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Editorial................................... 2 Sri Lanka Conflict Deepens.....3 Citizenship Rights for Plantation Tamils.................... 4. 21 Tamis Massacred in Muthur................................. 6 E.N.L.F.'s November Memo.8 Jaffna City, A Security Zone ................................. O "Operation Bullet-Rain"...... 11 The Tulf Proposals For Regional Autonomy........, 12/13 "National Identity is the Ouestion"................... 14 How Mot To Solve. The National 0uestion................. 15 Letters To The Editor............. 16 "Women for Peace"........... 18 What The Others Say............ 19 Classified Advertisements.20 Stateless No More?............... 22 Army Gang-Rapes Women and Kills Ten Males............... 24 Wie wys BxPTESSE id by Cor Atributors af Erhot Heçessarily those of the editor Cor the Publishers, The publishers assume no responsibility for return of unsolicitad Tanuscripts, Photographs and artwork.
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WAR
Says Jayawardene
rardene of Sri Lanka has come out into the open with what he has acretly preparing for - a declaration of War against the island's ty, "I shall have a military solution to what I believe is a military id in an interview with the Indian journalist, Kudlip Nayar,
said to have been outburst of the rather if not unreliable, uch so Rajiv Gandhi mediate cancellation of Secretary, Romesh to Colombo. The visit | efforts to resume end the ethnic conflict eaceful solution, President spelt out his agy, his security forces in a sustained and IrTmpaign of military Tamil north and east raying bullets from the Ortar shells into thickly s, resulting in scores of ties, are continuing forces, including the eguards', consisting of of thugs and lumper nts, were committing |ous crimes of Tlass ind är son against the Con an un precedented cloak of fighting a War
". ng this War . . . I have se that only success it care what New Delhi, ther country says. How effectively can | Ti|itants is the Crux of dl at on the point of . Fe told the Indiari
astorished senior | rights activist in responded: "Yes,
trying to achieve his ing the militants, but by Tmil Breas into a Thass
|g this war of virtual st a section of Sri pulation, Jaya Wardene claimed, "My army is d and better trained, ге Weapons. Cошпtries E training my men. In s the charade of the
Bhutan talks was continuing), "Pakistal trained 60 Officers and 1500 Junior Corrissioned Officers. My Air Force is also being trained by people from abroad." The fact of the Tatter is that the President's so-called trained army and air force are notable to track down and confront the Tamil militants, but are engaged in 'raining bullets' from helicopters equipped with a fire capacity of 4000 rounds a minute and his men are erTiploying these lethal weapons shooting indiscriminately is to civilian Centres with dozens of Casualties at a tina.
To the Tamil community of Sri Lanka, the war-mongering statement of the President comes as no surprise. They hawe had enough experienca over the decades of double talk, duplicity, deceit and blatant lies from the Sinhala-dominated leadership in Colombo. That all their endea wo Lur Was for a political solution to the island's ethnic strife was something which the Tamils had doubted always. The President has only windicated and Confirmed what the Tamil militants had repeatedly asserted: President Jayawardene was only buying time to strengthen his military machine by engaging in bogus negotiations.
Army atrocities that are being continuously committed in the Tani areas confirm what the President has stated in words, The following are a few of the many incidents reported recently:
23, 1.86: A combined foray by army, nawy and air force personnel im carrying out a 'Search and destroy Operation i Tellipalai, Wee manka Tiam, Kadduwan and Other adjoining willages in the Jaffna district, killed 16 civilians, injured several Tore, and set fire to 22 houses. One war and several cars. One of the wictims was the head teacher of Gamesha Widyasalai, Mr. Wara tħaraje
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IF ONLY, President Zia announced during his recent visit to Kandy, while on a foolish UNP fishing-trip in Sri Lankan Muslim waters, Pakistan had been an armsproducing or trading nation, I would have put all I had in support of Lanka's war against terrorism'. With political friends like this - who has little more than state-supported heroin manufacture to put on the world market - what need has Jayawardene ofenemies?
Nevertheless, Jayawardene has enemies, and as the Vietnamese-style body-count rises, their number is also growing, inside and outside Sri Lanka, the recent arrests of Sinhalese left 'traitors' show how deep a mess Colombo is in. And in such a mess, there is nothing that Pakistan's Zia can pass on, no lessons - military or political- he can teach Jayawardene which will not make the mess deeper. "I am winning the war', the latter has announced (yet again), to The Times New Delhi correspondent. But what is this "war' except an unwinnable conflict with the Tamils of Sri Lanka, a conflict which is relentlessly carrying Sinhalese interests (ask the Sinhalese refugees in their camps in Sri Lanka) down with it? 'I am on the point of exterminating the militants. Only success matters', Jayawardene added, polishing his Dharmista image, with nothing to offer except a Nirvana of endless bloodshed on "Buddha's island'. ܗܝ
But the truth is completely different from these shamelessly uncivilized pronouncements. Instead, just as the Sri Lankan economy is spinning into disaster, so the "war' - another word for the refusal to compromise with the just demands of the Tamil people - is no longer within Colombo's means to control. Its impact, like the shock wave of a continuous eruption, is spreading across the island, its tremors now regularly shaking the very heartlands of the economy of Sri Lanka. (At the moment, there is idle talk of elections. But how could this be held in those areas of Sri Lanka now lost to Colombo?). The crude and amateurish bluff of the Colombo regime may struggle to conceal what has happened to Sri Lanka. But the level of knowledge of the truth is also rising in the world's media; recent coverage in The Times reveals it.
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E REACTION of Mrs. Bandaranaike, the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, to the decision of the government to restore citizenship rights to the long suffering plantation workers is typical. Her unprincipled politics, blatant opportunism and her capacity to rouse the basest racist feelings among the Sinhalese to gain political power are manifest more than ever before.
Mrs. Bandaranaike is also lacking in gratitude. Except the diehards of the UNP leadership, all the opposition parties, trade unions including those of the plantation workers, and the Tamil United Liberation Front had consistently opposed the deprivation of her civic rights and all of them had repeatedly called upon the government to restore her rights. Having got her civic rights back, she agitates for the plantation workers to remain deprived of their basic rights.
Mrs. Bandaranaike's complaint is that the electorates in the central highlands would hereafter return MPs
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Even the splits in Jayawardene's own ranks - with Finance Minister de Mel, struggling to cope with Sri Lanka's near bankruptcy, on one side, and the Sinhalese "warriors' on the other - have become obvious.
Yet what non-Tamils (and many Tamils themselves) fail to grasp is that the old Sri Lanka can never be put back together. Not by Jayawardene's policy of 'extermination; not by elections, even if they could be held not with the aid of Zia, or Reagan, or whoever, and not by political manoeuvre, whether by Jayawardene or those who will in the near future succeed him. Pakistani, British, Israeli, Italian, Chinese, American or South African guns can only wound, and wound again, the bleeding state of Sri Lanka, wounds caused in the first instance not by Tamils, but by those who should have been, but never were, guardians of the interests of all the people of the nation.
Within a year, Jayawardene, flexing his Pakistani muscles, has also told The Times, 'the army will have eliminated violence'. (To do that, it would have to begin by purging its own ranks of sadists). If only it were true. But it isn't, and today, at last, it is not only the Tamil Times, but also the London Times which knows it. Moreover, the real and fundamental reasons why it will not come to pass are not found in Madras, nor in the "wickedness' of 'terrorists', nor in the ill-will of the Tamils. They are to be found - as all Tamils, most impartial, international observers, and even a growing number of Sinhalese know full well-in Colombo.
In the meantime, Jayawardene is welcomed to the embrace of the military dictator, and 'elected President, Zia. It is an embrace, like that between Colombo and Pretoria, the S.A.S. and Mossad, which shames Sri. Lanka, an embrace between blood brothers. And for what? Sickeningly, to secure the 'extermination' of 'terrorists' in the name of the Buddha's peace and justice. But who are the 'terrorists'? They are citizens of Sri Lanka, militants and civilians, Tamil men, Tamil women and Tamil children. What is being done to them cannot, and never will, beforgiven.
amil Plantation Workers
representing the plantation workers with the grant of citizenship to them. Why not? In fact these electorates did return MPs representing the plantation workers before they were cruelly and arbitrarily deprived of their franchise in 1949 by a government of which her late husband was a Minister.
We are also constrained to ask: If the late Mr.
S.W.R. D. Bandaranaike, a descendant of the South Indian Nilaperumal, could be Prime Minister; his son, Anura Bandaranaike, could be Leader of the Opposition and certainly entertaining further ambitions, and if J.R. Jayawardene, a direct descendant of the South Indian
Thambi Mudaliyar, can occupy the elevated position of Sri Lanka's president, why cannot the plantation Tamils, although of Indian origin, who by their sweat and toil produce the bulk of Sri Lanka's national wealth, have their rights restored and return MPs of their choice?
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the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in the near future would are other indications that New Delhi is wearying of the Lanka president, Mr. J. R. Jayawardene, wants the Romesh Bhandari, to come to Colombo for further di apparently taking its time sending him there. According in The Hindu (January 14), “it has been made amply Jayawardene) that no useful purpose would be served by
this stage. . .'
Unfortunately, New Delhi is inabind of its own making. By involving itself more and more deeply in the negotiations for a compromise, it reduces its own effectiveness as a mediator when its exertions prove repeatedly fruitless. When, aware of this, it chooses to distance itself somewhat from the conflict, it risks seeing it rapidly deteriorate as the protagonists, with no outside agency that they respect reining them in any more, rush headlong into bloody violence. As the stakes are further raised, it becomes yet more difficult for New Delhi to apply its mediatory skills to effect.
New Delhi's plight is not a little due to
its reluctance to turn the screw on.
Colombo. There has never been any question of its being able or willing to do so with the Tamil militants. The result of this lack of evenhandedness has been to encourage Colombo to believe that the more it stalls, the more New Delhi will pressure the Tamil representatives to make concessions. True, President Jayawardene did submit his proposals some months ago But he did so only after being repeatedly urged by New Delhi. One has only to recall his about-turn on the Annexure C proposals on which he had previously concurred with the then chief Indian mediator, Mr. G.
Parthasarathy, to realise that Colombo's
strategy has been to play for time, keep New Delhi quiet by appearing to go along with its plans and, meanwhile, to equip Sri Lanka's security forces to be more than a match for the Tamil militants. in
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Having, by and large, attained these objectives - President Jayawardene has confidently said his government is now ready for “peace or war" - Colombo has not yet bothered to respond to the TULF's counter-proposals to its original suggestions, it also continues to shift its ground. At one time, it would not so much as countenance the Tamil demand for the nerger of the northern and eastern provinces into a single, autonomous unit since this would be to pave the way for Tamil secessionism. Sensitive to its susceptibilities, New Delhi made it clear to the Tamil leaders - evidence of its
preparedness to on Colombo - such a merger.
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hat finding asolution to every difficult'. There issue. Although the Sri foreign secretary, Mr. scussions, New Delhi is to G. K. Reddy, writing clear to him (President Mr. Bhandari's visit at
lean on them rather than that it could not support
that round, President en began to hem and haw F's other demands for vinces powers to maintain regulate land settlement, ion, and so on. Yet, he merger proposal was
the main obstacle to a was prepared to consider on the principle that the i have powers similar to y states in India. present response - being - is inadequate and plays ombo's hands. While New s in the feeling that arting under its studied Sri Lanka security forces nche, which is what New nd hauteur gives them in after the Tamil militants astating gadgetry that ly augmented defence -and-a-halfbillion rupees ovided them.
ping Body (g a ollapse of the ceasefire mittee could not have convenient time for the military solution" in Sri e resignation from the embers representing the it has been reduced to a body required only to approval on whatever the Tamils, militants or anka soldiers might. just before the two committee had found endorse the security 16 Tamils who had died aths in a recent incident since of Batticaloa were the crossfire between militants. This was ing that they had been after, one of the two the militants on the himself the target of a
which he only just
survived, while the other received numerous threats to his life. .
These developments took place even as the security forces began to make Jaffna, Province, the Tamil heartland, the focus of their offensive. Earlier, the militants had been able to restrict the fighting to the edges of Tamil-inhabited areas in the north and east and occasionally even to carry it into predominantly Sinhalese areas. With the army making it a major objective to take the bloodletting into the Tamil-dominated northern and eastern provinces, an over-scrupulous ceasefire monitoring committee, which the retention of representatives of the Tamil militants would have made it, would only have been a hindrance, ܀
Not long ago, Mr Rajiv Gandhi said that Indian Tamils from Sri Lanka's central highlands plantation who have chosen to become Indian citizens, given up their jobs, collected their dues and are ready to leave will not be accepted here unless the Sri Lanka Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, who fled Sri Lanka after the 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom and after the army began to crack down on the Tamil militants, are able to go back to their homes in safety. If this was meant to pressure Colombo into being more forthcoming in resolving the ethnic dispute, it was misconceived, it would only have boomeranged on New Delhi which would have fallen foul of applying extraneous conditions to the execution of an agreement to which it is a signatory and which would also have penalised not Colombo but innocent. Indian Tamils who had burnt all their boats.
Fortunately, the new Indo-Sri Lankan agreement on the status of Indian Tamils makes it clear that New Delhi has given up any such dubious notion of “linkage”. It has undertaken to confer citizenshp on nearly 85,000 Indian Tamils, while Sri Lanka will do the same for another 94,000 of them. Between them, the entire Indian Tamil population of 975,000 covered by the 1964 Shastri-Sirimavo pact have now been assured the security they have long been seeking. However, in view of the tardiness with which the pact has so far been implemented, it would be premature to be too optimistic about the execution of the latest accord. In any case, the conferment of citizenship is one thing, actual repatriation another.
The agreement is not without implications for the ethinic conflict. Colombo has always wanted to ensure, against the forging of an anti-Sinhalese alliance between the Sri Lanka Tamils and
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CITIZENSHIP RIGHT PLANTATION TAN
THE LONG overdue restoration of citizenship rights to the plantation Tamils of Sri Lanka, not all who are presently regarded as 'stateless', but to 94,000 and their natural increases since 1964, is a singularly important event. Had they not been arbitrarily deprived of their basic rights of citizenship, nationality and franchise in 1948, the history of Sri Lanka would have evolved in a different direction. The political and economic clout of this all important sector of the working class, an important and sizeable segment of the ethnic Tamil population, would have made all the difference in the world. The paralysis that afflicts the left and the trade union movement and the chauvinist poison that permeates Sri Lankan society could have been avoided.
In deciding to restore their citizenship rights, the government bowed to the first and only political action launched by the plantation workers led by the Ceylon Workers Congress. Since 1948, they have gone on strike many a time for varied reasons, but never for their basic rights of citizenship and the vote.
The CWC launched its campaign of prayer beginning January 14. The CVC leadership must be congratulated for the ingenious method they chose to highlight their plight; all the plantation workers were to down tools for four hours each day and engage in prayer. It did not, on the face of it, pose any challenge to anybody; it could not have been described as unduly provocative. When the campaign was announced, no one, including the government, took it seriously. However, as the days drew closer to January 14, the potential repercussions of the action come to be felt everywhere. The most important fear was the damage to an already beleaguered tea industry.
Having ridiculed the idea of a prayer campaign to begin with, government leaders began to threaten the CWC. Minister Gamini Dissanayake who heads a rival plantation union, in announcing that his union would not join the campaign, warned his cabinet colleague, Mr. Thondaman, that the latter was being provocative and that the action would result in a major outbreak of communal violence. The state-controlled media was even worse - one editorial said: Pray and
be damned. The warned the worker not be paid for the though they might t hours. The CWC announcing that . happen, the worker the whole day.
No amount of persuade the CWC campaign. Other ul on the bandwago support. Hurrie between the g Thondaman, government and In Thondaman and t Minister ended with announcement of it citizenship rights to persons and their Despite mounting opposition Sri Lank
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government also that they would whole day even e away for only 4 responded by f that were to would "pray' for
pressure could
to abandon the ions too jumped and extended negotiations overnment and between the dia, and between he Indian Prime the government's decision to grant 94,000 “stateless” natural increase. threats from the a Freedom party
ourtesy of The Hindu
raditional Sinhala the government through the l.
the plantation heir basic rights how of industrial nders why the workers waited so im to decades of cible repatriation ls of them, when :ould have been
equal effect. 'antime, Mrs. s once again
iliar anti-Tamil, horse. Her party, an assortment of t organisations, Bill to grant
courts without
2ntly going round
the country denouncing the government's action as a betrayal of the Sinhala-Buddhists. She has got a friendly and powerful ally in her campaign in the Buddhist clergy. The blatant opportunism of this unprincipled ally is evident in its present opposition to the government's action, when in February 1984 it recommended the grant of citizenship rights to the “stateless’ on the ground that it would remove any cause India might have to interfere in Sri Lankan affairs. Now that they seem to be confident of India's non-intervention, the Buddhist clergy has performed a volte-face.
The whipping up of anti-plantation Tamil feeling by the SLFP and its supporters has already resulted in sporadic violence in the plantation areas, necessitating the imposition of dusk to dawn curfews. Although the violence seems to have been contained within mangageable proportions, the danger of escalation is ever present. Mrs. Bandaranaike and other chauvinist sections, both within and outside the government, have to be held directly responsible for the ensuing violence.
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Regional Autonomy
TO PREVENT disaster to the whole nation, start negotiations, urges the Sri Lanka Communist Party.
The Communist Party urges the Sri Lankan government to start negotiations for a political solution to the National Ouestion on the basis of the alternative proposals put forward by the TULF through the Indian Government.
"If the government rejects this and proceeds with the military solution to the problem, that will only drive the whole nation and the entire people to disaster more severe than the present".
The statement adds that the party firmly believes that regional autonomy is the solution to the National Ouestion.
Friends For The Anguished
"HELP US to rehabilitate these destitute patients” appeals the Friends of the Psychiatric Unit, District Hospital, Tellipalai, Sri Lanka.
"We have established a library for the patients. We wish to start training in cultivation and small industry suitable to each individual patient".
It is the generosity of the public that has made it possible for this Society to carry on its good work. “Please send your contributions to the Treasurer, Friends of the Psychiatric Unit, District Hospital, Tellippalai, Sri Lanka”, pleads the Society. ہ "س"۔ نہ کی۔iڈیہ زکا تحت غید

