கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
இந்தப் படைப்பின் நூலகப் பக்கத்தினை பார்வையிட பின்வரும் இணைப்புக்குச் செல்லவும்: Tamil Times 1986.03

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Oxford Union Debate on Sri Lanka .....,,,,,,,,........................
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Around The World ............. 6
Gueria Leaders Ald Refugees in South India.......... 8
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Sri Lanka's Future............... ... 10
"I Do Not See Any
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Mother Tongue Learning......15
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THE ALLEGED MASSACRE OFSC TäTil villagers in th of Anin or Hitler wo Cofficially inwestiga tE Sri Lankan Gowerm said yesterday. Detɛ the incident, which OCCurred at the willa Udu barkularit aast of the island, är sketchy, BuLatthew a Roman Catholic pr Cha 1 dra Farlando, been Quote das sayi found pilas of Charre Half-burnt bodie San about 50 severed he Daily Telegraph 24th Fеbruary 1886
ESCALATION OF FIGHTINGIN SRI LANKAISFEARE
by Steve R. Wiseria Nei, ''erk Trier,
MADRAS, INDIAiTTpasse in thic negotia to end the fighting in S Llika is stirring new f that the guvernment a foes may resu Ille: thicit Warfare on a largers: than before the talks.
International Herald Tribune 28th February 1986

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Wol. W No. 5 March 1986
AINA WEEK
nka is III aking headline news as the "war" hots up. In 1983 there alists and T.W. crews to report the killings of innocent Tamils e destruction of their homes and businesses. Now Illo ca Iners Northern and Eastern "front" where large scale Inassacres hawe is have been bombing residential areas.
eadlines which have appeared in leading papers over a period but much to their frustration the reporters are far away from
e Simon Winchester and Tim Cooper, for daring to enter the which is virtually the whole of the north and east), have been ted, except, of course, Penelope Willis (see p. 5).
o INDIASSUEs PLANESBOMB WARNING TOSRI "HIDEOUTS"IN in LANKA SRI LANKA
by Ma LrscS WWe3 ver from Eric Silver İrı Color'ıEağ
r Woo Los es of || SRI LAN KAN AIR FORCE estyle India yeste rday demanded planes were reported ab | charakatin y Easterday to hawe : tl, tՒ1t: political solution to its both bed and strafed 1Erit this conflict withina buildings in three towns
month. - in the island's troubled 3 ils Of The Foreign Minister, Mr. northern province,
e of B. R. Bhagat, told MP's Dai
that Delhi would not allow egrap EE every " further worsening of the 28th February
conflict, illage :" COLOMBODENIES "|ESt The (GLIa rdian has 28th February 98. MASSACRE mig he SRI LAN KAN security 2d, forces Went on a rampage d Rebels таy get against Tamil civilians in the ads. | nn issiles to northern Ninativli island.
strengthen their Inassacring at least 30 forces people. m The Guardian
TAMILSTOSTEPUP 5th March 18, FIGHT FOR COLOMBOSETSUP HOMELAND MASSACREINQUIRY ರಟ್ for Eric Silver from Hurphrey Hawksley An in Madras Crg tions. As Sri Lanka sinks deeper President Junius Ti into ciwi|| War, TarTi|| Jayewardeneyesterday cars | leaders operating from ordered the setting up of a nd its Madras a repreparing to high-level committee to
step up their military and investigate allegations that II: diplomatic campaign for troops II assacred up to 8C
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homeland. Lanka. The Guardian The Guardian 4rh March 1986 25th February 1986

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UWVVIN
RESIDENT Jayewardene's Vietnam war against the Tamils of Sri Lanka now has its days of cruel infamy when selective civilian targets are bombed from the airacts which we have to set against the catalogue of numerous crimes against humanity for which President Jayewardene is responsible as Commander-in-Chief, and his Minister of National Security is just as guilty for aiding and abetting. To this question we shall return shortly. The primary one, however, is whether an 80 year old Commander-in-Chief a la Petain can achieve the results that he is vainly after.
It is said that history repeats itself because nobody learns from history. The French and their colons would have won the war against the Algerian freedom fighters in their struggle for independence had firepower and military sophistication been the deciding factors. In fact, the French designed a constitution, which Jayewardene has aped, without taking into account that French political culture is very different from the Sinhala Buddhist political milieu, in the belief that the vesting of the powers of the state in the person of an executive president such as De Gaulle would have achieved for them, among other things, the retention of Algeria. Unfortunately President Jayewardene does not possess the political acumen of the great General. Bombing innocent civilians and searching and destroying young innocent school boys in addition to raping their sisters and looting their private property will only stiffen Tamil resistance against our own Hitler's machine. General Chiang Kai-Shek obtained similar advice from the German General von Falkenhausen in his campaign against Mao Tse Tung but ended up in Taiwan. Not all the American weaponry and military advisers could help Chiang's generals in their war against the great Chinese leader. It has been the same in Israel's Lebanon war and so has it been in so many other wars against people who are determined not to bend or bow to the military gangsters raping their lands.
President Jayewardene and his badly divided Cabinet
THE SOUE
Once upon a time, there was a government and a leader, which - in the words of Martin Luther King (though it sullies his memory to mention him in this connection)- "had a dream'. What dream? The dream, so it was alleged, of turning Sri Lanka into an economic wonderland, with a floating rupee, free trade zones, huge development projects funded by foreign aid, and the gradual contraction of democratic rights in order to make the island a safe haven for investors. . . .
Ten years later, the dream has turned to nightmare, and
the dreamer (like Marcos) is deep in his Sinhalese bunker, armed with his helicopter gunships, his troops little more than untrained killers, and the landscape heaped with Tamil (and Sinhalese) corpses. In consequence, national revenue, much of it derived from the labour of Tamils, cannot meet the rising cost of killing Tamils, the eggs which were to be laid by the golden goose of tourism, now frightened off by the sounds of gunfire, have turned out addled; tea prices have dropped on the world market; : remittances from Sri Lankan migrant workers (or servants) in the Gulf have fallen, and at long last the pressure on donor countries to suspend, or cut, aid to Sri Lanka is mounting.
 
 

MARCH 1986
INABLE WARFORJ.R.
might as well by now know that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have no intention of surrendering any inch of their territory. Tamil Resistance is just as determined as Europe's underground resistance was against Hitler's blitzkrieg. President Jayewardene should as well be aware of the fate that befell Marcos, a man whom he obviously admired. A biography of Marcos with the name of Marcos' on the spine of the book was one of the few decorative volumes in Jayewardene's presidential office when it was situated in the old Ministry of External Affairs building. That volume may have been quietly disposed of after the collapse of Jayewardene's mirror mate. What Jayewardene should learn from these recent events in history is that not even the friendship of President Reagan and Mrs Nancy Reagan could save Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. -
The second point is that war criminals, criminals who have condoned and perpetrated criminal acts of villainy against innocent young men, school children, girls and the old in our community should answer for their crimes. That was the basis of the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trials, and the trial of Adolf Eichman. ...
We live in an age when civilization is respected and the sanctity of humanity is an inviolable right. To display crude disregard for what New Delhi or London thinks about his foul acts, as Jayewardene recently told a Times of India journalist is to fly in the face of reason. Paul Sieghart in his Sri Lanka: A Mounting Tragedy of Errors has already indicated that Jayewardene should have been prosecuted for certain misdeeds had he not enjoyed presidential immunity. The time has arrived for leaders of the civilized community in Sri Lanka and the world to devise a framework for the trial and sentencing of Sri Lanka'a war criminals. Even the late President Lyndon Johnson was put on trial at Stockholm by Bertrand Russell among other men and women of eminence for his crimes against the people of Vietnam. Jayewardene and his henchmen who occupy the bunker in Colombo should, we state, begin to be investigated.
EZE IS ON
We therefore wholeheartedly applaud the human rights efforts of Judith Hart, the former British Minister of Overseas Development, and her Emergency Committee on Sri Lanka (whose members include Bishop Desmond Tutu and Andrew Young, the former US Ambassador to ‘the United Nations) to deny to the murderous regime in Colombo the development resources which it misuses on settler-colonization programmes, on grandiose projects with a low ratio of benefit to the people (especially to the Tamils) and on the purchase of rapidly increasing атоитts ofgетоcidal и eаротry.
One thing, however, Judith Hart got plain wrong She reported, naively, that President Jayewardene "now very much wants a political settlement with the Tamils', even, that he had 'changed his views since his approval last month of a military solution'. What Jayewardene professes to "want, Dame Judith, depends on who he is speaking to. To his own constituency, he speaks war, to world opinion, peace. Yet the world's awareness of the truth abut Sri Lanka, and of the fundamental justice of the Tamil struggle, is also growing, even if human rights violations and mass murder on the island - on a scale : . Continued on page 5

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MARCH 1986
AFTER MYLA,
populated villages. Bullets rain from ht densely crowded city. Villagers workin
machine gunfire. All this in Sri Lanka.
THESRI LANKANPresident. J. R. Jayewardene, recently said to President) had told General Walters of USA, that the Sri Lan condemned for human rights violations since the American force atrocities in Vietnam. The Sri Lankan President appears to have
totally emulate the American example!
In the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka more than 80 persons working in paddy fields were gunned down by the security forces on 19th February. The official account was that they were "terrorists or terrorist sympathisers”. This is the standard justification advanced by the Sri Lankan forces for all their actions.
According to community leaders who visited the scene in the Amparai district, they were told by eyewitnesses that troops rounded up farm workers, tied their hands and made them sit in a group. After allegedly looting a nearby village, the soldiers returned and shot the workers. Afterwards they burnt the bodies.
One theory is that the massacre at Amparai was a swift reprisal for an ambush of an army convoy involving a big land mine explosion near Trincomalee, in which 44 Sinhalese were killed. According to official reports only four of the dead were soldiers; the others were civilians travelling under the protection of the army. According to Tamil militant sources the army was escorting new settlers to colonise the traditional Tamil homelands. In the last week of February the citizens of Jaffna in the North planned a protest strike, to express their dissatisfaction about the hardships they had been subjected to by the security forces, especially the declaration of a 1000 metre *security zone" around the Dutch fort in Jaffna, now serving as barracks for the Sri Lankan army. The security Zone covers the heart of the only city of any size in the Northern Province and within this zone are all the major institutions.
Pensioners Killed .نه لم ؟ The precarious position in which the citizens are placed was gruesomely demonstrated when three elderly pensioners walking towards the fort early morning one day, in order to be first in the queue to collect their pensions, were shot dead by the sentries on the ramparts because they "mistook the pensioners for militants'.
Following this, incident and other harassments, the citizens organised a protest. On the morning of the protest low flying planes and at least three helicopters of the Sri Lankan Air force circled the town and adjoining villages dropping bombs and firing rockets and machine guns. Once again, according to the government communique “terrorist hideouts were attacked'. It was described as a
"pre-emptive strike reports that the milit new offensive'.
But the reports otherwise. Apart fro) villages such as
Thavadi, Inuvil, St
and Kolumputhurai was the second attack and indicated new tac Sri Lankan security reinforces the state President at the begi he will seek a mili ethnic conflict. . . . .
Commenting on attempts to find a pe Sivasithamparam of United Liberation. “The main difficulty government consi Sinhalese politicians share power with the who are as much ind as the Sinhalese. The but they lived unc Tamil kingdom at the first Europeans, the They lost their sov Portuguese, then to sto the British. With foreign powers, the can expect to be tre There is a village awith the name Mo between this name a might be a coin horrendeous massacı Mylai and what is villages and towns of Lanka by the sec coincidence but pla none other than the F "I am not ready yet said in the latter Obviously he now f Jaffna and by ta destroying wholesale
India's ( In the Indian Parli Affairs Minister M expressed India's deteriorating situatic accused the Sri Lanl killing innocent civi their activities con genocide. He cal Jayewardene to find to the crisis within a

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ed from low flying planes on heavily licopters in the sky. Rockets fired into g in the paddy fields mown down with
a reporter that he (the
also had committed ordered his troops to
ollowing intelligence ants were planning a
from the scene are m houses in the town, Kokuvil, Kondavil, thumalai, Manipay were the targets. It of its kind in a week, :tics on the part of the forces. This further ment made by the nning of the year that tary solution to the
the failure of all eaceful solution, Mr. the moderate Tamil Front (TULF) said, is that the Sri Lankan sting mainly of is not prepared to ; Tamils of Sri Lanka igenous to the island ay may be a minority ler an independent time of arrival of the Portuguese in 1505. ereignty first to the he Dutch and finally independence from Tamils of Sri Lanka ated as a nation'.
in Jaffna Peninsula olai. The similarity nd Mylai in Vietnam cidence. But, the e that took place at perpetrated in the the Tamil areas of Sri urity forces is no inned according to resident himself. to tackle Jaffna', he part of last year. eels ready to tackle ckling he means , civilians and all.
ಕ್ಲ OCe ament, the External r. B. R. Bhagat, concern over the in in Sri Lanka. He an armed forces of lians and said that ained elements of led on President a political settlement nonth.
: i: If no proposal for a settlement is kan forces cannot be
forthcoming from the Sri Lankan government, India probably will abandon its attempt to bring together the two sides to the conflict, the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil leaders. What then will happen is anybody's guess.
In early February the Indian Foreign Secretary Romesh Bandari cancelled his planned visit to Colombo, apparently on the orders of the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Mr. Bandari had been acting as a liaison officer between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil leaders including militant leaders. It was as a result of his endeavours that the talks at Thimphu in the kingdom of Bhutan took place last year but these proved abortive.
Following the breakdown of these talks the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) sent through India, their proposals for a linguistic state for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Up to now there has been no meaningful response from the Sri Lankan government. ع۔
The government of Sri Lanka has delivered a strong protest to India in response to criticisms in the Indian Parliament on 26th February, of its handling of the Tamil separatist problem. In the statement, Sri Lanka expressed deep disappointment and surprise at the Indian Minister's remarks. The Statement said that while the term genocide was used in connection with the alleged killing of Tamils, India had not mentioned the killing of Sinhalese. It accused India of giving sanctuary to Tamil militants.
Finance Minister's Worries
On 2nd March the Sri Lankan Finance Minister, Mr. Ronnie de Mel, gave a warning that unless the internal strife in Sri Lanka was settled soon, foreign aid to the country would be cut. He said that peace was fundamental to Sri Lanka's economy. He specifically referred to the meeting in June of the country's aid donors and pointed out that the aid donors Were prepared to continue with aid last year only because peace talks were about to start in Bhutan. If no solution is in sight before this year's meeting, donor confidence in Sri Lanka would be lost. The present level of development was due to massive foreign aid and if the aid was curtailed, some projects would have to be stopped. The effect would be felt within the next six months should the separatist war continue. Another major problem, he said, was defence which accounted for 17% of the budget and is now ten times what it was when the present government took power in 1977.

