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INDIA
THE SEVENTE Hobbes, was right as he termed it. Li brutish*. This is é politics was derail Tamil grievances.
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The Peace Process
AND SRI LANKA
ENTH CENTURY English political philosopher, Thomas when he analysed pre-political society, “the state of nature” fe in “the state of nature”, Hobbes wrote, is “nasty, short and xactly as it happens in contemporary Tamil Society. Tamil 'd because of the failure of Sinhala political elites to recognise Tamil Society was forced into “the state of nature" especially ewardene's decision to ban Tamil political parties advocating state. His army and his mercenaries made life for the Tamils
ardene then proceeded to sign the Accord of 29 July with jiv Gandhi. The Tamils were not adequately consulted. Nor diate and compelling questions of employment and rticularly in education, properly addressed. In a word, the | in Tamil Eelam can be attributed to ... the hasty and illf the Gandhi-Jayewardene Pact.
are witness to the attempted cynical manipulation of Mr. nt Jayewardene for achieving the ends of the Sinhala Buddhist homelands are being encroached upon by the Sinhala State. are now involved in a war against our freedom fighters. The n killing Abel is being enacted day in day out by rivals among ups. This would not have happened but for President dain of the Tamil political system. The President did not seek a (instead Gandhi and Jayewardene decided between them what ther's political interests.
politics, a state's (for example, Pakistan) enemy's (India) comes the friend of the state concerned (Pakistan and China ir hostility to India). In the case of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka's being used against Sri Lanka's national enemy, the Eelam eed a triumph of diplomatic deceit. pause awhile, before our judgement. What has President : to fulfill his part of the Accord? Nothing. His Prime Minister f National Security have publicly declared their disapproval ir time. Tamil has not been made an official language. No ation on devolution of power has been presented for he interim President Jayewardene issues flattering certificates (inister Gandhi. This indeed is vintage political strategy by the South Asia. refore is not precipitous. Had President Jayewardene really ould have carried out what he promised. That way he might he prevailing fratricidal warfare and the inter-ethnic killings. rtain of who is killing whom. 2nd on reports based on hearsay and rumour. Who knows? dissatisfied Sinhala groups be stirring the witches' cauldron? ecome the hunting ground of R.A.W. analysts, Israeli kistani advisers? ger fair and impartial investigations of violent incidents. The ) have orderly government.
Chaos reigneth supremel
ither the Accord?
S FOLLOWED and moral support of India. Now, they he Tamils of Sri are fighting the more powerful Indian respite from the Peacekeeping Force - but cut away 2d. The Sinhala from any international source of been replaced by support.
The killings and How did this, come about? It is idle going on — even to ask the proverbial question: who ና fired the first shot? We believe the 'cord, the Tamil axiom that war is the continuation of
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looking backwards, we have reason to .
suspect that when the Indian troops came to Sri Lanka, they came not to keep the peace but to repress the Tamil militants - to complete the job left unfinished by the Sinhala government and army. That is why they were able to change so soon and so easily from pretending to be the Saviours of the Tamils to being their oppressors.
How does One explain such quick - change artistry? One can understand this apparent volte-face only in terms of the general objectives of Indian foreign policy. Ever since the British departed from India, the Indian big bourgeoisie has dreamt of stepping into the shoes of the British Raj. It aspired to be the dominant regional power of South Asia. It is in purs. ice of this policy that they brought under their hegemony the neighbouring states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim and that they broke up east Pakistan to create Bangladesh (although the latter has slipped out of its control).
India has had its eyes on Sri Lanka for a long time. J. R. Jayewardene, by failing to solve the Tamil problem internally by discussions with Tamil representatives, gave India the chance it was waiting for - to intervene first politically and, then. militarily.
If India had no m. , ry objectives. there was no reason to land an estimated 30,000 troops in Sri Lanka. Even the Sri Lankan armv did not number that nach. Armd. : , Crame with heavy armoured tanks. What for? They also set up small camin e in villages where there vere no Sala troops. Even then, their inte i II. ons were suspect. Now, it is clear an in the open.
, The Indian Army is a powerful
military force. To courageous decisi which they deserv their other short-c, the Indian govern now realise their wanton repression will set in course a they will not be ab resistance can in
future merge into
against the foreign What is compl are the atrocities, it innocents, the sh bombing from the committed by the S which it was conde
What now of people welcomed reason. That was killing of the Tar army. But that ess been violated by Jayewardene th implement the rest The fatal flaw of it was basically an two men, even th respective govern were not consulte Tamil militants, V They were faced v In such a situation that gathered mon have been avoided The Opposition not only from the the Sinhalese also main reasons - , northern and easte introduction of In Lanka. There was among the Sin government, i ant
Whatan Unnecessary Blood
AND FRIENDS WHO CAME to protect began to wag whom they intended to protect. Why? Our Tamil you politicised. A generation of our youth was lost fighting barbaric Sinhala army. , Those who gave up arms, as well as those who refusec weapons continued to persist in their militarised thinking. remained. The futility of engaging the Indian force was Today we are sad witnesses to Beirut - Street fighting in Ta: Gandhi's army has become President Jayewardene's cops or Peacekeepers maintain the peace. They do not do the diri of the oppressed. If attacked, that is hard on the peacekeep has a peacekeeping force become the instrument of the opp indeed is happening to the militant youth of Tamil Eelam. T national daily, the Toronto-based Globe and Mail in one of of 12 October titled India's Policemen, stated: . . . "India should loosen its grip on Sri Lankan affairs. . . . civil war should begin to look for less provocative ped purchase is gained when a peacekeeper becomes a party to th political and military interest in Sri Lanka brings it dang reality. " : iii t

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o take , it on was da on of the Tigers for e credit - whatever omings might be. If ment does not even folly and stop the of the Tamils, they train of events which le to control. Tamil the not too distant a national resistance Indian troops. etely unexplainable he wanton killing of elling of hospitals, air - all brutalities inhala army and for mned by India. the Accord? Most the Accord for One that it stopped the mils by the Sinhala ential condition has the Indians and 'reatens not to of the agreement.
the Accord was that agreement between ough heads of their ments. The people d. In particular the vere not consulted. vith a fait accompli. 1, the contradictions entum could hardly
to the Accord was Tamils. The bulk of opposed it for two the merger of the rn provinces and the dian troops into Sri s a rare conjunction thalese, of antii-Tamil and anti
y Messrs. e war against those th had not become the marauding and
i to surrender their The siege mentality not comprehended. mil Eelam. And Mr.
the beat. . .
y work for the rulers ing force. But never ressors. This is what hat is why Canada's its leading editorials
all participants in the cekeepers... ... Little 2 dispute, and India's 2rously close to that
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Indian sentiments which was seized by the extreme communal and anti-Tamil JVP to rouse chauvinism among the Sinhalese to unheard of heights and which resulted in wanton destruction of public and state property and
assassinations of government supporters in the South in the days following the Accord.
We are back to square one.
require much patience and delicate
diplomacy and much courage from the
Tamils before Sri Lanka can extricate itself from the present mess. ...,
OF OURSELVES
- THE TAMIL TIMES completes six years with this issue: six gruelling years of trials and tribulations not merely for the Tamil community but to all those genuinely and intimately concerned with its aspirations and its struggles. We have also had one added difficulty,
Despite our best endeavours we could seldom make ends meet, income from subscriptions, as all publishers of journals will testify, is hardly sufficient to keep a publication solvent. For the past two years it has been a struggle to keep the paper alive. We must however plod along until at least the Tamil nation , redeems itself. Meanwhile voluntary : effort will have to be our mainstay.
Among the few who ungrudgingly geared themselves for unpaid effort, and that for no less than five years now, was our Editor, P. Rajanayagam. He has since resigned. With him the paper found its format and its Content : gradually improved and elevated to : acceptable readership levels while the direction offered in his editorials did not ; : fail to win acclaim. It is going to be, difficult to replace him partly because journalism is one of the few professions the Tamil intelligentsia seems to have. shunned whether because there was no big money in it or from a desire to be aloof and away from Community and national involvement in order to live by and for ourselves. That is a pity.
Tamil Times came into being soon after the barbaric burning of the Jaffna Public Library by the Sri Lankan Security Personnel. The priceless treasures stored in that unique library were burnt to ashes, all 93,000 books and manuscripts.
Since then we have sadly faced many more wanton acts of destruction and death and we have recounted the tales as they reached us through various sources. When the Peace Accord was signed on July 29 we thought, as did the Tamil Information Centre, that our days of useful endeavour were numbered. The T.I.C. has irrevocably closed down its shutters here in London. - We will, however, soldier on but we need more money, more manpower, more news, more VieWS - in Short an active readerparticipation. . . . . .
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India Must Stop Re
by N. SANMUGATHASAN
THE KALEIDESCOPE OFSri Lankan history has been ch in the past few weeks, that it is difficult to keep a bal
of view, even from a distance.
The Peace Accord
First came the Peace Accord at the end of July when President Jayewardene reversed himself on several important positions which he had hitherto held. The man who was one of three State Councillors who opposed S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike's resolution, in the second State Council in 1944, English as the official language by both
Sinhala and Tamil and instead demanded Sinhala Only; the man who had led the
March to Kandy in opposition to the
Bandaranaike — Chelvanayagann Pact and was instrumental in getting it abrogated, now signed an agreement to make Tamil
and English as official languages along with Sinhala.
The man who was dead opposed to the merger of the Northern and Eastern
Provinces now signs an agreement for their merger, even though subject to a referendum in 1988.
Peacekeepers become Oppressors
But the most spectacular development
was the reversal of the role of the Indian,
Peacekeeping Force which had been greeted by the Tamils with garlands, hugs
and kisses as saviours of the Tamils from Sinhala brutality and their changing into
oppressors - even more brutal than the Sinhala army. ... . .
It is difficult to find a reason for this base treachery. One can come to terms with an enemy. But it is difficult to deal with a friend who has become an enemy. After all India had pretended to be a supporter of the Tamil cause. It had allowed the Tamil militants to virtually use Tamil Nadu as their base. It had trained and armed them. Now, it has turned its guns against the very people who had looked upon it as a saviour.
The Political Game of Rajiv & JR
The explanation for this Indian action, apart from the aim of bringing Sri Lanka under its control, lies in the fact that the interests of Rajiv Gandhi, no less than those of J. R. Jayewardene, demand that the revolution - any movement of the Tamils - be not allowed to succeedlest it set a 'bad' example. That is also the reason why the Super-Powers rushed in to support the Accord. All reactionary forces are eager to douse the flames of revolution lest the "injection'spread to other countries in the region. V−
That, initially, India had supported the Tamil cause is undoubted and cannot be denied. But it would seen that it gave support to the Tamil militants with the aim of controlling and manipulating them against the Sri Lankan government.
calling for the replacement of
Unfortunately for the did not prove pliable had to be suppressed
That innocent Tam were going to suffer d entered the calculati India's image in besmirched. From supporter of liberatic transformed itself into Tamil national move fighting on foreign so in one of its important The Tahnil militan absolved of all blame situation. Quite apart whether better tactics ( Indian military intervi of putting all their eg relying too heavily on bound to lead to disast Here is an impor liberation movement must not place exclusi sources of support. Th faith in self-reliance. slowly over a long pe. into a big force wi Because, if for any support is withdrawn. fall flat on its face. depended on self-rel unshakable.
The blame for the p also be shared by the movement in Sri Lan, the left movement b international princip championed and fel parliaтепtary oppor alienated themselves f has been responsible f mess we are in.
Democracy unsuited multi-racial society
In a multi-racial, mu parliamentary democ If they want to com, parliament, all parliar seek to woo the maj minority. They suppa but what would bring majority support. Tha say that the Donou which gave us aa territorial presentatior the seeds of communal The extent of the de movement can be seen bombing of Jaffna discernible protest in Anthony Eden gove Suez Canal in 1956, Party organised hug London. When Israel

