem presently facing the Tamil people being one of security of life and property in their home areas, the power to deal with internal law and order should he vested in the devolved authority, These three issues are basic and not
negotiable,
- I -
SRI LANKA - ONLY PARTLY FREE' Says US State Dept.
AC(C(ORI) ING L, the United States State Department. Sri Lanka is only "partly free". Using the 'Freedom Huse" classificalitish of copil Tic:s hic State Departillent in its latest report to the US Senate' and the House of Representatives has described Sri Lanka as "partly free".
The Freedom House" classicalion citegrises countries as either frc: or partly free". The countries falling into the category of "free" are: Fiji, New Zealand, Belgium, France, FRG, Greece, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Iceland, Ireland, Solomon
Islands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Ca1:Ld:L. Del II mark, Finlını il, LuxcInbourg. The Nich crlands, Norway, Portugal, ճPain,
SWiA: rland, India.
The partly free countries are:
Iran, Taiwan. South Korea, South
Africa, Chile, Cirenada, Uganda,
Millaysia, Turkey. Bangladesh, Jordan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand. Bahrain, Bhutan, WHпшаш. WISTITI Sa Ili,
YLuglcIsl:h Wiii, , Fgypt, - Ku Wait, 4, Qa tar, Turkish portion of Cyprus, Hungary, Lebah I1, I MOT DCCC). Maltal. Pollid. Israel's Occupied territories, Nepal, Tunisia, L.A.E. Kenya.

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14TAMILTIMES
TRYING TO CELEB
AS THE season of advent hope and Christmas festivity draws near, all of us have to ask ourselves whether there is still some hope in our hearts for a peaceful and just settlement in our beautiful homeland. Extremisms of whatever hue, which selfishly try to hold on to their point of view, cannot really show us the path of peace and justice. They only make our people - both Sinhalese and Tamils - accumulate much negative karma which might take a long, long time to be freed from.
Even if the killings and lootings do not come to the human court so that the perpetrators could be punished, there is - thank God - a hidden nemesis, an inner justice which no one can escape. Crime is its own punishment. The whole land, and all the hearts are under a cloud. People live in fear. The country ceases to develop and progress. Not only the economy, but even the minds and hearts and memories have begun to shrink. How sad
Buddhists and Hindus, Muslims and Christians, all agree that violence begets violence. But there seems to be no end to it. The basic root of violence has to be eradicated. And the root of violence in our situation is the desire to control what does not legitimately belong to us - others' freedom, rights and homelands. The pursuit of such selfish domination-under whatever noble pretexts of unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty - cannot truly free people to be what they really are. Freedom to affirm one's identity - ethnic, religious, personal - cannot be bartered for any other convenience.
What we want for ourselves, we should be ready to let others have too. What the Israelis want for themselves, they should homeland of their own. What the Ulster Protestants want for themselves, they should concede also to the Irish Catholics - some kind of meaningful relationship to their motherland. English Canadians have to be sensitive to the rights, whether linguistic or economic, of the French Québecois. Africaaners in South Africa should give their fellow Blacks and Asians the same rights that they enjoy. Sinhalese in Sri Lanka must understand that like them the Tamils too want to be at home in their own country. That is not asking too: much. . . . -
Being at home means that one's language and home and homeland and other basic rights be fully respected. Exploitation, under whatever legal and political fiction, remains exploitation. Even the simplest folk can recognize that. Certain values, people hold more sacred than life itself, to the point of laying down their lives, if need be. One such value is freedom. Life without true freedom to be at home is lifeless life.
I have met thousands of Tamil refugees
in Europe, North America and India, who in spite of all the limitations of their displaced condition, seem to feel more at
Fr. Joachim Pillai, fi Ceylon National Semir is presently Profess Studies at the Toro Theology in Canada. member of the F Augustine's Seminar where he continues formation of future pri
home in their "new" pla refugees and immigrant they enjoy equal rights \ the land when it comest health, education a economic and political p life of the nation. B background in educatio) to work and contribute, immigrants seem to fare some of the local citizens eof freedom. In many pla three to five years, they c citizens.