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oxFoRDUNION DEBA
ON SRI LANKA
AT THE Oxford Union on February 22 1986, with Jeya Wilson in the chair and an audience of over 200, hours of talk-some of it perceptive and well-informed, the rest either foolish or Sinhalese-racist - raged, while hundreds continue to die in Sri Lanka; the air of the chamber full of good (and bad) intentions, while the polity of the island slowly disintegrates and the future is being determined on the ground, not in speeches or negotiations.
However, the fact that the old Sri Lanka will never be put together again as a unitary state was the ghost at this wedding. Once a taboo subject-even for Tamils - it seemed gradually to dominate the proceedings, even if (out of fear) not confronted. Indeed, only the most rabid Sinhalese chauvinist, and you could see a good few of them blindly grinning on the benches, persists with the fiction that political and economic business can any longer be conducted as usual, in a country tormented by the stupidity and brutality of Colombo. −
Dr. David Walton, of the University of Sussex, made a politically cautious but often under-informed beginning to the proceedings; occasionally to his evenhandedness betrayed the truth, as well as offending a large part of the audience. According to Walton, both communities are equally beset by 'irrational fears'; there is a "fundamental homogeneity' between them, despite the 'stress' - that is, the mass murder - "of the last years'; while the Tamil response to it had been "remarkably restrained'. (All three propositions are false).
But at least there was no nonsense, no statistical rigging from him about the size of the Tamil population - “around 18 per cent' - of Sri Lanka. It was left to subsequent Sinhalese speakers to reduce the Tamil proportion in the usual fashion by separating Indian' from indigenous' Tamils in order to minimize the legitimacy of Tamil claims. (The wilder Sinhalese obviously hope that their barbarism, and the continuing Tamil flight from it, will ultimately do the statistical trick for them).
Two cliches, however, Walton did offer: the assertion that the Tamils were “favoured by the British', described later as a “well-cultivated myth' by Professor A. J. Wilson, and the imputation that the cause of the “Indian Tamils has not been espoused by the “Sri Lankan Tamills”. Since the Oxford Union President, for her own reasons, had not seen fit to invite any left spokesmen, whether Sinhalese or Tamil, the arguement went unanswered. No wonder, too, that out in the street, leafletting the audience as it arrived, younger Tamils were justly angry at these exclusions from the roster of speakers.
The day's best turn, comic if it had not been so sinister and incoherent, came next from Douglas Wickramaratne, "President
of the World Federation of Sri Lankan
Associations'. But audience, perhaps sol included, only one qui their minds as presentation unfoldec Sinhalese case, all rou)
iso badly presented? A
of distinction on their with care, intelligence own case (let alone Colombo's perceptio however wicked or nevertheless need to t like this? Or is it th power - a Marcos,
Duvalier, between wh choose - and the flun them, feel that they themselves with argu their cause; that it is q as you hold state pow your opponents, pilla rape their women, a
questions? s
- A Repc David Se
According to Wi arousing laughter and audience, the accou increasingly grotesq violations are "Tamil Sinhalese – in his vers the receiving end of T being Buddhist, es Indeed, their "wea solemnly told by Wi from their "lack of a presumably, the same which raped, looted, beheaded its victims besotted with drink, prisoners of Welikade But Wickramaratn his locker to assist hin Colombo, to lose th meeting: “the privil Tamils are not availab any other minority in whites of South Afric him, what need has C Neelan Tiruchelva attempt at a rational a circumstances; made explanation, rather t display of Tamil cou described how the ci ethnic' and secula undermined by Col. independence; how nationalism had res. Sinhalese nationalism had proceeded from 1 racial equality and fi an "assertion of f Sinhalese majority h to recognize the colle of the Tamils; how, perception of the tv

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or most of the le of the Sinhalese stion could form in his embarrassing . How is it that the d the world, can be
e there so few men. :
ide who can speak,
and grasp of their any other), about ns, perceptions -
suicidal - which e heard in a debate at those who hold a Jayewardene, a om there is little to ceys who represent
need not trouble ing the justice of lite enough, as long er, to shoot and kill ge their homes and d let others ask the
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ckramaratne, first then disgust in the Ints of Colombo's ue human rights propaganda'; the ion continuously on amil violence — are, sentially pacific'. kness', we were :kramaratne, arises ggression'. (It was, "lack of aggression' set fire to and even
in July 1983; or, clubbed down the
had even more in , and his masters in e argument at this ages given to the le”, he declared, “to he world except the a'. With friends like lombo of enemies? n at least made an halysis of causes and an attempt at lucid an offering a mere hter-obsessions. He incept of the poly
state had been mbo’s policy after
minority Tamil onded to majority ; how the Tamil case jected demands for ndamental rights to eedom; how the ld (fatally) refused tive self-perception n consequence, the o communities was
1986 MARCH شتت ضد
now incorrigibly 'adversarial', its effect on the Sri Lankan state "irreversible', and the
* whole an 'extraordinary tragedy' whose
outcome was "impossible to predict'. By this stage, I noticed many of the Sinhalese had stopped listening; as if the argument
was not their business, or beyond them.
M. Sivasithamparam, TULF President, denied that Tamil demands were the product of Tamil fears. They rested instead, he claimed, on “inalienable rights'; Tamil fears merely strengthened
Tamil aspirations. This was a "racial/
ethnic conflict - no Marxist he - in which the Tamils refused to accept a “masterslave relation', and refused to be "2nd class citizens in their own country'. That there was in Sri Lanka a Tamil Chief Justice, and Tamil Inspector-General of Police, he described as “window-dressing. “Has it stopped one Tamil being killed?', he asked, his voice shaking the rafters. When we ask for our rights', he cried out to the Sinhalese, smiling opposite him, “what do you do? You kill us, you robus, you burn our houses'. And “when the village of My Lai was destroyed by the Americans in Vietnam, the whole world knew about it’; yet in Sri Lanka thousands have died - over 2,000 Tamils since June 1985 alone - their homes destroyed, their villages ransacked and put to the torch, largely in silence. -
The Tamils, Sivasithamparam continued, “have... a right to selfdetermination, have a right to their homelands, and a right to insist that their brothers in the plantations have full citizenship rights’. But when the Tamils, through the TULF, come before the Sinhalese to negotiate such demands, the Colombo government, he complained angrily to a growingly attentive audience, "pretended to negotiate with us for three long years. Jayewardene made us lose the credibility we had with our boys. Who are these boys?', he asked. "They are flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood, he answered. “Today', he concluded, “we have placed our proposals on the table for a linguistic region. We are not demanding something unknown. Many other peoples have made such demands. But they have answered us with guns'.
The rift between Sinhalese and Tamils, in this chamber as in Sri Lanka, was by now a yawning one. Mahes Wijesiri, secretary of the Sri Lanka Association North West, for a short while gave a persuasive impression - unlike Wickramaratne - of trying to heal it. Sri Lanka was, and always had been, a "mosaic'; 'race, gentlemen', he declared genially, “is a myth'. There was "neither racial superiority nor racial inferiority in Sri Lanka. As to 'killings, rape and plunder', 'yes, they have happened, but you must look to us, as Buddhists, for something positive'. (But by what right is it demanded of the victim that he see any virtue whatsoever in his attackers?).
And to the audience's renewed embarrassment and restlessness, he pleaded - calling his questioners "sir" and
speaking of "our tradition of tolerance' -

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MVAS SHE A SF
Mrs. Penelope Willis, from Cornwall in UK, was released the Tamil militants who held her captive for about a mon accuse the Eelam Revolutionary Organistion (EROS), whi custody at Mullaitivu, in North Eastern Sri Lanka.
From Mullaitivu, she was taken to Jaffna peninsula across the lagoon
and released there to an official from the British Embassy and a representative of the International Red Cross. The Sri Lankan government, which kept quiet after earlier demanding that the lady should be released unconditionally and refusing to let in the International Red Cross, was eventually made to accede to the conditions attached to
the release and arrange a cease-fire by
its security forces on the day of the
release.
EROS maintains that her presence
in an area declared as forbidden to
foreigners by the Sri Lankan government was suspicious and documents found in her possession indicated that she had strong links with organisations such as British Defence Studies Circle and British Special Air Services (SAS). She had admitted to meeting in Colombo
persons from SAS and various
persons in the Sri Lankan government
connected with a contacts with the Intelligence Bur reached Mullai convoy.
The question asked is, was captured? Both Lankan governm expected her not
... forbidden area. Id
be taken into cust what was the puri some harm happ old sick woman, of the Tamil mi have been world Had the visit b bring discredit to
Tamils all over breathe a sigh incident has ende way. It was a mo: person however venture out like t. her connections are so suspicious.
Oxford Union Debate
Continued from page 4
that he was "trying to appeal across to you, to bring some amity. So far, so good. In appearance, this was friendly; but in substance Wijesiri was offering only another bland evasion of the moral and political issues raised by state-organized murder, animalistic rape and condoned loot by a rampaging army. For this, Wijesiri's type of 'assurances' of future 'Sinhalese goodwill (to the survivors) is to addinsult to injury. But the speech served gne crucial purpose: to show the non-Sri Lankans in the audience tht the Sinhalese lion has two heads. One head is domesticated, and has a sincere smile on its face; the other head is both blind and brutal.
Professor A. J. Wilson spoke of what little remains of Sri Lanka's future; of the “narrow ethno-nationalism' of the “Sinhalese elites'; of the (wrong) perception of India as "the enemy'; of big power geo-political interests in the region; and of Colombo's efforts - described by Wilson as 'devoid of much significance' - to “keep India in check' by, on the one hand, striking up alliances with countries which "encircle' India (Pakistan, Bangladesh, China) and, on the other, by entering into diplomatic and military 'arrangements' with states which India refuses to have anything to do with (South Africa, Israel). Wilson argued that the
Israeli presence hac states; Saudi Arabi aid to the Mahave Colombo prefers t Mossad than to irrig He spoke also of headedness; with Lankan acres for station and its Kitty hand, and its “hed other. Thus, the Stal asserted, is “keeping organizations, in cas So is the CIA, thoug And, finally, to B bureaucrat extrao secretary to a su ministers, 30 years i service; bland and intelligent and court capable of skating or half-truths (“the TU the framework oj parliamentary systen gospel; polished not of force as the only c seeming deafness t victims, Sinhalese a of value to appor present situation' (ar even a Hitler); the co issue"; Sinhalese and together in one u provided that the T bygones, which they and that each comm

... regarded in an international sea of
ecently in Jaffna by h. “She was a spy' took her into their
fee. She also had
Sri Lankan National :au and apparently ivu in an army
that is now being she meant to be
she and the Sri ent could not have to be noticed in that she was expected to ody by the militants, pose behind it? Had ened to the 64 year while in the custody itants, what would reaction to that? een “arranged” to the Tamil militants? the world can now of relief that the din the best possible st stupid action of a well intentioned to hat. More SO, when and circumstances
to Washington and Moscow,
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EDITORIAl-continued from page 2 outrunning South Africa - are cheaply
violence. The uncomfortable spotlight shines with increasing intensity upon the evil being directed from Colombo, to Ottawa, Canberra and London, what is going on becomes daily plainer.
One day, who knows, even Delhi may waken from its slumbers, and teach Colombo a lesson which it will not forget in a hurry.
JAFFNA
CALL THE REDCROSS
CITIZENS' Committee requests President Jayawardene to permit a team from the International Red Cross to stay in the country not only as observers but also to provide relief to the refugees.
In a memorandum signed by its Secretary, Mr. R. Balasubramanium, Attorney at Law, the Committee stated that Jaffna had now become an area of refugees. Non-governmental agencies were compelled to go to their rescue whether the refugees were in camps or in private hOUSCS,
The memorandum concluded by requesting the government to desist from finding a military solution and to seek a political solution, recognising the sovereignty of the Tamil people.
langered the Moslem a was refusing to give li project. (Obviously J kill with the aid of ate with Arab money). America's own twoits lease of 1000 Sri ts Voice of America Hawk visit on the one ging of bets' on the e Department, Wilson ; in touch with Tamil e Eelam materializes”. h he did not say so. radman Weerakoon, dinary, 15 years' ccession of prime n Sri Lanka’s public bloodless, but both ous. Here was a man thin ice - and telling F has moved out of the Sri Lankan ') as if they were the only in his rejection ption, but also in his the cries of the d Tamil. It was not ion blame for the argument to absolve nflict was a 'sensitive Tamils “can still live ited Sri Lanka” — mils let bygones be will now never do, unity pays the price
for a mutual accommodation of its interests within a unitary Sri Lanka.
Yet in his smooth performance - with the rougher Sinhalese elements in the audience still not listening - you could hear something distinctive, even if Weerakoon himself did not intend it: namely, open talk of the possibility of a Tamil state, even if only to reject it; admission that the life of the community in Sri Lanka, especially in the North, had been 'seriously dislocated'; and acknowledgment that "the use of the economic weapon by the Tamils could have disastrous consequences for Sri Lanka.
But in the end, he too - however intelligent, however “sophisticated' - was showing his true colours; and revealing to Tamils and non-Tamils alike exactly what the struggle for justice in Sri Lanka (against a mountain of lies and a torrent of evil) faces. And how did this polished bureaucrat reveal it? Simply by
describing, in impeccable administrative
accents, the Sinhalese colonization of Eastern Sri Lanka by armed settlers as "part of a food production drive'.
No wonder that the Tamils are insatiably angry; no wonder that Tamil youth has taken up the gun; no wonder that TULF politicians, still pursuing the path of negotiation, are so embattled. And no wonder, too, that the island's torment is increasing; and that the old Sri Lanka has gone for ever.

