கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
இந்தப் படைப்பின் நூலகப் பக்கத்தினை பார்வையிட பின்வரும் இணைப்புக்குச் செல்லவும்: Tamil Times 1988.03

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CONTENTS
No Time for Posturing............................ 2
Fresh Indian Move................................. 3 SSN 0266 “Eelamadu'Blasted............................. 3 ANNUAL SUBSC
UK/India/Sri Lanka. . LTTE seeks talks............................... 4 All other Countries. .
JVP Hit List................τα 4 Published mont TAM TIMES
in Tamil Nadu.................. 5 Eelam FactOr in a P.O. BOX 1 Peace not through suppression............ 6 suTSNSS
A shattered illusion................................ 7 Views expressed by contributors licated 9 those of the editor or the pub Sri Lanka at Complicated pass............... The publishers assume no respc Wrong war, Wrong place.................... 12 unsolicited manuscripts, photog
NOTIME FORP
The last few weeks have witnessed, even by Sri Lanka's alr standards, a spectacularly high rise in the killing and the counter-killing of civilians in the eastern province, and of more so in the Trinconnalee district. Defenceless infants, di children, men, women and old people have been ruthlessly an killed in an orgy of unparalleled savagery. Tamils, Muslims of and Sinhalese have been killed. Many people have fled from pe their hones in fear and thousands have been added to the ever-rising refugee population. But the attacks and counter-attacks have continued unabated.
Whatever may be the objective of these killings, they in cannot be justified under any circumstances. Whoever may sy be their perpetrators, they must be condemned uncon- ре ditionally, Neither the excuse that it is inevitable that in a de war some civilians deaths are inevitable, nor the explana- tig tion that some members of the present generation have to O pay with their lives in the interest of future generations can in be accepted in the case of the present wave of killings. The Pe victims have neither died in a cross-fire nor have they died W. in the course of a struggle for a better future. They have Pe been killed in their homes or in buses while travelling. pr
These killings have gontinued to occur despite the presence of thousands df troops belonging to the Indian Peace Keeping Force. Up to now the Sri Lankan troops in the Tamil areas have been confined to their barracks under the terms of the lindo-Sri Lankan Agreement. However the ac escalating body count of civilian victims and the high Pr turnout of refugees from the eastern province have created tio an atmosphere in which the clamour for the deployment of re. Sri Lankan troops for the protection of the civilian popula- re. tion has become more and more strident. The recent Visit so by Minister Gaminl Dissanayake accompanied by Service ar. Chiefs to New Delhi and their discussions With Indian is leaders would appear to have been aimed at urging New by Delhi to agree to such deployment of Sri Lankan troops in th the eastern province. Although not confirmed in New Delhi, thi reports in the Sri Lankan media indicate that India has Ta agreed to allow the Sri Lankan troops to play a role in Ta support of the IPKF. In other words, contrary to the Indo-Sri la Lankan accord, they are to be permitted to go out and ne engage in military operations under the guise of protecting m the civilians. This constitutes a dangerous development to an the people of the eastern province. They have experienced tre
 

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CONTENTS
Abrupt end to death fast...................... 13
-4488 Readers Forum................................... 14 RIPTION Study into Asian heart risk................... 17
£10/USS2O . E15/USS30 it happened in Jaffna........................... 18
ly by Elections to P.C.S................................ 19
LTD 21 V− PKF operation in Jaffna...................... 20 5. 3 TD Numerology and politics...................... 21
, are not necessarily A melodious Voice stilled..................... 23 ishers. insibility for return of A painter departs................................. 24 raphs and artwork. Jaffna medical faculty.......................... 25
OSTURING
nost four years of death and destruction at the hands of Sri Lankan troops. Hundreds of villages and thousands homes were destroyed. People taken into custody appeared without trace. People were shot in the streets d homes. Such incidents were a daily routine. The people the eastern province do not deserve a repeatrformance.