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The Cabinet has given the green light to racism in spor the controversial British "B-Team” of British cricketer 9 and will play in Sri Lanka against various sides for an
The visiting team is not a Test side, nor is its visit part It has become the source of international controversy including four players who broke the international : South Africa by playing there for big money.
The present tour was intended to include Bang Zimbabwe. But Bangladesh cancelled the tour as the including the four players who had played in South A also created a storm in Zimbabwe, where the tour has
In Sri Lanka, however, the decision to go ahead with Cabinet on January 3. To make matters worse, extra In that the visitors could spend the time here they would
Bangladesh.
The disgraceful decision by the Cabinet runs contrar ban several Sri Lankan cricketers, who had also brok Africa for big money, from taking part in first class crick
Sports circles are wondering whether this latest decis process of reversing this decision. ኧ
Political circles see the decision as "yet another Jayawardene Cabinet of its determination to go along however reprehensible, come what may.
They compare it with President Jayawardene's r Britain for the fact that Sri Lanka's representative supported Britain when its colonial war in connection came under almost universal condemnation in the Wor
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t by its decision to accept s who arrived on January nonth.
: ofan official Test series. due to the insistence on sports ban on apartheid
gladesh, Sri Lanka and : British side insisted on frica. Their inclusion has also been cancelled.
the visit was taken by the hatches were agreed to so otherwise have spent in
y to an earlier decision to 2n ranks to play in South ket here for several years.
tion is the first step in the
demonstration by the with any British decision,
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the Indian Tamils. The S. are, of course, not involved in the former's struggle for Eelam or autonomy; the different interests, experience and history of the two Tamil communities have prevented them from forming a single entity. The presence in the Sri Lanka cabinet throughout the post-1983 intensification of the Sri Lanka TamilSinhalese conflict of Mr S. Thondaman the Indian Tamils' leader, speaks volumes for their non-engagement in that struggle. Nevertheless, the Sinhalese apprehend that such an alliance is not inconceivable, especially if Sinhalese chauvinism continues, as it has done in the past, to savage Indian Tamils who live in overwhelmingly Sinhalese areas and are only too exposed to Sinhalese fury whenever it vents itself. The agreement with New Delhi, which both governments have said will resolve once and for all the long-standing problem of the statelessness of Indian Tamils, may not have been purely expediently motivated on Colombo's side. But it does further its objective of preventing the emergence of any coincidence of interests between Indian and Sri Lanka Tamils. At the same time, the restoration of Mrs Sirimavo Bandarnaike's civic rights could help to unite and rally the Sinhalese majority behind President Jayawardene should he decide to pursue a military solution less ambiguously than now.
New Delhi's Role
In such euphoria as the agreement may generate - to the extent it promotes IndoSri Lankan goodwill, it does reinforce New Delhi's mediatory role in the ethnic conflict - New Delhi should not unlearn the lesson it is apparently learning from Colombo's deliberate dilatoriness on the still-stalemated talks with TULF leaders. It needs to and must get tough with Colombo. Standing aloof and being distant will achieve nothing except to give Colombo the free rein it wants to be able to clobber the militants without incurring
New Delhi’s wrath. New Delhi must, if
anything, involve itself more deeply than before in resolving the conflict and badger Colombo into spelling out just how much autonomy it is prepared to concede the Tamils. Simultaneously, Colombo must be told that the pursuit, however disguised, of a “military solution” will only hasten the advent of the very contingency it is striving every nerve to avert.
By Courtesy of The Times of India (27 January 1986)
THE REFUGEES numbering over 300 at the Kachcheri-Navalar Road camp in Jaffna, were provided with a special lunch on 2nd January. The programme was organised under the auspices of the Saturday Review Refugees Relief Fund and was in memory of Mr. S. Ambalavanar, the brother of the late Mr. S. Kathiravetpillai MP.

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N27NOVEMBER 1985, in a combined 'operation' by
the Sri Lankan armed forces and the so-called home guards in four villages in the eastern town of Muthur, 21 Tamils were brutally murdered and 165 houses set ablaze. Of the 22 Tamils arrested on this occasion, 18were shot dead and their bodies burnt at 5th mile post at Sampoor, and the balance, 4, were taken to a gun-boat and shot. Three of them died and one, Kandiah Sundaram, 30 years old, survived to tell the tale.
The following details are in the possession of the Trincomalee Citizens Committee, and they have been presented to the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee too:
1. ATKADDAIPARICHAN at about 4.30 a.m. 25 Houses burnt. 2 Persons arrested:
Age Occupation Subramaniam Sinnaiah 26 Labourer Kangesu Alakasundaram 32 Labourer 2. ATCHENAIYOOR at about 7.30 a.m. 20 Houses burnt. 9 Persons arrested: Pathinian Thurairetnam 29 Labourer Natsingam Sri 20 Labourer Vinayagamoorbhy Thurainayagam 38 Labourer Vyramani Sinnarajah 22 Labourer Sellathurai Wavaratnarajah 25. Labourer Selvarajah Ganeshalingam 22 Farmer Ponnaiah Singaravelu 22 Labourer Selvarajah Murugan 18 Labourer Shanmugam Arul 19 Labourer
ARMY KILLS SIX TA AWD LOOTS JEMMEL
The coldblooded murder of six Tamils about midnight of 10/11 the Sri Lankan armed forces at Kantalai was subsequentl state-controlled media as having been perpetrated by Tamil T In a letter dated 16 November 1985 addressed to the Secret Ceasefire Monitoring Committee, the Citizens Committee for of Trincomalee, a body composed of Sinhalese, Muslims and details of the incident and looting of jewellery carried out b security forces.
The Citizens Committee states in their letter that they had circumstances and found the facts as follows:
On Saturday, the 9th instant at about
3.00p.m. agroup of Army personnel came to the village of Kantalai along Kovil Road where Tamil people are resident. They got down from their vehicle and walked into
every house situated on this road and occupied by Tamils, with the excuse that they were doing a "Check". They elicited particulars regarding all the inmates in such houses. The males who were present at that time were assaulted and threatene with death.
f. These Army personnel went to one Markandu's house. An old lady was the
sole occupant at that time. They ransacked the house. One of the rooms was padlocked. They broke open the door and ransacked that room too. Next they went to one Chitravelu's house and then to
Jeevanandan's house. houses were threatene they should get out 16. II. 1985. On the sa Army personnel we Temple premises alsc Priest of this Temple.
On the Ith instan the same Tamil people vehicle coming alon towards their houses. personnel got down f walked towards one house and tappedon til did not open the door them and then wa Chitravelu's house.
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3. ATKADDAKARACHENA at about 10.00 a.m. 20 Houses burnt. 9 persons arrested:
Age Occupation Gopalapillai Nagaratnảm 21 Labourer Karthigesu Kathirgamathamby 40 Carpenter Sinnathamby Sivyogamoorthy 23 Labourer Kathirgamathamby Kanagasingam 35 Pump
attendant
4. ATSAMPOOR at about 1.00 p.m.
All the above mentioned arrested persons were taken to Sampoor and eighteen (18) of them shot dead and the bodies were burnt. Later they burnt about 100 houses, and arrested 2 more persons at Sampoor Maha Vidyalaya Refugee's Camp.
Age Occupation Kandaiah Suntharam 30 Labourer Vyramuthu Thurairajasingam 22 Labourer
Then, from Sampoor, the Armed Forces and Home Guards moved towards the Sea Beach and proceeded to the place called "Vaddam' near Kadakaraichenai, where the Navy Gun Boat was anchored.
The Armed personnel and the Home Guards got into the Gun Boat with the help of the 4 remaining arrested persons. These 4 persons carried and helped the Security personnel to get into the Gun Boat. Then the Armed Forces who were on the Gun Boat ordered the 4 persons to sit on one edge of the small plastic boat, (which they used for carrying them to the Gun Boat from the shore) and shot them. Three were killed on the spot. The only one
who survived was Kandaiah Suntharam from Sampoor.
MILs 1 LERY
November 1985 by y reported in the errorists’. ary General of the National Harmony Tamils, has given y members of the
investigated all the
The inmates of these d to the effect that of Kantalai before
ne day this group of
ut into the Hindu and assaulted the
, at about midnight heard the noise of a g the Kovil Road
A group of Army'
om this vehicle and Ratnasabapathy's e door. The inmates . The group abused ked towards one
inmates opened the onnel threatened to
They threatened
take the two grown up daughters of the occupant to the Army Camp for an "inquiry". The two girls and their mother wailed. They left them and went on to the next house belonging to Naliah Soundariamma and banged the door. Soundariamma's son, Ratnasingam aged 33 years, came out. The Army personnel
detained him and ordered him to wait
outside and not to move.
Then they went into one Mylvaganam's house. In this house, the Army personnel took into custody four persons namely, Mylvaganam Rajeswary
- female aged 24 years Mylvaganam Shanthini
- female aged 20 years
Kathirkamathamby Shanmugarajah . . . i
, , - male aged 35 years Mamasivayam Thevarajah . . .
- male aged 34 years Mrs. Mylvaganam when she cried and robbed her of her thalikody (gold chain with thali) which she was wearing round her neck at that time. Then they went into the next house and took one Vethanayagam Kugendrarajah, male aged 30 years, into custody.
: It was about 2.00 a.m. by this time and
the Army Personnel took all the above mentioned six persons, four males and two females, whom they took into custody to their vehicle and drove off with them out of
the village.
Next morning, the dead bodies of these Continued opposite