Compare that to what our Indian Tamils on plantations. After many decades, having contrib the economy of the coun remain Stateless pauper rights in the country whi have laboured all their li cries to heaven. And in such things can be blesse beauty of the scenery. T on themselves. No one them. -
During the last few ye: Lanka, nearly half a mi been displaced - not to and cowardly killing civilians; and that is on been displaced. A terri the other five live in fea Of these only a tiny frac to get away to India over-crowded) and to W and build a new life. Su we all know, is not g problem of the grea remain, and want to homelands.
The hopewe celebra that the Ultimate in hun to birth where we leaste
amidst exile, poverty a
was born of a poor Nazareth, and put in th in Bethlehem. He col innocent, vulnerable displaced parents amid and suffering. Jesus an continue to invite us t harmony within our he: Glory to God in the hig And Peace to those of
Without goodwill an can be no peace. The remains a challenge to : Palestine or Northern Africa or Sri Lanka or

DECEMBER 1985
RATE CHRISTMAS
H
merly of the ry(1956to 71) r of Biblical to School of He is also a :ulty of St. of Toronto, his work o its. . -
'; since even as and new citizens ith the people of basic matters of i welfare, to rticipation in the 2cause of their and their desire few of these new even better than That is the heart ces, at the end of an be full-fledged
has happened to
the Sri Lanka generations and uted so richly to try, most of them with no political re they born and fe. Such injustice o land that does d- whatever the hey draw a curse needs to curse
ars of unrest in Sri Ellion Tamils have mention the cruel s of unarmed 2 in every six has ble statistic. And rand incertitude. ion has been able which is already 'estern countries, ch emigration, as ing to solve the t majority who remain in their
e at Christmas is anform can come xpect it, and often daffliction. Jesus displaced girl of crib of a manger tinues to be the
child born of t great insecurity the child-refugee
hear the angelic rtS:
|eSt
podwill. true justice, there hristmas message
lofus, whether in
Ireland or South sewhere.
No summit can bring peace. The participants are interested in their relative hegemony over the world. Summits can teach us how to balance war-heads and warring heads. True peace stars in the heart, a heart that is qualified with goodwill. Goodwill is to look with favour at the real needs of my neighbour - not to deny others what we so insistently want for ourselves: to be at home in our own home and homeland. :
The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth. It is this true graciousness that we wish each other at Christmas time. True graciousness will not deprive my neighbour of his basic rights and freedoms. We know what happened to the child of Bethlehem, when as a young man he started fighting for freedom. -
Remembering Jesus, we also remember all the young men who are sacrificing their lives in various ways so that the hoped for freedom and peace can be a reality for all. God help us. -
Fr. C.A. JOACHIMPILLA - , : Toronto, Ont. X’mas ’85
Human Rights Charterfor Refugees
The European Economic Community's . Refugee Forum is campaigning for a . European Charter which would guarantee basic human rights to all refugees. The hope is that such a charter will eventually be recognised and applied throughout Europe.
According to the Charter, refugees would enjoy equality of status with other EEC nationals in terms of political activity, rights of movement and work, and would also be entitled to welfare benefits.
Deepavali Massacre
AT AN inquest held by a Magistrate at Trincomalee into the deaths of Mylvaganam Kanthini (21) and Mylvaganam Rajeswari, their brother Mylvaganam Tharmalingam testified that the decased were his sisters.
Mr. Tharmalingam stated that he had come to his mother's house to celebrate the Hindu festival of Deepavali with his sisters at Kovil Street, Kantalai. He added, “Suddenly around midnight while I was resting, some security men entered our house and dragged away my two sisters, while they were shouting themselves hoarse. Later, their bulletriddled bodies were found at Usgirigama, Kantalai”.
Along with the bodies of the two dead sisters, there were four others. Nalliah Thiruchelvam (24) testified that one of the four was that of his elder brother, Ratnasingam aged 33.

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DECEMBER 1985
APPRECATION
Dr. S.A. Vettivelu
ያኔ glorious chipler i the annals f medical philanthropy in Jaffna has come a aHH Laa Ca La LaLHHLa a LLLS LSS LLLLLS
WETTIVELU
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15 October 5. 1985,
WETTITY"AR" thousands ոք րctiple who rushed to hill at the outset of ally
illness. This
staunch
disciple of
Hippocrates was all hopeaid help to both the rich and the pOOTat a time when à visit
to the dreaded thing.
