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Editorial............................... 2. A Federal System of a Tamil Linguistic Region..... 3
ENLF Qn Gowérrent Proposals ................................ 4
Iпdia Expects MoreFгогm Colombo............................. 5
Letter to the Government, 7 Over 3000 Detained in Sri
Lanka's Prisons,................. 8t TUIf Leader Spells Out Tamil Position on Talks...,,, 1D Diary of Incidents................ 12 Academic Trails.................. 15
Letters................................. 16
Northern Fishing Industry Knocked. Out by Govern
ment Action.......................... 17
Media File............................ 18
From Canada...................... 19 Classified Ads.................... 22
MRUE Calls for Extension Of Government Proposals. 24 views expressed by Contributors area not
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HUMPHREY HA and the corresp. Sri Lanka.
Hawksley hac for the last si Covering issue: ethnic conflict, an extension of Was recently tu was ordered tot Lankan governi have been giver
The Tha SS me Substantia || y | ur апсd consequent the governmen helps the auth from the bulk ( people and the the continuing ted against the this context, the ign journalists anathema to the
The governm ign journalists only on rare oc them invariably
Gov rtin
MEMBEROf Par to Sri Lanka's Sunil Ranjan Ja found guilty an Chief Magistral criminally intim Officer-in-Charg Wela Police, M lake. Sentence August 25.
The Magistral was putting of sider Whether t Mr. Jayakody cc as a Primary Co. The charge o tion against M

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August 1986
Sri Lanka Expels -Guardian Reporter
WKSLEY, reporter of the London based "The Guardian' ondent of the BBC in Colombo has been expelled from
been in Colombo k months mainly relating to the his application for stay in Colombo ned down and he leave by the Sri ment. No reasons for the expulsion. dia in Sri Lanka is der State Control ly biased towards t. A kept press' orities to conceal of the Sri Lankan rest of the world atrocities CottlitTamil people. In presence of forein the country is authorities, snt permits foreinto the country casions. Many of enter the country
disguised as visitors. They have to gain entry this way because the Sri Lankan missions abroad hawe been instructed to refuse wisas for journalists,
What provoked Hawksley's expulsion is unclear. But what was un mistakably plain during his stay in Colombo was that his reports, both the Guardian and the BBC, were most embarrassing to the authorities, and even to some opposition Sinhala politicians. He was subjected to abuse in the local media, and reliable sources indicate that he was made a victim of threatening telephone calls and ha rassment.
In his last despatch to the Guardian (11 July) before being expelled, Hawksley reported on the indisciplined and frightened Sri Lankan army, characterised them as "the toy soldiers who became military monsters".
ernment MP con Victed of idation of police inspector
iament belonging ruling party, Mr. yakody, has been
convicted by the a Of ColombD Dք dating the former of the Polga ha, Edison Gun artilwas put off for
observed that he serfer Ce fo COle Charge aga inst d be considered rt Action.
сгfгттfла/ fгтtiгтлida. Jayakody was
based on the threats made by Mr. Jayakody to get P Gunati/lake killed; to get his wife raped and also to get IP Gunatilleke's house in Polgahawela destroyed.
In convicting Mr. Jayakody of the charges preferred against him the Magistrate said that the eviden ce placed before court by witnesses IP Dhanapala (a former OIC Polgahawela Police), Police Constable Jayasinghe and Lakshman Rodrigo (the brother-in-law of IP GLIrlatilleke) could be accepted beyond reasonable doubt,
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THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES in Sri Lanka have not escaped the divisive and damaging consequences of the continuing Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict which effects the rest of the country. With the notable exceptions of the late Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe, the Reverend Soma Perera and a few others, the National Christian Council has remained deafeningly silent at a time when international ecumenical organizations have been looking to the N.C.C. for guidance and interpretation, and are anxious to extend whatever support they can. The inability or reluctance on the part of the N.C.C. to adopt a non-sectarian approach in respect of Government policies and the atrocities committed by the Security Forces, the principal victims of which have been the Tamil people, has resulted in an ethnic polarization within the Christian Churches. This is clearly reflected in , the strained relationship between the N.C.C. and the affiliated Tamil Church of the Jaffna Diocese of South India.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Sri Lanka is no less polarised, and in fact is more divided than its Christian counterpart. The recent outburst by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Marcus Fernando, the Chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference, against the Catholic Bishop of Jaffna, the Rt. Rev. Dr. B. Deogupillai, is demonstrative of the deep ethnic division that is threatening the unity of the once monolithic Catholic Church.
This disgusting public spectacle of the head of the Catholic Church indulging in an open attack on a fellow Bishop has its own history. Following the many instances of the massacre of innocent Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan security forces, the Catholic Bishops Conference of South India recently addressed an appeal to the Indian Prime Minister to take measures to prevent "the annihilation of Tamils of Sri Lanka'. Dr. Marcus Fernando drafted a reply to this appeal denying that there was any persecution of Tamils and circulated it among his Bishops for approval. In spite of the objections raised by the Bishops of Jaffna, Batticaloa and Mannar (all Tamils) to the contents of the draft, Dr. Fernando sent out the reply as drafted and released it to the press which gave it maximum publicity. There is no doubt that, in this instance, as was the case in the past, Dr. Fernando succumbed to government pressure in doing what he did. About the same time, Dr. Fernando circulated another draft letter among the Bishops addressed to all Catholic Bishops in western countries denying that there was any persecution of the church or catholics or christians in Sri Lanka as claimed by 'Eelam supporters' living abroad. These two letters resulted in the Jaffna Bishop's speech at a school prizegiving function on June 18 in which the Bishop drew pointed attention to the atrocities committed against the defenceless Tamil civilians by the security forces. '
"Bomb-blasts, rocket-blasts, shell-blasts, machinegun fire have become everyday occurrences for us. We are being attacked from the land, from the sea and even from the air. Hundreds of peaceful, unarmed Tamil civilians have been killed or wounded during such attacks, carried out during the past few months by the Government Forces in places like Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Vavuniya, Mannar, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi, Valvettiturai, Jaffna, Kayts, Mandaitivu.
 

- ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ ۔ "" AUGUST 1986 urch in Sri Lanka - more nhala, less Christian
Many peaceful Tamil civilians have been brutally massacred by the Armed Forces in Murunkan, Cheddikulam, Iruthayapuram, Akkaraipattu, Kurikadduvan, Mandaitivu, and other places. Thousands of peaceful Tamil civilians, who have been forced to flee from their traditional homes due to the activities of the Armed Forces, are not being properly cared for by the Government. Fishing, the only livelihood of thousands of peaceful Tamil civilians, has been totally banned in the Northern Eastern seas. All these clearly show that under the pretext of fighting the “Marxist Tamil terrorists' the Government is intent on the annihilation of the Tamils living in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. %
The Citizens' Committees of the Northern and Eastern Provinces have appealed several times to the President of Sri Lanka against these inhuman measures taken against peaceful defenceless people but with no effect. Since the peaceful Tamil civilians of the Northern and Eastern Provinces have no effective means at their disposal to defend themselves against the unjust attack on their lives and properties, the time has come, I feel, for us to raise our voice and make an appeal to the United Nations Organisation to take effective steps to halt the annihilation of the peaceful, defenceless Tamil civilians of the Northern and Eastern Provinces.”
Such a courageous and outspoken exposure of the sufferings to which the Tamil people are subjected was too much for the southern-based Catholic hierarchy to stomach. Living in their safe, secure and comfortable palaces without experiencing the day to day trials and tribulations of the Tamil people, they have observed a menacing silence over the years in respect of the various acts of discrimination and oppression against the Tamil people. While in countries like Philippines and those of Latin America, the Church has been in the vanguard of the struggle against social injustice and human rights abuses, the Catholic hierarchy gradually succumbed to the ideology of Sinhala chauvinism. After the debacle of the Church's struggle to prevent the Buddhist-led state takeover of its schools in the 1960s and following the illfated abortive coup d'etat led by high ranking Catholic-Christian army, naval and police officers, the Church presumably adopted the dictum: “If you cannot beat them, join them'. The 'Sinhala Only' fervour in church practices became more and more manifest. For instance, in areas like Wattala, Mutwal and Kotahena in the Colombo district where there were approximately 30 to 40 per cent Tamil speaking parishioners, the churches refused to accommodate the request of the Tamil speaking laity to say mass in the Tamil language at least once a month.
In its eagerness to resist the charge by Sinhala
Buddhist extremists that the Christian tradition was an alien element within the Sri Lankan body politic, the
Church commenced its campaign to establish its own
'Sinhala authenticity'. Tamils, whether they be Catholics, Christians or Hindus, had to be sacrificed to
establish the so-called authentic Sinhala identity of the
Church. In this campaign, many leading members of the
Church have become more Sinhala and less Christian.
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AFEDERAL SYS LINGUIST ONLYALTERNAT
The proposals made by the President at In the follo the political parties conference on the Kandyan Chiefs 25th of June is the subject matter of all federal form political discussions in the country. We Donoughmore do not have to have any excuse to offer then in Sri Lar our own comments. One fundamental recommended a weakness of these proposals is that it does gestion to have not seek to identify the problem cor- viz first being t rectly. provinces, the s The President states at the beginning and the third that these proposals should be examined provinces. But
within the framework of that both the no O the maintenance of the unity, integrity vinces were brɛ and sovereignty of Sri Lanka, self-governing u O the maintenance of the unitary charac- proposals ever Sa
It is important
ter of the Sri Lankan constitution, and and the Sinhala
O the principles of devolution of powers sent discussion f upon the provincial councils within the power has stem framework of the constitution as prop- mand for a sepa osed to be amended. the consequent
Why should this be so? One can under- militants in supp stand the importance of maintaining the basic fact is to be unity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka. But head in the sand. why is it equally important to maintain the unitary character of the Sri Lankan By N. SAN constitution. In at least three of the great One does not powers of the world - America, Russia first All-parties and India, there are federal systems of Government tr Government. In Russia and India the Prime-minister th federal units are based on ethnicity of more than Distr language. Can anyone dare to come cils to the Tamils forward and accuse that because of the has proposed pi lack of the unitary character of their unit of devolutio constitution these countries are not the struggle col united or have suffered in any other way. 'militants against
For a long time past, the Tamils of Sri What is equall Lanka have urged that the unitary nature that although it v of Sri Lanka's constitution has been a agitated for great stumbling block to the solution of the do the provincial co Tamil minority problem. That is why, echised to all provir when in 1948, the late Mr. S. J. V. never asked for it Chelvanayagam parted company with the is But, the grant All Ceylon Tamil Congress after he cils is not a solu realised that power-sharing at the centre lem. The deman with the Sinhalese could not succeed, he Eelam. As a res went on to advocate that Sri Lanka India and other
should have a federal system of Govern- section of the Ta ment under which the Tamils and Sinha- consider the post lese could co-exist under agreed circumst- native. That was 31CCS, were about but at
It was however not S. J. V. Chelva- Government rele nayagam who was the first to think of a where near the federal solution to Sri Lankan problems. autonomy. The That honour goes to the late Mr. S. W. nothing different R. D. Bandaranaike, who advocated this If the Tamils al
system in 1926, soon after his return from Eelam, there has Oxford in a speech he delivered on July tive. Such an alt t4 to a Student Congress and reported in be a federal syste the Ceylon Morning Leader of Saturday in a United Sri Li 18 July 1926. He conceived of a federal autonomy for a system Government of the Tamils, the which shall cons Kandyan Sinhalese and the low-country eastern province Sinhalese. " . " ܀ hardly to be sai

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TEMORATAMIL CREGIONVE TO SEPARATION
ving year in 1927 the Association suggested a f Government to the Dommission which was ka. The Commissioners h examination of a sughree self governing areas le northern and eastern cond Kandyan Province Southern and Western it is worthwhile noting Irthern and eastern procketed together as one mit. But none of these w the light of day.
to remind the President leadership that the preor greater devolution of med from the 1976 derate state of Eelam and armed struggle by the ort of it. To ignore this like an ostrich hiding its
MUGATHASAN
easily forget that at the onference in 1984, the umpeted through its at it would give nothing ict Development Coun
i. If today the President
ovincial council as the n, the credit must go to hducted by the Tamil heavy odds.
y important to realise is as only the Tamils who er devolution of power, uncils have been prom
ces, even to those who :
ng of Provincial Counion to the Tamil probof the Tamils was for lt of the pressure from
moderate elements, a .
nil leadership agreed to ibility of a viable alterwhat all the discussions no stage did the Sinhala it sufficiently to go any'amil desire for greater present proposals are
2 to give up demand for to be a viable alternarnative can only either n of Government withInka or genuine regional amil Linguistic Region zt of the northern and . Of course, it needs
that such a Regional
Council shall have full power over education, economy and industry, law and order (police), irrigation and land and land settlement, culture etc., while such subjects as defence, finance, foreign affairs etc., will be reserved exclusively for the Centre. 3
Anything less than such a system cannot be accepted by any self-respecting Tamil.
We have also to address ourselves to the question of linkage, between the northern and eastern provinces which has been totally rejected by the Government. This is a fundamental demand of the Tamils because it is only in a big region that they can safely organise their security in order that they could avoid holocausts, like those of July 1983. The argument that is being advanced against the demand for linking the north and east is that it is anti-democratic because all three communities are equally represented in the eastern province. What these arguments fail to see is that the influx of Sinhalese into the eastern province was state-imposed and took place as late as after the second world war.
To these people who are misled by such arguments against linkage, we
would like to give the example of Israel. For 2000 years the Jews never lived in Palestine. Palestine was entirely popu
lated by other races. Yet in 1917, the British Balfour Declaration gave its sup port for a Jewish National Home in Palestine although the majority of the people living there were Palestinians. Then was organised a steady stream of illegal Jewish immigration, just as Sinhalese colonists were planted in Tamil areas. By 1948 Palestine was partitioned with the blessing of the UN and the majority reduced to servitude. Was it adherence to the principles of democracy that made the UN close its eyes to the democratie majority of Palestinian resi
dents? Or was it Zionist political pressure
that caused them to close their eyes to the injustices to the Arabs?
This is not a question of democracy. It
is a matter of politics. The Tamils cannot
accept anything less than full Regional Autonomy for a Tamil linguistic region which shall consist of the northern an
eastern provinces. -
"I AM ATAMILToo"
Referring to the recent Sri Lanka Government peace proposals the Economist of August 9th states: '... on the day before the aid donors' meeting in Paris in June ... Mr. Jayawardene iced the cake by shyly announcing his own Tamil origins..."

