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GENOCIDE ......................................... 4
Implications of U.N. Human Rights Resolution.......................................... 5
Separatists, Communists or Terrorists?.........................................
Sri Lanka's Financial Situation Grave.............................................. 8
Tulf Appeals to Foreign Governments on Tamil Refugees . 9
over 2000 Tamils civilians, have been country. Under the been continuing uni not reaching their armed Sinhalese set and criminal elemei rape, plunder and m To be arrested i, thousands, to be in hundreds at a time, put to the torch, to l from the air, to be sh schools, libraries, c. destroyed have bec suffering during the Deepavali or Chris jamborees, no villa has been an existenc life offleeing, topla physical security. T dear ones, burying camp to another.
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Colombo on 21 Ap
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stall Living Beings appy Except Tamils'
LOSION in the Sri Lankan capital on 21 April in which ied has been universally condemned. We unhesitatingly the perpetrators of what has been rightly denounced as a dinhuman acto.
er horror of the Colombo outrage should not drive one to cale and horror of the unmitigated state terrorism that has r the years against the Tamil community in Sri Lanka. 'ontrolled mob violence, in recent years it has sought to stence of the Tamil community as a distinct cultural and
nilpogrom of July 1983, condoned by the State, in which perished, an estimated 9000 Tamils of all ages, mostly killed by the security forces in the north and east of the pretext of 'combating terrorism, arbitrary killings have interruptedly almost on a daily basis. As if the troops were expected quota of killings, the government trained and tlers in the Tamil areas and introduced a rag-bag of thugs nts under the guise of Home Guards to carry Out arson, urder on an unimaginable scale.
n their hundreds, to be detained and tortured in their liscriminately killed in tens, fifties and not infrequently in to be driven out of their homes and villages which are then be attacked by naval gun boats, to be bombed and strafed telled from within the army camps, to witness their homes, ommunity centres, temples, churches and hospitals being ome part and parcel of the Tamil people's daily diet of last four years. To them, there have been no New Year, mas, no cricket encounters with foreign teams, no sports ge fetes and Carnivals, no festivals or celebrations. Theirs e on a knife edge between life and death. Theirs has been a ces, within and outside the land of their birth, in Search of heir main activity has been to search for their disappeared and cremating the dead and running from one refugee
ils had been killed in the most gruesome manner, as in fact y an occasion, the rest of Sri Lanka would not have lost a over it. Such an incident would not only have found no nkan media, but also would have been totally denied or vernment, its ministers, its subservient media, even the allHowever, an incident such as the one which occurred in ril has not only received widest possible publicity (rightly l the severest condemnation (deservedly so), and massive ocent Tamils. erential treatment? Is it because the Tamil people are not herefore deserve to be killed, or that their killing does not blicity or condemnation? beings be well and happy' is a constant chant of all Buddhist priests who not only remain silent when Tamils ed, but also go on demonstrations urging the government itary action, to bomb and kill more and more Tamils, the e has no meaning. The Buddhism they follow is not what iched. The yellow robe they wear does not reflect the npassion, tolerance, kindness and tender love they are but serves to conceal their intolerance, and lack of 'ds their fellow beings it is a symbol of their worldly
Schwarz wrote, "If Sri Lanka is not to experience or terrorism and counter-terror on a scale which would ith Northern Ireland or Cyprus, there will have to be more romise and moderation than has yet been shown . . . Is it pt to evolve an inter-communal approach to the language ated matters of education and employment? It would be a 2adership waited for bombs to explode and for the prisons ore conceding that the Tamils need reassurance that they uture of the island'. ombs are exploding. The prisons are full and overflowing.
that the Tamils have a place in the island seems a far cry.

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PRESIDEN
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HE GOVERNMENT of Sri Lanka launched extensiv air strikes in the Jaffna peninsula in the immediate a explosion in Colombo on April 21. After the firs government jubilantly claimed that its forces had Italian made Marchetti aircrafts adapted to attack bombs, cannons and rockets took off from the Tri pound Jaffna for five successive days. Helicopter firing 4000 rounds a minute engaged in sustained str
Jaffna has been experiencing continuous aerial and naval attacks and long range rocket-firing from within army camps situated in Jaffna, Palali, Kankesanthurai and Navatkuli for the last few months almost on a daily basis. In the course of these attacks, many civilians were killed and homes, temples, schools and hospitals were damaged. For instance, rockets fired from the Jaffna army camp fell on the Jaffna General Hospital on more than one occasion and had destroyed certain wards and killed several patients and some hospital staff. Hence, what the people of Jaffna experienced following the Colombo explosion was not something new.
However, the difference was that there was a substantial and sustained intensification of air strikes and naval bombardments. There was difference - on previous occasions, the government had attempted to deny that the attacks ever took place. However on this occasion, it openly declared that the air strikes had been undertaken. that they would continue uninterruptedly and that many had been killed as a consequence of these attacks. Not that the government had become truthful, but the announcements were intended to satisfy its hardline Sinhala constituency in the south.
After five days of uninterrupted air strikes, Sri Lanka's Media Centre chief. Mr. Tilak Ratnakara claimed that over four hundred terrorists' had been killed. When asked by a correspondent as to why the air strikes had been slowed down, he is reported to have replied that the pilots needed a rest. -
The government, of course, claimed that the air strikes were aimed at the LTTE and EROS bases and that those killed were terrorists. In the absence of ground troops, or government officials or newspaper reporters, the government could not have been in a position to know the number killed, let alone being certain that the victims were terrorists' and not civilians. Besides, air strikes carried out by highly qualified pilots flying highly sophisticated and electronically controlled aircrafts have proved notoriously inaccurate (as in the case of the American bombing of Libya in which F111s were used). For the government of Sri Lanka to claim that its air force flying adapted Marchetti planes from an air-base situated
another . .
about one hund to hit the tau something anyo contrary, the air intended to b intention was to Tamils in Jaffn Colombo. The
College and the of the Saturday buildings that we show the attac aimed at so-calle
EXPLOT
The bomb ex the resulting de; to the full by predominantly Lanka Freedom sections of the B
The SLFPS naike, accused t to protect the Sil of vigilance and
too soft again Sections of the late had been p sidelines, found
return to the ce1
to be its rightful
Even defying government in til hundreds of But demonstra-tion President'S ho demanding his total military sol Another group demonstration ir
Predictably, th outplay the opp Throwing discri government ann of its war effo eliminated. Th Security declare would continue
bases' in Jaffna agreed to go ti Prime Minister announced that negotiated polit regarded as an Minister of Lan did not mind Ta according to

TAMITMES3
THREATENs.
ECTIONS
'e and indiscriminate
termath of the bomb .
t day's attacks, the
participated in terrorism should be
removed from society, not arrested'.
"Another senior government MP, Merril
killed 80 'terrorists'.g. Karyawasam. Proved that a renegrade
ground targets with hcomalee air-base to gunships capable of afing of Jafna.
red miles away were able gets accurately is not he could believe. On the strikes were deliberately be indiscriminate. The take revenge against the a for what happened in fact that St. Patrick's pffice and printing presses Review were among the 're hit during these strikes ks were not necessarily d militant bases.
ED TO THE FULL
plosion in Colombo and aths have been exploited he government and the Sinhala opposition Sri Party and the extremist uddhist clergy.
leader, Mrs. Bandarahe government of failing nhala people through lack care and for having been st the Tamil militants. Buddhist clergy, which of ushed to remain on the an ideal opportunity to ntre stage which it claims blace.
he curfew imposed by the he aftermath of the blast, ldhist priests marched in in Colombo towards the use in Ward Place resignation and urging a ution to the ethnic crisis. of priests held a noisy the hill city of Kandy.
te government decided to osition in its own game. etion to the wind, the Dunced the intensification rt until terrorism' was
Minister of National
d that the aerial attacks gainst LTTE and EROS
until both these groups the negotiating table.
Ranasinghe Premadesa anyone who advocated a ical solution would be nemy of Sri Lanka. The ds, Gamini Dissanayake, mil civilian casualties and him
communist
“everybody who
is worse than an anticommunist. He threatened to turn Jaffna into a Hiroshima after the dropping of the atom bomb. וי
President Junius Jayawardene did nol fail his followers and went a step further. He said that until the Tamil militants surrendered their weapons, the military offensive would continue and there would be no negotiations. Insisting on the pursuit of a military victory, despite the civilian casualties that would inevitably ensue, he said ". . . it happened in Punjab (referring to the Indian government's assault on the Golden Temple at Armritsar), it happened in Vietnam, i happened in London, Hamburg an Berlin. It happened in the dropping of the atom bombin Hiroshima'. د
The President, without realising the extent to which successive Sinhala dominated governments had contributed to the escalation of the ethnic conflict reaching its present level of violent confrontation, indulged in his familiar anti-India bashing - accusing India of harbouring wanted "Tamil terrorists, he wanted them to be returned to Sri Lanka. His tirade against the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. G. Ramachandran, was blunt and offensive. He described the LTTE as 'Mr. Ramachandran's private army. ܀
The government also used the opportunity to ban the traditional May Day demonstrations and rallies in spite of the objections from opposition parties.
Most intriguing was the announcement by President Jayawardene that he would
not hold the general elections due in 1989
and that he would extend his own term and continue in office even after his term expired at the end of next year, although he is constitutionally debarred from seeking another Presidential term. He indicated that he could use a referendum to extend the terms of his government and himself. This is exactly what he did to avoid a general election in 1983.
It would seem apparent that there is a need for the ethnic conflict to continue unresolved and that the violence and counter-violence should persist unabated at a level and pace so as to provide a justification for the continuation of his government without a general election and for him to continue as President. Political observers are wondering whether the tragic events of the recent past have been deliberately engineered to enable the President to put into effect his diabolical plan for his government and himself to continue in office.

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Backed by British ( Money and Mercer
THE BRITISH MEDIA tried to excuse last week's Sri Lankan government airstrikes against Tamil areas of the island as a justifiable response to Tamil terrorism'. Meanwhile, nine Strike Master aircraft arrived in Scotland, where they are to be refurbished by British Aerospace before being sold to the Sri Lankan air force - for use in 'counter-insurgency' operations like the raid which killed 80 Tamils in one swoop last week.
Whether they are supplying planes or broadcasting sympathetic propaganda, Britain's rulers are up to their necks in the dirty war which the Sinhalese regime is waging against Tamils in what was once the British colony of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean.
The subdued, no-pictures reporting of the government air-strikes contrasted sharply with the hysterical fullcolour coverage we were given of the earlier Colombo bus station bomb which killed just over 100 people. The
fighting for the ri separate Tamil sta seized the excuse strikes on Tamil : denied any involv, station carnage. T meanwhile, acted a the Colombo gover Condemnations of
This is typical oft in Sri Lanka is repc we hear are occa "outrages' comm guerrillas. We are n mass murder camp Lankan security fo against the Tamils.
The current phas Tami conflict r estimated 6000 liv Tamil pogrom erup The vast majority Tamils. Tamils make of the island's pop the 800 people sla
Tamils. Whereas rei raised about whet
Sri Lankan authorities blamed the bombing on the guerrilla groups
LTTE'S PUNITIVE ACTION ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON
SATHASIVAM KRISHNAKUMAR, popularly known as Ki District Commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee seriously injured in a grenade attack on 30 March while travel ... Jaffna peninsula. It was reported that two of Kittu's colleag
wounded in the attack.
The LTTE accused the Eelam Peoples Liberation Front (EPR Eelam Liberation Organisation for the assassination atten swiftly by rounding up suspected members of these groups. , that the LTTE virtually eliminated the TELO by military acti launched a similar offensive against the EPRLFearly this year, Neither the EPRLF nor the TELO has accepted respo. attempted assassination of Kittu, but the LTTE would appear these groups were responsible.
There is no confirmation of the number of victims of L punitive action'. LT TE has categorically denied the accusa dozen suspected members of these groups fell victims to their and that over a hundred have been held in detention by surprisingly, the state-controlled media in Sri Lanka exaggerated accounts stating that LTTE has massacred overa In a statement made in Madras, the LTTE spokesman Mr. A said that 'this is a malicious propaganda carried out by Sri discredit our movement and divert attention from the g committed on our people by the Sri Lankan armed forces. 7 clash between the LTTE fighters and cadres from other organ two of our fighters and 18 members of other groups were kil took place in Jaffna when some members of other groups, under house arrest for investigation, attempted to escape vveapons.
 

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Guns, naries
ght to establish a te of Eelam and to launch the airareas. The Tamils ement in the bus he British media, s a press service for nment, echoing its amil terrorism".
he way the conflict rted in Britain. All isional reports of itted by Tamil ever told about the aign which the Sri orces are waging
e of the Sinhaleselas claimed an es since an antited four years ago.
of the dead are e up just 20 per cent ulation. Yet 500 of in this year were al doubts are often her Tamil militias
FOR \ KITTU
Ittu, the Jaffna lam (LTTE) was ling by car in the ues were fatally
-F) and the Tamil ipt and reacted 't will be recalled on last year and
nsibility for the to be certain that
T TE's retaliatory ion that several
punitive action' . r the LTTE. NOf has published hundred.
S. Balasingham ankan media to enocidal crimes here has been a sations in which ed. The incident who were held by seizing our
سمصــــ
were involved in the killings of Sinhalese, nobody doubts who is killing Tamils.
They are the victims of a government policy of genocide, carried out through bombing raids, shell attacks and army assaults on the Tamil-held areas in the northern province of Jaffna.
Most of the Tamils killed this year were crushed beneath Operations Giant Step, which sent government troops and armour burning and blasting their way through Tamil areas, backed by the air force. The Colombo propaganda machine shrugs off questions about its actions by insisting that every Tamil killed - men, women and children alike- is a 'terrorist'.
The British authorities have good reason to endorse the Sri Lankan government's cover-up. Britain is to blame for the island's communal strife in the first place. When Sri Lanka was a British colony from 1796 until 1948, Empire statesmen used classic divideand-rule tactics to keep the communities at each other's throats. Today, the Tory government continues to sponsor the bloodshed. It provides arms, money and political support for the Sinhalese regime's anti-Tamil campaign. h−
Recent revelations have also exposed how the British government has indirectly sent troops to Sri Lanka, through the mercenary agency KMS Ltd. This company is essentially an MI6 front which never acts without foreign office permission. The former SAS assassins on its books have been busy training Sri Lanka's Special Task Force, a murder gang responsible for the bloodiest Tamil massacres. The Tories claim that the British 'advisers' are restraining the indisciplined Sri Lankan Soldiers. This is the old lie which the British used in Uganda, where they trained an army which has slaughtered half a million since the Seventies.
Days before the recent upturn in violence, Tory immigration minister David Waddington went to Sri Lanka to check up on his new system of visa controls, designed to stop Tamil refugees fleeing to Britain, Waddington made no bones about the British government's support for the murderous regime. "If there is a problem of lack of discipline', he claimed, "it seems perfectly reasonable for the Sri Lankan authorities to seek help from outside." The real "lack of discipline' worrying the Tories is the Tamils' refusal to accept the repressive order which the Western powers have imposed on Sri Lanka. In the face of
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IMPLICATIONS OF U.N. H
THE THRUST of official propaganda on the subject has been that a covert Indian attempt to gain acceptance at the CHR for an Argentine sponsored Resolution which was politically motivated and blatantly one-sided and intended to blacken Sri Lanka's name in a Human Rights context, was thwarted by Sri Lanka Government's diplomacy, which brought about a watered-down Resolution accepted by consensus with SLG's acquiescence. The political reality seems somewhat different.
Context
1. Sponsorship of the Resolution was not by Argentina alone (and this is a democratic Argentina, whose elected Government is taking action against HR violations by its predecessor Junta). but also by Canada and Norway, two donors whose goodwill we need.
2. The Resolution was set firmly within an HR framework for. in its preamble the CHR claimed to be guided by universally accepted rules of international humanitarian law and in its operative section the CHR called on SLG specifically to cooperate with the ICRC in disseminating and promoting such law. The CHR has thus gone on record that there is an adverse HR situation here which requires cognisance and comment, whilst identifying the SLG specifically and alone as requiring to upgrade its HR performance.
3. The Resolutio
outcome of a three
the CHR has mainta here. because it rec: 1984 and notes th Rapporteur on tor Group on enforced ances (both presum situation). That is ti deems the situation during that probatic inscription of a resolu
import
4. The prospect
acceptance by a ma resolution damagin standing. The outco diplomatic victory, resolution which, as not only critical of (vide paragraphs 3 & the foundation of engaged in fighting a order. Moreover, t implicitly recognises claim that it is eng violently) a dimin fundamental freedo whether or not it is Some a Scoundrel w your goodness, or be
5. The Resolution groups. without id to forswear violence Settlement. In as mu parties to the intern
TAML, NADU TRAIN TR
જ,
Tamil Militant Link Ruled
Tragedy struck the Rockfort Express on March 15, when it fell from
near Ariyalur. A case of sabotage, it resulted in the death of over 20
of and injuries to several others.
NSPITE of the absence of hard evidence, attempts were made by interested groups to link the Tamil militants with the recent tra in tragedy in Tamil Nadu. The perpetrators of this tragedy had planted a powerful bomb beneath the rail track.
A hitherto unknown radical group, fighting for secession of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu was behind the blast of the railway bridge, killing 26 passengers, according to Tamil Nadu police sources.
Tamil Nadu Police inspector General,
Rajasekharan said belonging to the Army had been arre of the kind used in seized. It is rep favoured, amongo a separate state of no links with Sri groups. Rajasekha suspicions about Lankan Tamil milita unfounded.
 