Government Hospital was a
still
He died at the ripe (ld age of 84. The immortal poet. Thiruvalluvar likens
the Wise m1:II1 ta) :1 fI the vicinity; and if Ele Thiller of th indispecnsable: thin The people if Jaff rını isterable fe:Eclirlıg E - old is it was - th: thousands who is felled by Yama.
It was indeed practical wisdom (Gover T1 Incnit Scrvi Ellist It LII: alleviating the sui withibit crisultāti with free drugs. E With the long lcngthening with sl. H if Wi greatest philanthri. RcLittl Pri vilci; Subrmania T1 pop The ready simile in key to people'sur thekenlan Gods.
An agriculturist, but quiet participa country, he was ob turn of events ag Welfare was alway he:rt.
To nie w hi hii: living wistly and v son - lhe form separated from lhi impasse, elli shorl
"HARTALINTAMIL T
AREAS
LLLLLLLLSL LLLLL S La LLLLLLL S LLLLL LLaaLLLLLLL provinces observed a peaceful 'hart:ll' on NYTTbc 15 to markt hic cnämlicht. If the discriminatory laws on 15 November 1947 which deprived the Tamil plantation workers of their citizenship and franchise. The servince if the hittill was initiated by the T:imil mıilit:ärnt gr)Lip). Eel:ım1
Revolutionary
Organisation
(EROS)
and, according to reports, the response froll thic people was far in excess of the expectå tions of the organisters,
articularly in Batticaloa and affiti, almost all shops, schools, offices and hukinesses. Temained closed All form of LT: ISCI WCTC at a still distill. N. hearings took place in the Jaffna and Batticaloa courts, as the litigants, their lawyers and witnesses did not turn up. The cuurt staff shut up"shop' and returned'honne.
The Jaffna, city looked abandoned with the familiar buses, mini-buses, taxis, private Cars and evem bicycles nit to bi: scen anywhere. (Only one taxi was secin in the city carrying a coffin.
In the plantation areas, Nawalapitya, Talawakelle, Nuwara Eliya and Badullair) particular, posters appeared everywhere in support of the rights of the plantation
Tamils.
APPEAL
Thc Organis H tid: TI ft EE); (PROTEG) has providi ugaid to 2, 3 grants intlltlans II by Colombo to E ammunition to kill PROTEG 5:lid appeal Sil sul were signatoriest ol the Preventio Genocide of Janua
Mr. Challid convener, told Tel Sri Lanka's Fin Hric t: Mi: htti til (WII III's ty estillates for the Rs. 619.6 crores fo 283 crores or 7() allocittiorhofûr, cle" year. The Ministe that the Govern cxpenelitur: I WIJL for:ligh il ail, lqlar sources. Also, it w 2M) crotes from thi pLurchase a Timms : nd “Warmongers Chandrahasan sai had dicula Tickldir i [h.
 
 

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"lit tree in full hli bom in such a man happens to Ie sick, he iki 1 mL YTL: g = ii mcdicinal Lrc L. ma, ficel (piphaned at the his World: fu || LTc:: at spread its shadow to ught refuge, has been
characteristic of his that y het gave Fup ce well inting to spend part of his life in Terings of his people, }I fees and so IIletimes ult one had to reckoil quelle that startel
. |յtյի լր n the footsteps of the pist in Jasna he late al Surgec Ti Dr. P. ularly known as "PS". the lips of both was the bound: affection foi
hcrticulturist, a keen nt in the affairs of the viously agitated by the inst his people whose 5 near and clear to his
ki This tered the IT If cll, his anxiety for his T M.P. för Jiffmi. III during the present agreer which would
normally be that of a Centenarian par excellence.