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CANADA −
The Eelam Tamil Association of Edmonton, in a brief presented to the special joint committee on Canada's international relations, charged that "Canadian aid is being used to colonize Sinhalese in Tamil speaking areas" by the Sri Lankan Government. v . . .
David Thevarajan, speaking on behalf of the Association, said the Canadian Government should consider the pathetic EE of three million Tamils living on the sland. He told the Committee that
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$80,000,000 was given to fund an irrigation se vehicles had been use settlers into Tamil area The Committee was suspension of all aid t Tamil question was re Government. It was tc had suspended its aid of the Government's Tamil minority. Canad donor of aid to Sri Lan
USA
US ARMS
The United States does not supply arms to militants, said Mr. James W. Spain, the new American Ambassador in Sri Lanka, when he visited the Maha Nayakes at Kandy. To this the Mahanayake of the Asgiriya Chapter, Ven Palipane Sri Chandananda Thero, retorted that the US government might not be supplying arms but "terrorists who had fled to America were helping their friends with arms". The Mahanayake Thero acknowledged that it was not correct to destroy life according to Buddhism. He added that it was the duty of those who ruled the country to maintain law and order. "Taking up arms to counter terrorism is a matter to be handled by the state, even though it is not approved in Buddhism".
At Malwatte the Ven Sirimalwatte SAnanda Mahanayake Thero told the Ambassador that the goodwill and assistance of the US was necessary "to win the terrorist problem faced by Sri Lanka".
* 美 兴 美 TAMIL WELFARE & HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, Washington DC, USA
conducted a memorial meeting on 18 January 1986, to pay respect to the hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamils who had lost their lives in the current ethnic turmoil in the island. Hindus, Muslims and Christians numbering over 300 attended. Dr. Benjamin J. Raj, co-ordinator of the Committee, read a message outlining the ancient history of the
Tamil language, the
World by past and pri Tamils and the curren are undergoing in SriL died just because they ever be remembered a the message conclude
Eelam Associa Ame
Lobbying of Senators, both at State and Natic the E.T.A.A. in recent in been established wi Massachussetts Senat and John F. Kerry, M Secretary of State), U.S. Senators Alan C Richard Lugar and Ch members of the U.S Committee), Mr. Grar head of the U.S. State Hey (Chief Editor, Monitor).
E.T.A.A. has also arranging for discussi Sri Lanka's ethnic con! Forum of Harvard Univ and Maryland Univer, Swamy (visiting Profe been of great assistan of these interviews an
NEW GUINEA
Openings in Papua New Guinea
A subscriber in P.N.G. presently holidaying in London has drawn our attention to an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph of 27th February announcing 27 vacancies for Engineers and Technicians (Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) in the Electricity Commission. Applications in writing giving full details of personal
particulars, qualific experience and photograph should be
Overseas Staff S. Guinea Electricity Co 1105, Boroko, Papua N
Closing date for rec 3rd April 1986.
Tissues for Export
"The Sri Lankan government is exporting tissues surgically extracted from arrested or murdered Tamils", accuses Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant group in Sri Lanka.
* The group's publication goes on to state that, "in November 1985 the Sri Lankan government decided to
establish a huma Colombo and to E abroad. Human cor skin, bones, kidney are sold abroad i Tamil youths mur Lankan armed force supply for this gruE "Sri , Lanka has n Tamils a thriving publication conclud
 
 

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to Sri Lanka by CIDA theme and that CDA d to move Sinhalese S. asked to consider the o Sri Lanka until the solved by its present ld that Saudi Arabia programme because policies towards the a is the fourth largest (a.
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and Representatives, na level, is a forte of nonths contacts have ith, among others, ors Edward Kennedy Mr. F. Schifter (Asst. officials working for ranston, John Kerry, Iarles Mathias Jr (all . Foreign Relations it Smith (South Asia
MARCH 1986
BRUNEI
Tamilprotest over envoy's terror claim
A ROW has erupted over a Sri Lankan minister's suggestion that some Tamils in Brunei might be funding terrorists.
Mr. Thangarajah Hariram, a former President of the Sri Lankan Association of Brunei Darussalam, angrily accused Deputy Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando, of "washing his dirty linen abroad".
And he challenged him to prove that some Sri Lankans in Brunei were funding Tamil separatist rebels waging an armed struggle in their own country.
Mr. Hariram, a Tamil acountant, said he was sending a protest letter to Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Premadasa.
"Mr. Fernando should have come to Brunei to spread goodwill and harmony, not to damage the reputation of Sri Lankans, many of whom have been in Brunei for decades."
Mr. Fernando's comments were made to the Bulletin last week at the end of his fourday visit to the Sultanate.
He said he had warned the Brunei Government that Tamil rebel sympathisers could also threaten Brunei's security.
, Mr. Hariram who has been in Brunei 28 years, said: "The minister should not have made such serious allegations without producing proof. -
"By doing this, he had jeopardised the interests of his countrymen in Brunei who have earned millions of dollars in foreign exchange for Sri Lanka."
He said he did not know of any Sri Lankan Tamils in Brunei who were sending money to the rebel factions.
Mr. Hariram was also fuming that only a select few Sri Lankans were informed of the minister's visit.
"He should have hosted a tea-party for the few hundred Sri Lankans in Brunei and said these things to our faces and not behind our backs," Mr. Hariram added.
Dept.) and Mr. Robert Christian Science
been involved in Ons and seminars on lict at the South Asia rersity and the M.I.T., sity. Dr. Subramania ssor at Harvard) has Ce in arranging Some
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JAPAN | Tamils in Tokyo
celebrate
A Christmas service in Tamil was held in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Silan Kadirgamar in Tokyo on Christmas Day 1985. About 15 Tamils, both Christians and Hindus, joined in the service and the lunch that followed. The Bible lessons were read by Mr. K. Kabilamany and the prayers led by Mr. Charles Jeeva, The Jeyaseelan family sang a special song. A short meditation for the day was presented by Silan Kadirgamar. it should be recalled that a similar service was held on Christmas Day 1984 in the home of Charles and Somina Jeeva. -
On 19th January, the first non-working day after Thai Pongal, a larger group of Tamils, this time including Indian Tamils, met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. Jeyaseelan in the Kawasaki Prefecture. Thai Pongal was celebrated in the traditional way. Prayers were said according to both Hindu and Christian traditions. Traditional Pongal food was served, followed by lunch. Mrs. Manonmani Sanmugadas gave a short talk in Tamil on the significance of Thai Pongal. Mr. Ravi Kumar speaking on behalf of the Indian Tamils present summed up the mood when he made a passionate appealtc those present that they should eventual, return to their 'homelands' to serve country and people there.

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k U.S. 8 SOUTH ASA
THE following is a condensed version from a seminar conducted by the University of California (State/Public) Campus in January 1986. It gives a candid version of the current US Foreign Policy towards Sri Lanka. The Reagan administration in public remains neutral and recognises India as a regional power. But indirectly Washington has tilted towards Colombo, at least for the present.
Sri Lanka is the most distant country from U.S. and Washington has no significant trade that passes through the Indian Ocean. First, while the U.S. has no major economic interest in the area, it does have real interest in freedom of navigation on the high seas. (The impact on Tokyo's oil lifeline through Indian Ocean was considered). Second, although there is little reason for the U.S. to sail across the Indian Ocean to support its fleet (unlike the Soviet Union), the Americans have developed important naval facilities in the area in recent years. The establishment of the base at Diego Garcia was motivated by several reasons.
Establishment of the Rapid Development Force (RDF) and
the expansion of the facilities at Diego Garcia were meant to fill the gap - for the lack of bases for troops in times of crisis. RDF was designed largely to deter Soviet actions in the Gulf, even though there are serious doubts about how effective the force might be. s h
Super-power build-up in the Indian Ocean area is directed at
the other's rival. American expansion of Naval forces was not in response to any littoral crisis or the desire to establish a si
presence in order to pressure local states. It is difficult to see
any serious rationale for a large American naval presence in '':
the Indian Ocean. American SLBM (Ballistic Missiles)
developments in the area have already been hotly debated and .
largely discarded. Although Trident submarines have a greater
ability to stay at sea for prolonged missions, their longer range
Take Your Pick: USA For Po!
'' Dr. Swamy accompanied by prominent Sri Lankan Tamils in USA, met various American officials, Congressmen and Ambassadors to the United Nations of the USA, Pakistan and Israel, to explain the crisis facing Sri Lankan Tamils. After the meetings Dr. Swamy expressed
satisfaction that all agreed that in a multi
lingual and multi-religious society, only a secular and federal constitution was workable.
He said that since the Indian Prime Minister had ruled out the “military
leverage”, the USAs and economic leverag also added that thi which he had recen would assist the Sr. resist the “forces of g
The United States ha
strongly supports apc
problem of the Tam
that a military solutic
An Indian oppo Subramanya Swamy | who recently had tall
O The Eelam Tamil groups in Madras are dismayed by a powerful campaign to discredit them as no more than unruly elements out to disturb the peace in South india by indulging in theft, robbery and direct conflicts with the common people. Surprisingly, those who have been parading hitherto as supporters of their cause have withdrawn into a shell of silence.
Many Tamil groups suspect the hand of the US agencies including the CIA behind this campaign to discredit the Tamil groups to the advantage of President Jayewardene.
O President Jayewardene seems no
OPERATIO
JAYEWARDENE’S American and Israel with their game wi imposing a milit terrrorising the Tamr forces, into submissic
The campaign to groups started at December, when the New Delhi, John Gu Madras and othe ostensibly on a visit t with the political situ is well known that ti known as “Phoenix DI
more interested in India's mediatory "Director of the Ci role for a political settlement. He has Rural Development virtually told Delhi that there is no 'Vietnam, had had ve need for the Indian Foreign Secretary,' CIA and American n
Romesh Bhandari, to come to Colombo for further discussions.
According to Eela strategy for discredit

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still make them safe and easier to deploy them closer.
The U.S.'s specific view of Sri Lanka has generally been distant. In any case the U.S. could see little reason to get involved in Sri Lankan affairs and to directly support any regime there. Certainly there is only litle U.S. economic aid and trade. Some military assistance was provided in 1971 and in the early 1980's, but the U.S. remained unconcerned about the events of Sri Lanka especially in 1971.
Until recently, Sri Lanka has bent over backwards to refute any allegation that any foreign power would obtain access to Trincomalee. India's deep concern about a major foreign base on its doorstep was undoubtedly the primary reason for Sri Lanka's caution. However, there are now signs that Sri Lanka's neutrality may be changing under pressure.
In 1983-84 President Jayewardene's Government had been openly seeking support to crush the Tamil separatist movement. In May 1984 the Sri Lanka government granted a lease on the oil storage complex at Trincomalee to a Bermuda: based company under the direction of an American representative. However, by 1985 the lease agreement collapsed. The U.S. Navy has been paying an increased number of so called 'goodwill calls at Trincomalee in 1983-85. In addition, Israel's notorious Mossad has been brought in to train the Sri Lankan security forces. President Jayewardene was intensely worried about the possibility of an invasion during 1983, even though this option was never seriously considered in New Delhi. . . . . . ... : ' ' ۔ ۔ ۔
It is very clear that the roots of unrest are related to domestic Sri Lankan politics. If there is a danger of outside intervention it would be more likely from India than from the Superpowers. It is very doubtful that, faced with a Sri Lankan call for
support, Washington would risk deeply upsetting lndia, the most important regional power.
litical Solution in SriLanka?
hould use its political
ge with Sri Lanka. He 2 Hindustan Front, tly formed in India, | Lankan Tamils to enocide”. " is reiterated that she blitical solution to the ils in Sri Lanka and n was not possible. sition leader, of the Lok Dal party,
is with Grant Smith,
Dr.
Director for South Asia at the State Department, was informed that USA had declined Sri Lankan government's repeated requests for forging military supply relationship between the two countries. . . .
Dr. Swamy said that Mr. Smith had told him that US took note of the human rights violations in Sri Lanka and that these would be documented in the State * Department's "Country Report on Human Rights” to be published shortly.
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game is to allow his
friends to carry on lile he goes about ary solution by ils, with the armed
discredit the Tamil the beginning of US Ambassador in ther Deane, visited Southern towns familiarise himself tion in the south. It e US Ambassador, eane', when he was il Operations and support in war-torn | close links with the litary intelligence. n Tamil groups, the ng the Tamil groups
as plain bandits was evolved during Deane's visit to Madras. It is on the US State Department's directive that the - agents of the US among the Tamil groups have been putting forward extreme demands and are engaged in a subtle campaign about the ineffectiveness of India.
The idea is to sabotage India's initiative for a political settlement in Sri Lanka by first presenting the Eelam groups as a threat to law and order in Tamil Nadu and secondly presenting India as impotent in preventing the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka. The implied suggestion is that i Rajiv Gandhi should call it a day and withdraw from the scene. . لاده The American strategy is to keep India and Sri Lanka in a state of tension so that it can gain a more firm foothold in Sri Lanka and consolidate Sri Lanka's position as an American aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean.