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ENLF ON GOVERN
Memorandum submitted by Eelam National Liberation Front to the Government of India on the latest proposals of the Sri Lankan government.
SUBSEQUENT to the request from the Government of India and the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu to state our position on whether we accept the latest proposals of the Sri Lankan government as a basis for negotiations, we give below our collective decision and the rationale behind it. Our position is derived from a careful and thorough consideration of factors pertaining to the structure and essence of the proposal, as well as the overall politico-military and civil situation prevailing in the country.
DECISION
We do not perceive the latest Sri Lankan proposal as a basis for negotiations for the resolution of the nationality problem or, to what could be termed the Tamil National Question in Sri Lanka.
RATIONALE 1. The prevailing politico-military and civil situation a. The Sri Lankan armed forces acting under instructions from the Sri Lankan government are continuing with their military offensive in the Tamil areas in the Northern and Eastern provinces. b. Although our armed resistance has been successful in repelling and blunting these offensives, the loss of civilian lives has increased. In short the genocidal situation has further deteriorated and the Sri Lankan government has openly admitted to this as being inevitable in its pursuance of a military option. It has further stated that the military offensive would continue till the Eelam liberation movement is militarily annihilated or accepts an imposed solution. This is tantamount to blackmail and threat and our acceptance of this would imply an unconditional surrender. Although our people are peace-loving they are not prepared to accept peace at any cost. c. Search and cordon operations by the Sri Lankan security forces have been intensified after the submission of the proposal to the Government of India. In these operations more than 5000 Tamils have been rounded-up over the past week, particularly in the sensitive area of Trincomalee. The deliberate displacement of Tamils from their domicile and disruption of their socio-economic existence through the destruction of crops, curbs on fishing activities and transport of essentials makes a total mockery of the offer of a negotiated settlement by the Sri Lankan government. d. Despite the restoration of citizenship rights to plantation Tamils, there has been a drastic deterioration in their fundamental democratic and human rights, in addition to immediate threats to their lives and property. The incidents in Talawakelle over the past few days where plantation Tamils were brutally attacked by Sinhala goondas and by the security forces is a case in point. ۔ ۔ e. There has been an increase in the arrests and incarceration of Sinhala human rights and political activists who have been expressing their opposition to the genocidal situation facing their Tamil brethren as well as against the increasing pauperization of the Sinhala masses. At the other end of the spectrum, the forces of Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism have intensified their campaign to oppose any political concessions to the Tamil People.
TULF ONW DISCUSSIMO
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MADRAS, July 25 also a provincial cou, A DRAFT BILL, containing the Sri Lan- leaders discussed this kan Government’s recent proposals to solve Lankan Gονerinment the ethnic issue and based on the discussions pressed their views an the TULF leaders had with the island tions. Subsequently at Government will be given a final form when pared, which was disc the TULF goes to Colombo in August to Lankan Government resume the discussions. yet another draft on
The TULF secretary-general, Mr. A. which it had not yet rec Amirthalingam, told THE HINDU today Asked what the con that in terms of the proposals handed over were, Mr. Amirthali to the delegation headed by the Union draft bill was given the Minister, Mr. P. Chidambaran, the Sri be able to say somethi Lankan Government had prepared certain bill had not been pre
draft laws, constitutional amendments and had been suggested th
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

AUGUST 1986
VENT PROPOSALS
Thus, given the above politico-military and civil situation prevailing in the Island, it is clearly evident that a congenial atmosphere does not exist for the renewal of direct talks with the degenerate, racist Sri Lankan government.
2. THE PROPOSAL
a. The proposal by stressing on the permanence and the misplaced sanctification of the unitary character of the Constitution, prevents any meaningful dialogue on the further widening and deepening of devolution of power. This belies the claim made by J. R. Jayawardene that the proposal is only a minimum and there is scope for further expansion.
: b. The proposal does not recognize the concept and the reality of a Tamil homeland. Instead, it seeks to bifurcate the Tamil homeland by treating the Northern and Eastern provinces as two distinct entities. The proposal also seeks to separate the plantation Tamils and the areas developed and inhabited by them from the Tamil homeland.
c. The proposals do not recognize the Tamils of Sri Lanka (or the Eelam People) as a distinct nationality or of Sri Lanka as a country inhabited by two distinct nationalities with their respective languages, culture, heritage, contiguous territories and socio-economic and political histories. More importantly, it does not recognise the fact that the Eelam People are oppressed as a distinct nationality. As a matter of fact, nowhere in the proposal is there a reference to the Tamil People or to their homeland; instead, it merely speaks of communities and arbitrary provincial boundaries. .ܶܪ The delegation of power mentioned in the proposal is a mere exercise in administrative reforms in relation to delegation of power from the centre to the periphery and does not even pretend to be a solution to the nationality problem which has shaken the very fabric of the Sri Lankan polity. In addition to the above, the decision by the Sri Lankan government to unilaterally implement the proposal is a flagrant violation of the inalienable right of self-determination of the oppressed Tamil nationality of Sri Lanka. Not only does this stand tantamount to a blatant act of provocation, but also it exposes the insincerity and the insensitivity of the J. R. Jayawardene regime.
ANAPPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
We wish to take this opportunity to thank the Government of India for the support that it has extended to our beloved People who have been displaced and dislocated from their domicile and have sought refuge in India. We also call on the Government of India to continue with its i efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the nationality problem that would ensure and guarantee a just, fair and a permanent solution and enable our beloved People to live with honour and dignity. In the meantime we appeal to the Government of India to extend maximum political, moral and material support to the Eelam liberation movement in enabling it to protect the Eelam People from national oppression, state terrorism and genocide.
A. SELVAM, General Secretary, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO)
V. BALAKUMAR, Member, Executive Committee of Eelam Revolutionary ; Organization (EROS)
K. PATHMANABHA, Secretary-General of Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF)
SMMITH GOVERNMENT
1 Cill bill. The TUILIF
draft with the Sri clause by clause, exsuggested modificaother draft was preussed again. The Sri promised the TULF the whole structure, eived.
ents of the draft bill gam said once the final form, he might g about it. The draft ared yet. In fact, it at the details of the
draft bill should not be divulged till after the final discussions took place.
Replying to a question, he said it could not be said that anything had been finalised and in this situation, one could not say this was what the Sri Lankan Government had agreed to.
Law and order: The TULF had discussed with the Sri Lankan Government the law and order subject on Tuesday and the Government took down its views. It had promised to give them a draft which it had not yet received. There was no serious dispute on the law and order subject, but the TULF wanted some points to be improved.

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INDIA EXPECTS M(
Madras, July 13'
THE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER, MR. P. SHIV SHANKAR, today hoped that the Sri Lankan President, Mr. J. R. Jayawardene, would come forward with further concessions during his talks with the TULF leaders now being held in Colombo.
Talking to newsmen, Mr. Shiv Shankar said Mr Jayawardene had stated earlier that the proposals he had put forward were "rock-bottom'. On the other hand, India felt that these proposals could form a basis for discussion with the Tamil minority in solving the island's ethnic problem. I ”India hopes that the Sri Lankan President will stand up to his word by offering more concessions to solve the issue, amicably," the Minister added.
Militants' misgivings: Asked about the militants' misgivings on the proposals while the moderates were preparing the ground for talks, Mr. Shiv Shankar said India had always held the view that any solution to the ethnic problem had to be within the framework of a united Sri Lanka. Any successful administration would make the minorities feel secure and it was up to the Sri Lankan Government to satisfy the aspirations of the Tamil minorities who were feeling unsettled. The Sri Lankan President should come more than halfway in finding a negotiated settlement to the ethnic problem, Mr. Shiv Shankar noted.
Buddhist clergy's opposition: To a question whether the Buddhist clergy's opposition to the proposals would have any bearing on the decision of the Sri Lankan President, Mr. Shiv Shankar said just be
CauSe a sectior
them, the propo
'Otherwise, the island," he said.
The Minister Jayawardene wc dealing with the the opposition f 'What is requir political persona latest proposals a Jayawardene wo said.
Militants await ( New Delhi, July 1
ON THE CONCL the Government La nka n Tamil mil
Vations about the
on the ethnic pri disturb the negot erates and the S J. R. Jayawardene
As at their hour Parthasarathy, C| Committee yeste discussed with th A. P. Venkateswar proposals and cl Sri Lankan Gov agreed to India's be done to create leaders of the TU with Mr. Jayaw chances of a politi
It was their imp
ment would be fi
Forced Sinhala settlements: Sinhala woman
goes to Court
A victim of a terrorist attack at. Dehiwatta, who sought refuge back in her ancestral home at Hambantota has filed a petition in the Supreme Court alleging that she and other victims are being forced by the authorities to go back to the terrorism affected areas. K.A.K. Kusumawathie in her fundamental rights petition has prayed for a declaration of court that she and the other refugees are free to live anywhere in the island, specially
and her relatives are living there. She has also sought an interim order restraining the authorities from taking any action to send herback to terrorist affected area. According to the petitioner she is a resident of Dehiwatta and her ancestral home was at Hambantota. In May 1985, terrorists had attacked her village including her house and looted her belongings. Dursing that period about 50 families including hers were taken to Agrabodhi refugees camp. On June 9 she was compelled by authorities to return to
in the Hambantota district as it is safe
her village by v. given adequate wathie complains
Thereafter on was attacked ag. many people w brought back to the security forc Conditions in th due to shortage malpractice and were unprotecte sexual ha rassme others“ found ac camp of an org fugees. Later the to her home at Ar
The 'Daily Ne ported that the granted the State file objections rights applicatiot mawathie, of N presently of An tota, challenging officials to take h from where she terrorist attacks.
The Attorney-G OIC Ambalanto Herath, G.A. Har stin Fernando, C habilitation and N O.I.C. Hambant have been cited a application.

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of the clergy opposed als need not be shelved. clergy should rule the
aid India hoped that Mr. uld take adequate care in ituation, notwithstanding om the Buddhist clergy. d is political will and a ity to see through the nd I am confident that Mr.
ld resolve the crisis,' he
utcome of talks
3
JSION of their talks with of India today, the Sri
tants stuck to their reserlatest Colombo package
blem, but agreed not to:
ations between the modri Lankan President, Mr.
-long meeting with Mr. G. hairman, Policy Advisory rday, the militants today le Foreign Secrétary, Mr. an, various aspects of the arifications given by the ernment to India. They suggestion that nothing difficulties now that the -F had opened a dialogue rardene to explore the cal settlement. pression that no arrangeinalised, let alone imple
mented, without consulting them. At the same time, they reserved the right to 'explain the true nature of the proposals to our people.' . - - - - منبع The main objection of the militants related to the flexibility of the arrangements - the provincial councils and the like - visualised in the Colombo package. According to them, it did not provide institutional safeguards for the minorities and what was being bromised now could be changed by the majority in Parliament on the plea of its supremacy. Secondly, they were unhappy that their demand for the merger of the Tamil areas in the North and East had been rejected. On this issue, they noted that the stand of the Sri Lankan Government was backed by the Opposition parties.
The Foreign Secretary, it appears, explained the position of the Government of India - how it had used its good offices to find a way out of the protracted crisis. It was in pursuance of this line, the militants were told, that the TULF leaders were advised to negotiate with the Sri Lankan Government and use the package as the basic paper to get a satisfactory deal for the Tamils, - - .
The militants agreed to await the outcome of the discussions, though they did not have any illusions about it. The package, they repeated, fell short of the four principles they had enunciated at Thimpurecognition of the separate identity of the Tamils, of their right for a homeland and self-determination and citizenship for the Tamil plantation workers. ...و .
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PRIEST's MURDER BY,
- eyewitness account
By courtesy of Saturday Review
Brother, M. Wenceslaus of the Rosarian Tholagatty Monastery, Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka was murdered by the security forces on June 20. A
The following eye-witness account was given by an 11 year old boy who was close to the scene of the crime:
'', Arulanantham Kamaleswaran, born September 1975, residing at Tholagatty, Vasavilan, being a Roman Catholic, do make oath and swear as follows:
'I am living with my mother, Poomany Arulanantham, in a house situated about 500 yards from the Rosarian Monastery at Tholagatty. .
'I was studying in Grade 4 at the Vasavilan Roman Catholic School, Vasavilan, til 17th May, 1986.
'This school was closed lately because the Army had set up a camp close to the school.
"During school days I am free in the afternoon as the school is only a single session school that closes for the day at 1.30 p.m.-
'I, therefore, go to the Tholagatty Monastery whenever I am free and help the monks at the farm in the Monastery. Once a week the monks used to pay me for my labour.
'On 20th June, as the school was closed, I went to work at the Monastery farm at 8 a.m.
'I was engaged in cutting sticks in the southern section of the Monastery on the
instructions of Brother Barnabas who re
mained in the northern section of the Monastery, which was across the road.
'These sticks of five foot length each are used as supports for king yam creepers.
"As I could not carry the whole lot at once, I carried them in lots of a few at a time.
'When had crossed ern Section of the Mo these trips, I heard as and remained there till the firing, and continue carrying the sticks from tion.
'When I was about to saw about 12 Army pel mises of the southern se uniform, wore footwear about three of them hac their hands with long an 'They were about 20 the cattleshed of the mo 'At this time Brothe put straw for the cattle and was turning back t Brother Wenceslaus was habit and wore a sash ar. 'Through fear, I ran t which was closed and hi the west end of the Chuir 'From there in a crouc the same Army pers appeared to be spe; Wenceslaus.
'in a short while i sa
striking Brother Wences
with some long black ol Wenceslaus being stru twice. The other soldier hands as if ready to fire. "I was so frightened t away. As ran toward southern section of the a gun shot coming from cattleshed where I h Wenceslaus and the Arn 'Besides Brother We Army men I did not see premises.
'A short while later narrated these events to
Note by the Editor: T viewed by me. I am
events he has narrated ask Lankapuwath to take
"STOP THESE MURD
Text of a press release issued by Rev. Fr. J.E. Jayaseelan, Secretary of the Northern Branch of the Movement for inter-racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE).
... We are shocked and grieved at the recent slaughter of 31 innocent fishermen from Gurunagar by the Armed Forces on Wednesday 10th June. They were fishing in the waters of the Jaffna Lagoon off the coast of Mandaitivu. They had gone on their fishing programme of madal fishing when they were rounded up, lined up and gunned to death. The death was ghastly, as they were battered, gored and slashed with knives before they were gunned down. Among the group were innocent lads of 12 and 14 years, a 16 year old and those who were past 60 years.
The MIRJE (Northern Branch) expresses its heartfelt sympathies to the families of the unfortunate victims who went in pursuit of their traditional occupation totally
unmindful that they w assassins who parade and guardians of law an We note with regret a government is drifting tion of human rights anc under the pretence of wi We observe that the tal innocent civilians and th seems to be a lack of CO the authorities about t sures of brutality exerc forces. This wanton dest ultimately climax in the famils.
We urge the governm
(1) Stop these deliberat the culprits and deal vivit an iron hand; (2) Ho, abide by the norms an Covenant of Human Ri and ratified by this Gove

AUGUST 1986
ARMY
over to the northhastery on one of series of gun shots there was a lull in d with my task of the southern sec
carry the last lot 'sonnel in the prection. They were in , carried guns and | portable radios in eateS,
yards away from hastery farm. r Wenceslaus had in the cattleshed o go to his room. dressed in a khaki ound his waist. owards the Church di near a bush near
ch. shed position I saw tonnel who then
aking to Brother
aw one Army man slaus on his hands pject. I saw Brother ck on his hands s had guns in their
hat I decided to run ls the gate of the Monastery, I heard the direction of the ad seen Brother ny men last. - enceslaus and the anyone else in the
went home and my mother.'
he boy was intersatisfied that the are true. I wish to
Over.
)ERS”
ould be felled by as security forces di order, nd Concern that the towards annihilai making a travesty iping out terrorism. rget of attack were eir property. There ncern on the part of he excessive meaised by the armed cruction of lives will annihilation of the
ent tO:
e murders - Catch h gangsterism with nour, respect and d standards of the ghts subscribed to frient.
EMERGENCY RULE
MADE EASY
State Minister Anandatissa de Alwis recently announced government's decision to amend the Constitution to enable Parliament to pass emergency regulations without calling for a 2/3rd majority. This 10th amendment to the Constitution was approved by Cabinet yesterday on a proposal by the Minister of Justice Nissanka Wijeyeratne. The Minister briefing the Press after the Cabinet meeting said that the Government would amend the Constitution since it was very difficult to get all the members to be in the House at the same time, when passing emergency regulations. Mr. de Alwis further said that under proportional representation no Government would get a 2/3rd majority in the future.
స్టేక్ట**
BRUSH WITH DEATH
A Dutchman, Rev. Fr. Omla, attached to the Paranthan parish of St. Anthony's, was returning from Kumarapuram by jeep in the forenoon of 8th July when he was chased by a helicopter and shot at. He had a narrow escape from death. His assistant, Francis Xavier (24), was seriously injured in the firing. Fr. Omia is reported to have got down from the jeep and held aloft the crucifix he was wearing. In spite of this, the firing went on. Francis Xavier who sustained injuries on his hands, legs and stomach was brought through Poonakari and admitted to Jaffna hospital.
Father Omla is 65 years old and has been discharging his spiritual function in Sri Lanka for the last 38 years.
His jeep which was damaged in the firing, was green and had a Red Cross painted on the hood.
PROTEST AGAINST
KILLING OF PREST
The people of Point Pedro conducted a mass demonstration narch from St. Anthony's Church, Point Pedro, to St. Anthony's Church, Karaveddy, on 27th June in protest against the killing of Bro. Emmanuel Wenceslaus of the Holy Rosary Ashram at Tholagatty by the Security Forces. Both Christians and Hindus participated in the procession, carrying the Holy Cross in turns. Some slogans on the placards carried in the procession were "Hands off clergymen', 'ls the 66-year-old clergyman a terrorist?', 'Stop killing innocents', 'Stop destroying churches and tenples”, “Stop killing women and children”, “Don't keep Tamils as hostages', ܐܰܪ
"HOME GUARDS' KLL 34
At Thambalagamam in Trincomalee district, 34 bodies including that of a woman were discowered in the jungle on 28th June. The bodies were later identified as that of a mill owner, his wife and mill workers. Home guards had allegedly abducted these 34 people at the point of a gun. The owner was a paralytic. His son discovered his body when he went in search of his mother in the jungle.

