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CONTENTS
Editorial................... 2
What Hope For Sri Lanka2,...,.3
"The Country is Tired of War".,. է:
If HTill MilitHills PilisitIrish. [[]] Government Proposals.
Sri Lanka - A Massy impassa.
| || EB |H| - || || Sijs () f || liidiä Help Dispelled,.............. is
The Human Rights Factor the Ethnic Conflict,,,,,,..., |
Effects Ulf Confiti. On Economy || || M]Other | Sri Laikā.....................15
Miglia Filg .............................................................li
Travails Of UniversityTeacharg, 17
"Recognis= [ainils' Higfit. Ta Seif
Determinatio ...r.l., 17
Sir P. Harina matha II............................13
Classifigid Ads............................. 2
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REPRESENTATIWE statem erit Calling pressure on the G the Tamil people sufferings of the S TE Stät ETTElt Cicer at the "til Gower Tient of sufferings of thị permitting the at signed by Mr. L. K. per dra (Tel LigLI Gupta (CPI), Mr. Da II, MT, A. G. Ku Saifuddir Sigž || N. Mr. Bapu Kalciate Saikia AGP, Mr. W. N. W. N. SumLI I DP |A|ADMK), Mr. C Bloc) and Lt. Ge1. »
Tifla iridiscriTi Searh ard dest strafing and she is 13 te massarr:StS being tortured a iCad, the dest Schools and hos drastruction of Tarr BS E: widerice o 'wiolation 5 of hul Sität ET) Eit. It CCL Government of de food ard | Theodica arteas, of deprivin relief and ignori internatio fa | humi like Artınasty Inte sought to draw att rights wilations in
The state left press Conference PROTEG did E. the conclusion of 1 had be tarı imta da DT1 thữ Cøritimu wiolatios in this Expressing his Support received political paties ë jaint Statermet to Prima Miri ister, f hä531, President, Uffer to sit tha E three, made by FPresiderit iri Bari E231 rejected by
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No. 2
December 1986
'S OF OPPRESSION
ES of many national political parties have joined to sign a upon the Indian Government to "bring all legitimate and moral overnment of Sri Lanka to terminate acts of oppression against
ri Lankan TarTils,
which expressed a indifference of the Sri Länkä to th E a Tamil people in “Ty atrocities” was Adwani (BJP Mr. P. Dasa m), Mr. Indrajit S. P, Malawiya | Lok | karrıi | Corg, —S), Mr", Etiori | Crifter :| Janatal, Mr. Na ger '. Gopalaswarmy, Mr, MK), Mr, A. Ia di Aur
it la Basu Forward A rUra "kkali Dal). ate killings through "OW Opera tiūris, the liring, tha iridis Crimiof Tamil youth, their id hold incornmurLiction of houses, itals and the tota | 1i| willages war a cited f the continuing Tian rights, in the
Sed the Sri Lätkä sliterately cutting off
supplies to Tai g Tamil refugees of rig the reports of manitarian agencies riational which had BI1 tip 1 to the II u Ilma II Sri Lärkä. was released at a Coğrı varı ged by the Friends of Eelam at heir relay fast which d to focus att Celtico ing hulina i rights aid. appreciation of the for the lational is et died 1 tie be presented to the Wr, S. C. ChandraPFR) TEG, iaid til ister Il Powice: il to " thĖ Sri Läkäri gå lurĖ häid äreä, d'y Ye Til JLF iri its gg Corld hiri in Colombo ard
and to take immediate and urgent measures to end the
for Mr. Jayawardene "to spring this offer as if something rew" showed his in sincerity, "We do not feel this Teets is any way the aspirations of the Tail JE0 || E. and the fact that d'Espite tha afforts of the Iridian Gower Trimet, ha has not come out with anything more. shows he is not sincere",
Further proof of insin Carity, he Sàid, Wäs tha fact that just bafore the SAARC Sumilit, the Sri Lanka armed forcës had begшп a major affensive against the Jaffna peninsula, bombarding it from the sea, "It's a tota|| y Lumpur Cowoked attack, so Tamil militant activity had prece dedit" he Said.
Sauce For The Goose . . .
SL S LLLL SS SSS EELS SE SSSaaELL LELELLS SGS Kaaaaa LLLLMS LLL LLLL aCaLaa LLLL aa Hritish gK351 i 111 stille for the Eelam gander, Sri Linki Wi- 1 cl’Tçlirik 1'i 1he im:Trışıti'lışıl LLLLLS aa SL ttL ml aaaammLtaLS 0 E aaSL LLLLLL La aLL CLLCHLLLLH La aaLLLLLLL LLL S a LLLLaLLLLSS LLL LLLS LLLLLLaLLLL LLLLLLaSaES S ", gli itini il 13 kill it, l':', e le rigli E t selfdele 111inälil II. The 1,1 · 1lher Lunt Tiros voting With Sri Lanka W ere Belize (populatik 311 |51). HHI), III || III:n || 83). HII) },
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THE Ο
IT COMES as no surprise that the Sri Lankan Tamilside, militant Tamil groups and the TULF, has rejected the government's proposal for the trisection of the eastern province of Sri Lanka. There is no doubt that, in putting forward this proposal to the Indian Prime Minister during the recently held SAARC summit, President Jayawardene was trying to create the impression that his proposal approximated to the Tamil demand for a single Tamillinguistic unit.
Even after decades of overt and covert attempts at stateaided colonisation of vast areas of the eastern province by Sinhalese brought from outside with a view to transforming the Tamil speaking people into a minority community even in their traditional homeland, fortunately these attempts have not yet succeeded and the Tamil speaking people (Tamils and Muslims) continue to remain the predominant majority. The conflict has reached a stage that no more state-aided colonisation can take place in these areas without the risk of inviting retaliatory violence. The "balkanisation of the eastern province into three minor provinces, namely a Sinhala majority Trincomalee province, a Tamil majority Batticaloa province and a Muslim majority Amparai province, does not constitute a favour done to the Tamils or the Muslims, but is a devious design to consolidate the recently created 'Sinhala enclaves' in the eastern province on a permanent basis. What is more outrageous is that the proposal envisages the entire traditional Tamil district of Trincomalee to be incorporated into a Sinhala majority province.
The post-SAARC summit days witnessed an atmosphere of Optimism and euphoria about the prospects of a 'quick settlement' of the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. The statements made by Rajiv Gandhi and the number of high profile trips made by Indian Ministers to Colombo reflected this optimism. The banner headlines in the Sri Lankan media and some of the speeches by Jayawardene's Ministers in Colombo gave the impression that the Tamil militants were going to be whipped into line by India.
European Parliament,
THE FOLLOWING is the resolution on the present peace efforts on Sri Lanka adopted by the European Parliament at its last session held recently:
Deeply concerned at the continuing civil strife in Sri Lanka between certain militant Tamil organisations and the Sri Lanka security forces which, since 1982, has resulted in a great number of deaths, including many civilians. .
Having regard to the latest proposals of the Government of Sri Lanka for a devolution of power to elected provincial councils, which have emerged as the result of a series of negotiations held since 1983 between the various parties involved.
Noting that these proposals will be discussed at a Conference to be held in the near future, to which all Sri Lanka political parties, as well as the militant Tamil organisations, would be invited.
Notes that the present proposals of the Government of Sri Lanka have evoked positive responses from several political groups in Sri Lanka, including the Tamil
 

DECEMBER 1986
ENTRAL OUESTION
The seizure of weapons and the house arrests of Tamil
militant leaders followed by the confiscation of some of their communications equipment reinforced the view in Colombo that India had decided to engage in an exercise of arm-twisting of the militants to the point of submitting to Colombo's proposals.
There is one thing that neither New Delhinor Colombo has so far been able to comprehend, and that is the strength and depth of feeling for the Sri Lankan Tamils and their plight amongst the mass of the people of Tamil Nadu. The Sri Lankan Tamil question is no longer an external question as far as Tamil Nadu is concerned. For better or worse, it has become part and parcel of Tamil Nadu politics. Following the Choolamedu shooting incident, while there was subdued reaction to the action of the Tamil Nadu police against the militants, opinion swiftly changed and swung back in support of the militants. The announcement of the confiscation of the communications equipment belonging to the militants provoked widespread protests. The well-timed move by the LTTE leader in launching his fast unto death demanding the return of the equipment and the lifting of police surveillance evoked such spontaneous sympathy that the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu promptly acceded to his demands and appealed to him to give up his fast.
There have been a great deal of "new ideas, 'clarifications' and fresh formulations' exchanged between Colombo and New Delhi in regard to the peace proposals. However, there is no doubt that the major sticking point is the question of the Tamil demand for a merger of the northern and eastern provinces into a single unit of devolution. This demand crystallises the longstanding legitimate Tamil aspiration to preserve their national identity within a definable territorial unit where they could administer their own affairs, assuring themselves of the physical security they have been lacking, particularly during the last three decades. New Delhi and Colombo must address their minds to this central question if a lasting solution for the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka is to be achieved.
On Peace in Sri Lanka
United Liberation Front.
Hopes that an agreement will be reached at such a Conference on the basis of these proposals, certain aspects of which still need to be discussed.
Hopes, moreover, that such an agreement would be accompanied by a lasting cease-fire between the Sri Lankan security forces and the militant Tamil groups, would provide a just, lasting and harmonious peace for all the communities in Sri Lanka, and would respect democracy, the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of that country.
Calls on the Foreign Ministers meeting in Political Cooperation to express their support for a negotiated settlement to the present situation in Sri Lanka and to provide such support as may be needed and requested to facilitate a full settlement. : Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, the Council, the Foreign Ministers meeting in Political Co-operation and to the Governments of Sri Lanka and India.

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DECEMBER 1986
WHAT HOPE F.
Jonathan Fryer, a Writer on international affairs, has recent for peace against the backdrop of the latest moves by India decimating its Tamil population and constitutes a severestrail
When I first visitti Sri Lanka three years ago, it was a Baptist of fire. By coincidence, Ilanded on the very Monday ir July when ricots, hırçık: c : ut in the capital,
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increasing frequency fr, im htt1st:5 111:1 sh ps, that had he'll set alight, as I was driven in from the airpørt, anxi ønly hel Lars later, scTeaming ribs were in the streets. Gangs is you tiis from the miljorily Sinhal: community were alticking the businesses of minority Tamils, and ill the WJISI instances, dragging people Jill into the street, where they were heaten or killed. tLIIIthil, siirretiriles, Liller cuirfew,' - si Tıcti Trick, 1 it. People trying to shop for basic necessitics w LullsLittledenly run als they hcal Tel TLITT LITS of bombs allegedly left by Tamil errorists - such as the Tigers - whose attacks on si skic's h; il been liri! If the im Imejliiite causes of the riots. Perhaps that was why st 3 many of the soldiers - as I saw with my owneyes-sløjd hy and did nothing as the Inabis failpaged, and cTrified Ta Tils tried to reach the safety of guarded temple ci-Tip, incls, the lies if Sinhala friends, who were prepared to risk their Will lives and property by sheltering
For clays, the city
thill. The While thing was
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night : T. With sLh š'eks "Lriigiri Tia II y II; TTs of Tlie C 3 LI TTy. Siri liliki lil bel so fem describell is a Paralise hut Paradise had apparently heen lost.
Deceptive Impression Going lack three years later, it is hard
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Ille-TU ITL 11:11,
is lettptive,
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taking Flace".
says a prominei T Ta inil
political analyst, living in Colombo who alsa added. "Tie sisriprior of Ioria lif SDLLLSS SLG LLLLLLGGG LLLLLS EELTGaCCCS LkGGGL LGLkGLGLGEGHL GL GGLT HLLLLHHLLLLLLL tttSaLaL LLLLL kGGGL ttLEL GL G GGGL GLLLLLLL LTC TTT LLLLGS LL Ga aaLLL La TTGLLL ELLL LLLLLLLaS aaS
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Perry fel regel”. I single fairirly" ir riha F'er. Fe'i rica'y saffro erry II:s of f f * Terrifio'r detrairi'' auro 11 oh i Wren. displeTce'r Jorkopf), i stific kiri i ri closrrrrrrry of ? l'Îl'élil r}{is, fort... + fg'
Despite: Sri Link: it is a 'fit's d’II ficcil they a TC: LIITLI hy stimւ: 18 Աr1ւ Tւ:1 Tadical mili1an gra use violence 14) furt biliceye Tlığı "Tanrı il 5 lı : g:list filt to ling self rule can give th "I'll t
But II everyheid Naii binal Security A thulat limulili, Wh ш the central cum II a list''' '''I''' i 'read i'r gair ! I" | Јs гfir" "тутії": "I': argr i'r 7%r yr a'r tir i'r dir i'r i εί τηr και τη Γ', κα ή , oi xor" Frologio'''R'''y'' *'''e' fir- rities liri li te oil r lr iii I ta' s tirra" r I ir
Mioriti
Y; Sinhalt:sk: TT: threequarters if tht Hızıril to Lillers complex, until one ywer the 11 TITU W separatics, Sri LaTik : of TT || N31 || ||
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says:
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TAMLTMES 3
OR SRI LANKA?
ly been to Sri Lanka (in Novel be '86) to assess the prospects to find a solution to a continuing civil war that is progressively
non a failing economy.
i sprerë i le te t'i í firl :fr: ''' ''s bréfill *ν ιετι: . . H και είί3ί οι μιάμι. Toro is ILIs Loof! . . . 15 ro ric'ar 3, 1 horio "Por li (15 Prei! creo"ri for y' fore" icruruffirio, iru - i I I l' I'iii i ril) 'irrg ' ' he riisi ry is i r" hylla) Wrias y ffor''' gral, fe" is rif Po Perry. PZer I s ref
i’s frequent clai Ti that cracy", III;iny Tatrils its 1:1. This is cited still for Illu - Licւess if Lips, several if which her their cause. They ve been discriIlliIlitcd in Sri Lank: A II i conly eIII | he: free'clico II || vey
y sees it like that. The Minister. MT, Lilith 1 } is i Sinhalt:sv:, si TT1s Täidilik III: "If Yi My F''' εί, η ται τι ήτταίει η ε εί fr' y 'e''' fy "rir af forfrffy L if ('ref' y 'for', 'I'r gorrig elly Illyriller fía a kirg. y'r Ffra 1'e rii') 5. "Qırır ri", (Pr geri!
εκ Γι η.
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Ike up alIT. 181 exactly : I at al propi Lula limin, it is and their milk rity : Temembers that just strip of water that hi F Ti HTT1 I h1i: IT 1,li:II 2, 5; T;i T. .: ve ihtıIII 40 milli kırı : clict with their Ill. Indeed, during the tärs, well Y',':'r || || , |||||} hi ve gorı: 1.5 lılia (LI , and Thus | } | he: Tiān til it groups have officers are. This is why India's 5 p. 150 El Picco Link: is si Lici, is his cluded hi:TT1.
T t ii t iil Lura: is,
& I HI TTISI [li: Si'i II and in particular the Xcesses by the security MT. A thula thill udali W':Te pro obleIThs, s{:1 yit 1g. ust 1lic Hгпу му:18 mit til it hill 13 face. He
Ti''' a'r 'y' i 'fi' fir í fra III. Itt latil 31.) rit tarlier ' u 'le' li tard ta' problerr T ir 7 ger o corrrrrrir'
τα "1", είτε, η αίικα, η τί ή τητα και ιται f η 13
!" orris gra Lip III did i Su i łał ła LELEELLLL LLL SL LLLLLLLGLLG LL G LL LLE0TT fierogiri". H'here you kri is ire Krig Cir 3 y', 's' «de vir 'Y IPE''") ir šor'''? Jay Jorge''", TYrrarivry, 11e gor Firs of recury F***Flevopleir) Ile polire, array, lal' anal air 'or LGGaSaH aLE LLL LLLLL LLLLCGGGGSLGLLL LTTa Flirgs I'ere" Prif y fire riglif., ER' I ' 'fr' : fi LaLLLL HHHLLLLLLGLLLLL GGGG LH LLLLGL LLGGLLS LLLLT of Corrse He fra ve beer elrilling info fller I, gırtıcı Varlı sirr'e: ' 'rırıq?. Elılar da! Tarris LHH HGL HLLLLLSS L GGLLL LLLLLL aaa mmLLLLL frr: terrire d'arri iry', precycli frig o'r is. for Pierre: is terly 1, il risc se' '1''') i'r "e" fråk sor. ' ) "Je t'."
Simil:Lirly Ilut all Sinhaleste är: chauvinists orthugs, though. L'Ilfortuna Lely, sIIial cleIIlents of both have dint: consiletable damage til the island's cirlin Lility relations. But Tiny heal communtators believe lä th real damage was done years ag. at the time of Sri Laikas iIndependence from Briti II, especially after Sinhala w:is: Im:lle tille country's difficial language: 3l| year's alge). which the Tanın ils felt put them a L ii disadvantage. Worst still ser:LT:lic education for Tailtilis aild Sillialege mill':int hul til day’s generation. Lindike i s fore athers, grew up not knowing the coller community in timately, This has strengthcmcd tliet sic: Tist: “ of lili.: 1 I 1 ii billi l bf Imany Tamils, and has clic Liraged milly 141 |ւ:1" է:
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Ç)ne gri up that feels the T.: cer'la illy is in alternative to violence 1 clict illiol (I) both sides is il (ia Ilçili Ilı style 1110'tmcıt called S:Twie daya. which poTcaches, I Thessage of rcconcilia til T1, CCS-i per: t i III and self-help. Headed by a Trian called Dr. A. T. Ariya Tatne, Sarvodaya claims El Il active: suppor L L of Ihree 1 milio 11 pc 4 pli- « ir aboutono in five of the population.
Human Rights Violations
Mr. Neelin Ilir Lichel, III, the TLILF Taill. W, Lill ils i like 1. I think till: 1 il Wiki possible for people to work together, but feels It is difficult for that to happen Lintil the si art of h LIITni 1 rights issues filised il 7 recent report froIT, A II 11:sty litleri haticollal 1re täcke s;lisctrily. “l is . Sie of so LLGL GGGGGGGGLLLL L L LLLLLGaa aLaTT HH EH Larrkir rhif people's resp7) 7 se s fr) gr. & 3 LLLLGLLGLLLLL LL LGLLLLLLL LLLL LL LLLLGLLGTLLLLL 1y flte erlincity offsre 1'irrfer, INI) feel fory LLLLGGaL GGGGG LLGL HELLLa LLLLGL GGGGGLL in rfrecrotirrry, froy where'er "(FT!!! Ir. Tiry perple y helorg To, is no resportigo reports of r/s of Ireo, T7 is is 'sy' i fiely referrig for «let', 'risis ir ffie' 'egr' sy': ' ' ), Irelicial rice's st's, Fr I. 11' 3. ''''', i'ch y lle' y 'pel' y 'r' ''sic', ''y'' İ r i r r i r i + '' + c i r i r i r i := i**