Although brought to end under questionable circumstces, the fast unto death by the 58-year old Mrs. Annamah David of the Batticaloa Mothers' Front was poignantly mbolic of the deep desire of the people for a return to ace after years of trauma and tragedy. The Front's two mands, namely that there should be a cease-fire in the hting between the LTTE and the IPKF and that negotians between India and the LTTE should restart are an ambiguous manifestation of the people's thirst for ace. The wide support the action of this self-sacrificing man received, reflected the deep-felt heartache of the ople for an end to the fighting and violence. The ofound significance of this action and the genuinness of 2 demands it advanced have not been diminished by the spicious circumstances in which the fast was brought to
end.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has cepted the Front's demands and in a letter to the Indian me Minister has pledged to cooperate in the implementan of the Indo-Sri Lanka accord and expressed its diness for unconditional talks. Indian leaders have peatedly asserted that they too are seeking political lution. If that is what they want, it is not beyond them to ange for a cease-fire and recommence negotiations. This no time for political posturing for propaganda purposes either party. This is not the time nor the Tamil areas are 2 place for the IPKF to experiment or gain experience in 2 art of combating urban guerilla warfare. Nor can the mill people endure a prolonged display of the capacity by mil nmilitants fo Mvield their AK47s, Kalashnikovs and dmines. The body count of Tamil militants, IPKF personland above all of the defenceless unarned civilians are punting daily. The tragedy has been played too long. India d the LTTE have a duty to put an end to this ongoing gedy and give peace and the people a chance.

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MARCH 1988
IN DAN FRESH MOV TOWARDS LTTE
Mr. Balasubramaniam Kanagarathnam alias Raheem', an LTTE leader underhouse arrestin Madras, has been flown to northern Sri Lanka to make contact with the LTTE chief, Mr. W. Prabakaran, amid fresh efforts by India to bring the group into the mainstream of the island's politics, according to authoritative sources.
Raheem was flown to somewhere in Vavuniya along with another LTTE top-runger, Johnny, in an Indian Air Force helicopter a few days ago.
According to Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) intelligence, Mr. Prabakaran is hiding somewhere in the jungkes in the Vavuniya area. Raheem was understood to have undertaken the visit on the directive of Mr. Sathasivam Krishnakumar, alias Kittu', who was the Jaffna commander of the LTTE before he lost a leg in a grenade attack. He was understood to be carrying the Government of India's response to Mr. Prabakaran's latest offer of unconditional talks to end the conflict. The
offer vas con March 9, to Rajiv Gandhi Delhi was will with the LTT commitment
accept the Ind
India had n allowing top their “persona the time of sig sources said, tacts between bakaran were Balasinghan sources in J theoretician, had escaped to gler's boat frol sula. He had security sourc
According might be rece Balasingham i the Indian off
TAMIL POLITICAL PRIS BEGIN DEATH FA
Five Tamil political prisoners at the New Magazine Prison at Welikade in Colombo began a fast unto death demanding the release of all political prisoners detained without trial.
The five who commenced the fast on 17 March are Sebamalai Francis Perera (22), Kandiah Amarasingham 31), Ramasamy Raman (21), Visvahingam Jeevaratnam (21) and Thangavel Ramadas (22).
Before undertaking the fast, over 800 Tamil political prisoners detained at the Boosa army camp and the Welikade prison had written to President Jayawardene requesting him to grant them an amnesty in terms of the Indo-Sri Lanka accord. The text of the ketter sent to President Jayawardene by 763 detainees at Boosa and 129 from Welikade is as follows:
This request is in response to Your Excellency's address to Parliament on
the occasion of Session on TI February 198:
'Your Excell that Your E amnesty to thc Accord, lay do democratic pri
'I wish to st am one who ac am incarcerat cellency's requ not be applical less, I wish violence, and democratic pri which I would earliest possib
'I, therefore to consider fa release conson cy’s address ti
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We invite those critics or supporters to write in their point of
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ained in a letter dated he Prime Minister, Mr. The sources said New ng to discuss all matters provided it first made a o lay down arms and -Sri Lanka Agreement.
ot changed its views on TTE leaders to retain
weapons' as agreed at hing the Agreement, the dding the present conNew Delhi and Mr. Pramainly through Kittu. n escapes: Informed affna said the LTTE r. Anton Balasingham, Tamil Nadu by a smugn Madagal in the peninnarrowly escaped IPKF es twice. to the sources, Kittu iving counsel from Mr. n his current talks with icials.
