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CONTENTS
Editorial............................................ 2
Pattern of "Disappearances".3
Tamil Militants Response to Goverпment Proposals....................„4
Torture Wictim Seeks a New Life.8
The Tragedy of Selwa rasa Thewi and
Her Family.......................................9
Ta Tills On Boatto Canada ..............12
Witness to a Nightmare................ 13
Boat People Get Jobs in Canada. 14
Letters to the Editor.........................15
Canada's Need For a Better Policy
On1 lmnThigration........................................16
Media File..........18
Deten Lusat Boosa..............................19
Classified Ads.............................., 22
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TAMILS KILLED WAPAMPAGE BY CURITY FORCES
civilians were shot and killed on 18 September in the y of Batticaloa when the Sri Lankan security forces went following a bomb explosion in which a number of
died or suffered injury,
ich Exploded was a parked car along Batticaloa. Shortly , the Security forces Cot at Ciwilia 15 in tha homes and shops. Iptured 21 persons, from one place and ey setfire to several 5CoT1e of the dgad ling shops. f tha St. Antony's shot dead and his ong the wictis Was arold child. Most of were taken by the ya di Cemetery and
Ces are alSO Said to ower one hundred
other civilians, including children, and their whereabouts are yet unclear. In the meantime sources from the Batticaloa General Hospital reported that of the 12 bodies take to the hospital, 10 had gunshot inju ries, The government's claim that Thost of the people died by electrocution having Come into contact with an exposed lamp pist, Which was damaged in the bomb explosion, has been discounted by the Batticaloa Citizens Committee as totally false. Disputing the government's Wersion, one member of the Committee asked, "The bomb explosion occLIrred in Munnai Street, How come then people, including the ChLIrch Catechist, Wera found dead with gunshot injuries along St. Antony's Road?"
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AS THE campaign by hard-core racist forces in south Sri Lanka launched against the government's latest 3 proposals to settle the ethnic conflict has failed to gather the anticipated momentum, comes the news that 700 socalled Buddhist monks, belonging to the Sinhala Bala Mandalaya are to engage in a fast unto death' demanding the abandonment of the government's proposals. The fact that the noble teachings of Buddha and the name of Buddhism have been prostituted in the past by prelates and politicians in Sri Lanka for malevolent purposes is no SeCre፪.
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the main Sinhala
opposition party led by Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike and
her son, Anura, has ganged up with a bunch of nondescript extremist chauvinist groups to agitate against the government's proposals to set up provincial councils
in all parts of the country providing for a degree of
regional autonomy on prescribed matters. They are joined by bigoted sections of the Buddhist clergy led by the Mahanayake of the Asgirya Chapter, the Rev. Channananda Palipane, and the President of the Sinhala
Bala Mandalaya, Rev. Sobhitha. Racists of a bygone era
like K. M. P. Rajaratne and Prins Gunasekera and the Iriyagole progeny have also jumped on this anti-Tamil war-mongering bandwagon.
Some academics like Prof. Wiswa Warnapala are also lending support to this campaign by distorting and
exaggerating the implications of the government's
proposals. Warnapala and the like have been conspicuously silent over the years during which the ethnic conflict was escalating from being a peaceful campaign for equal treatment in terms of economic, educational and employment opportunities to a struggle for sharing power between the nationalities that constitute the Sri Lankan state. The Warnapalas never opened their mouths when thousands of Tamils were incarcerated, tortured and even killed. They were silent spectators to the many anti-Tamil pogroms in which thousands of Tamils perished and their property destroyed. They watched with unconcealed glee as tens of thousands of Tamils fled the land of their birth in search of physical security. The agony of the Tamil people never reached their ears. Such
men, having climbed their academic ladders at the .
expense of their fleeing Tamil colleagues, now have the cheek and audacity to go round the country pontificating about the democratic right of the people (of course they mean only the Sinhalese people) to a referendum on the government's proposals. Of course, the Bandaranaikes, the reactionary racist sections of the Buddhist clergy and ': the opportunist academic brigade of the Warnapala variety would go round the country denouncing and misleading the people that the government's proposals are a betrayal and a sell-out of the Sinhala race, and thus see to it that the proposals are rejected by the gullible Sinhala masses. Not that the Warnapalas do not know that there are certain internationally recognised inalienable rights of national minorities, the exercise of which does not depend on the approval by a dominant ethnic majority. What such men strive for is not the assertion of the democratic rights of the people in the sense of equal treatment of all, but the perpetuation of majority Sinhala domination over all sections through the camouflage of a referendum.
Whenever attempts have been made in the past to resolve the ethnic problem by negotiation, the base racist instincts of the Sinhala-Buddhist population have been
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BANDARANAIKE— VERBYAWYMMEANS *
roused by the opportunist Sinhala political leadership and powerful sections of the Buddhist clergy. When the late Prime Minister, Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, attempted to solve the problem through an agreement he 2ntered into with the then Tamil political leadership in 1957, some 200 so-called Buddhist monks led by the Eksath Bhikku Peramuna (United Monks Front) demonstrated in front of the Prime Minister's residence and demanded the abrogation of the agreement. He succumbed to priestly pressure. In the following year, Mr. Bandaranaike was gunned down in his own home by 2 Buddhist priest, Rev. Somarama, who had sought and obtained an appointment with the PM under false pretences. The arch conspirator behind the assassination Of Bandaranaike was no less than one of the leaders of the Eksath Bhikku Peramuna, Rev. Buddharakhita Thero, the Mahanayake of the famous Kelani Maha Vihare. It was in the aftermath of the murder of Mr. Bandaranaike that the hitherto unknown and unheard of Mrs. Bandaranaike was propelled into political prominence. She climbed the political ladder under fortuitous circumstances on the wave of popular sympathy generated by the PM's assassination.
Despite his political opportunism in raising the 'Sinhala Only' cry to come to power, the late Mr. Bandaranaike had always believed in the concept of regional autonomy as the one suited for Sri Lanka. As early as 1926, he had advocated a federal constitution for Sri Lanka. But, today, his wife and son, both of whom had personally and politically benefited by his premature demise, are going round the country, ably aided and abetted by the self-same elements within the Buddhist clergy who were responsible for his murder, alleging that the establishment of the proposed provincial councils would destroy Buddhism and the Sinhala race. Neither Mrs. Bandaranaike nor her party has put forward any alternative proposals for resolving the ethnic conflict.
Instead, she and her son are going about the country inciting the Sinhalese people to violence. At one meeting, Anura Bandaranaike threatened that what happened in July 1983 (the island-wide anti-Tamil pogrom) would look like a tea party when compared to what was in Store if the government's proposals were implemented. Again at another meeting he announced that his mother had made arrangements for Chinese troops to be called in to suppress ihe Tamil militants after Mrs. Bandaranaike became President. Anura said, 'I don't like to disclose party secrets. But as the UNP is demanding a solution, I like to reveal this. In the tour Mrs. Bandaranaike had in China, she had discussions with Chinese leaders over the ethnic issue here in Sri Lanka. Unless the Tigers surrender, after Mrs. Bandaranaike went to 'Queens House (the Presidential residence), China will cancel the weekend holiday of its army. That's all.'
Whatever the truth or otherwise of Anura's boast on his mother's behalf, to Mrs. Bandaranaike, to the so-called Buddhist priests who are threatening fasts unto death and to the Warnapalas, the violence that has rocked the country for several years, the thousands of innocent lives lost, the destruction of the country's economy, and above all the international opprobrium and isolation the country has suffered mean nothing. What they seek and want to achieve is power and domination by any means.

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SEPTEMBER 1986
Pattern of Disap
Forces Systematica
s
SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE are reported to have “disappeared in Sri Lanka since mid-1984 and security forces have continued to violate human rights systematically and with virtual impunity.
Most of the reported victims of "disappearance' have been unarmed Tamil civilians, generally aged between 18 and 30. Most are from poor farming and fishing families, although they include a number of civil servants and a Roman Catholic priest. Only one is a woman.
Although many of those who have “disappeared' in Sri Lanka are reported to have been killed, there are still hopes that others may be alive, though kept in unacknowledged detention. AI hopes that by drawing the government's attention to the plight of the victims, every effort will be made by the authorities to ensure that those still held are located and set free or kept in safe conditions, and that the relatives of all the “disappeared' will be informed of their fate or where they are.
Although AI does not know the fate of most of the "disappeared there is evidence that many of them have been shot or have died after torture and been buried in secret graves or burned; AI has received testimony on one incident where 40 were reportedly ordered to dig their own graves before being shot. Others are believed to be in unacknowledged detention in police stations, military camps and other centres - many of these people, too, are feared to have been tortured.
The tortures reported to AI have included burnings, severe beatings with PVC pipes, hanging upside down for long periods and the application of hot chillies to sensitive parts of the body, including the eyes.
With few exceptions, the “disappearances' have been reported from the Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya districts in the north and, more recently, from the Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Amparai
districts in the east.
The army and air force are reported to have been implicated in 'disappearances', especially those reported in the north. Most allegations of 'disappearance' in the east concern the Special Task Force (STF), a special police commando unit formed in 1984. "
The government has persistently refused to investigate almost all cases of 'disappearance' or to bring officials responsible for violations to justice. This refusal, legal and other measures adopted by the government may well have encouraged members of the security forces to believe that they can dispose of dead bodies of people in their custody without any questions being asked by the authorities.
Thambimuth 'disappeared November 19 Camp sufferi 8 to 10 Dece they inquired had been “se said: 'Releas political detai deaths go unri Father Mary “disappeared eye-witness a Vankalai tha uniformed ar The bodies a initially ackn denied this a which the go
responsibility,
In a new repo Lanka, AI incl who are report since a pattern emerge in Sri was a time wil stepped up the state on the isla ÍU INICIOUS aCtS { many hundreds of the security f
The cases inc are only a part (
Many of thi followed mass forces. For insta O On 2 Decen an attack on Vavuniya area out by an arme Tamil men rep ter being taken and air force pe has denied the received affidav they saw the de In one case a f affidavit that he 100 Tamil men lam Army Cam opposite the car O In another Tamil men in reportedly deta
 

earances as Security ly Violate Human Rights
Ramalarajah (left), a mechanic aged 22, is reported to have '' after soldiers had arrested him at home in Jaffna district on 30 34. Two former detainees say they later saw him in Gurunagar Army ng from serious injuries and that he died as a result of torture around mber 1984. His relatives received conflicting reports about him when at the camp after his arrest: that he had been “released' and that he nt to Colombo'. After his reported death a sign on his cell apparently ed'. Post mortems and regular inquests are rarely held into deaths of nees in Sri Lanka. A has reason to believe that a number of such 2ported. - Bastian (right), a Roman Catholic priest, was 38 when he '' in the Mannar area on the night of 4/5 January 1985. According to ccounts received by AI, security forces surrounded his mission in f night and shot him and two others. His body was taken away by my personnel believed to be from the nearby Thalady Army Camp. if the two other victims were left behind. Although official reports owledged that he might have been shot dead, the authorities later nd suggested he had gone to India. This is one of the few cases in vernment has acknowledged a “disappearance' - but then disclaimed
by suggesting the victim had “left the country'.
rt, "Disappearances in Sri udes details of 272 people ed to have "disappeared'
of such abuses began to Lanka in late 1984. This nen armed Tamil groups ir actions for a separate
Ind: they have carried out :
of violence and have killed of civilians and members orces. (See box) luded in AI’s new report of those reported.
“disappearances' have "ound-ups by the security
CC ber 1984, two days after Sinhalese settlers in the said to have been carried d Tamil group, about 100 ortedly 'disappeared' affrom their homes by army rsonnel. The government y were detained. AI has its from relatives who say entions being carried out. ormer detainee said in an was present when about were shot at Iratperiyaku) and their bodies burned
p on 2 December 1984. ncident about 40 young he Batticaloa area were ined by the STF on 17
May 1985. They are alleged to have been taken to a lonely spot, ordered to dig their graves and then shot dead. (Later the bodies are said to have been exhumed by the STF and cremated elsewhere). A shirt and identity card of one of the "disappeared' was found at the scene. On 25 May 1985 a correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph wrote that he had found signs of “mass graves' with "clumps of human hair still littering the scene". The government has persistently denied that the arrests or killings took place. The head of a civil liberties group and warden of a Methodist orphanage, Paul Nallanayagam, was detained for four months and charged with "making rumours and false statements' about the incident. A High Court judge acquitted
him on 17 July 1986, finding that the
evidence 'cast serious doubts on the prosecution case" that there had been no arrests by the STF.
AI believes the "disappearances" and other grave violations of human rights have been facilitated by the suspension of important legal safeguards under emergency legislation. The 1982 Prevention of Terrorism Act permits a maximum of 18 months incommunicado detention without trial. Under the Emergency Regulations, intermittently in force since 1979, such detention may be indefinite.
(By Courtesy of Amnesty International)