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4 TAMILTIMES
DOCTORS PROTEST
The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) has protested over the issue of "Personal Particulars Form' to medical practitioners according to Dr. Sunil Ratnapriya, Secretary, GMOA.
The Personal Particulars Forms which have been issued to the GMOA by the Teaching Hospitals Ministry has requested particulars like the political party to which they belong, the political party the Medical Officer's father belonged and other details. v. He also said that it was absurd to be asked
whether the applicant with terrorists and such The GMOA has issued to its branch unions a complete these forms have asked the paren how they should questionnaire, Dr. Ratna The GAMOA had alre Secretary, Dr. Daya Sa Teaching Hospitals Mir forms withdrawn imme
India Gifts Medicines To Jaffna Hospital
A large consignment of essential medicines urgently required by the Jaffna Hospital in north Sri Lanka was handed over by the Acting High Commissioner of India Mr. K. R. Sinha to the Director-General in the Ministry of Teaching Hospitals, Dr. Lucien Jayasuriya and Dr. Nathchinarkiniyar, the Superintendent of the Jaffna Hospital, according to a news release by the Indian High Commission.
The Deputy Director-General in the Ministry of Teaching Hospitals, Dr. Sanat Gunasekara was also present at the presentation ceremony held on November 12, 1986 at India House.
These medicines were requested by the people and doctors of Jaffna and the gift was specially authorised by the Prime Minister of India, Shri Rajiv Gandhi.
The value of the consignment is over SL. Rs. 400,000.
Tanks For The Army
The Sri Lanka Army is to buy a fleet of light tanks, according to the 1987 budget estimates giving an indication of the government's seriousness in fighting 'terrorists'.
The military declined to say from where they hoped to buy the tanks or what type they would be.
The tracked squadron together with two squadrons of armoured cars, for which provision has also been made, will cost about Rs. 254 milion, according to the estimates.
The Air Force will also get 12 armoured cars for which Rs. 8.6 million has been allocated. is
The estimates also show a phenomenal increase in the expenditure for the Special Task Force which has risen from Rs. 51.6 million this year to Rs. 200 million for 1987, of which Rs. 20 million will be spent on weapons and special equipment.
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FRENCH DOCTORS
TO THE RESCUE
A report from the Sri Lankan Ministry of Rehabilitation has stated that the Government has granted permission for a group of French doctors to work in Government Hospitals in the North and East. This move is necessitated by the fact that efficient and qualified doctors are reluctant to work in these areas due to violence and prevailing tensions,
RAPED GUNNED
The General Officer Joint Operation Forces 20th November with Officers to inquire into where 20 Tamils were ki missing due to Arm Government Forces ra Pullumalai (Amparai Lanka.
The Inquiry was hel Police Headquarters. 35 of the dead and missin the inquiry. In the cour was revealed that 3 ma raped by Governments. the victims were gun Forces.
Hospital S
Doctors, nurses and the Manthikai Hospital it staged a walk out on 1. the hospital was shelle office of the District H. and the M/ards vivere bad
They have lodged í Minister of Health, the Minister of National 'dastardly incident.
ME ΤΟ
THE following is the te» the Medical Students of Medicine, Universit Lankan President Jayaw
'We, the medical stuc of Medicine, University to bring to your notic inconveniences and dan even after continuous grievances to the releva
After the shelling of September/October, in was damaged, we sent a Secretary of Defen Chairman, University G requesting urgently tha grounds the hospital b sort of military action. V protest march to preser the Vice-Chancellor. V herewith a copy of the Chairman UGC.
On 29th October, a S

DECEMBER 1986
had any connection like. f written instructions isking them not to GMOA members body in Colombo respond to the priya said. rady written to the marasinghe of the listry to have these diately.
AND
DOWN
Commanding the visited Amparai on two Senior Army the recent incidents led and 21 reported y excesses when n amok in Periya)istrict) in east Sri
di in the Batticaloa witnesses, relatives g, gave evidence at "se of the inquiry it arried women were oldiers and later 2 of ned down by the
Shelled
pither employees of 7 northern Sri Lanka 2th November after di from the air. The ospital, the Library ly damaged. a protest with the President and the Security over this
DEAD BODY FOUND AFTERAR REST
15. 11.86 - A young Tamil man named ruthayan Michael Collins was taken into custody by a unit of the Sri Lankan security forces at Akkaraipathu. Subsequently, his dead body was found at Thirukkovil. S.
海 资
RELEASED AND SHOT
23.11.86 - in a rounding up operation by police commandos at Coolavady Colony, three Tamil civilians were shot dead. A further 20 were seriously injured and over 200 were taken into custody. Of those killed was Eustace Kasothar, aged 23, who was released only an hour earlier after three months detention.
接 兴
HEADS SHAVEN & PARADED
27, 11.86 - Tamil political detainees held in the Kathiraveli army camp in the eastern province of Batticaloa have had their heads shaven forcibly, and later paraded along the streets.
BISHOPLAKSHMAN REMEMBERED
A meeting was held at St. John's College Hall, Chundikuli, Jaffna on Saturday, 1st November to commemorate Bishop Lakshman Wickremasinghe.
This meeting was held under the auspices of the Movement for inter-Racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE) and was presided over by Rev. Fr. Jeyaseelan, the President of the Loca || Branch of the MIRJE.
The Guest Speakers were Rev. Fr. Yohan Devananda and Rev. Fr. Paul Casperz. Mr. K. Nesjah also spoke. Mr. Rajan Hoole proposed a vote of thanks.
DICOS CALL FOR END
SHELLING
it of a letter sent by linion of the Faculty y of Jaffna to Sri vardene.
lents of the Faculty of Jaffna, would like e the very serious gers which we face, presentation of our nt authorities.
the hospital in late which the hospital protest letter to the :e, through the rants Commission, it on humanitarian e spared from any fe also undertook a tour grievances to We have attached letter sent to the
aff member of the
OF HOSPITAL
Faculty of Medicine, attached to the Obstetrics and Gynaecology department, Mr. M. Kumarasingam, was injured from a she fired from the Fort which fell in front of the hospital entrance. The hospital authorities strongly deny that there was any provocation from within the hospital premises.
Due to these irresponsible actions, the whole hospital staff have decided to stop work until an assurance is received that there will be no further military action on or near the General Hospital of Jaffna.
We are unable to attend to our clinical studies under the circumstances. If the present situation continues, the final year examinations will have to be postponed, and this will cause inconvenience to a concerned. The responsibility for this will be on the government.
We strongly appeal to you, on humanitarian grounds, to stop any further military actions on or near the General Hospital of Jaffna."

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DECEMBER 1986
In August 1986 a group of 155 Tamils hit world headlines by being fra Lurid a drift im two lifeboats off the Canadia CB5, Though their exodus is not on the scale of the Wietnamese boat people, Tail refugees have had a far-reaching effect Di legislatiorand attituda5 concerring refugees generally.
| Sri Lark L. O EICE 35 il: EHESE over the past year and any peace sig titlement seems far a Way, Th1 = rT1-ajritY of Tails who have rail aged to escape have gome to India, The Carmparatively few seeking refuge in Europe find the doors shutting firmly against thor.
In May 1985, after about 2,000 Tarthills had drived in Britair Sir C the beginring of the Wear, the govern Tient introduced a wisa requirement. More tham a wear later, in June : 1986, thẽ government finally granted exceptional awe to remail to those who had arried bu for 4 1 FIEI t tifrie.
Because of the vis: requirement Very few Tamils have been able to reach Britain since May 1985. Of the few who hawe, am alarithingly high proportion have had to spend long periods in detention while their applications are assassed-in spite of offers of help from BRC and other groups in finding accommodation for the T. PRC is expressed serious concern to the Home Office, particularly as sort Tails have new spent more than six months in det til,
Britain is mot alma ir restricting refugees' rights of alry. Germany and France ha'ye açÇFt Fd () yer 2Ů,0CC Tarihils since 1983, but at a meeting in May 1986 of the BRC-based European Consultation on Refugees and Exiles ECRE, member agencies Crifirre: 3
TAMIls: THERIGHTTOA.
hardenirg of governi their respective curhtri particularly has taken Drewent Tarrils ard C refugees from slippi East Gertiary,
"Refugees in orbit" 5ed to di gCribe the : number of refugees' Eack är forth bet WEE refuse the Ti Entry.
BRC is pressing the to discuss this prO ČLutris 3rd to dË 'W' 8. Li tabu lE pli CW Which Situati,
BRC is CO and more Tartils are CasĖS. Mam y fleste init Such 35 lidi. Id til family ties in Europ. th r B t5; E1'y EI rʻri Ed groups in India - t 11 ther country. HOW they first wisited is "country of first asyl nāve been sīl bi: Is iterit :) LI TIL deniac ertry andretur
BRC 135 kitawn F. i55ԱՅ5 thrtյugh tht: ri through its own publi through regular met pondence with offici Europe is towards av at titles, and Wilur wery country are rep Tra i 1E11 Of 35'. ","уCII сl Паҹ"н бEзвп ш կ't:firs dցԸ
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WHATHOPE FORSRI LANKA
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The government disputes many of Amnesty's allegations, and is hitter about some of the adverse publicity it has had as T: sul, But interestingly, it is 14 at Yıl" the government which believes that the argument about the all-illportance (f chimic divisi ollsis fils,
Dr. Ariyaratne, from a different perspective, feels that Sri Lanka's problems and divisions have other causes: "Y las corre a los fe” People ir rie cyrrwr ry vyre» rilair fair har riliis i'r s 77 for ar er fi fc cofficir. Beca. 7 so ' I' : 'e 'o71 , orking inal parts or the corry, id The LSLLLLLLGGGGGGLL SGGLLGLLL LLLLL LGCLL LLG LllLLtLL
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lillith Atılılaith III, positive. He says th ('ppi isIIIg ITYlips : Ti: 'The Tigers' "girl. It ri' i 'r'/'rr' a 'g' i 'Yr II, i'r 'a'? {"r l'Io {"r l'Il:"l'], '15 trair 'y Siri & Fikir, ir Il' o 'CJ' Fir ry. Cf. M. Aħ, I lllL I lii Ihi III Li i. government's new hope for an agreen iriitill riitti TI sri IT negative. He add rge ir īss
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6 TAM TIMES
"THE COUNTRY IS
SINCE its inception, the Committee for Rational Development has been urging the government to find a political solution to our current ethnic conflict. We have always argued that a political solution which has the support of the Indian Government and the international community, and which is acceptable to a vast majority of people in the North and the East is the only viable and realistic solution to our intractable ethnic conflict.
Therefore, though we have been strongly critical of the government in the last few years, we have supported the initiative of the present government to set in motion a process of peace negotiations on the basis of a realistic package which could form a starting point to negotiation and compromise. It is our belief that any government, whether UNP or SLFP. right or left, socialist or capitalist, will have to
resolve the ethnic crisis through a devolution of power to the Tamil periphery. The relevant questions
therefore are not whether devolution, but when and at what cost Opposition groups which resist the peace process will only inherit a greater problem if and when they come to power. The sooner a settlement is reached, the better result for all political sections within our national polity.
In an article entitled 'A Negotiated Settlement is More Vital than Ever which appeared in the Island of 5th April 1984, the CRD argued that a realistic package of devolution and a genuine and sincere attempt at negotiation will receive the
Committee for Ratic
backing of the Indian
Tamil Nadu Governm
Tamils living in the N and the international c the last few weeks. we process of engagemen gradually taking place. pressure on those mindedly to pursue a We only hope that fr slow nature of the pro will not lead to a sighted, military thrust Sri Lankan Governme military options at evel by the Sri Lankan serves to destroy credi Sri Lanka both region: nally. Given the consciousness of the TI North and East, dev imposed, it has to imposed solution will le short period to a cyc destruction. The g therefore be committ package of devolutio which has the open ( those living in the North AS for the Tamil m time surely has come the processes of peace really Strong enough to when it is regionally isolated. No cause just thousands of civilians brunt of an all out mil
The rejection of the Sri Lanka Government's peace proposals by Tamil Militant groups is hardly surprising. The differences were clear from the very beginning. The proposals provided separate councils for northern and eastern provinces while the militants wanted the two to be combined into a single unit. Secondly, the proposals vested in the Central Government the right to dispose of Government land for inter-state irrigation and land development programmes. Given Sri Lanka Government's record of forced settlements to dilute the concentration of Tamils in areas where they were in a majority, the militants had demanded that the provinces be given the right to decide on this matter. They were also unhappy with the extent of autonomy proposed to be given to the provinces.
They viewed with disquiet not only parliament's powers to legislate even in respect of subjects within provincial jurisdiction but the powers of the Centre under the Reserved and Concurrent lists including control over law and order. . . by the Inspector-General of Police and the National Police Commission nor
Setback in
Sri Lank
could they accept sweeping emergency silence in the proposals plantation workers. The had made at Thimpu la provision of citizensh Tamils who had made horme.
The militants' rejec the hope some harboul breakthrough towards ing Mr. J. R. Jayawa India to attend the surr, Asian Association of Re tion (SAARC). Neverth Gandhi would do well i tunity to persuade the dent to grant wider provincial councils and tre's overlapping and diction over provincial such a step India will n in achieving a settler framework of a united acceptable to the milit, tive to 'Eelam must be attractive.
("India