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ency was pleased to say (cellency will grant an ose who accept the Peace wn arms and accept the OCeSS.
ate by this letter that I :cepts the peace accord. I ed. Therefore, Your Exest to lay down arms will ble in my case. Nevertheo state that I eschew I am committed to the ocess in this country in like to participate at the le opportunity. request Your Excellency vourably my immediate ant with Your Excellen
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KARUNANDHI PLEADS FOR PRABAKARAN
The DMK President, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, has said the Tamils all over the world, including the people of Tamil Nadu, were shocked that about 6,000 Indian soldiers were making efforts to capture the LTTE leader, Mr. W. Prabakaran, 'dead or alive".
In a statement issued on 19 March, Mr. Karunanidhi said the Indian Army continuing to hunt down the LTTE members and its plans to kill Mr. Prabakaran showed a vindictive' attitude, despite the LTTE's announcement that it was ready for talks and that there should be a ceasefire and a situation where the LTTE need not use arms to facilitate the beginning of negotiations. The hands of the Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, will be stained for ever with the blood of the Tamils by the efforts to liquidate the LTTE or Mr. Prabakaran who, from the beginning, had respect for and confidence in India'.
A plea: The Government of India, which was in a stronger position, should "magnanimously relent and establish peace in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. The Prime Minister should deem the request of Tamil Nadu as a mother pleading for the life of her son and Mr. Gandhi should change his "callous heart' and immediately show compassion to this problem, Mr. Karunanidhi said. It was not reasonable on the part of the Government of India to find a military solution now when India had earlier advised that there should be no military solution when the Sri Lankan Army killed the Tamils and the LTTE in 1987.
“Udhayam’ Publications
With a view to encourage potential Tamil novelists to publish their works, a printer in Batticaloa (St. Sebastian Printers) has taken the initiative. Last month "Theiva Tharisanam' a novel by the Batticaloa poet and writer S. Gunaratnam was published. The publisher plans to release a Tamil novel every four months. To achieve this, he has organised a system of subscriptions from readers numbering 500 to 1000 each contributing Rs. 100/-
This payment will be valid for five years and all books published will be sent free to these subscribers.
Writers and readers in Tamil interested in this apparently a welcome book venture can contact the publisher at the following address: Udayam Publishers, 65, Lady Manning Drive, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.

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LTTE PLEDGEST AND SEEKS TAL
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has pledged to co-operate in the implementation of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement and appealed to the Indian Prime Minister to occasion a cease-fire without further delay and initiate negotiations to discuss all related issues to bring about peace in Tamil areas.
The text of the letter dated March 9 sent by LTTE leader, V. Prabakaram, to Rajiv Gandhi reads as follows:
"I wish to write to you once again to clarify our position with regard to, a negotiated settlement and the implementation of the Indo-Sri Lankan accord.
"You will appreciate that our organisation had been appealing to you for peace, for cessation of hostilities for negotiation to put an end to this unfor
EX-SENATOR KILLED
Former Senator and ex-Chairman of the Jaffna District Development Council, Mr. S. Nadarajah, was shot dead by a gunman allegedly belonging to a Tamil militant group. The penalty was meted out for his alleged association with the Indian Peace Keeping Force. At the time of his murder, Subramaniam Nadarajah was 72 years old. He was a lawyer by profession, a pioneer member of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress and later of the TULF and was popularly known as Pottar'. The epithet denoted by a physical cavity on his forehead which resembled closely a Pottu' placed by Hindus on their forehead.
Mr. Nadarajah was a Senator from 1965 to 1971 and Chairman of the Jaffna DDC from 1981 to 1983.
IPKFORDERS CIVILIANS TO SQUATON ROADS
The Indian Peace Keeping Force in the Batticaloa district, on 9 March, ordered more than 1500 civilians to evacuate their homes along the side of the railway track from Thannimunai to Vantharamoolai and squat on the nearby roads.