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Guerilla leaders South
Bernard Soysa-Genera
I went to the Tamil Nadin December with two purposes. The first was to endeavour to meet the organisations of the militants who could be met in Madras. The second was to see something of the refugee problem. The LSSP had already visited the refugees, both Sinhala and Tamil in and around Kantalai, when Batty Weerakoon and Athauda Seneviratne saw for themselves the misery in which they lived. The problems relating to their return to their abandoned homes had also been discussed with these ill-fortuned people. The situation in regard to those who had fled the country having a different dimension, I went to South India to see them.
In making this journey I was not engaged in executing any mission of behalf of anybody. I had obtained the permission of the LSSP to go to Tamil Nad.
In Madras I met, separately, five organisations. They were the EPRLF, the EROS, the TELO, the LTTE and the PLOT. Wtih the time at my disposal I met each group only once. I shall try to set out here the principal topics discussed. V
They asked questions regarding the alliance of the SLMP, the CP of SL and the LSSP; in particular, they wanted to know the chief objectives in relation to the problems of the Tamils, I answered the questions with special reference to the resolutions adopted and presented to the public on May Day, 1985. I stated that the resolutions called for the reversal of the policies that have led to jeopardising the unity and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka, and called for a political solution through negotiations with all concerned and in particular with the guerilla groups, instead of the pursuit of a military solution. The resolutions also sought to ensure a substantial devolution of central powers and functions to all areas of the country which will allow the peoples of these areas to manage their own affairs while cooperating with others on matters of common interest; to ensure effective guarantees that national, religious and other minorities in all areas of the country will have security and to end the problem of statelessness. A proper cease-fire was demanded.
The representatives of these fighting organisations reiterated their views regarding the recognition of the Tamils as a nationality, the recognition of the right of self-determination of the Tamils and the recognition of a defined area as theirs.
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They then asked me specifically what the LSSP's thinking is on the problem. I said that the LSSP had stated its position both at the All Party Conference (APC) and outside. I mentioned the contribution of the LSSP generally and of Colvin R. de Silva at the APC. The Party adopted the resolutions put forward on May Day in conformity with its own fundamental position: The ending of imperialism and neo-colonialism, the recognition of the equal rights of all, irrespective of race, community, caste, creed or sex; recognition of the plurality of Sri Lankan society community-wise and in respect of religion and culture; the recognition that the various cultures and sub-cultures in the Island are the common heritage of the people of Sri Lanka; the basic objective being the establishment of a socialist democracy based upon the principle of . self-management. Self-management is conceived as ensuring the management of their affairs by the people. While the LSSP seeks to ensure that the country advances towards the realisation of these aims through the action of the working-class and the toiling masses the Party would support such partial measures as are in conformity with its fundamental positions. .
Those who were at the discussions said that they had no desire

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to fight the Sinhala people or any other-community. They wanted to live in peace with all in the Island. It was their earnest desire that the present struggle should not be converted into a “civil war between the Sinhalese and the Tamils.'
I said that the present course of events had led to an intensification of communal hatred on every side. I stated that the reiteration of the demand for a separate state of "Ealam'roused communal hatred among all others and principally among the Sinhala people.
They replied by saying that the fact that they went to Thimpu and participated in the discussions there, both formal and informal, and even more the fact that they had now consented to the TULF's formulating propositions and negotiating meant that the ENLF is prepared for a negotiated settlement. There were those who had some hope while there were also those who had no hope.
At some of the discussions there were young persons who spoke with much emotion. The discussions proceeded generally in a calm atmosphere and from the beginning to the end there was no асrimonу.
The Refugees
The refugees present a sad grim picture. There are, of course, a few with affluence or with affluent links. But this is true of a relatively small number of persons. The refugees living in camps exceed a lakh of people. They are scattered in camps located all over the Tamil Nad. Some of the living quarters are like the better sort of estate lines in Sri Lanka. However most of them are like the shanties here while as to basic amenities either they are meagrely provided or they have almost none at all. They officially receive a small sum for sustenance which does not even barely suffice for the purpose at today's prices. Some charitable organisations visit these camps from time to time and distribute gifts of soap and children's requirements. The full-time occupation is devoted to “how to get a little bit more” of basic necessities. Employment is well-nigh impossible and so is education of the young. Medical attention is a sickening problem. It is tragic to see the gradual deterioration of the quality of life and its effects on these people, both physically and on their outlook and attitudes. With increasing deterioration of their conditions some will inevitably get lumpenised. ...
Those whom I met, however, are still making a brave effort to confront the problems they are faced with. In the search for answers to the problems that beset them they pepper the visitor with a rain of questions.
There are those who see no hope of a return to the status quo. Some of these persons do not expect to return to Sri Lanka. There are those who are not concerned about Ealam and would like to return. They say that all they want is amity. They desire peace with a sense of security. These people are of two opinions. One section, while wishing to return fears to do so and does not believe that security is possible today. The other section, despite their fears, want so much to return that they await acceptable guarantees of security. . . .
In its entirety the problem is one that is sad, grim and frightening. It is a human problem that confronts the Government of Sri Lanka, the State of Tamil Nad and the Government of India. It is a problem of the people of Sri Lanka and we treat it with indifference only at our peril.
By courtesy of CHRISTIAN WORKER
(January 1986
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MARCH 1986
“Now the Plantation V
is Not Run
STARTING on January 26, just a few days before the debate on the “Grant of Citizenship to the Stateless' bill in the Sri Lankan parliament, and perhaps originating from an everyday altercation between a Sinhala shop keeper and a Tamil customer during a temple festival at Talawakele, for ten explosive days pitched battles took place between the two communities in the Nuwara Eliya district.
Tamil plantation workers who had gathered at a hospital after the first incident at the temple festival, were dispersed by CWC officials and the police. Some of the Tamils returning to their “lines” were confronted by a gang of armed Sinhalese youth and a saffron-clad monk at Lindulla junction. The plantation workers fled only to return in greater numbers. From then on the violence quickened and spread to at least six towns and villages in the surrounding areas. ,
Tamil plantation workers gathered at hill tops and hurled rocks at passing vehicles of the security forces and felled trees to prevent the security forces from reaching Bogawantalawa. Sinhalese houses were attacked and looted. A police constable also died.
On the first day of February about 2000 Tamil plantation workers surrounded the Bogawantalawa police station where about 200 Sinhalese had sought refuge. They were dispersed by gun fire by the police. At Gaminipura on the outskirts of Hatton, an attack was. mounted with knives, molotov cocktails and other
CHRISTIANSINTHE INDIAN SUB-C
by Mr. M. M. Jacob a member of the Indian Parliament ; : . (recently elected Deputy Chairman of Rajya S
"Few people realise that Christianity came to India as early after Christ, long before Europe turned to it, and established
india" - Jawaharlal Nehru.
Many believe that Christianity is a Western religion and associate it with West European imperialism and colonialism. In fact Christianity is a religion born in the East and it came to India even before it reached many of the European countries. The Indian Church is as old as Christianity itself.
Today there are between fifteen and seventeen million Christians in India, about 2% of the population. About twelve million are Catholics.
Christianity came to India through St. Thomas, one of the apostles of Christ. According to tradition, St. Thomas came to the palace of King Gonduferas in Kutch in the year 52 AD. By the sanctity of his life and doctrine and the greatness of his miracles he aroused admiration and love for Jesus Christ.
From the North he went down to
indigenous
Kerala where he Christians, built c Congregation. The early Christians in calling themselv. Christians". It is Thomas who later was martyred, in t place now known a in Madras.
The early Ch
and customs. Ornamen Churches were ser Ceremonies and were sent for chu today this practic Kuravillangad chur temple in Kerala.
The Cordial re Hindus and earl symbols of unity a

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y;9, weapons. The pipeline carrying water to Hatton town was damaged.
While the Tamils certainly had the upper hand, Sinhalese mobs too caused wanton destruction to Tamil shops and homes. The CWC office at Hatton was attacked on Independence Day night. ; :- According to the report in the Sri Lankan newspaper, The Island, “The most worrying feature about this unprecedented and mindless violence is the organised manner in which the attacks were conducted. The Tamil estate workers for example attacked as if in response to an unspoken command. The mere show of a flag or a low whistle was sufficient to raise some 200 heads from behind tea bushes”.
“It was abundantly clear that there had been, on the part of the Tamil estate workers, a concerted plan to defend themselves, if not to attack, and that it had been planned meticulously".
Some of the Sinhalese residents in the affected areas accused the CWC and their leader Mr. Thondaman. He, however, vehemently denied the charge. W
“It has become a regular feature for the Tamils to be always at the receiving end of violence. The recent incidents in Nuwara Eliya district now show that the plantation workers are not going to take it lying down any more. They have decided to protect themselves and
maintain their dignity", Mr. Thondaman asserted.
An uneasy calm now prevails in the picturesque and
idyllic tea gardens of Nuwara Eliya. The long festering
sore is yet to heal completely.
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lationship among y Christians were and integrity. There
was no occasion of any religious tension or cultura conflict but rather of cultural synthesis.
The message of Christ received a new thrust when St. Francis Xavier came to India in 1542. A university professor in Paris, he left his profession and along with gnatius of Loyola started a new missionary order - the Jesuits.
St. Francis Xavier worked in Goa and Kerala for a few years before going to Japan. He returned to India in April 1552 and then went to China where he died. The undecayed holy body of the saint is now kept in the Basciica of Born Jesus at Goa.
Christians have always been in the forefront of the social, economic and political life of the nation. Christians have also contributed in the fields of literature, art and Culture. The contribution of Indian Christians to the cause of education is well recognised. Smt indira Gandhi once observed, "In the last couple of centuries Christian organisations in India have rendered invaluable service and this they have done with dedication and understanding. They have undertaken important programmes of social service and education".