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pression of Tamils
nanging so fast anced point
m, the Tamil Tigers instruments. So they
ils caught in between oes not seem to have ons of the Indians. the world stands pretending to be a in movements it has an oppressor of the ment. Its troops are il and killing people States. t groups cannot be for precipitating this from the question of ould have prevented ention, their strategy gs in one basket, of Indian support, was rous results. tant lesson that all must learn. They pe reliance on foreign 'ey should have more it is better to develop riod than be inflated th foreign support. reason the foreign , the movement will Whereas, if it had iance, it would be
resent situation must progressive and left ka. It is the fact that etrayed the correct les, it had once I into the mire of unism and thereby rom the Tamils that or a good part of the
for a
tlti-linguistic society, acy does not work. 2 to power through nentary parties must ority and ignore the rt not what is right them to power with is why it is correct to thmore constitution ult franchise and contained within it dissension. : generation of the left from the fact that the brought forth no the south. When the ninent bombed the the British Labour
demonstrations in
invaded Lebanon in
. SANMUGATHASAN has been a prominent Trade Union leader in Sri Lanka for the past 40 years,
1982, there were demonstrations against it in Jerusalem. But, when the Sinhala air force bombed Jaffna, there was not even a whimper of a protest from the left parties in the south.
The left movement - except for small groups - failed to take up a principled, internationalist stand on the Tamil problem because it did not want to alienate itself from the Sinhala majority. The result was that it could not fight back the Communalism unleashed not only by the government but also by the SLFP and the JVP. It was this tragedy (to which the bourgeois leadership of the Tamils also contributed by their refusal to see the Sinhala left as an ally) that pushed the Tamils to look for allies and friends abroad in India, rather than draw closer to their natural allies in the left movement. It was tragic for both sides.
Unity of Progressive forces essential
Where do we go from here? I believe that the future lies in the unity of the progressive and revolutionary forces among both the Sinhalese and the Tamils. It is true that, at the moment, the signs are not propitious and the Tamils have a right to despair of any such hope. But, we must have faith and work perseveringly for such a unity.
Such unity must be built on the basis of the recognition of the right of self. determination of the Tamils. But, how the right of self-determination is to be exercised and in what form is a matter that can be discussed. The acceptance of the right of self-determination for the Tamils does not necessarily mean that they must separate. Lenin once said that the right of divorce does not mean that all married couples must divorce. It depended on the circumstances.
Solution to Ethnic Problem
In the interests of the future Uuilding of socialism in Sri Lanka for which the unity of the revolutionary forces of the Sinhalese and the Tamils is an absolute pre-requisite, we have a right to ask the Tamil people to
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A SENSE OF BETR
This was more a condemnation of the Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) than any praise for the Sri Lankan army. There was unanimity on this point among the people we met at two houses in Wellawatte, Colombo. They had all fled what to them appeared to be indiscriminate violence in Jaffna on the part of the IPKF.
So the ordinary Tamil people of Sri Lanka are again at the receiving end of violence as they have been a number of times during the last three decades, although the perpetrators are different
OW.
A teenage girl was relating how she and her family escaped from Jaffna after having had to be without food or even water where they had taken refuge. There was a child of four or five years who had not yet realised that his mother and father, both victims of IPKF violence, were no more. A middle-aged woman looked with a start when she was told that someone had come into the house. There was also a man who appeared to be an office worker who said that he did not know whether his wife and children were dead oralive, or where they were.
I also happened to see some video films made from October 13 to 18 brought by a journalist friend. I had no reason to doubt their authenticity. I could not think that the civilians who lay dead had all been caught in the crossfire. Some had been hacked to death. There were some other photographs which showed a number of people including young children who had been bayoneted to death,
Two or three days before the IPKF operation in Jaffna there was a bus load of Sinhala refugees who had fled Trincomalee and had Corne to a Newspaper Office in Colombo. Slogans
“The Sri Lankan army was very much
against the IPKF Jayevvardene ar Minister Gandhi v. the bus. Some ( Weeping. They saic the LTTE to attack wondered whethe mistake. But what corroborated by ot metata temple in C people I spoke Trincomalee for 40. no other home.
Perhaps the LTT for its caprice in v the Indo-Sri Lankar accepted though re Mvanton killings. Bu the ordinary peopl Sins?
The Tamils of S been Indophiles. F no exception. He heroes were, revolutionaries, bu two warriors W. Mahabharatha.
The Tamils alway inspiration and su were their woes t incident on Octobe indira Gandhi was shoe factory at Det where about half Tamils, when the Carne Over the rá workers stood up spontaneously. This affection that the Ol of Sri Lanka had for
Now they feel
been b
Colombo October 21, 1987
THE PERSECUTION OF
THE TAMILS
THEAPPEAL COURT RULING last Week that decided that Home Secretary Douglas Hurd was wrong in rejecting the claim for asylum on the part of six Tamil refugees is a welcome victory for democratic rights. Although the government will appeal to the House of Lords, and if it loses there it will no doubt Change the rules of the game once again, campaigning organisations have at least managed to secure vital time.
The tragic events in Sri Lanka demonstrate more conclusively than ever before that the Tamil people on the island do indeed have a "well-founded fear of persecution". The force that was supposed to protect the Tamil people has now become the instrument of an oppression that can only be described as a pogrom, MWhilst the lindian authorities den y the numerous reports of atrocities their action in excluding all journalists from the zone of conflict effectively belies their hollow denials.
As Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), pointed out in his urgent message to Indian
Prime Minister Rai tragedy" that the Force is "now enga his people who are Worst human tragé never experienced Lankan soldiers atrocities’.
According to Pral included the rapir hurling of mutila streets. The wester dismiss such clain sources have told scarcely less horri; entire family allege troops as they le commandeered
Certainly when ti from the air and th armoured personn the ground in a hea difficult to see h casualties can be av As heavy fighting can see the hollow, that they could defe in 72 hours. Like reactionary exploi,

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against President d against Prime ere painted all over f the people were the IPKF was helping he Sinhala villagers. I they were making a they said was fully er Sinhala refugees f Olombo, Some of the to had been in 50 years. Some knew
in Jaffna is paying olating the terms of Accord which it had 'luctantly, and for its 't must the civilians, 2, pay for the LTTE's
i Lanka had always rabhakaran too was had once said his not any modern t Bhirma and Karna, ho figure in the
's looked to India for pport. India's woes oo. Il remember an r 31, 1984, the day gunned down. In a natagoda, Colombo, the workers were news of the crime
adio, all the Tamil ) immediately and was symbolic of the
dinary Tamil people 'n dia and its leaders.
that they have etrayed.
D. S. S. Mayadunne
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A TRAP IT WAS,
WE HAD CALLED IT "A Trap", the Iñido- | Sri Lankan Accord, on our front page soon after it was signed at Colombo. It now appears worse than a "trap" - it smells like a conspiracy. And instead of extricating ourselves from the humiliating and dangerous situation, we are getting deeper into the mire.
Before he left for Colombo to sign the Accord reports had appeared in a section of the press of Rajiv Gandhi telling Tamil Nadu MPs that the agreement was so favourable to lndia that it might "result in Sri Lanka being transformed into another Bhutan." It looks like turning into another Vietnam, and the tragedy is that in this war of attrition indians are killing Indians.
Our jawans are no more a peacekeeping force. They seem to be fighting a war and our Prime Minister does not rule out a "more aggressive role" for Indian troops. How far the Indian army can go in its mission, he adds in an interview to Newsweek, "will have to be decided in consultation with President Jayewardene," who is protected by security guards sent from India. The wily President will be the last man to ask the Indian forces to Mvithdraw. V−
in these two months since the return of Rajiv Gandhi from Colombo, after a miraculous escape at the airport, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong. We are in a mess. Tamils in Sri Lanka have rejected the Accord and Sinhalas are up in arms against India. It was the gravest mistake to have sent our troops to a foreign land, and that, too, to put down a people who ethnically belong to us,
Yet, the situation has to be saved. Jayewardene has to be saved. The Accord, good or bad, has to be saved. India's reputation as a peace-loving country and a respecter of its neighbours' sovereignty has to be saved. 'Current' (New Delhi), 10 October
v Gandhi it is a "great
Indian Peacekeeping Jed in total war“ against now facing "some of the dies, on a scale (they) 2ven at the hands of Sri at the peak of their
hakaran such atrocities g of women and the ed bodies along the in media has sought to is but even their own hem of acts which are ic, such as that of the dly shot dead by Indian ft a house they had
ere are bombing raids use of heavy artillery, 'I carriers and tanks on vily populated area it is }w numerous civilian pided. Κ
continues to rage one ess of the Indian boast at the liberation fighters all the armies of the ing classes in history
they failed to recognise the capacity for determination, innovativeness and sheer heroism that exists in a genuine people's army. The longer the present fighting continues in Sri Lanka the more indelibly will India's banner of anti-imperialism and non-alignment be stained. نئی ح۔
Asian Times', October 23, 1987
Lanka Accord a 'failure': Vajpayee BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY leader Ata Behari Vajpayee on Saturday said the IndoSri Lankan Peace Accord was a "failure".
Vajpayee told journalists in Ahmedabad that the involvement of the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Curbing insurgency among militant Tamils in Sri Lanka could help the Sri Lankan government in doing what they could & not accomplish, but might create serious problems back home. The people of Tamil Nadu were not happy about India's role in Sri Lanka and this discontent could surface any time, he feared.
The Accord should have been signed between Sri Lanka and the Tamil groups
without India being a party to it, he declared.

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Destruction of Ethnic Alignments
By Barbara Crossette THE ONCE-SOLID FRONT among the Sinhalese majority inside and outside government is crumbling as dissension has grown over the invitation of Indian forces
into the country.
In the last few years, when Tamils died in Jaffna at the hands of Sri Lankan troops, especially in cases involving civilians, there was outrage in Madras and New Delhi. When Tamil rebels arrived for talks with Sri Lankans in foreign cities,
escorted by Indians.
Today, Indian troops are killing Tamils in Jaffna, some reportedly civilians, and the strongest of the Tamil armies, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, has turned its guns and propaganda on the
lndians.
A high government official said some Tamil militants who had fallen out with the Tigers were hiding in Hindu temples in the largely Sinhalese city of Colombo, where they feel safer than in the north.
International Herald Tribune,
October 15, 1987.
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NDANS MOP UP
By Balram Tandon with the 54th Indian Division
YESTERDAY'S BIG BATTLEFIELD was the area around the university and the north of Jaffna which the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the main guerrilla group, still control despite losing their major bastion between the general hospital and the busterminal.
Heavy casualties
The Indian peacekeeping force suffered heavy casualties in this assault, losing 12 officers, nine junior officers and 132 other ranks. "But the LTTE's Casualties have been much heavier, "said Brig. Singh. Nearly 500 Indian soldiers have been wounded in the battles in the peninsula and town of Jaffna, and neither Brig. Singh nor any other ranking officer here is willing to say how long it will go on.
No water, littlefood
Meanwhile, life in Jaffna is horrendous, the electricity to the town has been cut for more than 10 days, there is no water and little food. There is no traffic on the roads, but there are booby-trapped roadblocks.
There are no postal or telegraph services and all shops have been shut since the battle began 14 days ago,
However, peace has returned for the time being to the peninsula spiralling south of Jaffna. There are now no visible signs of fighting at Vadamarachi, Valvettiturai and
the other towns.
But I flew over miles of deserted roads and farms on the flat, fertile, often marshy plain, criss-crossed by lagoons, without seeing any signs of human activity. Not one boat was plying the hundreds of square
miles of lagoons.
The Daily Telegraph, October 2
NDANS F, RESIS"
by Davi
THE INDIAN ARMY centre of Jaffna yes having difficulty, wipi of Tamil Tiger resistan The streets just ou Fort, which has serv Dutch, British, Sri La stronghold, are dese Crows, Stray dogs - Indian platoon.
The Post Office is pocketed by bullet hol will be showing no Hit time. The hands on t foreverait 6.35. A corne unknown worthy has h ln the general hos was open for journalis Women lay With vario have come from eithe The face of one gir, completely off. Anothe dying while her mo breeze with a white fan About 2,000 refugee and around the Roman
Fear of troops
They had little food, were afraid of the Ind ordered them there. O, in his 99-year old mothe The Daily Tele
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their opponents as rated guerrillas who ade mines, highis and hit-and-run ndian troops at bay. Indian troops into 2ctedly high Indian my to replace its Indian Army said soldiers had been unded and 38 were
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tional Herald Tribune, October 26, 1987
OCTOBER 1987.
India must stop Repression
continued from page 4 exercise the right of self-determination not in the form of a separate state but in the form of a federal state or full regional autonomy for the Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern Provinces. By regional autonomy is meant full powers for the regional unit over all subjects, except such central subjects as Defence, Finance, External Affairs, etc. It must include power over internal security i.e. the police, land and land settlement, i.e. colonisation.
While on the matter of a solution I must point out that a solution must be found to the vexed problem of colonisation. Colonisation is intimately connected to the question of nationhood. Without territory no people can develop as a nation. The claim of the Tamils to be a nation depends on the fact that they have occupied a contiguous territory in the North and East of Sri Lanka for a long period of time, cut them off from this territory and they will cease to be a nation.
That is why, starting with D. S. Senanayake, all Sinhala leaders have tried through state-aided colonisation schemes to colonise the Tamil areas with Sinhalese peasants. The diabolical aim was to convert a Tamil majority province into a Sinhala majority province by altering the ethnic ratio. That is how the proportion of Sinhalese living in the Eastern Province rose from only 8% at the end of the second world war to its position of about 25%.
The Tamil problem cannot be resolved without solving the problem of land and colonisation. Unfortunately, the Accord does not mention a word about this subject. The result was that the Jayewardene government hastened to take steps to intensify colonisation of the Eastern Province with Sinhalese peasants so that it could get is a favourable result in the referendum next year which is to decide whether the merger was to continue or not. Equally, some sections of the Tamil militants tried to frighten the Sinhalese into leaving the Eastern Province. It was a fight for land.
The Tamils have no objection to individual Sinhalese buying land in Tamil areas and living there peacefully. What they object to is state-aided colonisation schemes under which large numbers of Sinhalese are transported to Tamil areas and settled as colonists. Unless this problem is solved, there cannot be any settlement of the Tamil problem.
The Tamil militants have courageously resisted the Sinhala armed forces for nearly four years. Now they are faced with a more powerful and a more brutal enemy. I applaud their courage in taking on such a powerful enemy. But they will need more than courage. They must follow correct tactics. They must win the sympathy of the world by desisting from unnecessary violence, particularly against innocent people - be they Sinhalese or Tamils. They must so behave that the world will demand that the Indian troops should stop repressing the Tamils.