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4: AML TIMES
TAML | MILTA
AWATTEMPT TO HOOL
interview with V. Prabhakaran of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Mazumdar; Your opponents charge that innocent civilians are often killed in your military offensives. How do you respond?
Prabhakaran: The LTTE has never killed any civilians. We condemn such acts of violence. There were occasions when we had to kill Home Guards. But they are not civilians. They are trained non-combat draftees who I carry guns.
Q. How many troops do you have under your : command and where do they train?
A. That's a secret. I can tell you we are strong enough to take on the 51,000-strong Sri Lankan military and well equipped to carry on protracted guerrilla warfare.
Q. Why do you think LTTE has taken the lead among other guerrilla groups? A. Discipline and order are most important. : We emphasise personal morality and a sense of patriotism. Our cadres carry cyanide pills with them to avoid falling into enemy hands. Most of all, the people are behind us.
Q. Critics charge that you rely on drug trafficking to raise money for your military activities. How do you respond? A. Our people support us financially. We capture arms and ammunition from the enemy and also buy them on the international market. We don't get support from any other country. Here in India we are living as political refugees and the government of India extends moral support to our existence here. We have imposed a strict moral code on ourselves, not to use even liquor. How can one suspect us of drug trafficking which we condemn? Q. Press reports say that you received mili
tary training in Cuba. How did you manage to acquire your know-how?
A. Through sheer pers natural instincts and I westerns by American r wood. If I were trained been a better fighter.
Q. What is your ass round of negotiation Tamils and the Sri L. devolution of power to T; A. The proposals put are insufficient even to have enunciated four pr talks: the traditional h must be recognised: Tai recognised as a separate to self-determination S and the civil rights of sta recognised. A frame w out incorporating these consider negotiations.
Q. How serious do
Junius Jayawardene is
problem?
A. This so-called Jayawardene is an atte world. That these nego clear from the fact tha were on the military kill Tamils. Talks with Jaya only on the question c boundaries as two separa
Q. Why do you thinl operate from here? A. Purely on humanit: genocide going on in S we are fighting against protect our people.
THERE's soME IMPROV
(Interview with the Secretary-General of the People's Liberation Organi
Eelam (PLOT), Uma Maheswaran.
Q. The PLOT's soldier force has all along been taking a low profile, not participating in many militant activities, believing that hitand-run attacks and ambushes do not pay. Your theory has been that if you attack a
police station or an army camp, you should not only wipe it out but also be able to liberate the area around and protect the people there. But in the last two weeks, you have killed several soldiers by planting what the PLOT calls "tree-mines', 'cylinder-mines', and so on . . . What is the rationale behind these attacks?
A. We have always been saying that hit and run attacks will be counterproductive, that they will make people refugees. It will make people run away from the (Jaffna) peninsula and get trapped. There have been some attacks by the militants on the Sinhalese civilians. The military also started attacking the Tamil innocents. We have been condemning these attacks on the civilians for it will pose communal problems and divert our struggle. The present situation is that the army attacks the Tamils and the militants attack the Sinhalese. On both sides, communal feeling is building up and people are also dragged into supporting this.
If we allow this, chau sides and it will end in massacre of Tamils. We achieve this, we were for at various places withou the long run, this is not Eelam struggle. But we Sinhalese feelings towa attacks will not continue
O. You were handed Government's latest solving the ethnic q improvement over Annel A. We have not so proposals. Once we go we have to clarify with After that only can we ae,
Q. But surely, you proposals in the na released in the Politica June 25 in Colombo. then? A. Since Independenc talks, so many proposa agreed to by the Tamils
 

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- LTTE
onal training. I use my watch war films and Iovie actor Clint Eastn Cuba, I would have
essment of the latest between moderate nkan government on mils? forward by Colombo start negotiations. We inciples as the basis for meland of the Tamils nils should be officially nationality; their rights hould be recognised, teless Tamils should be brk should be worked principles. Then we will
you think President in solving the Tamil
peace initiative by mpt to hoodwink the iations are eyewash is t even while the talks ed nearly 150 innocent wardene? Possible, but of demarcation of our
te nations.
k India allows you to
arian grounds. There is ri Lanka. India knows genocide and trying to
Q. Opponents charge that India is abetting “terrorists' by giving you sanctuary, while New Delhi blames Pakistan for training Sikh terrorists? What is your view? A. There is a fundamental difference here. Our people are facing genocide whereas the Indian Army is not committing genocide in Punjab.
Q. India favours a negotiated settlement of the ethnic problem and opposes your goal of a separate Tamil state. What is your view? A. The world is constantly changing; so is politics. We rely on the hope that changing circumstances will finally lead to India's recognition of our struggle. India has recognised various liberation movements. At a later stage India may be compelled to recognise us as it did the PLO and SWAPO. w
Q. What do you expect from the United States A. We want to appeal to the American people to realise that we are a nation of people facing genocide. And we will appeal to the U.S. government to stop all aid to the Sri Lankan government which will be used for the destruction of our people.
Q. What kind of a political system do you envisage for an independent Tamil state? A. We want to establish a socialist society. Ours will be a unique socialist model, neithe Soviet nor Chinese nor any other.
Q. Have you ever considered calling for India's military intervention to stop what you call genocide? A. India's military intervention is not necessary because we have a fighting force capable of facing the military. In fact, India's intervention may allow other international forces to meddle in Sri Lanka and create chaos.
(By Courtesy of Newsweek)
EMENT
sation of Tamil
inism will grow on both a crisis, leading to the must break this and to ced to attack the military hurting the civilians. In going to help the Tamil lave to do this to stop the rds chauvinism. These for a long time.
over the Sri Lankan proposals aimed at testion. Are they an ure C? ༦། far gone through the through the proposals, he Indian Government. say what the proposals
must have read the wspapers. They were Parties Conference on How do you feel about
, we have had so many s and pacts, which were but not implemented by
the ruling parties. Every time we agreed to a pact, we were the losers. After the proposals were signed, we were kicked out and the proposals were not implemented. We see this as a tactic to reduce the stridency of the Tamil militancy. So we will mobilise the people and we want to go on a struggle to fight for our rights. This time we don't want to be the losers. If the Sri Lankan Government wants to solve the problem, let it first discuss it among the Southern politicians and let them finalise among themselves how far they are going to accept the Tamils as equal citizens and give some rights within the constitution. Once they finalise this we can decide what we can do.
Q. Like other militant organisations, do you look at the proposals in terms of the four principles - recognition of the Tamils as a distinct nationality, recognition of their right to self-determination, recognition of their homeland and the grant of citizenship to all the plantation Tamils? A. These are only four principles and not proposals. So within these proposals (of the Sri Lankan Government), let the Southern parties decide how far they can meet these principles. After that only we can comment. They are calling for the Political Parties Conference and deciding on how much rights the Tamils should be given. This itself shows that the Tamils are not being looked on as equal citizens.
Continued opposite

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SEPTEMBER: '986
GOVERNME
- THERE ISA
LARGE
(interview with V. Balakumar of Eelam Revolutionary Organisatio
Q. What is your basic stand on the ceasefire? Will you go in for a fresh ceasefire accord? A. We had a bitter experience of the last ceasefire agreement with the Jayawardene Government. So we have to be very cautious this time.
As far as Jayawardene is concerned, he is not willing for a ceasefire. He has said that he is going to implement the military solution as far as the Tamil problem is concerned. And so there is no point in asking for a ceasefire now when the Sri Lankan Government is not willing forit. Q. Can the latest proposals form a basis for negotiations? A. We have not gone through the proposals or studied them closely. Generally, we can say that we will stick to the four principles we have enunciated. Q. It is known that the proposals do not incorporate the four principles.. . 3 A. Because these proposals are submitted by the Government of India (to us), we will convey our comments on the proposals to the Government of India. As far as our experience of the Sri Lankan Government is concerned, it is very shrewd about this kind of process. It is very good at bargaining.
What it is doing from the All Party Conference up tes now is to put the proposals on the table and ask us to look at them. They have improved little by little but still they have not reached the Annexure C or the CWC propo
sals stage. There is a large gap. We do not
know what is their now, they have b imum they can giv This is a propag to take it seriously die” situation. We to play games wit come up with subs to some extent, Sal will then conside minimum the Tam federal concept a This is the basis acceptance. Q. What are the talks with the Sri L A. There is no ch Government is all c the last one month 300 Tamils, inc Mandaitivu in the Kilinochchi and a We have to pool o action. This is the very clear that Jaya from a position of surrender. This w proposals but at th will crush the milit behind this? Q. Jayawardene l ment the proposals not accept them. -- A. Let him imple:
Continued from page 4 O. Last time, it was called the All Parties Conference (APC). This time, it is called the registered Political Parties Conference (PPC), that is minus religious outfits such as the Buddhist Maha Sangha. Does it reflect a sincerity of purpose? A. The Buddhist Maha Sangha is brought into the scene by the politicians for their own sake - for the sake of the political parties themselves. This is to find an excuse for not being willing to give anything to the Tamils. But if necessary, if any of the political parties is not satisfied, they can call in the Buddhist Maha Sangha. Then, to counter this, the Government will call in another chapter of the Sangha. Q. Can the “clarifications’ form a basis for negotiations? - A. There is some improvement on the earlier proposals but we have to see how far other 'political parties will go along with this. έρ. Jayawardene says this is the final pack age and that he will implement it unilaterally. FA. This shows that he has not changed the character of his Government. He is a fascist. : Q. What is your basic position on a ceasefire? Vijaya Kumaranatunga is keen on resumption of an effort to bring about a cessation of 'hostilities. - . . . , A. He has not talked to me in terms of a ceasefire. He was talking to me on how we can solve this problem. We agreed to talk with him because, so far, he has not come out with any communal statement since his party (SLMP) was formed. After the Political Parties Confertence, he will come back and talk with us. GREECC has a fear and that is why he ants to solveit (the problem): "
9. What fear? A. There are inte lems within the par gone to rot. Kum there is a possibil Kumaranatunga su this problem to avo, соир).
"s. Q. In the present,
for ceasefire? A. I don't think til that if ceasefire com work among the pec
Q. How do you c. the ground? A. The situation especially outside ti of the people outsi dependent on the la are driven away frc destroy' missions, continue the agricu better inside the pe is no army coming mission inside the 1 bombing. The mili able of stopping the land, they cannot st shelling from the se sula are badly affect
Q. What do you ti on the provincial co order, land settlem so on in the latest pro A. I don't want to
 

TAMILTIMES5
- EROS) s: maximum. From APC up to en saying this is the max
anda gimmick but we have because we are in a "live or are mot seasoned politicians
Jayawardene. When they antial proposals which will, sfy people's aspirations, we
them. But we think the people will consider is the ld the homeland concept. for consideration and not
hances for a fresh round of Inkan Government now? ince because the Sri Lankan ut for a military solution. In they have killed more than uding 37 fishermen at Jaffna peninsula, 100 at other 100 at Trincomalee. ur resources for a defensive only step we can take. It is wardene wants to talk to us trength, viz. he wants usořo ill not happen. He gives 2 same time he says that he ants. What is the meaning
nas said that he will impleunilaterally even if you will
ment them. Then, why are
rnal contradictions, proby (UNP). The country has aranatunga also feels that ity of an army coup. So gests that we should settle d this danger (of a military
ituation, is there any room
ere is any chance. We feel es, it will be good for us to ple. .
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aracterise the situation on
on the ground is worse, e peninsula, because most e the Jaffna peninsula are deconomically. Once they rn the land in 'search and ey are not in a position to ural work. It is a little bit insula than outside. There on a "search and destroy' 2ninsula but there is aerial ant organisations are capmilitary movement only on p the aerial bombing or the People outside the penind.
nk of the powers devolved ncils in respect of law and it, language question and osals? onment (on this).
(By Courtesy of “Frontline")
T PROPOSALS
GAP 1.
all these exercises going on? Jayawardene is very cleverly using all his ability to postpone finding a solution to the problem because his political future is dependent on this. So far he is not sure of his successor. Until he is sure of his successor he cannot afford to solve the problem. This is their problem.
Q. Union Minister P. Chidambaram has said that the proposals form a “fairly complete package' and the Government of India spokesman has also observed that they are "practical enough' for a resumption of dialogue between the Tamil groups and the Sri Lankan Government. . . A. It is their opinion but we were asked to consider whether the proposals can form a basis for negotiations and to come to Delhi. There is no compulsion involved in this. Earlier, we told the Government of India that if it wants to continue the peace process with the Sri Lankan Government, we will not interfere. That stand is still valid. - : ; .
Q. How do you describe the situation in the Eastern part of Sri Lanka, where the EROS has a well-knit cadre? A. Everybody knows what is happening in the North. The armed forces find it difficult to come out of their camps. They are idling there. Hence, they use bombers and helicopter gunships to show the Sinhalese that they are doing something in the North. The sufferings of the people in the refugee camps are intolerable.
The Government has never taken any steps to aid these people and it never allows outside agencies to go to the (Tamil) refugee camps.
At the same time, it allows outside agencies to go to the Sinhalese (refugee) camps. For the first time, some people in the Kilinochchi refugee camp have signed a memorandum to Rajiv Gandhi. This shows the plight of the people. It is clear that the Sri Lankan Government wants to pressure the people through these sufferings but the people will not yield. It is different in the East where there are armed Sinhalese civilians. They have settled armed Sinhalese hoodlums and thugs and they are using sinister tactics to create tension between the Muslims and Tamils. They are creating communal trouble.
Besides, in the East, they have the elite commando unit called the Special Task Force under the control of Ravi Jayawardene. They have opened new army camps every four to seven miles. Earlier, we found it difficult to work there because of the terrain. But now we have some control of the situation and the armed forces find it difficult to come out of the camps. After the Palathopu (Trincomalee) landmine blast on May 30 (in which 30 soldiers were killed), we have reliable information that many troops have left the camps without permission. In the last one or two months, there were ten suicides (among the soldiers). The STF is disorganised; its morale is low. They thought that by terrorising the civilians, they can turn them against us, but the tactics have failed. We will hit wherever possible and whenever necessary. But the people's suffering is high because they cannot continue farming and other normal activities.
The displaced are living in forests. But the Muslims have decided to live with us, which is a very good victory for us. So we are now concentrating in the East where there are no petty clashes between the groups as in the North. We have a cordial relationship with the other groups there. (By Courtesy of Frontline)