 

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UMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION
n is to be seen as the year watching brief which ined over the HR situation alls the CHR's decision of 2 Reports of its Special Iure and of its Working or involuntary disappearably in respect of the SL o say, that the CHR now
to have so deteriorated nary period as to warrant tion.
initially facing SLG was jority of a highly critical g to SLG's international ne, claimed to represent a has been a consensual will be spelled out below, is SLG's HR performance : 4 above) but undermines SLG's position, that it is terrorist threat to law and he Resolution as adopted the validity of the Tamil aged in resisting (even if ution of its HRs and ms. It is a moot point, preferable to be called by hilst a few others testify to said by all to be 'acad'.
calls upon all parties and entification or distinction,
and negotiate a peaceful uch as there are only tWo all conflict situation under
AGEDY Out
a bridge ripped by a blast people and the maining
:hat a 28 year old activist Tamil Nadu Liberation 2sted and gelignite sticks the explosion had been orted that this group ther things, formation of Khalistan and that it had
Lankan Tamil militant ran said that the earlier the involvement of Sri
reference, SLG and the Tamil militants, this equates the two in terms of responsibility for violence and undermines the terrorism – law and order argument.
6. It also calls on all parties and groups to pursue a negotiated political solution based on principles of respect for humán rights and fundamental freedoms'. In as much as it is the State or Government (SLG) which has the role and responsibility to uphold and apply HRs and fundamental freedoms in respect of all its citizens and the only other, combatant in the conflict situation is a militant-armed section of the Tamil community, the implication is inescapable that the conflict itself is deemed by the . CHR to constitute a diminution if not violation of HRs and fundamental rights of Tamils.
7. The only comfort the SLG may draw from the Resolution is that the CHR has called on the Tamil militants also to desist from violence and negotiate a peaceful settlement.
Conclusion
8. The outcome has been, therefore:
(a) that the CHR has gone on record, having watched the situation for three years, that there is an adverse HR situation here which warrants cognisance and comment by it.
(b) that this situation stems from an internal conflict between parties it equates in respect of responsibility, and
(c) that the conflict lies within a context of diminished or violated HRs and fundamental freedoms which require to be restored by a negotiated political solution.
9. India could not have wished for a better preparation of the diplomatic ground, as it were, in respect of any future initiatives she may contemplate on behalf of the Tamils. One must then ask: might it not have been a clever diplomatic move by India to work for a toughlyworded resolution, which could then, in bargaining, be exchanged for a milder but consensual one, committing the entire international community in support of her perception and approach? s
Susantha Dias
... (Courtesy of 'Lanka Guardian, 1.4.87)
ints had turned out to be
KIWIS CALL OFF CRICKET TOUR
New Zealand's cricketers returned home from Colombo after their tour of Sri Lanka was called off because the New Zealand Cricket Council feared that the players could become victims of escalating violence in Sri Lanka.
It is the first time a New Zealand team has had to be withdrawn while on tour. Fears for their safety heightened after the recent bomb explosion in Srí Lanka's capital city, Colombo on April 21.
The team had been due to travel to . the central highland city of Kandy for the second Test match which was due to begin on 23 April, but the Manager, Ken Deas, said that there was disquiet | within the team and a universal feeling that the tour should end.

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SEPARATISTS,
CRAVING FOR the sympathy of the world community and unable to disprove the justness of the Tamil demand, the Sinhala government is trying to use labels with certain connotations to discredit the Tamils. Lies when repeated often tend to assume a certain degree of authenticity, and it is about time we put these slanders to reSi,
Are The Tamils Separatists?
A "Nation' is a historically evolved stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. By this definition, the island of Sri Lanka has two nations of people. From time immemorial, the two nations have governed themselves separately. Even the Dutch and the Portuguese conquerors kept them as separate nations. The British too ruled them separately for almost forty years.
In 1833, Britain for its administrative convenience, artificially and without the consent of either nation, brought them together. When the British quit, although they left the island with one government, they took the precaution of protecting the minority nation with a constitution, which had specific, entrenched (unalterable) provisions for their safety. This constitution formed the legal contract by which the two nations agreed to a certain form of government.
This constitution has since been abandoned. If the two nations had mutually agreed to break this contract, or to replace it with another mutually agreeable contract there would be no dispute. But the Tamils as a nation of people did not in any form or manner give their consent either to the abandonment or to the enactments of the two subsequent constitutions.
Therefore, in consideration of this breach of contract, the Tamil people have no further obligations to accept the other aspects of the contract, especially the unitary form of government. The insistence on the part of the Sinhalese that the Tamils do otherwise, using physical force, is patently illegal.
As Mr. Thiruchelvam put it, the Tamil nation in the island of Sri Lanka is currently being ruled illegally, 'without consent, without conquest and without a constitution'. All that the Tamil people are seeking now is a de facto restoration of their sovereignty, to which they are legally entitled. To characterise this as anything else is not only unfair but downright dishonest.
Are The Tamils Communists
Anthropologists who have studied the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka have determined that they are a "mercantile society, as opposed to a 'peasant society'. Their orientation places greater value on achievements of individuals and
COMMU
By Edward B
those of family unit their society or the na The merits of debatable. But, the fa Such orientation communism. It is Socialism and Comm cannot flourish in suc
That this is not theory has been pr again in the parliam Lanka. Whereas the elected over thirty left of the elections, the during the same per communist and that to It is against the ve people to be coтти. them as such is merely
Are TheTamils Terr
Terrorism simply , as a political weapon. widely used, but in poorly defined. As a wide and varied types It is also a politic depending on the exp and nations, it ev', sometimes very stron due regard to the conti Small undergroun broad based support the Red Brigade and referred to as terrori fighting for their hom terrorists. The Britis, Washington and Me terrorists. Paradoxica like Adolf Hitler and called terrorists.
In Sri Lanka, for th people were debas brutalised by anothe endure this any longen an army to defend the In the Sinhala lex
THE "SRI LANKA NEW issued by the Consula Geneva, Switzerlan
resolution recently Nations Commission C
"On March 12, the
Resolution om Sri La inter-alia, called on respect fully the univ humanitarian law an force and acts of vi negotiated politicals
This report, rather to convey the impress this aspect only re groups". Reproduced COmment, are the te paragraphs of the resc
`Calls upon all partie

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NISTS OR TERRORISTS?
enedict, M.A.
, rather than that of ion. his orientation are ct of the matter is that, is antithetical to well known that unism as a way of life h a society. merely an academic loven over and over "ntary elections in Sri Sinhalese people have ist candidates at many Tamil people have, od, elected only one po only once. ry ethos of the Tamil nists. To characterise vicious propaganda.
rists?
means using violence The term terrorism is common usage it is result it encompasses of activities. ally loaded term and erience of individuals okes different (and g) emotions, without ext in which it is used. ld groups, with no of the society, such as Bader Meinkoff are sts. The Palestinians teland are also called h considered George nachim Begin to be lly, however, fascists İdi Amin were never
'irty years, a nation of ed, terrorised and "r nation. Unable to the former produced ir nation.
icon the 'goondas'
who beat up the Tamil members of parliament are not terrorists; the hooligans who looted, raped and killed Tamils in their thousands and at recurrent intervals (just because they belonged to a community that disagreed with their government) are not terrorists; the Sinhala leaders who organised these pogroms hoping to terrorise Tamils into submission are not terrorists; the Security forces that tortured and killed thousands of innocent civilians are not terrorists.
But, an army of dedicated young men and women whose love for their people is larger than life, who in turn are adored by their people, some of whom have made the supreme sacrifice for the sake of their convictions based on conscience, and others consumed by their passion for freedom and justice for their people, willing to make that sacrifice themselves - are terrorists.
No wonder they are having difficulty selling their point of view to the world community. As stated at the beginning, lies when repeated often enough tend to acquire a certain degree of authenticity. It is the responsibility of all expatriate Tamils to see to it that it does not happen to the Sinhala lies.
Any analysis of the Sri Lankan political programme in the post-independence era will point to the incontestable fact that it is the Sinhala people who were and are still
the Separatists. Ceylonese and Sinhalese
were used interchangably.
Terrorism, whether it stemmed from the goondas, or supported by the Government, had its origin from the Sinhala people. Hence Sinhalese were the original terrorists. As for the charge that Tamils are communists, it is the Sinhala political constituencies which carried Communist candidates to represent in Parliament.
In Sri Lanka Nationalism was equated with Communalism. Sinhala Nationalism
produced Tamil Nationalism. Sinhala
Terrorism used offensively produced Tamil Terrorism. These are polar models.
s
nformation Par EXCellen Ce
V-LET TER Of March 1987 te General for Sri Lanka in d, reporting on the adopted by the United in Human Rights said:
Commission adopted a ika by consensus which, the terrorist groups to ersally accepted rules of di to renounce the use of olence and to pursue a plution.
disingenuously, purports ion that the resolution on ferred to the terrorist
here, without further xts of the two relevant lution:
is and groups to respect
fully the universally accepted rules of humanitarian law. "Calls upon all parties and groups to renounce the use of force and acts of violence and to pursue a negotiated political solution, based on principles of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.'
Who said that diplomats are not those who are paid to lie on behalf of their countries?
incidentally, it is learnt that Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala, the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Geneva has submitted his resignation. While it may be true that his resignation is a direct consequence of his appointment to a high level post within the U.N. set-up, it is reliably, rumoured that the immediate Cause of the resignation was that he had a big row With the President's brother, Harry Jayawardene, who headed the Sri Lankan delegation to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.

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A DIABOLICAL P
Bleak Trend in Lan
LAST WEEKS car-bomb explosion in Colombo and the Sri Lankan armed forces murderous campaign against Tamil civilians in the north, which followed it, signify a qualitative degeneration of the strife-torn situation in the island. President Jayawardene’s government has sought to establish a straightforward casual connection between the two developments and held two Tamil militant groups, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students, responsible for Tuesday's bomb blast which took toll of more than 150 lives. However, the opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party hardly known for its sympathy for the cause of the Tamils, has questioned the government's version in that country's parliament. It has in fact claimed that the car-bombing was an “inside job' carried out with Israeli help. This is a serious charge, all the more so because it comes from the SLFP.
It is indeed ha] LTTE and/or ER to explode a pow of a busy comme they would hav attack would cert a massive Scale casualties in th weaken them. S. believe that the in a deliberate ac convince the ord warfare against ( of resolving the e that has been go since January, Sl un necessary. Th Jaffna peninsula have no interest attack on their Su
Even more
argument that th of breaking th ceasefire declar.
Pressure on Colombo to Red Cross Teams
LEADtNG MEAMBERS of the U.S. Committee to Stop Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka, met the Ambassadors of Norway, Sweden, Canada and Argentina and urged them to bring pressure on the Jayawardene Government to allow the International Red Cross (IRC) to send relief teams to Sri Lanka to provide urgently-needed medical relief to Tamils wounded in the security operations against Tamil militants.
They also took the occasion to praise the role of these countries in bringing the human rights violations against the minority Tamils before the U.N. Human Rights Commission at Geneva in March and appealed to them to maintain these efforts.
Norway, Canada and Argentina cosponsored a resolution before the Commission expressing concern at the human rights violation in Sri Lanka and asking the Colombo authorities to allow
immediate acces vwhere serious clas Those who included Dr. S. Ila President of the T. Rights Associatio, Committee includ from India and Sri human rights acti) of California and N Connittee, which held several semi minority.
Medical Associ, Dr. langovan, Medical Associati organise relief ine and other affected in carrying out the of the refusal Government to p.
SRI LANKAS DENIAL REBUTTED
PAX CHRISTI INTERNATIONAL, a U.N. recognised Non Governmental Organisation, accused the government of St Lanka of gross violation of human rights including the use o foreign mercenaries in the course of its intervention during th recently held 43rd sessions of the U.N. Human Right, Commission. The following is the text of a letter dated 10t March, 1987 delivered to the Sri Lankan delegation, with copie; to other delegations, in response to Sri Lanka's reply:
Your delegation, in exercise of her right of reply, made number of assertions against Pax Christi International and ou statement on the situation in Sri Lanka. Since NGO's have no right of reply and these allegations are an attempt to discredi all NGO's, we are compelled to respond by means of this letter.
1. Sources of information
Pax Christinternational receives its information from a variet of sources based within Sri Lanka itself. These include members of Pax Christi within the country, local and nationa human and civil rights organisations, citizens' committees and trade union organisations,