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LETTER TO THE Gover WHO ONCE LIVED BE
I was hungry - but the new rich you created by your economic policies fed their cats, dogs, and pets with my food. You even imported food for cats and dogs while I starv’ed. * * * I was hungry - and you encouraged multinationals to plant singed beans and waste money for five years to produce yard-long Dambala, instead of using that money on research to produce more and cheaper subsidiary food crops and cowpea for my family. I was hungry - and because the billionaires you produced within a short space of time, did not give up their T-bone steak in the big hotels, you subsidised them heavily. 'I was hungry - but you allowed multinationals to cultivate sugar cane at Moneragala in order to sell their sugar at higher prices, while I was deprived of the land that grew my daily meal, I was reduced to an agricultural labourer. I was hungry - and you made cricket the country's first priority spending money and time to giddy limit that eroded the productivity of people in all walks of life, and made cricket the opium of the people! I was hungry - while you allowed waste and corruption to increase despite the pleas of your own Minister of Finance and the resultant price increases reduced my family's food basket.
I was hungry -
'' been used to p.
irrigable lands dams that made damn lies. I was hungry - subsidies only to unproductive p, monies that hav all odd times oft I was hungry - cerned local and production and Lakspray which raised to Rs. 29. I was hungry - it that all the food year, if distribu ensure that every a ton of food adequate protein I was hungry - be spent on ser, trained, and re-t ers ad mauseam. I was hungry - t the priority que Lanka go hung issues and dema, lems. Instead yo. expatriate Sri La
A SELECTION OF RECENT FROM SRI LANKAN NEW:
By Courtesy of Tamil Information and Research
a
Army advised to walk
Walking, instead of travelling in vehicles, was the only answer to landmines which are responsible for 99 per cent of deaths among the security forces in the North and East. This was said by Minister of National Security, Lalith Athulathmudali, after he declared open a factory for the production of white coconut fibre at Seenimodera, Beliatte on Monday. The Minister said that security forces had studied various methods
they could adopt to overcome the land
mine hazard, and had found that walking in readiness for combat was the best way land mines could be avoided.
It should be done as a battle exercise in combat formation. The effectiveness of such walking was proved only two days ago when 100 soldiers walked from Medawachchiya to Mannar, a distance of 70 miles. Although the 'terrorists' had fired mortars at the soldiers, they were able to repulse the attack successfully without any Soldiers get
ting even injured,...
(The Island, 4th June, 1985) “ና × " . . . . . . . . . . .
TEAPRICESTUMBLE
Sri Lanka's tea prices this week ousted indonesia's as the world's lowest, plummeting to less than Rs.25.50 a kilogram, the cheapest in
nearly four yea tea fel and th
was bound to
quantity of te auction. The w Union from the six months, a participation o
| Creating a bett : plained, i Mond
the lowest at since August
rupees below plantation sectic
Sri Lank
South
Sri Lanka be announce its b wealth Games Edinburgh. The that this was Lanka's solida South Africa i apartheid.
lt is ironic t African arms pouring into S tea vas also fi African ports.
(S

ΤΑΜΙL TIMES7
NMENT BY THE DEPARTED LOW THE POVERTY LINE ''
und money that could have roduce food on available was used for constructing your 1977 promises a set of
but you removed the food waste the money saved on
ojects and opening cere2 now become carnivals at te day. . . . . i
but you watched unconforeign cartels control food imports, and allowed my
was Rs. 6.50 per lb to be
0 per pound.
ut you never cared to learn the world produces in one ed according to need, will
single person on earth gets. that contains more than ,
and energy. out you allowed millions to
1inars and training of the
raining, and training train
ut you did not ask yourself
stion why people in Sri ry, outline the main food rid solutions to those prob
! surrounded yourself with:
nkans who are nothing but
conduits for business interests in their land of adoption, and may soon entice you to start a Star Wars Program
I was hungry - but you never took action on the reports of increasing malnutrition, although those we have left behind, the surviving victims, will be physically less developed, mentally less alert and more susceptible to disease.
I was hungry - but you remained unaware of the facts that stale bread, spoilt vegetables and fruits in the dustbins of rich homes and the big hotels you put up could have fed me and thousands of others who had to shorten
their sojourn on Earth. - :
I was hungry - but you never ask your friends who got you into the debt trap the morality of wasting food deliberately by dumping food into the sea in order to keep the prices of food high.
Real human development and social justice are closely related to peace. Many of the causes of conflict in Sri Lanka relate to the sharp polarisation of wealth and poverty among all races. . Gandhi said poverty is the worst kind of violence. s
Courtesy of CHRISTIAN WORKER, s 1st Qr, 1986
REPORTS SPAPERS
Unit, Madras
rs. Prices for all grades of .
e trade said the decline
continue with a larger a on offer at the next tithdrawal of the Soviet auctions, its second in nd the continued non
F Egypt did not help in :
er dermand, brokers exay's prices, which were the Colombo auctions 1982 were at east ten the cost of production, }r officials said.
(Sunday, June 11, 1986)
a solidarity with African blacks
came the 26th nation to oycott of the Commonrecently concluded in Foreign Ministry stated
a demonstration of Sri. ity with the people of their struggle against
wat not long ago Southi and ammunition were
‘i Lanka and Sri Lankan * nding its way into south
aturday Review, June 75th, 1986)
Paul Nallanayagam freed
Kamunai Citizens Commitee Chairman, Paul Nallanayagam, who was charged on four counts, walked out of the Colombo High Court as a free man last month. He was charged for (1) conspiracy; (2) spreading false rumours regarding incidents at Karitivu; (3) spreading false rumours regarding incidents at Oluvil; and (4) spreading false rumours regarding incidents at Natpittimunji. i
Mr. Nallanayagam, a retired member of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, was defended by Messrs. S. Nadesan, O.C., J. C.T. Kotelawela, Ms Suriya Wickremesinghe, Messrs. Ainsley Samarajiwa, J.F. Xavier, K.S. Alagarajah and Miss Nimaika Fernando. The additional Solicitor General, Mr. Sunil de Silva and State Counsel, Mr. Nihara Rodrigo, prosecuted. (Saturday Review, June 15, 1986)
AIR LANKA: NO TAKERS
it's a waste of paradise for Sri Lanka's national carrier Airlanka. Faced with mounting losses and declining tourist traffic that has now slowed to a trickle it planned a mission of image building. In association with the Ceylon Tourist Board, the air line offered a free holiday for the survivors of the May 3 bomb blast aboard its tristar 'City of Colombo'. But, air line officials now find after sending letters to all survivors there are no takers. Hence the first of a series of promotional measures Airlanka hoped to undertake in collaboration with the Ceylon Tourist Board has been abandoned before it got off the ground. Weekend - 15th June 1986)

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8TANFit TrMES
OVER 3000 DETAIN IN SRI LAINKA S PRIS
THE CAMPAIGN for the Release of Political Prisoners (CROPP) was organised in December 1985 by a group pf citizens concerned over the increasing number of arbitrary arrests and detentions taking place in Sri Lanka under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and the Emergency Regulations.
Reports of arrests of hundreds of Tamil youth under the PTA and Emergency Regulations have continued to flow in from the Northern and Eastern parts of the country. As the Amnesty International Report on Extra-Judicial Killings in Sri Lanka in the period from September 1985 to March 1986 (Document ASA 37/ 03/86) describes, state terror and violence in those areas is unleashed not only against those who bear arms against the state but also, and increasingly more so against unarmed and defenceless civil lians. " స్ట్రి
In this general atmosphere of represt sion and violation of basic human and civil rights which are abhorrent and intolerable in any democratic Society, the practice of arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and 'disappearance has, over the past two years, extended to the South of
the island, thus bringing a new dimension
to the struggle for democracy in Sri Lanka. ** YA : جہ... ‘‘
A rough estimate indicates that there àre now i över 3000 such detainees in prisons and camps throughout the island. Of these 230 Tamils and 40 Sinhalese are at the Welikada Prison in Colombo; approximately 2000 Tamils are in the largest detention camp, at Boosa in the Southern Province; the rest are held in various Army Camps and Police Stations. There are among these detainees some who have been in detention for over 18 months, which is the maximum time period stipulated even under the PTA, by when, a detainee must either be produced before a Magistrate and arraigned, or released. (See Appendix II).
The conditions under which these detainees are being held are abominable. Under the provisions of the PTA, their place and conditions of detention are determinable entirely at the discretion of the Minister and therefore even the Standard Minimum Regulations applicable to prisoners under the UN Charter do not in this case apply. As one detainee has written: "The places of detention vary from lockups at Police Stations and Army Camps to Special Detention Camps for 'terrorists'. Some are also being detained at the Remand Prison in Colombo. Many of them are denied even the elementary facilities provided to ordinary remand prisoners. For example, many suspects detained in Police Stations are being kept 24 hours inside the cell, thus depriving them of even a few minutes of fresh air.
Moreover, they are bei common criminal suspe cases, even with lunatics
The majority of the d about the lack of a n lanced diet, Sanitation facilities, exercise and f restricted, reading and rarely made available with lawyers not permit
Movement for Inter Equality as well as Organisations have c attention to the fact t detention under PTA physical harassment detainees. Cases of tor "disappearance” of Ta army camps and polic north and east have documented both by n national organisations attention is drawn to practice of torture of c become generalised in t
Several instances c harassment have been notice of CROPP. On
ance led to the deal
custody of the Kollu S.D.S. Mapitigama of though a verdict of sui at the magisterial inqu many unsatisfactory asp been satisfactorily clarif ASSault and torture custody are by no mea several cases that hav recently, such as the Dayaratna of Wellawa custody where a verdic returned at the magist "disappearances of Gr: Hambantota and of , Kotahena bear witness with which citizens of Sl or "made to disappearb Reports coming in fr arrested persons revea arrest and detention lot repressive regimes in L in Asia, in the Philip Marcos Government, h practice in Sri Lanka.
O People are followe, from the street, from p. unmarked vehicles by clothes.
O Houses and boar raided at night.
O Torches are flashed suspects to 'blind then fication. - .
O Private homes and places of detention and
example, a JEDB estate

VED
ng kept along with 'cts and, in certain
yy
etainees complain utritious and baand health care resh air. Visits are writing materials and even contact ted in most cases. Racial Justice and other civil rights ontinually - drawn hat conditions of make possible the and torture of ture, murder and mil detainees in ce stations in the been adequately ational and interHere, specific the fact that the letainees has now he South as well. of such physical brought to the e such tragic instch, while in the pitiya Police, of Ratmalana. Even cide was returned iry, there remain jects that have not ied.
while in police ns new; however, ve come to light death of W.A. while in police t of homicide was erial inquiry, the aetian Ananda of Ananda Sunil of to the impunity i Lanka are killed y the police.
ONS /
AUGUST 1986
The following are extracts from a comprehensive report dated 9 June 1986 by the Campaign for the Release of Political Prisoners (CROPP) in Sri Lanka.
Plantation Board). Pantrene, at Avissawella, is alleged to be one such place.
O Families are never informed as to the cause of arrest, deliberate deception is also resorted to, to prevent families pursuing inquiries.
What is most reprehensible is that, as Mrs. Nilamuni's letter (Appendix II) bears out, these arrests take place without the knowledge of local Police officers, thus making it all the more difficult to trace a person once he or she has been taken in. The most recent case brought to our notice is that of a middle aged woman, Vijitha Piyaseeli, who was arrested by the Mirihana Police on 10th May 1986, in the course of a house-search for her husband. She is present detained at the Remand Prison in Colombo.
While conditions of arrest and of detention should be of concern to all those interested in the preservation of human and democratic rights, what concerns CROPP even more is the evidence that powers of arbitrary arrest and detention arrogated by the state are being increasingly used to silence its political oppo
nents and to stifle popular protest against
the regime.
The state has been extremely secretive about the correct number or whereabouts of these detainees. Even the Monitoring Committee into Ceasefire Violations, which was authorised to visit prisons and
st detention camps and report on their
om those close to i
all that tactics of ng associated with atin America and opines under the ave been put into
d and picked up ublic transport, in persons in civil
ding houses are
into the faces of and prevent identi
Offices are used as interrogation, for
2 (State controlled
conditions, was, as far as we are aware, unable to get a complete list of detainees or even accurate figures of those detained. CROPP's efforts to obtain precise information in this case have been equal ly unsuccessful.
It has also not been possible to get the state to give these prisoners any special status as political prisoners. The PTA Advisory Board, which has been authorised to look into the position of those persons detained under the PTA is also only able to make recommendations to the state which need not necessarily be implemented. Thus, for example, Mr. Charles de Silva Nilamuni, a 60 year old
retired Bank official from Kurunegala,
whose release has been recommended due to his age and ill-health, is still being detained, unable even to secure a special diet in accordance with his condition.
CROPP sees the continuing arrests and detentions as a gross violation of the democratic rights of free political expression and a further indication of the authoritarianism that has characterised Sri Lankan polity in recent years. ३
It is in this light that CROPP seeks to alert all political parties and groups, mass organisations, human rights groups and
activists and other concerned persons in . نهن
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SRI LANKAN Tamil organisations in Madras have long been wary of infiltration by the Sri Lankan intelligence. They knew that spies trained in Colombo were being sent into India in the guise of Tamil refugees, and therefore took some pains to remain impermeable. But the arrests in Madras in June of two Indians and three Sri Lankans, one of whom enjoyed the confidence of many militant groups, on charges of spying, has come as a shock to them.
'I can't believe he could have been a Sri Lankan spy," said a Sri Lankan Tamil leader.
The man referred to is Kandasami Naidu, a 42-year-old former security officer of the Sri Lankan Minister for Rural Industrial Development S. Thondaman. Kandasami had fled to Madras along with thousands of other Sri Lankan famils in the wake of the 1983 antiTamil violence in the Island. For all that Madras could see, he was a committed supporter of the Tamil cause: did he not organise a safe conduct to TUF leader A. Amirthalingam from Jaffna to Colombo and thence to Madras in the thick of the 1983 crisis?
in Madras, the old links with Thondaman turned out to be a substantial asset for the suave 'refugee", who began befriending the
Thondaman Meets Rajiv
NEW DELHI, July 25
The Sri Lanka Minister for Rurai industrial Development, Mr. S. Thondaman, today met the Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, and urged him to step up india's efforts to secure a settlement between the Tamils and the Sri Lanka Govern
est. During his 20 minute meeting, Mr. Thondaman told Mr. Gandhi that the current discussions between the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and the Sri Lanka Government was a positive development, but everyone should be cautious that the opportunity for settlement should not be allowed to slip.
PM hopeful: Mr. Thondaman said after the meeting that the Prime Minister was "very hopeful' of the current exercise.
Sri Lankan spies in
various militant gi gain in this relatio
As the police carne up with stai sions. He was resp. he admitted, at th Balasingam earlie punched a hole thi but killed no one. even as he was c to eliminate the Ta not do it to a fellow sure that the bomb whose links with 1 Lankan intelligenc added that his b pleased that he mis The cover for th afforded by the himself called it "p
·to play. At the beh use his influence militant groups for President J. R. Jaya sponsored by som bid to ward off N Lalith Athulathmut ceed Jayawardene
Appeal for
MADRAS, July 2
Five prominent citiz Colombo's latest prc issue envisaged a s volution of power to and expressed the vi for serious discussion in a joint statem political parties and g to avoid rancour an opportunity to end island.
The signatories to Subramaniam, Prof. Arunacha lam, Mr. T Rajmohan Gandhi.
HForum to
ITS MURDER
The Jaffna Magistrate, Mr. K.P.S. Varatharajah, returned a verdict of hornicide at the end of the inquest proceeding into the deaths of 30 Gurunagar fishermen who were killed off Mandaitivu on 10th June.
The Magistrate returned an open verdict in the case of the 31st deceased. He has directed the Police to conduct further inquiries and take the necessary legal steps,
amity
MADRAS, July 2
A group of Sri Lanka formed an organisati Standing among grot The immediate obje Maithri Sangam are 1 ethnic conflict, promc the protagonists an refugees and displact Mrs. Sarah Chanda, Si
Third Son a
Continued from page 8 'Sri Lanka and abroad to join hands in bringing pressure to bear on the Government of Sri Lanka:
1. to repeal all repressive legislation
which violates the democratic and civil fights of the people of Sri Lanka;
2. to release all political prisoners as a token of good faith and intention to bring about a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict,
3. as an interim measure, to afford to all detainees minimum rights, treating them as political prisoners.
Mr. Michael Gnanapr, attached to the inst Evangelism was sha army at Killinochi on He was the thirdson i killed in Killinochi with
Pakist
Pakistan has suppl arms, transport and c India's Minister for Shankar informed the
VVhile sorne of the plied by Pakistan was country, some other it from other countries Lanka, the Minister ade
Mr. Shiv Sharkar fu
 