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6 TAMIL TIMES
*NO BASIS FOR POLI"
interview with K. Padmanabha, Secretary-General of the Eelam Peopla
Liberation Front
Q. You have just been given the latest proposals. Do the proposals form any basis for a negotiated settlement? What is the situation on the ground in the North and the East of Sri Lanka? − A. Irrespective of what proposals are presented by the Sri Lankan Government, the existing realities are that conditions do not exist for the implementation of the proposals. The objective material conditions do not yet exist for not only the formulations but also for the implementation of a political solution. If you take the general political situation in areas other than the North and the East, you will find that even the Sinhalese are facing immense problems due to the violation of fundamental human and democratic rights, due to the Prevention of Terrorism Act and an overall decline in living standards as manifest in increasing unemployment, inflation etc. -
g. Do the proposals disappoint you? Do they form any basis for beginning a negotiated political settlement? A. When we walked out of the Thimpu talks, we left on basically two issues: first with a genocidal situation and army atrocities continuing in the North and the East, conditions
did not exist for any rational discussion on any political settlement. This situation has only worsened.
Secondly, our representatives at Thimpu
made it very clear that any proposals that can be deemed to be worthy of our consideration must recognise the fact that the Eelam people form a distinct nationality and, more important, they are a nationality which is subject to oppression.
Q. The proposals rule out the “merger' of the North and the East; they also exclude the strategic port of Trincomalee from the purview of the provincial councils. Jayawardene also says that he will implement the proposals unilaterally if you reject them. A. The basic principle is that we, as a distinct nationality, have been oppressed and also that we have an inalienable right of self. determination. The very statement from Jayawardene that he will implement the proposals unilaterally suggests that he is not concerned whether our people accept the proposals or not. In other words, he is not worried about the consent of the Tamil people. Further, there
is a very clear violation of the right of self.
determination in the proposals. We cannot accept this "take-it-or-lump-it' attitude of the Sri Lankan Government. There is nothing in the proposals which makes explicit the homeland concept. The homeland concept has been completely left out.
Q. The proposals say that provincial councils might be set up in seven other provinces in Sri Lanka besides in the North and the East. What is your reaction to this? A. Jayawardene is speaking of provincial councils for the entire country. Speaking only of provincial councils, they neither solve the problems of the Sinhalese nor the Tamils for the following reasons. As I have said already, the provincial councils come nowhere close to recognising the right of self-determination of the Tamils. Secondly, the broad spectrum of the Sinhalese masses is not demanding a solution to their own national oppression. They are not oppressed as a nationality. The Sinhalese are
facing exploitation whic So why provincial co country? It makes no sen
O. Are you going to r is it possible that they negotiations? A. For the aforesaid form a basis for negoti solution to the national a
:2. Are the proposals
Annerure C?
It is not an improve
Annexure C was reject Government.
Q. Supposing implements them, what w A. He will not be abl practical "unilaterally' impleme ne will only intensify hi. simple reason that he w resistance from our pe organisations which ar emancipate our people.
Q. When the Sri La . (SLMP) leader, Vijaya in Madras recently, he sefire? Will you go in agreement? A. Kumaranatunga's unlike the rhetoric use regime last year, is undc intentions and aimed a loss of civilian lives, bol We made it very clear accepted in a statement) Lankan Government cc military offensive rest situation, we have no C with the force of arms.
Jaya
terms. Un
GANDI PEAO
A BLISTERING a Gandhi, the India the Sri Lankan Gov and disparaging re Junius Jayawarde peace negotiations leaders.
Mr. Gandhi's rer also cast doubts o vital consideration they (Sri Lanka) dc are willing to with press here describ tirade.
President Jayaw Mr. Mani Dixit, the sioner, but the Ministry is awaiti Mr. Gandhi's stat Government has also true of the media. However, press has respo editorials and Com

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ICAL SETTLEMENT'
's Revolutionary
h even the Tamils face. Juncils for the entire
Sa.
eject the proposals? Or can form a basis for
reasons, they cannot ations for a permanent puestion.
an improvement over
ment over Annexure C. ed by, the Jayawardene
wardene unilaterally illyou do?
2 to implement them in der the name of
ating them, Jayawardemilitary option for the ill continue to face stiff ople and the liberation e waging a struggle to
anka Mahajana Party Kumaranatunga, was wanted a fresh ceafor a fresh ceasefire
stand on ceasefire, d by the Jayawardene oubtedly based on good t minimising the tragic h Tamil and Sinhalese. to him (which he later that as long as the Sri ontinues to engage in a ulting in a genocidal 'ption, but to counter it
Q. With the Government of India calling the proposals an advance over the formulations
and taking the position that they are “practi
cal enough' to form the basis for negotiations, do you think it is pressuring you? A. We do not perceive it as pressure tactics from the Government of India. We fully realise that as a mediator in a process of negotiated settlement, such terminologies are inevitable. In addition, we have been told in no uncertain terms by the officials of the Government of India that it is for the liberation movements to decide whether the latest set of proposals constitute a basis for negotiations. O. What do you think of the powers devolved on the provincial councils in portfolios such as law and order, where the Tamils (the provincial councils) can recruit, police personnel up to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police? r A. It is like a job bank. They do not go beyond the establishment of a job bank for recruitment to the police forces. It does not address itself to the law and order situation.
O. Earlier, Jayawardene used to insist on a referendum before implementing any proposal but the latest proposals rule out a referendum for a constitutional amendment. . . A. This is a typical double standard tactic employed by Jayawardene right from Thimpu-I to the present. The Sri Lankan Government had made it explicit that it was not prepared to propose any amendment or changes to the constitution ... which will require a national referendum. It was therefore hypocritical on the part of Jayawardene to suggest a referendum on the merger issue, viz. only for the Tamil area. We are not mere boys to be misled or confused by these double standards. We have made it very clear that just as the Sri Lankan Government is not prepared for the division of the country, we are not equally prepared for the bifurcation of our homeland.
(By Courtesy of Frontline, July 12-25, 1986)
TIRADEPUTs TAMIL E TALKS IN UEOPARDY
ttack by Mr. Rajiv 1 Prime Minister, on 'ernment and its army ferences to President ne have jeopardised ; with separatist Tamil
narks, in Harare, have n India's mediation, a
in any settlement. 'If ) not like our help we hdraw,' he said. The ed his comments as a
ardene has talked to lndian High CommisSri Lankan Foreign ng the full record of ements. Publicly, the said nothing. This is government-owned the privately-owned nded with indignant mentaries.
Mr. Gandhi said Mr. Jayawardene had taken 18 months after his talks in Delhi to produce a package of proposals which offered much less than promised. He accused the Government of dithering and wanting in political guts.
Mr. Gandhi seems to have been particularly annoyed by what he called a 'deliberate leak' to the press of a confidential letter sent to him by Mr. Ranasinghe Premadasa, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister.
The two premiers met twice in Harare. At the end of the taks, Mr. Premadasa sent Mr. Gandhia letter summing up the Sri Lankan case for an Indian ultimatum to the Madras-based Tamil guerrilla groups and the need to seize their weapons and stop the flow of arms and men across the 20-mile Palk Straits. The letter was given wide publicity in Sri Lanka.
Courtesy of Financial Times, 99.86

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SEPTEMBER 1986
'The East Sri Lanka Muslim Front while supporting fully the principles to which the Sri Lanka Government subscribes:
st maintenance of the unity, integrity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka,
st maintenance of the unitary character of Sri Lankan Constitution, wish to emphasise that the system and the unit of devolution of power should be appropriate to the situation and satisfy the aspirations of different ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. In the interest of the settlement of the present ethnic conflict the East Sri Lanka Muslim Front consents to the proposals provided necessary provisions are made for the creation of a separate Provincial Council for the Muslims to protect our independent ethnic identity with equal powers and functions like other Provincial Councils to achieve our aspirations.
The Tamil Moderates and the Arned Eelam Fighters have said that if they are not given a viable alternative for a separate state, they would continue their struggle till they finally achieve what they want. What they have in mind we believe, as a viable alternative is a Linguistic Council in the Tamil Areas of the Tamil speaking Northern and Eastern Provinces. They have also made it clear that
Muslims Not Opposed Link But Demand S Provincia Coul
The following are extracts from a memorandum sent to F by the East Sri Lanka Muslim Front in response to the gover settlement of the current ethnic conflict in that country:
as provided Chelvana yakar me the creation the Eastern Pro could also hav they are in a ma
The merger ern Province w that the Muslin to it.
The Muslim mainly becaus insignificant m But they are no the Tamil areas in the Tamil s separate Mus
Muslim Major
Since Muslin
major ethnic gr legitimate right,
cial Council whe sufficient major to share powers ethnic groups.
The proposec Muslims can be The area of a would include Muslim elector
Opposite of Unity is no
WHAT seems to us at Satyodaya to be even more necessary than discussion of minutiae is to achieve a mighty consensus against the futility of both military and terrorist violence and for the only solution worthy of a civilised people, namely, a negotiated settlement.
Settlement of what? Not of terrorism which is not the original evil but only a symptom or an effect of the evil. Not even of the demand for Eelam, which is only the result of the unredressed grievances of the Tamil people.
Settlement of what? The present Government answered the question with commendable forthrightness both in its Election Manifesto and in its first Statement of Government Policy in Parliament as early as 4 August 1977: . "My Government accepts the position that there are numerous problems confronting the Tamilspeaking people. The lack of a solution to their problems has made the Tamil-speaking people support even a movement for the creation of a separate State. In the interest of national integration and unity so necessary for the economic development of the whole country, the Government feels such problems should be solved without loss of time.'
The problem is therefore not principally one of violence. Neither is it one of a demand by some for a separate State. It is a problem of the redress of grievances which give rise to the separatist demand and to violence. Redress the grievances and then the demand and the violence will progressively be muted
Much time has already been lost and at tremendous cost-in human lives, money, jobs, socio-economic development, in the loss of
peace, security an common humanit The President's A early.
There are thre Satyodaya wishes climate of discuss estate population. people hold the present problem. presence in such North and East s think again about leaving the griev, North and East un escalation of the
East into the plau urge both anti-se
bear in mind the estate people. Ol past 150 years th develop the coun invaluable assistar The proper accept the mainstream o thus a vital need реасе..
The second c implement whatev field of devolutio settlement, langu ment which wer problematic area Election Manifest Statement of Polic of redress will be

7 x TAMILTIMESہمیع3.حہ
To N. a. E .
* tent approximately 900 sq. miles in the
parate ci
sident Jayawardene ment's proposals for a
in the BandaranalikePact, they would welcoof two or more councils in ince so that the Muslims a separate Council where ority.
f Northern and the Easts refused on the ground of the East are opposed
opposed this merger they would become an nority under the Tamils. opposed to the merger of leaving the Muslim areas )eaking provinces, for a rm Provincial Council.
ty Provincial Council
s are also a recognised up in Sri Lanka it is our o have a separate Provinre the Muslims will be of ty to form a council and like the other two major
Provincial Council for in the Eastern Province. uthority of this Council the three predominant ates - Kalimunai, Sam
manthurai and Pottu vil including the balance part of Wewagampattu South, Ex
present Amparai district as basic, and the non-contiguous Muslim areas of Kattankudy, Eravur, Valaichenai, Ottamavadi, Mutur, Kinniya, Thampalagamam. In the event of a merger of the Tamil areas of the Eastern Province with the Northern Province, Musali and Erikalampiti in Mannar District should also be joined with the Provincial Council for Muslims. · · ·
These Muslim areas which are noncontiguous should be first made community oriented Pradeshiya Sabhas - A.G.A. Divisions as proposed in para (iii) 16 of the new proposal and considered parts of the Muslim Provincial Council. This would incorporate a little more than 85% or 315,000 Muslims of the total Muslim population of 372,005 in the Tamil speaking area. There will be about 80,000 Tamils and 40,000 Sinhalese also in the Council for Muslims. Muslims will be more than 72% in the proposed Muslim Council.
The problem of administring noncontiguous areas is not as impossible as it is made out to be. For example the former French possessions in India fall in three different states Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andrha Pradesh where three different languages are spoken and administered as a separate union state. Whereas in Sri Lanka all the Muslims in the Tamil speaking area speak Tamil and their grievances with regard to land, language, economy and employment are the same. What we are asking here is a Provincial Council on the administrative pattern of non-contiguous Union State in India.'
It Federalism but Disunity
lwell-being. It is time for our to rise up and cry, Enough ldress has not come a day too
special emphasises which
to make in the present on. The first as regards the st may be said that the estate key to the solution of the For, on the one hand, their large numbers outside the ould make the separatists separation. On the other, nces of the people of the edressed is only to invite the roblems of the North and ation areas. We therefore aratists and separatists to
eeds and aspirations of the
their part throughout the y have humbly served to y. They can now provide 2 in order to keep it united.
ce of the estate people into
civic life in the country is a lasting solution and for
cerns the authority to
decisions are taken in the and in the fields of land e, education and employrecognised as the chief in the Government's o the people and in its first The letter of any proposals important as the spirit in
which they will be implemented. It is hence of the utmost importance that there be set up an implementation body in which integrity and fearless impartiality will be, and be seen to be, inherently inbuilt. s
The third concerns the distinction between the unity and the form of government. A firm commitment to the unity of the country should not stand in the way of effective devolution of powers to provincial or regional authorities. Our option may be clearly for a united State but this by no means implies an option for a unitary State, for it is important to be aware that a united State can also be federal in structure. The opposite of unity is not federalism, but disunity.
More than ever before in our post-Soulbury history is there a need today for all of us - political parties, political leaders, trade unions, study circles, religious and voluntary organisations - to cooperate in the search for a honourably peaceful solution to this great problem of our time. Let the political games of the past, however unfairly played, be forgotten for the sake of all the people of this land which is the land of our birth and the land of our love.
Satyodaya therefore earnestly appeals to every group and to every person in the island to support and carry forward the current initiatives towards a just and fair solution with honest and genuine care for the different ethnic, linguistic and religious groups, each of which contributes so indispensably to the rich pluriculture of our society.
Continued on page 8