He, however, leaves behind a tradition richer in professional skills and medical cthics; and it is left for others of such highIlindedness to fill the gap. The need for such noble IIlen has always been pressing bi Lut TheWeT I TIHTE: SC) L har The W,
(May Lord Siva grant his salternal rchi):
Сапаgasabai Vamadeva The late Dr.S.A. Wettivelu's funeral took place according to Hindurites ori 17 dictober. He leaves behind his widow Parajsakthy, sons W. Yogeswaran, Ex-MP for Jaffna Dr. Ganeswara (UK), Dr. RäjESWär är
(UK), Dr. Maheswa Tarı , (USA), daughters MT5. Bala yogi ni Rarnaria thari, Mrs. Kamaleswari Nadarajah and Mrs. Siwakumari
Thayaparan, and brothers Dr. S. Tharmalingam and S.A. Naliah.
MURDER ATFUNERAL
While funeral rites were being performed at the Hindu Cemetery in Trincomalee in castern Sri Lanka on 19 November, b{Tıbrıs were: thi TU-win Elit the Intourners by "Hırile Gua Tills”. E. In this incident, Sivapatham, aged 45, an employees of the Port in Cargo Corporation at Trincomalee, was killed and another ex-naval cmployee, W. Kanagasabili, was seriously injurcd. TThe explosion had ecurred at the conclusion of the funeral rites; otherwise IHէ: casualties would have been Inore.
TO STOPARMSAID TO SRI LANKA ||
In for the Protection f am from Genocide appealed to countries Sri Lanka to stop the is they were being Lisd »uy massive arms and
TallTills,
it || WHS III Elking this n : id-giwiI lg Co DI LI Ill Tit's the U.N. Convention in and Punishment of ry 12, 1951. "Elhalsällin. PR)|E
porters in Madrais thilt cMinister, Mr. Ronnic N.W.III 5.1: Ellis "enuc and expenditure coming year, allotting r defence. This was Rs. er içeriore hall the ferhoët in the previous Thillscoil handid T littacil Tent's entire capital It lie financed from ls, grants and other as seeking to allot Rs. 2 capital expenditure 1.
ilmmunition.
Besides, M. the Finance Minister : c) u mL ry's Pairli:L Ilmcnt
臀 on November 13 that "Sri Lanka is 1W fully prepared for war, and will receive the Տաբբort of the p:Աբlւ: Antither Minister hadcled for halt toll development Ectivitis te wage awa Tagainst the Tamil militants". Hence, PROTEGargued, Columbo was diverting its clevelopment funds its "war effort, Ilarinely the genocide of Tamils". What was more, Sri Larki used the ceasefire to get Consortium aid. While the Aid Cioni sur tiu ni meti on I Li nc 2 ] list, Sri Linkä haldi unilaterally dicclaricd cc: scfiTcfr. In June 18s) that it coullrictive: iii. But LLLLLL S S LLLaS LLLLLLLCCS CCaLaaaL S LLLS LS Government started - willating the ceasefire and submitted proposals already Tejected by the Tamil Organisatiris.
Replying to a questic of), he said Siri Linką Wą5 gettingirmaments from South Korc:.lsr::l. Sçiuth Africa :inci Pakislam since the CLT tries had refusel to supply theIl. FT. Plea to political parties in India: Mr. Chandrahasan also requested the political parties in India to put pressure on such donors to stop aiding Sri Lanka. The äppeall hald already becn sicut to thic Primne: Ministcr, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, and PROTEG would seek an appointment with hill 13 explain Lhe situ: Li Jih.

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TAMILS IN TH
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1. Early History:
Tamils had known Seychelles from time immemorial. Tamils, Arabs, Chinese, Persians and Malays had been the commercial overlords of the Indian ocean region through many centuries. These people were responsible for the trade between the littoral states of Asia and Africa.
"Thirai kadal odiyum thiraviam thedu" is a Tamil proverb recognising the adventurous and seafaring commercial entrepreneur from the Tamil country. Coco de mer, called “Thiruvoudu" in Tamil, were picked up by Tamils who came to Seychelles in the distant past.
Portuguese were said to have sighted these islands during the
16th century. Arab tombs washed away recently from the Silloutte
Islands bear testimony to the prePortuguese Asian past of the islands. One of the islands in the Aldabra group named Malabar island is indicative of longstanding Tamil influence in the region.