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FEBRUARY 1986 MWHY THEY RESIGNED
THE resignation of Professor K. Sivathamby and Mr. K. Sivapalan from the Committee Monitoring the Cessation of Hostilities (CMCH) will seriously weaken the authority of the Committee.
The two members who resigned were the only ones chosen by the government from a list of names submitted by the ENLF. All others were government nominees.
The two resignees were independent representatives of Tamil opinion. Both are leading figures in the Citizens Committees of Jaffna and Trincomalee and are respected not merely in the north and east but in the
rest of the country as well.
Neither the two members nor the
government have disclosed why the resignations took place, apart from saying that they involved the "incidents that took place in Jaffna on January 4 and 5”.
It is learnt, however, that the two members maintained that the Committee could not function as a body independent of both the armed services and the militant Tamil groups if it had to subordinate itself to the directions and “advice' of the armed services as to what it should and should not do, or to carry on its work under the protection of only one side whose conduct it had to supervise.
It is learnt, further, that the two members objected to the conduct of the armed services towards the Committee when it tried to conduct inquiries in Jaffna on January 4 and 5, especially the attempt to confine the Committee to the Palaly Airport and, later, the Jaffna Fort, where the army garrison is stationed.
It is learned, further, that, when the two members wanted to leave the Fort after protesting against any inquiries being held there, the army refused to provide them with transport, thereby compelling them to walk from the Fort to the Resthouse while hostilities were in progress. Reports say that the G.A., Jaffna also had to leave the same way.
Continued from page 6 six persons were found with gun shot injuries and cut injuries in the breast.
Subsequently these bodies were brought to the Trincomalee Base Hospital by the Police. . . . .
After the inquest, these bodies were released to the relatives who claimed them. Mrs. Mylvaganam and Mr. Chitravelu state that the Army personnel who came to the village on the 10th and abducted the six victims were the same personnel who visited the village on the 9th instant at about 3.00 p.m.
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No Po
THE Civil Rights Lanka has issue Statement:
“The report tha intends to exclu employmentogradu level students w connections with parties' is surprising "According to December 1985 as Minister has said t applying for govern subjected to strict sc “This news iten investigating recent in schools, and to being called for "al servants in various government service activities that verge
Contrary
"Such measures w to the right to freed expression, freedom protection against d the grounds of politi the right to equality of which are guaran Constitution, and by Covenant on Civil an to which Sri Lanka is "The Covenant, w bound to uphold by i furthermore provide en, "without distinct such as . . . political ... shall have the opportunity . . . to
Guard The
FrO
The Home
THE SO CALLED “ho Lanka have seldom be headlines. A recent m unearthed more detail activities these units hab The inquiry at Mut gruesome details, how fi guards”, posing as sol shot dead two helpless Christmas Day.
Earlier there had bee of people being killed by fire by "home-guards” process of carrying out si reports of even childre
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TAMITMES 7
itical Bans On Jobs, -Says C.R.M.-
Movement of Sri the following
the government de from state tes and advanced no have close extremist leftist and deplorable. he Island of 23 nior government hat such persons ment jobs will be curity clearance.
also refers to student protests 'secret reports' pout government sections of the who engage in on sabotage'.
నీ 'ould be contrary
om of belief and of association, iscrimination on ical opinion, and before the law, all, teed both by our. the International d Political Rights
a party.
hich Sri Lanka is
nternational law, s that every citiz ion of any kind or other opinion
right and the have access, on
Homes
r
Guards
ne-guards” of Sri 1 away from the gisterial inquiry of the type of tually engage in. ur was told, in earmed “homeers, raped and amil women on
several reports accidental" gun ngaged in the rch operations; in their homes
general terms of equality, to public service in his country'.
“The proposed ... discrimination would be repugnant to basic tenets of fairness and tolerance, and detrimental to that open debate and free interplay of competing ideas so basic to a free society.
"The suggestion is ominously reminiscent of the MacCarthyist witch hunt that stained the political life of the USA in the 1950's and is today deplored throughout the world including in the US itself.
“The proposal furthermore seems calculated not so much to protect the state from real or imaginary enemies, as to deter advanced level students and university students from their legitimate freedom of expression, which indeed includes the right to criticise the authorities.
“The reference to secret reports on government servants is liable to further weaken a public service already demoralised by political interference, and to convey the message that abjuration of any independent thinking is the only way to safeguard one's job. . .
“The Working Committee of CRM is reluctant to believe this news item is correct. It calls upon the government to dissociate itself from its contents publicly, and to assure the community of its intention to strictly uphold the freedom of expression of all sections of society including students, and protect the integrity and independence of the public service.'
being shot and of "home-guards" shooting themselves while handling fire-arms.
The number of cases which have come to light, illustrating the hazards of arming a body of undisciplined men and unleashing such a horde on a community already facing many perils, vindicates the fears which were expressed at the time the decision to set up "home-guards" was announced.
The "home-guards” are drawn from the cohorts and supporters of chauvinistic politicians. One of the unfortunate features of politics is that lumpen and rowdy elements of society are drawn into the services of politicians and as a result enjoy a degree of immunity. It is precisely such elements who find their way into such a set-up as "home-guards". : , ༣...་
Far from safeguarding any community, their actions are leading to the destruction of whatever little amity that remains between the various communities.

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ENLF's NoveMBER MEMd
The Ongoing process O Settlement: An assess
“Eelam National Liberation Front, the united front consisting of four liberation organisations EROS, EPRLF, TELO and LTTE, submitted the following memorandum to the Indian Prime Minister explaining their position vis-a-vis negotiations with the Sri Lankan government for a political solution of the ethnic conflict in
the island.
iš jo ** : s AFTER a careful and thorough appraisal of the factors which motivated us to participate in the peace process initiated by the Government of India and the actual concrete situation that emerged as a consequence of this process, we are now firmly convinced that it is untimely and unrealistic to conceive of an alternative to Eelam as the basis for a just - and permanent solution rather than a "just and permanent” solution would provide the base from which we could further our political struggle through the ballot within the existing constitutional framework.
The purpose of this memorandum is to explain to the Government of India as to how we, the united front consisting of four liberation organisations, arrived at the above position. We do this not merely in recognition and appreciation of India's role as a mediator, but also as a neighbouring country which is perceived by the Eelam Tamils as a friend and whose sympathy and support for their struggle is generally taken for granted.
Why we decided to participate in the talks
When we were initially approached by the concerned officials of the Indian government to agree to a ceasefire as a prelude to talks with the Sri Lankan government, we expressed our strong reservations, both individually and collectively, for the following reasons:
(1) The bitter experience of our people with broken pacts and unkept promises by successive Sri Lankan governments which characterized the process of negotiated settlements in the past;
(2) The more recent experience with the All Party Conference which was used by the Sri Lankan government as a camouflage to pursue a military solution and to engage in false propaganda internationally.
(3) The genocidal situation currently prevailing made us apprehensive of the possibility of anger and confusion arising
in the minds of our pe taking place under the and the alienation a within the rank and fi organisations taking pi Despite the above ultimately did agree to ceasefire and sent o Thimpu for Talks wi government. The reas collective decision wer (1), In, view of
recognition and accep initiative undertaken t of India, we did not wa host a friendly natio Further, we did not w; situation which would case of us shunning ti Government of India;
(2) The firm assura concerned officials of India that the interests Lanka would not
compromised or sub interests of the Sri Lan
(3) Our realization c demonstrating to wor were neither terrc secessionists who were and utopion ideas; w that by going through initiated by the Gover would not only gain l demonstrate our comn
(4) The lingeringhoi anda just solution cou the force of reason rath force of arms, despit decision to take up a force of reason had fa successive Sri Lankan need to solve the Question.
To sum up, we agr the peace talks in traditional friendship India and the Ee recognition of India's in the region and to ou to establish our legiti and most importantl peace and are prepar lives for peace. Howe our resolve that if obtained by the force ( be obtained by the f what our beloved Peo not to surrender bu which would guarant and safeguard their Our concern is w divergence between ou
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fnegotiated ment and our position
ople of peace talks e tragic conditions ld demoralisation e of the liberation rt in the Talks.
reservations we the observance of ur delegations to h the Sri Lankan ons leading to our
as follows:
he international tance given to the y the Government nt the image of our to be tarnished. ant to precipitate a have appeared as a he goodwill of the
nce given by the he Government of of the Tamils of Sri in any way be kordinated to the kan state;
if the potential for ld opinion that we brists nor mere obsessed with arms 'e sincerely hoped
the peace process nment of India, we
egitimacy, but also.
hitment to peace;
be that a permanent d be found through er thanthrough the 2 the fact that our ms was because all led to convince the governments of the
Tamil National
ed to participate in recognition of the that exists between am Tamils, our trategic importance
r struggle, the need
lacy internationally , since we are for d to lay down our er, we were firm in eace could not be reason then it shall rce of arms, since le expect from us is
to achieve peace e life and property onour and dignity. th the increasing rexpectations of the
peace protess and the concrete situation." In view of the following developments
arising out of the "peace process” where is
neither peace nor any rationality in the process, it is now evident that the Sri Lankan government is only bent on
i abusing the Indian initiative by pursuing a
military solution: ,
(1) The so called proposals placed by the Sri Lankan government delegation at
Thimpu which were duly rejected by our delegation and
conceded by the Government of India to be grossly inadequate, initially signalled the lack of seriousness of the Sri Lankan government to bring about negotiated settlement. The subsequent “draft proposal” communicated through the Indian government although an improvement in terms of administrative reforms, does not even pretend to be a solution to the Tamil National Question. The total negation of the very concept of a homeland of the Eelam Tamils and the proposed bifurcation aimed at undermining its territorial integrity and contiguity is just one instance. Although, as we have already pointed out in the enunciation of our four basic principles, we see the recognition of our homeland as a
necessary but not a sufficient condition for
a just and permanent solution, the mere fact that even this necessary condition was
negated in the draft proposal, clearly demonstrates the incapacity and the
unwillingness of the J. R. regime to
resolve the nationality problem in Sri Lanka. On our part we were left with no
option but to reject the draft proposal outright as not even constituting a basis for negotiations.
(2) The manner in which the Sri Lankan government responded to our demand
that the ceasefire should be effectively monitored is once again indicative of its bad faith. After rejecting our demand for the need of an international body to
monitor the ceasefire, the Sri Lankan
government was clearly determined to make a mockery of the internal monitoring committee. Its intentions were clear when it initially rejected our two basic and rational demands that the Monitoring Committee be empowered with the right to visit prisons and detention camps and the right to make its reports public. Although, the Sri Lankan government finally conceded with much reluctance, at the insistence of the
Government of India, its intentions of
ensuring that the Monitoring Committee
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Continued from page 8
would not be effective was exposed in the process.
Further, the manner in which the Monitoring Committee was unilaterally expanded even while we were in consultation with the Foreign Secretary Mr. Romesh Bhandari and his officials and the subsequent harassments against our nominees to the panel does not augur well for our efforts to restore normality to the affected areas. s
(3) Parallel to the above process of undermining the Indian government's initiative at a negotiated settlement is the intensification of the military option by the J. R. regime. Although initially it sought to use the peace talks as a smokescreen, the Sri Lankan government appears to have dropped even these pretences. Recent policy statements specifically refer to his government's commitment including a timeframe to a military option whether or not there is political settlement. Further, in the same tone he has referred to the holding of elections to the provincial councils whether or not there is a political settlement. What is of interest is that the above policy statement was made on his tour abroad and reflects his smug confidence in the military option. The point that we wish to emphasise is that the process of negotiated settlement initiated by the government of India and responded to favourably by us has now been rendered totally irrelevant.
What is of immediate concern to us is not only these jingoistic public announcements but also the actual situation in the field. The modus operandi of the armed forces of "containment' in the North and "expulsion and annihilation in the East, highlights the seriousness with which the Sri Lankan state is pursuing the military option. The massive induction of men and
material to
purchase of
aerial and g intensification operations wl civilians in flagrant violat of the ceasefi to, both, the E and the Govel
On interim
It has been organisations process would interim solutic just and a reasons cited mainstream o. embodied in framework, wi in a more effec We do not se viable option,
(1) It is the which opted fo in turn, comp struggle;
(2) Even if w mainstream of that the demo ceased to funct
(3) As re constitutional
constitution r undemocratic, the 1972 Cons toward central the guise of a we do have
Constitutional far as the co nationality pr( clear that there significant dev alone regional:
IF WIVES W
IF women were paid for domestic work and child-care their wages would account for up to half of the national income.
lf wives went on strike and refused to do any more domestic work, there would be throughout the world. Young children would wander the Streets unattended, barefoot, face streaked with grime. Babies would lie, cold and hungry, crying to be fed. Piles of unwashed clothing would accumulate; mountains of unwashed dishes. Fires would stay unlit. Food would not be cooked. Water would stay in the well.
Such a strike would bring to the world's attention the enormous value of the work that women do at home. As the State of the World's Women Report 1985 points out: There can be few generalisations
chaos
that hold a world: unp, everywhere women's res
lf women for domest reasonably $14,500 a ye would costt cleaners anc Services of a according ti insisting on Currently, economies industrialise and 40 per i Product.
The reaso as much wo the rigidity roles in soc Report: "Th

oTAMILTIMES9
the affected areas, the sophisticated and deadly ound weaponry and the of search and destroy ich inevitably involves the ddition to constituting a on of the terms and intent is also a clearcut message elam Liberation movement hment of India.
solution ... 3
t argued that the liberation epresented in the ongoing pe well advised to accept an n, even if it falls short of a bermanent solution. The is that by joining the the “democratic process" he existing constitutional could further our struggle. ive and a peaceful manner. the above argument, as a or the following reasons:
Sri Lankan State, not usy r the military solution and, illed us to resort to armed
'e are prepared to join the "politics", the fact remains 'ratic process has virtually
ion in Sri Lanka. gards the existing framework, the 1978
lot only reaffirmed the non-secular elements of titution, but went further ization of authority under presidential system. What in reality is a form of dictatorship. Further, as onstitutional response to blem is concerned, it is is hardly any scope for any olution of power, leave.
of government
under the constitutional framework.
Given the above promises and realities, we earnestly request the Government of India to understand our predicament that we cannot be party to any process which would lead to the annihilation of the Tamil Eelam liberation movement and, thus leave our beloved people orphaned with neither a political voice nor military capacity to continue with their legitimate struggle for freedom, dignity, honour and peace.
As a future course of action, we wish to urge the Indian government to intensify the campaign to expose the real intent of the regime and highlight the genocidal situation facing our people. Further if the Government of India, owing to its own national interests wishes to persist with the process of negotiated settlement, then it is imperative that we be strengthened politically and militarily, so that we could negotiate from a position of strength, not from a position of weakness and under duress. - .
Secondly, it is important that the Government of India promote our united front as the sole legitimate representatives of the Eelam Tamils as a rallying point for a political and diplomatic offensive in the international arena. In conclusion, we are of the view that the interests of our struggle for a permanent and just solution to the problem of national oppression and State Terrorism that face our people is inseparably linked to the interests of peace and stability in the Indian subcontinent. We are also hopeful that the strategic role of India in the geopolitics of the region would continue to maintain its anti-Imperialist orientation and the principles of non-alignment by ensuring peace, democracy and social progress.
We also wish to express our sincere gratitude to the Government of India and the Indian people for the solidarity that
existing
utonomy or a federal forris has been extended to our people.
ENT ON STRIKE
true throughout the aid domestic vork is seen as women's work, ponsibility." did demand payment c work, they could laim a salary of over ar, since this is what it hire people like cooks, nurses to provide the U.S. housewife. In fact, the Report, by not payment, women are subsidising the of countries in the world by between 25 ent of Gross National
women often do twice k as men is because of f women's and men's ety. According to the re is men's work and
3{
there is 'women's work. And, because many --women. additional work outside the home, whereas few men would dream of doing any additional work inside it, 'woman's work' always ends up simply being "more work'."
It is tradition rather than biology that extends women's temporary role of carrying, bearing and breastfeeding babies into a lifetime of domestic responsibility. And it calls these domestic responsibilities "the major underlying cause of women's inequality," because they restrict women's ability to pursue their education, to earn a good wage, to follow a career, or to take on the time-consuming Commitments involved in political activity.
U.N. News Feature