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SRI LANKA: ITSF INTERNATIONAL
Prof. A. Jeyara
"(Abridged forth&p:5ePhepresented at the
, bffsid oqqlu orti - ilosfi The internal domestic problem in Sri Lanka provides the clues to its external relations. Since the massacres of Tamils in July 1983, the two ethnic groups have been permanently estranged. A new factor on the domestic scene is India.
The Sinhala leaders are is not pleased with India's role. India sees it necessary that Sri Lanka makes sufficient concessions to the Tamil Resistance to deflect the latter from the demand for a separate state. To offset India, Sri Lanka has entered into daring diplomatic arrangements with states which India refuses to have diplomatic relations with, such as Israel and South Africa, as well as with states that are opposed to India's aspiring role as the recognised major power in the South Asian region,
The narrow ethno-nationalism of the Sinhala elites influences the conduct of foreign policy. The central problem to these eites is India which is regarded as the potential enemy in two respects. Firstly they say India could occupy Sri Lanka should Sri Lanka become vital to India's defence strategies. India took police action against Kashmir, Hyderabad and Goa. India could therefore do the same with Sri Lanka. To compound the issue
there are the 52 million Tamil speaking a President himself visi
people in neighbouring Tamil Nad. Their
Tamil compatriots in Sri Lanka could, the Sinhala elites allege, be what the Sudetan Germans in Czechoslovakia were to Nazi Germany. The fact that Tamil Nad is part of the India federation is overlooked. Secondly Sri Lankan governments are irked by the fact that India will not permit Sri Lanka to pursue aforeign policy that is detrimental to the national self-interests of India. In effect India has successfully Finlandized Sri Lanka.
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Britain Unlikely
However, Sri Lanka has room to manoeuvre in various directions within the loose strait jacket imposed on it by India. Thus in 1948, before Britain granted independence to Sri Lanka, a mutual defence agreement was negotiated and signed with Britain by the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka at the time, Don Stephen Senanayake. Naval and air bases were provided to Britain. In return Britain agreed to come to Sri Lanka's defence against an aggressor nation. The Prime Minister stated in public that the agreement was necessitated by his fear of the Soviets. In actual fact it was an insurance against a probable Indian police action. Should this happen, it is unlikely that Britain will fight a war against India
On 22 Febru
on behalf of Sri Lanl will exert diplomatic when Mr. S.W.R.D. victory against the rul Party, he persuaded bases to Sri Lanka defence agreement r agreement that Pres stated he would invok be attacked in the cont ethnic crisis. The Stal intended to reassure had no other meaning
Peking's Suppor
Another Sri Lanka conversation, mentio Republic of China
Lanka's assistance if
by India. The stateme
the troubled years of to 1965, when Madan Prime Minister. Th presumably thought
Jayewardene's brot Jayewardene Q.C. vi as Tokyo and the cap countries in the fall o' H.W. Jayewardene ti see issue of 15 O.
The position of the P the ethnic conflict countenance any exte the internal affairs ( position was furth Peking's assertion tha Sri Lanka and was ol demand for a separate is the same positio Nevertheless Peking' regarded as a reas opinion. Whether E itself militarily is anot did not interfere wh created despite its pa
Delhi in Check, In effect Sri Jayewardene has de attempts to keep New visit to the ASE, President's brother w stated in an interview intended to explain the implications of th separate state. T probably to raise Lanka become an General Assembly. Peking's support wil United Nations Sec likely that Peking

MARCH 1986
UTURE AND THE RAMIFICATIONS
:nam Wilson
Dxford Union Society Seminar on Sri Lanka
ary 1986)
a. At most Britain pressure. In 1956 andaranaike won a
ng United National
ritain to return the
But the mutual emained. It is this dent Jayewardene
e should Sri Lanka ext of the prevailing
ement actually was Sinhala opinion. It
f?
n leader, in private led that the People's Will come to Sri Sri Lanka is invaded nt was made during ethnic conflict, 1960 Bandaranaike was at possibility was of when President her, Mr. Hector sited Peking as well itals of the ASEAN f 1983 (interview by o Lanka Guardian, ctober 1983). The ted Peking in 1984. eople's Republic on is that it will not rnal interference in of Sri Lanka. That er buttressed by it stood for a united sposed to the Tamil state. But then, this n taken by India. support can only be urance to Sinhala eking will involve ner question. Peking en Bangladesh was t with Pakistan.
...'. Lanka's President vised a policy that Delhi in check. The N states by the as not, as his brother to the press, merely he ethnic crisis and Tamil demand for a le intention was upport should Sri issue at the U.N. More importantly, be necessary in the rity Council. It is ill use its vote on
... precincts of the U.S.
- Sri Lanka economic
behalf of Sri Lanka at the Security
Council. But then the Soviet Union has its
Friendship Pact of 1971 with India.
Americans, lisraelis & South Africans
President Jayewardene also visited
President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher in
the summer of 1984. No accords were formally signed. But some spin-offs may have flowed from the visit. Shortly after
the Reagan visit, the Israeli secret service
agency, Mossad, began operations in Sri Lanka especially in training Sinhala army men in warfare and intelligence. An Israeli interests section, as it came to be called, was established within the embassy in Colombo. The arrangement has had adverse repercussions for the government.
The presence of Israelis in Colombo has angered the local Muslim population who number 7 percent of the population. It has alienated the Saudis who have declined to provide the promised 50 million dollars in aid for the Mahaveli irrigation project. There is an unwillingness now in Middle East states to employ the large numbers of Sri Lankans they used to employ. This means a drying up of foreign exchange from a source that was Sri Lanka's second most important foreign exchange earner. Thus a turnaround of policy has brought suffering and alienation because of the opposition of the Islamic states to the Israeli presence. A possible further consequence of the Reagan visit is the arrangement with the
Republic of South Africa for the supply of
weaponry. The deal could possibly have been effected by the proxy state of Israel. South African weapons are now being used against Tamil freedom fighters.
The inference from the U.S. arrangement for proxy states to do their work for them is that the United States has also stood to gain. One thousand acres in an area a little north of Colombo has been leased out to the powerful Voice of America. It is alleged that low frequency transmitters from the VOA station can broadcast messages to U.S. nuclear submarines in the North. Indian Ocean without these submarines having to surface in the ocean. It is also significant that the U.S. aircraft carrier, Kittyhawk. with 5400 men and its 4-acre airfield atop visited Colombo harbour a few months ago. There are also various Western companies operating in and around Trincomalee which has Sri Lanka's great natural harbour. Henry Kissinger in an
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MARCH, 1986
AFNA CENTRA CANNOTB
Jaffna Central College's 505ears old. It is improper to shift such an old institution because of the declaration of a "security zone" by the government, said Mr. S. Rajaratnam, Deputy Principal, addressing the Jaffna Citizens' Committee meeting at Jaffna YMCA Hall recently. The meeting was organised to protest against the government's imposition of a "security zone" round the Jaffna fort, where the army barracks have recently been established. Mr. P. Ariyanayagam chaired the meeting. . . Mrs. E. Balasundaram, Vice Principal of Vembadi Girls School said that it was not possible to shift her College anywhere. Laboratory and boarding
facilities are not a else nor can t established elsewhe Mr. S. Vijayanath Mr. M.K. Ganesasu of Peoples' Bank, M Master, Jaffna Railw J. Pasupathy addres According to the 1000 metre security declared in the inter living and working Any exchange of m the security forces a no doubt lead to casualties. Howev declaration of the s terrorists are now c
Sri Lanka's Future continued from page 10 exchange three years ago was asked: How do you not publicize a military base, for example. He answered: “by not establishing it "adding I think that what we need is installations into which we could move rapidly; a physical presence near the Gulf that is plausible and a demonstration of how we could reinforce this presence” (Times Literary Supplement, 13 December 1985, p. 1418). The Kittyhawk's visit to Colombo harbour and the obvious usefulness of Trincomalee harbour should be noted in the context of Dr. Kissinger's remarks.
The meeting with Mrs. Thatcher bore no results on the question of military aid or invocation of the dormant Anglo-Sri Lanka mutual defence agreement of 1948, if these were discussed at all. There is the question whether the defence agreement can be invoked with much success given Mrs. Thatcher's close personal links with India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. To cap it all, the late Esmond Wickremasinghe went on a mission to Moscow.
Personal Diplomacy
President Jayewardene relies on personal diplomacy to achieve his
objectives judging from all we have stated. He also met with Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel a few months ago. The prime ministership of Israel will however change hands in a few more months and we do not know whether Mr. Peres's successor, Mr. Shamir, will follow the same policies.
Furthermore all these visits were undertaken by . President Jayewardene himself only. None of the powers concerned had any idea as to who were his other senior ministers and who were his specially important foreign office officials responsible for implementing understandings mutually agreed to. There
were no joint statem Lanka and each of the is possible that a few deals took place but international conseq significant is that Department has hed Department is aware t Sri Lanka is fluid and their officials therefore Tamil organizations ju materialises. . .
President Jayeward organise a diplomatic India, again by persor visited President Zia visited Sri Lanka in President Zia promise and weapons. Presiden visited Bangladesh an President Ershad o However political obs view that both Preside are ripe for falling and 1 organised to bring dow dictator.
The objective of the pass on the message t India is encircled as personal diplomacy Jayewardene and his b Jayewardene. How diplomacy is, I have e. have already stated.
What the Sri Lankar to realise is that Washir Moscow have delegate the responsibility of ha ethnic crisis. The perso the Sri Lankan governi encircle India with Pakistan, Bangladesh Republic of China are t much significance. The New Delhi. And New that it cannot place a assurances of the Sri La It is not merely a questi out. Patience on the pa

TAMILTIMES 1.1
LAND VEMBADI ESHIFTED
ilable anywhere by be rapidly e, she said. h, trade unionist deram, Manager S. Rajah, Station y Station and Dr. ed the meeting. overnment, "the zone had been sts of the people within this zone. rtar fire between nd terrorists will many civilian ær with the 2curity zone the mpelled to take
serious note of the repercussions and also they will now be answerable to the Jaffna public if they start firing mortars and if mortar fire is returned by the security forces".
"The second reason for the declaration of the zone is to maintain law and order in Jaffna. No one doubts that if there is no terrorist activity, then there is no need for security zones. In the absence of terrorist violence, the citizens could go about their normal business without any fear".
"The military meanwhile will carry out normal security duties that are common to any security force anywhere during peace time", the government communidue concluded.
ents issued by Sri states concerned. It under-the-counter
these are of no uence. What is the U.S. State ged its bets. The hat the situation in unstable. Some of keep in touch with ust in case Eelam
ene has a tried to ... encirclement of al diplomacy. He of Pakistan who
return recently. military training Jayewardene also d had talks with that country. ervers are of the ts Zia and Ershad hat a coup is being n the Bangladeshi
ntire exercise is to New Delhi that a result of the
of President other Mr. Hector
tenuous this plained in what I
Covernment fails ton, London and New Delhi with dling Sri Lanka’s al diplomacies of ent to attempt to e assistance of nd the People's refore devoid of trategic factor is elhi has learned reliance on the ka Government. of time running of New Delhi is
at its tether's end. There are several alternative compromises that the Sri Lankan government can offer to end the deadlock. There are several fallback positions available to both sides to negotiate a peace with honour to both : sides. But as long as the government of Sri Lanka remains obdurate or calculates that it can reach a solution by sleight of hand, the whole peace process is doomed to failure. And so is the state of Sri Lanka notwithstanding the exaggerated and intemperate statements made by its leaders to the Western media. л -
s
A Way Out?
In conclusion it might be said that a peaceful settlement is possible. The Sinhala elites need to convince themselves that the Tamil-speaking peoples are serious in their demand for self rule. The Tamil Resistance insists that they must have a contiguous Tamil homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka. This seems logical given the fact that the Northern Province with its Tamil-speaking majority is immediately adjacent and contiguous to the majority Tamil speaking Eastern Province. We cannot also ignore the fact that the Tamils claim that their present humiliations leave them with no alternative. There is a growing attitude among the Sinhala elites that the Tamils are a hindrance to their progress. Should this feeling harden, I believe there is away out. It could be on the lines of the SrimaShastri Pact of 1964. This pact was implemented peacefully. A similar pact could be negotiated between the Sinhala and Tamil Leaderships. The Tamils in their entirety in the South could be withdrawn to the Tamil homeland and during a phased 15-year period. At the end of it, the Sinhala elites will have no Tamilto compete with or any Tamil whom they can identify as a scapegoat for the ills of their body politic. That would be one sure way of minimizing racial friction.

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12TAMILTIMES
"Do NOTSEEANY
says M. SIVASITHAMPARAM, President, T.U.L.
He is presently in the U.K.
Q. Do you see any possibility of a settlement of the issues in dispute in the foreseeable future? A. I do not see any possibility of a settlement acceptable to the Tamil people, or what can be considered reasonable by well known international standards, in the foreseeable future. I do not see any signs of a genuine willingness on the part of the government, or of Sinhala leadership, to meet, even halfway, the aspirations of the Tamil people. One must recognise a fundamental
difference in our evaluation of the .
Tamil problem and that of the government. The government grudgingly concedes that the Tamils have some grievances and that they can be redressed in some small way. To us, the problem is one of exercising power. The grievances are only symptoms of the disease - the disease being the refusal by Sinhala leadership to recognise our status as a nation and our right to exercise power, legitimately due to a nation.
Q. Will the prospects for a settlement be any better under a different Sinhala leader, or a leadership belonging to a different party from that of the present.
A. No. To think that a change of Sinhala leadership will improve the prospects of a settlement is like hoping that a change of pillows will cure one's headache. Our bitter and sad experience of the past has convinced us that the two major political parties of the Sinhalese have a remarkable common thinking on our problem. ອd
Q. Do you discern any similarities between the Marcos regime in the Philippines and the present regime in Sri Lanka? Do you think the Americans now look upon Mrs. Bandaranaike as the alternative in the same way they look on Mrs. Aquino as the alternatives, to the Marcos government? 3.
A. All authoritarian governments have many things in common. ExPresident Marcos and President Jayewardene, therefore, have many traits in common. Mrs. Bandaranaike will try to continue to project an antiAmerican, pro-non-aligned , image and therefore remain unacceptable to America.
where he spoke atth
Island in Turmoil"
M. SVASTHA Elected to Parliame March 1961, July 1 -•స్థళ and July in July 1977 he was Nallur by a majority the biggest in a
constituency in S conducted the del politicaltrials-Dura Avro Aircraft, S.
Murder, etc. In 1983, along with T.U.L.F. M.
Sivasithamparam from Parliament u Amendment to the (
Q. Why is the J. permitting foreigners Sri Lanka's internal a
former U.S. An Howard Wriggins, w Jayewardene obje
referendum to exte drawing sa i paralle referendum and Ger Weimar Constitution , of the Nazis. b) Hoy known to have rightly disapproval of the dis Mrs. Bandaranaike. Republic of China ha is opposed to the divis on the score that th obtain a base in Sri Lt open challenge to or Powers, in the proces as a testing ground.
A. These instances are not real interven b), President Jayew glow in the reputati “true democrat criticism”. As lo expressions of opinio him adversely and di change his decisio objections to anyone that President Jayew, democrat.
 