The IPKF is said to have ordered this action following an alleged information
tunate conflict and to suffering of our people. "Morally and spiritually to this war. We always end to this painful trag not of our choice. In t regret to note that the India has persistently r gent and sincere plea
So far as the Indo-Sri is concerned the LTTE co-operate with its imple feel in this that the imp the accord should saf terests and aspirations Our concern for the il people is based on our le the chauvinistic attitut Lankan regime, whic thwarted the accord by its commitment.
In order to honour
ل WASUD
The left parties, wome service organisations, s and non governmenta are the next targets ea Patriotic Armed Batta military wing of the p) Vimukthi Peramuna.
In a leaflet dated issued by the Unifie (Ekabadda Mulasthan riotic Armed Battali Sannaddha Balakaya are listed as being or
The targets listed in Task Force, the Green parties now compris Socialist Alliance, ChI vice organisations suc Dewa Sarana, student the Independent Stuc foreign funded Non Organisations.
In accordance with death to traitors and dom to the people the groups have all been death by this leaflet.
The STF and Gree cused of state terror held responsible fortl rights of the worki collaborating with th inviting the presenc forces in the North al JVP regards as an ar
men were deployed a stretch of the railway train reached the B station.

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) CO-OPERATE KS WITH INDIA
alleviate the
we are opposed wish to put an edy which was his context we Government of ejected our urfor peace.
Lankan accord has pledged to mentation. We plementation of 2guard the in
of our people. nterests of our gitimate fear of ide of the Sri h has already failing to fulfill
the demands of
the Mothers' Front of Batticaloa, we made an open statement on 27th February 88 announcing our readiness for unconditional talks. I officially inform you of our readiness for unconditional talks to resolve all the matters between the Government of India and LTTE.
"You may be aware that the condition of Mrs. Annamma David has become very serious. She has been fasting unto death for the last 19 days to bring about cease-fire and negotiations.
"I urge you earnestly to occasion a cease-fire without further delay and initiate negotiations to discuss all related issues to bring about peace in Tamil areas and save the valuable life of Mrs. Annamma David.
"I hope that you will give earnest and serious consideration to our appeal.'
VP's HIT-LIST EWA NEXT TARGET?
ns groups, social students unions, al organisations irmarked by the lion which is the roscribed Janata
January 28th d Headquarters aya) of the Patpn (Deshapremi ) these targets
the hit list.
clude the Special Tigers, the Left ing the United istian social seras SEDEC and groups such as ents Union and Governmental
their policy of peace and freeabove-mentioned threatened with
n Tigers are acsm. The USA is e betrayal of the g class and of government in of the Indian d East which the my of occupation
ng the 15 mil track until the ticallon railway
SEDEC and Deva Sarana are accused of financing Eelamist terrorist groups and engaging in reactionary activities. The ISU and the various NGO’s are also held responsible for similar activi
ties regarded by the JVP as unpat
riotic.
The leaflet mentions the late Mr. Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara by name and calls them traitors to the motherland who deserve death.
The Left party leaders are accused of colaborating with Uma Maheswaran of the PLOTE to form terror squads to hunt down patriotic elements. These military squads are supposed to have been trained by the PLOTE in Batticaloa and given arms by the government. For these reasons and for supporting the Indo-Lanka peace accord the above mentioned groups, who are reactionaries and traitors should be eliminated, the leaflet states.
NEW ARCHIDEACON FOR UAFFINA
Canon Dr. Donald Jeyapalan Kanagaratnam has recently been appointed Archdeacon, Jaffna. He had previously served as the Principal of the Theological College in Pilimatalawa and was until recently the Parish Priest of the Vavuniya and Mullaitivu districts. Canon Kanagaratnam graduated from the Theological College, Serampore, India and later obtained his Doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. Ven. Dr. Kanagaratnam will be responsible for the supervision of all Anglican Churches, Social Service Institutions and Schools in North Sri Lanka. We extend our felicitations to the new archdeacon and wish him all success in his services to the community during the difficult days ahead.
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MADRAS NEWSLETTER
The “Eelam Fad in Tamil Nad
POCS
The month of March ushers in the yearly heat wave in Madras. This year promises to be no different. April–May brings in the Sun in all its scorching intensity, to be followed by the drought-hit months of June-July. Not very pleasant months to go round asking for people's votes. The question being asked by everyone is - and no one has the answer - when will the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections take place?