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tr. The imposition of a “Security Zone' in the northern Tamil city of Jaffna extending up to 1000 metres from the army camp at the Dutch-built Jaffna Fort has created
JAFFNA city, A.
panic and fear among the city's be bombarded with hea
population. People have always felt, and army sources have time and again let it be known, that the government would not hesitate to totally destroy and wipe out the Jaffna city if and when the situation demanded it. Jaffna was first completely
licence to the military weapons including mor
destroyed in the 16th century by the ople of Jaffna have b Portuguese when the Tamil king at that ရှိဂံမျိုမွ် #င်ဒါ time refused to surrender. s safety of the Jaffna Fort
Already there have been several incidents in which the army had fired mortars from within the Fort into the Jaffna town causing heavy loss of life and property. The Minister of National against Security recently admitted in Parliament that the Veerasingham Hall was hit by mortar fire from the Fort and badly
legal framework and its
uninvolved,
and their property, and
damaged. He said: "Our guns are of violence caused
powerful. About 1000 metres could be reached. No government is willing to divulge what it proposes to do with it
would not require even
99. weapons. wreak havoc and destru
. The area covered by the "Security Zone' S3 iš encompasses several hundreds of homes, shops, businesses, industrial concerns, offices, schools, places of worship, the Jaffna Public Library, the main bus station, the grand bazaar, the general hospital etc. The perimeter of the Zone skirts the railway station; but who is going to measure the exact distances, and certainly shells fired from the ramparts of the Fort do not have the capacity of
the busiest part of Jaffna. , it
armed militants. To
Tamils are 'terrorists'.
comprising delegates
that irrepressible Sinha
discrimination to avoid properties and Nayaratne; resolved
persons outside the zone. The area covered by the zone constitutes not only the nerve centre of the town but represents the pulsating heart of the Jaffna Peninsula,
removal of the army cai
staging a Gandhian
and indeed of north Sri Lanka. , outside the Governme
In an apparent attempt at allaying the - a apprehensions of the people of Jaffna, the
from January 22. There demonstrations to pr
cal Army Commander stated that no government's action.
one would be required to vacate the area
i
Asked about the
AY -
Shift Jaffna Fort Army Camp A
The Muslim public of Jaffna in a memorandum to Jaffna GA Mr. M. Panchalingam has appealed to Government to repeal the Security Zone legislation and have the Army Camp in the Fort shifted.
This memorandum submitted by over 5,000 Muslims participating in the demonstration launched in Jaffna last Tuesday (21 January) states that 20,000 Muslims in Jaffna have been affected economy-wise, by the declaration of the Security Zone. -
These are some extracts from the memorandum: “All our business establishments, buildings, dwellings and properties come within the Security Zone of 1000 metres in Jaffna. As the people who patronise our shops are afraid to come to the shops, our income would be reduced.
Earlier many Muslim buildings had been shifted near the fort. By the introduction of the Security Zone, the economic conditions of the Muslim population may be destroyed. 20,000 Muslims are badly affected.
covered by the Sec everyone within the ra from the Fort would be acts of violence in the al
The government ha
grenades which would destruction of civilian in the event of a viol
by setting up the Zone
confirmed that it has gi forces an unfettered dis
unarmed and defencel
that, in the event of eve
Judging from past recor
the undisciplined and tı
There is no doubt til government is concer distinction between civ
“terrorists' are Tamils
: The Jaffna Peoples' A
Committees, at a meet
editor of Saturday Rev
withdrawal of the Secu
Fort. The Jaffna Mothe

SECURITY zoNE
rity Zone. But ge of 1000 metres nswerable for any ea and be liable to vyartillery. ; thus granted a 'o use long range ars and propelled result in certain ives and property nt incident. The come dispensable orces secure in the . The government has provided the declarations have ven to its security retion to retaliate non-combatant, 'ss Tamil civilians public property at in a single incident by the militants. d, it is evident that igger-happy army such an incident to ction. *土 hat, as far als the ned, it sees no zilian Tamils and the government, and therefore all
Action Committee,
from Citizens' ing summoned by; lese journalist and fiew, Mr. Gamini to demand the rity Zone and the mp from the Jaffna, rs' Front has been. style Satyagraha int Agent's office,
have been several otest against the . .
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si tyfi hoff fryw ܖ ܢ ̄ ܐ . government and other public buildings found within the Security Zone, the Minister of National Security had stated: “They must be shifted 1000 metres away from the camp. There are enough places in Jaffna where these offices could be housed'. Such callous response is typical of this Minister. Where does he think that the many schools, the general hospital, the Jaffna Bazaar, the bus station, the shops etc. can be moved? “His aim seems to be to create a situation in which he could destroy the Jaffna city as a whole', commented a member of the Jaffna Citizens' Committee. ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་
It is stated by the government that the Security Zone is required to protect the armed forces within the Jaffna Fort from attacks by Tamil militants. Even if it is a justifiable claim, it begs the question; why place the army camp in the middle of the town, and then expose the town and its people to death and destruction for the sake of providing security for the armed forces? Would it not have been sensible to set up the army camp removed from centres of civilian activity with a clear field of fire against the militants if and when they came to attack?
A church leader in Jaffna said, “The police destroyed half the Jaffna city in August 1977. Again in May-June 1981, the forces set fire and burnt the market square, shops, printing presses and the Jaffna Public Library. Now the armed forces, equipped with powerful weapons, are in the Jaffna Fort capable of destroying Jaffna to the ground without giving even a moment's notice. Even if it happened, it will be a temporary victory to the forces of evil. Eventually justice will prevail, and the Tamil people have justice on their side, for they have not harmed the Sinhalese people; they do not deny the
Sinhalese people their rights; they are
only asking what is legitimately their's. And therefore God will not let them
large number of down."
d Repeal Security Zone Law
On the very first day of the announcement of the declaration of a Security Zone three Muslims were killed by the "mortarfiring' which came from the Fort. Many more Muslims will die in future in this Zone. . . *
Nine mosques, four Muslim schools, a Muslim maternity nome, a Muslim Sub PO, a Muslim library and several other institutions and government establishments come within this Zone. . 。 : 、\
Hence we appeal to the President to repeal this Security Zone legislation and remove the Army Camp from the Jaffna Fort.’
The procession which started with a thousand, including many Muslim women began to swell and grow in length. several hundreds of students, traders, business magnates who waited at key junctions, as far as the Jaffna Secretariat, joined he ranks of the procession and finally when it reached the gate of the Secretariat there were about five thousand.
Mr. Panchalingam, Jaffna assured action would be taken.

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"OPERATION
FIVE innocent Tamil civilians were killed and several injured on January 4 when helicopter gunships sprayed bullets into the heart of the city of Jaffna. This action of the security forces was calculated to prevent civilians from giving evidence to the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee.
On this day, the CMC was to visit Jaffna and hear evidence from Citizens' Committees and individuals about army excesses. The venue was to be Hotel Ashok situated in the centre of the Jaffna city. The Citizens' Committees had already made representations that the members of CMC should not be accompanied by the security forces while hearing evidence because civilians would be deterred from coming forward in the presence of service personnel. ,
On 4 January, at about 8am, under the pretext of providing air cover to some ground troops trying to defuse a land mine in the vicinity of Hotel Ashok, helicopters swooped down and sprayed several rounds of bullets into the area. Five people, including a Muslim lady, were instantly killed and 21 were seriously injured during this indiscriminate bullet-rain from helicopters. Some of the bullets had gone through the walls of the Jaffna General Hospital and into its offices. The list of victims is as follows:-
Killed: (1) Anthony Thasan of
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Gurunagar; (2) (50) of Mosq Wenceslaus (51) Nadarasa Gnana and (5) K. Sivan:
Injured: (1) M. Kodddady; (2) TI (15) of Mathagal of Tinneveli; (4 Gurunagar; (5) (45) of Nar: Vigneswaran (20 M. Kanagaratna (8) N. Kanapathi (9) S. Kunam o Miraj (25) of Az Nizar (25) of Mu Sivasubramanian (13) S. Ranjan (2 S. Wenceslaus Kirupakaran of Nazir - (17) - of : J Sivanandan (17) | Following t operation, the informed the me who were wait Airport, at 9.3 consequence of town was deserté likelihood of e Committee or \ before ... the C. January'. Ther decided not to ho day - the security
10 KILLED AT R.
TEN TAMIL civilians, including women and children, were killed on the spot and several more seriously injured on 25 January at the Kilinochchi Railway Station in northern Sri Lanka when the army fired indiscriminately into a crowd. On the following day, reports attributed, to Ministry of National Security sources appeared in newspapers to the effect that "Ten Terrorists' were killed at Kilinochchi by the army.
However, a press communique issued by the government and published in the Island (28 January) stated that while some infantry men were providing covering fire to other members of the security forces engaged in an operation against Tamil militants, "one of the soldiers went berserk and fired his weapon in frenzy into the railway station, killing ten persons including some women and children, and injuring seven others. The other soldiers immediately over-powered the soldier and took his weapon away and prevented him shooting any more at the people and the railway station'.

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BULLET-RAIN
Injures 91
Nagoor Sinnamma
uel Lane; i (3) R."
of Gurunagar; (4) m (53) of Koddady than of Velanai.
Najuldeen (27) of '. Vimalenthirarajah ; (3) S. Sivarasa (26)
) S. Murali (20) of
T. Sebastiampillai anthanai; (6) S. ) of Tinneveli; (7) S. m (60) of Tellipalai; pillai (25) of Jaffna; f Koddady; (10) K. ad Street; (11) A.N. Islim Street; (12) S. 1 (47) of Karaveddy 1) of Mirusuvil; (14) (50); (15). S. Ariyalai; (16) N. affna; and (17). S. of Thikkamheir 'successful security forces mbers of the CMC, ing at the Palaly 0 am "that as a those events, Jaffna :d and there was no. ither the Citizens' witnesses appearing ommittee on 4th reupon the CMC ld its hearing on that forces had achieved
their aim and sabotaged the hearing al the cost of 5 lives and 21 injured.
The CMC thereafter decided td. commence hearings on the following day if the situation improved, and also
to inquire into the incidents of 4th
January. • • 5 : In the afternoon of 5 January Jaffna city was suddenly rattled by the
sound of machine gun fire and mortar
fire from the Jaffna Fort and firing from helicopters. This action of the security forces raining bullets from the air left 9 people, including 4 customs officers - among whom was Mr. Chelliah Ganesh, an Assistant Collector of Customs - dead; and more than 70 injured.
People in the central Jaffna Bazaar were struck by shrapnel from exploding mortar shells fired from the ramparts of the Jaffna fort. One such 'victim was the statue of the old Tamil literary sage, Thiruvalluvar, which was decapitated. الأزيفية . . . ، و ض
Among the dead were: (1) Tharmalingam . Thilakaratnam, a Customs officer, (2) Sebamalai Thevathasan, a Customs officer; (3) Cheliah Ganesh, (4) Balendra (32) of Vannarponnai; (5) an unidentified woman, (6) Miss. Shanthi (17) of Mathagal; (7) Annalingam, i a labourer; (8) an unidentified male; (9) Rupa Tharmalingam, a Customs
officer.
AILWAY STATION
Eyewitness reports indicate that, contrary to the
government's claim of one soldier going berserk, more than one soldier was engaged in this indiscriminate massacre at the railway station. But what is more intriguing is the government's attempt to exonerate even the soldier who is supposed to have gone berserk, on alleged grounds of “temporary insanity even before an inquiry into the incident had been initiated. : ,
According to a report, quoting army sources, published in the Island (29.1.86), the soldier concerned, was to initially face a medical inquiry before a team of psychiatrists and medical personnel to determine whether he had "gone through a phase of temporary insanity'. If he was found to be so, he would be “medically treated and in all probability discharged”. Not that the soldier or his lawyers had raised a defence of insanity, for this act of gunning down ten innocent people, at an internal inquiry, court martial or criminal prosecution. But the army was already offering excuses in advance for "no action' against this soldier.

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THE TULF P
At the request of the Indian government, and in res proposals put forward by the Government of Sri Lanl United Liberation Front (TULF) has submitted a col scheme for a political solution to the ethnic problem in brief, the TULF proposals envisage Sri Lanka to be a linguistic regions with a substantial measure of auto regions which are to be vested with powers that ap those presently enjoyed by Indian States. The Tamilling is to incorporate the northern and eastern provinces it
Šኽ1C)፲፱ : ‰ê
PREAMBLE ": The Tamil people gave a mandate to the TULF in the 1977 election to establish an independent state of Tamil Eelam. At the all party Conference in Colombo we reiterated our mandate but indicated our willingness to consider any viable and acceptable alternative put forward by the Sri Lankan Government. The Government of Sri Lanka has persistently failed to place any meaningful proposals which merit consideration.
- In order not to frustrate India's efforts to work out a satisfactory solution to our problem, we now submit these proposals
to the Government of India.
s DRAFT Pàrt II ʻ , \
Sri Lanka that is Illankai shall be a Union of States. The Northern and Eastern provinces, which are predominantly Tamil-speaking, shal) constitute one Tamil Linguistic State.
The territory of a State, once established, shall not be altered without its consent.
Parliament . . . . . . . : 800 ...,, The Legislative power of the Union shall vest in a Parliament.
Parliament shall have the exclusive power to make laws in respect of any of the matters enumerated in List One.
The membership of Parliament shall reflect the ethnic proportion of the Union. Special provision shall be made to ensure the representation of Muslims and Tamils of recent Indian origin who do not occupy contiguous areas.
No Bill or Resolution or part thereof affecting any nationality shall be passed, unless a majority of Members of Parliament belonging to that nationality agree to such a Bill or Resolution or part
thereof.
Part II
Special Constitutional Provisions:
CITIZENSHIP: Notwithstanding anything in the Constitution of any other law regarding citizenship, all those who are not citizens of a foreign country and who were resident in Sri Lanka on 1st November, 1981 and their descendants shallipso facto be citizens of Sri Lanka.
—ke
*
OFFICIAL LANG tutional provision shall Tamil also an official la
UNION SERVICES; made in the Constituti the ethnic proportion union services, inclu forces. Union Services public sector service.
Part
STATES: There sha for each State. Who sha the President of . consultation with the Cl There shall be an ele each State.
Each Assembly will Presiding Officer.
Elections to State A on the basis of territo electorates. Provision ensure adequate re Muslims in the Tamil Li The legislative powel vest in the State Assem The Assembly shal power to make laws foi part thereof in respel
s" matters enumerated in
When a Bill has be Assembly it shall be Governor. He may assi for reconsideration. If again, with or without Governor shall give his
The Executive Powe vest in the Chief Minis Ministers.
Executive power o extend to all matters wi the Legislature of the make laws.
Largest Party
The Governor shall
; of the largest Party ir Chief Minister. The C
choose the members Ministers.
The State Assembly levy taxes or cess and through loans and gran
All the revenues Government of a State that Government,
I received by that Gove
 