DECEMBERS6
TIRED OF WAR"
onal Development
Government, the ent, a majority of orth and the East ommunity. During see that this very t and discussion is putting enormous who wish single
military solution. ustration with the cess of negotiation ticipatory, shorts om the part of the
int. The pursuit of
y political juncture Government only bility and to isolate ally and internationature of the Tamil people of the olution cannot be pe accepted. Any ad us back within a le of violence and sovernment must ed not only to a in but devolution or tacit consent of
and the East. ilitant groups, the for them to accept ... No nationality is fight and win a war and internationally ifies the Sacrifice of who will bear the itary confrontation
(a
the President's powers and the on the future of four points they ist year included ip rights to all Sri Lanka their
tion demolishes ed for a decisive a settlement durrdene's visit to mit of the South ?gional Cooperareless, Mr. Rajiv to use the oppor
Sri Lanka Presi
powers to the restrict the Cenoverriding jurismatters. Without pt be able to help ment Within the Sri Lanka. To be antis, the alternaa substantial and
n Express',51186)
in the North and East, especially if that sacrifice will only result in another period of military stalemate and another round of negotiations. The militants must accept the fact that they too have no military solution to their search for Tamil Eelam. To fight for it at any cost is to lead the Tamil people toward genocide and humiliation. The time has come to emphasise the political processes, to engage in a genuine attempt to find peace so that the people of the North and the East can emerge out of their current state of siege and insecurity and develop their own part of the country. The Tamil people have made their point. Their political will can no longer be ignored by mainstream Sinhala politics. The scheme of devolution currently being offered accepts the fact that they are people with a right to autonomy in the regions where they are a majority.
The CRD understands that there are many areas of contention with regard to current negotiations - the North-East merger, the problem of land, law and order more federal or less unitary. But, the time has come for these issues to be discussed and settled at the negotiation table and not in the “killing fields. The country is tired of this War. Those who prolong the fighting for their own vested interests and out of a sense of bravado will only lead the country, the people and themselves towards death and self
destruction.
Reggie Siriwardene
DOWSAPPEAL
FOR UNDERGRADS
RELEASE
Text of the resolution passed by the University Science Teachers' Association of the University of Jaffna in north Sri Lanka at an emergency meeting held on 11th November:-
The disappearance of A. Vijitharan, a third year commerce student, is a most disturbing event. We share the legitimate and grave anxiety of the student community in this matter and endorse the concern expressed by the Vice-Chancellor on behalf of the administration.
We also share the anxiety of Vijitharan's parents and of other students who are far from home. Their well-being is the responsibility of the staff and authorities of this University and of the people of Jaffna.
We appeal to whoever has knowledge of his disappearance to expedite his safe return and restore to Jaffna its good name.
Whatever ambitions and ideals the students cherish can bear fruit only if the work of learning continues and the University can hold its respect in the eyes of the world. We appeal to them for mature judgement in the exercise of their rightful social concerns without interrupting the work of learning.

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DECEMBER 1986:
TAMIL MILITA
ON GOVERNME
LTTE COMMENW7
On the proposals submitted by Sri Lankan Government
Shri M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu.
Having studied carefully the contents of the set of proposals submitted to us by the Sri Lankan Government, we find the framework inadequate, failing to meet the basic political aspirations of our people. The proposals refuse to consider any of the basic principles enunciated by us at the Thimpu talks last year.
The separate provincial counciis framework negates our fundamental demand for the recognition of our homeland. We would like to emphasise that the Tamils have an inalienable right to their homeland. This homeland is a clearly identifiable, contiguous, Single region composed of the Northern and Eastern provinces. This region is the historically constituted homeland of the Tamil-speaking people and therefore indivisible.
The recognition of the territorial integrity of the region as the homeland of the Tamils is cardinal to any meaningful, lasting solution to the Tamil national question. The framework offered by the Sri Lankan Government providing a scheme of devolution to the provinces bifurcates the territorial unity and contiguity of the Tamil homeland, and therefore fails to meet the legitimate aspirations of our people. The arguments advanced by the Sri Lankan Government that the Eastern Province is populated by the Sinhalese and the Muslims are unteniable. The Eastern Province is an integral part of the Tamil homeland inhabited predominantly by the Tamil-speaking people. The indigenous Tamils and the Tamil-speaking people of Islamic faith constitute the majority in the province and have lived as one people for centuries and shared a common language and territory. It is a well-known fact that successive Sri Lankan governments have been pursuing a deliberate policy of colonising the Tamil areas with Sinhalese people with the aim of disrupting the demographic composition of the population and dismembering the geographical contiguity of the Tamil region.
In this context, the Tamils have a legitimate fear that once the North and the East are separated into two units under the proposed framework, the territorial basis that unifies the character and the nature of their nationality is seriously undermined. We therefore insist that
i
LTTE Leader V. Prabakaran
för any meaningful acceptance by the Sri an indivisible single r Tamils is basic.
Having given a clo that the package of Colombo Governme quacies. The legislati that are to be dev, councils have been se perogative powers of idency and they are conceptual and pract devolved do not corr Status as the Indian cc State List and the C. subjects are conflatec tution of Sri Lanka w mistic and totalitaria absolute political aut dent. シ
The legislative pow Vincial councils to ma any matters set out i article 154 G) becom liament has overridin in subjects falling w provinces. Provincial Parliament if the co legislation on the su List. Therefore, the Parliament by the C trict the legislative councils.
The President h; powers to act on his mergency or any considered by him as country. Upon the d the President can diss cil and assume the po of the Chief Minist establishing public c President and his r ernor, are given enc validation of any Bill councils. Any law pr councils can be set fancies of the Preside In matters relatin, framework offered overriding powers to the National Police control over the pro The IGP or the Pres power to appoint the provincial division, a
í ENLFR
RESPONSE to t from the Sri La talks mediated thr the Government of
Subsequent to the ment of India con v able Chief Ministe meeting of the 26th position on the pro, talks between the and the TULF, we
 

TAML TIMES 7
NTS POSITION
NT'S PROPOSALS
S
political settlement, the
Lankan Government of 2gion as the homeland of
ser elucidation, we find proposals offered by the nt has serious inadeve and executive powers olved to the provincial verely constrained by the Parliament and the Pres
not real or concrete in ical terms. The subjects spond, nor enjoy similar onstitutional model in the oncurrent List, since the into the unitary Constihich is essentially chauviun in its Structure with nority vested in the Presi
vers accorded to the proake statutes in respect of in the provincial list (see le meaningless since Parg legislative powers even lithin the sphere of the councils have to consult uncils are to enact any bjects in the Concurrent 2 powers conferred on onstitution severely respowers of the provincial
as limitless Emergency own under the screen of other situation which is ; imminent danger to the sclaration of Emergency, olve any provincial counwers and responsibilities er under the pretext of order. Furthermore, the epresentative, the Govormous powers over the passed by the provincial oposed by the provincial aside by the whims and nt. g to law and order the by Sri Lanka provides the Centre. The IGP and Commission have total ovincial police authority. ident has been given the DIG as the head of the nd thereby, instituting the
Centre's authority on thẹprovinces. Under the state of Emergency, the IGP has been given
the power to deploy police units of the national division in the guise of maintaining and restoring public order in any province.
The Super-imposition of a national police authority over the provincial police and the sweeping powers wested with the IGP and the President reduce the provincial police system to a powerless institution without adequate. authority to ensure the security of the Tamil population. -
The other crucial issue that does not resolve satisfactorily is the question of land. The Centre has absolute power over the use of land for inter-provincial irrigation and land development projects. The Government has also been given the power to utilise lands in respect of the subjects not devolved in the provincial councils. Furthermore, the alienation and disposition of land under provincial Schemes will have to be ratified by the GovCEO.
In the context that the Sri Lankan Government has been engaged in an aggressive colonisation of Tamil lands under the guise of irrigation and development schemes, the proposals fail to secure the territorial integrity of the Tamil homeland from encroachment and annexation by the State. و We have briefly outined the basic flaws in the structure of the framework submitted by Sri Lanka. We wish to make it absolutely clear that any meaningful, lasting solution to the Tamil national question cannot be achieved unless Sri Lanka recognises the inalienable rights and legitimate political aspirations of our people, particularly their right to a homeland. We also wish to point out that if Sri Lanka is prompted by genuine desire for peace, it should put an end to State violence, to the ruthless killing of innocent Tamils, to the massive militarisation programmes, to the continuous erection of army camps in Tamil areas and seek to establish a condition of normality and peace.
In conclusion, we wish to express our sincere gratitude to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and to the Government of India for their earnest and genuine efforts to find a political Settlement through peaceful negotiations. We wish to reiterate that our. liberation movement will provide wholehearted support and cooperation to all efforts by the Government of India to find a lasting solution that would guarantee the liberty, dignity and security of our people.
Velupillai Prabakaran,
Leader and Military Commander, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
ESPONSE ;
he proposals emanating mkan Government-TULF ough the good offices of India - by ENLF. 2 request from the Governeyed to us by the Honourer of Tamil Nadu at the October, 1986, to state our posals emanating from the Sri Lankan Government are constrained to state.
1.1 We totally reject the very premise on which the proposals are based, namely:
(a) the maintenance of the unitary, nonsecular character of the Sri Lankan Constitution, which is totally unacceptable and irrelevant to a country like Sri Lanka inhabited by two distinct nationalities and other national minorities.
(b) the non-acceptance of the fact and reality that the Eelam people not only constitute themselves as a distinct nationality (like | the Sinhala people), but more importantly are
Continued on page 14

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8 AMIL TIMES
SRI LANKA — A
With the emphatic rejection by the Tamil militant organ Sri Lankan Government's package of proposals on the power in the wake of the messy shooting incident in Ma some militants, new questions have emerged on t ethnic conflict in the island. What next?
WITH the five Tamil militant organisations emphatically rejecting the Sri Lankan Government's package of proposals to devolve power to the Tamil areas as “inadequate" - “failing to meet the basic, political aspirations of the Tamil people" - all attention seemed focussed on the meeting between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene during the SAARC summit in mid-November in Bangalore, to rescue the peace process.
True, nobody expected the militants to accept the Colombo package on a silver platter, as it were, for the gap between what the Sri Lankan Government has offered and the basic aspirations of the Tamils, moderates as well as militants, is still formidable. The militants have pitched their rejection of the Sri Lankan proposals on the political high ground of the recognition of a single Tamil unit or region comprising the North and the East - the "indivisible homeland'.
The militants' written responses to the proposals were submitted on November 3 to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran and Food Minister S. Ramachandran, both of whom have been recruited by the Centre to play an active role in the peace process. A week earlier, they had been handed the latest package of proposals including the TULF's response on the main issues and an Indian summary of the points that could be included in a broad framework. The constitutional adviser to the Government of India, S. Balakrishnan, a low-profile man playing an active role in interacting between the Sri Lankan Government's proposals and the TULF's responses and in putting down some of the propositions in a constitutional and legal form, was present during both the meetings.
Under Ominous Shadow
The militants' second meeting with M. G. Ramachandran took place under the ominous shadow of a brutally messy incident two days earlier on Deepavaliday at Tiruvalluvarpuram in Choolaimedu, Madras city. Members of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), one of the five militant groups attending the meeting, unleashed a fusillade from their AK-47 assault rifles, pistols and carbines on a crowd of local people, killing one youth and critically injuring two others. The outrage was made politically worse by the fact that the organisation's "chief of staff", Douglas Devanantha, was involved in the action for part of the duration.
The incident has so residents of Tiruvalluv is a kind of xenoph outsider stalking its s and shopkeepers clam topic is raised. But itself is a seedy are presence - with expo across its narrow commonly saunterir gamblers shuffling cal buildings.
The genesis of the a buried in controver conflicting versions c According to one vel men staying in a house Tiruvalluvarpuram use motorbike to the loca good relations with th day, however, they ri drunken man. Piqued, with local rowdies to the EPRLF men, whic into the outrage of mac Another version is th Deepavali mood, tos crackers on the milita with machine-gun fire City Police Comm Davaram, four EPR abreast on the street, V a pedestrian dashed they beat him up. Th dispute also received tension building up, o sprinted up to his neart raking the locals with fi
There is, however, objective, in fact eyev the entire episode. It p.m. when a neigl preparing for his e distracted by the no powerful crackers" goi he peeped out of the wi see urchins setting of stunned. An EPRLF I front of his house rounds" in the air fron scare away a small grou him. He had a "sup feeding him with cartridges to be load What happened the something that the y never forget in my life.'
There were sho vendaam (“no, no") al saw a local youth, running with his appealing to the milit The next moment, h

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Messy impasse
sations of the devolution of iras involving he prolonged
much affected the arpuram that there obia towards any treets with people ming up When the Tiruvalluvarpuram a with a lumpen sed drains cutting lanes, drunkards g around and 'ds inside decrepit
wful bloodletting is sy, with several loing the rounds. ision, the EPRLF on the first street of 'd to hire out their residents to keep em. On Deepavali efused to oblige a the drunk returned pick a quarrel with h rapidly escalated hine-gunning. at some locals, in a sed a few lighted nts who answered . According to the issioner, W. I. LF boys, walking vere annoyed when towards them and e mediators in the 1 blows and with ne of the militants by house and began fe .
a somewhat more witness, account of was around 2.15 hbouring Student, 'xaminations, was bise “like that of ng off close by. As indow, expecting to f crackers, he was militant standing in was firing "blank h his AK-47 rifle to lp trying to Surge at plier" at the side, "magazines" of ed into the rifles. next moment is oung student will
its of vendaan, nd as he turned, he
Tirunavukkarasu, arms raised and ants to stop firing. e slumped on the
ground in a heap, receiving a murderous blast of bullets.
As the crowd swelled, more militants filed out of their house, armed with pistols, carbines and AK-47s. The “supplier" was there, relaying the magazines and the militants puncturing the air with a spray of cartridges. One bullet ricocheted and hit a man (in the crowd) dressed in white trousers and white shirt. As the terribly angered crowd managed to get hold of an autorickshaw and put the mortally wounded Harijan youth - with blood splattered all over his white clothes - into the vehicle, a militant fired at the autorickshaw driver. But the. bullets went wild. In the melee, one of the EPRLF men quietly wheeled away on a bicycle.
In a few minutes, another EPRLF man arrived on the spot on a motorcycle and the crowd, which had now massed into about 150 persons, turned its anger on the bearded motorcycle rider and beat him up. They also picked a large glass jar from a nearby shop and threw it at his face. This turned out to be Douglas Devanantha, and how he handled the situation which had already gone out of control is a matter shrouded in much speculation and controversy even in the EPRLFranks.
Sensing the mood of the crowd, the handful of militants bolted themselves inside their house and pock-marked the walls with a rapid burst of sustained gunfire, perhaps to fend off the crowd outside. But the crowd was pelting the house with “missiles', bricks and stones. It set fire to the "pandal" erected in front of the house, and from the vantage point let loose another fusillade all round.
Soon, a few constables arrived in a police van from the nearby Nungambakkam police station but they were understandably nervous about going inside the house. The crowd now vented its anger on the police van driver and rained blows on him. The militants finally surrendered to top police officials who soon arrived on the scene, but not before a last-ditch act of defiance. They refused to hand in their weapons, arguing that these belonged to their movement.
While the EPRLF's leadership in Madras demanded "an impartial inquiry" into the incident, it thought it fit to go to Delhi to convene a press conference to present its version. According to L. Ketheeswaran, its spokesman, "four EPRLF cadres were attacked by a group of people who converged on them from a shop and later had been reinforced by another group which came on the scene in an autorickshaw. The unprovoked attack was clearly planned and well-coordinated." By whom and why, neither Ketheeswaran nor K. Padmanabha, the EPRLF's secretary-general, was able to say. A few weeks earlier the EPRLF had convened a press conference in Madras to Continued opposite