ups. The groups, too, saw hip.
uizzed Kandasami, they ing, even bizarre, confes
insible for the bomb blast
house of LT TE leader A. this year, That bomb had ugh the roof of the house, candasami now says that rying out the instructions ni leader, he felt he could Tamil and therefore made would not kill. Kandasami, le top echelons of the Sri have been traced, has sses were obviously not
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saviours of the people in the areas there they are. It is an absolutely wrong thing to say that there is only one sided violence.
Q: What about the AirLanka bomb blast, the CTO blast?
A: Of course, those are things - the attacks on civilian targets and killing of civilians - no one can justify. Civilians are being killed on both sides. There are Tamil civilians, innocent people who are being killed by the armed forces and so-called Home Guards. Similarly, the militants also have been killing civilians on the Sinhala side. We totally deplore the killing of innocent civilians by whomsoever it may be done and we have done it in public even after the bomb blast at Katunayake.
Q: Mr. Amirthalingam, you have gone on record as saying the separatists neither approved nor disapproved of your talks with the government. Now would this also mean that you would settle for a political solution to the Tamil problem irrespective and regardless of what the militants think?
A: If a worthwhile solution is worked out we are confident that it will be accepted by the vast majority of the people. And the militant leaders themselves have now made public statements that if a solution acceptable to the people is worked out, they will not stand in the way. So that I am confident that we will be able to have the tacit support at least of the vast majority of the people and even the militants. But, if of course, certain fringe elements oppose it, we will have to go ahead implementing it.
Q: With a political solution?
A: Yes.
Q: But can you have a lasting solution if there is a certain militant faction?
A: You see, you cannot have 100 per cent consensus on any matter. It depends on what solution we work out. That is what we are trying to do. If it is something which reasonably satisfies the aspirations of the long suffering Tamil people, I am sure the vast majority of militants will fall in line and we will be able to implement it, particularly with ideas and help the whole process. It should be possible to get the support of the militants also in this matter.
Q: All in all, Mr. Amirthalingam, looking back over the past six, seven years during which you have been launching this struggle for Eelam, do you think at some point, do you ever feel that the sacrifices which had to be made was not worth the goal for what you'd rather not have done at all.
A: I have no regrets at all over what has happened, we were driven to this stand that we had to pay. You know in 1956 when the Sinhala Only Act was passed there were demands for separation put forward by people like Mr. Suntharalingam. We opposed it, fought against it and defeated them.
But twenty years of our effort to workout a peaceful solution on the lines of a measure of autonomy by pacts like the BandaranaikeChelvanayakam Pact, the Dudley Senanayake-Chelvanayakam Pact and various agreements and understandings that we had come to with Successive governments led us no where.
On the contrary, we were treated to repeated problems. Violence was unleashed on our people and it was those that drew us to take the stand that we will have to separate.
But even after date from our p the beginning in that if a reasonat the government When the Distric as an alternativ пneasure of decer may help to eas that in the face of own party, of our
But the govern that the DDCs h power nor funds and that institut purpose for which that context that demands.
Even in 1983. were excluded fr amendment, whe tions, we readily year at the All-P ated. Nothing cal here trying to ne; the compulsions, to take the stand t
The Tamil peop the country till til discriminations a process, failure failure of constit driven to this de violence was the II repeated violence Tamil people in 1 1981, 1983. Ever be surprised that way.
Q: But looking a in Colombo toda time to talk, to ne that things are g expected?
A: No. We feel t and settling the m that in the interes of the country, i people, in the inti in the interests ( should work out a been our feeling : in the past. We Succeed now.
Q: On the contr including Tamils
and the TULF as the base in Jaffn political legitimac there are demonst visit to Colombo.
still feel that yo majority of the Tan
A: I think that th people still looku solution to allevia rights and freedo are young men w that we have no m have a role or no the people who and it is in the p we have come he anything for ours the suffering of
they are able to honour and freed
Q: The Indian G view that the pra
basis for negotia

we decided and got a manople on that demand, from Parliament we had indicated le alternative was offered by we were willing to take it. t Councils were offered, not to our demand but as a tralisation which we thought : the situation, we accepted opposition by sections of our own youth. ment itself has now accepted ld totally failed, that neither vere transferred to the DDCs on has failed to serve the it was established. So it is in we had to go ahead with our
after the holocaust, after we om Parliament by the Sixth 'n India suggested negotiaonsented and for one whole arty Conference, we negotine out of it. So we are back gotiate. So one has to realise the necessities that drove us hat we had taken.
ble never wanted a division of ey were driven by repeated nd failure of the negotiating of the democratic process, tional methods. They were mand and the emergence of esult, was the reaction to the that was unleashed on the 956, 1958, 1961, 1977, 1979, a worm turns and one cannot the youth reacted in that
f it right now, your presence y, you are saying that it is gotiate. Is this an indication going beyond the point you
hat we are always for talking atter and even today we feel is of all sections of the people in the interests of the Tamil erests of the Sinhala people, f our common country We peaceful solution. That has always and our efforts failed
are hoping that we may
ary, people in this country at times perceive that you a group had distanced from a and have thereby lost the y. Already, I am told thai rations in Jaffna about your Mr. Amirthalingam, do you u have the support of the vil people of the country?
e vast majority of the Tamil p to the TULF to work out a te their suffering to wintheir m. There is no doubt there ho have sacrificed, who feel ore role to play. Whether we t, we feel we have a duty by laced their confidence in us rformance of that duty that re to talk. We don't expect lves but we want to see that our people is removed and ive in security, with dignity, om in their territories.
overnment has expressed the sent proposals are a sound ions. Now, if you were to
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dismiss and reject the proposals presented by the government outright, do you not stand the risk of losing the hospitality of the Indian Government which you have enjoyed for the past couple of years?
A: I don't think so. The Indian Government has merely indicated that they regard these proposals as a reasonable basis for starting discussions. I don't think they will go to the extent of applying any greater pressure on us to accept anything. That freedom, we have. The decision is ours whether to negotiate and what to accept as a reasonable solution to the problem of our people. Having discussed the matter fully with the Indian Government even before we come to Colombo, I haven't the slightest doubt that India will apply any such pressure on the Tamil groups or the parties to accept something which they feel they cannot accept. ༣༥ ,
Q: What about the terrorist groups? Will you say the same for them?
A: Well, I think the Indian Government is talking to them at the moment. They are in New Delhi and they are discussing matters with the Government of India and I am sure the Indian Government will tell them what they think about it, will listen to what they have to say and will give them advice if necessary. But I don't think they will apply any pressure.
Q: Either way?
A: Yes.
Q: Finally, Mr. Amirthalingam, shortly after arriving in Colombo two days ago you told Rupa vahini that it was necessary to break the deadlock and explore possibilities for lasting peace. How much closer are we to that objective today and what are the prospects of a settlement in the not too distant future?
A: I think the talks we have had so far have been very useful, have been very full and I think if we continue on these lines, we can reasonably expect to arrive at some solution.
Q: How soon?
A: That I am not able to say because the process of negotiations sometimes gets protracted. There are certain matters of a very fundamental nature from our point of view. I don't want to get into those in public at the moment which we have to discuss at some length with the government if we have to arrive at an agreement. So, I cannot say how soon but I think in a couple of weeks or so we ought to be able to terminate our negotiations.
O. So, what you have come here for is to real sit down and thrash it out, finish it.
A: Yes we do certainly realize the urgency of working out a solution. People have suffered for three years and . . . s
O: On both sides?
A: On both sides and the country has suffered quite a lot. We realise that and so we feel that the same realisation should be there on the part of the others, the other political parties - both Government and Opposition - and all should co-operate to work out a solution.
Q: Mr. Amirthalingam, we wish you, good luck. Thank you.
A: Thank you.


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O in the East, 2 soldiers killed and 6 injured in an LTTE attack on an army foot patrol at Kattaiparichchan in Mutur district. O 7 Buddhist priests abducted while fasting in Colombo yesterday found dropped at different places outside the city, O Residents living near temporary army camp at Omanthai vacate homes in fear. O in Colombo, Sinhala newspaper 'Divayina' carries report quoting 'official' sources that Jaffna's Palaly airport will be made an internatiomal airport with U.S. and British aid, and that the runways will be extended to the Myliddy coast to facilitate movement of all three forces - Air Force, Navy and Army. The eventual objective, according to the report, is to carve out the northern fringe of the peninsula into a 'security operations zone'. O in search operations by armed forces now camping at govt. School in Triyai, north of Trincomalee, one Tamil youth Subramaniam Rajaratnam was killed and another, Velu Selliah injured. Incidents occurred on April 10.
O Administrator of the Sankillian refugee centre in Jaffna Dr. Sasitharan reported to be arrested by Naval personnel while going on a boat with refugees, and produced at Trincomalee Police station. O Hindu temple at Punanai on the BatticaloaPolonnaruwa road near the army camp is now used by STF as a check post. O Timekeeper at Batticaloa railway station, Johnpulle, father of 5 children, shot dead at his home by an unknown youth. O In an island-wide test held for selection as Police Sergeants, only three Tamils are selected as against 262 non-Tamils. The selected Tamils are N.T. Namasivayam, V. Pakianathan and Kullathila karajah, (Ealamurasu) −
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O Men of the armed forces in civis surround a house yesterday at Thiruvaiyaru 2nd culvert in Kilinochchi district and take away nearly one hundred bags of paddy to the army camp. O Abandoned houses of residents in Valalai, Thampalai close to Thondamannaru army camp are set on fire by black uniformed armed forces; at Palaly, where also residents had been forced to flee and abandon their homes, houses are destroyed and in some places produce-bearing trees are cut down to make way for temporary roads to facilitate movements of armoured cars and army vehicles. O A young Tamil woman Vanaja Varnakulanathan (21) of Mutur, who was allegedly tortured by men of the armed forces is sent to Jaffna hospital for emergy treatment by Trincomalee Citizens Committee. O A gang of about 30 armed, masked men rob the house and business premises of trader T.A. Apputhurai at Kankesanturai, and get away with jewellery and items worth several lakhs. Apputhurai who was a victim of the anti-Tamil riots in Colombo in July '83, had therafter set up
business in Jaffna.
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O Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The day passes without any major incidents being reported barring a half-hour helicopter strafing in Myliddy Palaly areas. On Moratuwa, suburb of Colombo, Officer-incharge of Police Station, Inspector Earl Peiris is shot dead by a Sergeant working under him.
O O Farmer Sinnah went to Nilaveli from his upitiya to buy fertiliser or "arrested” by armed foi dead with gunshot in brought to Trincomaleeh O Decomposed body di at Manktu iam identified a Jegan (22), an employee had been missing for the ing a "search" operation O Three soldiers killed a a land mine explosion at near the Polonnaruwa d diers were Lance Corp Corporal Sahabandu and O Y.P. Arumainayagam as an army informer and post.
O Army men who had s engage local civilian goi duvan to buy food and Kuri kadduvarn the mone point, and on reporting b boat are detained by arm'
O For 27 days now — sin or religious rites held at temple. Smell of rotting ity. Temple priests, Citize to Jaffna G.A. and ask fo away from the temple. O Helicopter strafing aga affected: Mallakam, Tel Kurumbacitty. Several pe school, Union College a aged. O S. Ravindrarajah (23) fighter killed, hit by a sh army camp. O Homes of Selliah Bal lathamby Ratnasabapat Road, Jaffna, robbed by Rs. 4 lakhs worth jewelle () in Trincomalee district near the 3rd Mile army forced to abandon thei camps full, they have Another 1,000 families nayakapuram Colony at leave. : O Jungle at Omanthai being set on fire, anc destroyed by army men' the area.
O Six persons killed in offensives from two arm and Navatkuli, and ove killed are, a 4-year old ch agasam (23), both killed homes, at Navatku li, 2 s. of Kurunegala and Abhi and two LT TE militants, and Murali (N. Kamala kachcheri, who were kill Three other soldiers, Cy bo, Weerasinghe (35) c Appuhamy of Polgaha injured. O An apparently drun Wijeyaratne Douglas wh the Muda iku iam Tamil district, shouting that a and began firing at rand wered by his own wife him, is produced before trate M. K. Sellarajah. He 28. O Helicopter strafing of Kurumbacitty areas, con
 
 
 
 
 