With the imposition of President's rule and the installing of the High Commissioner in Britain Dr. P.C. Alexander as Governor (he hails from the neighbouring state of Kerala), the political dust caused by the death of MGR and the ensuing infighting in the AIADMK has settled down for the present. The only dust that is being raised is the extra one that Governor Alexander is causing through his heroic efforts to clean up the city and repair the roads; an attempt, sad to say, which was totally missing during the last years of MGR's 10-year rule, making Madras increasingly infamous not only for its political uncleanness but its physical dirt. Governor Alexander who on assuming office declared with enthusiasm that his first priority would be to hold elections does not seem to be imbued with the same enthusiasm now. The final electoral rolls, we are told would be ready on May 6, in which case the elections could not possibly take place before July, the month when the chronic water shortage is felt most. Under the Constitution, it is possible to push the polls even beyond this year: the Governor's term could be extended and the President's rule could be sustained for a year. But while water, price rises, corruption are all major domestic issues, the truth is dawning on all sections of opinion that the crucial factor at the election that might outshadow everything else is the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. This has become an embarassing prospect for the Congress-I and the Central government.
The Congress-I has been exhibiting a determined jaw to wrest power in Tamil Nadu this time, come hell, come Karunanidhi. But then there is a long way between Delhi's determination and the facts of life. Having yeilded power to the Dravida parties 20 years ago in 1967 when C.N. Annadurai formed his government and then virtually banished from the scene by Karunanidhi's spectatcular DMK victory in 1971, the Congress could only keep a toe-hold in Tamil Nadu affairs
thanks to M increasing de It suited MG tik, and it su mass base, to club, initially DMK kept latterly becau to prevent march over b Tamil questi left Congress base except o litha. But thi had already everyone cor maind of her Tamil questic taken for gra question of w the MGR les vided - it is her path!
The scenari of MGR's dea At the beginn home and ALADMK, th two Js – Jan (39), with a tion ironically between two whose origins Janaki an Jayalalithaal ka. The cynic fight betweer tress, but r strong—man V more homely difference bet between hom food. Both sid charges at ea ciousness an that it cuts o the DMK, wh it out in the smirk on his political divid for the askin
Meanwhile, to muscle in. the Centre C shifted to th Congress-I Pr purpose of s campaign, bu several fissur cinema star broken away and is worki the Weerappal Congress-I g. decided to th

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GR's 'sick' rule and his pendence on the Centre. R - a master of realpolited Congress-I without a get together in a friendly because the shadow of the erpetually looming, and se both needed each other Karunanidhi stealing a oth of them on the Eelam in. The exit of MGR has I with neither friend nor he staunch ally - Jayalas personable lady herself given strong signals to cerned that she has a own on the Sri Lankan n and that she cannot be nted; and anyway on the ho has the moral claim to gacy” — divided or undi. best that no one crosses
o that existed in the wake this also fast changing. ing when it was purely a home match in the e tussle was between the naki (62) and Jayalalitha Dravida party confrontadescending into a contest Brahmin females both lie outside Tamil Nadu, Iyer from Kerala and h Iyengar from Karnatas first said that it was a h the wife and the misecently Janaki sponsor Weerappan expressed it in language. He said the ween the two was the one e-cooked food and hotel es are trading corruption ch other with such ferod first-hand knowledge ut much of the work for ile Karunanidhi is sitting sidelines with a happy face, because whatever
ends that accrue are his,
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Congress-Iis trying hard
Congress-I secretary in .K. Moopanar has been south as Tamil Nadu esident with the express pearheading the party's t in the process causing es within. The now-faded
Sivaji Ganeshan has und formed his own party g in close alliance with -Janaki faction. Another oup of dissidents have row their lot with the
now-emerging national opposition to the Congress-I - the Jan Morcha headed by V.P. Singh. While the present polarisation of forces indicates a Congress-I - Jayalalitha alliance on one side of the electoral fence and all other forces including the powerful DMK on the other, the chances of the Jayalalitha AIADMK being further weakened by a few defections cannot be ruled out, There are some internal rumblings already.