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iash out at the Tamil Nadu police for harassment and to announce that it was closing down its publicity unit, the Eelam People's Information Centre, for a month as a token of protest. If the Government of India wanted it, the organisation was even prepared to get out of India "politically," announced one of its leading members in the press conference.
But what was surprising - and the silence proved ominous - was that the firing incident did not figure in the militants' meeting with the Chief Minister two days later, when they handed in their written responses to the Sri Lankan Government's proposals.
Unlike the previous meetings when all the groups met the Chief Minister together, this time there were separate meetings. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, represented by its leader V. Prabakaran and spokesman A. S. Balasingham, went in first and submitted their written response to the Chief Minister, who asked Food Minister S. Ramachandran to read it aloud. The Centre's representative, S. Balakrishnan, busied himself taking down the important points and intervening at times to explain them in Tamil to the Chief Minister. Then followed a round of lengthy discussions with the LTTE leaders. Next to troop in was the ENLF team consisting of representatives from the EROS, the TELO and the EPRLF, and finaly, the PLOT leaders. -
Y.
Not Hawkish
A notable feature of the LTTE's response was that its tone was not in the least hawkish. It did not take its stand on the high ground of Eelam. It clearly indicated it was prepared to pitch its negotiation position on the basis of the demand for a single Tamil unit comprising the North and the East. The LTTE, “having studied carefully the contents of the proposals, found the framework “inadequate, failing to meet the basic political aspirations of our people." Its core response was to define its concept of the Tamil homeland: "This homeland is a clearly identifiable, contiguous single region, composed of the Northern and the Eastern provinces." But the most revealing statement followed soon after. “We therefore insist that for any meaningful political settlement, the acceptance by the Sri Lankan Government of an indivisible, single region as the homeland of the Tamils is basic."
This was the key sentence, providing an insight into the LTTE's latest political thinking. It signalled the Government of India that the unit of devolution - as distinct from separation - was the key issue on which any political package wouldstandorfall.
Legitimate Fear
The LTTE's response also offered a reason why it was insisting on a single amil region as the unit of devolution: The Tamils have a legitimate fear that
m
once the North a into two units framework, the unifies the chara nationality is se other words, recognition of a homeland issued Tamils formed a c In fact, the II Substantive and critique of the entire gamut of t the crucial poin order, land and reserved, concur and the Presiden in declaring an e the LTTE, “In m order, the fram powers to the C superimposition authority over system and the IGP and the Pres provincial police institution witho ensure the prc population." On Settlement, the power” in sett irrigation and la) and "the propo territorial integri from encroachme Central Governm
Presidents
Italso found t accorded to the become "meani has overriding le subjects falling provinces. The emergency powc arbitrarily dis councils. The re violence against militarisation p Lankan Gover erection of army Significantly, it reiterating its w the Governmen Nadu Governme a lasting solution liberty, dignity people."
By contrast. response began totally reject th the proposals maintenance o Secular charact Constitution, th Tamils as a dis negation of th homeland. The treaded on c declared that inalienable righ both the Tamil : an absolute pre about genuine Besides, the

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i the East are separated under the proposed territorial basis that
ter and nature of their a
ously undermined." In he demand for the ingle, indivisible Tamil rom the reality that the istinct"nationality. TTE's response was a carefully worked out roposals, covering the he package, speaking to is concerning law and land settlement, the ent and provincial lists 's untrammelled powers mergency. According to atters relating to law and :work offers overriding ntre. It found that the of the national police the provincial police sweeping powers of the ident have reduced “the system to a powerless ut adequate authority to tection of the Tamil the issue of land and land Centre "has absolute ng up inter-provincial ld development projects sals fail to secure the ty of the Tamil homeland 2nt and annexation by the ment”.
Limitless Powers hat the legislative powers provincial council had ngless since Parliament gislative powers even in within the sphere of President has “limitless crs" under which he can solve the provincial sponse touched on State the Tamils, the massive rogramme of the Sri nment and the rapid camps in the Tamil areas. oncluded on the note of hole-hearted support to of India and the Tamil nt in their efforts to find that would guarantee the and security of our
the ENLF's written s a high-flying note. “We very premise on which re based', namely the the unitary and noner of the Sri Lankan 2 non-acceptance of the inct nationality, and the concept of the Tamil ENLF's response also (tra-territorial turf. It the recognition of the of self-determination of hd Sinhala nationalities is condition for bargaining peace on the island.
proposals "seek to
undermine the national and territorial identity of the Eelam people by excluding the plantation Tamils and the areas inhabited and developed by them for generations from all discussions on the nationality problem."
It added for good measure: "Although the above reasons are sufficient to reject outright the proposals emanating from the JR-TULF talks, we feel obliged to give our comment on certain specific aspects of
the proposals." The aspects include the
“overriding powers of the President over the proposed provincial structure,” the concurrent list "overloaded with subjects which should ordinarily and strictly fall
under the category of the provincial list”
and the "usurping" of powers in the sensitive subject of landsettlement.
The ENLF's hurriedly prepared response perhaps mirrored the trauma that one of its affiliaties - the EPRLF - underwent just two days earlier. In the PLOT's case, it simply "borrowed" the ENLF's response, promptly deleted the portion regarding the plantation Tamils and proffered it to the Chief Minister as its own. The ENLF was not pleased with the PLOT's move.
According to V. Balakumar, leader of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation (EROS), his organisation's main objection was to the unitary character of the Sri Lankan Constitution. He refused to buy the stance that it was impossible to change the unitary nature of the Constitution because this needed a referendum. “We know that in Sri Lankan history, they have twice fully changed the Constitution. They drafted two new Constitutions in 1972 and 1978.”
Makes Us Slaves
He called the Constitution "a disgrace to the Tamil people. It makes us slaves." Besides, the proposals state that "Buddhism is going to be the State religion for ever. Sinhala will be the official language for ever. The Sinhala national anthem and the Sinhala national flag are going to be there. They will not change them. This means they are not ready to treat us as equal human beings. According to Balakumar, this was why the ENLF has emphasised its four cardinal principles in its response. (The four principles include the recognition of the Tamils as a distinct nationality, recognition of their right to their homeland and self-determination and the grant of citizenship to all plantation Tamils and restoration of their democratic rights). - - - -
With the militants refusing to buy the proposals, the question that naturally arose was: what was going to happen next? :
The answer, of very far-reaching political and emotional significance, was not slow in coming - and when it did, it severely shook up the equations in a very complicated and messy picture.
T. S. Subramanian (Courtesy of Frontline, 15-28 November, 1986)

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TAMIL EELAM
INDAN HEL
The comparative lull on the negotiating front in late September and October saw an escalation of military activity in the Tamil-dominated Eastern and Northern provinces of Sri Lanka. While it is stili a tugof-war between the security forces and the militants in the East, the North is virtually under the control of the LTTE. D. B. S. JEYARAJ reports from Jaffna and Colombo.
DAWK was the description given to Henry Kissinger in the United States when he initiated the Paris peace talks while his country was continuously bombing Vietnam. The term, derived from a combination of dove and hawk, seems rather appropriate to describe the Sri Lankan Government's approach to a negotiated settlement on the national question too. For those in charge of defence and security have constantly defended their military strategy by claiming that it was being done to (a) scale down the separatist violence (b) to show the Eelamists that they cannot win, and (c) to enable the Government to negotiate from a position of military strength. The final 'goal' is always 'peace'.
The delusion of a military victory has been the bane of the Sri Lankan political establishment in the past. The harsh effect of this approach is borne by the Tamilspeaking people. The reality in the past weeks has been that of 'battlehawks' hovering in the skies over the Northern and Eastern Provinces while 'peacedoves' cooed in New Delhi, Madras and Colombo. Peace and a negotiated settlement was emphasised in August and early September. But in the past few weeks the scene has shifted to the theatre of war - the Tamil areas in general and the Eastern Province in particular.
The Eastern Province of Sri Lanka - comprising the districts of Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Amparai, with Tamils, Mus|lims and Sinhalese making up 42 per cent 32 per cent and 26 per cent of the population respectively (1981 census) - has been the crucially important factor in the ethnic crisis. During the period of G. Parthasarathy's shuttle diplomacy in 1983, the question of the East and the North being merged together went unanswered. The All-Party Conference of 1984 saw vehement opposition to the North-East regional council. The Thimpu talks in 1985 collapsed as the Sri Lankan Government rejected the integrity of the traditional Tamil homeland (N & E) concept. The Chidambaram mission too was confronted with the same North-East linkage issue. The recent statement in Madras by the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, J. N. Dixit, that the North-East linkage was the only unre
(This assessment was written before the police swoop on the militants in Tamil Nadu, with reactions to this in Sri Lanka)
solved issue shows thi of protracted struggl the Eastern Province determining factor.
Compara
in that context the the negotiating front ber and October sa military activity noti While negotiators we close the gap on linka forces and the milita take effective control physical sense. With t boundaries commissi actual control of an a reality that could not redemarcator. The 'M earlier instances, was this essentially Sir (guerilla) confrontatior Naturally Trincoma importance. The trun|| malee to Colombo, th baltivu zones, the strip wewa and pockets ir were under Tamil m areas adjacent to si were spheres of state i the Muslim-dominatec a sort of No Man's La of a scorched earth po in Morawewa was th passage between the incidentally, the areak in Sinhala was Mudalik to Sinhala colonisation
A massive operatior 3,000 security personi Sambaltivu to comb tants. According to re moved away like fish Tamil people were h and re-located tempo guard and several ho or damaged. Hundre children became temp people were allowed homes in phased-out tion is now virtually The armed forces dem ity to discharge an ope with a minimum los engaging in an orgy of However, the operatio the futility of militar guerillas who have the port of the people.
Dotted with A
The landscape of with security camps counter-insurgency op is borne by a newly commando unit, the (STF). Batticaloa bec tested arena as both Supremacy.
The Batticaloa airp militants and a helico! ral bridges and culve and roads were landm movements. For the f

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ILLUSIONS OF
2 DSPEED)
t despite three years 2 and negotiations, remains the vitally
tive Lull
comparative lull on during late Septemv an escalation of teably in the East. e trying perhaps to ige, both the armed its were fighting to of the ground in a he appointment of a on in the air, the ea would be a stark be ignored by any uslim factor', unlike a neutral element in hala (State)-Tamil
ee was of primary ( road from Trincoe Nilaweli and Samof land along MoraTrincomalee town lilitant Control. The ecurity installations nfluence. Apart from areas, the rest was nd - a veritable relic licy. The strip of land e corridor ensuring North and the East. nown as Morawewa kulam in Tamil prior
deploying 2,000 to nel was launched in Out the Tamil miliports, the militants
in the ocean. The owever rounded up rarily under armed ises were destroyed ds of women and orary refugees. The to go back to their intervals. The situaback to square One. onstrated their a bilration of this nature of life instead of killing as in the past. also demonstrated 7 exercises against
sympathy and sup
rmy Camps 3atticaloa is dotted The burden of erations in the East :reated crack police Special Task Force me a keenly consides struggled for
rt was attacked by ter damaged. Severts were destroyed ned to restrict troop st time in the East,
* í }
the Tigers used the car bomb technique resulting in some policemen being killed. Citizens' Committee sources alleged that the police ran amok killing 13 civilians. The Tamils called for a hartal. The 17-year-old son of a Tamil police officer was abducted and killed. C. Rajadurai and K. W. Devanayagam, both Cabinet Ministers representing the Eastern Province constituencies of Batticaloa and Kalkudah respectively, flew in and out of the East under tight security to attend official functions. Several police patrols fell victim to militant landmines during this period.
The security forces counterattacked by Cordoning off villages and rounding up all the youth. Some were released while others languish in custody stil. When Muslim fishermen were assaulted in Valaichinai, the Muslims staged a hartal in protest. Both Tamils and Muslims cooperated with each other in hartals which proved to be resounding successes. But the security forces also improved their position by moving on foot into areas considered unassailable Tamil fortresses.
The Batticaloa lagoon bisects certain areas of the district into two strips parallel to the coastline. The people call the area to the east "Eluvankarai' (shore of the rising sky) and the land to the west 'Paduvankarai' (shore of the setting sky). Paduvankarai is a homogeneous Tamil area affording great mobility and protection to the militants. The security forces have succeeded in establishing checkpoint camps at places where ferries ply across the lagoon. A few camps have been set up in the Paduvankarai strip itself. On the other hand, the security personnel movements on the ground are being restricted gradually to the major roads in other areas.
Peace and War
An indication of the tense situation in Batticaloa could be gauged by what occurred on October 27, World Peace Day. The State and the militants were observing a 24-hour truce in deference to the call by the Pope. The Batticaloa Citizens' Committee sent a telegram that noon to the Papal Nuncio in Colombo that the truce had been violated by security men who shot and injured S. Sooriakumar (24) as he was fishing in the lagoon. Later security forces surrounded the hospital to arrest the injured man on the charge of being a "Tiger'. The intervention of the Citizens' Committee saw the injured man remaining in hospital with the guarantee that he would report to the authorities after recovery. Even Deepavali, the festival of Tami Hindus, was a 'black' event to the residents of the district. A landmine attack on Deepavali-eve at Porativu saw an aerial attack on the area. The Citizens' Committee wired to J. R. Jayawardene saying that four houses were damaged; 1,500 had evacuated their homes. Another 50 including goldsmiths from Colombo who had come home for the festival were arrested. w
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camp at Manalpiddi. Batticaloa citizens charged that the civilians were being held as hostages to ensure immunity against a militant attack.
On Deepavadi day, security men is-surrounded Kokkatticholai from four directions. Setting up four temporary camps on all sides, they commenced search operations. About 10,000 people were reported to have fled to the nearby jungles. A Government official and a woman were killed. Three houses were burnt and 150 were arrested at Mahiladitivu. Security forces were reported to be venturing further interior where the paddy fields are.
The Liberation Tigers claimed credit for three landmine attacks at three places before, during and after Deepavali. The EROS and the LTTE are the most active groups in the East. The Amparai district, predominantly Muslim and Sinhala, has been free of major violence for some time now.
Difference
The qualitative situation in the North is different from that of the East. The peninsula is virtually under the 'control' of the militants with the army being confined to camps. Troop movement is extremely restricted in Killinochi and Mullaitivu districts, and the situation is a little better for the army in Mannar and Vavuniya districts. The militants seem to be on the ascendency in the North. Colombo apparently controls only the skies and the seas of the North. Its weakness on the ground is illustrated by the recent troop movements between Killinochi and Vavuniya along the Jaffna-Kandy highway, the main trunk road. Despite the distance covered being approximately 96 km and the camps of Kokuvil, Mankulam and Omantai being transit points, the forces resorted to commandeering civilian vehicles. Vehicles carrying civilians such as buses were forced to join the military convoy in what seemed an attempt to prevent the militants from attacking the troops.
The strength of the militants and their bonds with the people prevent the security forces from establishing supremacy. A fullscale bid to venture out would be resisted by the militants. Obviously such a struggle would result in heavy loss of life to both sides. Even if the forces were to win in such an assault, the victory would be pyrrhic as, faced with an alienated hostile population, the troops would have no choice but to withdraw to the comparative safety of camp. More important, such operations would also cause great loss to civilian life, limb and property. In that event, international opinion and Indian pressure would react adversely against Sri Lanka. The situation is virtually a statemate with neither side being able to dislodge the other without the aid of an external factor that would weaken or strengthen the militants. The inability of the State to exercise its power effectively has caused a vacuum. That is now being filled as rapidly as possible by the militants, of whom the Tigers lead the field.
LTTE Asserts
The most significant development in the recent past has been the assertion of power in the North by the strongest militant group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). After decimating the Tamil Eetarn Liberation Organisation (TELO) in
April-May, the LTTE port of the EPRLF an "Operation Short SI assault on the pen Thereafter the Tigers systematic programr civil administration imposed different 1 income business tu excise, etc. They hav which telecasts a pc weekends. They ha licences to vehicles, TV owners and bus They are setting up tain internal law an number of industri educational institutic village-level tribunals putes.
A cultural council foster, preserve an Crafts and literature. been opened, and sa price control schem There are also blackb junctions. The board about the events of cular emphasis on since the State med here. The news on b morning and evenin erly. Next to these which one could dri plaints or request schools and factories ammunition are als First aid posts and a centre have also beer
Other groups like t postage stamps and a parallel post office to utilise the existing there is some confus ambulance service, p. so on. The EROS m and is busy organis leve.
The LTE has arni up an Eelam Secreta run the civil adminis dinate and consolida tive functions run b whole. The LTTE mai the Secretariat is r scheme of devolutic or to a unilateral de
eCe.
PLOT Mas
Another importar been the malfunction North. The Tigers of cated at arms and the People's Libera Tamil Eelam after a p a Musim and Carr allegedly hijacked b high-level meeting w tions' representative warning that severe against the PLOT it Muslim. The PLOT, f TELO's plight, annou pending' all operati handed over its ar vehicles to the LTTE. to surrendering to ar the LTTE. Both the issued statements c action.
The manoeuvres