It has been frequently said that
Malabar and Malaya had been menacing the incoming colonialminded European politicocommercial sailors during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Ships laden with cargo belonging to the Portuguese and the Dutch were said to have been waylaid and robbed by these pirates.
From the Malabar coast, Kunjali was the leading pirate who crisscrossed the Indian ocean in search of Portuguese and Dutch cargo vessels. Kunjali had a flotilla of armed vessels protecting Tamil traders from the Portuguese and Dutch. For this purpose he was paid by the Naicker and Travancore kings in South India, and the kings of Jaffna and Kandy in Ceylon. Kunjali is supposed to have visited Seychelles with his men and used it as a base for his attacks. He took Coco de mer to the Kings in South india and Ceylon.
2. Recent History:
Recent records reveal that the first settlers of Seychelles left Mauritius on 27th August 1770 on board the vessel Telmadue de St. Malo led by Captain Lecore. Altogether there were 28 persons including 15 whites, 7 slaves, 5 Tamils as free labourers and 1 African woman. The purpose of this settlement was primarily to provide a port of call to the French ships sailing between
the
2.
the Asian pirates from Oman,
by K. Sachi
Mauritius and Pc thenon Tamils arr continuously as in
The initial eco Seychelles centre trees and exportir which received Pondicherry wher boat building yarı for one trip to PC were 15 to 20 sa months of Janua between POn Seychelles for the timber trade.
Tamils in and ar fertile Cauvery de travelled to Sey groceries, OOY textiles. Many Seychelles their married and broug Of the 20,000 c marriages in Sey 1795 and 1980 ab names. The num with Tamil names the total during during 1930 to 198
is Tamils from
Reunion also cam adventurers, sk traders and some the Governors. On
- Ramalingam fror
Came around 178
respect and ad
Governor of Sey him as one c Rewarding him th exemptions to th ordinance 3ՈC Ramalingam and to four times lan allocated to the ot
*** 3. Tamil Contribut
Tamils contri flowering and enr language and cult Many words of found in Cr * (Karuvepitai), Pc --Kai), Murinka (M ::(Maankai), Aamaa few examples. pattern of behavi people have influenced by Tan
In 1864, Mr. Na : his business in Se prosperous and possession of m land in Victoria. || Seychellois cons family as the pion in Seychelles.
in 1874, Mr. K established his bu

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E SEYCHELLES
hananthan
indicherry. From ved in Seychelles
migrants.
nomic activity in d around felling
g them. The port the timber was
i
the French had a i. it took 13 days indicherry. There
ilings during the y to September, dicherry and
purpose of this
ound the rich and , Ita of Tamil Nadu : chelles bringing ,
Sunner
goods,
of them made
second home,
ght forth children.
or so registered
schelles between i
but 800 had Tami ber of marriages rose from 2% of
1795-1845 to 5%
(0.
Mauritius and e to Seychelles as illed craftsmen, times advisers to
st
e of them was Mr.
m Reunion who
9. He earned the miration of the chelles who had if his advisers.
e Governor made e land allocation
| gave nis nephews three d as was usually her inhabitants.
ion:
buted to the schment of Creole ure in Seychelles. Tamil origin are eole. Karupilai osnika (Poosani
Mr.
༈
runkai Kai), Maa
(Aam for yes) are Habits and the our of Seychellois
been greatly ils.
icken established ychelles, became found himself in ost of the urban ven today many der the Naicken eers of Commerce
andasamy Chetty siness. Chetty is a
CO nnn On name in Seychelles. They are very active in all walks of life.
Around 1875, Mr. Pillay established his business and had been succeeded by a large number from the Mayiladu thurai Chidambaram townships of Tamil Nadu. Today, Pillay is a household word in business with every other 闊 shop in Seychelles owned by a
Ilay.
Around 5% of the Seychelles population today appear to retain their Tamil identity. A substantial proportion of the population are of Tamil descent. In 1901, there were 332 Tamil Hindus out of a population of 19,237. It cannot be ignored that by this time most Tamils and their descendants had been converted to Christianity. The construction of the International Airport in 1971 facilitated many Tamils to maintain close contact with Tamil Nadu. It is a fashion now to find a spouse from Tamil Nadu. The number of Tamil women resident in Seychelles has substantially increased during the last 15 years.