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COLONISATION:
by MA
COLONSATION IS AVEXED PROBLEM in the whole ethnic issue in Sri Lanka, though the tendency is to place it last in the list of discriminatory measures of successive governments Government-planned and implemented colonisation brings with it all the attendant dangers, the worst being physica insecurity. Although colonisation of the North and Eas began before independence, it has been accelerated by wilful planning since independence, causing great concerr to the Tamill-speaking people. Batticaloa, Trincoma lee anc Vavuniya areas had been particularly selected by the planners and colonisation schemes implemented withou any regard for economic viability. The 1966 Mission of the international Labour Organisation stated that "a long series of reports has questioned the economic viability of majo colonisation schemes and post-1974 work on Mahawel Ganga promises low rates of return." (ILO: Matching Employment Opportunites and Expectations, 1971).
Sole Aim of Colonisation
The intention of the governments has been mainly to occupy Tamil areas and to bring about demographic changes in these areas, Consequently achieving alteration ir the ethnic composition for the electoral advantage o' Sinhalese and reducing the Tamil-speaking people to a minority in their own areas. This is no speculation. The alteration in the ethnic composition has been so thoroughly achieved from the 1950's, it has been possible foi governments to create exclusive Sinhalese zones within the Tamil areas which drastically affect the franchise anc security of the Tamils.
in 1953, the population of the Sinhalese in the Batticaloa District was 11.5%. After the creation of the Amparai distric in 1963 by continued colonisation, this district had 29.3% o' Sinhalese, while Batticaloa district had 3.4%. By 1981 the population of the Sinhalese in the Amparai district hac increased to 38%, while the Tamil population decreased to 19.8% in 1981 from 23.8% in 1963. In the Northern and Eastern provinces, between the years 1921 and 1981 the Sinha lese population shot up from 2.2% to 13.2%. Betweer these two years the Sinhalese population rose from 4.5% to 24.9% in the Eastern province. In Mannar district the increase Was from 2.1% in 1921 to 8.1% in 1981, in the Trincomalee district, which continues to be the cynosure of all eyes, the Sinhalese population rose from 18.2% in 1953 to 33.6% ir 1981. In the Vavuniya district the increase was from 6.7% ir 1953 to 19.4% in 1981.
These changes have enabled the governments to carve out Amparai from the Batticaloa district as a separate administrative and electoral district to benefit the Sinhalese people. The last Delimitation Commission changed the Tamil name of Amparai to Digamadulla (Sinhalese) Similarly the Seruwila electorate was carved out of the Trincomalee district. These measures increased the Sinhalese representation in parliament to 80% although they are only 72% of the population. The Seruwila anc Amparai electorates cover an area of 1,548 square miles out of the total of 3,839 square miles of the Eastern province Thus successive governments ensured the occupation of a substantial portion of the traditional Tamil areas.
Statistics of Demographic Content
The Increase in population of the Sinhalese in the Tami provinces has no relation to the normal expected annua growth rate in population or migration. The above table shows the annual rate of population growth.
The Tamils have been Continuously agitating agains state-planned colonisation of their traditional areas. The Bandaranai ke-Chelvanayakam Agreement (26.7, 1951, provided that "the powers of the regional councils woulc include the power to select allottees to whom lands withir their area of authority would be alienated" and the ther

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Tamils Muslims Sinha ese Others Total
Trinconalee 2.47% 1.92% 4.55% 2.99% 、295% Batticaloa 2.69% 2.53% 1.28% 2.52% Amparai 2.23% 2.59% 5.58% 2.90% 361%
This table clearly indicates that there is some other factor which causes the unnatural growth of the Sinhalese in the Tamil areas. That factor is certainly colonisation.
The following table shows the increase in population in the Eastern province from 1921 to 1981:
POPULATION - EASTERN PROVINCE
ALRACES SINHAESE TAMLS MOORS 9,
192821 8,744 4.5 103251 53.5 75992 394279 112 23456 8.4 146059 523 109024 39.1 35440 46470 13.1 167898 473 135322 - 33 lo
54.6130 109690 20.1 246 120 45., 1 185750 340 717571 48572 20.7 315560 43.9 248567 34.6
976475 243358 24.9 4O9451 41.9 3152O1 322
Prime Minister. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in a statement issued immediately thereafter (16.8. 1957) said that "the instrument of Colonisation should not be used to convert the Northern and Eastern Provinces into Sinhalese majority
areas or in any other manner to the detriment of the Tamil
speaking people of these areas".
Mr. Bandaranaike, otherwise myopic, had the foresight to use the term 'instrument of colonisation'. Indeed, Colonisation has not only been used as an instrument to displace and deprive the Tamils of their lands and franchise, but has also been used to perpetrate violence against Tamils in colonised areas.
The Senanayake-Chelvanayakam Pact (24.3.1965) too included colonisation in its terms and provided that, "land in the Northern and Eastern provinces should be in the first instance granted to landless persons in the district, secondly to famil speaking persons resident in the Northern and Eastern provinces and thirdly to other citizens of Sri Lanka, preferences being given to Tamil citizens in the rest of the Country." As is well known these two agreements were unilaterally shelved by the governments to appease the Sinhalese people and the Buddhist clergy.
The 1977 election Manifesto of the ruling United National Party included, among others, 'colonisation' as being an important grievance of the Tamil-speaking people and acknowledged that the "lack of solution to their problems has made the Tamil-speaking people support even a movement for the Creation of a separate state'. After gaining power, it is not unusual for a government to forget what it included in the Manifesto. But it is beyond explanation that the government continues colonisation despite accepting that the Tamils had taken a justifiable step, and realising that such continuation. would bring the country to chaos. Colonisation has been given impetus with renewed vigour during the tenure of the present government in the face of warnings by human rights organisations such as the International Commission of Jurists.
Violence on Tamils in Colonised Areas
Violence in the colonised areas has been severe. In the 1956 violence the area most affected was the Gal Oya valley in the Eastern province where a colonisation scheme was being implemented (Emergency '58 - Tarzie Vittachi). In 1958 too, Colonised areas such as Padaviya were badly affected and many Tamils were killed and their property was, destroyed (Vittachi). In the 1977 and 1983 violences colonists. rampaged through the Tamil areas killing and burning with the assistance of the security forces.
In Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Mannar there has been extensive colonisation and even Tamil names of places have continued overleaf

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Accord Concc
BY RAJINDER PURI
AFTER INDIA HADSIGNED the Accord with Sri Lanka, Prime described it as the most important agreement of the c, sceptical about that description. Now, however, l have Because everybody I have met is praising Rajiv Gandhi's poli what people are saying:
Soviet diplomat: “We believe that Rajiv Sri Lankan diplc Gandhi's policy in Sri Lanka is simply eternally grateful wonderful. We believe that in the years to bailing President J. come it will prove to be the greatest boon had become an to the Soviet Union because it will make Thank God, the us look good in Afghanistan..." have stopped ab
American diplomat: “I think that what President. They is happening in Sri Lanka right now is Indian prime minis absolutely great. It is indeed a great morale booster for the American people, who had earlier believed that American leaders were the only ones who were dumb enough to make a mistake like Vietnam..." *
Sinhalese soldier: “The new arrangement is a great relief to us. Earlier, we had to shoot only the Tamils, but now we can shoot both the Tamils and the Indian troops and, better still, watch as they also shoot at each other..."
Tamil militant: “We are much better off than we were before, thanks to the Sikh militant: “ Accord. Earlier, we were shot by the Kf ni Այո: brutal Sinhalese soldiers, now we are shot Lankan Accord! N
by the considerate Indian soldiers..." ់ སthd NA Chinese diplomat: “We welcome the R leader: “LC
Indo-Sri Lankan Accord aS the Start of is the first st ep towa great new chapter in the affairs of Asia. ; : DMK leader: 'I We are therefore watching keenly the is the first Ste developments in Sri Lanka, and when the Bravidastan s time is ripe we will certainly make our own Eiler. contribution to the movement that has it is the first s been started by Rajiv Gandhi-by striving Eela for a similar Accord in Arunachal..." Congress(I) le Pakistani diplomat: “Rajiv Gandhi has Lankan Accord w shown the way by his policy in Sri Lanka. good work. Alre As soon as President Zia-ul-Haq feels visible-people h strong enough, We hope he will follow about the mess on Rajiv Gandhi's footsteps by acting in of the mess in Sri L Kashmir and Punjab..." Bycourtesy of IND,
COLONISATION
continued from page 7 been changed to Sinhalese. Lands developed by Tamils were taken over and given to the Sinhalese and the administrative structure of the area changed to facilitate colonisation. Exconvicts in the guise of their rehabilitation were settled in farms built and developed by Tamils and army protection was afforded to the Sinhalese colonists. The ex-convicts had repeatedly harassed Tamils in the area by robbery, assault and even rape.
In Trincomalee the government machinery has extensively assisted colonisation even after repeated protests from the Member of Parliament for the area. In land alienation, the Sinhalese allottees far exceeded the Tamilspeaking allottees although Trincomalee is a Tamil majority area. The Tamils in this area have been subjected to brutal violence by the security forces assisted by the colonists, Whole villages have been burnt and hundreds of Tamils irrespective of age or sex have been slaughtered. Similar violence has been perpetrated by colonists and the security forces in the Batticaloa area and the Tamils in the Ampara district bore the brunt of the violence. The government let loose the Special Task Force on civilians and hundreds have
 

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Attempt on TULF Presidents' Life
AHAND-GRENADE, hidden in a parcel and wired to detonate all but blew up in the face of a postal employee at the Returned Letter Office on Anna Salai this aftermoon.
The grenade which had Pakistani markings was setto explode once the parcel was opened.
According to postal sources, the registered parcel was booked in Kanchipuram and was addressed to Mr. M. Sivasithamparan, president of the Tamil United Liberation Front of Sri Lanka living in Royapettah. But it found its way to the Returned Letter Office after the addressee refused to accept the parcel. The sender's name and address were
foundto be ficticious.
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Moscow sees American hand in
India's involvement in Sri Lanka
THE SOVIET UNION is understood to have indicated to New Delhi that it was very unhappy over the manner in which india has been embroiled in the Sri Lankan tangle.
According to the Soviets, New Delhi acted in
haste while signing the Accord and at the urging of
the United States, whose advice has historically been unreliable for the Indians. It now appears that Moscow had asked Delhi to be cautious in its approach even though it officially Welcomed the lindo-lankan Accord.
It seems that Rajiv Gandhi agreed to sign the Indo-Lankan Accord not at the suggestion of
President Jayewardene but due to considerable
pressure from the United States. He was apparently told by Washington that a coup was imminent in Sri Lanka and those aspiring for power were determined to apply the "final solution" to the Tamil problem in the island which really meant extermination of the Tamils.
Washington is also believed to have told New Delhi that the Indian presence on the island was the best way of safeguarding indian interests there. in this context a decisive say for New Delhi on the port of Trincomalee - which has been a source of anxiety for quite some time - was dangled as the
A TODA Y October 3 1 1987 || bait "Lanka Guardian, 15 October, 1987
been murdered in classic Nazi style. In these areas the Sinhalese colonists have been given protection by the security forces.
In several proposals submitted at the All Party Conference (1984), the Political Parties Conference (1986) and other forums, the persistent feature which causes apprehension to the Tamil-speaking people is the reserved power of the Central government over the control and distribution of land.
The Accord-Colonisation Ignored s:
The Indo-Sri Lankan Accord makes no mention of this important problem and the Sri Lankan government has grabbed at the opportunity by transporting new colonists into the Eastern Province since the ceasefire in July 1987 and India has taken no steps to prevent such colonisation. This is the main reason which has precipitated the current offensive against the Tamil militants in which hundreds of Tamil civilians have been killed.
it appears that the Indian government has failed to realise, in spite of being involved in the negotiating process for the past four years, that colonisation is the crux of the entire ethnic problem. No sooner India realises the importance of colonisation, than it would be possible to bring about peace in Sri Lanka. Otherwise, there is no doubt that the present impasse will continue.

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OCTOBER 1987
DISTURBING EVIDENC
THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION now available with the Government of India makes it clear that Mr. Lalith Athulath mudali, the Sri Lankan Minister of National Security who returned only recently to his post, was the moving spirit behind the completely unexpected arrest of the 17 LTTE men and the decision to bring them to Colombo for “interrogation.” It was Mr. Athulathmudali who remained adamant on this matter and turned down the persistent attempts by the leadership of the Indian Peacekeeping Force and by the High Commission in Colombo to get the LTTE men released.
Tragic consequences
The strong recommendation made by Indian military professionals as well as diplomats was overruled, with tragic and horrifying consequences for the peace process. The failure of the Indian attempt to prevent the LTTE members, including the Jaffna regional commander, Mr. Kumarappa and the Trincomalee regional commander, Mr. Pulendran, from being taken to Colombo triggered a sharp deterioration in the overall situation. The taking of cyanide by the LTTE men, and news about the torture they had been
subjected to by th force personnel, we of vicious "reveng Sinhala soldiers a Sinhala civilians, children, by the Province. Had th taken place, the vie of considerable sy and anger against Sri Lankan Goverr, deterioration.
Evidence of bac
The strong su Athuilathmudali, w role in the earli campaign by the Sr and was known to the Sri Lankan pea his own game circumstances. Thi evidence of backsl instance, in the de ѕирposed to be reа be watched closely
Apart from Mr Prime Minister, M some other senio Lankan Cabinet at
Sri Lanka.
famils use twigs to keep flies off the bodies of Tamil Tigers who swallowed cyanide
TAMILS WIN APPEAL AGAINST DEPORTATION
HE BRITISH GOVERNMENT acted swiftly last week to avoid what it fears will be a "refugee flood" by appealing to the House of Lords against a
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A previous group of Tamil Refugees in Wimbledon where. they were looked after by the local community.
resounding defeat in the case of six Tamils despite their victo supporting the Tamil immigration law if th the court decision ist The Appeal Court that the six Tamils co rejudged.
Master of the Roll that Home Secretary law" by applying tht deportations. The "misinterpreted" th fear" to mean the ap establish not only th also that these fears' Sir John Richards prove a "genuine fe fear" of persecution
 
 
 
 
 