with the limited supd the PLOT withstood rift", an air-sea-land insula for five days. have embarked on a ne to set up a parallel in Jaffna. They have axes and levies on "nover, a tot vehicle 'e set up a TV station pular programme on ave begun to issue
motorists, radio and iness establishments. police posts to maind order. They run a 2s, shops and even ins. They have set up to arbitrate legal dis
has been set up to d regulate the arts, A children's zoo has nitary standards and a 2 are being enforced. oards at all important s carry news bulletins the day with a partiState-militant clashes ia have no credibility oards, updated in the g, are lapped up eagboards are boxes in pop suggestions, COmis. Militant training s producing arms and o run by the Tigers. in economic planning
set up. he EPRLF have issued are attempting to run . Since the attempt is
State postal services, ion, The PLOT has an protective bunkers and aintains a low profile ing at the grassroots
ounced that it will set riat in January 1987 to tration, lt would coorte all civil administraby it under a unified intains that the idea of lot connected to the in envisaged by India claration of independ
unctioning it development has ing of the PLOT in the the Wanni area confisvehicles belonging to tion Organisation of rivate lorry, owned by ying provisions, was y the PLOT. After a ith the other organisas, the LTTE issued a action would be taken f it “victimised" any earing a replay of the nced that it was “susOns for Some time. It 'senals, bunkers and This was tantamount ultimatum issued by EPRLF and the EROS ondemning the LTTE
among the militant
FAMLTIMES 19%
groups and the State's response may cause a change of atmosphere.
in the final analysis what matters is the people's will. The success of the current negotiating process, the relations among the organisations, the power of the organisations, or the State - everything depends ultimately on the people. The mood of the Tamil people in the North and the East has been marked by continuity as well as change. The element of continuity is inherent in the nature of the Tamil struggle for justice and equality. It has displayed a tenacity from pre-independence times until now - long before violent modes were adopted. The stabilising factor of continuity will now allow the Tamils to accept anything short of a genuine settlement that would truly meet their legitimate aspirations. This commonality of feeling is prevalent among all sections of the people. While yearning for peace, they will not accept it without honour. An acceptable settlement would be one that is satisfactory in terms of unit and substance. After long years of suffering oppression and bearing the brunt of a scorched earth policy, the Tamils do not seem in a mood to accept anything short of a Tamil linguistic province. The early creation of such a unit seems to be the only chance of activating the dormant peace constituency. If the 1983 violence unified Tamils and created a broader Tamil identity, the goal of a linguistic unit with quasi-federal powers seems something that reinforces that collective identity.
Change in Mood
The change in the Tamil mood is essentially caused by a reactive effect. The mood is variable according to time and space and has different degrees of intensity. This fluctuation in mood is caused by various events and processes. An ideal example would be the India-inspired peace talks. The progress of peace is monitored keenly and results in several questions, both negative and positive, in the public mind. "A settlement seems to be imminent', "New Delhi has now understood our problem', 'J.R. seems ready to settle now?', 'Will the boys reject it?', 'Will India betray us?', 'Will India crush the boys?', 'Can we trust the Government?', are some of these. The collective mood becomes synchronised with the talking process and varies in accordance with the perception of every move, counter-move, twist or turn.
The mood is also subjective to events such as the State's repressive activities's the shelling, the strafing, the bombing, the mass arrests and the threats issued by politicos; the inter-group rivalry of the militants; the obnoxious behaviour of certain militant groups; hardships such as the lack of transport, fuel, the high cost of living caused by the escalation of the conflict, and so on. A pessimistic mood however does not translate itself into support for the State as the fluctuating change does not obliterate the theme of basic continuity.
The sense of buoyant optimism that prevailed during indira Gandhi's tenure of office began to resurface among the Tamil people. A minor cause for this feeling was the appointment of P. Chidambaram as negotiator; the major cause is the perception that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, after two years in office, has become more
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sRLANKA: A Review of the D.
THE HUMAN RI
Continued from last issue
MONITORING COMMITTEE
Consequent to this ceasefire, talks were held in Thimpu in Bhutan from 18th July to 13th August, 1985. The second round of talks at Thimpu took place in September 1985 and there was a complete breakdown of the talks; this resulted in the deportation of some of the spokesmen for the militants by the Indian Government (this was later withdrawn). It was in this atmosphere that a Committee to monitor the cessation of hostilities evidently agreed to by both parties as part of the cease-fire agreement started functioning on 16.10.85; the jurisdiction of this committee even covered reporting of conditions in prisons and detention camps. Predictably enough, the C.M.C.H. could not work for a longtime, but its efforts brought to light the enormity of the problems such a process had to confront. With the resignation of the two Tamil members recommended for appointment to that Committee by the militants over an incident in Jaffna in which helicopter shooting had taken place at the time the Committee visited Jaffna, the Committee effectively ceased to function.
Perhaps the most staggering of all the post-1983 state action is the beginning of the attacks from the air - first it was explosives thrown from helicopters, later shooting from helicopters and finally full scale bombing. Jaffna was first bombed on 20.2.86 at Thavady. With this air attack, the lines that existed between the militants and the people began to disappear fast and there arose a situation that without the militants, it would be difficult for the people to save themselves. Attacks continue even now and the most recent one took place a week ago in Sambaltivu in the Trincomalee District. Bombings, it is claimed, are undertaken to clear up the areas of the militants. However, in terms of casualties, virtually all had been civilians.
All these have developed a sense of despondency among the people about the credibility of any move towards a solution. When there was a ceasefire, there were no talks; and now when there are talks, there is no ceasefire. To the average Tamil this presents an air of unreality and it is this feeling that constitutes the psychological base for the current no-go state in the attempts to bring about a solution.
V
It is important now for us to describe the human rights violations that took place amidst the actions mentioned earlier. Amnesty International Report (April 1986) re-affirming its continued position to the refoulement of the Tamils to Sri Lanka (these are refugees who had migrated to western countries) said: - 'If returned, Tamil civilians not involved in combat would be at grave risk of becoming victims of human rights violations. These include -
ΕΤΗΝ
(a) Arbitrary killing the Security Forces killing of their own of the Sinhala comf (b) "Disappearanc allegedly arrestedt personnel; (c) Arbitrary arrest been long-termanc (d) lll-treatment an arrest.
r、
Amnesty Internation situations are adequat reality of these. They are
(1) Sri Lanka — Sonr extra-judicial killing fo March 1986—AS,
* (2) Sri Lanka - Disa *** 37/8/86- First publi
1986.
(3) File on 'Torture International Repot 1985.
On torture, this is v "torture" has to say:
'Torture occurs in n camps and in polic rarely reported from to extort "confessio information. It is wi army and police inclu investigating Depa, Special Task Force."
"Army camps in the r detenues alleged th included Vavuniya, Pa Pt. Pedro, Keerima Gurunagar. There
allegations of tortur established camps of Task Force at Kallady Eastern Province and o Tangalle camps in the S
DISAPPEA As for "disappeara mostly in the East
situation has been suc international has recom Lankan Government i impartial investigatio whereabouts of the pec disappeared in Sri Lan relatives or their findir also been suggested t establishes an indepen investigate alcases oi Lanka.
Commenting on th "disappearances", the nal report says:
"That except one S. disappeared people of the disappeare labourers and fisher poor families. A su are students and civi is a Roman Catholic F

DECEM, 1986
2velopments Since July 1983
GHTS FACTOR IC CONFLICT
s by members of . as reprisal for the men or of members nunity, e' of people уSecurity Force з
and detention have lin-coттиnicado; d torture after
';
al Reports on these e evidence for the
he recent reports of is - September 1985 A 37/3/86.
ppearances-ASA ' shed-September fi
; :
!’-Amnesty t No. 10- October 3.
*ts what the Al File on
lilitary and police a stations, but is prisons. It is used ins" or to obtain dely used by the ' iding the Criminal rtment and the
north where former ey were tortured aly, Elephant Pass, ai, Thallady and have also been 2 in the recently
the Police Special
and Kallaru in the ne at the Boosa and outh".
RANCES
hces", it has been ern Province. The h that the Amnesty mended that the Sri hitiates speedy and ns to clarify the ple reported to have ka and inform their ngs forthwith. It has hat the Government dent Commission to disappearance in Sri
e data relating to Amnesty Internatio
inhalese, all other are Tamils; many. ld are farmers, ol men who are from it bstantial number I servants and one
riest.
Most allegations of "disappearance" cited the Army and the Special Task Force, but some also cited the Navy and the Police. In a few incidents, the home guards are allegedly responsible. It is important to mention these to emphasis the fact of dislocation and disruption caused to civil life in these areas. The psychological impact of all these state actions is creating an almost irredeemable situation in ethnic relations.
The state forces are non-Tamil (in the areas of operation) and often consider themselves Sinhala soldiers with a mission in a vanquished territory. On the Sinhala side the impression about the Tamil militant is that he is bent on eradicating everything Sinhala. It is this psychological divide which is now the most serious problem in SinhalaTamil relations.
by Prof. K. SIVATHAMBY University of Jaffna
V
PROBLEMOFREFUGEES
The question of safety and security in the various areas of the Tamil districts has led to the refugee problem. Without minimising in any sense the significance of the refugees going out of Sri Lanka, the problem of refugees within the island needs analysis, because it is the intensity of this problem that is causing a lot of hardships formany poor Tamil people.
Tamil refugees could be classified into two major groups:
(a) Inter-district refugees - These are Tamil families which have been dislocated from the districts where they have been living and are now seeking security and shelter in other Tamil districts, and
(b) Intra-district refugees - These are persons and families having to leave their homes due to proximity to Army Camps and/or to the sea coast (fishing is banned) and are seeking shelter and security in safer areas within the same district.
Refugee Situation as on 30.9.86
District No. of No. of No. of
Camps Families Persons Trincoma lee 23 5,780 28,746 Batticaloa 5 2,301 10,722 Mullaitivu 8, 2,420 10,889 Vavuniya 6 727 3.127 Mannar 2 233 1,047 Kihin Och Chi 5 280 1,397 Kilinochchi - 5,300 26,500
(outside camps) Jaffna 11 1.201 5,301 Jaffna - - 14,699
(outside camps)
Total: 60 18,242 102,428