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Wandakumar (32) who home village Kumburthe 13th and reportedly ces on that day, found
juries. ospital. scovered in jungle area s that of Mathiaparanam of an eating house, who past three days followby army personnel. nd four others injured in Niyankulam in Batticaloa istrict border. Killed soloral Anwerdeen, Lance Pvt. J.L. Panditharatne. of Poonakari'executed' | his body tied to a lamp
His body was
et up camp at Nainativu ng on a boat to Kurikadprovisions for them. At y was robbed at gunlack the civilians and the y personnel.
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Ce March 21 — no poojas the Sellasannathy Hindu corpses in temple vicinns Committee complain r shifting of army camp
ain, in the north. Villages Ilipallai, Kadduvan and rsons injured, a leading nd several houses dam
of Point Pedro an LTTE el from the Point Pedro
asubrama niam and Nallhy at Kachcheri-Nallur armed gang, and over y and cash taken away. t, 60 Tamil families living check post at Nilaveli r homes. With refugee now become vagrants. , residents of Cheva'e under army orders to
in the mainland north is trees and vegetation who have set up camp in
Jaffna following army y camps - the Dutch Fort r a dozen injured. The ild and a youth, Arudpir
by army shells in their plaiers, Karuna ratne (30) yasiri (28) of Mirigama,
Lt. Gerry (S. Yogarasa) nathan) both of Chavaed in action at Navatkuli. til Perera (31) of Negomf Kelaniya and Gamini wela believed critically
ken man, a Sinhalese, o walked with a gun into refugee camp in Trinco
Tamils should be killed om and who was overpowho had rushed behind Tinco Additional magisis remanded until April
Kadduvan, Myliddy and inue.
BY KIND COURTESY OF TAMIL INFORMATION & RESEARCH UNIT, MADRAS, SOUTH INDIA.
O Unknown persons set fire to Poonakari. Maha Vidyalayam. School records and part of the buildings destroyed.
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O 7 Air Force personnel and 2 civilians killed in landmine explosion on the TrincomaleeAnuradhapura road, and another two airmen seriously injured. The party was travelling in a truck and a jeep from the Morawewa Air Force camp to Anuradhapura for supplies. The dead were 4 leading aircraftsmen and 3 Corporals. The LTTE which set off the explosion estimates the death toll as 23. Elsewhere in the East, Sub Inspector of Police Kurunbalapitiya was killed at Pottuvil, when a hand grenade was flung at the jeep in which he was travelling. O Eyewitnesses say a youth estimated to be around 22 years old who was cycling from the direction of Kaithady towards Jaffna, wearing a blue shirt and white sarong, was stopped by army men, tied to a tree opposite the camp and beaten repeatedly with rifle butts and kicked with booted feet. After some time when he seemed unconscious, they were seen sprinkling water on him and feeling his pulse. He was seen being untied and dragged inside the camp. O Armed gang of 15 hold up 8 passing vehicles including a govt. bus, at Miyankulam in Batticaloa district and rob all passengers.
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O Three women and a man were killed and their bodies displayed opposite the Senaiyur refugee camp at Kaddaiparichchan in Mutur district. A placard near the bodies read: This is the fate that awaits those who give information about freedom fighters to the armed forces. O Kandiah Rasadurai of Chettiar Madam, Arally, complains in a newspaper advertisement (Eelanadu) that an armed gang of youths had robbed' his home and had taken away not only cash, jewellery and TV, but also air tickets, passports, identity cards of his four grown-up daughters whom he had planned to send to Malaysia. He appeals to the 'good' militant groups to help him recover at least his daughters' documents, without which his daughters would face a bleak future. O Hotel Ashok in Jaffna and a restaurant in the bazaar area Amuthasurabi hotel, were both damaged partially by shelling from the Dutch Fort army camp. Over Rs. 1 lakh damage was caused to these two buildings as well as others. O Another Air Force man injured in the Morawewa landmine explosion succumbs to his injuries at the General Hospital, Colombo. O it is estimated that there are 55,000 Tami refugee in the Jaffna peninsula, comprising 16,000 families, 5,000 of whom are in camps and others outside camps,
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O Kantalai reservoir in the Eastern province burst its bund at dawn this morning, leaving at least 25 dead and rendering at least 30,000 persons homeless. Waters inundate vast areas including some 35 villages and 21,500 acres of paddy and sugarcane. Both road and rail links between Trinco and Colombo cut off. Minister of National Security Lalith Athulathmudali rules out sabotage. Emergency refugee camps set up. O At Point Pedro, four soldiers and 2 LTTE militants killed in an encounter. Heavy shelling from the sea follows, making people flee inwards. O In Vavuniya, shops close in protest against repeated robberies, O In Matale, in the plantation area, a former Mayor, a Tamil, S. Thambirajah is killed and his wife critically injured when hand grenades were flung at their home by unknown persons.


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O A day of unmitigated terror and tragedy at northern coastal town of Thondamannaru, 8 soldiers killed and several others injured, the temple chariot and temple buildings destroyed by aerial fire, an officiating Brahmin priest and his assistant stripped by army men and killed, and several civilians feared dead or injured. The day of tragedy began at dawn around 5 a.m. when LTTE guerillas spotted an army unit from the Thondamannaru camp moving stealthily in the direction of the temple. LTTE guerillas mounted an offensive at the moving column, encircling them in 3 directions, killing at least 8, injuring several more and forcing them back into the army camp. A day-long reprisal followed. While a plane flew low over the area, and was challenged by rocket fire, a black helicopter from Palaly began strafing the temple vicinity, while the army men from the camp kept shelling continuously. In the evening around 6 p.m., 14 bombs were dropped in the temple area, destroying the chariot built recently at great expense with public donations. Other temple buildings also damaged. Elsewhere in nearby areas helicopters began strafing at all moving vehicles. A team of high-ranking army officials reported to have flown from Colombo late in the evening to investigate the day's happenings. O At Kilinochchi, a large army convoy in 15 armoured cars and trucks move in a show of strength firing in the air, causing panic in several villages. O About 15 police commandos admitted to Valaichchenai hospital in the East, with minor injuries following a surprise attack on them by Tamil militants in a place called 'Pulipainthakal'. One Commando who sustained serious injuries was flown to Colombo. O Batticaloa-Amparai Citizens Committee to submit the names and details of 341 persons known to have 'disappeared' after being arrested by armed forces, to the military Coordinating officer.
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O Following the day-long incidents at Thondamannaru yesterday, the entire area seems denuded of human population. In Colombo government authorities accuse Tamil militants of having used the temple as a cover to attack the armed forces and also accuse the militants of having set fire to the chariot A lone helicopter flies low in the area today, and thereafter strafes every moving vehicle in the nearby villages. Meanwhile concern was expressed by military authorities in Colombo that the body of one soldier who was killed was not recovered. O Bodies of two Sinhalese civilians among the four who were kidnapped at Kinniya near Trinco, discovered with gunshot injuries. O The unknown youth who was beaten up by army men opposite the army camp at Navatkuli on the 18th has now been identified as 23-year old Vadivelu Sinnathurai of Madduvil. But the Navatkuli authorities deny knowledge of the Youth. m
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O Colombo and Anuradhapura, 120 miles apart, rocked by two bombs. 9 persons killed in Anuradhapura, and in Colombo nine escape with injuries. A bomb suspected to have been concealed in a petro bowser from Jaffna rips through the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation's oil storage facility at Anuradhapura and sets off a major fire, blowing up two more petrol bowsers and causing extensive damage to the complex. The bomb in Colombo was in an unclaimed travelling bag in a private bus and exploded when a hasty policeman meddles with it at the Wel lawatte police station. O Following the Anuradhapura explosion, thugs set upon several lorries and buses plying between Jaffna and Colombo, causing a complete stoppage of road transport between north and south. O. In the north, Brigadier Rupasinghe is per
suaded to see for suffered by the v sannathy. The Br to the army camp vvho had motore members. Briga. wooden decorati Indian sculptors large mound of yard he sees tw temple prayer bei scattered in piec to throb with hur desolation. O In yesterday's madu, armed foi dran (21) and J employed at a dai bomb and destro near Chundi kula plane provide aeri O In a 'search thousand soldier Amparai district, 5 “head nodding sig
O Eelam Revolu through its spok responsibility for Ceylon Petroleum Anuradhapura yes O A Tamil lawye another Tamil whi Anuradhapura stat the station premis tal in an unconscio O Protest process napping 20 days e Mascons Director tant group. O In the course Mandur in Battica two Hindu temples celebrated Mandu soldiers break ope which even the Hir ted, rob several break open the te priests and terroris protest telegrams Affairs in the govt. O A Hindu monit Jaffna, is now er relating to destruct of temples and act mobs during the forces since then.
O Prof. K. Sivatha zens Committee ta' subversion of tru Rupava hini, involv nathy Temple. In made to the G.A Brigadier Rupasing to temple property shock how the temple bell, the bu sed in the film. sought to be creat not killed by show it was the senior p assistant who were was a deliberate Sivatham by says. express anger. O 16 Tamils and into custody in cor sion at Anuradhap O Several fishing and Senthankuan damaged by helico O Four armed unk Ceylon, Vavuniya
 
 
 
 
 