4. Tamilldentity:
Tamils willingly participated in the integration and development of
the Seychellois nation. However,
they as proud inheritors of a culture and tradition a few thousand years old have preserved its essence. The following steps have been taken by Tamils in Seychelles to retain their identity, culture and way of life.
O Decision to build a temple in Seychelles. Funds have been colle cted to purchase land. Thirupathy Devasthanam has tentatively agreed to provide finance and other
assistance in the construction and
maintenance of a temple.
O Regular prayers, meetings, religious festivals are conducted in the premises of the Seychelles Hindu Kovil Sangam.
O Tamil classes are conducted for children on Sundays.
O Tamili dançes like kolattam and kummi have been encouraged. Radio Television Seychelles usually telecasts kolattam and kummi dances by Tamil women.
O Katha kalachebam ΟΥ religious and other subjects is performed regularly.
O An exponent of the classical Tamil dance Bharatha Natyam has been invited by the Seychelles Hindu Kovil Sangam to perform in Seychelles.
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DECEMBER 1985
| TAMIL, TRAWAILS IN
HORRORIN THE JU
The following account was related by Mr. Kandasamy an English weekly published from Jaffna in northern Sri
"After certain incidents in our village on 14th August, the Security Forces who came to the area took away three youths from the neighbourhood. Their whereabouts could not be traced. All the villagers including myself, wife and children left Unit 2, Pavatkulam for the Refugee Camp at Pampaimadu.
At 8 a.m. on 1st November when I was
bn my way from Pampaimadu to
Vavuniya on a bicycle, Army personnel who were at Kalvelikulam stopped me and took me into the jungle.
In the jungle I was handed over to another three soldiers in uniform who were armed. The soldiers who brought me left after removing Rs.957 that was in my shirt pocket and ordering the other soldiers to kill me. The language spoken by the soldiers was Sinhala.
I was then stabbed by one of the soldiers who was in the jungle with a kris knife on the right side of my chest and I fell down.
Another soldier then placing one of his booted feet and pressing me to the ground cut me on the nape of my neck.
At this moment the soldiers who brought me into the jungle returned with a
fifteen year old boy and two of the three
soldiers who were with me, left leaving
one soldier with me.
After speaking to the youth and chasing
him away the two soldiers returned and
pressed me wi being hurt I cri on the right sic Blood gusht soldiers then I place.
They return kicked me tos I was almost
- Talking amon
dead, they left A few mi departed I hea amma' twice a not know what I then crawl towards Kalvel from the pond helicopter was myself.
Later, I wer post and remai as it was rainin On seeing m a man from there. He spo ascertained all This Sinhale neighbours ar carried me abo makeshift stret where they put requested the
Tamils of Herts
The third annual general meeting of the Tamil Union of Herts was held at Watford on the 24th November 1985. Well over 150 people including children were entertained to dinner, and a musical entertainment. A new working committee of 15 members from different areas was elected. The following are the office-bearers:- President - Mr. Logan Rasiah. Vice President- Dr. T. Sasitharan. Joint Secretaries Messrs. Thanabalasingam and Sathiyabalasingam.
The good wishes of the patrons, Mr. C.J.T. Thamotheram and Dr. T. Ratnavel, were conveyed to all members and it was agreed that the setting up of a Tamil School in 1986 would receive priority in future activities. It was resolved to contact families from all counties around Hertfordshire as well.
For details please write to P.O. Box 288, Watford, Herts. WD21BR, or Phone O92341458/662811.
A social evening with a variety entertainment is to be held on the 18th January with a view to attracting new members.
K. S.
سعد 3 .