MARCH 1986
భKx_:్వ:
POSSIBILITY..."
F., in an exclusive interview with our Editor.
le OxfordUnion Seminaron "Sri Lanka: Ans, so sist on February 22.
MPARAM int four times961, July 1965 1977. elected M.P. for of 26,000 votes, single member Sri Lanka. He 'ence in many iappah Murder, gt. Sivanesan .
h all the other P’s, Mr. was debarred nder the Sixth Constitution.
R. Government ' to intervene in ffairs - e.g. a) the mbassador, W. rote to President 2ting to the ind Parliament, l between the many under the before the advent vard Wriggins is expressed strong franchisement of c) The Peoples is declared that it ion of Sri Lanka e Soviets might anka, which is an ne of the Superusing Sri Lanka
you have. given tions. Rea) and ardene likes to on that he is a and welcomes ing as these bn do not affect o not make him ns, he has no deluding himself ardene is a good
對
Re c) the expression of China's opinion suits him for many reasons: 1. This will show India that Sri Lanka has China on her side. 2. It strengthens his anti-Sovietism. 3. Removes the widespread belief among Sinhalese that only Mrs. Bandaranaike can get China on her side.
Q. Why was President Jayewardene appreciative of Pakistan, Britain, U.S.A. and Israel, but had not a word to say about India's admirable role in
the peace process?
A. This clearly confirms that Sinhala leadership has always been antiIndian. Throughout history, Sinhala leadership has, in practice, taken an anti-Indian stance, although they pay lip service to the ties of friendship with India. In recent history, Sinhala leadership has sided India's enemies during India's times of danger. Sinhala leadership has always resented India's indisputable role of leadership in this region. To the jaundiced eyes of Sinhala leadership, India is proTamil and therefore anti-Sinhala. India's role in the ethnic crisis after 1983 has been to facilitate a negotiated political settlement, acceptable to all concerned and capable of creating a political climate when the Tamil refugees could go back to the island with honour, dignity and safety. Sinhala leadership does not want a political settlement; it wants a military victory. India has refused to go along with Sinhala leadership in this military exercise. Therefore President Jayewardene thanks those who have helped him in this militaristic adventure.
Q. To get back to the Tamil settlement, will any Sri Lanka government honour any arrangement it arrives at even though India might guarantee the settlement?
A. If any settlement acceptable to the Tamils comes about, it will be because of international pressure and Sinhala leadership will agree reluctantly. Therefore, Sinhala leadership will drag their feet to honour any such agreement.
In the past too, successive Sinhala governments, faced with crisis
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MARCH 1986
LETTER FROMATAMIL MOTHER TOA SINHALESE FATHER
Dear Sir,
It is reported in the Daily News of 24.1.86 (page 10) about the pathetic death of your beloved son, Jegath Perera, at the prime age of 24. Please accept our heartfelt condolences. My son, Kumar, who was a contemporary of his at the Moratuwa Campus, speaks very highly of your son as one with a broad outlook on life, with no hatred towards the Tamils and communalism was completely foreign to him. It is not understood why your son, who is a fully qualified engineer, had joined the Forces who are fighting a losing battle. If the situation is so grave, Ravi Jayewardene or Niranjan Wijeratna or Premadasa’s son or Gamini's son or Lalith's daughter should have joined the Forces, as was done by Prince Andrew, the secondson of Queen Elizabeth, in the Falkland War. In this context, it is not irrelevant to quote a para from the Saturday Review of 25.1.86 (page 8). “I also admire the Sinhalese soldiers who, far from their kith and kin, are attempting to tackle a situation which they do not understand. Poor chaps. For want of a job they are forced to carry arms and rain death, mostly on innocent people”.
Your son could have contributed a lot to Mother Lanka by joining the Development Projects, especially at a time when the economy is at its lowest. It is generally said that Sri Lanka occupies the last place among the poorest countries. Please sincerely tell me whether you can manage to live on your meagre pension?
You now know what is really taking place in our country. There are several parents like you who have lost their most beloved children for nothing. The parents of the soldiers who are still alive and stationed in the North and East Sri Lanka are anxious that the present dispute between the Tamil militants and the Government should be over at the earliest, so that their children can safely return home. s
You were a Police Officer who had done yeoman service to the country. During your career you would have worked in Tamil areas or
situations, have agreed to concede Tamil demands. But, once the crisis passed, all Sinhala governments have found one excuse or another, to refuse to honour such agreements. Mrs. Bandaranaike did so, faced with the mass Tamil upsurge. The S.L.F.P. 'leadership did so in order to defeat a U.N.P. government in March 1961. Mr. Dudley Senanayake and Mr. J. R. Jayewardene did so to form a government in 1965. The relationship between the Sinhalese and Tamils has been bedevilled by these broken pacts and promises. There is only one new factor that might help and that is India's continued interest in the implementation of any political settlement, brought about by her good offices. Ultimately, of course, the success or otherwise of any settlement will depend on our own unity and strength.
Q. Do you see any alternative to the Tamils other than for all of them to withdraw to a Tamil linguistic. State rather than have them in the South, as hostages to the Sinhalese? く
A. There can be no doubt that Tamils can live and work only in a Tamil linguistic state. For a short time, it might be necessary to continue a minimal presence of males only in places like Colombo.
In the case of pla there has to be a ph All the unemployed withdraw first. Simil women must withdr. must be to move t North and East over
Q. Do you see anyti the proposal to gra 94,000 Indians? Is Will it take anothe, dispose of applicants
A. President Jay promised to give th citizenship as early a consensus among all they should begiver motive for this appa spelt out by one of Theros (Buddhist was stated that b citizenship India's le interfere in Sri Lank be removed. This ho in the government t of India ceasing to b Sri Lanka’s ethnic p materialise, then, ( unfortunate people many years to get the
Q. Why have you n support from the Is

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worked with Tamil oficers. What is your candid opinion of the Tamil people? The Tamils were never against the Sinhalese language, culture, civilisation or religion. In the past the Tamil leaders had fought for the Sinhalese cause. The Tamils are entitled to retain their identity, the integrity of their homelands and the distinctive nature of their culture. They are not asking for additional rights over the Sinhalese. In short, the Tamils do not want to be second class citizens in the country of their birth.
Are the Sinhalese in the South aware of the plight of the Tamils? The Sinhalese politicians tell them only one side of the story. The late Wilmot Perera tried to put this right but failed dismally because of narrow-minded politicians. Today Gamini Navaratne in Jaffna is continuing the noble work. He is a full-fledged Buddhist Sinhalese living among the Tamils. He is the Editor of the Saturday Review, the only English paper published in Jaffna. The present problem facing the Tamils should have been solved in 1958 by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike who had the capacity to tackle problems of this nature. Not only was he not allowed a free hand, but he was also assassinated by his own people. Again in 1977, after the general election, with the help of Srimavo and Amirthalingam, the problem could have been solved. Instead the Sinhala leaders lost valuable time preaching DEVELOPMENT and practising DESTRUCTION. As the late Indira Gandhi said, they never cared for the future of the country. While our neighbouring countries are solving their outstanding problems and progressing we are marching backwards.
Before I conclude, may I ask you (1) What happened to Bhutto of Pakistan? The very same person whom he elevated rewarded him with death. (2) How was Bangladesh born? Because the rights of a section of the people were denied. (3) What is taking place in Uganda and South Yemen? The rebels have captured power. It will not be very long, not the Tamils but the Sinhalese masses will expose the weaknesses of the present regime. Then you and your wife will know who was responsible for the death of your loving son. MAY YOUR SON REST IN PEACE.
Yours sincerely (Mrs) B. Zavier Jafna — 28th January 1986
antation workers ased withdrawal. young men must larly old men and aw. The objective hem al into the a period of time.
hing significantin int citizenship to this only a ploy? r 20-25 years to for citizenship?
ewardene had
lese people their
S 1981. There was
participants that citizenship. The rent fairness was the Mahanayake High Priests). It y granting this
gitimate right to a's problems will
pe is shared by all oo. If their hope e concerned with
roblem does not.
of course, these must wait for eir citizenship.
Ot tried to harvest
lamic States after
Mossad’s intervention in Sri Lankan affairs?
A. We have done our best in this direction too. We were quick to expose all contacts between Israel and Sri Lanka, as , for instance, we disclosed President Jayewardene's secret meeting with Prime Minister Peres. There have been some other repercussions, like Saudia Arabia withdrawing its offer of aid. But there is a lot more to be done - the T.U.L.F. alone cannot be expected to undertake all these multifarious tasks. An umbrella organisation with units in different countries must be set up urgently. Today, our energies and resources are not being maximised because of several organisations being engaged in the same tasks.
Q. Why has the T.U.L.F. not established a stronger presence abroad, especially in London and in
New York, on the lines of the A.N.C.,
P. L. O. and several other oppresse groups fighting for their just rights?
A. The T.U.L.F. has many
constraints - personnel, financial
Unfortunately, our friends abroad did not feel that the T.U.L.F. had a role to play. Now the situation is changing
and the T.U.L.F. will play its part,
not in competition with others, but in co-operation with all. . . . . . ;

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14TAMLTIMES
ACADEMIC TRAILS
Harvard Professor's Book On The
: Dismantling of Democracy in Sir Lanka'
Dr. Sanಙ್ಗy J. Tambiah, currently Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, formerly Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and also Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago, will have his book Ethnic Fratricide; the Dismantling of Democracy in Sri Lanka published by the University of Chicago Press. The Professor is of the view that the democratic process in Sri Lanka has been totally derailed.
Marvard Seminar on Sri Lanka
A Seminar on Sri Lanka which will provide opportunities for Sinhalese and Tamils of Sri Lanka to air their views will be held in April under the directorship of Dr. James Manor and Dr. Subramaniam Swamy, visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard. The Seminar is being called by the eminent Harvard Professor of Political Science, Samuel Huntington. Dr. Howard Wriggins, former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and presently Professor of Strategic Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York is also expected to participate. As is well known, Dr. Wriggins is co-author with Professor K.M. de Silva of a biograph of President J.R. Jayewardene.
Professor K.M. de Silv book!
Professor K.M. de S write, as best as p histories on various asp he perceived them, ha completed a book on "T Ethnic Conflict in Sri Li certain whether . “Mana Conflict" means the lari innocent Tami civilians North and East of Sri understand that Dr. de S ideologue for the ct thinking of the Nazi-typ Jayewardene Governm being an apologist. We failed in his attempts to W.H. Morris Jones, who Professor of Commonw University of London, to the ethnic problem wit Sinhala slant. Anyone Morris Jones' speech v kept off the subject of Sri he is. Having failed in t Professor Morris Jones Lankan Sinhala politics, shortly afterwards orga Kandy under the auspice which he is a director
DR POPE- A Student Of Ta
GEORGE UGLOW POPE was the Son
of a Scottish merchant named John Pope
trading with Nova Scotia. He was born on April 24th 1820. While still a lad, he attended a missionary meeting in Oldham Street where a clergyman who was going out as a missionary spoke about his intention of going to Madras to labour among the Tamils. Somehow this caught the fancy of this youthful listener who determined to offer himself as a missionary to the Tamilians when he would be of age. He started learning Tamil forthwith. His acquaintance with Tamil began when he was Seventeen and in his preface to his translation of Thiruvasagam he says "I date this on my eighteenth birthday. Ifind by reference that my first Tamil lesson was in 1837. This
ends, as suppose, a lo
Tamil studies. It is
emotions that I thus by life's literary work”. Su his adopted language. : The fame and sch talented translator are Tamil land and in Engla early age of 17, when Di lesson in Tamil, Tamill irretrievably firm. The of the ancient classics, divine grace magnifice Tamil philosophy and hymns of the Saint M stolen his heart away captive for all his lif realised that philosopl permeated the ancient
: eggs
* i . . . . THE SAGES
To us all towns are one, all men our kin
Life's good comes not from others gift, nor ill Man's pains and pain's relief are from within.
Death's no new thing; nor do our bosoms thrill when joyous life seems like a luscious draught
when grieved, we patiently suffer; for we deem This much-praised life of ours a fragile raft Borne down the waters of some mountain stream That o'er huge boulders roaring seeks the plain Tho' storms with lightnings flash from darken'd skies
Descend, the raft goes on as fates ordain Thus have we seen in visions of the wise? We marvel not at greatness of the great
Still less despise we men of low estate.
Dr. G.U. Pope was honoured by the Oxford University and other societ his Tamil learning. "He was saintly in his character and life, and as one he was born in the old days, he would have been catalogued with services to the Saivite Religion and Siddhanta Philosophy are incalcul