imself the massive destruction nerated Hindu shrine of Sella ladier who came by helicopter opposite, is met by G.A., Jaffna there with Citizens Committee er sees the temple's 40-foot 2 chariot built with the help of a cost of Rs. 45 lakhs now a sh; in the temple outer courthuman skeletons; the large fallen from the belfry and lying s. The temple area which used an activity is now a picture of
'search operation' at Visvazes kiti Narayanasamy Ravinseph Gunaseelan (20), both youtlet at Visvamadu junction, a building on the main road junction. A helicopter and cover. - operation' involving over a and over five villages in 8 Tamils were taken away on a nal' by a masked person.
ionary Organisation (EROS) asman W. Balakumar claims the blast at the State-owned Corporation storage facility at terday.
r Thamu Kanagasingam and had corne to board a train at ion were set upon by thugs in 2s and were admitted to hospiuS State. ion in Jaffna against the kidarlier and holding to ransom of Ganeshan by unidentified mili
of a "search operation' in loa district, armed forces rob , one of them the ancient and Kandasamy Temple. Booted In the Sanctum sanctorum into du worshippers are not admitlakhs worth gold ornaments imple till, assault the temple e the local population. Urgent sent to Minister of Hindu Chelliah Rajadurai. pring group, set up in Nallur, gaged in collecting all data ion of Hindu temples, robbing s of sacrilege both by Sinhala 77 riots as well as by armed
mby of the Valvettiturai Cities strong objection to a major h in the Govt. T.V. - the ng the incidents at Sellasanstrongly worded statement
Jaffna, in whose presence he had inspected the damage
Prof. Sivathamby expresses urnt chariot, the splintered nt roof had all been suppresinstead, an impression was d that the temple priest was ng Balendra lyer when in fact est Sinn iah Kurukkal and his tilled. The Rupava hini feature sification of the truth, Mr. Many other TV viewers also
Sinhaltese have been taken ection with the bomb explo
oats beached off Mathagal on the northern coast are er fire. own persons rob the Bank of of Rs. 1 lakh and nine
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thousand. Despite resistance offered by bank security and other staff, the robbers get away with the loot. O Colombo newspaper 'SUN' says 14 "terrorists' were killed in raids by armed forces in jungle hideouts in Batticaloa district.
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O Thondamannaru areas again subject to helicopter attacks. O in Batticaloa, one of the main road bridges, the Paddiruppu road bridge, is blasted by a bomb. Explosion heard for 20 miles around, say reports. About 125 villages in Paddiruppu cut off from direct access as a result. O Kaththankudy Multi-purpose co-operative store robbed of Rs. 2% lakhs worth goods by armed gang. Kaththankudy is a Muslim majority area and it was only recently 75 Home Guards were appointed for this area from local residents. O Continuous shelling from morning till noon from the Pt. Pedro army camp. No casualties. The objective appears to have been to destroy buildings in the neighbourhood. O Tamil constable Thurairajah attached to Alutgama police station dies of gunshot injuries at Alutgama. No details available. O Tellipallai residents angry over night robbery at the home of Cement Factory engineer S. Thevaratnam who lives next to the Post Office. Gang of about 20 armed youths force their way into house, assault the engineer, abuse his wife and engage in brutal behaviour before taking away cash and jewellery. Residents put up road blocks and stage a protest. Mr. Thevaratnam's neighbour's house also robbed at the same time.
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O LTTE lose six of their guerrillas at sea, including Capt. Aruna, an Eastern Province commander, of the Pt. Pedro coast, when a naval patrol blew up the fibreglass boat in which they were travelling. This news comes on the heels of another incident three days ago - on the 24th - when 10 TELO fighters were reported to have been killed similarly - on the sea. Govt. claims after today's incident that Navy men were able to recover 6 G3 rifles, and 2 Browning mounted machine guns wrapped in cellophane paper, along with medicines and flares. Another Jaffna report puts the boat casualties at 13. O The body of P. Ravi (29) who was believed killed by naval fire brought to Tellipallai Govt. hospital. O A heart patient A. Thurairasa (45) of Tham : bachetty collapses and dies following heavy shelling from Pt. Pedro army camp, and another person C. Nadesu (67) admitted to Manthikai hospital with stomach injuries caused by a shell. O Off Colombo, 30 soldiers seriously injured when the truck in which 40 of them were travelling collided with a fast-moving passenger bus and turned turtle. The incident happened yesterday. O Puliampokkanai, a village 7 miles from Paranthan in the Tamil populated mainland, bombed. Casualties not known, but several houses badly damaged. O 30 Sinhalese witt be charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for being in league with 'northern terrorists', says Colombo newspaper 'SUN'.
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O Demonstration of public grief in Jaffna over the loss of Tamil militants at sea. All Jaffna goes into mourning. Vehicles fly black flags, traditional funeral observances are seen both in urban as well as remote rura areas.
O A clash at sea around 2.30 in the early hours of the morning reported off Talaimannar, following confrontation between a naval boat and two other unidentified country boats. Loss of lives on
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both sides might have occurred, but no details known. O 34 men who tried to cross over to India as refugees arrested at sea by naval personnel, and detained at the Palaiy army camp for interrogation. O A sergeant of the Special Task Force W.A. Wijeratne (27) of Dompe killed and several other STF men believed critically injured in a direct confrontation with Tamil militants near Palugamam in Batticaloa. Reporting the same incident, the Govt. owned 'Daily News' says: 'Five terrorists were killed and 15 others arrested (a members of the LTTE) in an engagement between the terrorists and Special Task Force men at Wellaweli in the Batticaloa district", the National Security Ministry said. It said that Police Sergeant Wijeratne who recently escaped with minor injuries in a landmine explosion was killed and another constable injured. . . . O Jaffna Trader's Association appeals for the release of 4 of their members who were kidnapped, presumably for ransom, over the past few days. O Two armed robberies reported in Jaffna within 2 days: at the home of sculptor N. Somasundaram at Kondavil West, yesterday, and at the residence of Kanagalingam of 3rd Cross St., the day before.
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O As Jaffna goes into mourning for the second day for 23 militants killed at sea by govt. forces, major fighting erupts between the two groups on land, resulting in heavier casualities. LTTE-TELO clashes reported simultaneously in several places, in the afternoon – Ariyalai, Alaveddy, Kadduvan, Vaddukoddai, Manipay, Kopay, Myliddy, Navanthurai, Mirusuvil . . . Bombs, Submachine guns, grenades are used, while the number of casualties among the militants are not known, at least 7 civilians are reported killed in the crossfire. Although details are not known, it is believed that TELO suffer very heavy casualties. While the clashes vere taking place in the lrupalai, Kaddaipirai and Kaviankadu areas, Govt. helicopters add to the public panic by strafing the areas. O 2 Policemen, M. Dhanapala and D.M.B. Bandula Somaratne and an army private M.A. Hemanthalal are killed on the spot, four others injured critically and several others injured when the private bus in which a combined Army-Police patrol were travelling hit a landmine at Kattaiparichchan near Trincomalee. O Two Tami passers-by at Vantharamoolai in Batticaloa who were commanded at gun point by army commandos to dig a specified spot on the road are killed instantaneously when a mine exploded.
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O in Batticaloa, mothers and wives of 175 youths, who disappeared after arrest by armed forces, lead protest procession and present petition to Govt. Agent, Batticaloa, Mr. M. Anthonimuthu demanding to know the where-abouts of their children and husbands. Among those missing is a Sinhala youth from Kiran by the name of
okku banda Wimaladasa. O For no apparent provocation, villages of Mallakam, Erlalai and Chunnakam heavily strafed by helicopter gunships. O Strafing continues at Kalviankadu in the afternoon and in the night. This is the first time that the city came under air attack at night. O' Troops from Thondamannaru Camp and Pa. aly camp march out on foot from the respective camps and meet at Valalai. At Valalai, they open fire at those working in fields killing a child and injuring Subramaniam Neminathan (25) and Jayaratnam Sivakumar (13). Sebamalai Raveendran (28) seriously injured in the firing dies at the Govt. Hospital, Tellipalai. O in Batticaloa, Magistrate Janab M. Kariapper issues open warrant on A.S. Badurdeen, Officerin-charge, Home Guards, absconding in a case of assault on the principal of a school at Kathankudi. O Security forces out on 'search operations'
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shoot and kill 17 persor their homes at Mutur, Th loa refugee camps. O Gun shots from Pala Sebamalai of Sillalai a along Palaly road on his p
O. In Trincomalee, 6 n when their vehicle was Heavy firing by navy pe lian, Sinnathamby Thana injuries. A jeep coming al of the grenade attack, ordered, fired at and driv lese, dies on the spot. A Seruvila Mr. W. Warnas jeep injured. O Camp authorities at camp refuse permission see their children and ht They were told that the d would be transferred to where they could meetth O Navy personnel, in a ing in front of the Trinc seriously injure them. TI the area and cause wanto O Armed forces passing street in Kilinochchi in indiscriminately killing c three youths. Those work shelter. Bulls tethered to t O Soldiers at Valvettitura come out through the s draw when militants a grenades. O Security forces arrest a malee Hindu youth orga llai Uthayachandran (25).
O Helicopter gunships s bacitty north and Kadc interval of 4 days. O At Aryampathi, Batti public undertake a day Muslims and Tamils. O Army open a new ( Railway Station Road. using this road subject to O Urgent surgical oper
* loa Hospital consequent
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O Brigadier Hubert R ordination Officer, North lease of 6 fishermen a Vadamarachchi coastar camp, when approache zen's Committee. Insists Officer of the area w should come to the cam the innocence of the si would result in the susp the Boosa detention cam
O in Colombo, bomb ex Air Lanka Tristar plane injuring more than 41
capital of Male with 128 'City of Colombo" had a 55 minutes earlier from
on a flight delayed in
ground crew readied t journey. It was posted o the terminal building. TI the cargo hold and the a off when the explosion o O In Karaithivu, Kamur the house of Kulanth Karaithivu, kidnap him
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s who had returned to riyayi from the Battica
y Army camp kill A. ishmonger proceeding ush bicycle.
avy personnel injured ttacked with grenades. 'sonnel follows. A civiratnam dies of gun shot ong the road at the time failing to stop when er Premadasa, a Sinhassistant Govt. Agent of boriya who was in the
Kondaivedduvar Army to parents and wives to Isbands detained there. etainees, except a nute, Boosa detention camp em. ruck, attack those waitomalee post office and ey also enter shops in n damage.
through Kanesapuram 4 armoured cars fire ne person. Also arrest ing in the fields flee for he ploughs run amok. ji army camp attempt to outhern end, but withunch attack with hand
à member of the Trinconization, Mr. Křishnapil
trafe Vayavilan, Kurumluvan villages after an
caloa, members of the ong fast urging unity of
:heck, post at Vavuniya Members of the public security checks.
tions put off at Batticato the theft of 41 gas
ubasinghe, Army Cohern Region, refuses rerrested in the seas off d detained in the Palaly d by the Pt. Pedro Citi
that the Grama Sevaka here the detainee lives and give evidence as to uspects. Failure he said ects being transferred to
p.
plodes ripping apart an killing at least 20 and just before the aircraft passengers. The Tristar rived at the Airport only London Gatwick Airport Dubai by 1 hour. The he aircraft for its next n the apron overlooking e crew finished loading rcraft was ready for take ccurred. ai, a gang in civils enters aivelu of 3rd division, and his wife after blindis then set on fire. it is f his children is under rested sometime back.
O Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam deny involvement in and condemn bomb blast aboard the Air Lanka plane at Katunayake Airport, Eelam National Liberation Front comprising EPRLF, EROS and TELO also disclaim responsibility on behalf of its constituent members. Minister for National
Security says in Colombo that the bomb blast
was timed to thwart Indian peace efforts and embarass Sri Lanka Govt. O in Eravur, soldiers out on 'search operation' fire indiscriminately killing 3 civilians, a farmer and 2 abourers. O Co-ordinating officer, Batticaloa, informs Batticaloa Citizens' Committee that 40 of the 51 persons arrested in Mandur and detained at Kondaikadduwan camp are being transferred to the Boosa detention camp and that the rest are being kept back for further investigations. He also informs that names of those arrested will be furnished. O Mr. Ganesan, General Manager of Asbestos factory at Eevinai kidnapped by unknown persons a month back is released. O Navy shelling at night at Kayts. Many buildings damaged. Rev. S.F. Kirubanandam Parish Priest of the church escapes as he was in the rear portion of his residence, the front of which was damaged.
O A helicopter gunship strafes Mallakam, Tellipallai, Ampanai villages about 12.30 p.m. causing damage to 2 minibuses, a 'Cool Bar' and several roof-tops of houses at Ampanai. School children returning from schools, re-opened after vacation, stampede and run for shelter. No casualties. O More than 15 vehicles stated to have been captured by LTTE during raids on TELO camps in various parts of the peninsula in the past few days, returned to the owners on identification. These were displayed at Windsor and Aryakulam junctions for inspection. O Special Task Force barricade Akkaraipattu village in the morning and arrest a large number of persons about to leave home for work and at bus stops. It is believed that a number of Govt. servants would also have been arrested. Previously too Akkaraipattu village had been cordoned and several persons including Govt. servants were arrested and a number released later.
О Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization ( I ELO) leader Sri Sabaratnam killed at Kondavi Jaffna, in the course of the on going LTTE offensive against TELO. This was announced over loud speakers in Kondavil, Urumpirai areas. Since the confrontation began between the two groups in the peninsula Sri Sabaratnam and his close associates were in hiding. Their camps in various parts of Jaffna were destroyed, many killed during the attacks, and many others had surrendered. O Armed youths shoot and kill 4 persons at Kinniya. Eleven others receive injuries. 6 of those seriously injured removed to Anuradhapura for treatment while others admitted to Trincomales hospital for attention. It is understood that this was in retaliation to the Kinniya Home Guards arresting 2 militants and handing them over to the police. Arrested youths are stated to have taken cyanide and committed suicide. The Home Guards concerned were ordered to surrender within a specified time limit warning that those who shelter them will be attacked if the Home Guards failed to surrender. The attack took place consequent to the failure of the Home Guards not surrendering by the specified time. A few shops were bomb blasted during the attack. Immediately following, the Tamil village of Alankerny was shelled by the navy. O 4 trucks brought by sea in a big cargo vessel unloaded at the Kankesanthurai army camp harr bour and taken to the Paaly army camp in the afternoon itself. It is to be mentioned that this is the first time that vehicles were got down by sea.
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Readers will be sad to hear that Robert Kearney, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University, the first American scholar to study the language and secessionist questions in Sri Lanka on which subject he published books and articles that, among other things, analysed the plight of the Tamils of Sri Lanka, is seriously ill.
景 兴 兴
Godfrey Gunatilake, former civil servant, one time Secretary to Don Stephen Senanayake, Prime Minister, 1947-52, and presently head of Marga lnstitute in Colombo, when addressing a meeting of NGOS in Geneva recently on the Sri Lanka issue responded negatively on whether federalism could be a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic problem.
* 兴 并
Dr. K. Indrapala, Professor of History and Dean of Arts, Faculty, University of Jaffna, a recognized scholar on the Tamils of Sri Lanka has resigned his position to take up an academic post in an Australian university.
兴 并 并
Madan Bandaranaike in an interview to the Canadian-based The Sunday Star, stated among other things "we are against linking (of the Northern and Eastern Provinces). No Sinhalese will agree to that. It is a most dangerous thing. If Trincomalee gets under them, it means they are going to control that base.' She is interested in applying the Yugoslav system to Sri Lanka: "they are a socialist democracy; they are not all that Communist as people think; they're liberal; I go to Yugoslavia once a year for my treatment of an arthritic condition, so I know." We wonder whether she could achieve this transformation peacefully. Remember: Yugoslavia's Tito killed over 500,000 of his fellow nationals during his long reign (note: the UNP government's security forces and Pakistanitrained black uniformed men (a reincarnation of Mussolini's Blackshirts) have killed over 4000 Tamils, and in the style of Hitler, Mussolini and ladi Amin, forced more than 120,0000 Tamils to flee Sri Lanka: a scale of comparison between Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka could reveal similarities).
* 米 关
Britain's The Economist, in an editorial titled "Day of the young rebels: From South Africa to Ulster and Sri Lanka (emphasis ours), something new is happening" states among other things, "the rebels will grow older and more prudent, until they in turn see the point of compromise. For that governments and peoples can only wait." The editorial writer presumably forgot that there is a coming generation of young people who will replace 'the older'. Then what happens? Our view: an immediate solution; for as the famous economist, the late Lord Keynes once remarked: "we live in a world of short runs; in the long run we are all dead." In the case of we Tamils, many of us are more than dead, much much more prematurely dead than even. Lord Keynes had contemplated.
景 * 姜
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (U.S.A.) held a seminar on 7 and 8 March (1986) at which K. M. de Silva (the historian), A.J. Wilson and W. Howard Wriggins among others participated,
This sounds interesting; readers might watch for further developments.
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Tailpiece: (Ou other side) stat organizers are r 'death threats'. . . . Moral: hereaf Seminars on Sri States and other had better get Lanka authorities Lesson: Harva not for burning library.
The Right Hon M.P. a former labour governm to the cause of th 'disappeared' 7 has called on all pressure the Jay negotiate a peac national Emerg Lanka has been Danne Judith an Simond Tutu (Sd. Alan Missen of , entitled EMERG, very lucid and re by International focus attention o flict which viola development, ar. and even genocic
A Publication Press, London, 1 in the World: Liberties 1984-1S Gasti with essa ton (note, he v Harvard semina

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emic Trails
ntington, Harvard's famed and Director of its Center Affairs organised a onefor 7 March (1986) to rent conflict in Sri Lanka; was to be chaired by Submy (Visiting Professor of Harvard) and Dr. James d's Department of Governarticipants were members ngress, senior diplomats Lanka, India and the U.S., r Tamil groups and schoon South Asia, human ct resolution.
ce was postponed for 4 ng "to procedural difficulpnd our control". So Wrote nd Subramaniam Swamy S.
Corea wrote to the organizfailures' on their part to lures which he thought fed.
to invitees that the prophas had to be postponed.
Corea reportedly called the a triumph for intellectual
moie (who hails from the ed triumphantly that the moured to have received
ter the organizers of als Lanka held in the United parts of the western world these cleared by the Sri
rd University's library is unlike the Jaffna public
兴 兴 *
ourable Dame Judith Hart, Cabinet minister in the ent has dedicated herself a murdered innocents and amils of Sri Lanka. She aid-givers to Sri Lanka to awardene government to seful settlement. An inter'ncy Committee on Sri
set up, its Chair being | Vice Chairs, Bishop Deuth Africa) and Senator Australia. A special issue ENCY SRI LANKA 1986, adable, has been put out Alert founded in 1985 "to y problems of group cone human rights, inhibit id result in mass killings
a ”
* 米 景
put out by Greenwood 185 with the title Freedom olitical Rights and Civil 35 edited by Raymond D. s by Samuel P. Huntingas the organiser of the which Corea “aborted"),
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on its section on Sri Lanka, rates Sri Lanka's "Status of Freedom" as "partly free' and when concluding on the question of comparability of other states with Sri Lanka states that "Sri Lanka is as free as Mexico, freer than Indonesia, less free than India." (Note: President Suharto's forces killed over a million Indonesians when he seized power from President Sukarno in 1968; this should be compared with the UNP government's frequency rates of killing referred to earlier).
Canada offers sanctuary
THE 152. REFUGEES who "fied" to Canada received a mixed reception in the British Media. Sentiments ranged from an understanding of the background to their exodus, of fear and deprivation, to finding incriminating evidence to contradict unsupported statements of the harassed refugees themselves.
What is patently obvious however is that they were fleeing from a situation of terror, as ordinary civilians unable to continue their life without risk and have used all available resources to undertake a perilous journey out of their Homeland. Dear life is all they carry with themselves and human sympathy and understanding is all they ask for. It does not behove the world fraternity to cavit at how they came or what mode of transport they used or where they stopped to refresh themselves. Two things are certain: They are Tamils and they come from Sri Lanka.
Canada has known best and human understanding has prevailed.
Thank you from the Tamil Times,
Prayers, Blood Donations to mark Black July Anniversary,
The third Anniversary of the "Black July, Massacre" in Sri Lanka was commemorated in Toronto, Canada with prayers and blood donations by several hundreds of Tamil expatriates and Canadian sympathisers, on the 25th July.
About 70 Tamils donated blood to the Canadian Red Cross. These activities were coordinated by Mr. Wijayanathan of the Eelam Tamil Association of Canada.
WILTS PRZEWINNER
Point duty: a pupil at the West London Tamil School waits for her prize at the speech day. Children from the 150-pupil school also took part in traditional Tamil songs, dances, plays and music. The school has run Saturday morning classes for the past eight years, based at Stanhope Middle School, Greenford.


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16 TAM TIMES
عمنیه... . جمعجی...
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تشتت
ISITMVORTH2
The 'Diary of Incidents' you publish in three pages in your esteemed Journal is to me a veritable monologue of the daily killings and atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces and its side-kick, the Home Guards. Sometimes, your coverage even extends to listing of names and addresses of the victims who suffered their fate perhaps six months earlier. No doubt this information is of great value to organisations like the Amnesty International but, for monthly journals of this stature, to recount such incidents on a day to day basis without comment or criticism is merely to catalogue details best preserved elsewhere. . . . . . . Ever since July '83, Tamil records are replete with gruesome massacres and almost daily killings and atrocities perpetrated against innocent civilians and tantamount to genocide. Every accepted norm in civilised society is being violated with callous impunity by a State nominating itself as a “Five-Star Democracy. In such a calamity is it worth your while recounting these stories (belated as they are) day by day? r
Should yon not put this space to better use? One would like to see more thought-provoking articles of value dealing with the future of a Nation in peril, its political and economic future at stake. London, SW7 6th August, 1986
Yours truly, A. Sivam
HUMAN COST
OF MILITARISM
THOSE who seek a military solution to Sri Lanka's current conflict, on both sides, forget the human cost. Such militarism has already brought terrible suffering to innocent Tamils, and increasingly to civilians of other ethnic groups.
We welcome the current peace proposals. They meet
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the main Tamil demands. In communities will appreciate democracy. What is more, devoted to destruction can be unemployment, problems in 1 services and the plight of refug
There are nationalist pol concerned with getting power those they seek to represent. T actions should not be allowed ble leaders from negotiatin, settlenent.
Tamils for Ju BMIJPSL
Londo WC1
Matrimonial Ad
I have been an avid reader of it came out, almost five ye started publishing advertisen degrooms. Up to the last issue such advertisements have app fifteen months. Perhaps, beca that have taken place, the
arranging marriages are no People therefore have to re including these matrimonia, disappoints me is the continu fessional' brides and bridegr mothers and fathers. In this National survival at stake, sh for just decent men and wom who can make a happy hoy partners? Time was when ou, women, were educated at gre stinting all the way to pay for 1 or to put by money for a considered necessary to get b, by "capturing' a profession daughter-in-law. Cannot we n just work towards a society
not rule the day?
Father oft
MR. HOLLIS (Throsby) - Recently a document was delivered not only to my office. but also to all offices of members of this Parliament. I might say that it is quite a scurrillous document and one in which II figure quite prominently, as do my colleagues the honourable member for Hotham (Mr. Kent) and the honourable member for Lowe (Mr. Maher). Why, might I ask, do we three members figure quite prominently in this document? It is because we have had the audacity to stand up and talk for a persecuted and a tortured minority in the world today. That minority is the Tamils of Sri Lanka. The three of us have spoken up on this f'tdtfer.
Surprisingly, a group in Queensland - a very shadowy and strange group, I might say - called the Queensland Association for Sri Lankan Unity has taken offence at what the honourable member for Hotham and I have said. The members of this group, I suppose at great expense to themselves, have produced this document. One might well ask, where the funding came from to produce this document in which the three of us figure quite prominently. In the document the group talks about the coverage that the Tamil minority receives in this country and hints
scURRILOUS DocUME By Lankan Shadowy Group In Ouee
The following is the text of a speech made in the Australian House of Re the adjournment debate by Mr. Hollis, MP for Throsby on 30 April 1986:
that the Tamils are bein and had received wide pu be no need for member draw attention to the den and the atrocities that a against these people.
I have never before devoted to any of my spe Members of this group various adjournment spé They have actually an have also republished so I exchanged with them selectively quoted from n have selectively quoted w If honourable members c of Hansard they will see t the Tamil situation I violence wherever it occ. speak up against the den, whoever may be de members of this grou mentioning that in this di seemed to take offence when I called on the Commission to stop its s, stop its Stooges - ph people protesting agai human rights in Sri Lan,
 