This is the te ceasefire mc Mrs. Selvana of Mr. B. Ka dead by til Elephant Pas
I regret to following fact my husband 34/1, College )
On 18th husband was bearing No. 2 named Srisk person Kanagarajasin towards Puth When the lorr, barrier, the lo in front of the and the occ checked and a my husband, h when it was gunshot injuri the Army Can
 
 

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h their booted feet and on ed out. I was stabbed again e of my chest. R
d out of my injuries. The olled me over and left the
e whether I was alive. lifeless; I could not cry out, gst themselves that I was the place. nutes after the soldiers rd someone cry out, "Aiyo
little further away, but I do
really happened.
ed a distance of half-a-mile ikulam, drank a little water and rested. At this time a
hovering above and I hid
it into a house at 4th mile ned there for about 2 hours g. The house was deserted. e a dog started barking and the neighbourhood came ke to me in Sinhala and that happened. seman then summoned the ld with their assistance, ut one and a half miles in a cher to the Mannar Road me into the Mail Bus and m to drop me at the
Kandasamy Ponnusamy (35) of Pavatkulam, father of five children, ages ranging from five to fifteen, had this horrendous story to tell. He is now hospitalised and will not be able to resume his normal life for sometime.
Vavuniya Government Hospital.
w, Accordingly the Bus Conductor had me
ed after a few minutes and í
admitted in the Vavuniya Government Hospital at about 3.00 p.m.
On 3rd November 1985 the Hospital authorities had me transferred to the General Hospital, Jaffna."
GUNMEN KILL 4 TAMILS
A GANG of unidentified gunmen pulled five Tamils from a bus in the north central district of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka and shot four of them dead, according to a correspondent for the state-owned Daily News.
The reporter, Mr. Joseph Cabraal, said on 27 November that the sole survivor of the incident told the Polonnaruwa police that he and four other Tamils had been taken off the vehicle, brought to a nearby river and shot.
The man, identified as Raju Milton of
Kotahena in Colombo, said that the bus
was travelling from Colombo to the eastern town of Batticaloa on 25 November night. Mr. Milton was found by local residents with serious injuries.
SLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
A Tamil Driver's Fate
xt of a letter sent to the nitoring committee by yaki Kandasamy, widow hdasamy who was shot e Security forces at S.
bring to your notice the regarding the shooting of Balasingam Kandasamy of Road, Neeraviady, Jaffna.
November morning my driving an empty lorry 6 Sri 5881 with a cleaner antharajah and another amed Subramaniam gam along Kandy Road, kudiyiruppu from Jaffna. approached Elephant Pass ry was halted by the Police Army Camp. The vehicle upants were thoroughly lowed to pass. The driver, adjust started the lorry and in the move, he received 2s from bullets fired from
p.
On noticing the lorry being halted the Police on duty at the barrier rushed towards the lorry and ordered the driver to remove the lorry without delay. The cleaner Sriskantharajah thereupon pointed out to the Police that the driver had fallen down in his seat and was lying in a pool of blood. When the cleaner tried to awaken the driver, he was found to be dead. Therafter the body of my husband was removed to the Jaffna Hospital. The eye-witnesses to this incident are the cleaner, Sriskantharajah and the other person, Subramaniam Kanakarajasingam.
I beg to bring to your notice that I am a mother of seven children five of whom are girls. Only one daughter is married and
... my husband was the sole bread-winner of
the family. Besides the income he earned, I have no other means of income.
I beg that drastic action be taken against the offender. Please grant merelief for the maintenance of me and my family.
s
Mrs. S. Kandasanу

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TULF protests ove
The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) has in a telegram to President J.R. Jayawardene protested against the "forcible eviction" of Tamils from villages in the Trincomalee district to settle Sinhalese there and urging an "immediate cessation of this diabolical plan”.
"The Hindu' in a report has said that an identical telegram was also sent to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi requesting his “effective and immediate action to save the Tamils of Trincomalee'.
The telegram states that the decision to declare Sompur, Senaiyur, Kattaiparichan, Koonitheevu and other villages in Mudur, as prohibited zones and to forcibly evict Tamils and refugees was inhuman and added to the misery of the already suffering people.
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.*(CEASEIFIRE PANELIS IWEFFECTIVE7
"At least one useful thing that the , Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (CMC) could do was to publish the reports of its inquiries of incidents of violence and violations of the ceasefire. But even this has been prohibited by the government of Sri Lanka”, a spokesman for the Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF), an umbrella organisation of four Tamil militant groups, said.