ra writes another
ilva who used to ossible, detached ects of Sri Lanka, as s, we understand, he Management of anka". We are not gement of Ethnic ge scale killings of that goes on in the Lanka today. We ilva is presently an urrent murderous e Ministers in the ent in addition to are told that he had mobilise Professor
recently retired as ealth Affairs in the talk in Colombo on ih possibly a proreading Professor vil|| realise that he Lanka, scholar that his attempt to lure into the mud of Sri Professor de Silva nised a Seminar in es of the Institute of , which bears the
MARCH - 1986
shameful title "Institute of Ethnic Studies", in holocaust ridden Sri Lankan of all places. At this Seminar he got his "academic sidekick", Professor Gerald Peiris, to deliver a Goebbels-style lebensraum (living space) talk on the eastern province not being a part of the homeland of the Tamis. Professor Peiris was at one time defended free of charge by the late M. Tiruchelvan, O.C. when the Water Wimalachandra Commission of Inquiry on University Affairs gave him trouble. :
Academic Twins?
Dr. K.M. de Silva mobilises Professor W. Howard Wriggins .
Professor Howard Wriggins, who is from time to time consulted by the U.S. State Department, and who is constantly opposed to the creation of a single linguistic unit for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, now accompanies Professor K.M. de Silva, who is playing the role of a political Anagarika Dharmapala (possibly a reincarnation), appears at public meetings (with Professor W. Howard Wriggins) in order that he (Professor K.M. de Silva) may buttress his Sinhala racist views. Readers wishing to know something about the same phase of Professor de Silva's career are kindly requested to read his contribution to "Human Rights in the World', the Sri Lankan section, published by Martinus Nijhoff. !
mil
ng life devoted to not without deep
ing to a close my ch was his love for
holarship of this well known in the und. From the very . Pope had his first had him in its grip, heart mesting lyrics the doctrine of the ntly developed in
the soul stirring anikkavaskar had and taken him a e. Dr. Pope has nical thought had
Tamil literature.
ies in England for old pandit put, if 63 Saints". His able.
M. Thanapalan
Unless the systems of philosophy which prevailed in the land are mastered, one could not understand that literature correctly or be faithful to this original in
his translations. How much patience, the
great scholar would have had, to master
them all. What a perfect and thorough
method of work he had adopted.
His zeal for Tamil can be gathered from
the following words from his preface to his
English translation of Tiruvasagam: "The speech of a dying people may, perhaps, be allowed to die. But this cannot be said of the Tamil race. Heaven forbid! . . . Let the Tamilians cease to be ashamed of their vernacular”.
He used to say that to seek for and find a “Noble Language" and to dedicate one's life to the study of it is the best life-work a man could wish for. With this in mind he sought the best Tamil scholars of the day, and gathered an amount of knowledge of Tamil which was of immense use to him in his retirement when he compiled most of his works.
These include among others English Translations of:
1) Thirukkural 2) Naladiyar
3) Thiruvasagam 4) Pura Porul Venba-Malai
5) Purananura (some poems)
I would like to reproduce his translation for the famous Purananura Poem of the sages by Kanyan or "Singer' of the flowery hill, who was a Court Poet and friend of Ko-Perum C'olan of Uraiyur. It may be. before the date of Kurual.
This was sent by Dr. Pope with his translation on a New Year's Greeting to all his friends in January 1906.

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MARCH, 1986
MOTHER TONGUE LEARNING
"The Tamil Saturday Schools have a distinct self-assurance and maturity. The thrust of this conference typifies this fact and will lead to an ever increasing professionalism", said Dr. J.G. Walshe, MA, PhD, opening the full-day conference on mother tongue learning, held at Acton town hall, London on 22 February 1986.
This particular conference concentrated on the problems of Tamil immigrant and expatriate children and the difficulties they experienced in learning Tamil. The conference was funded by the Greater London Council and was sponsored by the West London Tamil School. Eleven other Tamil schools participated. All these schools were set up by voluntary organizations and conduct classes mostly during week-ends.
Presiding over the discussions, Dr Walshe said, "The instinctive first response of migrant communities to safeguard their culture, values and perhaps political affiliation, is rarely an outgoing phenomenon; it has more to do with self-preservation against the erosions of diaspora and inevitably manifests chauvinistic characteristics. Stage two is much more interesting. As toeholds are gained in the new society there is psychological space for cultural pride and the defensive possibility of Cultural ossification gives way to development; a kind of renaissance".
"Mother tongue taught in the rich setting of parent culture is special. There is hope that with serious effort a philosophy and practice could be developed that would enable the children of Great Britain to be educated towards the true acceptance of interdependence and an appreciation of linguistic and Cultural pluralistic excellence as enriching a social maturity".
"As a bilingualist through birth and
political circumstances and a bearer of
happy memories of Tamil Nadu, I am honoured to chair this conference and wish all the participants a happy and productive outcome".
Other speakers included Mrs. Ann Dummett, Director of Runnymede Trust, who spoke on "Major issues raised by the Swann Report", Mr. Safdar Alladina on "Mother tongue teaching or marginalisation", T.S.
J.G. Walshe M.A. DipF
Krishnan on "The A Dr. A.S. Sittamp opportunities for UK in the 1990'S' an Gopal, Art Directc Academy of Dar performing arts and of India".
A resolution pro Niththyanananthan, WILTS, and second Singh, President of Supreme Council unanimously add Conference. It affi conference resolves a concept of multic that includes facil tongue learning. It use all appropriate this objective. Meanv every effort should b the implementatior Report recommenc
provision Of
accommodation, te
and teacher support' The conferencestr
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ntiquity of Tamil", alam on "Job
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posed by Dr. R.
Headmaster, ed by Mr. Kurban the International
of Sikhs was pted by the rmed that "This
to commit itself to cultural education ities for mother commits itself to means to achieve while it agrees that be made to ensure of the Swann lations such as
free School aching materials
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16TAMITMES
LETTERS
MUSLIMS AND THE LINGUISTICS
The Muslims in Sri Lanka consider themselves to be a distinct community by virtue of religion, way of life and culture. This fact must be borne in mind when linguistic states (autonomous Tamil and Sinhala regions) come into existence in Sri Lanka. - ཅུ་ The separate identity of the Muslims of Sri Lanka was recognised during colonial times and since independence as well. This recognition was institutionalised by the provision of reserved seats in the advisory councils of the earlier colonial times and in the Legislative and State Councils of the later British colonial period. In independent Ceylon, they had reserved seats in the Senate and there were appointed Muslim members in the Lower House. Thus there always had been a recognition of the separate identity of the Muslims.
In as much as the Tamils have had to struggle for justice and equality, they must recognise the same aspirations in the Muslim community. To this end the political and administrative structures in the envisaged autonomous regions must be well worked out and clearly stated, to prevent the development of any mistrust among the Muslims who obviously will be split between the two autonomous regions.
It is most important that the Muslims who are included in the Tamil Autonomous Region feel reassured about the facilities to manage their own affairs and about the just sharing of
eSOCCS.
The Tamil Autonomous secular. There cannot be a this concept. A secular admi profess a single religion as give precedence in any way t All religious practices are fac so that there is freedom of without obstruction or restra groups. A secular administr; precedence or weightage employment, educational public office or political activ
To reassure the Muslim
should be unambiguous, de
about the political structu created and made availab community to facilitate the own affairs in areas where and grant them appropr representation in the Region The details and the stru organisational aspects w discussion, with concessions parties involved to arrive at about the legislative, ac executive framework. however, should be made o principles to which the Mu: entitled, to live as equals v major communities.
try
Christian Science Monit in an editorial dated 27 January, it states "... part of the prob perception. Each Sri Lankan side believes the other has unfaire professional advantages, or has had in the past-much akinto thi in the United States over affirmative action . . . Moderate Tamil the talks with the Sinhalese-controlled Government have irrevc down, that India has used up its leverage, and that the United Sta a pivotal role if it pressured the Sri Lankan Government to make Specifically, these Tamils want the Government to agree to a p federal form of Government which would enable Tamils to regional governments, roughly proportional to their populatior ... The U.S. is keenly aware of Indian sensitivity to the appear other large nation, especially the U.S., is trying to exert politica the Indian Sub-Continent. New Delhi long has considered that it dominant power in its area ... Washington should strongly s efforts and it should refrain from an active role in the process at
APPRECIATION
š, P. GANESHALINGAM
鞑 The All-Ceylon Tamil Congress mourns with the Tamil Nation the death of Mr. P. Ganeshalingam, ex. M.P. for Paddiruppu.
In his personal life, Mr. Ganeshalingam iwas a sincere and true friend.
In politics, Mr. Ganeshalingam was an honest and fearless fighter. His love for the youth of his community was such that he opposed the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Law whole-heartedly. His opposition to that law was so honest that when the party to which he belonged made the official decision in August 1982, calling upon the Tamil Nation to boycott
the Presidential Election vote for the only Tam openly opposed that de was convinced that tha party would only go to h the makers of the preven Act and who vowed to w in six months, which dec his conscience, was a youths of his communit so much.
Mr. Ganeshalingam'. time is not only a great family but also to his l Tamil Nation, at the mc its history.
V. C. Motilal Nehru All Ceyloi
 
 

TATES
Region shall be y compromise on istration does not fficial nor does it any one religion. litated impartially religious practice, nt by any group or tion does not give to religion for facilities or any ity. :ommunity, there initive statements res that will be e to the Muslim ir managing their hey predominate; ate proportional al Council. ctural as well as ll need further on the part of all a consensus view lministrative and No compromise, in the fundamental slim community is fith the other two
R.S. Nathan London
tOr
lem is one of conomic and a controversy . s believe that cably broken tes could play concessions. luralistic and lay a role in in each area ance that any | influence in should be the upport Indian this time."
s and also not to il candidate, he ision because he decision of his elp the victory of tion of Terrorism ipe out terrorism sion according to betrayal of the whom he loved
demise at this low to his young irger family, the st crucial time in
, Vice-President, Tamil Congress.
MARCH 1986
As you may know, the British Refugee Council is an independent, voluntary organisation, offering advice and assistance to refugees in such areas as Social Security benefits, accommodation and education.
The B.R.C's Asia team has been in contact with many Tamil refugees who arrived in the U.K. during April and May last year, as well as earlier. We know that many others have also been receiving advice and support from individuals in the Tamil community, as well as from Tamil organisations and other agencies. However, we are concerned that there may still be people who arrived this year and are staying with friends or relatives, or on their own, who are ignorant of, for example, their rights to claim Social Security benefits, or who need advice on finding accommodation, or sorting out some other problem.
I am working for the British Refugee Council as a Tamil-speaking outreach caseworker, to try and make contact with Tamil refugees who would like some advice and who are not at the moment getting such assistance. I am anxious that this service be made as widely known as possible amongst the Tamil community, so that people know how to contact me should they wish to do so. They can contact me here at the British Refugee Council on 01-582-6922, but I would also be happy to visit particular areas to talk to individuals or groups. s
I would be grateful if you could publicize this as widely as possible.
Bondway House, Paul Sathianesan 3/9 Bondway, Outreach Caseworker, London, SW8 1SJ British Refugee Council 28th February 1986
E: y ま。 b. DIVISIVE PATRIOTISM
Sri Lanka is composed of two communities, the Sinhalese and the Tamils, and the continued existence of a united Sri Lanka depends upon a harmonious relationship between these communities, a relationship which suffered because of the unfortunate events of recent years. However, there are things besides such events which discourage the development of the harmony.
I must relate an unpleasant incident that occurred on the occasion of Sri Lanka's national day on February 4. On that day the Sri Lankan flag was hoisted on one of the compounds of a large company here employing more than 2,000 Sri Lankan workers. For the hoisting of the flag the management nominated a staff member who joined the company some eight years ago and who is its oldest Sri Lankan employee. He gladly accepted the honour. He is a Tamil, but he is not a supporter of the Tamil liberation movements in Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, not a single Sinhalese was present. They all boycotted the ceremony.
Sinhalese must bear one thing in mind: If we wish to have national unity, we must wholeheartedly accept those Tamils who wish to live within a united Sri Lanka. We must not think that a Tamil Sri Lankan is in some way inferior to a Sinhalese. The boycotting of the ceremony proves that we are against even those Tamils who support Sri Lanka's unity.
If we behave in this manner the entire Tamil community of Sri Lanka will unite, and one fine day we will have to divide up our country with them, giving them their “Eelam”.
C. Samarasekara, Jeddah February 13, 1986