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'd to understand why tine ROS should have wanted erful bomb in the middle rcial district. First of all, e known that such an ainly invite retaliation on and only increase their e Jaffna peninsula and econdly, it is difficult to uerrilla groups indulged :t of provocation so as to inary Tamils that armed olombo is the only way thnic crisis; given the war bing on in the peninsula lch a provocation seems e militants virtually run as their fief and could in being on a murderous pporters.
unconvincing is the e car-bombing was a way he so-called unilateral 2d by the government.
The plain fact is that the militant groups had refused to reciprocate the ceasefire offer and had done so from a position of relative strength, not weakness. It would
not have been in their interest to wreck the
arrangement which, in any case, the government had itself weakened. By the same logic, it was in Colombo's interest to plant the bomb, call off the ceasefire and declare an all-out war on the Tamils. That is exactly what has happened, as the carpet-bombing of Jaffna for days on end shows.
This is not to argue that there is enough evidence of a diabolical plot hatched with the assistance of Israeli agents but only to suggest that this hypothesis seems far more plausible than the official explanation.
At any rate, the way Colombo has used the event to wreck the process of negotiation can only strengthen this proposition. But by doing so, the Sri Lankan government has also succeeded in virtually destroying India's mediatory role. This calls for a fresh assessment in New Delhi.
By courtesy of The Times of India' April 27, 1987 (Emphasis ours: Editor)
AllOVV
5 to the IRC to the areas shes have occurred met the Ambassadors ngoyan, Dr. Benjamin Rai, mills' Welfare and Hunan n, and Mr. M. M. Rai. The es prominent Tamils both Lanka and also American vists like Prof. George Hart Mrs. Virginia Kirchner. The is based at Chicago, has nars focusing on the Tamil
ation offer: According to he American Overseas on (AOMA) has offered to eded by Tamils at Jaffna d areas, but is hamstrung relief operations because
of the Jayawardene ermit the IRC to enter Sri
Lanka. He said it was regrettable that the Sri Lankan Government was neither providing relief nor was it allowing willing international yoluntary organisations to render aid.
Most of the foreign medical associations, including the AOMA, would like to route their assistance through an umbrella organisation like the Red Cross. The American Red Cross stood ready to provide the where withal but it too prefers to work through the IRC. -
Mr. lango van said the Ambassadors met by the Committee members were receptive to the idea of activating efforts to persuade the Sri Lankan Government to allow the IRC to play its usual humanitarian role in areas experiencing severe violence and they could be expected to relay the wishes of medical associations and human rights activists to their governments. The Canadian External Relations Department has already assured in a letter that 'Canada will continue to follow closely the situation in Sri Lanka and raise human rights concerns,
2. 'That press reports are false'
Lankan government cannot dismiss as false propaganda the revelation made last week in the British press (enclosed) by 60 British mercenaries employed by the London security firm, who walked out of Sri Lanka in protest, because of a series of atrocities committed against the Tamil civilian, population by the Special Task Force commando units they had
The Sri
organisations and citizens' groups within the country, certain
confirmation of the fears we voiced, we have just received information that only yesterday some 50 people have been killed in Jaffna in a military operation, and an unknown number
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trained.
s " ... . .
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t from various
governments and the
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injured.
3. "That the information on the amassing of troops in - the Jaffna peninsula and the military offensive is
Pax Christi International has received the above information
reliable sources,
; ,
including human rights
international press. In fact, in
Adrien-Claude Zoller Permanent Representative

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8 TAMLTIMES
"SRI LANKA" SITU) ATIO
SRI LANKA'S Finance Minister, Ronnie de Mel, has warned the Government that the financial situation of the country is becoming extremely grave as a result of rapidly escalating defence expenditure and expenditure of other Ministries would have to be reduced if defence expenditure was to be maintained at the present high levels. Otherwise Sri Lanka would face a Severe financial crisis before long.
Defence and defence-related expenditure has already escalated to about Rs. 15. billion, which represents 35 per cent of Sri Lanka's domestic budget of Rs. 40 billion, excluding aid and loans. This is acknowledged to be one of the highest defence budgets of any country of the size of Sri Lanka.
defence and defence is likely to increase present circumstance
A Supplementary over and above the a budget was presente on 11 March by the D
Mr. de Mel has financial situation of further aggravated b factors:-
O The sharp fall i, principal export c rubber and cocon has seriously e. Government ol plantation industri While the pric, commodities rem, prices of some of such as crude oil a recently.
Mr. de Mel has also pointed out that - O The severe droug
23 CHARGED WITH SE
TWENTY-THREE political activists, mostly belonging to the Sinhalese Sri Lanka, have been indicted before the High Court on 14 counts inc overthrow the government by armed violence,
There are some belonging to the Tamil community too including th Peoples Revolutionary Front (EPRLF) and R. Manikkalingam, son of
diplomat:
Dayan Jayatilleke de Silva, alias, K. K.; Susill George ''Joe'' Seneviratne; Dayapala Thiranagama, alias oku Silva; Pulsara Liyanage, alias Pulsie; Chinthana de Silva, alias Kamal; Purnaka de Silva, alias Lalith; Periyaswamy Muthulingam alias Muthu; K. Padmana bha, alias Ranjan; R. Manikkalingam, alias Mohan; R. A. Jayaratne, alias Jegan; K. I. Sarath Gamini, alias Stanley; Piyadasa Gallege, alias Cyri; L. Caldera, alias Dickie; G. M. Dharmasena, alias Ralahamy; H. K. Dayananda, alias Shantha; K. Karunadasa, alias Leo; M. K. Karunaratne, alias Suda; C. R. K. Henry lqbal, alias Ibba; T. Sarath Silva, alias Podi Silva; K. Piyadasa, alias Manager; Ariyadasa, alias Ari; and W. Chitrasena, alias Michael.
Here are some of the leading members:
Dayan Jayatilleke, a political journalist. Got a first-class in political science at Peradeniya winning the C. C. Wickremasinghe Award and was a visiting lecturer at
Colombo University. Fulbright scholar at .
State University of New York, working under well-known Marxist academics like |lmmanuel Wallerstein and James Petras. Has been missing for more than a year.
Joe Seneviratne, former National Organiser and General Secretary of the Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality. Joined the CP (Peking) at 15. Was a full-time trade unionist and actively responsible for instigating the railway strike of 1976, which led to the general strike. Also edited various trade union newspapers. Taught sometimes at Carey College.
. . Milagiriya,
Married with three ( Wennappuwa last Apri
Dayapala Thirana Kelaniya University a of Technology. Forme of Geography, Kelaniy Kelaniya University T Joined the JVP in 1968 G. 1. D. Dharkmaseker 1971 over the attemp Embassy and spent si: arrested before the N security threat.
Pulsara Liyanage, e Kelaniya Universities. Well-knc Asst-Lecturer in Cl University, Was arres
Tamil WM Human Righ
MVE EXPRESS or sadness at the sla Sri Lanka which incessantly for the We feel that it is bar kill or even injure c are Tamils or Sinha the Sri Lankan gov military activities naval bombings a Tamil civilians and Sinhalese of ques

APRIL 1987
s FINANCIAL VN GRAWE"
-related expenditure and mot decline in
S. Vote for Rs. 2 billion location made in the d to the government efence Ministry. also stated that the the country has been y a number of other
1 the prices of our onmodities like tea, ut. This fall in prices roded the revenue tained from the e.S.
es of our export
lain depressed the our major imports,
country will have serious repercussions on the production of all our crops, ... particularly paddy, coconut, tea, rubber and subsidiary foodstuffs. This will also reduce agricultural incomes and personal consumption, which would lead to a drop in revenue from income tax and Business Turnover Tax.
O Additional funds will also have to be allocated for drought relief, which will further reduce the funds available to the Treasury. " . " O The 30 percent drop in rice production, particularly from the North and East.
O The 50 per cent decline in tourism and
tourist earnings.
O The 50% decline in fish production.
O The decline in internal trade and distribution, particularly in the North
ind wheat, have risen and East.
O The decline in foreign investment and ht now afflicting the foreign remittances.
S. November. Close personal friend and
DITION
community in South luding conspiracy to
he leader of the Eelann a former Sri Lankan
hildren. Arrested in
.
gama, graduate of hd the Asian Institute r Lecturer at the Dept. 'a and Vice-President, eachers' Association. ; and broke away with a in 1970. Arrested in t to blow up the U.S. c years in jail. Was reIAM conference as a
ducated at St. Paul's
and Peradeniya wn woman activist. assics at Kelaniya ted at her home last
cousin of Dayan Jayatilleke.
Chinthana de Silva, educated at Trinity and St. Thomas' Colleges. Was an executive at Apothecaries and Hotel inter-Continental. Contested the Colombo DDC elections in 1980 on the JVP ticket, then left it. Active in Christian circles. Missing.
Purnaka de Silva, son of a well-known businessman. Educated at St. Thomas' College. Was formerly a money broker at one of Colombo's leading establishments. Missing.
Ramanujan Manikkalingam, son of a former Sri Lankan diplomat, whose 'disappearance' was much highlighted last year. Subsequently, the authorities admitted before the PTA Advisory Board that he was not arrested in the eastern province but in Colombo and that he was taken in on the day he 'disappeared', 28th March and not 11th April as originally claimed. He got 8 distinctions at his O levels and 4 A's at his A levels at Royal College, where he also was a sportsman. Studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
elfare &
ts Committee
shock, despair and ighter of civilians in has been going on
past three months. baric and inhuman to 'vilians whether they lese. We further urge ernment to cease all including aerial and nd mass killings of not to settle anymore ionable character in
the eastern region till a peaceful Settlernent is arrivedat.
If the Sri Lankan government does not deal with the moderates in good faith, extremists would take over the control of the situation and the government must thereafter, assume full responsibility for the grave consequences and cannot feign innocence. We urge the government to permit the linternational Red Cross to visit the northern and eastern provinces and treat the suffering civilians. 218 Congressional Lane, No.T2, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Dr. Benjamin J. Raj Presiderf

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TULFAPPEA GOVERNMENTS C
The following is the text of an appealse Amirthalungam, the leader of the TULF, to Governments of countries where there are
“I thank you,' your government, people of your country, for graciously affording shelter and relief to the Tamil refugees who are victims of the genocidal politico-military strategy adopted by the Sri Lankan Government.
I seek your kind indulgence to apprise you of the horrendous consequences of the ethnic carnage, started by Sinhala hoodlums in June-July 1983 and continued till now by the racist armed forces of Sri Lanka. With a full sense of responsibility I state that (a) 3000 Tamilst were brutally murdered in June-July 1983 by Sinhala gons; (b) 8000 to 9000 noncombatant Tamil civilians were killed by the armed forces since then; (c) over 200 Tamil villages in the North and East of Sri Lanka have been devastated and destroyed; (d) more than twenty-five thousand Tamil houses, shops and even temples and churches have been destroyed; (e) over 500,000 Tamils have been rendered homeless and destitute, (f) at any
given time over young men and for long periods The armed f crowded residen majority North they drop bomb shells and mor killing persons a
Reputed inter responsible go testified to these Recently, a s. International, American Cong "Hundreds of continue to be random in cold the hands of the Lanka'. These and systematic. pattern of abuse last few years disappearances. American State
TAMILs. The Jews ofth
THE MORAL and political dilemma raised by the 58 Tamil refugees seeking sanctuary in this country will not go away once their individual feats have been decided. The hapless Tamils, whom the government is seeking to deport, are among a growing wave of asylum-seekers, dubbed the “new refugees.'
Unlike their predecessors - displaced Jews from Nazi Germany, post-1956 Hungarians, or Russian dissidents - these refugees are mainly fleeing from undeveloped countries, like Uganda, Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Sri Lanka. They don't have Central or Eastern European accents and western ways. They are fleeing countries which often seem volatile and baffling to the west. Moreover, while there were jobs galore for postwar refugees, there are precious few for the 'new' ones.
The government’s fear ís of being "swamped with exiles. In 1985, for example, Britain was approached by 5,000 asylum-Seekers - 2,000 of them Tamils. Six years before, only 1,500 people had applied to us for refugee status. Should a sensible and humane government raise or lower the drawbridge? This govenment, after accepting the first influx of Tamils,
decided to for seekers teo, obtai: country - a dangerous proc many. It was obstacle that the government's deportation orde
All Tamils, aft to prove, indivi asylum. The ove out of 978 whos with in 1985- we but were grantec exceptional g temporary asyl twelve month temporary refug 58.
Is it all a matt Amid a maze United Nations that a refugee is: a well-founded for reasons of ra membership of a political opinion his nationality a to avail himself country. The

TAMLTMES9
Lis o To FOREIGN DN TAMIL REFUGEES
nt by Mr. A.
the Heads of Tamil refugees.
2500 Tamils, particularly women, are in detention and being tortured. orces strafe from air into ntial areas in the Tamil and East killing persons; s from the air and they fire "tars from 1. army - camps, nd destroying buildings. 1ational organisations and vernment officials have acts of state oppression. pokesman of Amnesty testifying before an ress Committee, stated - people have been and tortured, to be killed at blood apud to disppear at security personnel in Sri abuses were widespread
The most disturbing
s that had emerged in the was the phenomenon of Mr. Robert A. Peck of the Department, testifying at
e Eighties ce subsequent asylumn entry visas in their own laborious, potentially ‘ess which would deter for circumventing this Se 58 Tamils incurred the wrath, suspicion and
r.
er the early few, have had dually, that they deserve rwhelming majority -907 e applications were dealt :re refused refugee status, i leave to remain here on rounds. This means um and expires after s though even this gee has been denied the
er of government whim? of definitions, the 1951 convention states clearly “A person who owing to fear of being persecuted ce, religion, nationality, particular social gorup or is outside the country of nd is unable or unwilling of the protection of his government's role is to
the same hearing confirmed the gross violation of human rights by the Sri Lankan armed forces. Reputed journalists who have visited the affected areas have also confirmed these cruel acts of the Sri Lankan armed forces.
It is in the face of this terror that Tamils have fled to various countries as refugees. It will not be an exaggeration to say that every Tamil family in Sri Lanka has been afflicted in some way.
I am ashamedly aware of some misdemeanours committed by a few Tamil refugees. You will appreciate that the presence of a few black sheep - among hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees facing persecution in their own country is inevitable. I am confident you will not punish the many for the faults of a few.
The atrocities continue with increased fury and frequency. More and more Tamils are fleeing their country. I earnestly appeal to you and your government to grant asylum to those who are already in your country and to generously admit those who will come in the future. I appeal to you and your government to accommodate my compatriots till normalacy returns to the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka and Tamils can return to their homes with safety, dignity and honour.”
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decide whether someone seeking asylum meets this criterion. s. . .": {
Before attempting to deport, anyone, the government should bring in the independent immigrant advisory service. Instead, it tried to deprive the Tamils of this right. Later the government tried other ruses, like conning them into boarding a plane bound for Bangladesh, knowing full well that the Bangladeshis would promptly hand them over to the Sri Lanka government. The justification seemed to be: the Tamils tried to trick their way into the country with false papers, so why play straight with them?
The only real question should be: do these Tamils genuinely face persecution in Sri Lanka? "Persecution' covers treatment ranging from discrimination to genocide - though, of course, one may lead to another. In the late thirties, when Jews were being pushed to leave Germany, and were being squeezed out of business, this country failed to acknowledge what lay in store for them. Many were refused admission and left to face the “final solution'. In deciding the authenticity of today's refugees, the government must avoid repeating that fatal scepticism. i
Courtesy of New Society, 27 February 1987