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8 TAMILTIMES
Torture Victir Seeks a New L
BY GABORMATE
Gabor Mate is a Vancouver family doctor and freelance w
NALLIAH SINNRASU holds out his left hand for the doctor, displaying multiple deformities of his middle, ring and little fingers. The 33-year-old Tamil has come for medical verification of his claims of having been tortured in his native Sri Lanka.
The medical report, requested by Mr. Sinnrasu's lawyer to help establish his client's refugee status, will confirm that: “this patient's physical findings are consistent with his history of injuries sustained due to physical abuse.”
Three Vancouver physicians have examined several dozen alleged torture victims in the past, year. In that same, period, Vancouver's Legal Services Society has handled more than 100 Tamil refugee cases, referring most of them to . volunteer lawyers in the community. ' Mr. Sinnrasu speaks through his interpreter and co-patriot, Frederick Seevaratnam, who claims the distinction of having been the first Tamil refugee to become a landed immigrant in Canada. Since arriving on January 1, 1982, Mr. Seevaratnam has served hundreds of fellow Tamils as guide, translator, driver and adviser. "Most of them are young men between 30 and 35," says, Mr. Seevaratnam, “and most have gone to Toronto and Montreal to find jobs. They are all working."
Mr. Sinnrasu is janitor and dishwasher at a Vancouver restaurant, earning $3.65 an hour, but says that in Sri Lanka it was his position as a well-to-do man in his village that aroused the suspicion of authorities. "I owned land and I was in the sesame oil business, and the police thought I was giving financial aid to the Tigers' (the Tamil insurgents fighting for an autonomous Tamil homeland). ,
Mr. Seevaratnam relates that Mr. Sinnrasu was first injured in July, 1981,
$ 幾
Sinn rasu had teeth knocked out and hand disfig
when the army went c town of Jaffna, follow four policemen by the came to my house.' “arrested me, and pi truck. When they thre they purposefully slan on my hand, compl fingers. They also hit knocking out my te unconscious, so they the road and left me thi
Afraid to attend a being apprehended a received no medical ht of his fingers. As a resu and twisted.
Rearrested in July, was held prisoner in Pallaly, where he c torture repeatedly. "T me about once a "whenever something outside that made t When they were drut open the cells and tort was tied by the feet, down and beaten. Whe they would tell me
urine.'
(According to a International report, is not unique. "Th
reports of detainees
found, “in several in pipes filled with sand.
stated that they had
hanging upside-down
The medical report left calf Mr. Sinn centimetre-long i scal several Smaller Scars, t of being burned with large scar was caused wounds becoming infe
 
 

SEPTEMBER 1986
fter.
h a rampage in the ng the shooting of insurgents. “They ays Mr. Sinnrasu, Ished me inside a v me into the truck, med the door shut tely breaking my he with a rifle butt, eth. Then I fell pitched me out on re.' hospital for fear of gain, Mr. Sinnrasu :lp for the fractures lt, they healed bent
1983, Mr. Sinnrasu an army camp at laims he suffered hey would come for week," he says, ; happened on the he soldiers angry. nk they would also ure the prisoners. I suspended upside
en I asked for water, . . .
to drink my own
1985 Amnesty Mr. Sinnrasu's case are were frequent being beaten,' AI stances with plastic Released detainees been beaten while
will state that on his asu bears a 10, surrounded by he result, he recalls, hot iron bars. The by one of the burn cted.
red.
Mr. Sinnrasu, who denies any involvement with the insurgents, was held without legal proceedings for more than a
year and a half, under the Prevention of
Terrorism Act. ܝܪ - “I thought I would die inside the prison With thousands of troops around, how could I hope to escape? In the end, I began to vomit blood and grew very weak, so they called my wife to take me home. Only ..I had to promise to appear before them whenever I was called.' He did not await such an eventuality, but escaped, leaving behind his mother, wife and five children.
The prison experience has left Mr. Sinnrasu with a nervous twitch of his facial muscles. “He often feels very agitated, says his interpreter. “He has hallucinations and he is afraid for his family.” Yet he would like to return to his native land. "Ninety percent of Sri Lankans want to go back, if the situation ever settles down back home," says Mr. Seevaratnam.
Mr. Seevaratnam responds with a sigh when the two are asked how they feel toward the Sinhalese, the majority ethnic group in Sri Lanka, whose army has been accused of the anti-Tamil excesses. “We have no detestation toward the Sinhalese but the way they are killing us now, we cannot live with them.'
To illustrate, Mr. Seevaratnam holds up a page of color photographs in a Tamil newspaper, purporting to show Tamils massacred by Sinhalese. i". s The 48-year-old Mr. Seevaratnam, who was, by his own account, a wealthy man and a prominent Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, now works as attendant at a Vancouver parking lot and runs an officecleaning service on the side. "I don't worry about that,' he smiles, “the dignity of labor is the answer. I don't care what I do. But if I could, I would go back, too.'
(Courtesy of "The Globe and Mail", August 29, 1986)
Opposite of Unity
Continued from page 7
Mr. Sansoni concluded his Report of Inquiry into the Incidents of 1977 with an extensive quotation from one of the authors of the present statement. We shall therefore conclude with the same words: − 3۔ بر "The ultimate solution of the problem of the inter-communal relationships in our country lies in the establishment of a genuinely socialist Society. In this society every man, woman and child will be given due place . . . because one is a human being with inalienable human rights and human, responsibilities. The immediate solution lies in all the leaders of our country . . . getting together to provide the climate for the rapid socio-economic development of our country . . . The leaders of the majority community and the majority religious group must realize that the minorities have their rights and that the redress of their grievances needs to be given full weight. They must remember that parliamentary democracy is the rule of the majority with the consent of the minorities . . . The country must not fritter away its time and its energy in inter-communal violence and conflict, while the main task that awaits it is the liberation of all our people from poverty, unemployment, hunger, ignorance and dis
ease.'
,Paul Caspersz Coordinator ܝ Lalith Abeysinghe Deputy Coordinator

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SEPTEMBER 1986
THE TRAGEDY OF SEL THEV AND HER FA
This is the harrowing tale of Mrs. Selvarasa Thevi Vavuniya in North Sri Lanka, who has been receiving tre General Hospital for injuries sustained at the hands uniformed men of the Sri Lankan security forces. Sh brother and two sisters gunned down in front of her.
I was living with my brother Subramaniam Veerasingam (38), my mother Parasakthi (48), sisters Yogamangalam (19), Jeyamany (13), my youngest
sister and two children at Pavatkulam for
the last six years as my deserted me.
On 13.7.86 at about 2.15 p.m. I was having lunch with my two sisters Yogamangalam and Jeyamany. My youngest sister and my two children had gone to another house to play. My brother
husband has
and mother were sleeping in a room. At
that time three uniformed men came in a jeep and stopped in front of our house. They then got down and walked towards our house. Two of the uniformed men were clad in khaki uniform and the other in grey coloured uniform.
The two dressed in khaki uniform stood at the entrance of our house while the third in grey uniform went to the next house and
came back dragging Kuddiyar Kanapathy (70) and Arumugam Vaithilingam (38) o
two of our neighbours. These two were made to stand in the front compound of our house. The three uniformed men then asked us to come out of the house.
I fell at the feet of one of them and begged him not to harm us. He scolded me in Sinhala and hit me with the butt end of the gип.
My mother then came out and walked up
to one of them. He pointed the gun at her and threatened to shoot her. My mother
then ran back into the house. The man in grey uniform then ordered my brother to come out. I gave my brother his National Identity Card and told him to show it to him. When my brother attempted to show his Identity Card the person in grey uniform hit my brother with the gun. All of
us were then ordered again to come out and
we did so.
Two boys, Kumar and Kulendran from the neighbourhood who were in our house at that time were taken to the rear of the kitchen by one of the men and asked to show where the Sinhala) were. At this time my mother and my sister Jeyamany were on the verandah. They were asked to come down. I was standing in the compound near my
brother. I asked my sister Jeyamany to go and bring my two children and my youngest sister and she left the place to do
SO.
My brother then told me in Tamil, "there is no escape for us" and grabbed the grey uniformed man's gun. To help my brother I too got hold of the gun. The grey uniformed man then cried out something in Sinhala and the khaki uniformed
Cottiyas (Tigers in
man who had gor, came back runni who received the second shot fired both my brother The man in grey mother too and is Yogamangalam grey uniform ana too and he shot three-uniformed r sister Jeyamany w children returned shots. She (Jeyam the uniformed m
mother, shoot uniformed men til While leaving the A. Vaithilingam. the spot. I under, am who ran awa shots fell into a we I went up to my had been shot in my mother that is that I too would a too. My mother Yogamangalam told my nother t
... the face. She then
I had been injur аиvау атdescape.
The two boys w rear portion of hiding came Out and asked me to told then that w and take her allor and sisters were said that she w, Mvanted us to run, two boys and I t When we were in sister and my two told me that they mother had askea
away.
We waited in then went and is following mornin to our house wh bodies of my bro, sisters. My broth one hand clutchi Card. The gold missing. I then a as best as I coula and left with my Sister.
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TAMILTIMES 9
VARASA MILY.
from Pavatkulam,
atment at the Jaffna of khaki and grey
he saw her mother,
le to the rear of the house
ng and shot my brother shot in his chest. The at hinn hit me also and and myself fell down. uniform then shot at my the fell down. My sister, Came up to the man in l asked him to shoot her her in the face. As the nen were ranning ott my ho had gone to bring my alone on hearing the gun any) then shouted out to en, "you have shot my ne, also". One of the hen shot her too and left. y shot K. Kanapathy and K. Kanapathy died on stand that A. Vaithilingy after receiving the gun laccidentally and died.
mother and saw that she the Stomach. I then told he was going to die and sk these men to shoot me asked where my sister had been injured and I hat she had been shot in stroked my hand where 2d and asked me to run
ho had been taken to the the house and were in from their hiding place
run away with them. I e must carry my mother ng with us as my brother dead. My mother then ould definitely die and away and escape. The hen ran into the jungle. the jungle my youngest children joined us. They had gone home and my l them to find us and run
the jungle till dark and tayed in a house. The g we decided to go back ere we found the dead ther, my mother and two er's dead body lay with ng his National Identity ing he was wearing was rranged the dead bodies l, kissed the dead bodies children and youngest
l to Cheddikulam and ny two children and the Reverend Sister-inonvent. I made a conna Sevaka who instructed
he to go to the Army Camp and lodg; a complaint.
At the army camp I was asked about the persons who had come to our house and I told them that I would be able to identify them if I saw them again. They then produced a person with a gun and I was asked whether the uniformed men who had come to our house possessed similar guns and I replied that two of them
possessed the same type of guns.
The army officials then told me that these uniformed men must have been Tamil terrorists posing as army personnel and I replied that they were not Tamil terrorists but Sinhala soldiers as they spoke in broken Tamil when they pointed out to my brother and asked me whether he was my husband.
I was taken in an army vehicle to the hospital where they informed the doctor that my hand may have to be amputated and that I should be sent to Anuradhapura General Hospital. Army personnel then brought a truck in which there was an old Sinhalese lady and wanted to take me to Anuradhapura Hospital. I declined saying that I had to first attend to the funeral arrangements of my brother, mother and sisters. Army personnel then left.
My cousin then came in search of me and took me on his bicycle to my house where I came to know that Ariyanathan Kalyani (30) a Sinhalese, Sritharan (14) and Rasan son of Piyadasa too had been shot dead in this incident.
When all the bodies were about to be cremated army personnel came on the scene and took away the dead bodies lying on the pyre and in the cemetery. I then travelled to Jaffna and got admitted at General Hospital Jaffna for treatment.
Abuses never justified
AI condemns the torture or killing of prisoners by anyone, including opposition groups. However, it also believes that violence by opposition groups can never justify security forces themselves resorting to violations of human rights such as torture, 'disappearances' and extrajudicial killings. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Sri Lanka acceded in 1980, specifies that under no circumstances, even in times of public emergency, may a government derogate from its obligations to protect the right to life and right not to be tortured.
SRI LANKA 'DSAPPEARANCES"
An 89-page report released by Amnesty International on 10 September, 1986 containing hundreds of cases of involuntary disappearances of persons taken into custody of Sri Lankan security forces.
Amnesty International Publications 1 Easton Street, London, WC1X 8DJ.

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IN ONE MONTH
follows:
Batticaloa.
Mullaitivu.
Three grenades found Outside Wijaya's house
Three high explosives were discovered recently by the wall skirting at the residence of Vijaya Kumaranatunga, General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya.
The Army ballistics experts who were called in found that in one grenade the firing pin had been released. But it failed to work due to a spring fault, The safety pins were on in the other two,
The grenades were discoverd by Mr. Kumaranatunga's private secretary Herman Weersuriya. Mr. Kumaranatunga had just returned from Beruwala and there were rno others at hOrne at the tirm69,
A police spokesman said that it was possible that whoever planted the bombs primed only one grenade expecting it to go off exploding the other two as well. But, this plan did not work due to a faulty spring.
Had it exploded it could have killed a man within a radius of 25 yards and caused serious injuries within a radius of 75 yards.
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Man Taken into Custody |
Found Dead
An employee of Karainagar Cey-Nor, V. Naliah, who was taken into custody by the Navy on 28.7.86 was found dead in a field, later.
A Navy Patrol had taken him into custody at the Karainagar Jetty.
When the Cey-Nor Management con tacted Naval authorities of Karainagar, they were told that Nalliah had been released.
HOME GUARDS
Remanded in Trincomalee
Over ten Home Guards are in custody at Trincomalee for offences ranging from theft to murder,
UTHAYAN reported on 28th July that a Home Guard had intimidated two Sinhalese householders and was arrested by the Uppuveli Police and brought before the Magistrate. The Magistrate ordered the confiscation of his gun and he was remanded til 7th August.
262KILLED AND 92 MISSI
262 Tamil civilians have been killed while another 96 are reported Northern and Eastern Provinces in July. According to figures supp ordinating Council of Tamil Citizens' Committees the breakdown for Bl
Dead M
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LANDMINE EX
At Kalmadu in Vavuniy convoy is reported to ha mine and as a result 4 sc and 4 others injured. This on 30th July around 3 p.m.
SHELLK TWO
T.Markandu and his si died as a result of injuries shell fired from the Jaff their house at Ariyakular son died earlier while his to his injuries later,
Home Guar(
Tamils TOM
Sinhala Home Guards families from Dehiwatt electorate to evacuate the The families have sou Eechanthivu Government
Fisherm North up i
Fishermen of North S. arms against the Fisher insisting that the li nechanised boats beren
The fishermen say the idle since the declaration zone and they have bee earnings as a result, Mc crafts are exposed to the subject to damage. Angl also prohibited.
The Community Cent informed the Divisional F Officer, Jaffna, that the a licences renewed is n context of the state fishermen are facing. appealed to the authoriti requirements of licensi such time as the prohibi the surveillance zone is li
 