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ponse to the a, the Tamil mprehensive Sri Lanka. In Inion of two Iomy for the proximate to uistic region to one unit. لــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ
UAGE: Consti be made to make nguage. ४६
Provision shall be on to ensure that is reflected in all ding the armed shall also include
盖辩
2. ll be a Governoř ll be appointed by the Union, in hief Minister. cted assembly for
have its elected
ssemblies shall be rially demarcated shall be made to presentation for inguistic State. ' of the State shall bly.
l have exclusive such state or any ct of any of the
List Two.
en passed by the presented to the 2nt or send it back the Bill is passed
amendment, the asSent.
of the State shall is er and Council of
f the State shali
h respect to which
state has power to
ppoint the Leader
the Assembly as
hief Minister. shall of the Council of
hall have power to mobilise resources
S
all loans raised by und all moneys rnment shall form
ROPOSALS
received by the
one consolidated Fund to be titled “Consolidated Fund of the State'. . .
Some duties and taxes shall be levied and collected by the Union Government but shall be assigned to the State within which such duty or tax is leviable.
The President shall appoint a Finance Commission to be presided over by the Governor of the Central Bank. There shall be three other members, one of whom shall be a Sinhalese, one a Tamil, and one a Muslim. .خ " High Court ; There shall be a High Court for each State and such other courts and tribunals as are necessary. The High Court will be the Court of Appeal for other courts in the State and shall have superintendence and control over all other courts and tribunals in the State. Appeal will lie to the Court of Appeal from judgements of the High Court. The Supreme Courtshall deal with constitutional matters.
Each State will have a State Service consisting of: • a) Officers and other public servants of the State, and 3 b) Such other officers and public servants who may be seconded to the State.
State will have a State Public Service Commission for recruitment and for exercise of disciplinary powers relating to the members of the State Service. V
Part IV Special provision for Tamils Indian origin:
In order to meet the needs of the Tamils of recent Indian origin, and to ensure that they enjoy a sense of security, and to provide for their participation in Government, suitable administrative arrangements and institutions shall be
of recent
established, for example the establishment or creation of an i administrative district. Gramasevaka
divisions shall be modified so as to
comprise estates where Tamils of Indian
origin are in the majority. Such Gramasevaka divisions could be brought together to forman AGA's division, in the same manner as the Vavuniya, South Sinhala AGA's division, was created. Such AGA's divisions could be brought together to forman Administrative and/or Electoral District. Tamils of recent Indian origin, resident outside such administrative districts, envisaged above, other than in the Tamil Linguistic State, should be entitled to settle in such Administrative Districts and pursue their legitimate vocations if they so desire. Likewise such persons should be entitled to settle and pursue their legitimate vocations in the Tamil Linguistic State.
List One:
Defence, Foreign Affairs, Currency, Posts and Telecommunications,
Immigration and Emigration, Foreign ... Trade and Commerce, Railways, Air
|FO

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R REGIONAL
Ports and Aviation, Broadcasting and Television, Customs, Elections, Census. if
Part Two The following among others:
Police & Internal Law and Order, Land and all its uses, Education including University and Technical Education, Archaeology, Culture, Industries, Fisheries, Local Government, Excise, Agriculture, Irrigation, Agrarian Services, Health, Prisons and Reformatories, State Transport and Roads, Cooperative Development.
The Northern and Eastern provinces have been traditionally recognised as Tamil Speaking areas from the days of British rule. This was the position at the time of the British conquest of the Maritime Provinces of Ceylon. Sir Hugh Cleghorn in a report to the Colonial Office in 1799 stated as follows:
"Two different nations, from a very ancient period, have divided the Island. First, the Sinhalese in its Southern and Western parts, from the river Walawe to that of Chilaw and secondly, the Malabars in the Northern and Eastern Districts' (Malabars is used to refer to the Tamils).
Throughout British rule and even after independence the Northern and Eastern provinces have been treated separately for administration e.g. recruitment of Divisional Revenue Officers, Assistant Commissioners of Local Government, Local Government Clerical Service etc., for all these purposes the Northern and Eastern provinces were treated as a separate unit.
Under the Constitutions of 1972, and 1978, the Northern and Eastern provinces were recognised as a Single linguistic entity wherein the Tamil language shall also be used as the language of Administration, for the conducting of business by local authorities and in the courts of original jurisdiction. These two provinces are predominantly Tamil speaking. The Northern province is 97% Tamil speaking and in the Eastern province 75% of the population have Tamil as their mother tongue. In the combined Northern and Eastern provinces the Tamil speaking people form over 86 percent of the population. In the same way that India has solved its multilingual problem by creating linguistic states the Tamil linguistic area i.e., the Northern and Eastern provinces should be made into one unit.
The preservation of the integrity of these areas as the Homeland of Tamil people was the basis of the agreements and pacts between the Tamil leaders and the major Sinhala parties in 1957, 1960 and 1965. ܵ : * The preservation of the Northern and Eastern provinces as the Tamil homeland is intimately linked to the security of the lives and property of the Tamil people.
After every wave thousands of Tam these areas and settlement there. violence against T 1981, and 1983, th transport hundreds who had sought ref or in convoys over and Eastern provir result of repeated pi in the Sinhala area from the Plantatio thousands from oth permanent resident Eastern provinces.
Tamil Refugees
When the Tamils. targets of attack b. forces they started fl. South India. The inf into India did not tal because all the refu sevenprovinces wer in these two provin India can go back provinces and if rehabilitated and en the creating of a un two provinces with ac hands of the Tam substantial number ( youths between the a have to be rehabilitat over the entire Tamil one province. The will never do this an refugees to their hom Historically, the N provinces have b populated by the Ta according to the G Tamils constitute an every district in No provinces, viz., Vavuniya, Trincom districts. (The prese was part of the B. 1960). In the entir province the Sinhala than 5 percent. colonisation of the Sinhalese has resulte territorial base of the with fully in the secti However, Tamils 1 percent in the Northc percent in the Easter percent of the No. provinces taken toge percent of the 86 speaking people are chance the vast maj will throw in their lot if devolution of p linguistic unit beco arrangements with th Muslims in the East made. Their leaders
 

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AUTONOMY
of violence several s have returned to
sought permanent fter the Island-wide
mils in 1958, 1977,
government had to fthousands of Tamils ge in camps, by ships ind, to the Northern xes. Since 1977 as a groms against Tamils over 200,000 Tamils areas and several r areas have become
of the Northern and
n these areas became the Sinhala armed eing across the sea to ux of Tamil refugees ke place prior to 1983 gees from the other able to live in safety zes. The refugees in only to these two they are to be abled to live in safety it consisting of these lequate powers in the ils is essential. A of these refugees are ge of 18 and 30. They, ed on a planned basis homeland and not in Sinhala Government i the return of these es will proveelusive. orthern and Eastern een predominantly mil people. In 1921, overnment Census, absolute majority in rthern and Eastern Jaffna, Mannar, lee and Batticaloa nt Amparai district tticaloa district till :ty of the Eastern population was less State sponsored Tamil areas with in the erosion of the famils. (This is dealt non land policy). day constitute 92.5 in province and 42.1 province and 68.70 hern and Eastern her. The balance 18 percent of Tamil Muslims. Given the ity of the Muslims with the Tamils and ver to the Tamil es certain suitable total support of the in province can be from the province
have assured us of this. Fear of reprisals against Muslims in the other seven provinces (who are two-thirds of the total Muslim population in the Island) is what stands in the way of their openly identifying themselves with the Tamils.
District Councils
The vast majority of the people of these two provinces have democratically signified their desire that these areas be treated as the Tamil homelands, in the elections to the District Councils in 1981. The TULF got an absolute majority of the votes cast in the Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mannar, Mulaithivu, Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts. The only exception was the Amparai district which is most affected by Sinhala colonisation. The absolute majority that the TULF got in the Trincomalee district is an indication that a majority of the Muslim voters also had made common cause with the Tamils. In the Batticaloa district more than twothirds of the voters voted for the TULF in the District Development Council elections. In the Trincomalee district elections were held to elect 23 members to Parliament since 1947. 14 of these members were from the Tamil Parties, three from the UNP three from the SLFP and three were independents with Tamil support. It was only in 1977 that a Sinhalese member of Parliament was elected from the Trincomalee district for the first time. In addition to all these reasons Trincomalee has to form part of the Tamil linguistic unit for reasons of geographical contiguity.
Dr. H. W. Jayawardene stated at the Thimpu Conference, on 12th August, 1985 that the Northern and Eastern provinces would in affect cover approximately 30 percent of the land area and 60 percent of the sea-coast of Sri Lanka. In evaluating the land mass which should equitably constitute the Tamil homeland, we should have regard to the fact that the entirety of this land is in the dry zone and is substantially undeveloped. Even in this area a substantial percentage of the irrigable and developed land has been settled with Sinhala people (e.g. Padaviya, Allai, Kantalai, Pavatkulam, Mahavilankulam and Gal-Oya schemes) on the other hand no Tamils have been settled in any of the irrigation schemes: outside the North and East. In the Amparai District the major part of the irrigable land has been settled with Sinhala people. It has become almost impossible for the Tamils to own property or to earn a living outside the North and East. The Northern and Eastern provinces are economically backward and do not enjoy the infrastructure and the resources of the rest of the country. Thus it will be seen that no prejudice is caused to the Sinhala people by the incorporation of the two provinces, into a single unit.

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Q: What do you think of the relations between the terrorists and the ordinary people of the north? We hear of many robberies, of gold and other things. Then there are lamp-post killings. A: The averge Tamil citizen sees the youth militant as a potential political force that can deliver to him the goods the politicians of thic bygone age have failed to give.
The government is now calling then separatists. That is a fair description, But, again, in Thimpu they have agreed to Work within the national framework, As an academic II would say, please don't g) for a pop-culture type picture of a terrorist. It is different. Those of us who arc intellectuals or in the ficlid of studying society in terms of its own movements and dynamism must be very. Ca reful. If you create Inonolithic characters, your chance of coming to understand them is going to be very very difficult. If we have to have a national polity, if Sri Lanka has got to be one, the future generations, Sinhalese and Tamils, have got to corne together. These people who you are now branding as terrorists have got to be those citizens...I think anyone with any political vision should be very careful in not falling for this sterco-typing as its signitial, Q: What you are saying in effect is that the people of the north are giving some kind of
Suppогt.".. l
A: No. 1. Itill שחקן 1 הדבב אובדני וח 出:叫 - 1 + "לייץ
Q: If only moral support to the . . . .
A: I don't want to be misunderstood. In the south, a clear wie WTI has Tbccn cultivated. When you say providing support, it can II lean so manythings. You can be arrested for it. Do you know that you can be arrested and kept for eighteen months without any inquiry just because you have not gone to a police station and told about it. And there are no police stations in Jaffna, I would like to be very careful with words at this point.
You are postulating the question as if the Tamil people have no gricvances. That everything is all right. That here are a group of people who are dancing around for somc terroristic work. That they have nothing beyond terrorism in mind. No, it is not that. They have aparticular political demand to Inake, a particular social necessity to perform. The government itself has realised this. Thimpulissa landmarkii in our history because the government has realised you have to have a dialogue with these people, straight or through somebody else. I am not trying to rationalise or justify them, I am telling you to understand. Unless you understand them sociologically and politically you will not get anywhere near a solution.
Q: What about things like the killings of the two ex-TULFM.P.s and the Principal
. of St. John 齿 College?
A: Wiolence has become the order of thic day, One cannot say these things have not been done. But the society in Jaffna has
Ty
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Karthigesu Sivat of Tarril at the LV occupyirig rhe Chai [he-ПілІегплгіопп scholar, Prof. Ka flirt, he Haslar
University (as if Hai hasingf College, Colorbo. President of the Citi VaӀиеffїпшгаїалd шл | a member of th Monitoring fire Cess
not kept silent, it has to show it does no condemn these killing was a friend, workin
Com, but it is not
violence. Those in pt. that violence doesn. saying things. How de
the Cit. Com. have
s We can only issue ast I'll come onto a c
frequently asked, wh ဖူးnt Why don't something against ter why are you people the government? We relation to the "go dealing with the g those who should at they want to be away cannot function. Our that we contime tol in sicial te Tm5. Prillä certain things to the g think the boys arey Are they? They are there is not one area t liberated zone. Wh militant groups have ိုမျိုး f B aviour, ICSDOIlse. BLIt We ့်မျိုးဟိုးဂြို့နှီဲ without any ρriενηnces,
Q: But would all th world justify the killi instance, Onifour o. terrorist groups th: civilians. The most massacre of 150 in An
 
 
 