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NIGHT OF THE
SATURDAY, 7 MARCH, will go down in the current history of Jaffna, as another Black Saturday.
Even as people were azily Creeping out of their beds on a cold Saturday morning, 3 planes skirted the Nallur area around 6.30 a.m. Then suddenly the planes swooped downto drop their lethal charges. The air was rent with screeching "bombs", falling trees and burning houses. People ran helterskelter, some to the safety of their homes. As one eye-witness observed, "I was standing at the public water tap to draw water, when I told my neighbour that there was a bomber heading this way. It was ominous, told my neighbour. Within minutes the
plane swooped down to drop those
F f #
notorious 'incendiaries'.
This 'aerial escapade' by Sri Lanka's Air Force lasted for nearly thirty minutes to an hour during which time there was a trail of blood and destruction. Two people died and many injured. Ponnammah (40), wife of Balakrishnan, Nallur Kandasamy Temple Musician, who received serious injuries succumbed to her injuries at the General Hospital. The
pantry portion of T at Nallur was ripp occupants who h. placed a kettle on ti to tea-making an interior of the hou providentially butt child received sever Nallur was just bloodbath on a la hours later around Jaffna Fort rampart the Sounds of shellnearly an hour intermittently and hours of Sunday m for shell-fire we Windsor, Rajah, Jumma Mosque L. Cross Street, Kar course 'pot shot General Hospital, i. workers and 2 polic bombing and she estimated but earl that it was extensi K.K.S. Road were incendiary bombs. and 24 were damag 21 people, includ
Historian Protests U.S. Military Ait
LOS ANGELES - When it became his turn to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Sub-committee on Asian and Near Eastern Affairs during its hearings March 12 in the nation's capital, Indian historian and international Alert West Coast president Stanley Wolpert was the lone voice protesting against the military aid included in a proposed $33 million allocation package earmarked for Sri Lanka. A majority of the appropriations would go into the funding of Sri Lanka's water projects and the development of better food growing techniques. "Those should certainly be continued," Wolpert conceded in an exclusive interview with IndiaWest two days later. "The only item that was indicative of or was in any way associated with military assistance was $160,000, which was earmarked for training of military officers and possibly the police. That I urged very strongly should be stricken as an indication of our outrage at the violation of human rights which have occurred in Sri Lanka and which continue to occur as a result of extraordinary detention as well as the torture of prisoners."
in his testimony before the sub-committee, a copy of which was made available to this newspaper. Wolpert stated that "part of the police problem may be attributable to lack of "professional training, but for the United States at this point to contribute even $100,000 to help Sri Lanka's police would be to send a dangerously supportive message to a force whose recent behaviour merits the strongest international reprobation, rather than any token sign of approval," and added that it would be "unconscionable for Congress to grant even a hundred dollars in added aid to support such unrestrained and insatiable institutions of violence."
Wolpert, who was one of five private citizens testifying that day, recommended that "if Sri Lanka's government stubbornly refuses to test the viability of a ceasefire, continuing instead to pursue its martial illusion, ignoring (International Alert's)
advice as well as recently New Delhi, then (the Unit animmediate embargo or Sri Lanka, urging our frie Pakistan, Israel and Chin as arming Colomboscosti The United States, he support India's constructi a long-term settlement through the devolution of leadership in the North Summit negotiations in ministerial taks in New narrowed the gap betwe and the Tamil Tigers' (LT what now appears to disagreement Over the gi linking the Tamil provi Batticaloa in the East."
At the conclusion of hi. followed by Robert F secretary of state for Nea Affairs and James Norris the Agency for Internati men voiced the Reagan for the full $33 milliol argument being that the help to democratise the police and make them treatment of prisoners,"W He also indicated that impression that not all t Committee, which is chai includes California Cong| were swayed by the argu appropriations amount to members of the committe aid should be Cut off entir all the members of the attention should be paid rights in Sri Lanka.
Some of the committ

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E BLOODBATH
hiagarajah's hotse -
ed by a blast. The ad a litte before he boil preparatory d gone into the se, escaped injury heir neighbour and e injuries.
a prelude to a rger scale, twelve 6.45 p.m. when the S reverberated with Fire which lasted for and thereafter even in the early orning. The targets re areas around Shanthi Theatres, ane, Koddady, 3rd nathiddy and of s' at the Jaffna njuring 15 hospital emen. Damage by ling is yet to be y reports indicate ve. Three shops at burnt down by Wards No. 22, 23 ed. ing 9 Muslims, lost
their lives in this unbridled fury
unleashed by the Security Forces on Saturday. They are a Muslim family of three - A. Ameen (26), his wife S. H. Segadoon (22) and daughter Aspin (4 years old), Sameer Badurdeen Hussein (20), M. Yoosoof (22), M. Sahib (35), M. Jaffar (28), A. Sirojin (26), Mohamed Sultan (23), M. Jeyasingham (20), K. Gunaratnam (25), S. Sri-Kanth (27), S. Suppiah (34), K. Manivannan (10), S. Rasiah (53), N. Dharmarajah (18), V. Kandasamy (27), R. Radhakrishnan (19), A. Jeyam (20), P. Kumarasamy (26), and R. Mahendarajah (26). More than one hundred people were injured.
After all this "blood-letting' the Government Media Centre quoting the Joint Operations Command gleefully proclaimed that 'terrorist' hide-outs and bunkers were blasted by Security Forces.
The local telecast on Saturday night showed a documentary film on the 'Nallur bombing', and the damage and the injured being taken to hospital and receiving treatment after the shelling on Saturday night.
(Courtesy of 'Saturday Review'', 14/3/87)
to Lanka
reiterated warnings from ed States) should impose all shipments of arms to inds and allies, primarily a, to stop training as well y military machine."
urged, "should strongly we initiatives in mediating to Sri Lanka's Conflict provincial power to Tamil and East. Recent SAARC Bangalore, followed by Delhi and Colombo, have in Colombo's government TE) who control Jaffna, to be for the most part "anting of a land corridor inces of the North to
stestimony, Wolpert was eck, deputy assistant Eastern and South Asian , deputy administrator for onal Development. Both Administration's support n appropriations, "their aid to the military would Sri Lankan military and better restrained in their Volpertintimated.
he came away with the he members of the subed by Stephen Solarz and ressman Mervin Dymally, ments to hand over the full Sri Lanka. "I think several he agreed that the military ely... (and)... I think that Committee agreed more to the violations of human
he members he spoke to
later "seemed supportive of the idea of (a) stopping the fighting, and (b) doing whatever is possible to build Sri Lanka after a political settlement is reached, my idea being a mini-Marshall Plan which would bring in significant sums of aid from the world Community as soon as a cease-fire has been agreed upon and a political settlement has been signed with the Tamils and especially the Tamil Tigers," he confided.
On the other hand, he did confess that the military aid had less than a 50-50 chance of being cut from the proposed allocations, but it nevertheless was his hope "that some reference would at least be included in some way or another to control the behaviour of both the military and the police and bring them under strict supervision and
observation."
Courtesy of India-West,
March 20, 1987
Record Arrests On
Heroin Charges
OVER 4500 PERSONS were arrested in 1986 ! in Sri Lanka on heroin related charges, according to official statistics. This represented more than fifty per cent of all arrests relating to criminal offences in Sri Lanka. Thirty-four of the arrested persons were foreigners. 189 Sri Lankans had also been arrrested abroad during 1986 On drug charges.
According to the Head of the Police Narcotics Bureau, in all 8, 123 persons had been arrested on charges connected with drugs. They comprised 4,535 for heroin, 3,686 for cannabis (ganja), 84 for opium and 18 for hashish offences.
A person found guilty of possessing over two grams of heroin is liable to be sentenced to death, according to Sri Lankan drug laws. Already a Dutchman and a Pakistani have received death sentences.

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THE UNHOLY ALL
THE FOUR-DAY visit to Sri Lanka, made by Junior Home Office Minister Da with sceptical reactions from the Tamil community in Britain and has been v evil and 'unholy alliance" between the Thatcher and Jayawardene governmei
The official and ostensible purpose for the minister's visit was to look at the operation of the British visa system in Colombo, but according to reports from Sri Lanka the Jayawardene government was determined to use the visit to reaffirm the minister's belief that Tamil refugees entering Britain are "bogus' - as he stated recently in parliament - in the light of growing international criticism of the regime. .
A Home Office spokesperson was unable to give details of the minister's itinerary in the island and gave little importance to the visit, but a report in The Guardian said that Waddington was to meet Jayawardene in the 'lovely hill town of Nuwara Eliya set in the heart of the tea country' and then make a visit to the port city of Trincomalee and Vavuniya in the north.
Tamils in Britain agreed that the minister was unlikely to be taken to the Jaffna peninsula, the site of appalling government atrocities against the Tamil people, from which a great number of them have been forced to flee.
'Will Mr. Waddington go to Jaffna and see the damage and destruction carried out by the Jayawardene government and see the reason why so many Tamils have become refugees?" said Rajes Bala of the Tamil Women's League. "Will he go into the Jaffna hospital where government shelling killed patients, including small children, on March 30?'
Vaira muttu Varadakumar of the Tamil
Refugee Action Group said that a visit to Jaffna on the part of David Waddington would be something which could be looked forward to if he had come back with a fair report. Sinnappu Maharasingam of the Tamil Action Committee (UK) sees the minister's visit as 'hypocritical'. 'if the minister looks into the humanitarian question and examines the reason why 40,000 Tamils have become emigrés, all of them from the Jaffna peninsula, then there would be no question of him returning
home still claimin
are "bogus'.
He pointed out
comes at a time of
the Sri Lankan g Nations Commis (UNCHR) has rect as a violater of thi the British gover means to return Ta A spokesperso Liberation Tigers C main liberation gr Lankan governme that Tamils returni in jeopardy.
There is a rumo is now proposing refugees in cam south of the islan over, he said. He one idea being Waddington and return with such a Lankan authorities exCuSe to return island.
Waddington's v further evidence O Thatcher governm that of Jayawarden a Home Office rat brief shows the ext has permeated thi government.
The Home Offic attitude towards some of them to st at Heathrow airpc rights for political lives and the case C Sri Lankan forced i in Manchester ti deportation, are ju government's - Waddington's - renege on the allia grounds.
GENO CD
continued from page 4 such a threat to stability in a key regime, Waddington considers that training troops to commit genocide is "perfectly reasonable'.
Britain and other Western powers don't just support the persecution of famils in far-away Sri Lanka. They have also imported the anti-Tamil pogrom, by victimising thousands of refugees trying to flee the island. After the Colombo bus station bombing, the Times commented that "the Tamils have hitherto enjoyed generous international sympathy', but warned them that the West's patience was limited. This is an outstanding piece of hypocrisy, even by Wapping standards. Tamil refugees have been
thrown into detention camps from
West Germany to Britain. Thousands have been sent back to Sri Lanka, with
a one-way ticket They will never 'generosity' ofth We reject all a suffering and st “Tami terrorism" The responsibi rests with the W. in Colombo. The the war is by taki forces oppressi efforts in Britai exposing and C complicity in genocide. The in defend Tamil re Waddington an
witch-hunters, w
back to face SAS on the blood-s Lanka.
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id Waddington recently, met wed as new evidence of the S.
that the Tamil refugees
that the minister's visit .
great embarrassment for overnment. The United ion on Human Rights ntly identified Sri Lanka se rights at a time when ment are looking for a mi refugees.
h in London for the f Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the pup, agreed that the Sri nt is desperate to prove ng to Sri Lanka will not be
ur that the governnment to keep returned Tamil
}s in the 'trouble-free'
d until the troubles are suspected that this was discussed with Mr.
feared that he would
'guarantee' from the Sri ; and therefore another
asylum seekers to the
isit has been seen as
f the willingness of the
ent to collaborate with e. The fact that he carries her than Foreign Office ent to which this aliance 2 policies of the British
e's strict and inhumane Tamil refugees forced rip to their underclothes drt in defence of their
asylum and their very f Viraj Mendis, a Sinhala
to sanctuary in a church
save himself from st two examples of this and particularly David determination not to nce on any humanitarian
to torture and death. be able to repay the
Western states. tempts to blame the rife in Sri Lanka on
ity for the bloodshed stern-backed regime only hope of ending g a stand against the ig the Tamils. Our should centre on pposing the Tories' the campaign of mediate priority is to ugees against David the other British Io want to send them trained death squads ained island of Sri
ANDY CARKSON The Next Step’ 1 May 1987)
Recent questions asked of Mrs. Thatcher in the House of Commons regarding the government's military co-operation with Sri
Lanka and the role of British mercenaries
supplied by the London and Channel islands-based company, KMS, still remain unanswered.
There is irrefutable and growing evidence that KMS are acting as the 'unofficial arm of British foreign policy on the island, just as Colonel Oliver North was playing a similar
role in what is now known as the rangate'
affair in the United States of America.
Unfortunately David Waddington's visit
can only be seen as a deepening and
consolidation of this dangerous and immoral friendship.
(By courtesy of Asian Times' April 24, 1987)
ANURA Says ltl
The following is an extract from a
recent speech by Mr. Anura
Bandaranaike, Leader of the
Opposition, in the Sri Lanka Parliament:
Mr. Anura Bandaranaike: Now, Mr. Speaker, who was responsible, to start with, for creating this ethnic problem? Let us not start from 1948 or 1932. Let us talk from 1977. During the DDC elections that were held in Jaffna, Sir, in 1981 or 1982 you all proved to the Tamil people that democracy was not a viable alternative open to them. You lifted the ballot boxes because certain Ministers came and told your hierarchy in Colombo that, in fact, the TULF could be defeated in Jaffna. Under that misguided conception, some of your key Ministers went to Jaffna, unleashed JSS thugs On innocent Tamils and lifted bailot boxes. In fact, two ballot boxes were found in the Subhas Hotel. This was unprecedented in this so-called democracy. Ferdinand Marcos did not do it in the Philippines.
Then you arrested Mr. Amirthalingam who was then Leader of the Opposition. He phoned me at 2 in the morning. You also arrested Mr. Sivasithamparam, then Member for Nallur, and also, I believe, the then Member for Jaffna, Mr. Yogeswaran. They were all former Members of Parliament ... (expunged-wide order by the Chair.).
Mr. Speaker: Order please. Those words will be expunged from the HANSARD.
Mr. Anura Bandaranaike: But that is my personal belief. Surely as a Member of Parliament I am entitled to my personal beliefs. No order from the Chair can wipe them out.
Mr. Speaker: There is a thing called decorum even from the Opposition as well as the Government. You must observe them.
Mr. Anura Bandaranaike: I will certainly observe decorum of Parliament and accept your ruling, but that does not mean that I have reversed my beliefs. No order from any Court or Chair can reverse that.
Anyway, the Jaffna Library was burnt. The Tamils felt that there was absolutely no viable democratic alternative available to them. Then you brought in the Sixth Amendment. I do not want to comment om that. I have commented enough on that. The entire lot of Tamil Members of Parliament were driven out of this House. Now when you are talking about the ethnic
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SriLankan Crisis Consi
Statement of
A. J. WILSON
Professor of Political Science University of New Brunswick, Canada
Before the Hearings on Sri Lanka on March 12, 1987, by the Sub-Committee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Congress of the United States.
I WISH to place certain facts at your disposal which I had witnessed as an insider in Sri Lanka's politics for the last forty years. I am also the son-in-law of the leader of what was originally the leading Tamil political party in the Ceylon Tamil areas of North and East Sri Lanka, the Tamil Federal Party, which later became the principal component of the Tamil United Liberation Front. S. J. V. Chelvanayakam was the founder-leader of the Tamil Federal Party from its inception in 1949 till his decease in 1977. I am now Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. Earlier I was also Chairman of the Department for four elected terms from 1972 to 30 June, 1986. Iceased in 1986 when I chose to take my sabbatical leave. * &
Previously I taught at the University of Ceylon (later changed to the University of Peradeniya) from 1952 to 1972. I was the first occupant of the founding chair of Political Science, which is the only chair in all the universities in Sri Lanka, as from 1968. For a short spell I functioned as Chairman of the Department of Economics and Political Science. Most importantly, I was the accepted intermediary in the dispute between the Tamil United Liberation Front and President Junius Jayawardene during the years 1978-1983 when I travelled from Canada during the long summer vacations to do my share in working out a compromise. solution between the two parties. From my reading of the situation, the Tamil Front was honest and principled in all the commitments they made to President Jayawardene. They even agreed to President Jayawardene's request not to put forward a Tamil candidate at the Presidential election of October 1982. They expected President Jayawardene to deliver on his promises only to learn too late that he had been taking them for a long ride and had never intended to honour his pledges. President Jayawardene proved to be a man who had the utmost contempt for moral principles. He would have put Machiavellito shame.
I have provided all this background information to indicate to you that I am quite competent and knowledgeable on Sri Lanka so that you will pay heed to the suggestions I shall be making below. For purposes of convenience, I shallenumerate these for you.
1. Politically the situation in Sri Lanka is both fluid and highly explosive. Repression may for a while maintain the peace and quiet of the graveyard. But there will be a repetition of the Shah, Marcos, Duvalier, Chiang Kai-Shek and those of their kind. President Jayawardene belongs to the same genre. Besides, his age does not permit him to crack the whip whenever necessary. From ministers down to the humblest public servant, everybody knows that he is a lame duck President who has barely 18 or 19 months to go and that the succession lies elsewhere. It will not necessarily be Lalith Athulathmudali who will succeed. Neither the public nor the officer class trusts him. The “dark horse' in American politics is an appropriate application to the confused situation in Sri Lanka. 2. To prove my point that the political situation is completely confused, two persons of importance at least have fled the country:
a) Sri Lanka's former Ambassador in Washington, Ernest Corea, a close relative of President Junius Jayawardene and to all intents and purposes his Minister for Foreign Affairs even :
 