 

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The Centre has as to postpone the g the boats until on order to fish in ted.
Public debt rises
to all-time high -Rs. 130.8 billion
Gross public debt rose to an all-time high of Rs. 130.8 billion by end of last year with domestic debt accounting for Rs. 63, 197 million and foreign debt for the balance Rs. . חסilliכ 67.7
Statistics released in the Central Bank bulletin for January 1986 also reveal that gross receipts in terms of domestic and foreign debt rose during 1985 from just over Rs. 100 billion at the beginning of the year by Rs. 8898.1 million in foreign loans and Rs. 18216.5 million in domestic debt.
Direct payments against rupee loans on capital and interest commitments during 1985 amounted to Rs. 4913 million while foreign debt servicing took up Rs. 1789 million. Total debt servicing for 1985 hence stood at an aggregate Rs. 6702 million.
The foreign debt includes an amount of Rs. 226 million which is accounted for by the effects of exchange rate fluctuations during the month of December. Exchange rate fluctuations are estimated to have pushed up foreign debt commitments by about Rs. 2000 million during 1985.
An analysis of foreign debt would hence disclose that exchange rate fluctuations have pushed up foreign debt commitments by more than Rs. 1789 million paid out in servicing the foreign debt for the year 1985. Foreign debt servicing took up only Rs. 1789 million while exchange rate fluctuations added on a further Rs. 2000 million approximately to the foreign debt burden.
The depreciation of the rupee against Special Drawings Rights values also resulted in a decline of 4.5 per cent in Sri Lanka's external assets in 1985 which stood at Rs. 18.3 billion at end of the year.
The bulletin further states that cumulative changes since November 1977 and end of January 1986 indicate that the Rupee had depreciated by 42 per cent against the U.S. Dollar, 25.8 per cent against the Pound Sterling 54.6 per cent against the Japanese Yen, 38.9 per cent against the DM and 38.3 per centagainstthe SDR.
NSSP MEETSTULF
A delegation from the Nava Samasamaja Party met the TULF recently to discuss the present conflict, a NSSP news release said.
The NSSP said that it had expressed its belief that two fundamental issues had to be resolved even for a temporary settlement. These were the formation of a region or province including the entire area considered to be 'the Tarnil homeland'.
The second need was the creation of a “non chauvinist” national armed force by the addition of a Tamil regiment.
The NSSP also says that the objective of a Tamil region can be achieved by enlarging the northern province by including necessary sections of the eastern province.
The NSSP added that the TULF leaders had agreed that if these two concessions are won, there is room for a negotiated settlement. :
The news release said that the TULF leaders have agreed that a breakthrough towards resolving the current problem could be a momentous occasion for the country's socialist movement and the socialist future for both the Sinhalese and the Tamils will be assured.

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SEPTEMBER 1986
1000 professionals leave for greener pastures
The hardest hit by professional brain drain in Sri Lanka in recent years are the country's universities, the Health Ministry, the Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau and the Ceylon Electricity Board.
A total of 1012 professionals in these four institutions have left service in the past few years and are presumed to have gone abroad.
The universities have lost 253 professionals, the Health Ministry 289, the Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau 263 and the Ceylon Electricity Board 207.
This is the report of the Working Group appointed by the Development Secretaries Committee to investigate the brain drain in the country.
The Report also states that the Universities and the health services have suffered most through violated agreements and bonds. 199 lecturers and 289 doctors have not returned after completing study leave, scholarships or foreign employment.
The Group unanimously agreed that the main reason for the brain drain was low salaries.
It identified as contributory factors, poor working conditions and lack of job satisfaction.
The Group has stressed the need to increase salaries in the public service and the corporation sector and to bring them on par with the private sector salaries.
PROFE THP
THE GENERAL Organisation of tions in Sri L professional bod different disciplir 22,000 individua, 26th June 19 prevailing natior the ethnic con damaging the pro The forum wa: crisis has reac, proportions and Solution of a pea process of negoti soon, that this c fissure all section an extent it will in rebuilding difficu COf 69.
The OPA ap parties, non-go tions, citizens an above partisan pc and demonstrate ing, сотрassion
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The Cost of
The Annual Report operative Stores Ltd
12,000 Lankan babies adopted abroad
About 12,000 Sri Lankan babies have been taken abroad for adoption in the last ten years.
In 1985 alone, 1530 babies were taken abroad and adopted while 36 were adopted by Sri Lankans during the same period.
The Probation and Child-care Services Department had streamlined the adoption
procedure. This was of children or 1 engaging in illegal ch said the Commission Mrs. Vinitha Jayasin dealt only with State registered agencies ir | Mrs. Jayasinghe sa to keep track of a chil within a chosen fan years of adoption. I ment have been extre
35,506 on drug charges
Drug enforcement authorities in Sri Lanka have arrested 35,506 persons for drug offences during the period 1980-1985 sources said yesterday.
These sources also said that 1,451 kilogrammes of a variety of drugs, including cannabis, hashish, opium and heroin, were seized by them during this period.
During the period under review, sources said 28,853 persons had been arrested for cannabis-related offences, 5437 for heroinrelated offences, 827 for opium-related offences and 389 for hashish-related offences. During the same period 892 kilogrammes of cannabis, 255 kilogrammes of hashish, 240 kilogrammes of opium and 64 kilogrammes of heroin had also been seized by the authorities.
Except for heroin, arrests of persons in connection with offences related to other drugs had dropped, at least minutely, each year.
There were no arrests made in connection with heroin related offences in 1980. However, eight were arrested in 1981. Thirty three in 1982, 263 in 1983, 1794 in 1984 and 3339 in 1985, sources said.
SL Tea fé out to Co
Lanka's tea trade is crisis with local mai increasingly uncomp markets, Finance Mi warned recently.
"We must wake up our tea will face then only in declining pri uncompetitive in inte said.
Addressing the A Chamber Of Comme "Every country that c now. We must taker the new technologi industry.'
He said Kenya, or Competitors, was exclusively CTC teas enjoyed a good markets.
Kenya's cost of pro Lanka's Rs. 40 a kilc yield per hectare was to 900 kilos here.

TAM TIMES 1 1
SSIONALS FORSOLUTION OUGH NEGOTIATIONS
FORUM of the Professional Associanka, constituting 22 es and associations of es, that represent over professionals met on 6 to consider the all crisis arising from ict that is seriously gress of our country.
of the view that this led such dangerous that unless immediate ceful nature through a ations is arrived at very risis will fracture and s of our society to such lake reconciliation and it for a long time to
Jeals to all political vernmental organisad citizen groups to rise litics and sectarianism a spirit of understandand love with the sole
intention of reaching an immediate political solution. If there is one time and one period in the modern history of our country, that calls for a spirit of sincerity and puts the responsibilities of citizenship to test, that moment in our history has arrived,
The General Forum of the OPA thanks the Government and the political parties for participating in a dialogue with a view to arrive at a political solution, and appeals to the Government and all political parties to accept the mechanism of constitutional reform as a basis to arrive at a form of Government compatible with the plurality of different cultures, races, languages and religions.
The OPA on its part, offers its services and that of the professionals and professional bodies constituting the OPA to help in anyway they can towards the process of a speedy settlement and also to allay the fears and doubts that impede the formulation of a solution.
Dr. Sirial de Silva (President)
Arson
of the Jaffna Co, for the current year
done to stop any 'sale' mushroom agencies ild adoption activities, er of the Department, ghe. The department
recognised and State foreign countries. ys that it is impossible d's on-going progress 'ily after the first two incidents of maltreatmely rare.
reveals that the Jaffna Co-operative Stores Ltd., in north Sri Lanka, suffered a loss of Rs. 14,474,325/- resulting from the army rampage on April 9th 1984 at Hospital Road near Our Lady of Refuge Church in Jaffna.
The insurance Corporation has refused to pay its claim for compensation. Even an appeal made to obtain relief from the President's Fund was turned down.
The main office of the Jaffna Co-operative Stores, its several Departmental Stores, Wholesale Dept., Cigarette Sales Section, Textile Department, Pharmacy, Sales Section of the Schweppes Department and the Canteen vivere completely gutted, when the army set fire to the stores.
The Motor Department sustained only partial destruction.
ast losing mpetitors
heading for a serious nufacturers becoming btitive in international mister Ronnie de Mel
- and fast. Otherwise 1ost serious crisis, not :es, but by becoming national markets,' he
GM of the Ceylon Ce the minister Said: an grow tea is doing it otice of this and also cal advances in the
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producing almost (for tea bags) which 'emand in western
łuction was half of Sri , while their average 3,000 kilos compared
Roman Catholic ChurchJaffna University Campus
The opening of the new Roman Catholic Good Shepherd Church by the Roman Catholic Bishop the Rt. Rev. D. Deogupillai took place at the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka on 5th July, 1986 at 3.30 p.m. in the presence of a distinguished gathering.
The speakers at this function were the Rt. Rev. D. J. Ambalavanar, Bishop of the Jaffna Diocese of the C.S.I. and Prof. S. Withiananthan Vice Chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
A Souvenir to mark the occasion was released by the Roman Catholic Association of the Students.
The Souvenir was introduced by Mr. S. Jebanesan and distributed to the distinguished guests by the Vice Chancellor.
The Rev. Fr. Anton Mathias proposed a vote of thanks. This was followed by a Cultural Show organised and presented by the Roman Catholic Students at the University.

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12 TAMILTIMES
NOW TAMILS ON
'The whole truth .. , aS 1
"In our despair, we silently made our peace with God an grave, whenlo and behold we saw a faint glimmer of ho said Mr. Nalliah Wijayanathan (46) soon after he and 15 rescued by Canadian fishing trawlers off the coast of New
The large influx of castaway asylumseekers from Sri Lanka sparked off a week-long nation-wide controversy in Canada with the people, press and the television media, all taking sides and airing their views on the broader aspects of the refugee problem. ; Mr. Wijayanathan recounted in graphic detail their perilous journey across the Atlantic, which he said could very well have ended with tragic consequences.
A quiet soft-spoken accountant, Mr. Wijayanathan was working in Tillys Beach Hotel, Mount Lavinia, when one day, in July 1983, all hell broke loose. His hotel was attacked, ransacked and finally burnt down to the ground by angry Sinhalese mobs. He said, “All the employees and the hotel guests fled in terror, seeking refuge and shelter from the knife-wielding rustics and murderers. I ran to a friend's home and later was housed in the Refugee Camp at Sirimavo Bandaranaike Maha Vidyalaya for 12 days from 27th July to 8th August. I was then sent by train to Jaffna, where I
hoped I could have a peaceful life and
make a living there. Soon it became evident to me that the parting of the ways had already begun. Jaffna was turning
out to be a virtual battlefield with the
army and the Tamil militants exchanging frequent fire, in the process of which many homes were ransacked and des
troyed, and many innocent persons taken in for questioning, quite a few never to be
with a Mr. Ratnam,
heard of thereafter.
"I was taken in for questioning in April 1984 when the Naga Vihara in Jaffna was burnt. I was grilled and closely questioned about the militant youths and their
activities. I managed to plead my inno
cence and was released after 14 days. I then decided that Jaffna was no longer a place for me to live with any measure of security.
“I came back to Colombo in October 1983, hoping that the bitterness and anguish would have died down, and that I could try to forget the past and start life all over again in Colombo. Attempts made by me to secure a job ended in dismal failure. I met with negative response to advertisements calling for hotel personnel. I was often told that I could not be employed because I was a Tamil and therefore a security risk in the prevailing ethnic situation. I therefore decided to seek my fortunes in a foreign land.
'On 5th July 1984 I joined a flight for East Germany via Moscow, and on 7th July crossed over to West Germany. It soon dawned on me that Germany was no
paradise and had very li way of a job or securi Lankans I was housed i paltry allowance to exis bide my time till we w to Sri Lanka Sooner or forbidden to work and placed on our movemer
“We could not go allotted to us and wer security checks. Fines r 125. Deutschmarks w those caught outside t was no prospect for u. status. Under these began making discreet ting out of Germany. F we had heard that refug in Canada, given oppoi and to work and live in get across the Atlantic question.
The news of how a Lankan Tamis set sa ned near the shores o in Canada hit the h international press re liah MVijayanathan g account of the tragi refugees, including th cumstances in which Sri Lanka.
“It was about this ti by word of mouth that s exploring the possibilit ple across to Canada some intermediaries I e
obtain a passage for m for a fee of 5,000 D assured me that he wo port on a ship for abou to Canada, and that W three meals a day, gi cook, and provided wit ing water, toilet facilit asked to be in readin moment's notice. We under no circumstance vulge our point of di other related informat maintain the story th India, on pain of depo Sri Lanka. We all agre conditions laid down by “On the evening of . taken in batches by \ dock and boarded a Sn about 30km west of H all made to descend a the hold of the ship, ourselves in the midst Lankans, all herded tog ''A dim light overhe and two lifeboats were