deed, Sri Lankans of all the increase in local the resources currently used to tackle poverty, he health and education
ees. iticians who are more
than with the welfare heir warlike rhetoric an
to deter more responsig a just and peасеfи!
Yours faithfully, stice and Peace in Sri Lanka
vertisements :
your paper from the time ars ago. Recently, you tents for brides and bricould see that over 100 'eared within a period of ause of all the upheavals traditional methods of it in vogue any more. sort to other methods, advertisements. What ous yearning after “proooms, wanted by doting hour of our peril with tould we not be looking en, husbands and wives, me and be loyal loving ir young men, and even at sacrifice, with parents their children's education dowry. It was therefore ack this outlay of money all son-in-law or a rich ow change our ways and where materialism does
Μνοί"Unprofessional ') sons London, SE20
AUGUST 1986
S.C.O.T. - HOMELESSP
AS A VISITOR to London and as one somewhat familiar with the activities of S.C.O.T. and its useful service in shaping International opinion whilst exposing the human rights violations in Sri Lanka, I am no doubt bewildered to find that such an Organisation has so far found no home of its own or a permanent office for that matter. Much smaller groups, perhaps far less representative, are no doubt better endowed by their benefactors. Isn't it time that S.C.O.T. ran an office which it could truly call its own?
London, WI3 S.C.O.T. Wewyisher 6th August, 1986
DR. BRIAN SENEWIRATNE, a Consultant medical practitioner in Australia, has, for some time, dedicated himself to espousing the cause of Human Rights and its violations in Sri Lanka, with particular reference to the Tamil Community and its fight for survival in Sri Lanka. He represents a group of enlightened opinion that is only slowly building up among the majority community which the Tamils of Sri Lanka yearn to See and hear. It is this very lack of understanding of fundamental problems that has created the present bitterness among the two major communities, and purposefully perpetrated and exploited by politicians on both sides of the current Confrontation. 'We would love to see a thousand more Senewiratnes express their views openly and fearlessly at least in the world forums for the international community to learn the truth', said an observer in London while complimenting Dr. Senewiratne on his efforts. On his way from New York he addressed a series of meetings in London and Birmingham during August. K.R.S.
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ensland
presentatives during
g very well fundea blicity, there would s of this House to ial of human rights re being committed
had such attention eches in this House. have gone through eches I have made. alysed them. They. me correspondence". l. They have very ny speeches, as they hat I wrote to them. are to look at copies hat when Ispeakon always condemn urs and will always ial of human rights, nying them. The p did not bother ocument. They also at something I said Sri Lanka High tooges - I repeat, to otographing Tami inst the denial of ka. They ask where
this has occurred. I will tell them where it has occurred. It has occurred at the last three meetings of the Australian Labor Party at annual conferences in Sydney, at which I have organised Tamil groups to hand out literature. It did not happen last year because the preceding three years the stooges directed by the Sri Lankan High Commission here in Canberra had arranged for these people to be photographed. They were mostly students in this country. I do not know what the Sri Lankan High Commission does with these photographs, but they were probably sent back to Sri Lanka where these people have families. One may well ask what will be the fate of these families.
I repeat that this group quote very selectively. It does not mention anyone who is in favour of the Sri Lankan Government, but it goes on to make a serious attack on Amnesty International. Many members of this House are members of the Parliamentary Group of Amnesty International. I find it outrageous that this shadowy group in Queensland should attack a world-wide organisation devoted to the protection of human rights in the way that it has. Far from silencing me, such attacks will only strengthen my resolve to continue to speak out for the persecuted minority - that is, the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka. Rather than silencing me, they have only strengthened my resolve to speak out, and I will continue to speak out while ever the denial of basic human rights continues in Sri Lanka.
(From Hansard, pages 2792 and 2793, 30 April 1986)


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AUGUST 1986
NORTHERN FI KNOCKED OUT BY (
By D.
Over one lakh of persons have been rendered destitute as a result of Government ban on fishing in the North. 18,895 fishing families in Jaffna and Kilinochchi Districts have been deprived of their prim source of livelihood and are now eking out a miserable living on meagre'dole provided as relief. -
The once flourishing fishing industry of the North is virtually n existent as a result of Security measures like the surveillance zo prohibited zone, territorial zone and now the taboo on fishing in Jaffna lagoon.
Although deep-sea fishing and to a lesser extent, coastal fishing been proscribed from 1984 the Jaffna fishermen had continued to surv through lagoon fishing. . . . .
Last month's ban on lagoon fishing had proved to be the death-knel the fishing industry. Incidentally the ban came into force within two d: of the brutal killing of 31 Gurunagar fishermen at Mandaitivu uniformed men. .* ,
Technically fishing had been made impossible by the prohibited zo of December, 1984. Interim measures taken on a humanitarian ba allowed fishing within limits to continue since mid-85.
The state decided to re-enforce the fishing ban on 2nd March this ye to prevent the "continuing flow of men and material from South India Northern Sri Lanka' said a spokesman. The rationale was to elimina the need to differentiate between a 'fishing boat and a 'militant bo. The sea is now clear and any boat seen would be deemed an enemy said. -
The national security-conscious state's objective of curbing "terroris has spawned several bizarre proposals bordering on hilarity in the pa Ban bicycles in the North because the boys' come and kill on cycles w one; ban lorries carrying produce to Colombo because bombs could hidden among onions was another. Preventing the Northern fisherm from pursuing his traditional occupation is also part of the same tortuo logic. One is inclined to laugh at the whole thing if not for the fact th the issue affecting a vital sector of the economy is above all a hum tragedy. . . −
Relief to the unemployed fishermen is of two kinds. Families that we already getting food stamps are provided with an additional set stamps. Seven thousand families fall under this category. Another thousand families who were not entitled to food stamps earlier are no getting two sets of food stamps.
The second kind of relief to fishing families is another card on whi foodstuffs could be bought from M.P.C.S. Stores. The monthly value this card is Rs.200 for families less than 5 in number and Rs.250 for mo than 5. Since most families are large in number the money is inadequate The fishermen's problems have been further compounded by t shelling and bombing of coastal areas by Air, Sea and Land. Mau families have been compelled to leave their villages and take refu elsewhere. Apart from bureaucratic delays the entire destruction Jaffna food stamps at Kilinochchi has proved a further setbac Fishermen also point woefully to the boats and motors that remain id now. Most of these were purchased on credit and repaying the loans not possible. Several boats have been destroyed by the Security forces.
Another factor to be taken note of is the effect on people who we not directly employed in fishing, but were dependent on the indust (trade etc.). There seems to be no provision of relief for this category. . The curbs on fishing do not affect Jaffna and Kilinochchi alone but al other Tamil-speaking districts like Mannar. Mullaitivu, Trincomalee a Batticaloa. Together these districts account for more than half the tot fish production of Sri Lanka. The waters to the West, North and East Jaffna District were known as the Fishing Triangle' of Sri Lank Combined with activity in the lagoon it was perhaps the only district Sri Lanka where productive fishing was possible the whole year.
The punch aimed at militant traffic has knocked out the Northe fishing industry; it is not the only casualty. The overall economy of S Lanka too has taken a heavy blow. In 1982 the peak year of fi production Jaffna with 42.667 metric tons topped the chart. It account for 23.7 of the total volume. Negombo came second with 11.54 of til total production; Jaffna also produced more than 45 per cent of til country's exports of shrimp, beche-de-mer and chanks. The total val of marine exports was valued at Rs.491.4 million in 1983. With t introduction of the zones in 1984, fish production and exports ha started plummeting. From an above forty thousand ton level, producti decreased to thirteen thousand in 1984 and 4,000 tons in 1985. Th year's production figures in January and February were very impressi with 1215.4 M. tons and 1320. M. tons respectively. The ban in Mar
saw

TAMILTIMES 7
SHING INDUSTRY OVERNMENT ACTION
'.S. JEYARAJ ,
he saw that month's figure drop to 88.5 M. tons. The subsequent relaxation he on lagoon fishing saw the figure picking up to 199 M. tons in April. The ry statistics for May and June are not available yet. The June ban however he is sure to hit production levels badly. ܐܗܝ
Fish supplies the largest amount of protein in the Sri Lankan diet. The n- Government has cushioned the impact of the shortfall in production by e, importing large quantities of canned and dry fish. In Jaffna despite the he ban a small quantity of fish is yet available. This is made possible because of fishermen who venture out at dawn and dusk at great risk to their own ad lives. The religious vows connected to temples have resulted in rising ve vegetarian food consumption. There is also an aversion towards eating fish because of the various bodies floating in the sea. Since demand has of dropped the prices seem to have stabilised to a reasonable level although ys certain types of fish are sold for more than Rs.60 per kilo. py The 182 mile Jaffna coastline and the 3360 sq. mile continental shelf boasts of a 110 metric ton fish yield per 5 square miles. Jaffna's fishing ne fleet of 3379 mechanical and 2563 non-mechanised craft was the pride of sis Sri Lanka once. Now only 3 of the 12 ice-plants in the district are functioning. The mobile fish sales service is defunct; the fish processing ar plant and cold storage facilities are being utilised below capacity. tΟ While the fishermen languish on land the Fisheries Ministry goes te ahead with grandiose plans of revitalising the industry. One assumes that it. the Fisheries Ministry either consulted or at the least is aware of the he plight of the Northern Fishermen. The Ministry's latest brainchild is the village level Fisheries Social Development Organisation to be set up on m an island-wide level. In contemporary Jaffna fishermen are deprived of St. their livelihood; families are abandoning the coastal villages and moving aS to the interior, boats are beached permanently; in such a climate the be Fisheries Ministry Scheme is like a fish out of water in Jaffna. The an Minister in charge Mr. Festus Perera should immediately take action in us consultation with the Security authorities and save the Northern
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MEDA FLE
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By Mervyn
DANGER OF ROCKIN THE TAMILNADU B(
WARDED for the past ten days in the Jaffna hospital is 40 year old Kanapathy, a wounded
Tamilnadu fisherman over whom both Delhi and Colombo have thrown a blanket of official silence, in spite of a flurry of diplomatic notes
and polite and not-so-polite "protests' and defensive explanations and replies between the two capitals. In normal circumstances, Mr. Kanapathy would be a "nobody'. In the present, highly delicate preliminary round of talks between the TULF and the Sri Lankan government, the poor injured fisherman from Rameswaram could be described as a V.I.P. for his tragic tale could do much more than, rock the boat, - − . . ! ... ! ... :
He is so important that Kanapathy whose
very existence was officially denied by some authorities is, according to unconfirmed reports from Jaffna, guarded day and night by some "Tiger' militiamen! Probably worried about his safety, the Tigers don't want him to be removed from the hospital.
The man has meantime been visited by his boss, the owner of a small fishing fleet in Rameswaram. This unpublicised ('secret') trip to Jaffna was made possible by the Sri Lankan government responding to a firm request by Delhi. His statement in any case has been recorded by the Jaffna authorities.
The man who has a couple of bullet wounds in his body as evidence of the veracity of his
story belonged to a 'search party' sent from
Rameswaram to look for two fishing boats which had set sail from the Tamilnadu coast on July 1 and had not returned. The boats, it was
feared, had drifted into Sr so often happens, both way
The search party was Lankan navy. When expla the officer in command of
had been extremely symp
He had allowed the search missing boats and had in f of the Rameswaram boat a permit. ·
Sometime latér, the boa, by a Sri Lankan vessel wit, nell'on board. The permit effect. The boat was spray automatic weapons. Kana in the engine room. And
over the side from the boa
finally rescued by a catama small dispensary some mile That was his story. Ni and then three - were w These highly decompose been buried in Jaffna.
The Sun, the only paper quoted a Defence Ministry of the incident, and also “uniformed personnel' w ers they must have been scuttle the peace process'. Delhi refused to 'buy' th that Kanapathy's statemen full inquiry made. Delhi w good reasons, didn't go pu. On the last occasion th occurred there were storm
From Eric Silver in Trincomalee
TRINCOMALEE is desperate for peace. A port without trade, a resort without tourists, it is a city besieged by its own fear, conscious to that it cannot contribute more than its prayers to the Sri Lankan negotiations which enter a second week today in Colombo, 160 miles across the island.
'Everyone is afraid of everybody else,' said a Muslim cloth merchant who declined to be named. 'We lie awake at night waiting for bombs to go off,' one of his customers added. 'Some nights there are none and we get no sleep at all.' ' ', 's- Drivers refuse to take you out of town on the roads north and west. That, they tell you, is Tiger territory, the domain of the Tamil Tigers and the security forces and Sinhalese vigilantes with whom they have been waging a war of terror and counter-terror for the past three years.
president of the Trincomalee Citizens' Com
nal coexistence, estimated yesterday that about 1,100 Tamils and 250 Sinhalese civiIians have been killed in this district since June, 1983: the Government announced yesterday that guerrillas killed 13 more Sinhalese farmers in two villages on Saturday. About 37,000 Tamils and 17,000 Sinhalese have fled their homes in neighbouring villages.
Mr. Kandaratnam Sivapalan, the Tamil
mittee, a voluntary body working for commu
TRINCOMALEE BESIEGED 2 FEAR OFCOMIMUNIAL STF
Unlike the overwhelmi east coast is a mixed are in 1981, the Trincomalee Sinhalese Tamils and 8 Government's policy o Sinhalese is since believe majority community over Mr. Sivapalan, two o' been murdered, accused or the Sinhalese home gu Tamil villages here in the Tigers have retaliated in k the Sinhalese villagers fore the guerrillas struck. About 24,000 refugee camps in or near Trinci find what work they can ence rations from the go in St. Joseph's Roman home to 650 Tamis 1 classroom eight famili together.
Mr. Ramalingham, Nad peasant farmer, travelle from Pankulam with his dren, aged four to 13. explained, 'After a band with knives came into c dered six men and won the famis' houses. The us away."
His neighbour, Mr. S