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though A. C. S. Hameed kept in name the title, has chosen to leave his post. When I inquired of him (Ernest Corea) the reason for his sudden decision, he stated that the present incumbent (President Jayawardene) will remain in office for only another two years and he would not like to serve under his successor. My own guess is that the incumbent will unsuccessfully obtain an extension but there will be a popular uprising as with the Shah and Marcos. Ernest Corea is. intelligent enough to know the consequences for him. He maintained his landed immigrant status in Canada and is now special aide to Ivan Head, the President of the International Development Research Corporation in Canada.
b) Sri Lanka's Secretary of Plan Implementation, Wickrema Weerasooria has similar status in . Australia. His sister is married to Gamini Dissanayake, one of the contenders for the presidental succession. Wickrema Weerasooria was my student at the University of Ceylon. He had told me that if he found the political situation in Sri Lanka becoming intolerable, he would flee to Australia. To my amazement he has done exactly this. Today he is Sri Lanka's High Commissioner in Australia.
c) The military officers in charge of operations in North Sri Lanka have indicated to visiting foreign journalists and foreign academics that the most they (the military) could do is to contain the insurgent situation. They are convinced that despite the surfeit of weaponry and the training provided by foreign military advisors (Israeli and Pakistan) and the mercenaries employed (British and American), their troops do not have the will to fight. Their emphasis is on the political solution which is fast becoming a mirage. The mirage is due to the deep divisions within the cabinet. The President and the Prime Minister are openly at odds. The ministers takesides. Most of them have no confidence in a President who has no confidence in them, - having earlier demanded and obtained undated letters of resignation of all members of Parliament belonging to the ruling party. d) To add to the confusion, the Commissioner of Elections in his report to Parliament has underscored the fact that the referendum to extend the term of Parliament was conducted in manners which were illegal and unconstitutional. In effect the Commissioner of Elections has virtually accused the government of cheating at the referendum in order to secure an extension of Parliament's term by another six years. This kind of activity on the part of a friend and ally of the United States will not promote the latter's interests, long term or even short term. The situation is reaching proportions similar to those under Ferdinand Marcos. There will sooner than later be a popular uprising which will sweep away President Jayawardene and his government. Under such circumstances, the best courses that might be adopted are:
i. The suspension of all aid to Sri Lanka until proper constitutional government is restored. ii. The Aid Ceylon Consortium should also be advised to avoid good money chasing after bad money. The United States cannot be expected to impose a democratic order on Sri Lanka. But suspension of support can compel the Jayawardene government to reform itself, if not for its own sake, at least for the sake of those of its allies who have provided it with sustenance during the past years. iii. The United States should be aware of the problems that will result when Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes Executive President of Sri Lanka. Mrs. Bandaranaike will obtain the office in the event of (a) a free and fair election or (b) as a result of a popular uprising as in the Philippines. The foreign policy of Mrs. Bandaranaike will definitely be distanced from the West. The U.S. facilities in Sri Lanka will be terminated. The U.S. will then have to prepare itself for alternative ways & aesy of achieving its foreign policy objectives. * 。

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iv. This is where the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka pos a significant question. There are a number of ways which the Tamil problem can be handled by the maj powers without the problem being neglected and becom a furtherload on the international system:
a. The military solution that the Sri Lan government seeks has to be ruled out despite Isra and Pakistani assistance. For this the culture Sinhalese society should be comprehended. As have suggested the military itself realises that military solution is out of the question. Ti Sinhalese soldier, usually the son of peasants and/ rural folk does not realise the implications of goir to the battlefront despite all the incentives offere, The notion dies hard that soldiery is another ter for policing and maintaining law and order. T peasant soldier does not realise that he will engaged in an actual war. For another, armamen and the trade in it have become a source of incon for ministers in the Jayawardene government as we as for top level bureaucrats. What in fact happening is that weaponry from the United State Israel, Pakistan and other friendly powers is bein traded with the Tamil guerilla movement. T situation is on a parallel with Chiang Kai-Shek an his officers. Military support is therefore counte productive, if not definitely hostile to U.S. interests
b. Given this state of affairs, the U.S. has still few options available to it. The Jayawarder government will eventually be overthrown by
combination of student protest, labour unrest an ethnic rebellion. If ethnic rebellion is stilled, th Jayawardene government will have to handle a le. onerous task in dealing with students and labou with whom compromises and settlements are moj likely to work. The Tamil rebellion on the oth hand will provide a catalyst for the other forces protest. It will also bring about the economic ruin ( the country in that tourism, foreign investments an exploitation of the free trade zone will cease attract foreign interests.
The most pressing problem is to recognise the fact that ti Tamils of Sri Lanka, and they include the Indian Tamil Plantatic workers, occupy a geographically contiguous area and hav unlike in the early days of independence, begun to look up themselves as a nation in their own right. This contiguous ar. which comprises the Northern, Eastern and Uva provinces shou be constitutionally recognised as a single Tamil unit. Powers th do not include foreign affairs, defence, currency ar communication should be devolved on this unit. Constitutional the central government should not have the right to withdraw an of the powers devolved without the consent of the Tamil unit. A other formula for the amendment of powers will easily pa through the Legislature and will be meaningless because t Sinhalese constitute 74 per cent of the population.
A. The quantum of powers and the areas in which powers are be devolved are subjects for negotiation. But the two question that are non-negotiable if the territorial integrity of the island state to be maintained are (a) the one unit Tanil homeland and (b) t one unit Tamil homeland must have complete control over demographic composition. If the Sinhala Rata (the Sinhale state) complains of the voluntary immigration of Tamils into th Sinhala Rata, unaided and by their own efforts, the alternativ must be a peaceful exchange of population as, for exampl happened in post-war Germany.
B. The alternative proposition will in my opinion prove moi attractive. The traditional Tamil areas of the Northern, Eastel and Uva provinces should constitute one unit. They could have sovereignty-type relationship with the Sinhala Rata. Th; Sinhalese state could be completely unshackled in whatever wants to do in regard to the preservation of the land, the Sinha race and the Buddhist faith. Each unit will have complete ar unconditional control over defence, foreign affairs and lan Other subjects can be negotiated upon. The fact of a sovereignt

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association relationship will at least maintain the island as one single polity on the map of the globe.
.C. A confederal structure whereby the powers referred to in the
preceding paragraph are an alternative to sovereignty association.
D. A federal system of government where there will be the non
negotiable one-Tamil unit and unconditional control over its demographic composition is still a possibility. I must caution however that in historical perspective the end result will be what has been cited in A or B or Cor two separate sovereign units. ".
E. The advantage in the United States supporting propositions A, B or C is that the Tamil unit is more reliable in its adherence to the rules of the international diplomatic system than the Sinhalese unit. There has been a long tradition of education through American mission in the Tamil unit. The Tamil people feel morally obliged to the U.S. institutions which spent so much time over their education. Any agreement therefore with the U.S. government will be honoured. It will therefore be a sounder proposition for the U.S. to have broadcasting arrangements and other necessary facilities in the Tamil state than in the Sinhalese where public opinion is subject to violent, volatile and unpredictable changes of mood. A typical example was the abandonment by the Sinhalese government in 1956 of a defence agreement, hardly 8 years after it had been concluded, with the British government. The Sinhalese government has also proved thoroughly unreliable in recent times in its foreign policy towards the foreign powers which supported it. It has openly declared its support for the P.L.O. and the Arabs against the Israelis notwithstanding Israeli military support for Sri Lanka. It has condemned South Africa and supported sanctions against that country in spite of South African shipments of arms. All this has happened with the government of President Junius Jayawardene in office. The situation will be completely altered when Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes President and will have the fullest backing of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc.
F. The difficulties that the Jayawardene government claims over the constitution it framed only six years after Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike framed hers in 1972 are lame and deceptive. Parliament in Sri Lanka has a five-sixths majority of the ruling party. Any constitutional expert will state that all that Parliament has to do is declare itself a Constituent Assembly in the context of a national crisis. This Assembly can abandon the referendal clauses in the Constitution, establish a separate Constitutional Court like Mrs. Bandaranaike's government did and amend the Constitution suitably to meet the problems of the national crisis caused by the Tamil demand. The judges and public servants can then be re-appointed and asked to take their oaths under the new constitution. These were the procedures followed by Mrs. Bandaranaike in 1972 and President Jayawardene in 1978. The excuse of constitutional obstacles therefore is a lame one. It is a fraudulent excuse.
G. Finally India has played out its mediatory role. It tried bringing the disputants to the negotiating table to come to an agreement from the time of the holocaust in July 1983 to the present time. India has sadly failed in her diplomacy. Sri Lanka should not be allowed to become yet another theatre of war in which the super powers will fight a war by proxy. Washington and the Aid Ceylon Consortium can coerce the Jayawardene government to revise the constitution on the lines stated. In this
way the Indian Ocean can be preserved as a zone of peace.
Statement Before The Human Rights Commission
UNITED KINGDOM
We are concerned by the situation in Sri Lanka. We have consistently pressed on all those concerned the need for a political rather than a military solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. We will continue to do so.
Only an end to the conflict and a peaceful negotiated settlement which takes into account the needs and wishes of all communities can end human rights abuses. We will continue to urge on the Sri Lankan Government the urgent need to take firm action to prevent human rights abuses by the security forces, we continue to deplore the atrocities committed by Tamil terrorist organisations.