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MARCH 1986
POLTICSAND M'
By Edward Benedict, M.A.
ANY adequate account of the contemporary political scene in C significant role played by "myth” in the formation of political ci entire history has been shaped by legends, folklore, and myths. E are being used by politicians to influence the perceptions and populace. The Dutugemunu-Elara episode is clearly a case in pc resurrected to satisfy the egocentric drives of the Sinhalese in t power over the Tamils. The unfortunate result of this revival of an the fostering of greater mistrust between two rival peoples. If we a the harm created by the politicization of this myth and others understand better the nature of myth and its ambivalent role in hu
Mircea Eliade, Bernard Lonergan, and Eric Voegelin have all made important contributions to our present understanding of the role of myth in contemporary and ancient cultures. A myth is regarded by its makers as a true, sacred story of how some present day reality came to be in the very beginning of time. Indeed, a myth is intended to provide the exemplary models for all human activities. Consequently, a myth explains the very meaning and purpose of life for primitive man. Mythic consciousness is rooted in man's need to express himself and his vision in an affective, imaginative manner. But man also has a logical, intellectual dimension to his nature. Historically, it was the rise of philosophy which liberated man from the confines of "symbolic” thought and gave him more adequate means to understand and control his world. Nevertheless, critical knowledge cannot dispense with man's need for the "symbolic" knowledge found in myths. The content of a philosopher's insights will have no effect upon the human community unless it is embodied in images that elicit feeling and emotion and flow naturally into deeds as well as words.
Therefore, the task that confronts contemporary man is two-fold. He must first “demythologize" those “myths" which still have a hold upon the imagination of the uncritical masses. And then he must be able to “transpose” his critical insights into that symbolic mode of discourse which alone is able to move people to deeds of noble purpose.
The first task of "demythologization” is a crucial necessity if the contemporary Ceylonese political scene is to attain genuine development. The techniques of a Bultmann or Ricoeur can enable scholars to transfer mythical content to a philosophical level. As a result of such a transformation, the people can
be educated to appreciate two important facts concerning their nation's mythology. First, a
myth must be fully understood if it is to be able to be of any value today. For example, there are many features of the Dutugemunu-Elara episode which have been lost or avoided that would tend to undermine the use of this myth to dominate the Tamils. Secondly, a myth is no substitute for critical thought which appeals to logical argument and evidential support. Regardless of the motivation, the appeal to myth to promote one's cause can only ensure the abolition of critical intelligence from the political arena. The result of such a catastrophe would only ensure the perpetuation ... of secularized versions of the Christian eschatological vision or replicas of the myth of Aryan supremacy.
The achievement of the second task of "transposition” is no less a necessity for scholars and politicians in Ceylon today. Disreputable politicians are able to succeed because they are able to manipulate the populace by means of carefully chosen
· Mahavansa
“symbols". Those poli the good of the people the “symbolic" mode what will differentiate of their more expedier
achievement of
“demythologization". will always utilize th remained unexamined On the contrary, thos footsteps will only pro myths which have philosophical reflectio * The task of demyt myth be explained. I understandable why least for popular readir to translate the contemporary terms. ( clear advantage to lea its primitive level. The people who were inve and for centuries they either as intruders or flational integrity.
The Dutugemunu-E the victory of Dutugem repeatedly stressed to superiority over the Ta archetype for th consciousness, and has to enhance the egoce upstaged to establish deplorable that in that lessons have been lost pictu remorsefulness as takir Ludowyk rightly ment thereby was wrough millions. The author
readers that it is not Sil
the heart of the proble nation be saved in the for Buddhism was a n Sinhalese people.
"Bhikku Rahula see
great crusade to lib
foreign rule. His war c but for Buddhism. Th was united under the Gamini. This was the b among the Sinhalese. healthy young blood o order of Buddhism. nationalism, which fanaticism, roused the A non-Buddhist was n being. Evidently a exception were Buddhi
The conflict is 2500
come to sort myth,
consciousness, "to buil where men can hope tc decency.

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ylon must include the nsciousness. Ceylon's ven today these myths desires of the voting nt. This story is often heir quest to establish ancient myth has been e to be able to combat like it, then we must man society. I
icians who honestly seek must also be masters of of discourse. However, heir "myths” from those trivals will be their prior the first task of The "sophists” among us ose myths which have by critical intelligence. e that follow in Plato's pose those "necessary" been purified by . hologization is that the is unfortunate though Sinhala scholarship at g and assimilation failed mythical content in Dbviously it was to their ve the contents intact in : Dravidians were not a 2nted; they were there, I have been considered as a definite threat to
lara episode highlighting unu over Elara has been ) establish the Sinhala mils. Dutugemunu is the e Sinhala national been often resurrected ntric drives particularly communal politics. It is episode many valuable or deliberately avoided. res Dutugemunu's g no joy at this event, as ions remembering that t the destruction of ontinues to remind the hala consciousness, but n is Buddhism. That the name of Buddhism and andated reality for the
Dutugemunu's war as a rate Buddhism from y was not for kingdom e entire Sinhalese race banner of the young eginning of nationalism it was a new race with ganized under the new A king of religioalmost amounted to hole Sinhalese people. it regarded as a human | Sinhalese without {tS.ʼ
ears old; the time has traditional and false a better world order live with humanity and
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GODS don't answer, they silently take decisions, But then, Rajiv Gandhi. India's young Prime Minister, has no pretence to being a God though het remains a"hero beyond this party caucus, and circle. Political hic, EÇ be exact AdW-think the til The his come for hit to view the Sordid happenings in Sri Lanka from the point of view uf Hп India hero, whose prime concernis, or should be, India's own enlightened self-interest, tall
He will be doing less than justice to himself if he harpson an equation between the stupid, romantic acts of terror by some misguided individuals and the diabolical and determined State-Terror that is le loose on the whole of Tamil ethnic population in the north and east of the hell-hole called Sri Lanka. He should draw the line between these two and publicly condemn the atrocious killings by the Lankan troops of innocent Tamilians. He should know that no purpose would be served by his current 'bureaucratic and standoffish policy of gaining Lankan goodwill at the expense of the Tamil goodwill. in the island, in India and all over the World. He should not alienate the Tai Inils any morc. The da nage has already been danc and it is time now to still and reverse its course further down, runni
Not Without justification, even moderate Tamil leaders feel let down at the absence of India's public certsure of the systematic genocide that is taking place in Sri Lanka in the last two months. They recall with nostalgia the prompt statement issued by Indira Gandhi when cthnic killings took place in the island in June. July 1983. She said then that India could notremainSilent at the killing of innocent
An depth of background.toth is a wident in this Today" (Madras) December 1985, 1 aлo the пе5! deserve serial
TIEL Tails in the island Everybody know never, ignorant oft and diplomatic nici any way interfering problem, but she w; spillower which ha India's polity and brief and sharp Word restraining effect on the Jayewardene cli dance of India's alle
It is pathetic Government, by is clumsy attempt logl in Sri Lanka, has fai being done to its very be a privy to the stateTient iš HäTsh, galvanize the Ce assessing the IIlo) sweeping the Tamil plight of their breth Straits.
In the listitwit li r Guvernment, under Rajiv Gandhisky-hi plan II of a changing composition in the ea: it successfully instig
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and firing by the Sr Fourteen uses damaged.
The places affect and Navaly, it. The bombing, by nearly one hour.
Later, a helicopte In the meantime, |та The two childгеп Segar (12) of Thura They and thair. Tı THEY HAD BUF MEDICALOPINION The apparent pro when the Japanes | presence of a camp: the Thavady area,
O 15th Februari been executed byt lin the Army finin bakery on Mäin Str hotel on Main St. injured.
Amar who took: The SATURDAY
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between Muslim Tamils and Hindu
Tamils. Later, it sent thugs in the uniforms of home guards to attack Tamils with the rotection of law and drive out the Tamil N 1 ձpiteristi ສິ່ງທີ່ fra bil hicir hicilith and holic. It,ܬܐ. organised "apologics of relief camps Twhere Tamils were herded in, as if they SS LLLLLL aLLLLL LLLL LL LLLLL S LLtttLLLLSS LLLLLLLLS attempts are being made to squeeze the - - - - a refugee Tamils into a 25-square mile area editorial in News to make it possible for troops and thugs to Though written in he question it r. ises liquidate them at the word go' And the eit contains' lle word may come anytime now, Accordirig ferro"" || IV to British media, which has no a xe to grinči and which is not unfriendly to the Sri ILLUT I || || || Linkin (Gwer Ti Ticint, mikoreth H 15, ()(K) Tamils had been but churcd in the eastern s Indira Gandhi was region since August last. he Illes of the game The scene of operations has lately ties. She was not in shift:(lit. Jaffna, the traditional ho neland with Lanka's internal of Tamils. According to Western Inc.dia is concerned over the reports, helicopter gunships and serious effects on armoured vehicles are mowing down the public opinion. The civilian population from the air and on the s she spoke had had a ground, mercilessly. There could bent Sri Lanka, although precise count of the dead whose bodies are Lic Inade a song and being burnt entrasse, according to the :d'bullymanship. Liberal British newspaper (Friarcia.
that the present ll1 til El ili fluo W | months ago), Lhc Lankan very, silence and its troops were afraidi to move out of the oss over the atrocities barricks but now they are on the prowl. led to grasp the harm. They shoot at first sight and don't have to image in appearing to explain anything, the British newspaper illings. Perhaps this says. This could not have been the result but its purpose is to of mere troop misbehaviour, Evidently, ntre into properly the whole operation has been designed to d of anger that is the last detail by the Colombs ls, of India over the Government which makes no secret of its 1ren across the Palk intention to indulge in genocide. Not | IIIIII With ut significance President months, the Lankan Jayewardene, a neo-Hitler front for fotop the cover of praising brags" about the genocidal nature of his gh, has put through a operations. Bill the i der Ticographic Delhi, should realise that this stern region. At first, brazenness could have had a lot to do with ited communal riots its ill-advised policy, of Wooing and
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a rice mill, a power loom, the Wairavar Teriple and a bo-tree were
■ * ed by the bombing were Tha wady, Suthu malai, Manipay, Kondavil five Air Force planes, had started around 4.30 pim. and gone on for r had come over and begunfiring. *LIII the Army had fired a number of shells towards Jafna town itself. killed were Suntharalingam Mayuran (7 years) and Sri Rangan Raja
Road, Thawady North. լորի ather had taken cover under a flat when the born bfell on the roof. NMARKSON THEIR BODIES, INDICATING ACCORDING TO THATSOMETYPE OF INCENDIARY BOMBSHAD BEEN USED.
vocation for the aerial attack-the first in Sri Lanka since World
поиwledge of the ! conflictin Sri Lanka
It
bombed Colombo and Trincomalee in 1942 was the repor of the Tamil Eelam Army (TEA), led by "Panagoda' Maheswaran, it 'r na leged informer, Chellappa Selvanayagām (35) of | Luwi|| had
he fort, Pathmanathan (25), from Kandy, an employee at a a, about a quarter of a mile away, Was killed. A waiterata few hundred yards away from the Fort, was hit by shrapnel and
helter under the bo-tree, during the bornbing, was also killed. EWIEW was represented at the funerals,
By courtesy of SATURDAY REVIEW of February 22 iss

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Speakout, please-continued
placating the Asian Hitler beyond thë
limits of reason and its own self-interest. It should realise that a honest and public denunciation of the killings is called for, followed by other steps. If Rajiv Gandhi is right in condemning the atrocities of the apartheid regime, he cannot be held wrong for speaking out his mind on the happenings in Sri Lanka, especially when these developments lead to huge influx of Tamil refugees right into India.
We do not for a moment hold any brief for the sporadic violence on the part of the Tamil groups. It is unfortunate that some ;of these groups whose leaders are settled in Madras do not realise the harm being 'caused by such activities to the innocent Tamils in Jaffna, facing violence and a squeeze-in on both sides, troops on one lsièe and the ever-suspicious and triggerShappy ultras on the other. For every killing of a lone trooper, the retaliation icomes in the form of 25 killings, the victims 'being defenceless and innocent persons.
A civil insurrection presupposes organisation and unity among those who believe in a cause to the exclusion of everything else. The weakness of the Lankan Tamils, as well as the Palestinians, is the absence of such unity for the common cause. It is a fact that Tamil groups are fighting more among themselves tham the common enemy and are often engaged in the game of upmanship. They do not serve themselves. No Liberation movement can allow itself to
degenerate into factional and warring
groups cutting at each other's throat all the time. The cause will be lost for all.
There is need to get at the root of yesterday's bomb blast at the residence of Dr. A. Balasingham, the representative of
the Liberation Tig
the Thimpu and I
the Tamil group venture the thec agents, aided by 'have been behind 1 the life of the Lonc who is now residing carefully investigat for a moment, be Lankan agents col this country. If Lankan agents - pri they may well be in of the Tamil grou case, the leaders of it to their own inter ranks and eliminate It is true that using the opportuni dialogue to prepa
execution, a mili
Tamils. The best countered is to
Government's wit and more effective Minister cannot an lack of alternative
'Tamils' Side. The
adopt an attitude neutral or remain ir I package. Wisdom ... with the TULF pack rejecting it squa Government. Also, up its basic mooring It must forge links sections in Sri Lan driving them to a with the discredite regime. Battles in involve missiles ana involve minds and h realised, better it is j
Right to Object to Armed
The Civil Rights Movement is shocked at the anne in which the MOBILISATION AND SUPPLEMENTARY FORCES ACT was rushed through Parliament as "urgent in the national interest” without giving
MPs the opportunity to study its
ovisions, a procedure which led the
Opposition to walk out in protest. This
undemocratic haste made it impossible for
CRM to study the Bill and to advise itself
as to the desirability of canvassing certain of its provisions before the Supreme
Court. CRM protests yet again at the
misuse of the “urgent in the national interest” provision of the constitution to
prevent i public discussion and gepresentations essential to the §ನ್ನು process.
CRM is still studying the implications of his Act: In particular CRM is concerned about the implications of raising, training and maintaining an armed reserve and supplementary forces outside the
What
carefully drawn up Navy and Air For meticulous provisi which are impressiv in the current ethnic serious breakdow discipline among the and unwarranted
is needed
strengthen disciplin the creation of forc framework and not training and trad conducive to this en At the present m wishes to concentra of this Act. Provisio time in our history, is to say the compul
to perform armed st
made for a person
the ground of cor
conviction arising f moral, humanitari

ers of Tamil Eelam at
elhi talks. Almost all
s have hastened to ry that the Lankan Israeli Mossad, might he aborted attempt on on-based Tamil leader here. This needs to be 2d although we don't, lieve that Mossad or ld have a free run of here are Mossad or sent here as alleged, filtrators into the ranks ps themselves. In any the Tamil groups owe
ests to look inside their "
the dubious elements.
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