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IS THE OUESTION"
। Parry is Professor iversity ரீஅரிா, ாதrery:கிரே IIy-kлонлг** Таллії flasapathy. Before கிரேகrர Ekro Wr) drid also aching tair i Zahira Today the is the zers' Corrirrittee of Esia seHv Heeksago II е Соплітеe fог пl arion ofIIostilities.
T T
reacted in some way t li 'i openly is, Mr.Anandarajah with us in the Cit. only condemning wer should set it it become a way of | wESColvEthis Des iny political power"
power uestion which I am ich may be in your you people" say (Tist violence". And lways saying against arc citizens only in 'ernment. We are verlIIlent Hetäuse riot. Not because ut beca Lise they just rimary task is to see adour normal lives rily, we have to tell overnment. I do not at the government. not. In Sri Lanka lat could be: call dä
("" ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ --4۔ never some of the one beಙ್ಗಣ್ಣ there has been a stn't think that the ing in this country ical and 'social
al |
grievances in the ng of civilians? For five occasions the Welt killed Sinhalga notable being the radhapuriä.
A: I call this ab Lutfälisation of Sri Länkän politics. I was most unhappy when the killings took place . . . But how did this brutalisation take place? I think it started with army brutalitics, in Jaffna. If it had acted as the state army, there wouldn't have been any major problem. Unfortunately, due to various historical factors, the average soldier who comes there considers himself a Sinhala soldier in a Tamil area, trying to keep it down, And the Tamil man thinks here is a Sinhala arly trying to oppress. There has been a brutalisation. And I am afraid this was the result of that brutalisation. As citizens, in whichever part of the country. We are, we must cry halt to this brutalisation."
Q: What impact do you think this brutalisation has had on Tamil society in Jaffna? You said you were a student of Tamil society. It is a very conservative Society. A caste-ridden society. There is a popular perception in the south that a lot of people have taken to the gun because with it they gain entrance through the front door to houses to which they wouldn't be able to go to except through the back door, A: This is again a misconception. Because of its underground character, and violent nature there has never been an open study Con the youth militancy. The sooner it is done the better for everyone, because we Can understand the phenomenom. Itvas easier to understand and tackle the problems of 1971 because there was an open study of it. TO ॥1॥
The youth movement encompasses a whole range in which caste is not the decisive factor. Caste is ther in Jaffna. It is a very silunt but significant factori in Jaffna social life. But it does not mean that it has a determining role in this whole process of youth activities. Phill
Q: A related question. I visited Trinco and Batti in March last year and there was a definitef among the older generation m though among the younger about Jaffna dominance of their lives. They even feared it. In the event of a zonal council or federal system in Sri Lanka where the north and east are merged, what would you have to say I coming from the northof this dominance །
II
A: I have written ံးပူးဖူး'; the way successive governments, have dealt with this problem has led to a Tamilian identity in Sri Lanka, which today cuts across regional boundaries. There has arisen an identity of a Tamil in relation to the Sinhalese people. This has brought in a solidarity which was never there earlier. II Was true that Jaffna's problem was Iniversalised as those of the Sri Lankan Tamils. It is also true that there has been an anti-Jaffna feeling, and justifiably so. But now, in view of what the Tamils perceive as a Sinhala dominance, they have come together. Even the up-country Tamilso feel, irrespective of all the cxploitation by Sri Lankan Tamils, safe in
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How NOT TO SOLVE T
PRESIDENTJAYAWARDENE is at his familiar game again. According to his latest interview with the BBC as well as his speech at the Commonwealth Conference, the armed struggle that is being waged by Tamil nationalists is not aimed at a separate state for Tamil people but at a Marxist state throughout Sri Lanka. So there is no ethnic question as such but a big conspiracy hatched by marxists to gobble up the whole of Sri Lanka.
This was precisely his main theme at the end of May 1985. He branded all the opponents of the UNP government as terrorists and threatened to unleash a wave of terror against those terrorists. His theat to impose Martial Law following the footsteps not of Mahatma Gandhi but ZiaUl-Haq was the culmination of his plan to wage war against his opponents. He and his government planned to resort to this as they have failed miserably to solve the national question that really exists in Sri Lanka today. The Workers Marxist Review dealt with his speech and plans in its first issue.
However, the eve turn within a week was due to Indian F Gandhi's direct entry Gandhi who has pres to be the Bonaparte Asia, breaking radica attitude towards t struggle in Sri Lanka openly the mori government.
So the Jayawarde new infusion of oxy publicly and catego. was not an ethnic p trace of it - but only conspiracy at once at started the so-called dictates of Rajiv Gar solution to the ethn according to him Jayawardene and his say regarding their conspiracy during the Thus the revival o with which he plays blind alley – after su
National dentity continued Q: Are you saying that without a separate state the Tamil people will not be secure? A: Definitely not. I was explaining the historical antecedents that led to this position. If you are agreed on the concept of ethnicity and of a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka, then let us say that at least for some time hereafter, Tamils constitute one political unit in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese constitute the major unit.
The entire country belongs to everyone, those who fled should have been rehabilitated where they were before 1983. Has there been any action done? The political situation has become alarming because everybody is taking an entrenched position. My grievance with the Tamil groups is that they fail to understand the genuine fears of the Sinhala people. But there must also be an understanding of the genuine fear of the Tamils. Q: What about the Muslims? The Tamils have been saying that the Muslims in the north and east have been with them. But can that be said with any conviction after the Tamil-Muslim clashes in the east last year? A: My personal opinion is that the Tamil parties have not been categorical enough in demarcating the position of the Muslims in the east and north. Even the militant groups have not come out categorically. They are going on the basis that the whole thing is linguistic nationalism. But I think it has now been shown that they are a religio-ethnic
Oup. But the Muslim leadership has always considered Batticaloa as its backyard. They are land-based, agrarian Muslims, and differ even in socio-cultural terms from those in the southern and central
provinces. That doe piecemeal them whe have been brought to
In the case of w inter-relationships, i leading Tamil group have to offer the Mus
Q: Finally, would yol about the Committ Cessation of Hostilitic
A: The appointment I has been given var In a country usec democracy represe group can only view: in that sense. It is pathetic to see peop any other terms. I dı the fact that I was cor His Excellency th nominated to this gr myself as represent looking after their resigning, I would sa continue as a membe of it.
We have given to Excellency. That d things which we hav of the Monitoring Co am an average norm. like to repeat all thos would be very unfair I gained at a privil privileged level. The difference between politician. Even if scandalised on this, I my dignity as an intel we are a very very m country.
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nts took a dramatic of this speech. That rime Minister Rajiv. into the scene. Rajiv ented his credentials. of the whole of South illy from his mother's he Tamil national , decided to prop-up pund Jayawardene
he government got a gen. The man who rically stated that it roblem – noteven a a diabolical marxist e his own words and peace process at the dhi in order to find a ic problem — which, , did not exist gang had nothing to
canard of marxist last four months... . f this diabolical lie - whenever he is in a
ch a long process of
sn't mean I want to n I say all the Tamils gether.
orking out regional t is the duty of the bs to say, what they lims. t
I have any comments tee to Monitor the es, or your role in it? of Mr. Sivapalan and ious interpretations. i to Parliamentary
htatives from this
any membership only intellectually very le unable to think in aw consolation from sidered fit enoughby e President to be oup. I don't consider ing somebody, only interest. More than 7 I found it difficult to r. I mean every word
ur document to His cument has certain known as members immittee. Now that II al citizen I would not : things, and I think it to use the knowledge "ged level at a nonn it would make no me and an average I am going to be am going to maintain lectual. As you know inority group in this
sland" (Colombo) 26.1.861
Qadri Ismail
demonstrates - the
discussions at Thimpu, at Delhi and at
“Colombo, after scores of trips across the Palk Strait made by Indian Foreign
Secretary Romesh Bhandari as well as by many official and unofficial delegates including his own acolyte minister Thondaman, after fraudulent ceasefire agreements, signifies that Jayawardene has again decided to go ahead with his bankrupt military solution. The revival of the canard of “marxist plot' is designed to enlist the support of his imperialistmasters in this genocide.
After all, what is the need of finding a political solution to the Tamil national question, if the armed struggle has nothing to do with such a question? Jayawardene is right in his own absurd way. Thus came his pompous belligerency in London. Unfortunately for him, the whole world knows that this Junius - the "genius", who has the unimaginable capacity to “discover” (of course without a shred of evidence) so-called marxist plots at his whim and fancy - had nothing to say about such a plot when his emissary - his Own brother - met these “marxist devils” at Thimpu. On the other hand, these peculiar “marxist plotters” had nothing to say on social transformation. In all their speeches at Thimpu one finds only matters relating to the Tamil national question. So much for Jayawardene's canard of marxist conspiracy. This is the man who dared to condemn news reporters in other countries for distorting facts relating to Sri Lanka.
Jayawardene's decision to resort to this worn-out lie at this juncture again insincerity of his government. Nothing will come out of the so-called peace talks with the Jayawardene government, notwithstanding the extent to which Rajiv Gandhi is prepared to go in betraying the Tamil nationalist guerillas. Of course, Jayawardene is "prepared" to give some
crumbs cosmetically painted as *devolution of power". This "preparedness” is not due to any
"statesmanship” or any sympathy with Tamil people as some of his acolytes such as minister Thondaman want to make us believe, but is due to the desperate state in which his government is placed as a result of their armed struggle. He is scheming to send his so-called political solution, down the throats of Tamil people with the treacherous help of Rajiv Gandhi and to get the Tamil guerillas disarmed at the earliest opportunity and then to go into the offensive not only against the Tamil people but the Sinhala people as well. . ; Therefore the task of the oppressed sections of the Sinhala people is not to support the UNP government but to carry on its struggle against it, combining their struggle with the struggle of the Tamil people. The recognition of the right of the self-determination for the Tamil people is the key to combining these struggles.
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Letters To тhe Editor
S OME OUESTIONS FOR THE SINHALES
I WISH to make an appeal to the ordinary Sinhalese men and women living in Sri Lanka or in any part of the world to do some serious thinking, visualise themselves in the position of the Tamils and seek to answer the following questions:
r. Are not Tamils entitled to self-government as much as the Sinhalese? Yጶ”
How are the Sinhalese adversely affected or injured if they leave the Tamils alone in their dry and barren north and east of Sri Lanka to manage their own affairs, attend to their own problems and be the architects of their own future?
Is it not one of the pivotal roles of the state to provide the infrastructure that can be provided only on a collective basis, to enable the individual citizen to realise the fullness of his personality?
Why do you want to burden yourselves with the complex problem of rationing, on a population basis, vacancies in the university, professions in the government services, etc., when you can fill all the vacancies for yourselves in the south of Sri Lanka if you leave the people of the north and the east to fend for themselves?
Should self-help be at a discount? Why do you want to incur such huge budget deficits, generate runaway inflation, divert
resources from productive activity to unproductive war in the north and the east of Sri
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Lanka? Do you realise that totally unnecessary if you leav and ask them to leave you alor
Did not the King of Jaffna i do everything in his power to King of Kotte to resist the Por by providing transit facilities southern India to reach Kotte:
Was not the Tooth Relico most prized possession o Buddhists, entrusted to the K safe custody when the Kin threatened by the Portugues indicate that there was much g between the Sinhalese and 1 had managed their own states doctrine: we leave you alor alone?
The Tamils can assure you, inherent circumstances and g the event of any external threat depend on the fullest suppa cooperation of the Tamil stat reason that such a course i necessity of survival and one's
What the Tamils seek is ju manage their own affairs andl their own future. What is attitude? w
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coMPLETE AUTONOM
ONLY SOLUTION
MILITARISATION FOR FINAL SOLUTION' by the Sri Lankan government documented by P.R. Ganeshan in TAMIL TIMES (December '85) must have come as a shock to many of its readers. J.R. Jayawardene is up to all tricks. He tried to join the ASEAN. His connection with the notorious regimes of Israel, Pakistan, South Africa, only to name a few, shows to where he is dragging the country. He is now trying to use the SAARC as a forum for his machinations. He has also restored the civic rights of Mrs. Bandaranaike probably to get her to go along with him and restore his sagging support on the domestic front.
One wonders what Rajiv Gandhi is up to. He is yet to experience the political duplicity of Jayawardene. Or, have the Sri Lanka Tamils become pawns in the diplomatic game India is playing with Colombo? The analysis of N. Satyendra about the politics of India and that of Rajiv, however unwelcome to those who enjoy Indian hospitality, is probably correct.
The Tamils from their past experience should know that solutions based on short term expediency have only brought disaster. The only viable solution is complete autonomy for
the north and east, and the g of the plantation Tamils wi Tamils in these areas. That Sinhala people to do what t remaining seven provinces Tamils to live in peace in th Rajiv can concede Chandigar peace, why not Jayawardene injustice and let Tamils have 1 live in autonomy and peace.
Tamil Times, Tamil Infor Herald International have service to the Tamils and thc their cause by enlightening th India Call, it is time for us to c and East. The Sharvananda must be called upon to cease weapons in the hands of Quislings must be exposed, must be supported.
Finally, please conve
appreciation to P.R. Ganesh will continue his excellent wo)
Mirfield,

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all this waste is 2 the Tamils alone te?
n the 17th century help the Sinhalese tuguese especially for troops from
the Buddha, the f the Sinhalese ing of Jaffna for g of Kotte was 2? Does that not podwill and amity anils when both ? Is it not a good te; you leave us
on the strength of eography, that in the Sinhalese can rt and unstinted e for the obvious s dictated by the own self-interest.
st the freedom to pe the architects of wrong with that
Philip N. Ratnapal Ottawa, Canada
MY,
radual integration th the Sri Lanka would permit the hey please in the
and allow the heir own areas. If h to Punjab to buy undo the historic heir own land and
nation and Tamil
done yeoman se sympathetic to em. Like the Quit all Ouit the North s and Pasupathis being propaganda the government. and the dedicated
y my sincere an and I trust he k.
S. Raghunathan West Yorkshire, UK.
- Rajiv And Tamils
I WOULD like to make the following remarks on the press conference given by Mr. Gandhi, appearing under the heading "Tamil Groups Must Speak Out - Rajiv" in your November issue.
Mr. Gandhi has rightly found fault with the ENLF for not spelling out what they want. He was however silent on the atrocities being committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces under the guise of ceasefire. Mr. Gandhi has a moral obligation to condemn and to bring to an end these actions as the ceasefire was brought about by his efforts. These actions by the Sri Lanka Government are perhaps the cause for the ENLF's Silence. . . . . . . . .
I believe, any observer who had followed the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka and the mediation role by India, would not have failed to observe that the Sri Lanka Government had at least on two occasions taken the Indian Government for a ride. V ... " - first in 1983, immediately after the holocaust of the Tamils, when J.R. (Sri Lankan President) under the guise of Annexure C and the Round Table Conference, bought time to consolidate his army and lobby for international support,
- second in 1985, the so-called ceasefire and negotiations which pulled J.R. from a tight corner, when the Tamil militants were on top, and granted him breathingspace to consolidate his army and stockpile arms. :
... There is no disputing the fact that these two, particularly the second, had been to the great detriment of the Tamil militants' just efforts.
May I ask one question:
Is Indian diplomacy so naive as to be bluffed by the shrewd and cunning J.R.? Is Indian diplomacy aimed at taking the Tamils for a ride-both in Sri Lanka and India?
K. Lingan Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
It's Not Cricket
MORALITY means goodness, distinction between right and wrong, honesty, principled behaviour. The absence of morality, in politics, is concealed by the invention of the new concept of "political morality'. This political morality, perhaps better expressed as immorality, was best demonstrated by the Sri Lankan authorities' relationship with the MCC Cricket 'B' team.
The team was hoping to tour Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. But since it included players who had played in South Africa, in contravention of the Gleneagles Agreement, both Zimbabwe and Bangladesh withdrew their invitations to the team. As a third world country, as an earlier colonial country, one that could therefore understand and emotionally feel the effect of subjugation and oppression, it was expected Sri Lanka also would have cancelled the tour.
But, no! How can the Sri Lankan government let down the South African regime? After all it has become a major arms supplier to Sri Lanka, for Sri Lanka to massacre its own citizens.
Clinging to power, whatever the cost, of principle or human life, is the name of the game in politics. That is “political morality'. It is that game that President Jayawardene plays.
K.R.M. London