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questions.
What precisely is the nature of the Sri Lankan milit against the Tamils? What is the strategic thinking behi, the toll it has taken of innocent civilians? How have the LTTE armed fighters, fared? Finally, how far will the mili go and what lies ahead? A. S. BALASINGHAM, Political, LTTE, offers a detailed participant analysis that ade
BY IMPOSING an economic blockade on
the Jaffna peninsula on January 2 and by launching a major military offensive in the North on February 6, Sri Lanka has deliberately thwarted the peace process mediated by India and embarked on a genocidal war against the people of Tamil Eelam. It is now clear that the Jayawardene regime has no sincere intention to resolve the conflict by peaceful negotiations, but is rather bent on a murderous military path aimed at the destruction of the Tamil freedom movement. The strategy of this economic and military offensive is very obvious - to strangulate and subjugate the Tamil nation and force the Tamils to surrender to Sri Lanka's terms and conditions. In other words, it is a strategy of military conquest, of military aggression and domination of the Tamil homeland. This
strategy entails an all-out confrontation
and liquidation of the LTTE - the vanguard movement of the Tamil resistance.
The Sri Lankan Government is well aware that the armed resistance campaign
of the LTTE is the vital bargaining power
grip over this area.
of the Tamils and once that is weakened or
destroyed, the Tamils would lose their
only leverage. Thereafter, Sri Lanka could impose a solution on its own terms and conditions from a position of military superiority.
Has Sri Lanka achieved the aims and objectives of this strategy? What are the consequences of this purely militaristic approach 2 Let us analyse this strategy in more detail.
Economic blockade
First of all, let us take the economic blockade, which was imposed in early
January and continues. Sri Lanka maintained that the economic blockade was imposed to prevent the LTTE from taking over civil administration in the
(Jaffna) peninsula and declaring unilateral
independence. But the real intention was
to impress upon the Jaffna population
their economic dependence on the South and to punish them severely for their overwhelming support to the LTTE. Another reason behind the banning of fuel supplies is paralysing the vehicle mobility of the guerillas in the event of a war that, in Sri Lanka's calculation, will undermine the ability of LTTE's resistance.
Whatever the calculation that Sri Lanka may have, this deliberately starving a section of the
population whom Sri Lanka shamelessly
inhuman action of
calls its citizens has ea sympathy for our peo economic blockade ha suffering to our pe population has turned Government rather til LTTE and has been c the challenge. If Sri Lal the economic strangul: the will of the people give up their struggle, has miserably failed on
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Tamils from the state and made them realise that the racist Sinhala leadership is after Tamil blood rather than interested in peace and co-existence. Sri Lanka has thus created the conditions for the reinforcement of the spirit of freedom among the Tamils and hardened their will to struggle for political and economic independence. ・ 。
Now let us see the consequences of the military offensive. . .
Before embarking on a major offensive in the North, Sri Lanka launched a massive strike in the Batticaloa district. The main target was the LTTE base at Kokkatticholai.  ܼ • - ܓ
On January 28, a formidable force of 1,000 commandos of the Pakistan trained Special Task Force (STF) drawn from various camps in Batticaloa district (Thoonadi, Vellaveli, Kallady, Kaluvanchikudi, Karadiyanaru and Vavunaitivu)
launched a massive assault on the LTTE
:tion is unteniable
her alienated the
base camp at Kokkatticholai. The advancing column ran into our landmine field and a South African-made armoured personnel carrier was blasted to pieces killing nine police commandos. In the ensuing battle, our guerilla fighters put up fierce resistance and 50 more commandos were killed. Faced with a formidable force superior in number and firepower, our fighters took to the diversionary guerilla tactics of abandoning the temporary base and consolidating the position elsewhere. It should be noted that in the four days of battle, the LTTE did not lose a single fighter, which is a remarkable feat in the context of the adverse situation we faced.
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looting and rape. It was a massacre in cold blood and 220 civilians perished in the. senseless, brutal rampage.
Has Sri Lanka achieved its military objective in the assault at Kokkatticholai? The answer is in the negative. In military terms, while the commandos suffered heavy casualties, the LTTE guerilla unit. stationed at the base, having offered stiff resistance, left the area unscathed. We acted in accordance with the logic of mobile guerilla warefare. At Kokkatticholai and the surrounding villages, the military operation was directed against the Tamil civilians as the STF commandos have a notorious reputation for such racist assaults. What Sri Lanka achieved in this mad military adventure is the resentment. and anger of the local Tamil population and an additional blood-stained record for serious violation of human rights. The military occupation of land is not the means to win the hearts of the people. The more the repression, the more will be the resistance. It is a tragedy that Sri Lanka has not learnt this historical lesson. . .
The offensive in the North has its negative consequences as far as Sri Lanka's overall politico-military strategy is concerned.
About 10,000 heavily armed troops with armoured vehicles and artillery pieces, with massive aerial support from fighter bombers and helicopter gunships, descended on the four mainland districts of Vavuniya, Mannar, Killinochchi and Mullaitivu on February 6. There are already 8,000 troops stationed in various army camps in the four districts, as indicated on the map. The immediate objective of the invading army was to advance towards Elephant Pass on a triple-trajectory path from Thalady (Mannar), Vavuniya and Mullaitivu and to encircle and destroy LTTE guerilla bases along the main route. On the NorthWestern sector, the army planned to march along the coastline towards Poonagari and then to branch off to Paranthan and Elephant Pass. In the North-Eastern flank, the troops were to advance towards Kandawalai and then branch off to Paranthan. In the central region, the troops assembled at Vavuniya from Anuradhapura were to advance along the main trunk road towards Paranthan and Elephant Pass.
Apart from encircling and destroying the LTTE bases along this projected thrust, the object of the strategy was to establish new army camps on strategic locations and to strengthen and consolidate the existing ones. Once these objectives were achieved in the mainland, an all-out offensive on the peninsula was planned. : This major offensive, code-named Operation Giant Step was to involve a combined force of 20,000 troops. With the induction of fresh troops in the recent period, the strength of the forces in the nine camps (including the naval base) in the peninsula has risen to 12,000 in number. About 8,000 troops were to launch an assault on the Jaffna peninsula
from the mainlal Elephant Pass.
With this blu offensive, thousan advanced along th directions, penet Vavuniya, Mullai Faced with formic with heavy firepo LTTE regional districts adopted d guerillas shifted th jungles avoiding di the enemy force because of the g which is suited t guerilla warfare. A vast sections of the to the jungles for military formation form of resistan guerillas. The arm bases and abandon The immediat offensive - to encir bases - became a serious disappointr for battle. The commanders knew guerillas into the ju Suicidal; and the mobilised for pro warfare.
The advancing civilian targets a Civilians who took temples were roun at Mannar and Kill civilians were tal forced to march alc human shield again days, the forces rea constructing cami their positions alor In the process, th scattered, took to new and old militar
Sri Lanka made : army's objective completely met in This is far from th ground reality is actually taken plac moved into an alie dispersed in fixe themselves as sittin counter-offensive. took to strategic hurry to launch a c have time, initiat targets. Trimmes protracted guerilla knowledge of the support of the pop are gearing themse willeventually reve favour. The strate Lankan army - territory' - will no envisaged. Rather, the army will possibility for the important factor is of the LTTE fighte afford a protracted

d North through the
print of a strategic is of Sri Lankan troops e main routes in three ating across Mannar, ivu and Killinochchi.
able troop formations,
ver and aerial suport, guerilla units in the versionary tactics. Our eir bases inland in the rect confrontation with s. This was possible 2ography of the area mobile diversionary long with the guerillas, civilian masses too fled safety. The invading advanced without any ce from the LTTE y marched past empty 2d posts. : objective of the cle and destroy guerilla total fiasco. It was a ment to the force poised Sri Lankan military well that to pursue the ngle territory would be troops were also not
longed jungle guerilla
columns attacked ill along their way. refuge in churches and ded up and massacred inochchi. Hundreds of cen as hostages and ong with the troops as a st land-mines. In a few ched their destination, is and consolidating g the main high roads. Le troops fanned out, fixed positions in the y camps.
ubilant claims that the of securing land was the Northern districts. Le truth insofar as the concerned. What has is that the troops have guerilla territory and
| positions, exposing .
g ducks for the guerilla LTTE guerillas, who lefence, are not in a punter-offensive. They ive and a choice of and trained for warfare, with perfect errain, with the active ulation, LTTE fighters vesto ajunglewarthat rse the balance in their ic objective of the Sri to clear up guerilla be a practical task as the task of clearing up pecome a practical
guerillas. The most hat time is on the side s and Sri Lanka cannot ungle war.
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Sri Lanka has not yet launched a major: military invasion on the Jaffna peninsula as planned due to various compulsions; but it continues with limited offensive operations to harass LTTE guerillas and the local population.
On February 10, the fifth day of the offensive in the Northern districts, Sri Lankan troops moved out of the army camps at Palaly, Thondamannaru and Valvettiturai and engaged the LTTE guerillas in fierce combat. After heavy fighting which lasted for a day, the troops were forced to retreat to the barracks. On February 15, the Sri Lankan army opened a continuous barrage of heavy shelling with mortar and artillery from various camps in the peninsula. Heavy shelling from Jaffna Fort, Navatkuli, Palaly, Kankesanthurai and Valvettiturai continued for three days, causing severe casualties among the civilian population, and damaging hundreds of houses. On the morning of February 26, troops moved out from the Kankesanthurai, Palaly and Navatkuli army camps and, having met with fierce resistance by the LTTE, returned to the barracks. Then again on February 28, heavily armed troops moved in strength from the Palaly army camp with massive aerial support and engaged the guerillas. Fierce fighting continued for 48 hours in the Vasavillan area. The villages of Kadduvan, Tellipalai, Malakam and Chunnakam suffered heavy aerial and artillery bombardmeht and thousands of people fled the area. LTTE fighters put up a courageous resistance and frustrated the efforts of the army to secure a bridgehead at Kadduvan. The troops finally withdrew. after suffering heavy casualties. An armoured car was blasted and a helicopter was grounded in the fighting. * ;
This is the regular pattern of the limited offensive taking place in the Jaffna. peninsula - the strategic objective of which seems to be constant military harassment of the LTTE fighters and terrorisation of the population. The Jaffna population, already subjected to extensive hardship, owing to the economic and communication blockade, is con, stantly faced with death and destruction by indiscriminate aerial and artillery shelling. By unleashing this barbarous
form of collective punishment on a
population simply because they supported the LTTE, Sri Lanka hopes to achieve a political settlement through tactics of terror. Mr. Jayawardene is not even satisfied with the torrents of blood and tears already shed. He wants an all-out military invasion of the peninsula in callous disregard of the huge toll of civilian casualties that might result from the war. i
Whether Sri Lanka will go for an all-out invasion of the Jaffna peninsula, with all its disastrous consequences, is a matter that will be known in the near future. There seems to be hesitation and indecisiveness in. Colombo owing to uncertainty of the outcome. Yet one cannot rule out the possibility, since the
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IN LESS THAN two decades Sri Lanka has been transformed. The legendary isle of serenity has become the scene of one of the bloodiest communal conflicts of our time. This weeks killings in Trincomalee and Colombo and the reprisals that have already begun are but the latest and most gruesome reminder of how deep and bitter the ethnic division is on the island.
The Sri Lankan conflict has its roots in the sectarian differences between the island's majority Sinhalese and its minority Tamils. The Sinhalese, who are Buddhists, were the political successors to the British Rajat independence in 1948. At the time they adopted a 'Sinhala-first" policy to rectify what they perceived as the Rai's historical preference for Hindu Tamils.
The promotion of Sinhalese interests, however, led directly to feelings of discrimination among the Tamils. The minority community, which had once dominated the civil service, the judiciary and the professions, now felt excluded from the mainstream of Sri Lanka's political life. The failure of Sinhalese Sri Lankans to finda way of stemming Tamil resentment led to the emergence of separate Tamil politics and later to guerrilla movements demanding Tamilindependence. .
This historical background may go some way towards explaining the tensions at the root of the continuing violence. But this weeks brutal killings of Sinhalese civilians must be no less abhorred for
The T
that. Even though the Tamil mindful of the adverse publicity: murders bring - have been responsibility both for the Goo and for Tuesday's bombs, unambiguously in their direction, As a group, the Tamils hav, generous international sympath Order, however, Only damage also provide the Sri Lankan g pretext for striking at Tamil cam meeting Violence With Viole Jayawardene now gives way hardliners for a military solution to further conflict and ultimately The present upsurge in viole Only by a political solution in W made to resolve the long-s between the two communities. this weeks killings is that it sign rejection by the Tamil guerrillag settlement. Tamil political leads publicly, the self-defeating natu
So far there have been alır, fruitless negotiations between the Sri Lankan government. failure does not lie entirely President Jayawardene has pr offered concessions at one set, doubt on them or even withdral As a result, his own position h,
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ALITTLE OVER five months ago the government in Colombo was expressing delight at the extent of India's mediation towards a negotiated end to the long and bitter communal conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils. Two months ago President Jayawardene announced that he had asked the Indian government to underwrite any agreement reached with the Tamils. The implication was that India would not only underwrite but check and supervise the working of the semi-autonomous. provincial councils offered to Tamils in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. Any such delicate arrangement, which would have relieved India as wel as Sri Lanka of the heavy burden placedon the island by Tamil separatism, has been blown to pieces by the bomb outrage in Colombo, killing upwards of 120 innocents and the massacre of bus
passengers near Frincomalee-0 Both the suspect Organisatio and the Eelam Revolutionar Students, have denied respons but that denial does not exculpa the eyes of either the governme population. The air strikes yeste Tamil strongholds in the Jaff inevitable loss of further innoce regret at a distance than to forg atrocity.
Sri Lanka, inspite of the hop still cannot find a way Out of its thrust upon it undeserved. The defeated the groups mor Compromise in about of fratric nothingless than a separate st East. They deeply distrust - ju experience - assurances by th promises will be kept and Councils will in fact be semi-au
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THIRTY SEVEN Sri Lankan soldiers have been discharged for their alleged links with the proscribed Sinhala extremist organisation, the Janata Vimukti Peramuni, according to the Colombo-based Sunday Observer quoting a senior army official.
A "top level" investigation has been launched into reports that about 200 army and police personnel had sought membership of the JVP, which sponsored the 1971 insurgency in Sri Lanka when 57 police stations were attacked and 35 police divisions temporarily brought under the control of a rebel JVP "government".
The then Sirimavo Bandaranaike government crushed the insurgency with the help of foreign governments including India. Thousands
were killed. The recent reappearance of the
of people, including police and army personnel,
Sinhala extremist JVPrises ag
JVP in the south was marked by sophisticated weapons from a near Kandy by elements suspe JVP links and incidents o' collections from villagers.
The Sunday Weekend quic defence official as saying that til splinter groups are not yet intent Organised violence as in 1971 engaged in the sister task of security forces". Security for both officers and men, have in t received literature from the groups, many of them attheir hor Most of the material, accordi is "highly inflammatory and a and exhorted the forces to in acts". . . . . By courtes
 

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ragedy of Sri Lanka
guerrilla groups - "uch indiscriminate quick to deny d Friday massacre precedent points
a hitherto enjoyed y. Atrocities of this their cause. They overnment with a ps in the north-so ice. If President to pressure from this can only lead to civil War. ince can be ended thich an attempt is tanding bitterness Dne explanation for als Once again the iroups of a political rs must recognise, e of such action. most four years of Tamil leaders and 3ut the blame for with the Tamils. evaricated. He has of talks only to cast w them at the next as been weakened
and so has that of the Indian government which has until now acted as mediator,
Now that regional mediation has patently failed, there is perhaps a chance in mediation from further afield. The Commonwealth Secretary General, Mr. Sonny Ramphal, might be a suitable figure to bring the two sides together for a fresh start. He is sufficiently detached from the conflict to be seen by both sides as neutral, while being sufficiently committed to a settlement by virtue of his Commonwealth office, to engage in the long and painstaking negotiation that will be required.
The basis for a possible settlement may lie in President Jayawardene's so-called "December 19' proposals. These provided among other things, for Tamil areas to be given a degree of autonomy and for a division of the Eastern province to meet Tamil demands for greater participation in govеттепt. w
The problem is that the President's commitment to these proposals has appeared to Waver in recent months. At a new set of talks with a new mediator he would have an opportunity to renew his commitment. The Tamils, for their part, their cause weakened by this weeks barbaric killings, might be more open to a compromise along these lines than they were before. Today the outlook seems grim, but deep in the ashes of this week's tragedies may yet lie the seeds of eventual peace,
(Editorial, The Times, 23April, 1987)
n-Friday.
ns, the Tamil Tigers y Organisation of ibility for the bomb, te Tamif militants in nt or the Sinhalese rday against armed na peninsula, with nt life, are easier to jo in the heat of the
es earlier this year, desperate divisions famil Tigers, having e ameniable to tidal strife, demand te in the North and Istifiably, from past he government that the two proposed tonomous, which is
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pted a senior he "JVP and its On resorting to ... they are subverting the ces personnel, he past months IWP and other me addresses. ng to Weekend nti-government dulge in illegal yof 'New Life' April 24, 1987
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why India has been invited to act in a sense as guarantor. *
Other Constitutional solutions have been drawn up giving the strong Tamil areas a confederal status. However india, which because of its Own large Tamil population in and around Madras is intimately involved in Sri Lanka's misfortunes, is rightly cautious about states built on communal or linguistic foundations. It has tried to persuade the separatists to settle for something less and in the process has risked further alienating support for Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party in the Indian south, Yet its own mediation efforts have been hampered by the military and economic pressures piled on the Tamils, especially in Jaffna, in an effort to crush their movement for good. Several weeks ago India suspended its attempts at brokerage and has only recently resumed them. Of the thankless tasks in present-day Communal diplomacy and there are many, Mr. Gandhi, his efforts answered by one atrocity upon another, has one of the Worst. , ;
if it comes to a confederal state, or an island divided like Cyprus or Ireland, that may be a less disastrous prospect than the intensified drift, sine die, into civil war. But semi-autonomy seems a more natural development, if the Sri Lankan and Indian governments can bring themselves to the long haul against the out-and-out separatists which it would entail. Not the least objection to placing the Northern and Eastern Province in a separate state is that there is no contiguous Tamilspeaking connection between the two, an argument which Mr. Gandhi has accepted. And the separate state would, of course, incorporate very large Muslim and Sinhalese minorities.
Sri Lanka is sometimes likened to Northern Ireland as a place where the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children and which outsiders can settle more easily in theory than inhabitants in practice. Except that the numerical scale of the conflict is much larger, the comparison has some validity, Mr. Gandhi cannot afford to wash his hands of it, but it is greatly to his credit that inspite of all the setbacks he still seems prepared to soak himself to the elbows.
(Editorial, The Guardian, 23 April, 1987)