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Sri Lankan security e followed by the spate
killings" of captured d a larger number of ncluding women and TTE in the Eastern se savage killings not here would have been pathy for the LTTE he elements within the
ment who triggered this
sliding picion is that Mr.
ho played a notorious r anti-Tamil military Lankan security forces be strongly opposed to ce agreement is playing under the new , combined with other ding in Colombo-for olution package that is dy for gazetting-must by India, it is clear.
Athulathmudali, the r. R. Premadasa, and members of the Sri e known to be opposed
capsules after their arrest in
an Appeal Court Concerning seeking political asylum. And , British refugee groups fear a further tightening of Home Office appeal against rned down. n Monday, October 12 ruled ld stay until their cases were
Sir John Richardson, ruled Douglas Hurd had "erred in wrong legal test to attempt Home Secretary had expression "well-founded icant for refugee status must the feared persecution, but ere objectively justified.
said the Tamils had only to r" and not a "well-founded be accepted as a refugee.
Asian Times", 0ctober 23, 1987
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to the Indo-Sri Lankan peace agreement. Mr. Athulathmudali returned to his duties recently, after an extended period of treatment for very serious injuries caused by the bomb explosion in the parliament building in Colombo. There is believed to be sympathy for Mr. Athulathmudali among the Sinhalese and the impression here is that the Sri Lankan President, Mr. J. R. Jayewardene, feels he owes a "debt of honour" to the man who directed the earlier war and found his own role under the changed circumstances fading.
Sponsoring of hoodlums
The information available to the Government of India also shows that the recent communal clashes in Trincomalee began with targeted attacks against innocent Tamils by Sinhala hoodlums who were issued weapons from within the Sri Lankan police force, and then there was fierce "retaliation". One agent provocateur captured by the IPKF was a Sinhala detenue released recently from the Boosa army camp. His presence in Trincomalee and his involvement in the communal incidents could not be explained in any way other than by the simple fact that he was sponsored by some elements within the Sri Lankan official set-up. In addition, the attacks on the IPKF in the Sinhala areas suggested to professionals the hand of subversive and well-connected elements.
Deeper political game? .
One interpretation here is that there is a deeper game, being guided by some political elements in Colombo, to drive a wedge between the Eastern and Northern provinces so that the merger promised does not take place. This would involve a more substantive role for the Sri Lankan security forces in the Eastern Province and getting the IPKF embroiled with the LTTE in the Northern Province. The game would also involve putting pressure on India to let the Sri Lankan Army come out of the barracks, in the name of undertaking "joint operations" with the IPKF to save the Agreement. Along with the surrender of arms by the militants the Agreement calls for the confinement of the Sri Lankan Army to the barracks. ... Ei The strong Indian military response which is concentrated in the crisis area, the Eastern province, is clearly meant to demonstrate to the LTTE and to everyone else that the IPKF -which has been maligned among both the Tamils and the Sinhalese-can act decisively, cleanly and overpoweringly and is not going to put up with any more nonsense from anyone. Its current role and potential are firmly guaranteed under the Agreement and, among other things, the game being played by some influential elements in the Sinhala camp must be countered urgently.
By courtesy of the Hindu, October 17, 1987
*This allegation about revenge killings has not been substantiated despite the denial of the LTTE. Similar allegations in the past have also never been authenticated or substantiated. - Ed.

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These Tigers are wild
RECENT EVENTS ON THE beautiful, bloodsoaked island teach us that this kind of bestiality is not confined to the Tamil minority,
Mobs from the Sinhalese majority have killed thousands of Tamils in years of intercorn nunal strife, and it would be totally unsurprising to learn soon that reprisals have been taken. -
Sri Lanka is rapidly becoming the world's least necessary State, and if partition turns out to be the only way of halting the reciprocal genocide, so be it. There is no law to decree that a large island must contain only one political unit.
The only agency remotely capable of restoring the ceasefire is the Indian Peacekeeping Force of 12,000. The Sri Lankan Army is not only overwhelmingly Sinhalese but has also conspicuously failed, amid much slaughter of ordinary Tamils, to suppress the Tigers in the past which is why the Indian Government, mindful of its own large Tamil minority, intervened in the first place.
'The Guardian', 8 October
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PAKISTAN'S ANGER
ISLAMABAD IS TERRIBLY UPSET by the fact that Indian armed forces have been asked by President Junius Jayewardene to do a peacekeeping job in Sri Lanka. It has vented its anger and dismay at the level of no less than its Foreign Secretary, Mr. Abdus Sattar. As a spokesman of the Pakistan Foreign office he has disapproved of the presence of Indian soldiers in Sri Lanka because he thinks it is interference in the affairs of Sri Lanka.
The Indian Peacekeeping Forces are in Sri Lanka today with the same authority that permitted, some time ago, Pakistani military trainers and Israeli intelligence experts to be in that country (it is a different matter if the friends of the Arabs in islamabad did not find the Israelis strange bed-fellows). t
Mr. Sattar's ire at the presence of Indian forces in Sri Lanka, therefore, should have been directed at Mr. Jayewardene. By lambasting India instead, Pakistan is guilty of insulting Sri Lanka's sovereign authority.
The Hindustan Times, 22 August
兴波 始
THE AGONY OF JAFFWA
HOPES THAT TALKING MIGHT bring peace back to Sri Lanka looked increasingly frail as the denials poured in. But whether or not there are plans to taik with the Tamil Tigers, there certainly ought to be such contacts; they are the last chance of sparing Jaffna, India is demanding as a condition that the leader of the Tigers in Jaffna, Velupillai Prabhakaran, should agree to surrender all arms and accept in its entirety the Indo-Sri Lankan Peace Accord.
If partition is forced on Sri Lanka - and such is the venom now released that it cannot be ruled out - it will be alleged in retrospect that that was the Indian object in going in. That judgement had better be left to the release of the Indian state archives, but the July 29 Accord did not carry that inevitable conclusion.
Had the Tamil Tigers honoured much earlier the wholly honourable document drawn up as much on Tamil as on Sinha lese behalf, the bloodshed would not have
continued. The Guardian, 16 October
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THE AT TEMPT, OR RA implement the Indo-S has entered a complic wall phase for India issues which dema unwavering answer.
The IPKF which, all euphoria, was engag task of holding the b while being subjecte left it open to v provocations from bo Tamil sides, is nov relatively clearcut tas LT TE, which has decla determination to enfo demilitarisation of th both sides.
A clear share of the deterioration of the sit the door of certa politicians and influe the Sri Lankan Goverr the Prime Minster, M the hawkishly unrep. National Security, Mr. Evidence is now in th that attempts to pron Sinhala colonisation i. Province, the setting Sinhala hoodlums fo
The Duty of
THE MASSACRES IN brought the island's Accord close to collap is whether any hope of of the conflict, at som kept alive. The recent product of the tensi Tamil guerrilla groups the settlement terr President Jayewarder Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gan
The other threat to t the July Accord is the
opposition. By some a Lanka has witnessed
death a day as Sinh Continued. The Bu vehemently opposed t Cabinet is still split o and Parliament has yet
In the short term settlement rests with keeping Force. It alone and help President Jay Cabinet and the Sinha
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THE EDTORALS
OLICEMEN
PRESDEN ris d both the conflict and it to bolster his shaky
that has not been antary election in 10
's have something to term - a regional in the Accord - they er and rival ethnic domination.
pe for an immediate licated and problemCes, but the errors of efforts nake Sorne
initial steps obvious. The first is that India should loosen its grip on Sri Lankan affairs. it has a legitimate interest in the region, but its manner of protecting that interest is creating an unproductive backlash.
The second is that all participants in the civil war should begin to look for less provocative peacekeepers. it is unlikely that India will agree to back out of Sri Lanka at this point, but it might accept help from other, neutral countries in maintaining a genuine peace. Little purchase is gained when a peacekeeper becomes a party to the dispute, and India's political and military interest in Sri Lanka brings it dangerously close to that reality.
'Globe and Mai" (Toronto), 12 October
e Challenge in Sri Lanka
THER STRUGGLE, to ri Lankan Agreement ated and back-to-the, raising some vital nd a balanced but
ter a phase of initial ed in the unen viable alance in the Accord d to constraints that icious slander and th the Sinhala and the v entrusted with a k: bend or break the red War On the IPKF's rce the proposition of he ethnic conflict on
responsibility for the uation must be laid at in leading Sinhala ntial elements within ment — in particular r. R. Premadasa, and entant Minister for Lalith Athulathmudali. e possession of India note State-sponsored n parts of the Eastern |-up and arming of r communal clashes
Mr. Gandhi
N SRI LANKA have fragile July Peace se. The question now a peaceful resolution e future date, can be violence is a direct ions underlying the ' reluctance to accept ms determined by he and India's Prime dhi. he implementation of strength of Sinhalese |ccounts southern Sri an average of one altese protests have ddhist clergy are O the settlement, the ver its endorsement to ratify it.
the future of the the Indian Peacecan Curb the Tamils, ewardene control his ese community. The Times , 9 October
and the attacks by Home Guards on the IPKF can all be linked to efforts undertaken from within the official set-up which amount to an undermining exercise. And after the LTTE backed out of a wide-ranging agreement concluded with India it was the hand of Mr. Athulathmudali that ensured that the completely uncalled for detention of 17 LTTE men, including two "regional commanders", and an attempt to take them to Colombo for "interrogation" (almost certainly meaning torture) against India's advice and protest, would trigger a sharp deterioration in the peace process. Further, the attitude of the Sri Lankan Government towards the devolution package supposed to be settled with India has been distinctly unhelpful: the substance of the package is known to be not up to India's expectation and falls considerably short of what even the Tamil moderates, TULFleaders, want.
lf the facts are explained properly to the people of India, the Tamils of Sri Lanka and the world at large, and if a balanced public posture is adopted in place of mistaken attempts to go soft on the developing evidence of backsliding or worse in Colombo, India's present course would begin to look a lot better than it is being painted in certain political quarters.
The Hindu', 17 October
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On the southern flank of the country, Indian soldiers were being thrust into what could be their most malignant military misadventure in memory.
in any event, the guns that could prove even more damaging are those currently in the hands of the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka. New Delhi's misinterpretation of the militant mind has trapped the Indian Army into literally grabbing the tiger by the tail. Last fortnight's offensive by the Indian Army against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has turned Sri Lanka's ethnic strife on its head-the final responsibility for procuring peace now rests with New Delhi and not Colombo. The political, and psychological, price for that posture could be potent. Even more so if their Accord, already grievously endangered, collapses in a heap-of Indian bodies.
From "India Today, October 31, 1987

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AT WAR WITH P
When on July 29, Rajiv Gandhi signed the Agreement with Junius Jayewardene, they got bouquets
all round, from far and near.
Most of us in India thought that this fould help to protect the interests of he Tamils in Sri Lanka.
At that time, we were also told that the Indian troops would be needed to help keep peace between the Tamils and Sinhalas; and the tacit understanding was that the interests of the Tamils would be doubly safeguarded by the presence of the Indian army on this island.
What do we see today? The Indian army's record to date in Sri Lanka has been mainly to beat down the largest contingent of Tamil militants by resorting to a large-scale military operation, while the Sri Lankan President feels doubly protected.
His regime was threatened with collapse which, we were told, led him to sign the Agreement. Certainly this Accord has turned out to be a godsend for him.
What Jayewardene's security force Could not achieve, storming of Jaffna, our forces have accomplished - the pounding of the LTTE base and its capture. And if as a result of the killing and devastation
namely the
brought about by operation, the Tam section of them - Indian authorities, twist and turn of ev
And yet even at operation, when thi
Tamil Nadu opi minister M. G. former union m
maniam has appea military operatior dialogue with the r Minister turned it must surrender u down all their a pledge to honc uned uivocally.
This is not pacification but of vanquished. Does Prime Minister of dealing with a Sma another country, h it may be?
And if our asse has been that the L fascist force, how the July 29 Agre Solemn Commitme them to surrender hours?
It's all very well
Karen Parkerto Rajiv Gandhi
continued from front page suicides, but reliably attested to have been at the hands of others (Tri-star has been implicated). Surely you must agree with me that it made no strategic sense for the LTTE to engage in that action at that time, yet it made a great deal of sense for elements wishing to discredit the LTTE and the Indo-Sri Lankan Agreement.
Finally, the activities of some elements of the Indian army clearly do not appear to be in the best of interests of India. Nothing would better serve some elements both inside and outside of India than to discredit Indian foreign policy at home and outside of India than to weaken Indian international influence. In my view, the continuation of hostilities will lead to a serious if not fatal blow to India's international reputation.
Given the above concerns, I have remained in daily contact with representatives of the LTTE, with your diplomatic personnel in San Francisco and elsewhere, and with the Government of Canada. I suggested to the LTTE that another State might be useful to provide direct and reliable communication between them and India. I have maintained to the representatives of India and representatives of the LTTE my willingness to effectuate communication, regardless of whatever role Canada or another state may assume.
The first essential step to prevent actual atrocities and mutual accusations of atrocities is to agree to a cease fire. India's insistence on a pre-ceasefire surrender is not practical given the nature of the LTTE and their perceived role on behalf of all Tamils, if for no other reason, the LTTE will not announce a surrender because they cannot accept what would be viewed as a betrayal of the Tamil cause. , , "hile this position may be viewed as unreasonable and intransigent by outsiders, a ceasefire can only lead to
 
 
 
 
 

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the Indian army ls - at least a good turn against the what a beautiful nts it Would be. his late hour in the entire spectrum of mion from chief Ramachandran to nister C. Subraed for cessation of s to resume a militants, the Primer down saying they mconditionally, lay ms instantly and pur the Accord
he language of a victor over the this behove the a great country in Il militant group in owever misguided
sment throughout TE is a reCa|Citrant jid Rajiv Gandhi in 2ement make the ht that he would get all arms within 72
to throw the blame
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on the LTTE and give them a bloody nose, but does this not show up our government's cavalier manner of handling serious affairs of international import?
Again, if we really regard the LTTE as a fascist gang, how is it that in the interim administrative set-up for the newly formed Tamil province, we agreed not only that the LTTE should have a majority (7 in 12) but also that the other militant groups which had cooperated, would have no representation at all? Is this not a case of opportunism? Offering lollipops to placate the LTTE?
What is going to be the future role of the Indian army in Sri Lanka? After hounding the LTTE out of Jaffna, what would it be doing in the Tamil area? And if our friend Junius J. asks for the Indian army to put down otherforms of disturbances in the Sinhala area, are we going to respond? If we do so on the plea that this would be in accordance with the July 29 Accord, do we realise the political consequences of such a step?
Many of the friends of India among the Sinhalas would take it that the Indian army is being used to perpetrate the Jayewardene regime against the democratic forces in Sri Lanka. . . . "
By courtesy of Times of India, October 25, 1987
favourable results if carried out with mutual credibility and full respect for the honour and pride of the affected parties. On this point the situation with the LTTE is not unique. A ceasefire is a ceasefire and a surrender is a surrender.
Once the Ceasefire is in effect, the LT TE Will meet With Indian officials to arrange an orderly transfer of arms and the rehabilitation of India's role under the Agreement to guarantee the protection of the Tamil population. I have recommended to the LTTE representatives that a third party government such as Canada participate in at least the initial meetings and that the Sri Lankan government not participate until a later stage. The LTTE indicates that they accept the proposal.
Given the degree of mistrust and sensitivity of the LTTE to their perceived role as representatives of the Tamil people, it would not be therapeutic that the LTTE leadership to be viewed as being in the custody of Indian Government. For this reason, I have proposed and the LTTE has accepted in principle that they be sheltered by the International Committee of the Red Cross, or a Combined team of the Indian and Sri Lankan Red Cross during the discussions following a ceasefire. Subsequent arrangements would be, of course, a primary topic of discuSSion.
Your excellency, I trust you accept my interest and comments in good faith. I remain available in whatever capacity I may serve to the cause of peace and justice for the Tamil people and the restoration of India to its rightful place in international affairs.
Your excellency, please accept the assurances of my highest consideration.
Karen Parker
Attorney at Law United Nations Representative for Disabled Peoples' International and Human Rights Advocates