Sometime in January, it was presumed that the successful completion of Sri Lankan Provincial Council elections possibly around April-May could ease the path of the Congress-I in facing the Tamil Nadu elections. That hope was soon dashed. President Jayewardene had to put off the elections in the North-East until India is in a position to gather the necessary inputs for an exercise in democracy — the candidates, the voters, the fear-free atmosphere. But that precisely is Delhi's problem. As far as the Tamil people in the North-East are concerned, they cannot conceive of elections until and unless the Rajiv government sorts out its problems with the LTTE; which in turn cannot be brought about unless India drops its intransigent position on its demand for an unconditional surrender of weapons. To the Indian policy makers it could be a question of prestige but to the LTTE it could be a life-and-death issue that involves their very future and the future of the Tamil people.
While North Indian opinion is itself beginning to express disenchantment with the IPKF role in Sri Lanka, it is feared that in Tamil Nadu that might well become an explosive issue. Some accommodation with the LTTE has become imperative between now and mid-April when Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is due in Madras for the All India Congress-I flag-waving sessions. Without it, there is precious little to tell the Tamil Nadu voter. Given the distinct certainty that Karunanidhi & Co., Janaki and Weerappan (not to mention Kalimuttu with his special brand of vitriolic Tamil prose) and even Sivaji Ganeshan and all Congress-I opponents will use the Eelam Tamilissue as a stick to beat the Centre, and Jayalalitha and Moopanar compelled not to yield ground on the issue, one cannot rule out the curious scenario of an invisible electioneer in the field - LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran!
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PEACE CAN'T BE BOUGHT BY SUPPRESSION
Says People's Forum
The PEOPLE'S FORUM of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a body established for the exchange of views and moulding englightened public opinion, with its office at 21/4, Stanley Road, Jaffna, has made a strong plea to the Indian Prime Minister to desist from the course hitherto followed by his government and to "create the necessary atmosphere for the understanding and acceptance of the Accord by the aggrieved Tamil people'.
In its third letter addressed to the Prime Minister, dated 15 February 1988, the Hony. Secretary of the Forum, Mr. T.S. Kumaresan, has said:
During the vicious Vadamaradchchi onslaught by Sinhala armed forces, and before that during the past years of violence and atrocities perpetrated on the Tamil people by the Sri Lanka government, they had in your Excellency and the people of India someone to whom they could complain, and through you to the world for redress and justice. Today they have nobody, not even the IPKF that came with the avowed commitment to protect and safeguard them, but has turned against them suddenly transforming itself into an army of aggression. Can the victims complain to the wrong-doer and his minions? The Sinhala chauvinist leaders and other elements opposed to the peace accord are gloating at the misery of the Tamil people. It is a great pity that the arrival of the IPKF was greeted with happiness and relief by an overwhelming section of the Tamil people in the Sinhala provinces. Their hopes and aspirations have been shattered. Their unbearable experience even drove them to think whether the IPKF offensive was the final phase of the "Operation Liberation' planned by the Sri Lanka government and against which India voiced her protest vehemently and openly indicating that she had reached her limits of patience.
"One can understand the motive of the Sinhala government - genocide of the Tamil people - but not that of the IPKF or India whose avowed commitment was all along for a negotiated political settlement to meet the aspirations of the Tamil people and against the imposition of a military solution in which the tottering fascist regime of President Jayewardene believed. In the IPKF military offensive thousands of houses had been completely destroyed and razed to the ground; temples, churches, schools, hospitals, public institutions, and even the Jaffna University and refugee camps were not exempted. In the panic and fear which ensued a great many civilians (almost the entire
population of Jaffna) and kept wandering to even to places like C odus is continuing. Th of freedom that the Tal country are chasing all lency's government in phantom of violence ul jab has not resorted ti cent civilians and c properties.