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There is a tendency on the part of the Tamil to move towards safer places. The situation in the Tamil areas has been further worsened because of the abandonment of the development plans that were formulated by the Government for these areas. It is said that most of the development projects had to be given up because of problems in monitoring. However, with increased pressure on land due to refugee movement towards the north, the problem is becoming more acute, There is State assistance provided in the form of dry rations for particular periods of time, but quite often this is stopped after some time. At that point of time, it becomes extremely difficult for the people to live in the new areas. There has also been the problem of sending refugee children to schools. The schools available in the areas are not equipped to absorb these children and classes have to be run on a voluntary basis for these children and the teachers are quite often school leavers themselves.
There is a fear of rise in the rate of illiteracy.
V CITIZENS COMMITTEES
How has the Tamil community been able to cope with those disruptions in its socioeconomic life and yet manage to establish contact with the authorities, to report to them their grievances and also to obtain relief?
The formation of the Citizens' Committee was the answer to this need. With:
(a) the absence of representation at the local and national levels,
(b) the increasing severity of the military and police operations causing great loss to life and damage to property of innocent civilians, and si
(c) the breakdown of the civil administration, especially the networkd of the welfare services, s
there arose an immediate need for the more articulate citizens of the community to group themselves together without delay to seek redress for damage done and inconvenience caused to their fellow community members and to ensure the continuity of life in the community.
Thus a "crisis situation" in a particular area (village or town) creates the need for the formation of a Citizens' Committee. This
is done so as to have a means of
establishing contact with:
(a) the military authorities functioning within the areas, and
(b) the civil authorities to ensure the continuity of life. V
The first of these Citizens' Committees rose up in the town of Jaffna in 1982 when M.P.s were taken into protective custody and the library, the market and several other buildings were burnt. At the time of its formation, it went to the extent of supporting the call of the Army to join them in patrol duty. Then as crises arose in the various towns and villages, Citizens' Committees began to be formed at those levels. Thus Citizens' Committees arose in Valvettiturai, Pt. Pedro, Karaveddy, Kondavil, Mathaga, Chulipuram, etc.
With the rise of such Committees in various villages and towns performing almost the same functions - i.e. contacting the military authorities, preparing affidavits, making representations to the
Government Age co-ordinate the w
CO-C
Thus a Co-o formed and a C elected. Mr. R. tary, Jafna C elected the Cowriter, was electe With the sam other Tamil d Mulaitivu, Trinc useful to co-ord easy for joint requests for redr The Citizens' C political organis. groups of citizen interim body p social function authorities and immediate amel
These do not tional frameworl es. They are vol the re-activation and its network ( efforts to re-es political comm Committees wo effective role.
NOPC
These Citizen political function The Citizens' urges the need solution, but re achieved and en of political com necessary for Committees shal nor are these inte Even so Citize loom large in t decimated life oi to SOme extent Colombo to w| "complainants" available. Soon also became the information for 1 the Tamil reg attractive to fore and quite soont in an embarrass reliable informat the Citizens' CC rise of this Mov highest water-m they met the Pr and represented The credibilit tees with the mi as seen in th appointment to Committee — bo K. Sivathamb Committee. Hov quickly brought Government wa Citizens' Comn channel of com especially afte Thimpu talks.
With the ch military and importance oft now started to \ has become so on the part of th

nt, there arose the need to Ork of these Committees.
RDINATION
dinating Committee was onvenor and a Chairman Balasubramaniam, Secretizens' Committee, was rdinator and the present ld the Chairman. ܐ݇ܢ e situation developing in istricts (as in Mannar, malee etc.,) it was thought inate the work to make it representations and for SS. ommittees have been nonations. They are, basically, s, combined together as an erforming an emergency of contacting the military he civil administration for orative measures.
have elaborate constitu( or constitutional structuruntary organisations. With of the civil administration of welfare activities and the tablish the channels of unication, the Citizens' puld cease to have any
LITICAL ROLE
s' Committees have no to perform.
Committee Movement for a permanent political iterates that it has to be sured through the systems: munication available and that task. The Citizens' not play any political role; inded for such purpose. ens' Committees began to he socially and politically the Sri Lankan Tamils and in the political corridors of nich they were the only from the Tamils then the Citizens' Committees most reliable channels of he activities of the Army in ions. This made them ign-media correspondents
he Government found itself.
ing position because of the ion that was being given by mmittees. Looking at the 2ment, 1985 constitutes its ark. It was in this year that esident J. R. Jayawardene matters to him.
of the Citizens' Commitlitants was also fairly high, eir recommendations for the Cease-fire Monitoring h Mr. K. Sivapalan and Mr. were from Citizens' wever, these developments about a situation when the s not happy in allowing the ittee to continue as the munication for the people, the breakdown of the
anged conditions in the political situations, the e Citizens' Committee has vane. The military situation ense and the determination e State is so great that very
la TAMILTIMEs 13
often they do not encourage contact with civilians. This is the situation at local levels. it is now not possible for any civilian organisation to get in touch with the military authorities, even through civil officers. The war in the famil areas has become total, state with its army on one side and the people and the militants on the other,
The people are now getting used to the disrupted civil life and are trying to work out institutional apparatus to see them through these troubled times. The Citizens' Committee within its limited role of presenting the difficulties of the people to the civil and military authorities, is only orie of its kind. There are equally urgent problems like settlement of disputes among the people, looking into local needs of community management, and maintaining the continuity of the essential services of the community. For these there is the necessity for a different type of community leadership which, in broad terms, the Citizens' Committees cannot provide. With the increasing social presence of the militants in the villages, the role of the local organisation will be to concentrate more and more on social work leaving defence and political matters in their hands. That brings us to the question of increasing socialisation of militants with the people.
VI
MILITANTSBECOMEA POLITICAL FORCE
The militants' movements are proscribed by law and actions taken by the Government against them and the activities the militants indulge in make them necessarily militaristic. Militarism has become the raison d'etre of their existence for they are now guerilla fighters openly fighting against the State. The more militaristic the group is, the more effective they are in terms of performing their vital function of defending the people and advancing their cause. Thus a high degree of militarism has been the keynote of the organisational upkeep of the militant mOvermentS. w
With the people becoming increasingly dependent on them, the militants are now becoming a more-open political force with clear-cut political targets. :
It is now an established fact that sociall and institutionally, they are ់
themselves as spokesmen of the community - a position which has come to them from the TULF. It is not only the sociopolitical needs that are making the militant groups become more and more sociopolitically integrated. More importantly and perhaps more crucially it is the socioliberationist character that is making them more and more integrated in the social life of the people. It should be understood that the Sri Lankan crisis is at one level of cognizance a National Ouestion, at another level it is one of social radicalism-revolt which is calling into question some of the hitherto unquestioned ideological foundations of the Sri Lankan Tamil Society, it should be noted that the Sri Lankan Tami youths, especially those from the northern part of the country, have a tradition of nonconformist idealist struggle. The first political struggle was started by the Youth Congress in the period 1929-1932. It was a movement of national-minded youth fighting for nationalism and independence
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Continued from page 13
inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and in its idealistic fervour, had rejected the fractional autonomy that the Donoughmore Commission recommended. It organised a boycott of the first Elections to the State Council. The movement was not a Success.
The present Youth Movement started in the early 70s primarily as a result of the denial of higher education to competent Tamil students. At the start it was essentially a movement of pre-university students and some idealistic youth of the day. In its beginnings the movement opposed those opportunist-Tamils who collaborated with the Government of the day. The militants at the early stages did not oppose the TULF; the situation changed in 1977 when the TULF became the official opposition party and was expressing its keenness for parliamentary methods of achieving Tamil Eelam. The political rift came in 1982 when the TULF decided to accept DDCs. The continuous Army attacks and State surveillance compelled the militants to base their activities across the ocean in Tamilnadu. There was a real escalation of actions against the State Forces. As guerilla fighters, they started fighting the state forces. With the ceasefire of 1985, they have become a political force, and with the current round of talks, they are almost an open political force. It is important to note that all the Tamil militant youth movements, even though they have functioned primarily as anti-Sinhala opposition groups, have equally a vision of Social change. All the groups speak in marxist terminologies, some of them more pronounced than the rest. It has now become quite clear that they are challenging very many of the established norms of Tamil society. With escalating air attacks, their integration with the masses is increasingly seen. With the collapse of the state welfare institutions at grass root levels and with the security forces taking a hostile attitude towards all community based activities, the mantle is now falling on the shoulders of the militant groups to organise themselves at the grass root levels for community development. This in certain areas has brought out the internal social contradictions of the community. In short, they have now become an important socio
political force and th indicated that once th oppression is over, th unturned towards t egalitarianism.
V| THE TAMIL The political solu
negotiated should ta these realities. A joint the militants at the Thimpu I Talks, h unambiguous terms, t Lankan Tamils:
(1) Recognition of ; : nationality, fii(2) Guarantee of Y integrity of the T (3) Recognition of
determination; (4) Right to full
plantation Tamil
The government of moved from the positic to Provincial Councils details and technical proposals, it could be proposals also refuse that what the governm problem that has ar speaking areas of Sri L Solved at that level. Pr. going to be imposed o, want them. The demar for self-management is confronted by the Gov areas and not in oth Tamils demand is a s arrangement in whic persons and security a ethnic group are Constitutional arrange from a type of federalis is demanded by the mil
STRUCTURE OF
The crucial need the the Tamils as constitut in this country; that have a territorial dim geographically contigu tion and collective dem
Sinhala people). The recognition of the inalienable right of self-determination of both the Tamil and Sinhala nationalities is an
genuine peace in the island. In practical terms
Sinhala consensus which is necessary to
there is scope for co-existence within a united Sri Lanka.
(c) the negation of the concept and reality of a Tamil homeland. All the proposals placed by the Sri Lankan Government have sought to bifurcate our homeland by treating the Northern and Eastern provinces as two distinct entities. They also seek to undermine the national and territorial identity of the Eelam people by excluding the plantation Tamils and the areas inhabited and developed by them for generations from all discussions on the nationality problem. The refusal to
absolute pre-condition for bargaining about
there must be the fusion of a broad Tamil and
convince the oppressed Tamil nationality that
ENLF RESPONSE
oppressed as a distinct nationality (unlike the
accept integration of the vinces into a single econ, its economic viability a allocation of resources.
In view of the above a ing is necessary from Lankan Government. I logically it would una acceptance of the four forward by the Tamil de Thimpu conference.
2.2 Although the ab ficient to reject outright t ing from the J. R. - TULF to give our comment aspects of the propos deference to the request India and in appreciat mediator tờ a highly co however, wish to empi ments given below are b, in the context of our state

y have also clearly ir fight against State y will leave no stone eir goal for social
)EMANDS
ion that is being ke into account all statement issued by
conclusion of the
is summarised in e demand of the Sri
amils as a distinct
the territorial mil homeland; the right to self
itizenship of the
o.
Sri Lanka also has n of District Councils
Without going into ties of the present said that the latest o recognise the fact ent faces is a special isen in the Tamianka and it has to be ovincial Councils are n areas which do not ld for political power s a political problem
ernment in the Tamil
er areas. What the pecial constitutional :h their safety as ind continuity as an
maintained. That ment might range m to separatism that tantS.
SETTLEMENT
efore is to recognise ng one political unit nit would primarily ension with definite ous areas of habita
ographic dimension
BECEMBSR 1986
with all Tamils, wherever they live in the island, deemed to be considered as belonging to the Tamil Unit. Unless this is realised, there is no possibility of a negotiated settlement.
Historical fears and opportunistic party politics stand in the way of the Sinhalese to understand that the Tamils of Sri Lanka are as much part and parcel of the political, social and cultural landscape and heritage of the country, and therefore should be considered as a distinct ethnic group with a traditional homeland of its own within the island, and be given equality of treatment and be assured of the absence of discrimination at all levels. This relates to the political structure of the settlement.
But more important is that the people should believe that there is an earnest and very sincere attempt being made to solve this problem. The post-1983 events described in this Paper have resulted in the absence of any trust and faith in those wielding power to implement what has been agreed upon. The major problem is that when the Tamil people opted for much less than what is being now offered, the bureaucracy and the Government did not want to implement it in the spirit of the agreement. What is the guarantee now for the implementation of a scheme in which more things are promised? This therefore, is also a question of political trust. Any proposal to settle the ethnic issue should spell out how it would be implemented, who would supervise it and with what authority? This evidently increases the importance of the role of India in settling this problem.
There is, finally, the manner in which the intended solution is being canvassed at the level of the Sinhala masses. Government spokesmen are at pains to show to the Sinhala masses that what is being given to the Tamils is really nothing much. This makes the Tamils feel suspicious of what is being offered. Above all, it is also emerging as a quation of the self respect of the community as a whole. "Why is it that the government is not telling the Sinhala people that they are giving the Tamils what they need and deserve?" Should one accept a solution that is being served under the counter? This is a national problem and should be solved at that level.
Concluded
Continued from page 7
Tamill-speaking promic unit undermines d scope for efficient
fundamental rethinkthe side of the Sri done nationally and oidably lead to the basic demands put 2gation present at the
ve reasons are suf'e proposals emanatalks, we feel obliged on certain specific ls. We do this in f the Government of on of its role as a plex problem. We, asise that our comund to be redundant 'position in 1.1.
The proposals before us, formulated on the basis of the principles of devolution of power within the scope and extent of the existing unitary Constitution of Sri Lanka and with the present administrative provinces as the basic units of devolution, provide for the overriding powers of the President over the proposed provincial political structure. Together with the concurrent list, overloaded with subjects which should ordinarily and strictly fall under the category of the provincial list, while in vital areas, like law and order, every opportunity offered to the Central Government to infringe on and make inroads into the specified scope of the provinces, from recruitment to deployment, and in another equally significant and sensitive subject of land settlement, there is an obvious attempt to usurp the essence of the powers involved, leaving the remnants to the provinces, leading to an inevitable situation where the very principle of devolution is watered through the whole process to the point of saturation, making it a mockery if not a nullity.

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Effects of Conflict on Ecc
This is the final part of the study undertaken by Dr. Paul Seabright in Northern Sri Lanka during the latter half of 1985. Dr. Seabright is presently attached to Churchill College, Cambridge
Continued from last issue
Northern and Eastern Provinces: A Coming Food Crisis?
While I do not have detailed information on economic conditions elsewhere in the North and East of Sri Lanka, information is available that can be used to give a brief general picture. First of all, violence against all three communities has continued at a much higher level than in Jaffna. Documentation by citizens' committees and non-governmental organisations suggests that killings of Tamils by security forces have been running at a rate of between one hundred and three hundred per month since August 1985; how many of these have been combatants is unclear, but from age and sex details it is clearly a minority. Killings of members of the other communities are lessfully documented (not through negligence but because the growth of independent documentation has begun in the Tamil-dominated areas where the violence was initially highest and the official press coverage absent). But it is clear from refugee figures that all three communities have suffered seriously: in Trincomalee district, where the initial populations of Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese were roughly equal, of some 31,000 refugees in camps in early November 1985, approximately 14,000 were Tamils, 11,000 Sinhalese and 6,000 Muslim.
Reports from the Eastern province indicate; that what links there have been (including trade links) between villages of different communities have been abruptly broken: Muslim traders. no longer move into Tamil villages as before, nor vice versa. But dwarfing these
considerations of local linkages is the fact of a
two provinces. Calculations based on numbers of refugees in camps, plus those who have crossed to neighbouring districts and those who are staying with relatives and receiving government dry rations, indicate that just over one-third of the population of Vavuniya and Trincomalee districts is currently displaced.
This does not include those who have left the country (e.g. to India). And importantly, it does not include those who have been temporarily displaced from their homes but have returned, and who may have suffered major disruption of their activities. When the scale of this displacement is contemplated it is unsurprising to learn that in these two provinces the area of paddy cultivation is approximately 10 per cent of normal, and that in the Northern and Eastern provinces as a whole the production of paddy for the current winter season is predicted to reach - at best-no
more than 25 per cent of its normal level.
The significance of this is that the Northern and Eastern provinces together form a major paddy-surplus area that produces approximately a quarter of the island's requirements of rice. Disruption in rice production here has major implications for the economy as a whole. In 1984 Sri Lanka came the closest yet to its goal of self-sufficiency in rice production, importing some 39,000 tonnes of rice. In the first six months of 1985, 90,000 tonnes were imported, and the amount for the year as a whole will reach approximately 200,000 tonnes at a
foreign exchange rupees.
If rice product Eastern provinces level in 1986, ther 350,000 tonnes i provinces alone wil by imports, taking over 400,000 tonne billion rupees. If . out to have been a will be still higher. that these develop of a food shortage. a shortage would North and East it
imports at an ampl do so (especially crops will also hav consider in detail S constraints.
For Sri Lan undoubtedly a principaly to a hap tea prices and a la production that se up to Rs 15.8 billi or 149 per cent ove also recorded a 15 1984 (due to pa) textiles, clothing resulting in a Rs growth in exportea As a result of thi able to reduce its over Rs 11 billion 1984, its stronges period. At the sa budget deficit fell billion, a relatively to fund if it enjo finance of Rs 9.8bi government borr system was negat billion, because o generated by the il even a succession relation to overall be said to have exchange constrail pressure upon the inflation rate in Ju declining. The co 1984 was a modest that the deteriorati Sri Lanka in a position. ,
Nonetheless, th
Tami
The Citizens condemned t human shiel civilians are ta A public me Catholic Asso Tamil Civilians Condemned b Was resolved requested to inhuman acts Speakers p Security Force combing-out
The Citizens President with