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LTTE BETRAYED1
LESS THAN THREE WEEKS AGO we said, "what evolves from the indo-Sri Lankan Accord depends On the intentions of the signatories of this agreement." We went on to speculate on India's intentions and said that it was either to save the Tamils from genocide or to gain dominance over Sri lanka.
We also said that by not implementing the provisions of the Accord that were favourable to the Tamils, by not insisting on the Sri Lankan government fulfilling its side of the obligations, by allowing the Sinhala government to re-establish its authority in Tamil areas, and by allowing renewal of Sinhala colonisation of eastern Sri Lanka - it was evident that the welfare of the Tamils was probably mot in lindia's list of intentions s
Skilful Manoeuvres .
But despite Our Warnings, Delhi managed to take most Tamils for a good long ride. With the reknowned Indian mastery of politics (or should it be called Machiavellianism) acting in concert with the Well-known Tamil naivete, Delhi Mvas able to keep its real intentions well and truly disguised.
By carefully worded announcements craftily released at critical junctures, New Delhi was able to keep Tamils all over the world in heavenly rapture. Sri Lankan Tamils everywhere got into fervent debates, and sometimes ferocious quarrels, as to who should rule their newly gained "UTOPIA." Delhi, gleefully, added fuel to these brawls by announcing at different times names of different Well known individuals for the interim government
To the Machiavellis in Delhi this was the easy part. The difficulties came when they tried to accomplish their real intentions.
The Real intentions. . .
There is an old axiom Well known to all political scientists, Viz. "Governments do mot act for humanitarian reasons; they do for geopolitical reasons."
if Delhi were to have acted for humanitarian reasons they would have done so four years ago. There can be no doubt in anyone's mind today that Delhi waited, and waited patiently, only for the right opportunity to consummate its own geopolitical need their need to establish dominance over at least one of its neighbourS.
Delhi knew that to continue the subjugation of Sri Lanka, once it was achieved, it needed henchmen in the North-eastern state of Sri Lanka. Marionettes, unfortunately, are a Tamil specialty, and Delhi has an abundance of Sri Lankan Tamil puppets. There are virtually hundreds of even well known, mindless manikins among Sri Lankan Tamils Who Would gladly and willingly perform what Delhi bids them to do.
But, to New Delhi's predicament, the most popular of the Tamil leaders was not one of them. They were perfectly aware of Prabhakaran's honesty and integrity, his astuteness and sagacity, and his total dedication to the Tamil cause (to the exclusion of everything else). In short, he had no place in the Indian grand scheme, (actually he would have been an impediment), and therefore, from Delhi's point of view, he had to be eliminated.
The plan to eliminate Prabhakaran was concocted while the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord was still being negotiated. Delhi did not want to appear in public with Prabhakaran's blood on their hands. Therefore they recruited a two thousand strong army of mercenaries from among the defunct Tamil militant groups, trained them, and after the Accord was signed, transported them to Sri Lanka.
("Tamil infonet, 23 Tamidan Road, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12601) 14
But, before they lett Delhi announced to th offered the position Prabhakaran. Apparentl Prabhakaran Outwitted th the position and by public риrsueа поп-violетtpolit
left With no choit mercenaries to attack ll outmanauvred Delhi by that it left the mercenari masters for protection. Ti the world press.
Delhi then responded implementing the Accot allowing the Sri Lankai Police Stations in the Nor with Sinhalese.
Prabhakaran outperfo Despite having refused to past (as the ultimate solu, let one of his lieute demanding the immedia very same Accord.
MUCH TO DELH DEEPAW DIED DEMAN OFINDA SOWNBAING
This is when Delhi de political games, and use own ends.
The Final Assau
Having failed in their
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BOTH THE INDAN Pe the Tamil Tigers are c deadly confrontatio meaning people must as nothing short of se only is it unbecomi grossly unfair by th whom they profess to
The Tamils of Sri L and finally obtained Ir an end to the conflict four years and more, and even exterminate massacred by the Sr
ultimately ran for re.
Tamil Nadu accepted sympathy and concer fled the terror, more accommodated in Ind country in the world.
Reluctantly and falt the scene, first expres mediator and now enforcing an Accords Lankan Government.
For this and many Tamils will always patronage is necessa dignified existence minority facing the tr incurable chauvinism racial majority.
This special rela" should be zealous strengthened by the T. Why then have the with India?
Alternately, why I liquidate the Tigers as to the Peace Accord Lanka?
The Tigers, it mu manfully represent th Tamil liberation stru consequence of the fa

hese mercenaries loose, world that they have of Chief Minister to aware of this trickery, em by declining to accept ly renouncing violence to cal course.
e, Delhi ordered thei TE members. Prabhakaran etaliating With such force as running to their Indian is was Widely reported in,
by dragging its feet on d, but at the same time government to set up hand to colonise the East
rmed Delhi once again. accept the Accord in the ion to the Tamil issue), he ants fast unto death, te implementation of the
S EMBARRASSMENT DWG IMPLEMEWTATIOW HID,
cided to stop playing sly di brute force to gain itsi,
lt. . . subtle methods Delhi got
en's Sake
FRATRCDE
acekeeping Force and urrently engaged in a n which all well-, necessarily condemn nseless fratricide. Not ng of both but also e Tamil community protect. anka wished, prayed dia's intervention for that had, for the past threatened to engulf them. Bombed and i Lankan forces they fuge to Tamil Nadu. the Tamils gladly with n. Of the 200,000 who than 130,000 were ia, the highest for any
eringly India entered sing concern, then as
fully involved in he signed with the Sri
more the Sri Lankan be grateful. India's ry for our free and in Sri Lanka, as a aditional enmity and of an entrenched
ionship with India ily preserved and amils of Sri Lanka.
Tigers lost patience
as India chosen to : the chief obstruction between India and Sri
st be remembered, militant phase of the ggle and the logical lures and frustrations
OCTOBER 1987
involved more directly. They facilitated the arrest of seventeen ll TE members and permitted the Sri Lankan army to transport them to Colombo. Twelve of them Committed Suicide.
lndian Ambassador Dixit himself admitted to the UPl correspondent on October 6, that he Was aware of the intended suicide, but Delhi let it happen.
During the chaos that ensued, Delhi arranged for the Tamil mercenaries to carry out a series of attacks on Sinhala civilians and the Sri Lankan army, to create the impression that the LTTE was responsible.
But, UP news of 0ctober 4 reported Sri Lankani army officers complaining that when they pursued the "rebels" who attacked them they were stopped and ordered to return to base by the indian peacekeeping force. When they tried to resume the chase by helicopter they were intercepted again by the Indian troops. in reality the Indian troops were protecting their own henchmen. . . . . .
New York Times of October 12, reported Sinhala refugees from the East stating that the Indian army was involved in the attack on Sinhala Civilians.
What more evidence does one need to prove Delhi's clumsy fraud. But alas, the World doesn't pay attention to such details, and Delhi was successful in creating the illusion that LITE is responsible for this well-publicised carnage, and therefore they need to be apprehended. - ギ
And so started the bloody war in Jaffna for the elimination of Prabhakaran. a . Rajan
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of interminable negotiations and broken pacts. It was a bitter expression of the lessons learnt over a period offorty years.
It is to the militant movements and, in particular, to the Tigers that the Tamil community is indebted for the progress that the Tamil liberation struggle has seen since the holocaust of 1983 and specifically to the direct intervention of India resulting in the Peace Accord three months ago. The massacre of Tamils and destruction of their
property by the Sinhalese in their attempts
at obtaining a military Solution over a determined people caused revulsion in international circles and justified India's intervention to stop the atrocities and stem the threatened genocide.
Coupled with India's status as a regional power and problems of security of her own eroded by subtle international attempts at destabilisation, she acted with the most honourable intentions in resolving what had since become a humane problem to the Sri Lankan Tami İs.
The irritations caused by the ignoring of realities on the ground as far as the Tigers were concerned became manifest when India had conceded to holding a referendum on the major issue of merger of the two Provinces, so considered vital to the Tiger views of a single traditional Homeland. Soon after signing the Accord the Sri Lankan government openly sponsored active mass Scale Sinhala colonisation under the guise of resettlement of displaced refugees, it was confirming Tiger suspicions of making the merger of the North and East empty and dubious. The reaction of the Tigers was swift and ferocious. Official propaganda only made it worse.
Extremist elements on either side saw the opportunity of torpedoing the Accord for more reasons than one. What was described as a cache of arms - up-to-date neither the Sri Lankans nor the Indians have revealed or displayed the haul of arms - intercepted in the Palk Strait by the Sri continued opposite

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TPAMFPTEMPES
ROLE OF INDIAS
A Peace That Passeth All Under
BY BRYAN JOHNSON
. .. Globe and MailCorrespondent, Toronto, reports from Colombo
A steady rain of mortar fire from Jaffna's ancient Dutch Fort has killed at least 100 civilians since Sunday, according to a Red Cross official who telephoned the Canadian High Commission yesterday.
The official, whose call was cut off as he promised to "verify another 60 civilian deaths in the surrounding area,” said the beleaguered town in northern Sri Lanka had been “under constant shelling from the fort area and other military camps."
Bala Subramanian of the Jaffna Red Cross said the local hospital “simply can't cope" with the flood of injured and dying Tamil rebels and civilians. He said doctors had performed 166 operations on Monday, as Indian troops fought to dislodge militants deeply entrenched in their home base. - . . . .
An Indian spokesman confirmed last night that its forces were using 120millimetre mortars against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who still control the town. As usual, he said he had "no figures on civilian casualties, if any”.
After four days of fierce fighting, the Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) says it has killed 200 Tigers, losing only 27 of its own men. India's spokesman in Colombo acknowledged, however, that the offensive is virtually stalled on the outskirts of Jaffna. “The attempt is to encircle Jaffna town,” Lakshmi Puri said at a press briefing. "The IPKF is trying to advance from a number of positions, but is meeting strong resistance. It is advancing slowly towards its objectives.” .
Other sources said one Indian column had been stopped at Chunnakam, about mine kilometres north of Jaffna. An eyewitness told one reporter by telephone
that "there is an enc there. They (the Indi but they can't push bodies are lying arc them are civilians.
A Sri Lankan mili night that 29 "horribl Indian soldiers had Tamil rebels at a Jaffna. He estima casualties at more tha 500 Tamils had dit immediate confirmati India's 15,000-man began its offensive ol Tigers had formally r Lankan Peace Accor 200. Buddhist Sinhal eastern district in thre The Accord, signe billed as a diplomatic year guerrilla war Tamils against the Bu Tamils were to receiv under the pact, in retu hostilities and surren The Sri Lankan milita its barracks in disputec Indian soldiers - s armoured personnel artillery and the 120advancing on the tow fronts, according to S sources. They also cor in the town's centre inside, unable to dom shells from it.
The Indian spokesm Tigers are forcing civil shields against India
i grenades and ammun
There are already disquieting signs
begun to run into snags.
Reports say that attempts are being made to expedite the settlement of Sinhalese on 2,500 , acres in Mullaitivu.
The Government is reportedly planning to settle Sinhalese in Mundhirikulam and the areas round Dollar and Kent Farm.
To implement this scheme a special project
Agent.
The Mullaitivu Citizens' Committee and high
reports.
These sources say that more than 20 years ago Tamils were given lands in these areas on a
that the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord has
has been started in Wellioya and a Sinhalese has been appointed Additional Government
Government sources have confirmed these ;
JR Manipulates Indi Colonise Tamil Home
long term lease basis. Aft Tamils settled here, fl. sought shelter elsewher Operations carried Out by these Tamil Colonists ha return to their settlemen still unsettled.
After the Indo-Sri L signed, plans had been Sinhalese Colonists in the Similarly in Suri Kokkuthoduvai, about 1, been allotted to Tamils scheme are being for Sinhalese settlers with th Forces.
Again in the Kokkulai allocated to Tamils mor They were forced to flee