"In the result, quite loss of lives and prope have been forced to liv abject squalor and pov their means of livelih the priceless possess Tamil people have alw them, suffered a seriou this period. For the months children had b. out of schools. Even no refrain from attending fear. The Courts, gov and other public inst closed for the last five and electricity were cu peninsula was thrust ness. All these only military operation to meet with the succe: tended. Thus, the vul Accord is manifestir spheres of its implemen any benefit can flow fr the Tamil people rem
doubt .
“The assumption til proposals for a Provir up in Sri Lankais par set-up in India is most efficacy of the Accord on the terms of the sc to meet the crucial a issues of the strugg people. Unless such so real autonomy to a sil comprising the North powers on matters lik the police, land and and other features of prove illusory, and the people could feel that sacrifice and sufferil
Cambridge
TRINITY COLLEGI has decided to sanct £2000 sterling (abou year to Mrs Janaki R. late Srinivasa Ran mathematical genius
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ft their abodes places of safety, ombo. This ex; is the chimera lil people in this er. Your Excellealing with the leashed in Punkilling of inno2stroying their
apart from the ty, many people : in conditions of rty, having lost ood. Education, ion which the ays held dear to s setback during ast four to five een forcibly kept w many children
their schools in 'ernment offices itutions remain
months. Water it and the entire into total dark
show that the o has failed to ss that was innerability of the ng itself in all tation. Whether om this Accord to ains a matter of
hat the present cial Council setallel to the State misleading. The depends entirely lution envisaged ind fundamental le of the Tamil ution is based on gle Tamil region and East with e law and order, land settlement utonomy it could aggrieved Tamil their tremendous g have been in
vain. Their's is a long tale of woe littered with promises, duplicity and deceit followed by violence and genocide. Nationalism feeds on oppression.
"The picture that has emerged calls for a reappraisal of values. Should the Indian government continue with its military operation causing further havoc and disaster to the common people, or should a new approach be made towards rectification of errors already committed? This is the question looming large . . .
"To the Tamil people the events of the last three of four months were full of nightmarish experiences. Never in the wildest dreams would the Tamil people have come by the phenomenon that their Indian saviours turning to be their killers or destroyers. The psychological impact has been tremendous; they never before felt such an intense sense of betrayal. Their tales of woe and suffering are no doubt bound to debilitate the image of India in the eyes of the world. The wounds inflicted may be healed in the passage of time, but the scars will remain as important landmarks in their recorded history. Time has still not run out for doing what should be done to alleviate the sufferings of the Tamil people. This is the challenge facing the Indian government today. How the Government of India will react to meet this challenge, only the future will unfold.
'We conclude with the following passage from the speech made by Your Excellency's mother, the late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi to the Indian Students' Association of Washington in Washington on November 5, 1971:
"We all know through history that men have been killed, men have been wounded, crushed and suppressed, but the spirit of man and the ideas of freedom, of human dignity, have never been crushed in the history of man. We have been through this in India and every country which fought for freedom has been through it. It is this spirit of man which has helped man to progress and to rise to new heights. India certainly cannot be a party to the suppression of this spirit of freedom and human dignity. Nor do we believe that peace can be bought by such suppression. Perhaps you can delay freedom but you cannot prevent it.'
pension for Mrs Ramanujan
, CAMBRIDGE on a pension of ; Rs 45000) per manujan, wife of anujan, India's
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A SHATTERED ILL
by C. KATHIRESAN
If we Tamils now feel betrayed by India, it is because we cast India in the role of the 'White Knight in Shining Armour' who would one day come to the rescue of the Sri Lankan Tamil damsel in distress. Every time the going got rough for us we beseeched Mother India' to intervene. So that when Indian planes dropped relief suples to the beleagured citizens of Jaff. na, we heaved a sigh of relief that India had made its first tangible move. And when almost against the run of play the Indo-Sri Lankan peace accord was signed, we were convinced that our expectations of Indian support were well founded. As Indian troops set foot on Sri Lankan soil, the euphoria was uncontainable. Suddenly, what seemed a much desired but improbable scenario was being enacted before one's very eyes.