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Five Schools Entertain
The TMK Thiruvaluvar Tamil School of East Ham (London), The Institute of Tamil Culture of Tolworth (Surrey), London Tamil School of Wimbledon, The London Veena Music Group of Tooting and South London Tamil School, Croydon, got together on Sunday, 12th April to provide a very enjoyable afternoon of singing, dancing and instrumental music to herald the Tamil Neu! Year.
The programme was held at the South Norwood Adult Education Centre, Croydon and hosted by the South London Tamil School in association with the British Association of Tamil Schools. There was also a vocal performance by the talented singer Sri. M. Yogeswaran uho was accompanied by Sri. R. Balasri on the Miruthangam, Sri. M. Sivaraja on the Moharsing, Sri. M. Thevaraja on the Violin and Sri Vijay Kankutkar on the Tabla.
The Deputy Leader of the London Borough of Croydon, Cllr. David Congdon, congratulated Tamil parents on getting together to provide an education in Tamil language and culture which would in no way conflict with the education provided in English schools but would rather complement it and build on it.
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was established in aim was to teach Ta language' to children mainly in the West number of the childre in the Borough of Eali The roll has grown to 150 in 1987. The SC Tamil language, Bh South Indian Dance), (veena, violin and mir well-stocked library a studies.
West London Tamil participate in "Eal sponsored by the Eal the London Borough Organised an "open Stanhope Middle Schc Visitors had the opp language being taugh projects undertaken tions by children instrumental music 'Software' developed nature of the Tamil la shown on Computer.
There was also on wide selection of bo Subjects ranging frt through to music anc rounded off by a cultur
33 త 添多 భ MR. A. P. VENKATESWARAN, former Foreign Secretary, has asked the Central Government to take urgent steps to stop the genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Although he did not favour military intervention by India to solve the ethnic problem, he felt that India should take steps to help protect the Sri Lankan Tamils from the "murderous onslaught of the Sri Lankan armed forces'.
He cautioned the Central Govern-ment that the ethnic problem in the island would have longstanding repercussions for India's security. In this context, he cited the role of mercenaries in Sri Lanka.
Venkateswaran asks Centre to protect
"No consistency in f that the Indian fo, consistency and credib and instant fixes were is still being sought to be leading to a general situation.'
He said that the Cent as sensitive to the pro States as to those of t Had any linguistic grou persecuted like the la Central Government reacted more decisively Government failed to e enough, because it happ Congress (l). As a resu being handled properly.
This indecision and h India has helped the S ignore the feelings of Ta, the Government for Parthasarathy who problem.
He pointed out that against the three million a cause for serious C everywhere.
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eptember 1978. Its main mil as a ʼmother tOngue of Tamil parentage, living London area. A large attending the school live
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rom forty children in 1978 hool conducts classes in arathanatyam (classical vocal instrumental music dangam). There is also a nd facilities for computer
School was delighted to ng Education Week', ing Education Service of of Ealing. The school day' on 4th April, at ol, Greenford. ortunity to observe Tamil t in classes and to view by children. Demonstraof dance, vocal and were also staged. to show and explain the anguage script was also
display an exhibition of a pks in Tamil, on various pm prose and poetry, the arts. The day was alprogramme.
Tamils
reign policy'. He said 'eign policy lacked lity, as quick solutions attempted. "Everything done in fits and starts, state of drift in the
al Government was not blems of the southern he northern heartland. p of north India been mils in Sri Lanka, the would have certainly , Even the Tamil Nadu press itself forcefully ens to be an ally of the , the problem was not
aphazard approach by ri Lankan Government mils in India. He blamed removing Mr. G. 'ad understood the
atrocities perpetrated Tamils in Sri Lanka are oncern to the Tamils
Hindu' international, May 2, 1987
AUSTRALIA
As with torture the focus must be on activities at the national level. The working group recommended to CHR 42 that countries establish investigative commissions to look into cases of disappearances. : , Against this background we welcome the positive step taken by the Government of Sri Lanka to set up an investigative commission to report on the increased level of disappearances. We trust that the commission will carry out its mandate as rigorously as possible given our concern about the increased incidence of disappear-ances in Sri Lanka in the report of the Special Rapporteur. Disappearances continue to take place against the background of a recent escalation in the armed conflict involving militant Tamil and Sri Lankan government forces. Australia deplores the resulting loss of life and infringement of basic human rights. It is to be hoped that the government of Sri Lanka will look with favour on requests by international humanitarian assistance organisations, such as the ICRC, for access to affected areas.
Australia also urges the Government of Sri Lanka to issue an early invitation to the working group on disappearances in order to further explore ways and means of reducing the occurrence of this unacceptable practice'.
Strategy Behind The Offen S ive continued from page 15
hawks in Colombo are capable of irrational political behaviour purely impelled by the instincts of racism. Whatever the decision may be, the LTTE fighting formations are alerted to resist to the last man. Mr. Jayawardene is sadly mistaken if he assumes that the military conquest of the peninsula is an easy task.
Sri Lanka has failed to achieve its politico-military objectives in the offensive operations in the North and East. As a consequence of this military gamble, it has contributed to the suspension of India's good offices and wrecked the peace process. It has earned the bitterness and anger of the Tamil population and made the LTTE guerillas more resolute and committed to fighting back.
The offensive operations have not affected the military structure of the LTTE, but has caused a heavy toll of Tamil civilian casualties. From January 28, the beginning of the offensive, till March 5, 504 innocent people have been killed in the North and East, 868 civilians have been arrested and 28 women have been raped aside from the monumental damage done to Tamil property.
This is certainly a massive military operation “against the Tamil civilians' - as the Indian Government has rightly told Sri Lanka. In this war, Sri Lanka has achieved nothing apart from letting its indisciplined band of military thugs engage in sadistic massacres. If Sri Lanka continues with this military option, it will further escalate the conflict and plunge the entire island into the abyss of civil war.
A.S. Balasingham, Political Adviser to the LTTE
Courtesy of THE HINDU, International Edition, Weekending March 21, 1987

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HANAM N. SELLIAH stood outside her one-room shack in Mandapam, pouring mugfuls of water on her five-year-old son. Nearby, a woman sat blowing at a firewood stove, cooking the day's meal of rice and vegetables. Men and women loitered while children played on the sandy terrain, which was littered with refuse and debris. Barbed wire fences marched up the camp on three sides; the Bay of Bengal pounded on the other. Dotting the area were uniformed policemen.
The scene was the transit camp in Mandapam, which houses about 8,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, many of whom had fled the island when the first ethnic riots broke out in 1983. A tidal wave of refugees followed as the Sri Lankan armed forces unleashed a reign of terror in the northern part of the country. Of the 1.25 lakh Sri Lankan Tamils who fled to India, more than 25,000 ended up in refugee camps in Tamil Nadu.
The refugees in the Mandapam camp - the largest of the 70 camps for refugees - have a litany of woes: overcrowded camps, poor sanitation and inadequate health care.
Lack of jobs and living on the dole for two or three years have made many of the refugees depressed. Local people have been unsympathetic to the refugees' complaints. They accuse the refugees of not being grateful for the facilities provided by the Indian Government. All these problems have been forcing many of them to return to riot-torn Sri Lanka.
It is not apparent to a visitor that any of the refugees problems is being addressed to. The most visible problem is inadequate and substandard housing. Families are crammed into 10' X 10' rooms in ageing tiled houses, which once served as quarantine camps for those going to Sri Lanka. For other families, corrugated aluminium sheds are what they have to call a home. The Tamil Nadu Government recently launched a programme to build more houses in the camp to accommodate the rising number of refugees transferred from other camps. Communal toilets dot the area. Residents of the adjoining Central Marine Fisheries Institute say that many of the refugees defecate along the institute's fence.
Health care is a major cause for concern among the refugees. They say that even though there is a dispensary in the camp and they can go to the Government Hospitals nearby, there is often a shortage of medicineS and the doctors suggest that the patients buy them from private pharmacies. But that is often not within their reach. A family of five gets a monthly dole of Rs. 302.50 to meet all expenses. Much of this goes to buy the subsidised rations and fuel. Residents complain that even though rations are subsidised - rice is sold at 52 paise a kg (the Government says it is 27 paise) - the quality is often sub-standard. Most families live on a diet of rice and a small amount of vegetables. Few can afford fish or meat, which once constituted the bulk of their diet - most of the refugees used to be fishermen."
A study conducted by a team of doctors working among the refugees found that nutritional deficiency, is the most common problem. All the women refugees examined were found to be anaemic. Children had Sore tongue due to Vitamin B deficiency and often had angular stomatitis (angles of the mouth cracking). Many of them suffered from night blindness, spots in the eyes and skin changes due to Vitamin A deficiency. Infants take much longer than normal children to begin crawling or walking. For instance, if a healthy child usually starts to crawl at eight months, the children at the camp reach this stage much
Travails of тhe Uprooi
later. A doctor working an said that there were children and-a-half-old, who were una Many refugees say that t corruption among officials at the families have to give ". anything done. They are : officials would prey on help after they landed in India. Customs officials swiped belongings. The rest were g Women say they are col sexually by police and other c Nadu Government and so
agencies are running classes
tyepwriting, tailoring and el few jobs are available.
Viswanathan Selliah, 36 refugee living in Denmark a visit to Mandapam to try to :
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Some of the immediat unfortunate refugees us Overcrowding and lack of inadequate nutrition, insuffic proper water supply, lack ( exposure to various illnes facilities. These, needless t unpleasant social problems of these refugees, having lo: homeland Tamil Eelam, want death. Such is the cond desperation in the camps.
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long the rểfugees more than a yearble even to sit up. here is large-Scale the camp and that something to get appalled that the less people. Soon the refugees say, half of their rabbed by police. stantly harassed fficials. The Tamil ne social welfare to train people in actrical work. But
a Sri Lankan nd now on a short arrange papers for
his family, was bitter about the conditions at the camp. He said officials seemed to have the attitude that all the refugees needed was a little food anda place to stay. He contrasted this with the camps in Denmark, where the refugees are initially put up in hotels and transferred to houses. They are treated with respect by the officials and the citizenry and encouraged to work in the society. Most of the 1,500 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Denmark, he says: have been given five-year work permits. All of them are now learning Danish. . Hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu, on the other hand, are heading home in boats, for which a person is charged Rs. 250 for the 45-km trip from Rameswaram to Talaimannar. So far, about 4,000 have left the Indian shores. Nearly all of them say that the conditions in Sri Lanka are improving despite sporadic incidents of violence. They feel that whatever be the problems in their country, they will be better off than in the refugee camp.
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on Saturday, 20th June at 4.30 p.m. and Sunday, 21st June at 3.45 p.m.
at The Putney Methodist Church, Gwendolen Avenue, London SW15
Guest Speaker: Rev. George E. Good, M.A.
(former Minister of the Kollupitiya Methodist Church)
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WEST LONDON TAMIL SCHOOL
based at Stanhope Middle School, Greenford & Wembley Manor School, Wembley
in association with Greater London Arts and Brent Council
Celebrates
MUTHAMIL VIZHA
at BRENT TOWN HALL FORTY LANE, WEMBLEY
on Sunday, 31st May, 1987
at 4.30 p.m.
Chief Guest: Mr TREVOUR VIBERT Director, Greater London Arts
will present the certificates to the successful candidates of the examinations conducted by the Associated Board of British Tamil Schools
s on May 9, 16 & 23
All are cordially invited
For further details contact: 3«ጓክአኒ፻`R 父
Dr. R. Niththyananthan (Head Master) 179 Norval Road, N. Wembley, Middx. Telephone:9043937 & 9045939
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MATRMONIAL
GRADUATE CONSULTANTENGINEER, age 26, from respectable Jaffna Hindu family, now British citizen, plans getting married within the next two years to a professional or student qualifying for professional career, Apply with horoscope. Box M162, C/o Tamil Times.
SISTER IN reasonably comfortable circumstances seeks partner for 38 year old graduate sister living in U.K. Please write. Box M163, C/o Tamil Times,
BROTHER SEEKS PARTNER around age 35, preferably professional, for sister Sri Lankan Tamil Catholic, U.K. Local Govt. employee. Please send details. Box M164, C/o Tanil Tines,
WELL SETTLED AUNT in U.K. seeks for attractive 25 year old Jaffna Hindu B.A. Econ (Madras) graduate niece with Mars in the 7th House and presently in India a suitable partner. BoxM165, c/o Tamil Times.
UNCLE SEEKS FOR Jaffra Tari Hird nephew 33 years U.K. citizen teetotaller holding highly paid post in reputable London firn, Mars in 1st House. Send horoscope with details. Box M166, C/o Tamil Times.
JAFFNA HINDU BROTHERS (Accountants - Canada) seek bridegroom aged 34-40 for their only sister (Accountant) now in Jaffna. Chart, relevant details in first instance please. BoxM167, c/o Tamil Times.
JAFFNA HINDU ACCOUNTANT Sister (Canada) seeks bridegroom aged 37-40 for her religious and homely lawyer sister now in Madras. Chart and relevant details in first letter please. BoxM168, c/o Tamil Times.
HINDUPARENTSSEEK for their 25 year old son, employed abroad as an engineer, suitable marriage partner. Please send horoscope with full details. Box M169, c/o Tani Tines.
DOCTOR, TAMIL CATHOLIC 49, Widower, no children, settled U.K., seeks suitable partner, 30-40, No bars. Please write with photo. BoxM170, c/o Tamil Times,
BIRTH
PREMARAJAH. Daughter, Aruntha Jeeva. malar, to Beulah and Prem, sister to Kavitha on 25.1.87, Morden, Surrey, U.K.
OBITUARIES
CHATCITHANANTHAM, Thamotherampillai (Retd. Central Bank), husband of Sivagamasunderi, father of Dr. Vivekananda (U.K.) and Kamalini. 53/1, Ramakrishna Road, Colombo.
CHELVARAJAH, Joseph Adams, husband of Pushpadevi Joseph, father of Pushparatna (Rajah), Pushp a r a n e e, Push p an and a (Bahrain) and Pushpakumar. 1974 Menerigama Place, Nr. Lavinia. I &: ३०० * * * * ·
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RASASINGHAM, K. (Retd | late Thana lukshmi, father of Sri Ranjan (U.K.), Shanthini (U (U.S.A.). Apt. 15B, 160 North City, NY 10956, U.S.A.
CHELLIAH, Sivasothy, Ahilandam, father of Wallip (Kuwait), Balasubramaniam 618, Manipay Road, Jaffna.
PLLA, S. T., husband of N Nirmalamoorthy, Krihnamoor eramoorthy and Vinayagamoo Road, Hunupitiya, Wattala.
E. MANICKASINGAM, (Ret Katugastota), died peacefu Boston, U.S.A. Beloved husba of lindrajit, Kumudini, Ruban, Father-in-law of Sahadevan. Somerville, Mass 02145, U.S.A.
MUHANDIRAM, C. Muttu died recently in Trincomalee a leading figure in the District, a worker. He was employed by as Senior Executive Clerk an known as "Muttu' by Europea He was the father of the Co-op Trincomalee. He served as a C years. His involvement in movement took him to place
Kuala Lumpur, U.K. and China
for seminars. 96, Blandford
*Kent.
BALASUBRAMANIAM, P Kadduvan, fellippalai (of Eas and later Commercial Bank, Buvaneswary and father ( Balarama ni and Buvanendra 26.3.87 in the U.K. Cremat Crematorium. 39, Cavendish Surrey.
MAILAVAGANAM, A. W., University of Colombo). Pathmavathy and father of Na Park Avenue, Colombo-5.
RATNAVALE, Selvaratna navale, mother of Wadivale, S Jayarani, Kamalarani (Lo Pathmarani (London) and V. Valvettiturai.
HANDY, Kanmanie, Wife mother of Sirikanthie, Laxm Guildford Crescent, Colombo-7
JAYAKODY, Kandiah, Udupiddy. Husband of Puw Sivakumar, Thirukumar, Jay kumar (all of Australia), Sriska Logeswary (Bahrain) and S Castle Lane, Colombo-4.
SIVASUBRAMANIAM, (R Husband of Sivanthi, father C Mohanraj (Switzerland), Indr (Switzerland).51, Chetty Street
PANCHADCHARAM, C. Hı father of Dr. Devarani (New Dubai), Dr. Indirani, Selv Sivarani (Botswana), M Bambalapitiya.
RATNASIMNGHAM, Dr.
Kamaleswary, father of Shanth Sureshkumar and Dayananda Siripura. Thalawathugoda, Par
RAMANATHAN, K. V., (R Police). Husband of Siv Sathyabhama, Dr. Ramachan kumari, Chandralekha and Ga Scotland.48, Colombogam Roa
THURIAPPAH, C. J., husb father of Rajan (Dubai) and Muhandirams Road, Kollupitiy
 