OCTOBER 1987
PEACEKEEPERS:
standing
bn 14 October
mous battle raging ans) are strafing. . . hrough. Dozens of und, and many of
ary source said last hacked' bodies of been dumped by suddhist temple in ted total Indian 60 and said at least d. There was no on of his report. Peacekeeping Force Saturday after the 2jected the Indo-Sri i and killed almost ese in Sri Lanka's : days. * d on July 29, was solution to a fourthat pitted Hindu ldhist majority. The elimited autonomy rn for a cessation of der of their arms. ary was confined to
areas. upported by tanks, carriers, air cover, mm mOrtaIS - are 'n of Jaffna on five Sri Lankan military, trol the Dutch Fort , but are trapped ore than lob mortar
lan charged that the ans to act as human 1 troops, to carry ition boxes and to
help remove the dead or injured fighters.
Mrs. Puri also said "no offensive air operations are being used to provide cover. This is a conscious decision, taken quite deliberately to avoid harming civilians." She said the Peacekeeping Force was even prepared to absorb extra casualties to save civilian lives.
That assertion, however, was directly contradicted by the Jaffna Red Cross phone call to the Canadian High Commission and by other first-hand accounts phoned from the battle zone.
Mr. Subramanian told Canadian diplomats that helicopter gunships had been firing in the town both yesterday and Monday. A Western military analyst also dismissed India's expressions of concern for civilians. “The 120-mm mortar is very large,' he said. “If you start using mortars, you're talking about an area weapon, not a precision one. There is no doubt that there would be a lot of civilian casualties.' − The analyst, who has commanded in insurgency battles, said India's reported casualty figures were "very high for this kind of an operation. That may indicate that it is not going terribly well."
According to India's own account, its army is using tanks and armoured personnel carriers mainly to transport soldiers through areas filled with landmines and booby traps. The tanks fire their cannons, “only to neutralise LTTE bunkers and their strongholds in buildings."
India has dropped leaflets on the area, asking civilians to move to the refugee centres set up in temples and colleges. A shoot-on-sight curfew is periodically lifted to allow compliance, but there are no reliable estimates on how many have left their homes.
*Anotherstatistic presumably from the same 'Sri Lankan military source. Ed.
a to eland
2r Black July 1983 the d these areas and due to the military the State. Up to now we not been able to S as the situation is
ankan Accord was formulated to settle e areaS.
anaru close to 00 acres which had nder a middle class ibly reallocated to help of the Security
rea 80 houses were than 20 years ago. the area abandoning
their houses due to military activities. Now these houses are being forcibly taken over by Sinhalese colonists.
A special vesting order has been made to settle 250 Sinhalese families on 53 acres in Nayaru East and West where Tamils had been settled earlier.
The Citizens' Committee says that Home Guards and the Armed Forces are destroying the houses earlier occupied by Tamils in Kokkulai, Kokkuthoduvaiand Karunattukerni.
In Trincomalee the reports indicate that the Sri Lankan armed forces are Continuing to harass the Tamil people.
The Trincomalee District Liberation Tiger representative has complained to the commander of the Indian Peacekeeping Force in the district about this harassment. But apparently no action has been taken so far. These developments indicate that there is no room for complacency just because an Accord has been signed on paper.
What is Indiagoing to do about all this?

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OCTOBER 1987
"
(Pk.f. At war witH THE
INDIA COMMANDEERS
CIVILIAN AIRPLANES
THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT commandeered more than a dozen civilian airplanes on Thursday to transport an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 additional army and paramilitary troops to Sri Lanka amid reports on increased fighting with Tamil rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula.
The commandeering of the planes resulted in the cancellation of many domestic flights of Indian Airlines, the government's internal carrier. Chaos was reported at Indian airports as passengers were stranded.
Officials have refused to say how many Indian troops are now in Sri Lanka, but the number was understood to be in the range of 20,000 and perhaps as high as 25,000.
A government official in New Delhi on Thursday night said that because of the Indian Army's "tight position" in Sri Lanka, the civilian planes were needed to transport troops there.
Indian newspaper editorials and most public comment has been supportive of Mr. Gandhi's decision to use force against the
Tamils. International Herald Tribune, October 16
Tamil Stronghold called TMADHOUSE'
JAFFNA IS A PANIC-STRICKEN TOWN of empty houses and looted shops, where teenaged Tamil Tigers exist on junk food and the civilian population has only one goal, to stay alive.
That, at least, is the picture painted by scores of refugees who have begun to reach the Sri Lankan capital from the besieged northern peninsula. After enduring a weeklong Indian offensive and a 16-hour journey on a rickety bus, one exhausted student described the experience as "an escape from a nightmare."
The 21 year-old commerce student at Jaffna University said his town has become a "madhouse", where "no more people are left in the houses and everyone is trying to find some refuge. The main ainm is to save your life.
He said thousands of people were streaming from the main town, either to find shelter in refugee camps or flee the peninsula entirely. Despite Indian claims that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are using civilians as a "human shield" and preventing their exit, the student said his busload of 43 people had little trouble getting away. "There were (Tiger) checkpoints along the way", he said. "But we were never stopped for long."
"They told me they will fight to the last breath of their life,' the bus driver said, "Because they did not want their country to be invaded by the Indians".
He reported female militants, in blue jeans, cheerfully raising their assault rifles in a gesture of defiance, as his bus passed. The suicidal tendency of the Tamil Tigers is already well known. Most of the guerrillas proudly hang a cyanide capsule around their necks, and 13 LTTE cadres recently swallowed the poison after capture by the Sri Lankan military.
The refugees confirmed Indian reports that roughly 375,000 people - half the
peninsula's popula omes. But only . apparently been ac camps.
The Indians had Saturday by blowit LTTE newspaper, “ of Eelam) but the re is obviously still a Monday edition of
printed elsewhere, the "Voice of Tig display daily new Jaffna's major inter:
Toronto
Indian troops rebel base
India said yesterda' 1,500 extra troops Lankan Tamil rebel New Delhi that a Tai port city of Jaffna ha Estimates of the force's total strengt 25,000. Indiam offici is being defended by Political observer advance in the city' several kilometresf where electricity ha estimated 130,000 Shortages.
"Artillery is being only when there i entrenched positio Spokesman said, assault as "fightin behind our backs casualties, the sp simplest thing woul raze the whole thing Toron
景
Indians an
Clain Con
TENS OF THOUSANDS refugees in their Owr huddled for safety in a Nallur temple.
A Tamil leader pu offensive at 51. He saic another 300 civilians h High Commission in Col 607 rebels had been captured. Indian losses wounded and 27 listed a Neither set of fig independently.
A guerrilla Comman said that "In world hist defeated and we won't "We can last
Eye Witnesse
Str
THE FIRST INDEPEND indian Army offensive town of Jaffna were t having been smugg beleaguered city by Tar
The BBC correspon last night that his most

: TAMILS)
tion - have left their 40,000 or 50,000 have Commodated in refugee
begun their drive last, ng up the offices of the Eela Murasu (The Drur
bels' propaganda wing ctive. The driver had a the paper, apparently and many refugees say ers" blackboards still s flashes at most of sections. S.
Globe and Mail, 19 October, 1987
塔
capture key
y it had sent more than into battle against Sri s and announced from mil base in the besieged ld been captured.
Indian peacekeeping h range from 16,000 to als estimate that Jaffna y 2,500 Tigers. 's said that despite the 's east, the troops were rom the centre of Jaffna, as been cut off and an civilians face food
used very sparingly and s stiff resistance from ns in built-up areas," a " Describing the Indian g with our hands tied " for fear of civilian : bokesman said: "The d be a lightning strike to to the ground. to Globe & Mail, 190ctober, 1987
d Tamils Both trol of Jaffna iii
of Civilians have become city. About 50,000 were ind around the large Hindu
it guerrilla losses. in the that 300 Indian troops and ad been killed. The Indian lombo said Wednesday that killed and more than 280 s were put at 127 dead, 379 is missing. ures could be confirmed
der identified only as Yogs ory guerrilla fighters are not be either". til We are killed".
international Herald Tribune, i
22 October, 1987
影
as reveal Tigers' ength
|E/W|| eye-witnesses of the in the northern Sri Lankan Jack in Colombo last night, ed in and out of the nilguerrilla fighters. dent, Mr. Philip Jones, said abiding impression was that
TAMLTIMES15
Jaffna was a city of refugees, "the place is crowded out with them", he said: "There are 300,000 of them there, sleeping rough and in Hindu temples. They have been chased from place to place by the fighting.
Mr. Jones and his colleagues Visited the main. temple where refugees are living, saw the state of the town's principal hospital, which had been hit by shells seven times during the offensive, and toured the university campus, where a paratroop landing by the indian forces was cut to pieces by the Tigers. They also saw civilian casualties in the hospital and were shown two dead children.
The local citizens said that after Indian paratroops had been killed following an abortive air drop on the university, the troops who rescued them took terrible revenge on the nearby civilians, killing 40 of them. Mr. Jones, reporting the comments of a doctor at the hospital said that in the first eight days of the fighting 472 civilian casualties had been brought in. "Seventy-five dead bodies were brought in too", he said.
The Times, 22 October, 1987.
接 洛
Tigers 'Still in Control of
Jaffna Stronghold
TAMIL TIGER GUERRILLAS remained in full control of Jaffna two days after india claimed its troops had moved into the town, according to the first Western reporter to visit the beleaguered port. He said that the Tigers seemed well supplied with arms, confident, and organised.
Other sources said yesterday that the Tigers had evolved a four-stage Strategy. The first was confrontation, the second flanking attacks on the advancing troops. These tactics have already been put into deadly effect. The next phase, apparently is suicide missions, which the Tigers have proved in their earlier campaign against the Sri Lankan army, to be able and Willing to mount. The fourth phase Will be small-scale guerrilla attacks as described by Mr. Yogi. : 3 The BBC reporter also saw something of the Wretched conditions in Jaffna refugee centres, where scores of thousands are n0W huddled without shelter and with inadequate food and little water. The people there, he said, uniformly blamed the Indians for their plight
In Jaffna hospital, too, there were primitive conditions: no oxygen, little medicine, and a rapidly diminishing supply of diesel fuel for the generator, which is the only way the hospital can cool its desperately small blood supply and carry out emergency operations.
The Guardian, October 22
姜 蚤 录
Casualties Mount
THERE ARE UNCONFIRMED reports that Major General Harikirat Singh, the indian commanding the Indian force in the peninsula, has been removed from operational command because of his unsatisfactory performance.
A spokeswoman said: "operations have reached a certain stage of finality in Jaffna, so he has been called back to India for consultations."
Ronnie de Mel, Sri Lanka's Finance Minister and a leading supporter of the July Agreement, said yesterday that he would not rule out the Tigers Coming back into the political process if they gave up their weapons and agreed to the conditions of the Peace Accord. He said: "I would support anything that ensures a lasting peace".
He told The Independent: "I would always negotiate with the real representatives of the Tami people – my difficulty is that it is not easy to identify who they are in the present conditions. If it is the Tigers, it would be useful to talk with them as it is useless to talk with stooges or puppets.
The Independant, October 22
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TWO
The Indo -- Sri Lankan Peace Accord of July 1987 meant for me that I could make my long-awaited trip back to Jaffna to visit my parents and all my folks.
* I arrived in a calm and peaceful Jaffna on September 25, 1987. Thileepan's fast was on, protesting the implementation of the Accord, the continuing accelerated colonisation programme being carried out by the Sri Lankan Government and the delay in setting up the interim Government. His subsequent martyrdom on September 26, 1987 had a profoundly emotional impact on everyone and tears of real anguish flowed freely. In spite of this and in spite of recognising political difficulties ahead, there was a general air of confident stability. , is:
After years of living under war conditions peace had brought about great optimism. Delegations from foreign aid organisations had been visiting Jaffna, tourists were in the hotels, surveyors were sighted measuring up to rebuild Jaffna town. We were to become like Singapore, so the story went.
On Saturday, 10 October, I was in Urimpirai visiting my in-laws, taking lots of photographs and having a very pleasant time. Distant rumbling noises were heard in the early afternoon but we simply dismissed it. My father, who was to have collected me in the evening to take me. back home to Nallur, turned up by midafternoon with the news that there was shelling near the Fort and a curfew had been declared. It wasn't taken too seriously, but not wanting to take any chances we returned to Nallur early. It was probably just a bit of trouble near the Fort as usual, but nothing to worry about. we thought. After all we had not only the Peace Accord but the mighty Indian Peacekeeping Force itself to guarantee peace. No harm could possibly come.
The next day shells began to rain down. The Indian army was shelling Jaffna. It was on our houses and on our heads that these shells were falling. There was shocked disbelief. It could not be possible. It could not be the Indian Peacekeeping Force, who had been welcomed into our land with flowers, garlands and prayers.
The noise was deafening. All at home huddled together in a small part of the house which had a concrete roof under the fragile belief that it afforded marginally more protection than a tiled roof.
We learned the next day that at least fourteen people had died during the course of that evening alone in the immediate vicinity of our house, and around Pilaiyar Kovil which itself had taken about seven direct hits causing massive destruction. The headless trunks of a woman and a young girl had been sighted by a relative coming to see if we were all right.
Later people in the neighbourhood had to be brought in to identify the two from
failure of
HARROWING
their clothing. In one had been killed insta four people from a fa list of injuries was lon kind and helpful man went, had lost a leg. young woman, had lc blind diabetic man ha on his back which grotesquely. A few pe shelter by a brick wa sprayed and splattere Wall:
DR. CHELLAH: relativesa, the dead.
The curfew and transport precluded a Those who were lucky sacks and dumped in t For Others where the before being cleane. sighted on trees eating That was the begin invasion, From the started till the time I c. on 22 October, it di night, every day durin I lived with the possib to smithereens. My C quick death, if it had slow and agonising ol the Jaffna hospital wa no transport anyway a been no bandages medicines.
My other and equal have someone near splattered across myla We lived in total is the curfew and lack knowing what was ha down the road. No pla a safe place to esc designated refugee Kovil, Hindu College College) were filled people were fighting At these places diseas the filth and squalor ar of dysentery. Food su very low.
Surviving the s
 