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Hitler and Junius
AFTER READING Mr. Jayawardene's recent interview which appeared in India Today of December 15, 1985, I was reminded of Hitler who became notorious for the "Broken Treaties' he signed knowing very well that he could repudiate them if and when he wanted. He says "The ball is in their court. If they return it we will play. But so far, nothing has been put to us.” He is pretending not to know what the Tamils want and taking cover under Rajiv Gandhi's statement. The fact is the Tamil leaders have put forward many proposals which he has turned down many times.
Like Hitler who named his party the National Socialist Party, to kill socialism in Germany, he calls his government the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to kill socialism and democracy. Like Hitler who usurped power to become a dictator, he has concentrated power in his own hands and extended his period by a fake referendum. Like Hitler who played on racial pride and prejudice, he is playing on Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism. Like Hitler who had a plan for the final solution of the ¥ people, he has a plan for the final solution o the Tamil people', which he has been putting into operation from time to time.
His perverted Hitlerite mind is revealed in
PRAYERS POINT P
OUR INSTITUTION, Sarada Sevashrama, was f 1969 to serve the poor, downtrodden in life. We engaged in translating our many years.
From August 1984 the S. (Point Pedro) has changec few families lost their ch Some were injured badly sc earn a living. We gave the powder etc.
Due to the armed forces' to our town, two schools at were forced to shift; places deserted. Many abandone are living elsewhere.
The fisher folk were bad go fishing except very clos business people are also b here is very unsettled and ni y. During 1985 more than 12 either lost the head of the chief bread winner, came With our limited resourc clothes, dry rations and at
some of the statements he made to foreign - restart them in life. we hay
correspondents and over the radio: “If the Tamils want war, we shall give them war", “I cannot see and my government cannot see any other way by which we can appease the natural desire and request of the Sinhala people”, “I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people, he has a plan for the “final solution of the Tamil people', which he has been putting into operation from time to time. -
By these irresponsible statements he was all the time inciting and encouraging the Sinhalese hoodlums to attack the Tamils. And bypassing the Prevention of Terrorism Act he gave the army, navy and the air force a licence to kill. Now he is threatening to "cut off food and supplies to the Jaffna Peninsula” and starve them to death.
Who are the real"murderers' and "terrorists'? Are Jayawardene and his ministers who let loose a reign of "State Terrorism” and committed "genocide" of the Tamil people or the Tamil youths who are fighting for the freedom and self-determination of the Tamils? I leave it to your readers to decide.
Yal N. Alagan USA.
rebuilding houses which hac In short it is not safe to liv where our ancestors lived in for several hundred years. N have been forced by the co here to leave their traditio migrate to Europe and A other parts of the island is n therefore not surprising tha emigrate.
I read in the newspape suggestion these refugees c South Sri Lanka. It is our e such a move should not be m disastrous results. This has b in the past.
The aspirations of my co for the country's progres aspirations of a minority co will not in any way bring harmony. What has been p has neverbeen putin practic concerned. We urgently wa and harmony everywhere. prayer to God.
day the priest reported her missing.
APPEAL TO RELEASE BI
PENELOPE WILLIS (54), was re rted by the Sri Lankan suI authorities as having arrived at Mullaitivu on January 17 and vel visited St Peter's Church asking for accommodation. The next ad
She arrived in Mullaitivu in a hired self-drive car. Foreigners Lal
are now not allowed to visit the Northern and Eastern provinces and are turned back at security checkpoints. Mrs. Willis apparently carried a written authority from a military officer which enabled her to move freely.
An EROS spokesman said, "the government of Sri Lanka has declared certain parts of the island, mainly the Tamil homelands, out of bounds to all foreigners.” (EROS is one of the Tamil militant groups).
"Despite this restriction, aforeigner, claiming to be a British citizen and a journalist, was permitted by the authorities to enter Mullaitivu district in the Eastern Province, an "out of bounds' area. She was arrested by EROS on 20th January, as her presence there was suspicious” an EROS spokesman šaid. The possibility that she is a spy working for the government has to be excluded. Investigations into the circumstances
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resence very close acent to the camp f worship became their houses and
hit. Many do not to the shore. The dly affected. Life
tat all happy. . . . . .
families, who had household or the o us for succour.
s we gave them imes even COWS to
now commenced been destroyed.
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peace and security (any of our people nditions prevailing nal homeland and merica. Living in ot safe either. It is t people choose to
rs that there is a ould be settled in arnest appeal that ade as it will end in een our experience
Immunity are vital s. To stifle the mmunity by force about peace and eached in theory by the authorities it security, peace his is our earnest
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punding her arrival there are under way. Once the ation is completed she will be released unharmed”, he
is reported that this is the third visit of Mrs Willis to Sri
a; last October she was in Jaffna. She is said to have enarticles in journals under the pen name Tremayne. She m a well known family in Cornwall, England. Her father he late Air Marshall Sir John Tremayne. She lives with usband in north Cornwall and they have a grown-up son
aughter.
he meantime, the Archbishop of Colombo, Rt. Rev. Dr. Is Fernando, has called upon those responsible for the earance of Mrs. Willis to release her. In his appeal, the ishop states, “Now we have heard of the disappearance S. Penelope Willis from Mullaitivu. In a cable, His nce Cardinal Hume of the United Kingdom has ed for assistance from me also stating that Mrs. Willis laily medical attention. In the name of everything that is . e, I appeal to those responsible for the disappearance of y to kindly release her.'

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'Women For Peace
“Women for Peace', operating from 25, Kirula Road, Colombo 5, has issued the following statement:
We refer to the front page news item in the ISLAND of 3rd January 1986, reporting the rape and shooting of two women by home guards at Mutur on December 25th 1985. , “Women for Peace', an organisation which unites women from all communities to work towards a just, negotiated peace, condemns this atrocity committed against women by persons authorised by the Government to bear firearms.
We are gravely concerned that such incidents are: (a) indicative of the deterioration of law and order in the country, (b) part of the climate of
increasing militarisation inevitable consequence unsuitable persons in the defence.
We urge the Minister 1 National Security and th charge of the home guards inquiry into this incident, 1 culpable and to take stroI prevent further suc Furthermore, the Governn the responsibility for cor rehabilitating the victin families.
The prolification of law civil defence and nati personnel to deal with public security' arising fi
“HOME GUARDS SHOT TWO TAI
THE GRUESOME details of how, on Christmas Day five armed home guards posing as soldiers forcibly removed two.
Tamil women from their house in Mutur,
allegedly raped them and later shot them, were revealed at an inquest held into the death of one of the women killed, Mary Agnes Yogeswary (21), by acting Mutur Magistrate Mr M. K. Sellarajah.
The incident occurred in Mutur in
astern Sri Lanka.
Dr. C. C. K. Sellathurai, DMO Trincomalee, who held the post mortem on Yogeswary was of the opinion that death was caused by gunshot injuries and that the victim had been raped before death.
After the evidence Mohammadu Basheer, Mary Alphonso and Parameshwary was recorded, the
acting Magistrate returned a verdict of
homocide and ordered the five suspects to be taken into custody in this connection, and be produced before the Co-ordinating officer Trincomalee for interrogation.
M.H. Mohammadu Basheer, giving evidence, said that on 25th December at about 7 p.m. he was met by one Nawaz who was with four others. Nawaz had told witness that they were army personnel and wanted witness to show the pathway to the house of Jamil at the 64th mile post Mutur. Witness went with them. One of them gave him a gun to be kept with him.
At the 64th mile post the five persons entered a house. Witness did not know whose house it was. Witness was asked to search the drawers of a table. He found some papers. He was then asked to wait outside. After about 15 minutes the five
of M.H.
persons came out with twc and a young man. All o Periyapalam. At the Periy school witness and the yo accompanied the two wome wait outside. The five perso school with the two women
After about 45 minutes men came out and asked the youth for questioning. two women seated in two school building. After son men, along with the two wo and witness went towards One Nawahir and witness wait at a certain spot befor men with the two women proceeded towards the Nawahir had a hand gre, cartridge belt and a torch w
The other four perso identical to those used by a Five minutes later witness h and thereafter nine gun sh other. 15 minutes later returned and witness was gun given to him. When h gave him a cartridge andf the gun. Through fearhef
his right shoulder was still
never used a gun before.
Witness later cane to Muslim home guards personnel. On the instructi of the Mosque witness mac Mutur Police about the inc December.
Mary Alphonso, wife said that at about 8 p.m.

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"Calls For Probe
and (c) the of arming name of civil
esponsible for e Minister in ohold a public o punish those g measures to atrocities. ment must bear npenating and ns and their
enforcement, onal defence he "threat to om the ethnic
conflict, has resulted in several incidents involving innocent civilians in the South as well as the North. Home guards have been reported to have been involved in cases of rape, assault, theft and settlement of personal vendettas using weapons officially issued for defence purposes.
Unless immediate action is taken to punish miscreants and maintain rigorous standards of discipline and accountability, a grave threat is posed to the general public from those very people who have been entrusted with their security.
Finally the particular violent incident we highlight here makes more imperative a speedy and just resolution to the destructive ethnic conflict paralysing our country.
RAPED AND MIL WOMEN
» yoипg wотеп f then went to apalam Muslim pung man who 2n were asked to ns went into the
one of the five witness to bring Witness saw the corners in the ne time the five omen, the youth Iddiman Aru. were made to e the other four and the youth Aru (river). nade, a gun, a rith him.
ons - had guns Irmy personnel.
teard a gun shot
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the four men.
asked to fire the e declined they orced him to fire red the gun and Jaining. He had
Inow they were and not army ons of the leader le a statement to ident on 27th of
of Francis (34)
on the day in
question six persons came to their house and ordered her and her husband out. At that time witness's sister Felicia (18), brother Jesuthasan (21) and stepsister Yogeswary (21) were sleeping inside the house. One of the men took witness into the house and searched the drawers of a table and boxes. They took two wrist watches from a drawer. That person ordered witness to undress, she refused and cried out “Amma” and ran out of the house.
The men went inside the house, put up the three persons sleeping inside and took them away, saying they were being taken to the army camp for questioning. «M
Parameswary, wife of Thavarajah (27) said her sister Yogeswary lived with her stepsister in the adjoining house. On December 26 at about 7 a.m. stepmother of witness Anthonyamma inforemd witness that her children had been taken by the army. She wanted witness to help her trace her children. They informed the leader of the home guards there to find out whether the two women and the youth were at the army camp. After some time they were informed that the trio were not taken by the army.
A little while after witness came to know about the discovery of Felicia near the Iddiman Aru. She was not dead and was sent to Trincomalee base hospital. .
On 28th witness learnt that the dead body of Yogeswary had been found near Kaddaiparichan Aru. She identified the body as that of her sister. The body of
Jesuthsan was not found... is a ce.
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What The Others
A PATRIOT IS MVAWT
N THE ethnic issue, an oftrepeated refrain among
Sinhalese chauvinists is that the Tamil people claim a right to have a separate territory for themselves in the North while laying claim to a right to live and work in the South as well.
The problem is that the Tamil people now are not sure of their physical safety even in the areas which they regard as "traditional Tamil territory”.
Death rains from the skies on occasion. Death stalks the roads and byways.
Sudden death has become an accepted fact among a stoical people who have no real animosity against the Sinhalese people.
Caught up in a hurly-burly situation fraught with socio-economic tensions,
the Tamil people of bewilderment.
They pray to the somehow, seem them in the houro
One fact the should remember people did not occi the South with Sta came on their own, Sinhalese people c. selling their land to in certain areas Wellawatte or "L included.
We suggest tha Sinhalese patriots v from public platfor. together and mal "invasion' of the N with State assistance
A NEW TURN
E RESTORATION on New Year's day in Sri Lanka I of the civic rights of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the SLFP leader and former Prime Minister, represents the redress of an act of gross political injustice resorted to by the conservative ruling party, the UNP, in October 1980 in its narrow interests. Mrs. Bandaranaike might have been no paragon of democratic virtues while in power, but surely the technique of removing from the legitimate political scene for a period of seven years, through a brute parliamentary majority, one's most formidable opponent for "misuse of power” was tantamount to bending the Constitution and the democratic rules of the game in an improper way. Read along with the move to a heavy-handed presidential system, the referendum' that denied the people of Sri Lanka as a whole the opportunity to express their wishes freely in a general election and various other political sharp practices, it was a major general setback for democracy in a situation already vitiated by officially-sponsored chauvinism against the Tamil minority. It was no wonder that the ruling United National Party was accused of political fraud by various political groupings belonging to the Centre, Left and minority. The Sri Lankan President's "free pardon” cutting short Mrs. Bandaranaike's disability by a period of nearly two years (the disqualification would have ended in October 1987 in the formal course) provides an opportunity to undo the gross political wrong done earlier and influence the political situation - overall in the island and, most immediately, for the embattled Tamils - in a constructive direction.
What exactly does Sirimavo Bandaranaike's reemergence in the parliamentary and political arena, free from restrictions and inhibitions imposed by her earlier civic disability, mean for the ethnic question in Sri Lanka? While it cannot be forgotten that the former Prime Minister attempted, in recent months, to sponsor a 'National Front' with distinct chauvinistic undertones, encouragement can be derived from some of her latest pronouncements on the Tamil question. For example, the day before her civic rights
 