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Railway), husband of Dr. Padmini (U.S.A.), .S.A.) and Sri Tharan
Main St., New Yorks
husband of late fram, Muthucumaru and Poologasingam.
ageswarie, father of thy (Riyadh), Sundrthy. 11:17, Delupitiya
td. PWD Overseer, illy 8th March '87 in nd of Bhavani, father Ranjit and Jamuna, 94, Mt. Vernon St.
Icumaru J.P., who tthe age of 82, was a social and religious the British admiralty d was affectionately nS and Asians alike. erative movement in W. E. Director for 14 the Co-operative is like Copenhagen, on delegations and Road, Beckenham,
'onnampalam, of
tern Bank, Colombo Jaffna). Husband of of Balendra (U.K.),
(Nigeria). Died on ed at Putney Wale Road, New Malden,
Malar Chinniah with Mary Barker attirne of ordination in 1983.
Rev. Malar Chinniah who died on April 13 was the first Ordained woman minister of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka. After teaching for several years at Wembadi she joined the Sisterhood of the Church serving first in Chenkaladi, later in Muthur, Jaffna and the Colombo City Mission. She leaves behind three sisters (two in Jaffna, One in Canada) and a brother in Sri Lanka. WM
3114A, Sea Avenue, Colombo 3.
$**
(Professor Emeritus.----
Husband of late ndakumar. 26, Police
am, Wife of Ratothivale, Gnanavale, ndon) Dr. Mrs.) asantharani. 00rani,
of Dr. G. R. Handy, an and George. 15
Former M.P, for aneswary, father of akumar, Sivapathandakumar, (London), amundeeswary. 32,
etd. RMLT - MRI) f Suresh, Prithiviraj, ajith and Yasothara
Lane, Nallur.
usband of Vijayadevi, ,
Zealand), Devaraja arajan (Botswana), 3, Govt. Flats,
K., Husband of ni (England) Jayanthi, kumar (England). 22,
nipitiya. etd. Senior Supdt. of agamy, father of diran, late Shanthanga Devi. Funeral in ld, Jaffna.
and of Chelvamany, Asseer (Saudi). 48, a, Colombo-3.
VELUPILLA Vamadeva, husband of Jeyasothy (neé Duraisingham) and father of Anusha, Jeyapalan and Geetha. Passed away on Sunday, 5th April at his residence, 86 Eswyn Road, London
SW 17.
Vamadeva was a son of the late A. Velupillai, Government Surveyor and Mrs. Velupillai of Puloly East, Point Pedro. He also leaves behind three brothers, Dr. V. Krishnarajah (Surgeon, Jaffna), Mr. V. Balendra (Manager, Cement Corporation, K.K.S.) & Mr. V. Rajendra (Inspector of Branches, Peoples Bank) and two sisters Mrs. P. Rajasekeram Pillai (Canada) and Mrs. P. Parameswaran (Brunei).
Mr. Vamadeva had his education at Hartley College where he was Head Prefect and in the University of Peradeniya, from where he graduated with Honours in Economics and was President of the Students Union. He has represented Sri Lanka as its Trade Commissioner in many capitals of the world, most recently in London.
Personal
S. % ܕ݁ܡܶܗ ܬ݁ Bishop Gnanapragasam
NEWS has just reached us that Archdeacon J. J. Gnanapragasam of Colombo has been appointed the 12th Bishop of Colombo. His consecration will take place on May 28 at which the Rt. Rev. John Bickersteth, Bishop of Bath and Wells, will represent the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Ven. Gnanapragasam was Archdeacon of Jaffna prior to his appointment to a similar position in Colombo in 1978. He had his early education at Trinity College, Kandy and read History at Bishop's College, Calcutta. He was Vicar of St. James Church, Nallur for sometime.
We wish the new Bishop, the first Tanil to hold this exalted office in the Anglican Church, every success in the difficult and challenging task he is assuming. He succeeds Bishop Swithin Fernando who is retiring from the bishopric on reaching his 65th birthday.

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Subadra Ambikapathi, Sujidra Ambikapathi, Anjali Balachanthiram, Logaprasanna Chandrakumar, Suijatha Guinasekaram, Venthan Jeyaratnam, Juliana Mary Kannen, Aathavan Loganayagan, Jeevan Manickawasagar, Vidya Manickawasagar, Anuja Manoharan, Tharany Naguleswaran, Vanathi Nithiananthan, Valli Nith thyananthan, Ang ayarkan ni Ramachandram, Arul Ramasamy, Bharathy Ramgopal, Giri Ramgopal, Shiamene Sangaralingam, Soruban Sarvananther, Chithra Satkunananthan, Malarmathi Sekaran, Sumathi Sekaran, Suganya Sivabalasingham, Parasakthy Suppiah, Shankar Vijayadeva, Sheila Vijayadeva, Habsa Zaffarullah.
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Dheepa Balasundaram, Asha Bose, Bruno Bose, Nila Jeyasingh, Senthooran Seeniwasan, Sumathi Seevaratnam, Abarna Sarma, Thanusha Sivakumaran, Arivudainambi Murugiyan, Rajan Paramasivam, Mitchelle Phillip, Sampath Pothiraju, Rathini Rajanayagam, Mangai Ramachandran, Atheetha Sivanandan, Dharshini Srinivasan, Uma Suppiah, Kavitha Thevarajah, Narash Vanniyasingham, Ganesh Veerappan.
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A Night to
THE LEAGUE O) University of Jaffna was both unique anc Shakespeare and h alapathy (former les performed together c High School, Wen dances, both Kuch Natyam before a audience of 400.
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""MEENDUM RAMAYANAM, ME EN DUM BHARATHAMoo
Kalai Kuzhu (U.K.), Cultural Group of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam presenteda very enjoyable programme at the Westminster Central Hall, London, SW1 on the 25th April.
The evening's proceedings began with a Bharatha Natyam Recital by Ambihai Seevaratnam, till recently a student at the Kalakshetra, Madras. Songs Sung during her performance were specially composed by the Tamil Poet, Kasianandan and the music by Sri Mathurai Sethuramanar.
The play was produced and directed by A. Tarcisius. Ravanan was ably portrayed by the corpulent S. Raj, and Seethai by the petite Thenuka Perinpanayagam. However, the most interesting and widely applauded performer item was Annaviyar, ably played by D. W. Palanivel. His characterisation of J. R. Jayawardene was absolutely brilliant.
Chess Champion, NI KUMARAN
is next Ove. of Dr. O. Kumaran maran of Littleton , clinched the World inship in Puerto Rico
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F FRIENDS of the put on a show which scintillating. Shenika ser Guru Venkatachturer at Kalakshetra) in the stage at Copland bley some exquisite ipudi and Bharatha very appreciative
lot only in hearing the watching the skilful in seeing the bridging Madras Institute and
West London Tamil (a took her first steps he performance was 2en Farqui most ably tifficulties in pronoun
words.
THEUNIVERSALTY OFMUSIC
and dance was enjoyably demonstrated recently (April 5th) at the Lola Jones Hall in Tooting
To a capacity audience, which
included the Mayor and Mayoress of Wandsworth Councillor Alf and Marie Jessiman and the Member of Parliament for Tooting, Mr. Tom Cox, the London Veena Music Group staged a grand variety entertainment.
The orchestra has many nationalities to emphasise peace and racial harmony which music expounds. ‘. .
The Mayor and the M.P. in short speeches, both commented on the very mixed performers and drew attention to the enthusiastic response of the audience of many nationalities.
The London Veena Orchestra led by ARUNTHATYSFRIKANTHA FAJAH. -
SURBITONTAMILSCLUB
: a Sports and Social Club staged a
cultural evening on 11th April to celebrate the Tamil New Year
Nearly 350 people were present and enjoyed the variety entertainment of a Veena Orchestra by students of Brindha Jeganathan, Bharatha Natyam by students of Subathra Sivadasan, singing by Renuka Kanagasabai, Drama and Kathakaladchepam by members of S.T.C.
The very first performance in this
country by Renuka Kanagasabai, a
talented vocalist and the drama by the young members of the club were well received by the audience as were the other performances by the experienced artistes.

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THE BULLY AN
THE Bully Boy tactics that the Sri Lankan Governme
adopting against the Tamils for the past 30 years, are being now, more forcefully than ever before. All the King's hor King's men are involved in the exercise.
On the 21st evening around 5pm the massive bomb that exploded in the heart of Colombo became straightaway linked to the Good Friday ambush in which service personnel returning to their barracks after their New Year vacation were said to have been the main casualties. However, the time and place chosen for an explosion of this nature could earn nothing but outright condemnation from all responsible quarters, whoever the perpetrators and however legitimate their cause or grievance. To plant a device of this nature at a place Calculated to harm none but innocent civilians is certainly an act of terrorism that no responsible liberation movement would like to associate itself with. How or why this bomb was planted no one seems certain. Less so the Sri Lankan authorities who despite the stringent security measures adopted within the precincts of Colombo, find themselves trotting out unconvincing explanations and guesses. But somehow the authorities had straightaway come to the conclusion that it was one or the other of the two liberation movements (since it is common knowledge that only two of them actively operate at present). Within hours of the blast the Service. Chiefs had been summoned and as the decision to impose a curfew was being made, it is clear from the sequence of events that the decision to wreak revenge on the Tamils and this time by the State itself had been taken the same night. Accordingly Jaffna, the heartland of the Sri Lankan Tamils, was being bombed from the early hours of the morning of the 22nd, even before they had learnt of the blast that rocked the City of Colombo.
The air strike on Jaffna is thus a premeditated act of revenge, sudden and cold-blooded against a defence
less population. The fu has been let oos economically strangl freedom of moveme way of life had been se by the continuing pre and army camps at doubt the Tamils of th have for some time no air attacks. Said to b Militants they invaria schools, hospitals, temples being indisc aged and destroyed. name of hunting terrorists'. Over 60 ments and nearly 20 employed in an exer could describe as S needle in a haystack Lankan infantry finds i at a terrorist and inva civilian instead, theird air becomes all the m able. But what beats the decision to spotth Pettah Bomb blast fro the Jaffna peninsula equally suspect, sho excluded from this anybody's guess. W Militants should have suspects and whether have been found neare JR in his profound p Canteil.
What infuriates however, is the intem to an uninvestigated d calamitous, a hot-hea ingly illogical decisi from the highest ech Lankan Government o and disaster to anothe ovvn countrymen, pure are Tamils or that the their dictates. Such b. perpetrated against t
The recent bus killings in Habarana and the Colombo bomb blast point an
accusing finger at the Sri Lankan Government.
Firstly, how can 40 to 50 fully-armed men disappear into thin air in an area full of security personnel and army camps. The Government-controlled media created mischief by giving the impression that only Sinhalese were killed but recent investigations reveal that at least 8 Tamil bus passengers also died in the incident.
Was it the work of a section of the security forces to enable the Government to cling to power?
Dirty Tricks Work of Sri Lankan Gove
Secondly, the speed v President of Sri Lanka a postponement of Genera appears very suspicious. point to a very large bom have been impossible foi to plant in an area full ( troops.
The same cynical Sri L and Government who manipulated the anti-Ta July 1983 are up to th again, to cling to powe democratic elections. Po\ seems to be their motive.
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crime against international law and indecent by any standard of humanitarian conduct. . . .
Ever since 1956 Sinhalese hoodiums were let loose on the Tamils in the Sinhala-dominated areas whenever they raised their voice in protest against discrimination or oppression. They were systematically looted, plundered and humiliated in 1956, 1958, 1966, 1971, 1978 and 1981.
Came July 1983 and the Tamils have said 'Enough is enough'.
Now the Sri Lankan Tam i community is fully aware the Sri Lankan State represents the Sinhalese and none else and has further assumed the ignominous role of acting the Goon, a stance even the more responsible men of honour in the majority community (and there are so many) will so quickly disown.
Bully boy antics are not the stuff that good governments are made of. Nor can they work against the steely determination of a community, however small, fighting for its very survival. But they do understand that the Sri Lankan Government does not have the moral calibre to represent them anymore. it has forfeited any right it might have had to determine the future of the Tamils in the island.
K.R.
ZIA GIVES $1 million in
arms to Lanka
PAKISTAN PLEDGED continued support for Colombo's efforts to 'maintain its independence and sovereignty' as visiting Sri Lankan prime minister Ranasinghe Premadesa concluded his talks in Islamabad.
A foreign office spokesman said defence equipment worth about one million dollars had been supplied to Sri Lanka. But he denied reports that about 300 Sri Lankan army personnel were undergoing short courses in counterinsurgency conducted by Pakistani instructors. Only some places had been set aside in Pakistani military institutes for Sri Lankans as for nationals of some other Countries, he said.
Premadesa told reporters before leaving for Lahore that his visit would go a long way in further strengthening the friendly relations and co-operation between the two countries.
At a dinner the previous night, Gen. Zia ul-Haq, expressed the hope that Sri Lanka would soon overcome her internal difficulties. The Sri Lankan prime minister expressed support for Pakistan's stand on the Afghanistan problem. He said Sri Lanka greatly valued Pakistan's friendship and attached "high importance to regional co-operation."