OCTOBER 1987
WEEKS IN JAFFNA,
house a family of six ntly and in another mily had died. The
g. An apothecary, a
to whom everyone.
A teacher's wife, a
ost an arm. An old.”
ad shrapnel wounds had swollen up
ople who had taken.
all had their bodies d across the broken
接
indfriends were among
fear and lack of ill talk of funerals. were bundled up in he hospital morgue. re were long delays d up, crows were human flesh. ning of the Indian time the shelling scaped out of Jaffna dn't stop. Day and g those twelve days, ility of being blown only wish was for a to be, rather than a he through injury - is closed, there was
nd there would have
even, let alone
Lly great fear was to and dear to me
olation, because of of movement, not ppening three miles ce within Jaffna was ape to. The three points (the Nallur and Hindu Ladies to overflowing and for standing space. es were spreading in ld babies were dying pplies were running
helling and the
helicopter gunships and the bombing was one thing - facing the Indian troops after they got in was another. Isolated as we were we simply did not know what they would do once they actually came into our area. I left before that happened in Nallur.
In Colombo I found out about the point-blank machine gunning that had taken place at Urimpirai. Relatives I had been with and photographed on the day the shelling had started had been shot dead in cold blood by the Indian army Some days later. Among them was a 72 year-old woman who had gone to open the door tolet them in.
It is now over three weeks since India embarked on its military offensive against innocent civilians and yet the entire Northern province is totally sealed off, with no information coming out. They are said to be in control, the militant resistance has retired into the jungles and yet every escape route out of the North has been sealed. It can only mean one thing.
In the absence of outside observers and free flow of information India is carrying out large scale massacres of our people under the guise of mopping up of resistance. It is outright genocide. And we who have been reduced to a people who are no longer able to bury our dead, do not even know now who is alive and who is dead.
RAMAN CHELAH
Indian Troops Guard JRJ
SRI LAN KAN PRESIDENT J unius Jayewardene, is being guarded by a crack contingent of around 150 Indian army Commandos. The Sri Lankan President has requested protection from the Indian government because he no longer has full confidence in his own security set-up, it is
earnt. |-
The Indian government not only fears for his life but also for the life of his government, as an army coup is seen as a distinct possibility by New Delhi. '.
In the event of an attempted coup, Indian troops stationed in Sri Lanka will come to the aid of the Sri Lankan President. They will even take on the Sri Lankan army if necessary and put down the Coup.
The Sunday Observer' (Bombay), 1 October, 1987
HALT ALL ATTACKS
3. "THE RAJIV-JAYEWARDENE Peace Accord is Dead,'. said Rana Rao, Chief Minister of Andhra at the All-India Conference of Leaders held under the Chairmanship of Dr. Karunanithi, leader of the DMK on 25 October, 1987. Continuing, Mr. Rama Rao said, "We had long called upon the Indian army to intervene in Sri Lanka and protect the Tamils from Sinhala atrocities. But what we see now is that the Indian army is engaged in killing the Tamils and destroying Tamil property to an even worse extent than the Sinhalese.'
The Conference called on the Indian army to halt all attacks on the Taniis and revert to its role as a keeper of the peace.
Tamil Nesan (Madras), 26 October, 1987

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OCTOBER 1987
s Shaky Accord
Around the country there have been assassinations, thought to be by a radical Sinhalese nationalist group, of Sinhalese local government officials who openly supported the Accord. At the same time, President Junius R. Jayewardene, whom Indians not long ago said they found difficult and unpredictable to deal with, has suddenly become a public defender of New Delhi's policies and its troops.
For the Liberation Tigers and their leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, the world has turned upside down several times this year. But then he Overplayed his hand.
lnternational Herald Tribune, October 15
姜 姜
"BOMBED NOT BY Us"
Slowly, refugees from the besieged town of Jaffna are trickling into the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo.
An old man, his already wrinkled face creased by exhaustion and tension, told me how he had lain on the floor of his house for four days, without food and Water, as explosions and gunfire filled his ears.
Around him, houses were either destroyed by mortar fire or were burning, when he got to the temple, Outside the city, he took shelter with th0/Sands Of Other terrified Tamils.
But all refugees say that civilians died in air attacks carried out by helicopter gunships, firing rockets into the town. People had to shelter under Jaffna's forest of palm trees. The Indians say these air attacks were not carried out by them but by the miniscule Sri Lankan Air Force, the Sri Lankans say it was done at the request of the Indians. This is a war that has gone terribly , rong for all three parties involved in the figh . . The big indian assault is expected this Weeae.7G, and the Tiger leadership seems resigned to the inevitable defeat.
'Sunday Observer, October 18
赛
Rajiv's new time bomb ticking
in Sri Lanka
There is a certain sardonic satisfaction among the Sinhalese majority of Sri Lanka, as the body Count mounts in the north,
When the fighting is over, runs the current wishful thinking, the Sinhalese nation will be able Once more to impose their majority will. This is self deception on a grand scale. The Indians came to Sri Lanka precisely to prevent any such thing.
Having commit ed so much blood and money to the military campaign, the indians are certainly not going to hand over the fruits of victory to the government in Colombo. They came to Sri Lanka, they say, to sort out not just the Tamil militants, but, if necessary, the Sinha lese ones as well.
TO that end, India is about to embark On one of the biggest population resettlements of modern times. More than 200,000 Tamil refugees - 130,000 in India, and another 90,000 in Sri Lanka - are to be sent back to their homes mostly in the eastern province. It will, almost certainly, mean confrontation with the Sinhalese "colonists" who have been pushing into the east, especially round the port of Trincomalee which links the exclusively Tamil north with the ethnically mixed east.
Indian officials are extraordinarily blunt about their aims and their determination. There will be self government for the united north and east provinces, they say. There will be full resettlement of the Tamil refugees. If the Sri Lankans intervene, they will be met with force. This has literally explosive implications for the south.
When Indian intentions in the east become more plain, all the ancient Sinhalese prejudice will be revived. It could turn the Tamil Tigers, in their eyes, from the prime villains into Sri Lankan resistance
heroes. The Guardian, October 30
TIGER BY
Barely 10 weeks after Lankan President Jun their Signatures to ar bring peace to the tre role in that process h OvertOnes.
And by last fortni ultimate irony, the IP full-scale battle aga Tigers of Tamil Eela dorminant militant i island. That could b diplomatic and even nr The Official death C
gave the green signal
an offensive agains estimated 250 armis ni men, killed and 500 i hand, 18 IPKF personr 79 have been injured. people have died in th an alarming indicator. Some 40,000 t huddled into schools, public buildings.
Within three da operations", some members have been Two ordnance factori destroyed and arms a recovered. Over 400 were unearthed in t have been destroy printing presses c Eelamurasu and Mu Tamil Tigers were rul also blown up by the IF
Tamil Tigers with cyanide cai
The Indian action w. Lankan soil. in search on LTTE offices launch Tamil Nadu, six powe! Were seized in an at COmnunications netw. engaged in a conce senior LTTE leaders.
Mean vivhile, Prabha elusive. Fron his Jaff message to Rajiv Ga office, asking him to : offensive. 'The offens directed against us agreement and can quences“.
Having taken a st mounting Criticism fre Government, it is unli be called off. But it is difficult to win sin virtually the entire Ta Lanka.
 
 

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Rajiv Gandhi and Sri ius Jayewardene put Accord designed to publed island, India's as acquired alarming
ght, in what is the KF was sucked into a 'inst the Liberation m (LTTE), the most amil group on the 'e af) OV6rfUf6 f0 a tilitary disaster. ount after New Delhi for the IPKF to lain Ch t the Tigers, is an nilitants, mostly LTTE njured. On the other el lost their lives and But the fact that 300 ree days of fighting is
rembling residents colleges, temples and
ys of “full-fledged 500 suspected LTTE
taken into custody, es of the Tigers Were s well as ammunition (g of explosives that he eastern province ed. Moreover, the of newspapers - rasoli - which the nning in Jaffna, were PKF.
]Sules,
as not confined to Sri and raid operations led simultaneously in ful radio transmitters tempt to break their work. The IPKF is now trated manhunt for
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TAMMES 17
The danger of alienating the Tamils in the northern and eastern provinces is already evident in their sullen mood and the hatred with which they now view the IPKF.
Said a 50 year-old Jaffna. Tamil businessman, who managed to escape from the peninsula to Colombo after the battle outbreak: 'Fourteen innocent Tamil people were killed outside, the Kailasa Pilliar Koil near Nallur in Jaffna, in an exchange of fire between IPKF personnel and the Tigers. Only eight Tigers were killed in the shoot-out. This should give an idea about the increased proportion of civilian killings".
The current situation offers tailor-made fodder for the opponents of the Accord who are becoming more vocal in their criticism. Says Anura Bandaranaike, leader of the Opposition Sri Lankan Freedom Party in Parliament: "The Indian Army is like the Trojan horse. We accepted them and expected them to bring peace, and they then started watching as our people were butchered. President Jayewardene has appealed to the Indians to do their duty or quit. But they won't quit. They have come here to stay. They won't take the President's Orders. '
The large-scale civilian massacre by the LTTE was a sequel to the IPKF bungle in allowing the Sri Lankan Government to try and transport 17 LTTE membersintercepted by the Sri Lankan navy off Point Pedro, in a boat reportedly stacked with arms and ammunition-to Colombo for trial.
The Tigers, however, had threatened grave consequences if the men were taken to Colombo, where they feared they would be tortured or killed. The Indian authorities could have stopped the transfer and Dixit apparently tried to convince Jayewardene but failed. The result was tragic-all 17 detenues consumed cyanide. Twelve, including Kumarappa and Pulendran died, While the other five were in intensive care at the IPKF hospital in Palaly.
8. क्षे
Fasting Thileepan with Prabhakaran.
In fact, New Delhi's dealing with the Tigers has been a series of grievous blunders, specially in the last month. It under-estimated the exponential propaganda effect of Amirthalingam Thileepan's fast in September, in Jaffna.
IPKF sources say that their orders are to go all out, at least for the next week or two, to ensure that the militants are disarmed and key leaders of the LTTE apprehended. But India's decision to go in for a military short-cut rather than a mixture of the Carrot and the stick, could yet prove to be its biggest bungle in a situation where there have already been too many,
Excerpts from India Today',
1987 ,31 ཨ་མས་བཤད་མ་ - October ܀

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18 TAMITMES
Everyone for a R
By Gamini Navaratne
"NTS 1977 general election manifesto, the United Nat Mr. J. R. Jayewardene acknowledged that the Tamil p had grievous grievances as regards higher education settlement and the use of their language for public busir
Very significantly, it was the first time that any Sinhalese political party publicly acknowledged this stark reality.
The UNP gave a solemn pledge that if elected to office it would convene an all-party conference to redress the grievances. . . . Unfortunately for everyone concerned, it took ten years for the UNP Government toget to grips with the situation.
The final result has been the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord signed by President Jayewardene and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Colombo on July 29, 1987, under which it is proposed to carry out a radical devolution of state power, amounting to the grant of regional autonomy to the Tamil people in their traditional homelands in the northern an eastern provinces.
All the militant groups, except the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, have
accepted that the p the Accord go a lo aspirations of the TI the main Tamil poli United Liberation F. The LTTE's posi consulted during Accord; that it was that, in fact, the Acc Tamil people by Indi The LTTE, accor Velupillai Prabhaka anything less than co for the Tamil people The Accord envi things, the total sur militant groups, th 6,000 Tamil youths Prevention Of Ter formation of a government to pr elections, by Dece latest, to a provinci. northern and eastern
The unfortunate October have shat everyone who had h would at last bring pe Indian troops, President Jayeward peacekeeping forc implementation of behaved in a more even the Sinhalese provocation.
AS one who has behind the scenes Settlement of the e
禦 saddened by the turn A 綫 India, it now & & ※ 兹 GAMIN NAWARATNE has been Editor of everyone includin
wardene, for a ride. unpalatable fact is gained hegemony ov What a Sad end to liberation Struggle
CIVILIAN KILLINGS BY INDIA
Saturday Review, published in Jaffna, for the past four years. He took over from Mr. S. Sivanayagan when he was virtually compelled to leave the country. Mr. Navaratne has valiantly espoused the Tamil cause; one of the very few Sinhalese journalists to have done so.
INDIAN COMMANDOS ATTACKED a Tami Tiger stronghold in the hitherto peaceful northwest of the Jaffna peninsula yesterday, claiming to have killed at least 25 rebels in a battle thatraged all day.
There have been persistent reports that Mr. Prabhakaran was wounded in recent fighting But one story that he was seen a few days ago limping away from a hospital in the northeastern Vadamaradchi district is discounted by Tamil sources. They point out that his security is so tight that he would never go to hospital, but rather summon doctors to him, for treatment. The Indians say they killed at least 25 Tigers, though no figures for their own casualties were available. They also claim to have captured large quantities of arms and
ammunition, is and to ha heavily fortified bunkers.
However, the last time killed a large number of said many of the dead we have been cases, in both and the Eastern Pr independent reports sti civilians unconnected wi been deliberately killed. Meanwhile President is to hold talks in Delhit Prime Minister, Mr. Raj Jayewardene had earlie would discuss the questic Sri Lanka and India on relations. The Gua
 
 
 