SEPTEMBER 1986
30AT TO CANADA
old by Wijayanathan
were getting ready to face certain death in a watery pe in the form of a tiny boat in the distant horizon," 4 Sri Lankan Tamil men, women and children were foundland on 11th August 1986.
ttle to offer me by ty. Like most Sri in a camp, given a t and told I had to are all repatriated later. We were all restrictions were tS. out of the areas 2 often subject to anging from 25 to ere imposed on heir areas. There s to improve our circumstances we enquiries of getDr Some time now, ees were welcome tunities for Study, peace. But how to
· was the nagging
nd why 155 Sri il to be abandof Newfoundland eadlines of the cently. Mr. Nalives a detailed 'c tale of these e harrowing cirhe himself left
me that we heard ome persons were y of ferrying peoby ship. Through stablished contact
who offered to e on board a ship eutschmarks. He uld arrange transLt 200 Sri Lankans e would be served ven provisions to h adequate drinklies etc. We were ess to leave at a were warned that es were we to diparture and any ion. We were to
it we sailed from rtation straight to ed to abide by the
the organisers. ... 7th July, we were 'an to a deserted allship in Strade, amburg. We were
n iron ladder into where we found
of about 150 Sri ether.
ad, a small cooker all that we saw in
the otherwise empty hold, but now jampacked with human cargo. On one side we saw in a heap on the iron floor a fair quantity of bread, some tins of soup, jam, butter and four barrels of water.
“On the following morning we felt the engines start and we soon were sailing. It was only then that it dawned on us that we were going to be ferried across the Atlantic in the manner of slave ships. The only toilets we were provided with were three open buckets. For 14 days we were all crammed into the ship's hold, devoid of fresh air, with the floor awash with human waste and the rolling ship spilling the meagre precious supply of drinking Water.
“Within a few days the bread had turned mouldy and foul-smelling. During the latter part of our horrifying journey many went without the rotting bread, and water was rationed. Many felt sea-sick and vomited. The three families were a little luckier, having been given two cabins to share, with some privacy. We were forbidden to go to the upper deck för some fresh air, on pain of being shot by the captain. " ."צי י> . ; י
"Rumour was afloat that the name of the ship was altered on the run, the cross ensign on the funnel was erased, and the funnel painted black, the Plimsoll line was repainted in such a way to show that the ship was heavily laden with cargo, and the flag of the ship changed.
"All these made us wonder as to what was eventually going to happen to us and where we would be dropped, if at all this was to be a reality.
'On 9th August we saw the two lifeboats being lifted up. Shortly thereafter, we were asked to go up to the upper deck and board the two lifeboats now bobbing beside the ship, by means of a rope ladder.
Continued on page 14

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SEPTEMBER - 1986
MMITNESS TO
WHILE THE Tamils who landed on Canada's east coast last week changed their story of the route they took, there is no doubt that in their Sri Lankan homeland members of the Tamil minority fear persecution by the ruling Sinhalese.
Maclean's Montreal bureau correspondent Bruce Wallace spoke to some of the newest members of the Montreal Tamil community: For Marimuthu Thavarajah, the nightmare began in April, 1978, with a late-night knock on the door of his stone cottage in Northern Sri Lankan farming village of Chankanai. While his wife and two young children watched, six Sinhalese policemen arrested Thavarajah for conspiring with Tamil militants against the Sri Lankan government and took him to jail. There, he says, they hanged him by his feet with ropes, held his face down on a table and beat his heels with a bat. Tamil villagers found Thavarajah, then a 28-year-old truck driver, by the roadside where he had been abandoned for dead and drove him 10km to Jaffna General Hospital where he recovered. But Thavarajah - one of the 155 Tamil refugees to seek asylum in Canada last week - said his life remained in peril as long as he stayed in Sri Lanka. From the Montreal hotel room where he spent his first night in his new city, Thavarajah told Maclean's: “Chankanai was the home of my family for generations. But living in safety is more important.”
Escape : .
Most lifeboat passengers found drifting off Newfoundland coast last week were young adult male Tamils. Like many of them, said Thavarajah, he lived in constant fear of what he described as increasingly indiscriminate violence by the Sri Lankan military. In his desperate bid to escape, Thavarajah left behind his family and carried no mementos of his former life - he even sold his wedding ring to finance the trip. Despite the warm greeting by ... the Montreal Tamil community, refugees like Thavarajah face the difficult task of learning two new languages and finding jobs. Said Prins Rajaselvan, 38, an unemployed air cargo manager who flew from Colombo to New York via London before crossing onto Canada on a Greyhound bus last February: “Sometimes I get up in the morning and wonder what to do with the rest of my day. I do not want to be: a
burden on Society.'
Thavarajah said that local fishermen in Sri Lanka will often rent their boats to escaping Tamils. Last January, Thavarajah decided to join the exodus as the first step in his plan to move his family out of Sri Lanka. After travelling to the north to a tiny coastal fishing village, he slipped on to a fishing boat at night, along with five other Tamils to cross the 22-mile Palk Strait to India. The army often shoots at the boats, said Thavarajah. But there
are sympathetic for the cost off
Thavarajahs art i Indian refu north to live W city of Madra month he pai (3300 Cdn. dol Montreal. Thav travelled on the had no contact refugees below. overboard in li
Tamil prisoner
he and his felle they were clos cheated," he sai
Violence
Still, many ob the violence in Tamils will find the country. “M as long as I left said Lakshmana
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TAMILTIMES 13
A NIGHTMARE
people who will take you el.” id he spent one month in ee camp, then travelled th friends in the coastal . He claimed that last | 30,000 Indian rupees ars) for i his journey to arajah said that his group upper deck of a ship and with the crew or other When they were dropped eboats into the Atlantic,
DW. refugees thought that e to shore. “We were d....
servers say that as long as Sri Lanka continues,
inventive ways to leave y aim was to go anywhere he shores of Sri Lanka.' n Kumaradeva, 30, who
escaped last May escorted by two elderly women. "I pretended I was off my nut to get past military check points, he recounted. . . . . . . . . .
But problems persist among the swelling ranks of Montreal's Tamil refugee community. Even well educated and skilled Tamils have had difficulty finding suitable work and monthly welfare payments for single people under 30 are only 163 dollars. Said Selva Ponnuchamy, President of the Eelam Tamil Association in Montreal and an employed chemist:
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s' guarded by government soldier.
"Tamils will do any kind of work. But many of us are accountants and engineers, so the frustration grows. Still, those obstacles seem mundane to refugees whose memories of violence remain vivid. Said 23-year-old Ravi Raveenthiran, who arrived in Montreal last year: 'I hope for marriage and I hope to go back to school. But for now at least I am safe."
(Courtesy. Maclean's, August 25, 1986.)
WATIONAL IDENTITY OF MLS MUST BEACCEPTED
process has now reached t bottom, the main issue at ptance or not of the Sri as a distinct nationality, ations to preserve and eparate national identity ected and provided for. It ctical shape in the debate and to give the northern rovicial Councils the right e. w
int negotiations have lethora of new proposals in province, ranging from » two linguistic Provincial shoe-string P.C. for the le notagreeing in full with e proposals made, vive
nevertheless regard this factor as evidence of welcome re-thinking of former dogmatic and absolutist positions. And as for the forms of cooperation of the units that are finally set up, including merger, we have no objection other than to assert that the voluntary principle is respected.
The most important result of the peace. process so far is that it is moving forward. Everything therefore must be done to make it easier for the third round of talks to begin soon and to succeed. A viable cease fire between the government and the armed Tamil organisations will be an enormously important contribution to this. ". .
(Editorial, 'Forward', (Colombo) 1.9.86.)

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14 TAMILTIMES
Boat People Get
"We are now smiling for the first time since we left Sri Lanka," said one of the 155 Tamil refugees who surprised the world after they were rescued from their dangerously overloaded lifeboats by Canadian fishermen off the coast of Newfoundland on August 12 and brought ashore with the aid of the Canadian coastal guards.
A group of the Tamil refugees, all in their early 20s, talked to this Correspondent from a temporary residence somewhere in the sprawling city of Toronto. They preferred to remain anonymous for fear that what they said might be misconstrued in Canada where they remain still in the eye of a public storm for having 'lied' initially to the Canadian authorities that they came by a mini-ship all the way from India. But, later, when it was known that they had come by ship from a small port in West Germany, a fierce controversy, fanned by rightwing conservative elements and their press, the question was raised whether they should be accepted or returned.
A few days later, at a press conference held by them at Toronto, it was admitted by their spokesman that they had found their way to Canada from West Germany and not from India as they had originally claimed.
A statement to the effect that they "deeply regretted' at not having been open and forthright in their original statement about the country from which they had come and that they "pray for forgiveness' was made on their behalf. It was explained that they
FrOrm R. Ch
(By Courtesy of “The Hinc
s: .
were pressured and wa
their point of depart those who helped them Canada in search of a pe
This statement which categorical assurance Prime Minister, Mr. B. Canada vould not tur Tamils who would be sion in the best traditic cleared the atmospher least momentarily, ther
Of the 155 Sri Lankan at Newfoundland, 61
i Toronto, Ontario Provin
treal in Ouebec. One m. in a Newfoundland ho few Christian and Mu group. They have beet homes by the Tamil cor cities and have receive mits from the Canadiar last week, nearly 50 oft offers oftemporary emp Mr. Wijayanathan N leaders of the local Eel tion, said that after an a the Tamil community Canadian television ni employment for them This, he said, showed people were sympath immigrants. In due c( apply for 'refugee' sta
Tamils on Boat To Canada Continued from page 12
“The captain bodily pushed some of the slower ones and made us descend post-haste into the boats. This was a nerve-wracking experience for most of us, especially the women and children, some of whom had to be passed from hand to hand down to the boats. While we were happy to breathe some fresh air after 14 days, we were now to face fresh dangers.
“As we were descending the captain told us that he would tow the two lifeboats to shallow waters, about 5 or 10km from the Montreal beach, and that thereafter we should steer 350 degrees north west. - * “He did tow the two boats for an hour or two, and then cut the tow rope and vanished into thin air. We then found ourselves being tossed about by the waves, when we fitted the only motor to one lifeboat and towed the other, both of which were heavily laden with the 155 of U.S.
“All that we were given were two barrels of water and a can of gasoline, with which we were told we could reach land in three or four hours, but in actual fact, this nightmare journey was to last two days and three nights over a distance of probably 100km. On the last day we had neither water nor gasoline. We were by this time weak and exhausted. We allowed ourselves to drift and were at the mercy of the waves, and the wind.
“On the last day, survival was fast rece silent prayers, and m pacts, including the 11-month child. Many sea-sick.
“While some con others retched and vomiting blood. Due conditions in the life plained of swollen ank while others openly n end had come. Just a
fishing boat spotted us
summoned aid, and be
rescued by the "Atla
treated to food, drinks
, We were whisked to
the waiting arms of t many other social org August. <
“In Newfoundland man for the 155 Sri L tained the story that v India, as were our inst before long we realis come clean and tell th dian people and the whole truth and nothin
“On 17th August, treal II made the follc the news media at a “The Government and in their quiet and ge traditionally given rei many countries in ti
suffering. We strongl

SEPTEMBER 1986
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rned not to divulge ure or give away in their voyage to rmanent home. was tollowed by a rom the Canadian ian Mulroney that n its back on the shown all Compasons of Canada had e and silenced, at ghtwing elements. Tamils who anded have been sent to ce, and 93 to Mongrant is sick and is spital. There are a sim Tamils in the found temporary mmunity in the two d employment perauthorities. As of hem have received iloyment. aliah, one of the am Tamil Associappeal was made by leaders over the etworks, offers of were pouring in. that the Canadian etic to the Tami 2urse, they would tus. A long drawn
out procedure was involved in this, and, when once they got this status, they would have the privileges of Canadian citizens. .
The group of Tamil youths, who talked to this Correspondent, said they had left Sri Lanka after persecution by the Sri Lanka's Sinhala-dominated Army. Some of them had received severe beatings and a few suffered internal injuries with the result they were unable to take normal food. They had found various means of travel to reach West Germany. Some went to East Berlin and were able to cross the Berlin Wall.
Asked why they left West Germany, they said though they were getting financial doles, food and shelter, they were unhappy there because they experienced enforced idleness. 'We don't want to live free,' one of them said. "We want to take up employment and earn our livelihood, and continue our education. But no permission is given either to work or to study.' Mentally, it was a stifling experience, they said.
The group declined to name the Sri Lankan agent who arranged their trip to Canada or the freighter by which they made the journey or its captain. They said they entered the boat at a small port whose name they were not aware. They entered the freighter before dawn and the name of the vessel was not visible.
They narrated a harrowing travel experience and an even more traumatic experience in the lifeboat journey until their rescue by Canadian fishermen near the Newfoundland coast. 'It is our intention to settle down to normal life,' they said.
when all hope of ding, we said our any made suicide couple and their felt ill and were
tinually vomited,
saw one person to the cramped boats, many comles and numbness, murmured that the at this time a tiny s at a distance and afore long we were intic Reaper' and
and warm clothes. Newfoundland into he Red Cross and anisations on 11th
I acted as spokesankans and mainwe had sailed from ructions. However, ed that we had to e hospitable Canaworld at large the g but the truth. on arrival in Monwing statement to press conference: people of Canada, nerous way, have fuge to citizens of mes of crisis and y believe that our
plight is no different from that of many others who have benefited from this compassion.
“We deeply regret not having been open and forthright at the outset. We were pressured and warned not to divulge our point of departure, or to give away those who helped us and any other information related to our voyage. We were under severe physical and mental. stress. Our motivation was desperation in our search for a permanent home.
“We would like to take this opportunity to share the experience of our voyage with you. We boarded a ship in Germany on 27th July and sailed the next morning. All 155 of us were dropped from the ship on to the two small lifeboats on 9th August and provided with two barrels of water and gas. We wandered and drifted in the ocean, losing hope of surviving.
“We are truly thankful to the fishermen who spotted us on 11th August. We would also like to express our deep-felt appreciation to the government, national and local, private agencies and to all individuals who saved us from certain death, ended our suffering and made us feel welcome.
"We deeply regret misleading all people of goodwill in Canada. We pray for forgiveness, not only from the Almighty but also from the people of Canada. We plead that you will treat us with the same understanding and compassion that you have accorded to all others who came
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seeking refuge and peace in Canada'.