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nomy in Northern Sri Lanka
cost of about one billion
on in the Northern and is 25 per cent of its normal, : will be a shortfall of some the supply from these ich will have to be made up
the likely level of imports s and the cost well above two 5 per cent production turns overestimate, these figures Of course, it does not follow ments will be felt in the form - since those affected by such
include many outside the s likely that the government priority to maintaining rice 2 level. To assess its ability to when production of other e been hit) it is necessary to Sri Lanka's foreign exchange
a's economy 1984 was sumper year overal due py coincidence of high world rge increase in domestic tea nt export earnings from tea on, an increase of 9.4 billion er 1982. The industrial Sector per cent growth in output in ticularly strong growth in and leather products); 3.8 billion or 43 per cent urnings. sperformance Sri Lanka was current account deficit from in 1983 to just 347 million in t showing in the post-1977 me time the government's from RS 21.6 billion to 15.9 | easy sum for a government bys a net inflow of foreign llion in the same year. In fact owing from the banking live in 1984 by over Rs 2 f the high domestic savings increased export earnings. So of high budget deficits in government revenue cannot imposed either a foreign nt or any serious inflationary economy. The year-on-year ne 1985 was 15.4 per cent and untry's debt-service ratio in 15 per cent. It cannot be said ion of the ethnic conflict finds macro-economically weak
a favourable conjunction of
economic circumstances has begun to change. International tea prices have fallen sharply since the beginning of 1985. Rubber and coconut prices have also had large falls since their high points in mid-1984. Remittances from migrant workers, which reached Rs 7.6 billion in 1984, appear to be near their peak as many Gulf countries near the end of their infrastructural development. There seems to be significant movement of resources out of the country by Tamil migrants, some of it in unaccounted forms.
The number of tourists entering Sri Lanka in the first half of 1985 was 13 percent down on the same period in 1984, and 1984 itself saw a deçline of 22 per cent from 1982.
The government budget announced by the Finance Minister on November 12, 1985 made provision for a deficit of over Rs 30 billion, or one half of total expenditure, due to measures such as a raising of defence expenditure to Rs 5.8 billion in 1986, up from Rs 3.4 billion in 1985. It is clearly of some importance to know whether such expenditures will be sustainable in the future.
It is too early still to hazard more than a guess - too much of the information needed to understand the costs of the crisis is not yet available. But much of the answer must depend upon whether Sri Lanka continues to enjoy its highly favoured status with its international creditors. There are signs that some, such as Canada, are becoming uneasy about their liberality given current conditions in the country.
A reputation for the liberal virtues tempered with a certain social justice was after all what won Sri Lanka its favour among Western governments and multilateral aid agencies in the first place. But some shuffling of the feet does not always herald a stampede, and in the absence of major pressure by Sri Lanka's creditors it may be over-optimistic to hope that sheer financial self-interest will induce the government into a serious negotiating position. It can doubtless afford to buy-off a food crisis next year, and perhaps a worse one the year after, and will believe it can afford the crisis in the short-term so long as it believes the crisis is soluble in the short-term by military means. If, as most outside observers think, a military solution is impossible as well as undesirable (impossible because of the inability of the Sri Lankan security forces to isolate the militants from the rest of the population), the government will have to be moved by a more careful consideration of its long-term interests than any it has shown itself willing to undertake so far.
; で、 s:
7Detainees As Human Shields
s' Committee of Batticaloa and Amparai in east Sri Lanka have strongly he Security Forces for detaining and using civilian Tamil hostages as is for their own protection against attacks on them. Scantily clothed ken from camp to camp for this purpose. eting chaired by Rev. Fr. Chandra Fernando was held in the Batticaloa ciation Hall on 4th November. The conduct of the Army in marching sail the way from Kokkadicholai to Batticaloa was severely criticised and ly several speakers including members of the Citizens' Committees. It that the Government and the National Security Minister should be take suitable steps to ensure against a recurrence of such ville and . .
by the Forces.
ointed out that in recent times it had become more frequent for the as to take Tamil civilians as hostages along with them in their search and
эperations.
s' Committee has addressed a memorandurn regarding the matter to the
copy to the National Security Minister,

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MEDA FILE
'Operation Disarm' or 'Operation Tiger' whatever it is, the event has already taken place and there is no use tearing the hair or beating one's breasts over it. What has happened cannot be undone. It is just as well that Chief Minister MGR has promised the leaders of the Liberation Tigers an inquiry into their complaints about the humiliation to which they had been allegedly subjected.
Since the operation took place on 8th November, a plethora of statements have been made, hailing or decrying it, depending upon the individual angles. Those who fail the operation forget the point that none of the five militant groups, recognised by the Indian and Tamilnadu Governments as representatives of Tamil opinion in Sri Lanka, can be considered an enemy at war with this country. It is on record that the leaders of all the five groups fully cooperated with the 8th November operation without offering the least resistance. There is no point for anyone to crow over 'victory' in a battle that never was and never took place,
Statements of these types and comparison with events in Lebanon would only lead to insurmountable political complications, rendering more difficult the already difficult job of India's honest brokering. These militant groups are patriots, devoted to the cause of larger human rights. They can be denigrated only on pain of denigrating ourselves and disowning whatever this country has done to help our southern neighbour to resolve a long standing ethnic problem through political dialogue and patient negotiatons.
The whole affair is not a matter of police operation against a sort of anti-national or anti-social force. On the contrary, it concerns a sensitive political problem on the solution of which these very groups have to play a major role. Humiliating them and treating them as less than criminals may please some fascist and inhuman minds, but will certainly hurt the feelings of all right-thinking people.
We have no reservation in congratulating each of the five groups for remaining calm and 'unprovoked in the face of the bad treatment and insults heaped on it.
Indeed, these five groups have shown great political maturity and understanding. They should rest assured that all Indians have great admiration for them and their natural sympathies lie only with them. They carry with them the goodwill of all Indians for the victorious conclusion of their just struggle for human justice and a new socialist order which will benefit not only the Tamils, but also the Sinhalese in the : island. They know Rajiv Gandhi and MGR very well. They should not think that these towering Indian leaders have changed their attitude towards them simply because something unfortunate had happened and things had been bungled somewhere along the line.
We have known most of the leaders of the five groups which count for a durable
settlement of the ethnic problem. They too, is
know us well, especially our own view that separation will never solve the problem in Sri Lanka and wil only create more problems for all, especially for India which is in full sympathy with them and Sri Lanka
OPER
against both India an subject to this reservat supported the heroic st groups to roll back th stupidly mounted on th on the island by Government. We have right of every citizen when he is under atta State-terrorism. Had Mahatma Gandhi al approved of the resista Tamil youngsters in Sri heavy odds. Weare conv Lankan Government tal settlement now, it is ol (successful and glorious by the Tamil youngst military machine buttre: forces. All the major gr cause to serve and th tempted to mistake a tre 8th November operati deplorable though it is, lack of sympathy for the of Indians. s
We urge our young deeply on one princip functioning in this count rivalries among them of of stupidly involving th arranging for agent pri one another. This kind of boomerang on all at confined to any one impossible for them to powerful force to achi goal. In varying degrees which have taken part i claim to follow the tea Lenin. It is unfortunate t Lenin unified the var created a powerful n overthrow of an exploit counter-revolutionary S now the five groups sho platform and refrain fron of mutual liquidation struggles, the enemy dangerous than the ene well-identified.
We welcome New D efforts for finding a solut and there is no change the 8th November ope time, we cannot but between what is profe practised. New Delhi m wide publicity given to the political groups, wh
sacrimportant factors for a
has led only to encC
Jayawardene into laun military onslaught agai
or might not have been bar - v ni, been, nevertheless, th . Is í operation. It is never
matters. New Delhi Shc groups of the respect it amends for what has be
More importantly, P Gandhi should make it
Jayawardene that. th *... operation was the outcC
obsession at a lower
' ' ' security and thereforeh
be tempted to rush t intensify the military
which is temporarily estranged from them.tv sinnocent Tamils. India C Separation will be an invitation to the Avi when the Tamils are imperialist forces to continue their intrigues ... neighbouring country a

DECEMBER: 1986
ATION" ΑΡΤΕΡΙΜΑΤΗ
d Sri Lanka. And ion, we have fully uggle of the Tamil e genocidal attack e Tamil population the Jayawardene always upheld the to defend himself ck from organised
he lived today, so would have
nce put up by the
Lanka in the face of
sinced that if the Sri ks of a negotiated
nly because of the ) resistance offered ers to a ruthless ssed by anti-Indian oups have a great ey should not be e for the wood. The
on against them,
loes not amount to ir cause on the part
friends to ponder all aspect of their ry. The inter-group ten reach the point e local people and ovocateurs against activity is bound to nd wil never be
group. It is not
unite and weld a eve their Common , all the five groups n the Thimpu talks chings of the great hat they forget how ious streams and
ative regime and its uccessor. At least, uld find a common n the suicidal policy in all freedom within is more my outside who is
elhi's stand that its tion would continue of policy, following ation. At the same
notice the hiatus essed and what is ust realise that the
the humiliation of ich are Considered settlement by India, buraging President
ching a more cruel, inst all Tamils. This gained for but it has
e outcome of the too late to mend
uld reassure Tamil,
nas for them and do en done. . . . . . ime Minister Rajiv clear to President e 8th November me of an excessive level with SAARC is guest should not o conclusions and operations against annot remain silent butchered in the nd when thousands
of Tamils keep pouring into this country, fleeing tyranny.
Given the history of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, it is foolish to think that administrative adjustments can ensure a certain measure of autonomy for the Tamil minority. The autonomy of the type that the Tamils need after their bitter experience cannot flow from the Gaullist Constitution of Sri Lanka which has perpetuated the Jayawardene regime in the island. It can flow only from a radical changing of the Constitution to make Sri Lanka a federal country, both in letter and spirit. The Prime Minister should not allow himself to be misled by easy comparisons drawn for him by the so-called pundits who are at best only adept in drawing comparisons between incomparables. This is the crux of the whole conflict and must be addressed squarely and with honesty by the Prime Minister. (Editorial, NEWSTODAY, 13.11.86)
Priest Can't visit
"MY 86-YEAR-OLD MOTHER is on her death-bed. But the Minister of Justice has turned down my written request for permission to visit her", states Rev. Fr. Aparanam Singarayar in a letter to President Jayawardene about the denia of fundamental rights under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Fr. Singarayar is at present in remand custody in Welikade, indicted under the PTA in connection with the attack on the Chavakachcheri Police Station in 1982.
It is agonising, Fr. Singarayar points out in his letter to the President, that a Catholic priest should be denied permission to visit his dying mother.
Fr. Singarayar, it will be recalled, chose not to escape from the Batticaloa prison along with fellow-detenus, though he twice had the opportunity to do so. He has been in remand custody for four years. Saturday Review, 22/11/86
TAMIL EELAM
Continued from page 11 ༈ appreciative of his mother's policy towards the neighbouring countries. For the Tamils know that in such a situation they would not be the losers even if the Eelam for which they voted does not materialise.
The Tamil people, or at least a significant section among them, harboured illusions of India helping them to bring about an independent Tamil State — Eelam. Those illusions have been dispelled to a great extent now. The emphasis is now on a Tamillinguistic region.
In the meantime, opposition even to provincial councils is building up in the South. After the exposure gained by the Tigers in demonstrating their control over Jaffna and the rejection of the proposals by the militants in Madras, the groundswell of Sinhala opinion is very much in favour of a major assault on the Jaffna peninsula. A top army officer compared the Jaffna district to the head of a 'terrorist snake', with two bodies running through the Northern and Eastern provinces. The head must be 'smashed' to kill the snake, was the mili taristic verdict.
The question on everyone's minds is: what will happen during the SAARC summit in Bangalore, when J.R. and Rajiv meet to talk about the Sri Lankan situation?
(Courtesy of Frontline, November 15-28, 1986)

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OECEMBER 1986
TRAVAILS OF UN
Text of a Press statement by the University Science Teachers Association, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
THE USTA strongly condemns the incidents of looting at gun point that have started to take place again in the Jaffna peninsula. The USTA is hopeful that the organisation that is working towards the upliftment of the Tamil community will take all possible steps to bring these unsocial elements that are engaged in these activities to book very early.
Those who are in control of law and order in the peninsula should consider it as their prime duty to protect every citizen of this land. Especially, they must protect those people who live in this land with the community to serve the community by sacrificing mamy of their personal benefits, although they could live in comfort inforeign countries.
In this regard, we note with deep regret the robbery which took place at gun point at the house of one of our colleagues, Professor Kumaravadivel, a few days ago and similiar incidents which took place at the houses of other colleagues some time ago.
It is our duty
difficulties and co
Teachers in the Sc University are carr an approved acade the Faculty of Scie Teachers in the gra is because of the Teachers that the University is still f carrying out the du help of a few As shortage is not due been allocated fo Teachers in the S unable to find q willing to serve he resigned from the Out of a total Assistant Lecture Faculty of the Uni ten year period, obtaining a postg there are many q living abroad, the serve their mother atmosphere and th are the main reasor
'RECOGNISET SELF-DETERMI
THE FOLLOWING resolution was adopted by over a two-thirds majority, on a vote by ballot, by the 19th Delegates' Conference of the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers' Union (CMU) held in Colombo from 17th to 19th October, 1986.
The 19th Delegates' Conference of the CMU considers that the conflict that is taking place in the Northern and Eastern provinces is not an 'ethnic conflict" but a conflict between the armed forces that have been sent to the Northern and Eastern Provinces by the Government, to suppress the political movement for the creation of an independent administration of the Tamilspeaking people in those two provinces, and those who are engaged in an armed struggle to achieve that objective.
It further considers that both the demand for the establishment of a separate state in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, under the name of “Tamil Eelam”, and the armed struggle that has developed in pursuance of that demand, have resulted from the discriminatory policies that have been pursued in relation to the Tamilspeaking people in this country by successive parliamentary governments that have held office since the British Colonial administration ended in 1974. The attacks that have been perpetrated upon defenceless Tamil people at various times since 1958, culminating in the anti-Tamil "pogrom" of July 1983, which gave rise to 'orld-wide horror and condemnation, and the repression and downright terrorism that has been inflicted upon the Tamil-speaking people of the Northern and Eastern Provinces by the Police and the Armed Forces, under repeated States of Emergency proclaimed by successive
governments, head since 1958.
Also considers th have the right to de administration oft country in which and in which they majority of the po they have democra Therefore, decl. Northern and E brought to an end, to self-determinat people of the l negotiation of a po with their represen
ATAMIL ref to commits be deported Sinnathar hang himse October a Centre. He depressed detained for Thirty Sri being held Office has a being use discourage
Sivakuma with an inc
later admitt bribery. He