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है। ई ional Party led by eople of Sri Lanka l, state jobs, land
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roposals embodied in ng way to satisfy the amil people. So also tical party, the Tamil rOnt. tion is that it was not the drafting of the not a signatory to it; ord was thrust on the а. ding to its leader, Mr. ran, will not settle for implete independence from the Sinhalese. isaged, among other render of arms by the le release of nearly detained under the rorism Act and the nominated interim epare the way for ember 31, 1987 the al council linking the
provinces.
events since early tered the hopes of oped that the Accord
ace to the land.
brought in with enes agreement as a e to ensure the the Accord, have brutal fashion than Army, whatever the
worked very hard to bring about a thnic conflict. I am of events. Seems, has taken g President JayeThe unassailable and that India has finally er Sri Lanka.
the heroic national of the Tamil people!
AINS
ve, destroyed many
they claimed to have Tigers, eyewitnesses re civilians. But there the Jaffna peninsula ovince, in which rongly indicate that with the Tigers have
Junius Jayewardene Oday with the Indian iv Gandhi. President r indicated the two in of a treaty between defence and foreign ardian, November 4, 1987
* OCTOBER 1987
MEDIA REPORTS
Gandhi Riding Several Tigers The seemingly intractable fighting in Sri Lanka irritated New Delhi because of the example it set for separatist groups in India, notably the Sikhs in Punjab, and because of the support among Tamils in southern India for their brethren across the narrow Pak Strait in Sri Lanka.
The Indian presence has made the political situation in Sri Lanka highly volatile. The government may be unable to contain future Sinhalese protests. Democracy could be destabilised. * . . .
If the fighting drags on, Mr. Gandhi will face political problems at home. Up to now, his Sri Lankan policy has had broad support among the Indian public (except for Tamils). But how many Indian soldiers will come home in coffins before the policy will be openly attacked?
What New Delhi should do is declare a unilateral ceasefire and invite the Tamils to a new round of talks. At the same time, a multilateral peacekeeping body is needed, consisting perhaps of a Commonwealth force of troops from other Asian States. Its presence could offer much needed insulation and allay suspicions that India is seeking to impose its influence on Sri Lanka.
Mr. Gandhi has a few other options. Failure to act soon would Compound a tragedy that has cost thousands of lives and shattered the tranquility of a region with tremendous potential.
international Herald Tribune, 22 October
INDIA'S HOPE OF PLACATING THE TAMLS IS A MIRAGE. . .
"May make it quite clear that we are not at war, We do not have a military objective. if that idea has filtered down to you, please remove it. We are involved in a political-military task".
This assertion by General A. S. Kaikat, acting commander of India's troops in the Jaffna peninsula may be accurate in a legalistic sense but neither the Tamil Tigers, the Tamil civilian population, nor even the Indian troops themselves appear to believe it. No such speculation is possible from the estimated 1,000 people on all sides who have died in the past three weeks from the Indian action. Accurate figures for Indian troops are hard to come by - the best estimates range from 16,000 to 25,000.
The general assessment is that the Indian forces are in a terrible mess. Officials will tell you confidently that they have achieved one of their prime objectives by default-namely, the disarming of the Tamil Tigers by virtue of capturing several of their biggest arms dumps. The Tigers, however, are pastmasters at smuggling arms from abroad.
As the occasional journalists' forays into rebel held territory have shown, the town was never effectively sealed until after the Tigers had fled, taking their small arms.
The Indian hope is that the Tamil population will eventually blame the Tigers for causing the renewed chaos and violence, and that the Indians Will defuse any temporary anger by assisting in the rehabilitation of the bruised peninsula. No one can confidently predict the success of this scenario but already the association in civilian minds of the indians as protectors and saviours has been badly battered.
The Indians are rapidly losing freedom of movementandare increasingly at the mercy of the Tigers. It is the latter who can determine the pace of the action, not the Indian army - and the Tigers show no desire to surrender either their arms or their dream of Eelam, their separate Tamilstate.
"The independent, 29 October

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OCTOBER 1987
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Tarrnii Mladiu Leaders
Appeal For Peace
TWO LEADING INDIAN TE TildП politicians have appealed for an end to hD blöds Ed in Sri LFInka and H||Es for a negotiated settleTent to the island's problems.
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Jaffna, Rebel Flee"
THE BEST COUNSELone can give Mr. Rajiv Giridhi zat this stige of his en ÇÇLunter with tha Tamil "tigers" is the same as Abe Lincoln's äcl'wiCEI 10 a friand: L'of Eri yCJL Faye go the Tiger by his Ia and he wants to run away, it's best To let hi ir r 1 r lura.
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Worldwide Protests Against Indian At
An Appeal to Prime Minister Gandhi from th Multi-Ethnic Society for Sri Lank
SMES is upset about the present deteriorating situation in S
As a Swedish-based voluntary group which is working towards ethn Sri Lanka, we condemn and regard the killing of innocent Sinhalese civ Lanka by alleged militant groups as obscene.
We also condemn the Sri Lankan government's provocative methods colonising of "Tamil areas" with Sinhalese settlers, after the Peace Acc July 1987,
We strongly urge your government that it should neither advocate through its peacekeeping force, nor play the role of subjugators of the there will be a state of no return to peace in Sri Lanka, should the Indian continue to indulge in violence to curb one or the other party in the conflic
Lately, the Indian peacekeeping forces seem to have taken the rol Lankan army, and thus degraded itself and lost its credibility with the peop
: We therefore suggest that the Indian army should be withdrawn imme and subsequently substituted by a United Nations peacekeeping force, the way to a lasting peace in the strife-torn country.
it is our strong belief that peace should be brought about by mutual coparties involved and not by attempts to intimidate one or another party int
ARU SWEN
PEACEAccord-Nosol
Text of a resolution passed by the Ceylon Tamil As
Victoria, Australia,
The expatriate Tamil Community of Victoria after viewing the recent strongly believe the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord in the present form reasonable solution to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the Ceylon Tamil Association of Victoria, hereby declare our sol support and recognition to the freedom fighters of Tamil Eelam endeavour to preserve the security and integrity of our people. We also request the Indian Government and its armed forces to allov International Red Cross into the Jaffna peninsula and to stop fort Tamils and resume negotiations with the freedom fighters.
Jaffna University undergraduates
Students' Assembly appeals to
Excerpts from a letter sent to Rajiv Gandhi by the Assembly or
STARTING ON October 10 the military operation of the Indian security forces brought into this country for the special purpose of maintaining peace has resulted in: A. The premises of the University of Jaffna being made a base for offensive operations against the LTTE and Consequently: 1. The buildings including the laboratories and library were heavily damaged. y
2. Forty-one civilians including 4 undergraduates
C. The fighting continue warious organisations : CommissiontObring abo
D. As a result of the fight adverse effects have bee 1. Women, children ande 152 civilians have been k, continuous shelling from raids by the joint indiana
have been killed. 2. Over 400 civilians have 3. The deaths resulted from civilians being kept as 3. Over 350,000 people ha hostages by the Indian troops. and housed in refugee ca
4. Houses in the vicinity of the University have been wrecked and over 50 civilians have been injured. s
B. The presses publishing the two Tamil national dailies were bombed and destroyed but it is interesting to note that the mass media Rupa vahini, Dhurdharshan and AIR have reported that these presses had been sealed. This is utterly false.
4. Even the refugee camp
shelling. Three civilians (
the Jaffna Hindu ladies (
College camps.
5. Even the Jaffna Genera
display of the "Red Cross been subject to attack by
Lankan Forces. Also othe electricity and Waterhav

OCTOBER 1987
ocities 2000 March e Swedish PAST INDIA
HOUSE
c harmony in a united - lians in the East of Sri
of state-aided forceful ird had been signed in
violence in Sri Lanka Tamils. We fear that peacekeeping forces
t
? Of the notorious Sri. le as peacekeeper, ti į diately from Sri Lanka which hopefully paves
operation between all he conflict.
SANDANAM (Chairman) |-AKE AULIN (Secretary)
Ition
sociation
events in Sri Lanka,
will not bring any we the Members of lidarity, unqualified for the courageous
v foreign media and with the killings of
R. K. JEGANATHAN
Tamils from throughout Britain marched through London to show solidarity with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as the genuine representatives of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka. LTTE are engaged in a bitter struggle against over 8,000 Indian troops in Northern Sri Lanka.
ln Tamil Madu state in southern lndia, over 500,000 supporters of LTTE marched over the same weekend to demand an end to the indian government's barbaric onslaught against Tamil civilians in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna.
Despite the brutal attack on these Sri Lankan citizens in their own country by a foreign power the Sri lankan government has remained silent on the "genocide". The Sri Lankan High Commission in London said no statement had yet been made by President Junius Jayewardene,
Asian Times, October 23, 1987
killed.
Rajiv October 17
s despite appeals from to the Indian High Ita ceasefire.
ing to-date the following n caused:
lderly people totalling led as a result of all directions and air ld Sri Lankan forces.
been severely injured.
/e been made homeless mps.
were subject to ed following shelling at ollege and Jaffna Hindu
| Hospital, despite the 'sign on its roof, had he Indian and Sri essential services like been subject to heavy
attack and as a result supply lines have been completely destroyed and the hospital service is completely paralysed.
6. Telecommunications, Postal, Transport and Banking services and fuel and food supplies have come to a halt.
7. As a result of the lack of facilities set out above, the refugees may die of starvation and, with the rainy season now on, epidemics are likely to set in if no properand immediate action is taken to ensure food supply and maintenance of health and sanitary facilities,
It is generally felt among the members of the
public that the attacks by the joint Indian and Sri Lankan Forces during the past week are the severest and much more severe than the atrocities by the Sri Lankan Forces alone during the past four years. It is Our humble appeal that your Honour will intervene on humanitarian grounds and ensure that:-
a. Ceasefire is brought in with immediate effect
b. Normal life is restored to the Worth and East
Sgd. l. Arasaratnam Secretary

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OCTOBER 1987
ACCORD GOES BEFORE SUPREME COURT
AS THE BATTLE for Jaffna ended, the government's "war" to defend the "Peace Accord" moved to another, equally important front - the Supreme Court. This week the full bench of the Supreme Court will hear petitions for and against the 13th amendment and the Provincial Councils Bill. The AttorneyGeneral has returned post-haste to the island
Indian Ci To Run
THE INDIAN GOV senior Tamil-sp Contracts Of at le administer areas
which will be seer Delhi sees little cl
to present the Government's case, to its peacekeepin
To the layman, the main political issue that has emerged from the nationwide post-July
29 debate is the proposed North-East merger Oo for a trial period of one year, and the referendum in the east at the end of that Crack of interim period. The critical issue in a word is fails to tam the "franchise".
Can the voters of the Eastern province by Peter
alone decide this and can they do so after a one-year trial period or must they do so, under the present constitution, simultaneously i.e., at the Provincias Council elections?
'Lanka Guardian, 150ctober, 1987
THE INDIAN ARM the city of Jaffna, Tamil Tigers, but ir all around the city rebel army are sitti
It admits that operation' in Jaffn Indians are mo inexorably across peninsula.
When news cam the East which kill army officer told n war is going to go c soldiers dying ever The Tamils are groups, those who and those who hatt for Indian Peacek bitter Tamil wits Innocent People-Kil Jayewardene ga ference last Friday yet another olive t leadership. Althout controversial plan administration in t would be droppec offer of an amnesty pardon to the Tige their arms. He ever place in the democr hardly the language defeated and demo The politicians in do not want to spe Indian Army can what it is supposed
The Obser
RELATIONSBETWEEN LOCALTamil people and the Indian force appear to be rapidly worsening throughout Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka, where the soldiers are deployed. India says it has 14,000 troops in Sri Lanka, but unofficial estimates in Colombo and in New Delhi put the figure at 20,000 to 25,000.
The Indians, once public advocates of the Tamil cause and Critics of the Sri Lankan government, were at first Welcomed as peacekeepers who would underwrite a July 29 Accord designed to end a four year-old guerrilla war and bring Tamil militants into the political process in newly created autonomous areas in the north and east.
Now Tamil neighbourhoods are daily reporting acts of violence against civilians by Indian troops searching for guerrillas Ortheir sympathisers.
Troops from the Indian army and commandos of the Central Police Reserve Force have refused to estimate civilian casualties in Jaffna, the base of the Tigers.
But residents fleeing the city all speak of the killing of men, women and children as the Indians advanced on the town with armoured personnel carriers and tanks, razing buildings along the route. Jaffna's telephones are cut off and there is no electricity and little food. Many residents have fled to temples or schools, or are trying to escape the peninsula altogether.
in Batticaloa, reports are emerging daily about Indian revenge attacks On the Tamil village of Saturagunda after an Indian army convoy hit a land-mine, killing 20 to 25 troops.
"International Herald Tribune,0ctober 20, 1987
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7 has all but taken stronghold of the hideouts in houses he remnants of the gtight.
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e of an explosion in 2d four soldiers, an he: 'That's how the in from now - a few 7 day'.
divided into two dislike the Indians them (IPKF stands 2eping Force), but say it now means ling Force. ave a Press conin which he offered branch to the Tiger gh he said that the S for an interim he North and East l, he repeated his and unconditional 's if they laid down promised them "a atic system'. This is one would use to a alised opponent. Delhi and Colombo culate on when the go back home, or o do if it stays. ver, November 1, 1987
An Unfortunate Setback
THE INDO-SRI LANKAN Agreement seems to have entered an extremely difficult and problematical phase, with a defiant and now hostile LTTE choosing to fight the Indian Peacekeeping Force. The organisation had shown a great deal of reluctance in joining the peace process and indeed its leader, V. Prabhakaran, had declared that it was only their love of India that prompted them to accept the Indo-Sri Lankan Agreement.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the reemergence of the hawkish Minister for National Security, Lalith Athulath-mudali, brought about a certain hardening of attitudes and a reckless-ness in the approach to the militants. The attempts to fly the LTTE leaders, captured in the sea, to Colombo for interrogation was a brazen and immensely provocative move, as their mass suicide and the orgy of killings that followed showed tragically. The Sri Lankan Government, or at least some part of it, clearly cannot escape the blame for the
present pass,
- it would seem, after all, that ther indian determination and earnestness in implementing the peace agreement is not matched or reciprocated by the parties on either side of the Sri Lankan ethnic divide.
The Sri Lankan Government has hardly kept to the spirit of the agreement and has been less than forthcoming on the substantive package of devolution of powers to the provincial councils. The Government of India has kept up the pressure on Colombo to meet the demands of at least the moderate Tamils but this has remained a little-known facet of its peace effort. It needs to make clear its stand and the efforts to upgrade the devolution package and counter any impression that it has been applying pressure one-sidedly on the Tamils.
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A. people's hurt: A Tamil father in Jaffna tries to comfort his wounded child.
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CHILD'S ANGUISH: A Tamil boy whose arm was amputated during an Indian attack on Jaffna.
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