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eters to the Editor
The Turks and the Tamils
THE Government of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus headed by Mr. Denktash, already recognised by Turkey, continues to make headlines because of the deep involvement of the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Perez de Cuellar, to find an acceptable solution between the Greek majority (400,000) and the Turkish minority (150,000) in the Island of Cyprus.
It is understood that Bangladesh, Malaysia and Pakistan are also likely to grant recognition.
In the course of an interruption at the UN General Assembly on October 5, 1978, Isaid "... There is real danger of the Tamil problem threatening the peace of the Indian Region. The problem in Sri Lanka will develop to be as serious as the Palestinian and Cyprus problems unless you, the world leaders, intervene and help in its solution now ...'. All three have now become as intractable as the lirish one.
President Junius of Sri Lanka, obviously in a mood of utter despair and helplessness, mingled with a tinge of impotent warning to his people, recently declared that the way the Tamil freedom fighters are waging their struggle, Sri Lanka would soon be partitioned as has happened in Cyprus.
From the on-going 'involvement' of India in the "internal' affairs of the Sri Lankan ethnic crisis, it would appear that the Indian Government policy makers regard the Tamil Eelam crisis as their own backyard problem and therefore do not welcome outsiders such as even the Commonwealth Secretary-General to offer his good offices to solve the crisis.
So, is it prudent and wise for us to leave the entire fate and future of the Tamil Eelam people to be decided by New Delhi Of course, every Tamil values and treasures our link-up with India, particularly Tamil Nadu.
i
Does this mea the help and supp Turkey?
True, too true, t So, What? Don' living in what sc global village? Di much significanc
lf only we Ta appeal to the Gov our issue at the same time for co support India in i our problem, ther first to welcome Republic of North it is true Cyprus member of the NC therefore India su Government in N recognise the new Government. But able to continu Movement becau Government sen Cyprus and secu which prevented NATO.
Are we to be bot likes and dislikes hundreds of our cc and children - are killed by the Sri notoriously ill-disc
Now then - her new dimension - help. The 52 millic 100% Muslim, car in its efforts. So, ho
The Tamil Ee support the Turk recognition of til Turkish Republic c a political formula Tamis can them Government of De
No doubt the people and the whatever they car to win back their ence.
THE GENERATION GAP
YOUR JOURNAL assumes an interest in the issues raised only among the English educated. You will certainly remember that only a five or six per cent of the Sri Lankan population comprise the elite, the English educated. Thanks to Swabasha.
The present problems of the Tamil Community in particular concern the future of every single Sri Lankan, whether he is back at home or here in splendid isolation or fleeing the Country for dear life.
Even if you cater only to the Expatriate population and the international community, what you must never forget is that the vast majority of the 'fleeing' Tamils are youths and have little or no knowledge of the language your Journal speaks. That we have a date with destiny cannot be gainsaid.
Why not devote a page or two to Sinhala and Tami. That should kindle an interest for an understanding of the Heavier Stuff your Journal may contain in English
Besides, we should like to know the thinking caused by the 'generation gap'.
..ondon Expatriate Youth
Sorry for be
A FEW days back from a friend in 1 wrote about your Times going ... E having had so m people in the cour up two schools sympathise with y There were nur felt sorry for havir people are so : someone else to unforgivable that dies that have appears very little tudes and values. interest at least o our people: but w ing that interest i they retreat. Peo lances . . . see not a copy of the Tam it is my view th away from Ceylor Paper. It is not by I wish your Pa supported to mak
Transkei, South Afric
 

that we must not ask for ort of other countries-say
at Turkey is so far awaywe realise that we are me leading people cal a tance has ceased to have
mils can approach and rnment of Turkey to raise nited Nations and at the Intries such as Turkey to s gallant efforts to solve think India would be the it. As far as the Turkish brn Cyprus is concerned,
is a country that is a n-Aligned Movement and ports the Cyprus (Greek) icosia and not happy to ly formed Turkish Cypriot Turks say that Cyprus was e in the Non-Aligned se in 1974 the Turkish
its Armed Forces into red a de facto partition Cyprus itself joining the
und allthetime by Delhi’s - even when it means impatriots — men, women being wantonly shot and Lankan Chauvinist and iplined soldiers? e is a chance - for some new force to come to our in Turkish people, almost help us and assist India )w do we set about it? lam leadership should cish Government in its he Government of the f Northern Cyprus, and if could be found, then the Iselves 'recognise' the nktash. , . . . . . Turkish Government, its urkish Cypriots will do | for the Tamils of Eelam freedom and independK. Vaikunthavasan
ing born a Tamil
I received a long letter Montreal. In his letter he efforts to keep the Tamil eing a Tamil myself and ich experience with our se of my struggle to build in Sri Lanka, I can purplight. erous occasions when I g been born a Tamil. Our elfish, always wanting make the sacrifice. It is even after all the trageow befallen us, there change in people's attiWearly every chap shows stwardly in the plight of len it comes to translatterms of financial help, le with large bank baing wrong in borrowing Times to read it rt every Tamil ... living must contribute to your any standard a sacrifice er could be adequately it a fortnightly issue.
Subscriber
TAMİL TEMES 15
The Monks are at it again
ACCORDING to recent reports some seven hundred Buddhist Monks appear to have met in Colombo and resolved to fast unto death if further 'concessions' are 'given' to the Tamils consequent to the Peace Talks under way. Fasts in their true sense, are undertaken to encourage and sustain mental discipline in the human endeavour to sublimate thought. The Buddha used meditation successfully to achieve the mental discipline to attain enlightenment.
Mahatma Gandhi fasted to collect his thoughts and retain his equanimity in times of turmoil when the common feeling in the Country ran counter to his principles of Ahimsa and non violence. He succeeded because the people all over the world, not merely in India itself, loved him as a passionate disciple of the principles for which he lived and died for,
Therefore, if politics is not the name of the game as we understand it by the proposed Fast unto Death, one has to be only consoled by the thought that these seven hundred Buddhist priests must come out better souls, more towards the Enlightened One than they are now although one cannot fail to observe why they were so belated in their attempt. Equally they are a small insignificant minority (hopefully again) compared to the vast numbers of the Priests against whom it is unfair and unjust to allege the same conduct typified by the seven hundred.
One cannot however help being struck by the number of abrogated Pacts and broken promises by Sri Lankan governa ments over half a century largely by Marches and Sit-lns, also purported to be Fasts unto Death.
London SW17 S.G. Varadan
Protest Against New Immigration Controls in U.K.
in one week we have seen the introduction of a visa system for certain countries whose residents are almost entirely black, and the decision to deport a two-year old, separating him from his parents in Bradford.
As members of the British churches responsible for matters of racial justice, we wish to object in the strongest terms to these two extreme manifestations of the racist immigration system. To abandon both would in no way reduce our opposition to the legislation as a whole, whose cruelty and inhumanity they expose so clearly. But it would reduce the damaging effects on families in general and on one family in particular. John Reardon, (United Reformed Church). Tony Holden, (Methodist Church Division of Social Responsibility). John Fethney, (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel). Kenneth Leech, Mavis Fernandes, (Church of England Board for Social Responsibility). Olu Abiola, (Council of African and Allied Churches UK). Lionel Fernando, (Church Missionary Society). Ann Sutcliffe, (United Reformed Church). Martin Wyatt, (Ouaker Community Relations Committee). Donald Black, (Baptist Union). Raj Patel, (Evangelical Christians for Racial Justice). Richard Zipfel, (Committee for Community Relations, Catholic Bishops Conference). Keith Jenkins, (British Council of Churches). Ian Rathbone, (Christians Against Racism and Fascism). Esrne Beswick, Black Pastors Conference). John Campbell, (Zebra Project).

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15 AMLTIMES
Canada's Weed For AE
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THERE are various ways of looking at an event like the welcoming of 155 new Tamil refugees into Canada. The evident aspects as perceived by journalists and the media have been given adequate coverage. But the occasion can also provide a discernment situation when certain sentiments hidden deep down are brought to the surface.
Canadian Response: ADMIRABLE
On the whole, both the government authorities and the ordinary Canadian people have come through in an admirable way. Even yesterday morning, a young Canadian lady called me, and offered another three bedroom apartment for the recent immigrants, if the need arose. Such acts of generosity amply redeem the uncharitable rhetoric of a few disgruntled people who neither help, nor let others help. They like to play the proverbial dog in the manger. And that is their right. They do not act; they only react.
Brian Mulroney, whatever his inadequacies as PM, he certainly remains close to the heart of what it is to be a North American and Canadian. His words need to be pondered by people on both sides of the border. North America cannot be true to itself, if it closes its borders to new arrivals. ). .܇X
in Practice: RESTRICTIVE ६ The major question remains: in this time and age, do refugees have to take such awful risks to come to Canada? And why do they have to come in as gatecrashers who are put on hold for a year, and not as respectable, legal immigrants? One reason for refugees to take such risks and find extra-legal (some might call it 'illegal') ways of coming here is because Canada though it officially has an open, liberal policy as regards immigrants and refugees, in practice, at the Embassies and Consular Offices, the policy is most restrictive in that Visas are rarely issued to those in real need, and who have legitimate sponsors in this country. I am speaking specifically of the situation of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
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; Ottawa does have a special policy in place for Sri Lankan Tamils who are sponsored by relatives here. But the consular authorities in London and Delhi and Colombo have another. They are unconscionably strict as to who can get in. Except for a few hundred who were det in after the pogrom in July 1983, they have made it virtually impossible for many deserving cases to migrate to Canada. Statistics for the last two years will clearly show that.
Why is it so? First, there is the pressure of the Sri Lankan Government which gives its own interested picture to the
Policy On Immigrat
Canadian officials ther sals” have been the Ja ernment's way of buying and arms, to keep the hegemony going. Seconc keep up appearances let
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ho have come in legally since that poor immigrants. fe been gradually Washington and lines to be extraan Tamils. It is ri Lankan Tamils isa for legitimate g a funeral or ling parent or for undland, is one of be thus sealed off. w come by land edulously refuses ls) or air (through ther country that ey have turned to SCd. gly admire their new ways to beat ondemning the iho get rich on
emember that the not totally of their colonial powers ally the British - r for their own nationalities and Western style endence came, it or this type of nerate into a ajority, with no or basic fair play. ity, there is the archy (of a few which stays in the benefits of exploiting the stay in power.
ED WITH UK
riticising West n so generous in nds (how many liken?), but which integrate into the looking good by s to have a more blicy not only in freign embassies hade. ሰ ose who come in,
Father Joachim Pillai is Profes-' sor of New Testament Studies at the Toronto School of Theology, Canada. He was formerly Professor at the National Theological Seminary at .
Ampitiya in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
come in illegally. The boat episode is just one very visible form of it. Every week, so many others come in illegally, and find the same kind of generous welcome, while many very deserving cases sponsored
legally by close relatives who are Canadian citizens, are kept waiting indefinitely,
WITH NO EXTERNAL WOUNDS : »
The reasons often given by those immigration officials for not letting them in, are that they have not yet been attacked, that they have no external wounds or burnt-out houses to show.
The populous State of Madras in Southern India has taken in 150,000 refugees, in addition to the half a million Indian Tamils who were forcefully deported from Sri Lanka as stateless people, though they slaved for a century and more in the tea-plantations which remain the major source of income for Sri Lanka. : في * * * *
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Canada, a Commonwealth country with a small population and vast resources can do more. The enlightened political leadership in Ottawa has indeed a liberal policy, but that policy is hardly reflected in the Consular Offices and Embassies which have virtually sealed off all legal, front-door entry to the Sri Lankan Tamils.
What is worse, they expose these people to false hopes and great danger by inviting them for pro-forma interviews in Colombo and New Delhi. With the present civil strife in Sri Lanka, it is often as dangerous to make these trips from Jaffna to Colombo as to be adrift in lifeboats off the coast of Newfoundland.
One has also to hear the horror stories of how the so-called Medical clearance is used to make them undergo endless medical examinations, numerous X-rays, Superfluous operations; they are made to take all kinds of unnecessary medicines, because the medical authority discovers patches in the lungs, murmurs in the heart, growths in the body . . . This type of cruelty - a sort of entry by ordeal - has to stop. No wonder, many prefer the more costly, extra-legal way.
At present, under the pretext of a special program, Sri Lankan Tamils who have become. Canadian citizens do not seem to have even the normal privilege of Canadian citizens to sponsor their close relatives. Reunion of families used to be an important factor in allowing new immigrants. It is still invoked for Europeans, and specially Russian Jews. But in the case of the Tamils, it has been made
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continued from page 16 well-nigh impossible during the last few INTERS
CS m y To insist that they should have been RENA beaten up or shot at or raped before they BO are allowed to rejoin their families, is w hardly a just way of proceeding. People TAMİL C are thus constrained to lie or make up SAVT stories. * 、 ・ ・ By. K. C
Both the Foreign Ministry and the M.Sc., C. Che Immigration Ministry should take this (Revised Pri opportunity to set clear guidelines, and not let people's right to emigrate depend Books in Engl on the whims of bureaucratic officials. 1. Introducti Often, there is no way of appealing Second Edition against a heartless decision. 2. A Date witl Let me conclude with what Pope John on Saiva Siddh XXIII — an enlightened moral leader of 3. Introducti the Western nations – wrote in his cele- Hinduism brated encyclical Pacem in Terris (Peace Primer for B. on Earth): “Every human being has the 4. Mჭმუჭუჭყ right to freedom of movement and of ஆதா residence within the confines of his own 5. Thiruk-Ku. community; and when there are just Selected Trans reasons for it, the right to emigrate to B
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other countries, and take up residence there. The fact that one is a citizen of a 6. ಸ್ಥಿಖ್ಖN particular State does not detract in any : s way from his membership in the human 7. 4. family as a whole, nor from his citizen- 8. Wi d
. Viduthalai ship in the world community. on Thiruvacag
Such grace and wisdom should at least For Post marginally inspire the laws of even secu- please ac lar nation-states, specially those which Allow Two have a Christian background, and which TR 72 KK came into being by the coming together "ToNo
of displaced persons.
SONG FOR TAMIL EELAM
Ohl my People, ". ४.९४ • Scattered around the world, Wait in hope and faith
The day of Tamil Eelam will come.
Come back O'God, To this timeless land of ours See my People suffer, their dreams Sunk in despair untold; Hope tearing at their heart and soul; Our hearts bleed for you - Words can never be enough For people who give so much.
Our young rose in ardour great, Gave their lives for tomorrow's land. Who could ever understand The brave hearts of these our youth? We hear the cry from deep within Obrave hearts carry on 1 In our land your drums will sound Your Spirits will live on.
Ohl my Mother-landl You cry in anguish for Jaffna, Mannar barren, Vanni dry, , For Water in Batti and Trinco, The singing fish and blue lagoon; In honour and dignity, One day we'll drink again - In freedon full and fair.
By courtesy of Ceylon Tamil Association (Victoria)
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CRISISINSRI LANKA — CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE
Tragic events in Sri Lanka demand immediate attention and international alert. The situation is desperate and not yet hopeless. There is still time for preventive action before the conflict reaches a point of no return.
The South and South-East Asian Committee of University of California Los Angeles (U.C.LA) and International Alert against Genocide and Mass Killings are jointly convening a major conference on 25th October, 1986 at the 'California Room' U.C.LA Faculty Centre in Los Angeles to alert international opinion to the issues involved.
Above all we will explore possible measures to restrain immediately the present indiscriminate mass killings and to lay the basis for ethnic conciliation which will release the productive energies of the country debilitated by the murderous conflict.
The first session starting at 9 a.m. will be devoted to a keynote address and a brief historical retrospect. The second session (11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) will analyse the present situation. This will lay the basis for an afternoon panel (2 p.m. to 5 p.m.) exploring the possibilities of preventive actions. Leading scholars, political leaders, international lawyers and Community representatives will present introductive comments to be followed with general discussions. Attendance is free.
For further information, contact Prof. Stanley Wolpert, History Department or Prof. Leo Kuper, Sociology Department, 405 Hill Guard Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA.