TFAMELTIMES 17:
IVERSITY TEACHERS
o let the public know the
ience Faculty of the Jaffna ying out their duties. Out of mic cadre of seventy nine in nce, we have only nineteen: de of Lecturer and above. It dedicated services of these Science Faculty of Jaffna unctioning. Each Teacher is ties of four or five with the istant Lecturers. The staff. to lack of funds. Funds have r the appointment of 79. cience Faculty but we are ualified Teachers who arė 'e. Forty five Teachers have ir posts during 1975-1985. number of seventy-three 's recruited to the Science: versity of Jaffna during this only one is in service after raduate degree. Although ualified Sri Lankan Tamils y do not come forward to land. Poor salary, unsettled e political situation in Jaffna is for their reluctance.
We hope that the public and the Organisations that work for the upliftment of
brief data given above, the difficulties of the Science Faculty of the Jaffna University and the dedicated services rendered by the few Teachers who are still under difficult conditions and poor salary.
Every University Teacher is striving to improve the educational standards of our Society. As far as the few scientists who still remain here are concerned, they are contributing much, for the upliftment of its people, sacrificing all the comforts they can easily get on foreign soil. Their struggle for improving the quality of Society will not end even when the struggle for its liberation ends. There cannot be an enemy of the Society worse than those who undermine the educationists and scientists within it. Incidents similar to that which happened to Professor Kumaravadivel, will only help to expedite the exodus of the remaining few scientists and educationists from this land.
We trust the general public and other organisations will take note of this and strive to eliminate incidents such as the one mentioned above.
AMLS' RIGHT TO NATION'- C.M.U.
led by the UNP and SLFP,
at the Tamil-speaking people mand the establishmentofan heir own in those parts of the they have lived for centuries constitute the overwhelming pulation to this day, that is, ic right of self-determination. ares that the conflict in the astern provinces should be by the recognition of the right ion of the Tamil-speaking Worth and East, and the litical settlement on that basis, tatives, including representa
tives of the groups of Tamil youth who are engaged in armed conflict with the Government's forces occupying the areas in which they live, which they regard quite. justifiably as their traditional homelands, while in no way condoning attacks by any such group upon harmless people (whether Sinhala, Muslim or Tamil) in those areas, or killing or injuring of innocent people anywhere in the country, even in retaliation for atrocities of the armed forces or armed civilians against Tamilspeaking people. . ` ܝ
Resolves that the Union should make every endeavour to mobilise opposition amongst the working people to the war policy that the Government is pursuing in the North and East. ...
REFUGEEMustgo
ugee in Britain who tried juicide in detention will to India. nby Sivakumar tried to lf with a bedsheet on 27 Latchmere Remand said that he was because he had been
six months. Lankan Tamils are now n Britain and the Home dmitted that detention is d as a sanction to hem coming here. r, 28, entered Britain lian passport which he ed had been obtained by
applied for political
asylum, saying that he was a militant Tamil.
He told immigration officials that he has now left the Tamil Group and feared to return to either Sri Lanka
or ndia because he faced persecution.
Home Office Minister. David
Waddington has now decided that he should be returned to India. Last week he wrote to Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn:
"Mr Sivakumar has recently become depressed whilst in detention, and is giving cause for concern, so it is obviously desirable not to detain him any longer than is necessary.'

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DECEMBER 1986
ANATHAN
AR EXCELLENCE
鄒
భస్లమ్డా Ramanathan
O. 11. 1930)
are in excess of its s the case of these vernment has to ocated the ready he workers on the quate medical aid to bjected to various being malaria. He
labour, and the e result of these two to the prosperity of of the coolies the as the colony itself. ear all the expenses lent ought to share the planters. That is y necessary to note has as far back as the ld the view that the 2 participant in the a nation towards
and therefore it is
k to the comforts of
| Rajan
legal luminary. He General before he
ence in law he made on matters of legal Council. He urged gislative acts which and most of them to duced the system of s. He argued against live Officers being es. He said “ . . . . I frames of mind are n administrative as
For administrative
what are the most ethods of effecting
* - *contribution to
your object, on the other hand, for judicial work, you have to consider what is legal and most formal method of effecting your object.'
He condemned the process of summary trials by Police Magistrates and said that could lead to a miscarriage of justice. He also pleaded that there should be the right of appeal against a judgement delivered by the Police Magistrate so that the judges of the Higher Court who have had a wide experience in the field could view the judgement in a cool and calm atmosphere.
Contribution to La MV
He embodied all judgements of importance delivered by the Higher Courts and published them and are called the Ramanathan Reports. even to this day. This has led to the establishment of an independent judicial tradition in Sri Lanka.
Even recently the Privy Council banked on the Ramanathan Reports to decide on a vexed question as to whether, a contract of service existed between the State and a Public Servant. In the case of Kodeswaran Vs. AttorneyGeneral, the Privy Council based its judgement on a parallel case reported in the Ramanathan
v. Reports and delivered its judgement. It would
therefore not be extravagant to state that his the legal and judicial development of Sri Lanka is immense and immeasurable.
Public Servants . . The public servant held office during the leasure of the King , or Crown. The
employment could be terminated at the pleasure of the Crown. They did not have the right to appeal against even administrative actions of the Heads of Departments. They were an oppressed class within the working class. Officials of the General Post Office submitted a memorandum to Ramanathan and he tabled it in the Legislative Council. It outlined certain irregularities in the matter of pay and promotions and conditions of service.
The then Acting Colonial Secretary of State, Mr. R. F. Dick, made a preliminary objection saying that it is a grave breach of discipline for a body of public servants to petition the Legislative Council. Ramanathan pleaded for the public servants and won their battle. This is perhaps the first time the sentiments of the public servants were voiced in the Legislative Council and may be recorded as a landmark in the history of the Public Service in that it led to the awakening of a joint action and trade union movement. ... .", The Riots of 1915 and the services of Ramanathan at that momentous hour can never be forgotten. It is worthwhile recapitulating the events in brief. A racial riot between the Sinhalese and Muslims broke out in Kandy and it went out of control and proportion. It spread throughout the country. Martial Law was clamped down and moves were afoot to try the offenders under special law in special courts. In the course of his plea he said:
“We have no reason whatever for believing that the Sinhalese people have been tainted with disaffection against their Government er their King, or are bent upon compassing evil for
Continued opposite

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DECEMBER 1986
the ci sunt Ty". The chçilers held Lunder Maurial Law included the late Mr. D. S. Senanayake. EW'eI1 th1e .leEıtlı T-le:Tnaıtty W:15 pro'.'idcd for ährhdl RaiTTi amat han plica dicid håll they he tried Linkle:T th: rhoi ITrall: 'w' in the Inc. TIT 1 a llaw clirts. (It lice CTLIntry, In a na oving speech he made these ubscrivations:
"I assure you Sir, with all the eInphasis that I art capable f. that you can rely in the Sinhalesc perple, Whatever other people Indy 5:Fay, y. Li c:III I :ly up1k bIı : heir l. 1 yalty :imd b(" Certili 11 till:Lt theT: will be: mo diikTullbäcc if the poliçe" hereafter, I. ,,h" felt || this, i. In hinc in luly 4: y L IIIdin jLisic: to the Sillal:se tus:y that ni pięcial rrezis Lires, :Lr. Iniecies kairy irn future, hill the Line is ICW comic for th: withdrawal of the Martial Law and for the Cessatic III & If the Copcration of the Military Courts in the Island. and for entrusting the i Ifę liders || UE 1 the allegel affemelers to the: II liiiii Ty I LLIT|; of Justicc. To bc dcal with tiy the normal law of the country ... Is it really thccessity that we should lice in our Statute BC Lok L Tica1541 : * def. III:I tury of the Siri hiile se people:15 tllis Billo
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It-tiel Lir III:II. E dre" Letivitic:s fronin the gI city, "ruugi Ma hiTTi inti 3 picilitics. Hie: v liter i Les I || I ll T.LIII Helieveti III! Tamil fostercd and preserve. environment Hml Cstah fibri girls, Riiiiiiii n: tliiii Ii IIII i III, 11 hier II. It hyb, { n } y, liv, exity of : fi El |yılı liLıılı ılı DT'ılır: lerTalk: ;äT KHçlıçlı iki T°i *III1:Irtib"1:Ili.I",":II IL::: "",Y, :I. I :I. bik I Tsinil grimi CCIThpiled: Ti Tillit:ti:
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3. () dirili Le Bill i Tider ld lake the religion free Il-coke a I leiligtlu ibri Lilhie: l: O III: Ice Hill ini Hc also pressed the re Wesak lay : Lublic: Sandesii if May 29th. gsbservilicinx. | II:I tilal 5:: , Mr. delt is galtitule. His In if the Wesak, holicly cImpalities. Bill, his Lih, si Ltd :: K, if tha: ’;ali içal Society and a hısı 1'if li li li "," I le:II real hinn hists of Ceyl. I,
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ጽእ & FERS 9 EATH A young Hindu priest from Mulliyawalai (Mullaitivu District) managed to deceive the Security Forces and save his life by playing possum.
Now warded at the General Hospital, Jaffna, Kasinathar Krishnarajah (25) of Kanukerni East, Mulliyawalai told the SATURDAY REVIEW the story of his ordeal.
On 21st November round about 6 a.m. he said, a helicopter hovering over the area dropping handbills announced that a curfew was being imposed from 6.30 a.m.
The handbills urged the people to leave their homes and go to schools and temples, Krishnarajah then started walking towards the Mulliyawadai Vithiyananda. On the way he learnt that youths who had gathered at this schools were being singled out and taken away by the Army. Then Krishnarajah and Gopalasingham, a friend of his, started walking towards Wattapalai in search of shelter. Two other boys followeed them on bicycles.
While approaching Wattapalai junction, Krishnarajah received gunshots on his right arm and thigh and felt down. His companion Gopalasingham, was shot in the chest and died on the spot. Army personnel also fired at the two boys on bicycles. One of them died on the spot. The army personnel then dragged Gopalasingham's corpse into the jungle. Krishnarajah was ordered to follow them and did so. The other cyclist who was injured was dragged to the spot where Krishnarajah was. (Gopalasingham was a final year Science Student of the University of Jaffna.)
'Army personnel gave both of them first aid and told them they would be taken to hospital by helicopter. Krishnarajah and the other injured boy were lying on the ground when the Army prepared to move out round . about 12.30 p.m. Suddenly one of the soldiers came up to Krishnarajah and, placing his feet on the fallen man's chest, trampled it. Then another soldier came near
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injured boy. The latter died on the spot. . . . . . . Krishnarajah saved his skin - though not his wristlet - by pretending to be dead. A soldier snatched Krishnarajah's wristlet, before the Army personnel left the scene. . . Krishnarajah later managed to get on to the road. Some people who saw him, took him to a Private Clinic where his wounds were dressed. . . . . . , - -- The next day he came by bus to Jaffna and got himself admitted to the General; Phospital. Krishnarajah, told the "Saturday Review" that he learnt later that Army personnel had been lying in ambush in the jungles close to the Wattapalaijunction.
(By courtesy of Saturday Review, 29/11/86)
TWO SHOT DEAD 200 ARRESTED
19, 11.86 - In the course of a cordon and search operation by the Sri Lankan security forces at Valaichenai in east Sri Lanka, two Tamil civilians were shot and killed. About 200 persons were taken into custody at Morkottanchenai, and another ten were arrested at Amparai.
The arrested were subjected to forced labour in the army camps, according to sources close to the local Citizens' Committee.
WE CARRY elsewhers independent and forthrigh one could consider an ho the intelligentsia of Sri Lar Sinhala community. Bew either side of the conflict Tamils, have had to only s crass ineptitude and veng conflict that has cripple virtually ruined its econ years now and to recoup generations will no doubt present generation and with a singular lack of fore always with an eye to irrespective of moral convictions, the large maj blissfully apathetic to persecution of a minority. simply crying out to redressed, their fundame ored: these are sins which succeeding generations w patrons and militarists ha ClII SE .
In this bleak atmosphe Paradise Isle of Sri Lanka, listen to the whispers emanating from the Sinha has long been either still construed unconcerned. I has failed to express itself this, when the common ru
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WHEN JESUS was b world where there murder. We read in . Herod killed the new how there vivas “ laments". Jesus's p had to flee from the v it was only when Her and Mary returned their home in Nazare
2,000 years later changed very much. violence and killings, have had to flee homelands and find The travails of the Women Who Were Wi
lives on the high sea Germany to Canada plight of many peop. in similar situations.
There are thousa Tamils Scattered als to the ethnic conflic who even today cry Batticalloa, Trinconna yesterday I had a de young lady who sai brothers and sister their lives in Trinco help to enable elsewhere. One is he such pleas. . . . .
I was in Colombo ago. Whilst the local the killings that ar. northern and easter Colombo and the res on oblivious of what part of the island. Til

DESEMBER * 1986
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in this issue an
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nest opinion among
ka, not merely of the
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both Sinhalese and ; tand and stare at the ful bloodletting in a
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from which unborn nave to struggle, The ts leaders endowed
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the torments and their own brethren, have their wrongs ntal freedoms restneither history nor ill ever forgive. Our lve truly earned the
re prevailing in the it is heartwarming to of wisdom faintly a sector whose voice ed, even absent and f intelligent opinion at crucial times like n of humanity seems
to have lost its bearings, it has indeed failed in its duty to the public at large and the country as a whole.
Reggie Siriwardene and his small band of intellectuals are only lone voices crying out in the wilderness, their words of caution and wisdom lost on their countrymen more attuned to the chauvinistic emotive appeals of selfcentred politicians and the sabre-rattling of an infamous bunch of unenlightened prelates who understood not the words of the Lord Buddha while the hoodlums wreaked havoc with their benediction by pillage and plunder, all in a vainglorious attempt at national and patriotic effort. The baneful and malicious propaganda let ... loose on the unsuspecting public. indoctrinated over the past 30 years through a servile press and state departments of organised, clannish activity throughout this period are again part and parcel of a conspiracy that has resulted in the confrontation that is now shaking the country by its very roots. In retrospect we the Sri Lankans deserved the governments we got for our apathy in distancing ourselves from righteous issues, particularly when these did not either harm or even seem to advance our individual prospects
albeit it denied our own brethren the very same
rights we sought to preserve for ourselves. This is the inescapable tragedy, which is now hauntingus.
The only atonement therefore is for free and honest men to stand tip and be counted.
ristmas Message TO The Tamil Times .
orn he carme into a was violence and
the Gospels of haw .
born babies and of
wailing and loud.
arents themselves
vrath of the king and
loved the world that he gave his only
od died that Joseph with baby Jesus to t†ን. s the scene has not The world is full of Even today people
from their own refuge elsewhere. young men and Illing to hazard their is as they fled from help to heighten the le around the World
nds of Sri Lankan over the world due it. There are many out for help from lee and Jaffna. Only sperate call from a d that her parents, s are in danger of ornalee and could li them to migrate 'lpless in the face of
a couple of weeks newspapers report 2 going on in the in provinces, life in zt of the island goes
is happening in that
his apparent lack of
tribulations what is the message of
concern and in a sense indifference saddened me. To me there did not seen to be an awareness or an urgency about the deepening crisis in the island.
in the midst of all these trials and
Christmas? The message is that "God so
begotten son". God loved this world - this world was not abandoned by God. It is a world that God loves. Anda world in which all of us are called to reflect that love,
There is a concrete way in which each one of us can help by showing this love. There are many of our fellow country people who are in desperate need. When I was in Colombo was told of thousands of families who have had to flee from Trincomalee into Jaffna and who are urgently in need of food, clothing and shelter. Churches and other voluntary agencies are doing their best. Your contributions will strengthen them at this time.
Please send your contributions earmarked 'For refugee rehabilitation' and send your cheques in favour of the Methodist Church, Sri Lanka to Mr. J. Rajasingham, Secretary for Finance, Methodist Church, 2 Station Road, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka or to me (7 Fairacres, Ruislip, Middlesex HA48AN). Your cheque should be made in favour of the London Tamil Congregation and your gifts will beforwarded by me.
MVish you alla happy Christmas and every blessing in the New Year,
S. M. Jacob, Hon. Pastor, 8 DeCerber 1986 London Tamil Congregation
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