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nations were offered the navy patrol boat athetic and helpful. vessel to look for the ct given the 'skipper' Ancharneyan No. 1)
was ordered to stop 'uniformed personwas waved but to no ed with bullets from pathy wounded, hid then quietly slipped now on fire. He was ran and then left at a 's from Jaffna. te bodies - first six, ashed ashore later. d bodies have now
to publish the story, t officia’s fat demial
a comment that if ere in fact the attack“terrorists trying to
testory, and insisted it be recorded and a as angry but for very blic.
at a similar incident by demonstrations in
" lian politics.
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Rameswaram and the Tamilnadu government pressed Delhi for action.
When an Indian coastguard vessel seized a Sri Lankan navy patrol boat some weeks later and took its crew into custody the 'coincidence' was marked well by all diplomats in Colombo. Finally, 17 Tamilnadu fishermen facing charges for poaching on Sri Lankan territorial waters were 'exchanged in a diplomatic deal for the naval crew.
In post-independence India, it was Tamil
nadu that first raised the separatist banner. The
leadership came from the DMK, which later split into two, the AIDMK of MGR now in
Flash
A senior indian High Commission official will fly to Jaffna to bring the wounded Tamillnadu fisherman Kanapathy to Colombo who will leave for Madras if the doctors okay the trip. With Kanapathy in Jaffna is the boss of the fishing company, Ramasamy. On the 14th, Indian High Commission presented its fourth 'note verbale' on the matter to the Foreign Ministry. Six of the bodies of the nine fishermen killed in the 'mystery' attack were buried in Jaffna, and the others cremated. Nervous about Tamilnadu reactions and an uproar in Parliament, both sides are keeping the matter under wraps.
power in Madras, and Mr. Karunanidhi his bitter opponent, still a powerful force in TamiThe AIDMK has the ruling Congress (1) as its coalition partner.
When the militant groups were summoned to Thimpu, Mr. Prabhakaran went into hiding. His patron is MGR, and he himself something of a folk hero in Tamilnadu. :
But Delhi can deal even with him quite easily if it makes up its mind to use its military muscle.
Delhi can, and has dealt with the TULF which is why the exiles have returned. The
Continued on page 19
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ng Tamil north, the a. At the last census district had 98,000 ),000 Muslims. The f settling landless d to have raised the the 100,000 mark.
whose sons have the security forces ard of destroying 40 past year alone. The ind, though many of were evacuated be
are housed in 45 malee, where they and receive subsistfernment. The camp
Catholic school is 56 families. In one s, 45 people, live
rajan, a 38-year-old d there last August wife and four chil"We ran away,' he of Sinha lese armed ur village, and muren. They burned all wanted to frighten
nniah Selvarajah, a
kitchen.
year-old abourer with five children, added: 'The Sinhalese said 'this is our place. If you don't leave, we shall kill you." If we had stayed, we would have been killed."
The menfolk go out in search of casual jobs, but the women and children keep to the safety of the camp - a relative safety, when 67 refugees were reported to have been massacred by the security forces in an outlying camp last week. All the families said they wanted to go back home, but only if there was a political solution and they felt secure.
Father Peter Kurukula Aratchi, the local Jesuit superior, said: 'The people here are very depressed. They have no family life, no education for the children, no privacy." Many of the refugees are suffering from malnutrition, though none appeared to be starving. The women cook separately in a shared
Trincomalee is under curfew every night from 8 pm to 4 am, but the guerrillas last week managed to blow up a soft drinks bottling plant after midnight (the same firm was hit in Colombo six weeks earlier), and a Japanese cement works is still silent after another bombing.
Mrs. Subashini Varadhan, a Tamil lawyer and secretary of the citizens' committee, pinned her hopes - however reluctantly - on the Government to reverse the trend to violence. No one else could do it, she said. Trincomalee must watch the negotiations and suspend judgement until an agreement was reached and implemented.
"We shall go into it very deeply," she added. 'Till then we may have to live in difficult times for a little longer.'
(THE GUARDAN, London, 22/7/86)


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5,000 Tamil Refugees to Receive immigrant Status
ABOUT 5,000 Sri Lankan Tamils (out of 21,500 refugees from all parts of the world) who arrived in Canada before 21st May 1986 will receive landed immigrant status. The Federal Government announced on 21st May that the vast majority of more than 21,500 people in Canada, now seeking refugee status, will be accepted as landed immigrants.
This decision is part of a long-awaited reform of the refugee determination process. The Immigration Department from 15th July will begin a case-by-case "administrative review' of its backlog of cases, giving priority to the cases before the immigration Appeal Board. The Government hopes to have a new refugeedetermination process written into law, debated and passed by Parliament next year.
Mr. Walter McLean, Minister of State for m
migration, had earlier rejected the notion of a general amnesty, citing concerns about the integ'rity of the immigration process. He had said that Canada cannot be seen as rewarding queuejumpers while thousands wait abroad to immigrate legally. The Government hopes that the new programme will avoid creating an incentive for a fresh influx of claimants in the transition period while the new process is written into law.
Under the proposed 'clearance' immigration officers will take into consideration the presence of family members in Canada who are willing and able to assist a claimant, and the proven ability of the individual to establish himself successfully in Canada. He will also have to meet the standard security and medical requirements. Those who are unsuccessful in the administrative clearance will have the right of a hearing, and claimants who arrive after 21st May will receive a hearing under an expedited process until the new procedure is in place.
It is hoped that the huge backlog will be cleared within two years. With a streamlined interim screening system, the Government seeks to dis
courage asylum seekers from coming to Canada,
and making bogus refugee claims. In this connection, it was disclosed that Canada's refugee process has been flooded by more than 1,600 Portuguese citizens claiming they were refugees from religious persecution, since they were Jehovah's Witnesses. An investigation had later revealed that the majority of these were Roman Catholics and that there was no persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Portugal.
In this connection, a public meeting was held in Montreal on 31st May under the auspices of the Eelam Tamil Association of Ouebec. Mrs. Joyce Yedid and Joseph Allen, two well-known llawyers, who participated, stated that Sri Lankans arriving in Canada after 21st May and seeking asylum will be given a Minister's permit as well as a work permit, valid for a year, subject to renewal, provided they do not have any criminal or other impediments. It was also stated that Sri Lanka has now been included in the list of countries having a 'no deportation' clause,
MEDA FLE
continued from page 18
'boys' too were in Delhi last weekend for talks with Mr. G. Parathasarthy, Mr. Venkataswaran and others.
The key link in the chain however is MGR or more accurately Tamilnadu political opinion. Especially at a time of such turbulence in Indian politics, and ominous eruptions of sectarian violence in Punjab and Gujarat, Mr. Gandhi must act cautiously. His chief aide Mr. Chidambaram has handled the Tamil issue extremely well, and he is already on the upand-up. If the peace process is to get underway seriously, Tamilnadu with its 50 million people must be appeased at any cost.
(Courtesy of "LANKA GUARDIAN'', 15 July, 1986)
which in effect me Canada vil be depo under normal circum
New Yea THE Tarmil Communi Hindu New Year on 20th April with a cul St. Henry Auditoriu MP, graced the occa sisted of music recit plays and light song Tamil artists to displ from home.
The event termina alt, when an opportu one to meet one ano problems and interes
interna
THe Eelam Tamil Ass treal participated in ducted by the Maisor 1986. This event gave introduce the Sri Lank people of Ouebec a problems Tamils face The Association ra Lankan and Tamil h and a brochure expla Sri Lanka was distribu meals and sweet mea sold: These were avid
New Of
THe following were a the Eelam Tami Assc treal, consequent to th bent President and S reasons:
Mr. S. Ponnusamy-Presi President; Mr. B. Karuni Surendran - Assistant Sec Treasurer.
Montre
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TAMLS in Montreal July massacre with conducted by the Ee Ouebec. Many donat Cross centre. Hundred the Streets of Montre testing at the kitlings Tami civilians in the by the armed forces Home Guards.
A day-long fast was at the immigration cer during which devoti were recited. A video f many of the incidents well as recent ones.
The activities culmir of Remembrance at
Sunday, 27th July.
Anandarajan
MR. T. GUNASEEA College, Jaffna, a nayagam, President
tion have issued a j build the above Pavil Contributions may b Boys' Association, S for credit of 'Pavilior Mr. Anandarajan, w been actively canva: boys for the const which, he felt, was
which a College of til tacked.
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This event provided local y their talents, so far away
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ociation of Ouebec in Monhe International Day, conInternational on 17th May the Association a means to an Tamil community to the nd appraise them of the n Sri Lanka. n its own stal vhere Sri indicrafts were displayed,
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. sent to: Treasurer, Old John's College, Jaffna Fird“. ...་ ife he was alive, had ing the support of old 1ction of this Pavilion he one major building standing of St. John's
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M of "Singha Ma- ration Ceremony) of the Highgate Hill
of S.D. Tharmarat- si: Murugan Temple was conducted
erative Inspector), between the 9th and 13th July officiXavier (UK), Bobby ated by eleven distinguished Sivachar
lan (UK), and Kanan iars and Kurukals from india and Sri of Mrs Navamalar is. Lanka. Siva Shri Sambamurthy Nadu) and Edward Sivachariar of Madras inaugurated the lagal). Funeral 23rd proceedings. arton Cemetery. 30 Devotees flocked in their thousands SW 193AA. to participate in the Consecration Cere
monies which began with the Yaga
ー Poojas followed by anointing the ** Deities sculptured in India and their IL SCHOOL final installation and consecration at the of the HERTS TAMIL Temple designed and executed by the the MULTI-RACAL famous Indian Temple Sculptor Shri Durban Road West, Muruganandan. gust. The Britannia Hindu (Shiva) Temple followed. Trust and its long time Chairman, Mr. Sabapathipillai earned the plaudits and tudy programmesare gratitude of the Hindu public for their 9tary of the Education persistent and untiring efforts to bring to a successful conclusion a project 3923) 41458/662811. undertaken some ten years ago.
D OBTUARY
i on the 14th July, in a DR. SENNADURAI SUPPIAH
, where she had been a Teachers College, Kabd three sisters, Sarasincipal, Chundikuli Girls nam, Mano Perinpale of close relatives and out the world.
of Churhdikuli and St. member Parames with or her talent and inspiringing and drama and of thinking and joyous punthy Perinpanayagan
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We report the untimely death in the Cameroons a, he was born and bred on 25th July of Dr. Suppiah, who was attached to
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his higher secondary the Institute of Tropical Agriculture there. Earlier, lege, where he made he was Professor of CropScience in the Universi2d his profession as an ty of Ghana. He was an old boy of Jaffna College :omalee, where he de- and only recently addressed the U.K. Alumni
clients without fear or Association of the School at its annual reunion. ged the unity of the Cremation in London, 7th August. He leaves
his marriage, he never behind his wife, Dr. Pushparanee Suppiah, eep commitment to the brothers Gukathason and Senthivel (Canada), We mourn his death at Senthi lingam (U.K.), Senthinesan (U.S.A.) and ome Guards, one more sisters, Mrs. R. Suntharathas (Lesotho) and Mrs.
rescalating violence. S. Sivananthan (U.K.).


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MIRJE Calls For Exter Of Government Prop
THE Movement for Inter Racial Justice & Equality is glad that the Government, after a long delay which has seen a worsening of the situation, has put forward proposals for the devolution of power to the provinces...as a solution to the ethnic problem.
In this context, MIRJE believes it necessary to begin by restating two basic postulates: (i) The major problem that faces the country is ethnic in origin. The Sri Lankan Tamil people, constituted on the basis of their ethnicity, language, religion, culture and habitation have been led to demand the creation of a separate state because the existing Sri Lankan state of lwhich they are a part discriminates against them and is unable to provide them the safety and security that a state should ensure all its citizens. Muslims and other ethnic minorities also face discrimination in varying degrees.
(ii) The development of demands for regional autonomy is uneven within Sri Lanka. It is at its most intense in the regions inhabited by Sri Lankan Tamils; other regions have hardly expressed any desire for devolution.
It is against this background that these proposals should be examined. The establishment of Provincial Councils throughout the country is being put forward by the Govern ment as part of a continuing democratic process; it will also, according to the President
at his press conference problems faced by the means in effect that it wi all their needs. While we tial devolution of power province, MIRJE believe features of the ethnic p taken into consideration i sals.
For example, the dec existing provincial bound power on the basis of te sarily negates the desires for a region in which the security, manage their int finition of certain provinci necessary to achieve thi relates to the devolution ( to education. Letting thi power up to the level of and reserving universities pations and training to meet the needs of the specially when it is remem of linguistic and educatio behind the present strugg of the discriminatory s. qriginally constituted the
In short, a devolution o based on democratic princ tute a total answer to the
"BBC REPORTERS SHOULDBE BURNT ALIVE
The Island is an English morning daily in Sri Lanka. On 27 May its headline on page three . was: “BBC, foreign press reporting utter falsehoods on current situation'. The author was the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Senanayake, who wrote in his article: “These reporters who report . falsehood about the situation in Sri Lanka to the . foreign press should be burned alive'. Apparently this sort of remark is common enough not to cause alarm amongjournalists.
Courtesy of "index on Censorship', 1 August, 1986
Wijaya the
The S.L.M.P., a splint. has been most voci quick justice to the Ta of full internal autor Vijaya Kumaranatung Mrs. B, met last mor militant groups basec His stance has not dim larity with the Sinhale Crowds continue to at lies, where the consec to come to terms wit explained.
Ganini Navara
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Government MP convicted of
intimidation of police inspector Continued from page 1
The Magistrate observed that in convicting Mr. Jayakody, he had given consideration to whether the threats made by the accused were sufficient to have caused fear in a person of average intelligence. Y
The nature of the threat, the Magistrate said, revealed that there was the possibility of the accused, in view of his political and social standing, causing physical harm to IP Gunatilleke, commiting an offence on his wife
and causing des: property.
Further the Ma that the threat cou sufficient fear in II prevent him fro, house in Polgahaw The Magistrates secution produced on 11 August 198 had made the IP Gunatilleke, to Polgahawela Polic napala and that s Dhanapala throug|| had got the thre Lakshman Rodrigu on to IP Gunatillek

- AUGUST : 1986
sion osals
settle one of the Tamil people; that l not totally answer coming the substanto the level of the that certain specific roblem need to be revising the propo
ision to adhere to
ries and to devolve ritorial areas neces
of the Tamil people y can, in unity and ernal affairs; a redeal boundaries will be s. A similar defect if power with regard : provinces exercise secondary education , professional occuhe state will hardly Sri Lankan Tamils, bered that the denial nal rights largely lies e and that the reject /stem of education militant groups.
È powerto all citizens ciple does not constiethnic problem. In
Second
ær of the S.L.F.P., ferous in urging mils on the basis omy. Its leader, a, son-in-law of th leaders of a
in Tamil Nadu. inished his popuse masses. Large tend S.L.M.P. raluences of failure Tamils are fully
tne: in 'Times of India', 23rd July, 1986
ruction to his
gistrate added ld have caused Gunatilleke to
n visiting his
ela. aid that the proevidence that 5, the accused hreats against the then OlC IP Sarath Dhaubsequently IP PCJayasinghe rt conveyed to who passed it
this respect, MIRJE is glad to note the President's declaration that the government is prepared to consider any revisions that will expand the scope of devolution within the present constitutional framework. It is our belief that considerable expansion of the present proposals is possible and indeed necessary if the Sri Lankan Tamils are genuinely to feel themselves a valued part of the Sri Lankan polity.
MIRJE is, however, not happy with the government's declaration that it will implement these proposals unilaterally, if necessary. We believe that the proposals stand the best chance of evolving into a successful solution of the ethnic problem only if the representatives of the Tamils including the militants are drawn into a process of negotiation. MIRJE hopes
... that this will be possible with Indian assist
aCe
Two other matters need to be also considered:
(i) in view of the pervasive climate of mistrust between the various protagonists, some machinery that would guarantee the genuine implementation of any accords arrived at,
(ii) some mechanism to ensure that all ethnic groups have an adequate share of power at the level of the state and that fundamental and civil rights are preserved.
MIRJE therefore hopes that all progressive political parties and elements in Sri Lanka will assist in expanding the scope of the present proposals to the point that they amount to a reasonable solution of the ethnic problem and in mustering popular support for their implementation. si : .
Charles Abeysekera, President MIRJE
"stop THis MADNESS"
WÉ, the mothers of the North and East, write this letter to you with distressed minds and deep hurt to lodge our protest against the armed forces' atrocities, indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and destruction of civilian areas during the so called "offensive action' in the Jaffna Peninsula from 19th21st May. Your armed services comprising of army, navy and air force who should be protecting the citizens of this country not only killed our men, women and children but also destroyed our homes, schools, business places, places of worship and agricultural
fields. . v
The security personnel manning the bomber aircraft and the helicopters were ruthless in carrying out indiscriminate bombing and strafing during those 3 days, although it was considered by the Buddhists to be the sacred week preceding the Wesak. We are further disturbed by the attitude of the Government spokesman and the state owned news media in mentioning that the offensive was against enemy targets. But that has been disproved by the fact that the buildings damaged were hospitals, schools, banks, homes, etc. . :
We the mothers appeal to your Excellency to stop this madness. Is it beyond human ingenuity and wisdom to work out a peaceful solution that will enable us to live in peace in our land which is our basic and fundamental right? May the Lord Buddha's teachings on Ahimsa and Maithriguide your Excellency and your ministers to view these inhuman acts and solve this burning question justly and peacefully. -
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