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& WEIDDAFLE
A FEW Progressive Conservative MPs seem to enjoy flirting with people who hur racist, send-them-home slogans against 155 Sri Lankan boat people. So we're grateful to see Prime Minister Brian Mulroney slap down all such displays of insensitivity with his heartfelt plea Sunday for Canadians to welcome the newcomers, despite their entry by Newfoundland's foggy back door.
Ending a six-day silence on the touchy refugee issue, the Prime Minister finally stepped forward to counter a dismaying backlash that has developed in some quarters. Mulroney's well-chosen words in defence of his government's chaotic but humanitarian actions last week on behalf of the Tamils deserve to be long remembered for their depth of compassion:
"My government will do anything but allow refugees in lifeboats to be turned aimlessly around in the ocean and turned away from our shores. To think that, in some way, 155 Sri Lankans will diminish our citizenship and ruin our immigration policies is not the resilience and strength of Canada.'
His words are a powerful reminder that Canada is a nation of immigrants, one of the few countries in the world
CANAI O
still willing to pro\ refugees who flee lands, fearing for Canada's 1,000-a-mi is but a trickle in a gr flood of 12 milion desperately for ne Western Europe alo applications for asyl from no more than 2 early 1970s, to 165,00 So when Tory Blenkarn of Mississa Canada's generally tion laws are the 'I the World, we wond What's funny abou willingly accepts ho desperate for a fres they pay a trafficker $3,450 and risk deatl to get a hearing he Tamils still have authorities that the refugees before they How insulated frc Canada sometimes selfish we can be, bountiful and under only 25 million peo are the often-expres more refugees migh
The Identity of every Community is eqи. ... India's High Commissioner in Colon
In a recent address to the Rotarians in Colombo, while dwelling on the morality of allowing terrorists to operate from India, Mr. Dixit said politics is not judged by morality. Apart from the unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Sri Lanka which are non-negotiable and sacrosanct,
when it comes to solving the ethnic problem, the identity of every community is
also non-negotiable. If Sri Lanka is to forge itself into a united nation, these nonnegotiable factors must be respected in the structure of the compromise needed for a solution, he added.
Questioned about the existence of terrorist camps in India, Mr. Dixit said that the facts were well known. Whether it was Sikh or Tamil terrorism, the origin of the problem should be understood. You must have the courage and honesty to think how Tamil terrorism originated, he said. We didn't invite refugees to India. If some of them chose to take arms, reasonable men should try to find out why this happened and find a political solution to the problem . . . Mr. Dixit referred to the "morality" of the events of 1958, 1977 and 1983. Nobody can justify terrorism and violence against innocents . . morality, he reiterated.
Mr. Dixit earlier outlined the historical
... but politics is not judged by
and cultural ties betwe and added. . . 'Given of human settlements, of Sri Lanka could be Indian descent. Regar origin brought to wor, they were legally, C morally the respc government of Sri Lar of goodwill India un some as her citizens."
About the ethnic 1 said that India came 1 when tens of thousand India after the 1983 di an impact on Indian provided them humi and only undertook te offices' role at government's request. Gandhi has put his peaceful solution to th has said definitely the division or separation same token he bel peacefully negotiated the problem . . .
The Sri Lankan peace. This is the tim healing wounds, genel ise. Sri Lanka's futur

SEPTEMBER 1986
BIAN PMISH0WSHEART NTAMIL REFUGEES
ride a haven for unhappy hometheir lives. Yet onth refugee flow owing world-wide people searching w homelands. In ne, the number of um has multiplied 0,000 a year in the )0 last year. . . . oackbencher Don luga suggests that huma me immigraaughing stock' of dr who's laughing it a country that meless people, SO h start in life that in human cargoes n by drowning just ard? After all, the to convince the by are legitimate may stay. i m human misery seems, and how living in a rich, populated land of ole. How paranoid ised fears that 155 it somehow rob all
Canadians of their birthrights, jobs and futures.
None of this means we have to be suckers for phony refugees, Tamils included. Nor can Ottawa ever let refugee smugglers go unpunished after casting their human cargo adrift. On these crucial points, Mulroney's eyes seem to be wide open. Indeed, he deplores undeserving people who try to jump to the head of the immigration line as refugees. And he wants a refugee processing system that weeds out the fakes and grants speedy entry to the deserving.
But if Canadians think Parliament, simply by passing Mulroney's proposed refugee laws, can write a permanent end to one of the world's more complex problems, they ought to think again. As Rabbi Gunther Plaut of Toronto, whose refugee report provided the backbone for Ottawa's policy overhaul, says: "if you're looking for an orderly system, you'll never have it because refugees are the product of a disorderly society.' We'd rather see our federal leaders urging justice and compassion for refugees than calling for exclusionary laws in a mood of bigotry and fear.
Editorial, 'The Toronto Star'', 19 August, 1986.
allysacrosanct and non-negotiable. . . mbo, Mr. J.N. Dixit.
en the two countries the historical pattern
almost all the people described as being of ding those of Indian k in the plantations,
onstitutionally and onsibility of the nika, but as a gesture ldertook to take in
problem, Mr. Dixit into the picture only s of refugees entered sturbances. This had public opinion. We
anitarian assistance
Operform the good the Sri Lankan However, Mr. Rajiv
full weight for a 2 ethnic problem. He at India is against a of Sri Lanka. By the ieves that only a solution could end
people demanded e for reconciliation, Osity and comprom2 depends on it. The
opportunity must be grasped. India is fully behind Sri Lanka's quest for peace with justice for all, he concluded. 辣
(Courtesy THE ISLAND, Colombo)
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SEPTEMBER 1986 ***❖ * ...፡ሓ (, • - .• **፨ - · :o
DETENUS AT BC
'Hard on the heels of the report by Amnesty Interr distressing story of the fast undertaken by four hur held in detention at the Boosa Camp. This is perhap -notorious detention centres now dotted around the little is known of what goes on behind these barbed trickles to the media through the determined effo prising journalist who puts his life (and visa perhap apart, one has to depend on the veracity of the torture and deprivation narrated by the survivors.
Organisations like CROPP express grave concern at the stony silence of the authorities in Sri Lanka in respect of the anxious queries from parents and dear ones as to the safety of life and limb of those in custody. Sometimes, misleading replies emanating from the authorities
send the relatives on a wild goose
chase: a heartless approach that
even the international community
finds it so difficult to understand.
Recently an outbreak of measles. "among one hundred and twenty
odd detenus was reported. They were taken for a "medical check up' to the Army Hospital for 'some skin ailment. Whether this is in fact as innocuous as measles or the after-effect of Some of the dangerous drugs and injections
administered with 'foreign assists
ance' (Mossad, sic), only time will tell.
Meanwhile Nuremburg.
Alarmed by the great number of disappearances among those held under arrest or detention the BBC conducted an interview with Yvonne Terlingen of Amnesty International on the 10th September at which it was confirmed that 272 persons have in fact 'disappeared'.
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TRAG demonstration outside U.K. Home Office.
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Farevvell On 9th June, Jaffna College bade farewell to its Head of Mathematics and Vice-Principal, Mr. A. Rajasingham, He was connected with the school for 33 years,
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Weeratunga, then a Brigadier, was present during some of the torture sessions, and on 'one or more occasions himself threatened me with death'. 茎き
A rigorous Emergency Rule was clamped down in Jaffna on 11 July, 1979. General Weeratunga was despatched with a Presidential directive: 'To eliminate the menace of terrorism in all its forms from the island and more specially from the Jaffna district', (The Sunday Observer, 15.7.79).
The then Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Mr. Maithripala Semana yake, in a speech in Parliament characterised the President's directive in the following terms: 'The directive issued by the President to the Commander of the armed forces in Jaffna to eliminate terrorism in all its forms before December 31, 1979 is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's directive fixing a deadline for the final solution of the Jewish problem'. (Parliamentary debates, Vol.3(2), No.6, Col. 1456).
The Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality of Sri Lanka, in its account of the military operations in Jaffna during the emergency, said, 'Came the 13/14 night of July and 'Operation Emergency' struck Jaffna like lightning, snatching away several of its young men from their houses. Of those who were taken away on that fateful night, six were never to return to their dear Ones. The bodies of two were found in a mutilated condition along the causeway linking Kayts to the Jaffna city. One of them was S. Visvajothi Ratnam, alias Inpam, 27 years of age and a social worker in his village Navaly belonging to the Manipay electorate. . . .
'At about 1 a.m. on 14 July Inpam's father sleeping in the front verandah of his house woke up under the glare of a powerful torch flashed through the window by an unfamiliar figure calling for his son 'Inpam'. He opened the front door. He saw a number of men clad in khaki trousers and white banians, but fully armed with revolvers and sten guns. They were not in uniform and were without identity numbers. There were no signs of a search warrant or an arrest: ' order, unwanted paraphernalia, after all, to enter a clerk-cum-farmer's house in a small village in the Island's Northern Peninsula. The swaggering men rushed in brusquely querying "where's Inpam' and as the unsuspecting lad emerged sleepily from the only room of the small house, the leader of the gang held him by his sarong and informed the bewildered family that they were taking Inpam with them. They did not take inpam alone. They took for company Inpam's brother-in-law, 29 year old Saravanamuttu Selvaratnam, married to Inpam's younger sister Ratna Ranee nursing their only child - a five month old infant. Selvaratnam, with no previous police record had returned home from Colombo, after perfecting his travel documents, to bid goodbye before leaving for Saudi Arabia to take up a job as welder. Fate, as the conservative Jaffna man would put it, decreed otherwise. That was the last
Inpam's family sa) brother-in-law. The reached the anxio bodies lying along Kayts) causeway. He son's and that of though they had b beyond recognition. 'The same night Inpam's house, in th youth, 22 year old walked away from h who appeared to b pathetic pleas of the notwithstanding. He and is believed to be
"Again on the Satanathar Kovil Rc group of armed me swooped on the abo named Sandrasegar two sons-in-law, S. Rajeswaran, two br sisters, both daught Rajeswaran the old father of a seven engaged in timber bu for his living. His reserved and quiet dealer of small pro behind his pregnant are believed to have the younger brother to a child, and no vis house will fail to be sight of his two dau arms.
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next morning, news us father about two the Pannai (Jaffnaidentified them as his his son-in-law, even een mutilated almost
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instances, the mode and intensity of torture and third degree methods, were revealed in Parliament during the debate on the emergency. Such instances included
O The relatively lighter form of torture by burning with a lighted cigarette
O Some victims had their hands and feet tied to a pole spanning two chairs kept apart, and they were rotated till they broke down or 'confessed'.
O Those who were kept in custody had chillie powder applied on the nose and other sensitive parts of their body. Redants were set on them until their sensitive parts were bitten and consequently swollen.
'Victims were beaten black and blue. They
were made to hang from the ceiling by their boot laces until the laces snapped and they crashed to the floor m
O There was blatant violation of the United Nations stipulations against the use of handcuffs, chains and other restraints while apprehending persons. Those who were arrested, while being transported from one place to another in jeeps, were kept handcuffed to the roof of the vehicle. Even after disembarking at the Residency, they were kept chained to the posts and left
to suffer in the solar heat until they broke down and Confessed".
O Grimly reminiscent of the Black Hole of Calcutta' is a cell in the Jaffna Police Station. In it three persons can hardly be accommodated. But on one occasion, eight people were kept inside and they were left with one bottle of water for drinking and ablutions. Some drank their own urine when there was no water to drink.
O The most shocking revelation from the prisoners was about a military doctor who dutifully stood in attendance, while the arrested persons were tortured, and cried halt when the victims had reached the limit of human endurance. 'Stop. You can continue tomorrow', these were the words that used to be uttered by the doctor, who, as was stated in Parliament had either 'forgotten the Hippocratic Oath he took or who thought that the Hippocratic Oath is in fact an oath of hypocrisy.'
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