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usual gods, who, ) have forsaken greatest crisis. inhalese people s that the Tamil by a single inch of assistance. They If anything, many nnived by readily Tamil people, as n the South - ttle Tamilmadu”
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The Tamil people are not averse to accepting them, provided they come without the gun and the bullet, Thesawalamai law notwithstanding.
The Kokilai and Nayaru incidents should be good reminders of the faulty thinking in the South.
Patriotism, some fool or other has said, is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Misplaced patriotism has been the bugbear of Sri Lanka from even before Independence.
If only we could find a real patriot now, among the Sinhalese or Tamil people, Sri Lanka could be a Paradise indeed.
Scanning the list of candidates on the horizon, we cannot find any in Sri Lanka today who has the requisite qualifications. . . But we have not given up hope. There is still a chance that some one or other might come forward to save Sri Lanka.
The only problem is that the
earliest date we can visualise is 2001 A.D. Saturday Review (Sri Lanka) 18.1.86
IN SRI LANKA r
were restored in a surprise move, she went on record in an interview to THE HINDU in Colombo that "a political solution is necessary, is absolutely necessary.” She spoke out against the official delusion concerning a military solution: "Militarily I suppose you can go on fighting. Fighting, fighting ... till we are all annihilated.” She saw a clear connection between the divisive "game” and tactics pursued by the Sri Lankan President, J. R. Jayawardene, and the 'hardening" of positions on the Tamil side. And she ounded positive towards India's attempts to move the angerous situation towards a negotiated political ettlement. The leader of the main opposition party clearly erceives a connection between her perfectly legitimate emand for "general elections” (overdue in Sri Lanka if the emocratic label is to be retained with any credibility) and le participation of Tamil political organisations in the emocratic process - based, of course, on a timely response their grievances. How exactly this relation is to be pressed, how the various issues crying out for solution in e island can be balanced and handled, is a matter that is by means clear at this point. In this context, it is deplorable at atrocities against the hapless Tamils by the armed forces 'd the state continue, with the deepening involvement of ternal forces, notably Israel and Pakistan in a reactionary ly. It is certainly not political wisdom on the part of the Sri inkan President to talk constantly of the inevitability of di tilitary solution" - in the latest round, he has even ticised Mrs. Bandaranaike for expressing herself in 'our of a political settlement - even while the TULF's 2rnative proposals for a semi-federal solution within the mework of a united Sri Lanka are on the table and India's d offices are at work in the effort to find a via media ponding realistically to the interests of various parties to dispute. Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s re-emergence from semi-wilderness represents an undoubted new turn, but ch way will it go so far as the Tamils are concerned? s
Editorial, Frontline (India II-24January, 1986.
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An all-day forum on the above theme, starting at 10.30 a.m. and finishing in the late afternoon of Saturday, 22 February, will take place at the Oxford Union, St Michael Street, Oxford.
Walton (Sussex University), Mr. Bradman Weerakoon (former Sri Lanka Cabinet Secretary), Mr. Mahes Wijesiri (former Lecturer, University of Sri Lanka), Mr. Douglas Wickramaratne (President, Sri Lanka Association of UK), Mr. M. Sivasithamparan (President, TULF), Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam and Professor A. Jeyaratnam Wilson.
This forum is open to non-members and there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion.
Among the participants will be Professor David
INCREASED LIFE SPAN 1
provinces.
span was 61 years in 1961.
studied up to grade five only.
population.
THE STATISTICS must have been collected long before the present turmoil in the islands or, if recent, it must have excluded the inhabitants of the Northern and Eastern
According to a UNICEF report, the average life span of a Sri Lankan adult has gone up to 67 years in 1983. The life .
Further, 14% of the population is illiterate and 46%
21% of the infants are under weight. High income group forms 20%, while low income group constitutes 40% of the

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fina Tamil CAMA Accountant in arred. Box M86.
long time UK bridegroom for ter in her early ial. Copy of Come. Box AM87.
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Our little life is rounded with a
sleep
Yet another landmark has been removed from the
social and Cultural scene of Jaffna, in the passing of Arasoe Walton, in his 80th year, on January 12. After his retirement from the judiciary, he lived in his little thottam' in the heart of the City, practised his profession in all the Courts of the Northern Province when it was possible to travel around without danger olife or limb, and also found time for everyone, known and unknown, who sought his help and advice. He made a special mark as President of the Jaffna YMCA, , one of the few centres of recreation still open to the hapless people of the Northern capital.
He will, however, be remembered not so much as a egalluminary, which he undoubtedly was-there were many eminent lawyers of his generation in his native Vadamaradchi and in every part of the 'litigious' Peninsula - but for his many human qualities. Son of he distinguished Shakespearean scholar and revered schoolmaster, Alagu Walton, he inherited many of his ather's talents of actor, humorist, raconteur, baterfamilias.
: ‰ኔ ፳\ክኣ ፥ , Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man They that weep and they that fly,
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THE Sri Lankan Parliament passed legislation on 31 January 1986, to grant citizenship to 94,000 Tamil plantation workers, after boisterous debate. . . s
It is reported that this step followed an accord with India whereby India
agreed to take back all those who
opted for Indian citizenship before
the extended expiry date for repatriation of 30 October 1981.
It is felt that one of the major.
constituency of Nuwara
problems in . Indo-Sri Lanka
relationship will be removed if the si
accord is faithfully implemented by the Sri Lankan government.
India will start processing the pending applications for Indian citizenship, six to eight months after Sri Lanka enacts legislation and takes executive action to grant Sri Lankan citizenship to the remaining stateless.
persons - Tamils of recent Indian.
origin.
These workers are the descendants of those brought by the British from South India about 150 years ago, to
work in the tea and rubber plantations in the then unpopulated central hilly: , ;
areas of Sri Lanka. They enjoyed equal civic rights with the rest of the
Hქჭწლებს: population groups, till the
British left in February 1948.
The Ceylon Citizenship Act, passed by the Parliament on 15 November 1948, disenfranchised them. The Ceylon government tried to make out that the disenfranchised were Indian citizens. Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India, refused to accept that interpretation and the Sri Lankan plantation workers became "stateless persons”, while continuing to contribute to the economic wealth of Sri Lanka, by their sweat and toil.
The plantation workers were so khöökငd by the injustice perpetrated on them that some wanted to take idrastic protest action. They were dissuaded by their seven elected
Members of Parliament and by assurances that the Government of India would compel the Sri Lankan :
to make legislative
Government amendments to rectify the situation.
A few Tamil MPs from the North and Eastern provinces (indigenous Tamils) Chelvanayagam, the Lanka i Sama Samaja Party and the Communist Party strongly opposed the 1948 Ceylon Citizenship laws. . . . . . . The names of the plantation
orkers continued to remain on the . .
led by Mr. S. J. V.
voters' lists and they vote and 1950 by-elections. T be elected by them was M represent Maskeliya. Tł
workers were deprived
to vote in the general
1952.
The plantation wo solitary representative re Sri Lankan parliament i1 Mr. Thondaman was el third member in the th
for Mr. Thondaman a elected representative a 25 years. In the interimp
the nominated represent
after the plantation interests. One represent million persons in the m democracy of Sri Lanka
In October 1964 Bandaranaike, Prime
Ceylon and Lal Baha Prime Minister of India
an agreement which e! “stateless population” one million and committ
(Ceylon), to grant ci
300,000 and India to gra to 525,000. The fate of was to be decided after 1979 the implementatio extended by a further
. From October 1981, tl
hung in limbo.
With the ndw agi Lanka's overall liabilit acceptance of 469,000
recent Indian origin as
citizens with full civic r country. s
The Indian High Com Colombo, Mr. J. N. Dixi the latest accord with th Minister for National S Lalith Athulathmudali Minister for Rural Development, Mr. S. who is the leader of the
Tamils”. During his re
India, Mr. Thondamann Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gan
discussions with him on t
Mr. Rajiv Gandhi rece
stateless Tamils who ha
Indian citizenship and w repatriation could not b
until the Tamil refugees
back after a settlement
problem. This was inter Lanka as India going earlier commitment.
The latest accord Will up this misunderstanding

FEBRUARY 1986
WO MORE2
ed in the 1949 he last MP to 1r. A. Aziz to he plantation
tWO issues separate - the problems of
the "stateless' Tamils and
the
struggle of the indigenous Sri Lankan
Tamils for their legitimate rights.
of their right O. When fully implemented, India would have accepted about 600,000 workers from Sri Lankan plantation rkers' rower rareas. These arrangements between politicians, governments and officials do not necessarily reflect the wishes of the people involved. The plight of the
elections of
turned to the n 1977, when ected as the hree-member Eliya. It was return as an
fter a gap of
beriod he was
ative to look 2.
workers' ative for one uch vaunted
-- Sirimavo Minister of
dur Shastring:
entered into stimated the to be about ed Sri Lanka
tizenship to nt citizenship
the balance
15 years. In n period was two years. he issue has
reement -- Sri -" -
y is for the | Tamils of
Sri Lankan ights in that
missioner in it, negotiated e Sri Lankan ecurity, Mr. , and the Industrial Thondaman, ese “stateless cent visit to het the Prime dhi, and had his topic. intly said that
d been given a
vere awaiting e taken back,
in India went r".
of the ethnic preted in Sri back on its
help to clear
. It keeps the
s
estate workers
who had been
repatriated from Sri Lanka to India
has not been a happy one.
Exploited Once Again
The 15th of December 1985 was observed throughout Tamil Nadu as the Sri Lankan Repatriates' Day. It
life of destitution in India.
infamous repatriation agreement, for an Indian show of concern on a mass scale for the pathetic plight of half a
million repatriates in India. One
hopes that, at least now, the conscience of the people of Tamil Nadu has been sufficiently aroused and that they have been made alive to their moral responsibility to rehabilitate the repatriates and to integrate them into the host society.
Ninety per cent of the repatriates are still languishing under conditions ef poverty far worse than those prevailing in the plantations of Sri Lanka. Despite well-conceived schemes of rehabilitation, the repatriates have failed to benefit from them due to the tardy implementation of those schemes. 20,000 families have still not been rehabilitated.
Socially they are still discarded by the people of Tamil Nadu. Officialdom looks upon them as an unwanted burden. Bureaucrats and middle men deprive them of their just dues.
Restrictions are placed on their movement. Their entry into the hilly Nilgris district is curbed. Only about 39 families have been sent to Andaman and Nicobar islands and that was many years ago.
Throughout Tamil Nadu there are housands of incomplete, roofless houses which are said to have been built with housing loans granted to repatriates. The influx of Sri Lankan repatriates into Tamil Nadu has only
introduced a new area of exploitation. The repatriates continue to remain deprived,
poverty-stricken and destitute.
was a timely gesture of concern for a deprived community uprooted from Sri Lanka and abandoned to lead a
It has taken 21 years since the

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with
ARMY GANG-RA
E GRUESOME account of how
four women were gang-raped in their own homes and ten men shot dead by the Sri Lankan security forces on 5 December 1985 was narrated to the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee
when it visited the eastern Sri Lankan
port city of Trincomalee on 14 December 1985. The four women rape-victims have also sworn affidavits confirming their ordeal.
How the government, and specially
the Ministry of National Security
headed by Lalith Athulathmudali,
cover-up such atrocities and crimes by its rape-gangs and death squads was revealed in the news items that
appeared in the Sri Lankan state
controlled media relating to the incident in question. Attributing to sources in the Ministry of National
Security, the newspapers reported
that ten persons had been shot dead while attempting an escape from an
army camp and that many had been
arrested in possession of "Eelam leaflets.
The Thinakaran' of 9 December
1985 reported the incident with a
headlines: “Sinhala Militants
Arrested with Tamil Eelam Leaflets”
and “Ten Persons Shot Dead Attempting to Escape from SeruNuwara Army Camp”. The report followed with the names of those shot dead: (1) S. Vinayagamoorthy; (2) S. Kandasamy; (3) V. Nadesapillai; (4) V. Ganesharatnam; (5) R. Thangavelue; (6) P. Thurairatnam; (7) K. Senathirasa; (8) R.
Thangathurai; (9) R.A. Karunadasa; ع
and (10) R.M. Punchibanda. The report also added that a Magisterial
inquiry was held at which the verdict
given was justifiable homicide.
However, the truthful account of
the incident was given by wives of the
AND KILLSTE
i VICTIMS TA IN THEIR OWN
“I, U. . . . P ..., 2. Munnampodivettai, state that 1 am, I and my mother-in-law sleeping when I heard someon . . . has come, wake up. Wh saw I5 militarypersonnel. Isa my two brothers-in-law, K. . Three persons forcibly comu intercourse on me.
. Sgd i Muni
★ ★ ★
"I, G. . . P. . . state that on sleeping with my husband ( house. At about I am, abou personnel came to our house and took my husband away. O
forcibly had sexual intercours Sgd
女 责 ★
"I, K . . . M. . . ., aged
Munnampodivettai state that myself, my husband K. . . anu N. . . aged 11 years were ath about 10 army personnel came and took my husband away. forcibly had serual intercour regained consciousness at 7 at months after my last confiner was told by my relations thau
had been shot dead.
Sgd. i Mun
s'
"I, T . . . A . . ., a
Munnampodivettai, state tha 5.12.85, army personnel cam and removed my husband, and
forcibly had intercourse with
Sgd 8 * i Mun
Editor's Note: The signed do names are in our possession. obvious reasons, we have av out their names in full.
ITIS WAR
continued from page 1 Perumal, aged 48. He was returning from school on his bicycle, and on seeing two soldiers carrying the dead
body of a youth, he got off his cycle and
walked wheeling it. As he neared the soldiers, one of them shot him at point blank range and killed him on the spot.
24.1.86: Two Tamils died and Several were injured at Nayaru in Mullaitivu when army helicopters fired into the village. On the same day, army
helicopters fired into Colombuturai
and Pasaiyur in Jaffna - several were injured and 12 houses damaged.
25.1.86: As a small Cro was attending the cremation of the peop 23.1.85 at Tellipalai, arm fired into the crowd and a person died and several On the same day 10 T were killed at the Kilino station when the army indiscriminately.
27.1.86: At Thampalal eastern province, 10 c killed in a search operation.
30.1.86. Several W ci

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T. . ., were is :
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with me. K. . . P. . .” 9.12.85
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ten murdered men and the rape victims in their evidence to the
Ceasefire Monitoring Committee.
The wives of all the ten deceased, if giving evidence, described how service personnel raided their homes on 5 December 1985 at about 1 am and arrested their men in their homes while they were asleep. They said that no literature whatsoever was found in their possession or homes and that they and their husbands had no connection with any politics.
The four women rape victims also gave evidence and related how they were forcibly raped by several soldiers. Mrs. Upasena Premawathie (a Sinhalese woman married to a
Tamil), separated wife of Murugamoorthy, stated in her evidence before the Ceasefire
Monitoring Committee that on the night of 5 December whilst she was asleep on the verandah of their home, she heard a tap at the door of the room where her brother and sister-inlaw slept, and shouting to open the door. When the door was opened, she saw three persons enter the room; she did not know what happened inside the room because she herself was pushed down onto the floor by a soldier who raped her. A second soldier came up to her to have sex and when she refused, he too raped her by force. When a third soldier approached her, she worshipped and begged him not to harm her, but he forced her and raped her. She also saw her sister-in-law being similarly raped in her presence.
The ten men who were shot dead
were all taken into custody during the
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same night from their homes by the soldiers. The incident occurred in the village of Munnampodivettai in the Trincomalee district.
injured due to indiscriminate firing from the army camp at Mullaitivu.
1.2.86: A private van carrying 29 Tamil passengers from Wattakakachchi to Kilinochchi was forcibly diverted by the security forces at Elephant Pass and all passengers shot dead. A big offensive against Tamil militants was carried out by the security forces and reports confirmed by the government indicated at least 90 militants were killed in the Kilinochchi area. However, reports from independent sources indicated that scores of civilians were killed in this operation. . .