One of the points of agreement under which the ENLF agreed to the appointment of the CMC was that the Committee should have the right to publish its findings. However, the Sri Lanka government has promulgated an Emergency Regulation which prohibits such publication. The relevant regulation states, “No person shall, without the prior approval of the Secretary-General (of the Committee), publish in any newspaper within Sri Lanka or transmit from Sri Lanka to any place outside Sri Lanka for publishing any matter relating to the meetings and inquiries of the Committee'.
The ENLF spokesman said that the CMC has inquired into several incidents in which the security forces have killed and injured Tamil civilians and burnt their properties in the Tamil areas, but the government has banned the publication of their findings, because they must certainly be unfavourable to the government. In this context, the CMC had lost its purpose and become ineffective, the spokesman
added.
It was part of the ceasefire agreement
that the army would be confined to barracks and the so-called Home Guards disarmed and disbanded. However, the "Home Guards are continuing to terrorise the Tamil people and the security forces are carrying on their 'search and destroy operations. Hence it became necessary for the militant groups to counter-attack to protect the Tamil civilian population, said the ENLF spokesman.
The CMC lacked the independence and . freedom to carry out its work with
impartiality because it depended on the security forces for their transport and security. The Tamil people were frightened to complain when the CMC members were surrounded by the army, added the ENLF. Mr. V. Prabakaran, the leader of the LTTE, in a statement said, “The Sri Lankan army has not gone out of control. Jayawardene is masterminding these attacks on the Tamils. He is playing a double game. He gives his instructions to unleash havoc and then claims that his armed forces have got out of control.
“The ceasefire is a drama. Under its guise, the Sri Lankan armed forces are
continuing to perpetrate atrocities against
our people; massacres are still going on; and Tamils are still being driven out of their homes”.
Prince of
GANDEE Vaikunt Lankan Tamil artist to paint the portrait former British Prir Macmillan.
Prince Charles un November 21 in the City of London, in Stockton, the artist
Warden, freemen a
“Company of Statio Makers.”
The Company Vaikunthavasan to when he won the ol by the Company. gave six sittings to th Birch Grove Hous Sussex, agreed to S condition that it wat under 30, "so as to chance.”
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DECEMBER 1985
Wales unveils Lord Stockton's Portrait
havasan, a young Sri was recently chosen of the Earl Stockton, he Minister, Harold
veiled the portrait on Stationers' Hall in the the presence of Lord himself, the Master, ind liverymen of the ners and Newspapers
commissioned Mr. paint the portrait pen competition held Lord Stockton, who le artist athis home at e, Haywards Heath, it for the picture on
give a young artist a
is Lord Stockton in a folded over a walking
painting was that of Pushkin.
Unveiling the portrait, Prince Charles
said: "He (Lord Stockton) manages to think at least 50 years ahead, which, for
somebody in their nineties, is quite
remarkable.”
Mr. Vaikunthavasan, replying said: "This is a very special occasion for me and I would like to thank Lord Stockton for creating this wonderful opportunity by insisting that it should be a young artist and for his patience, co-operation, kindness and hospitality.”
Mr. Vaikunthavasan is a graduate in Fine Arts (B.A. Honours) from Kingston Polytechnic. He started painting from the age of five, when he was a student at the Colombo Hindu College. His first The portraits of notable personalities already
painted by someone painted by him include those of Mrs.
Indira Gandhi, President Kaunda, Chairman Mao, President Mobutu, and former US President Jimmy Carter. He
personally presented the portrait of Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi to her when she visited Zambia in 1976.
ARADISE ISLE...
of the 'open economy' advocated by the World Bank and emented by the Jayawardene regime in Sri Lanka, the rements' have been revealed in official reports:
people live below the official poverty line of a family income
every three pre-school children is seriously malnourished. illiteracy and drop-outs from free education is growing. every 8 persons suffers from mental sickness due to worry
idiction, male and female prostitution, venereal diseases and general are markedly on the increase. d corruption have broken all previously known records.
uddhist priest had no
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ld nuns and school
every 5 persons of working age is unemployed or seriously
children, were injured, some seriously, when the security forces launched an unprovoked attack upon a peace procession in the eastern Tamil town of Batticaloa when the marchers were on their way to present a memorandum to the Deputy Superintendent of Police seeking to be “allowed to live in peace". The incident occurred on 22 November.