If we are disillusioned today, it is as much for the unwarranted carnage which the IPKF unleashed on Jaffna
as it is for the reason that we have had
our dreams of a special relationship shattered. Somehow we had planted firmly in our thinking process an assumption thatour struggle forlibera... n had the unreserved support of India. It is ironic that the majority of the Sinhalese also still believe this to be true. It is this central assumption that has driven our strategy, our plans, our calculations and our hopes. All the pieces of circumstantial evidence buttressed the theory that in the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, India would put its weight firmly on the side of the Tamils. It was reasonable to assume that with over 40 million Tamils within its own territory India would find it difficult to sit on the fence in a conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamils. A positive measure of this support was that after 1983 Tamil
militants wer in India, frol their resistar Security force quasi governi regular touch even trained niently ignore ry that were Thé Indian by making th gestures wher stepped up h Tamils. All th tors of a growi the Tamil pos read more int India had in m or optimistic
There was a in the relation tween India a The physical p tion Groups ge manage its rel ing state whi traditional ene tants needed India equally r ure point thrc acquiescence it could be secur ly clear that a of the ethnic would involve rightly spurne ment with th ment unless agreement Wer Sri Lankan gc had stridently from India in internal prob round to the v. able, however national pride. its immediate c Accord was sig
DSAPPEARANC IN SRI LANKA
The question of enforced involuntary disappearance of persons in Sri Lanka was again raised at the Forty-fourth sessions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights held at Geneva during February-March.
The following is an extract from the statement made before the Commission by Amnesty International:
In the current report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, one finds the SRI LANKA Government resorting to the familiar denials or evasions that are so often invoked by governments to avoid responsibility for "disappearances': the disappeared' have left the country, or changed their names, or been killed by rival militant groups or in clashes between such groups and the security forces. However, there is also a wel
come, albeit im of the problem “with the retu authority to th sections of the ment hoped to personnel for
more intensive those reported However, no d to have been c. ment and so f appeared in S and mid-1987. first-hand ev appeared' were forces. Some foi under the terr Lankan accord saw some of tortured and,
assist in the b

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assured of a safe haven where they mounted ce to the Sri Lankan s. It is no secret that ental agencies were in with the militants, and heir cadres and convethe supplies of weaponlowing in to them.
overnment went further appropriate belligerent President Jayewardene s offensive against the ese were strong indicang sympathy in India for tion. But, if we Tamils this support than what ind we were either naive beyond reason.
ways a symbiotic streak ship that developed bend the Tamil militants. resence ofTamil Liberave India the leverage to ations with a neighbourh was flirting with its mies. If the Tamil miliIndia's supportive role, eeded them as the pressugh which Sri Lankan n foreign policy matters d. It became increasingly negotiated settlement problem in Sri Lanka India. The LTTE quite ed any bilateral agreee Jayewardene governthe terms of such an 'e underwritten by India. vernment circles which opposed any interference what they considered an lem, gradually veered tew that it was unavoiddamaging it was to their India had thus attained bjective. By the time the ned, both the Sri Lank
an government and the LTTE, with all their reservations about the terms of the Accord (for obviously different reasons) had conceded the right of India to set the agenda for the resolution of the ethnic conflict.
Having thus conceded this right albeit by implication, it is injudicious for the LTTE to attempt its reversal through a trial of military strength. It is, of course, important to stress that the direction of the IPKF, which mounted what was virtually a scorched earth policy in dealing with the LTTE was not only flawed by even the minimall standards of any professional army but it also directly contributed towards the distancing of the LTTE from a position from which it could negotiate.
But negotiate we must - instead of extending the antagonistic posture into a propaganda war against India. There are situations when it is not only appropriate but more effective to achieve what you want by showing up the moral weaknesses of your adversary. But if what you want is not a sectarian, narrow, limited objective but self respect and peace for a people who have cried out for it for too long a time, there is an urgent need to review your strategy. If the LTTE on the basis of their own claims and in fact as most would concede, has become the undisputed vehicle through which this can be realised, it is important for them not to be distracted by provocations - however grave, but proceed to come to terms with the harsh realities of the
real world and deliver to those whose
expectations they have enshrined. Given that it is not in India's interest to preside over the total annihilation of the Tamil liberation movement, the LTTE still has options available to it which can be exercised without compromising the righteousness of the Tamil cause.
CES' A
plicit, acknowledgement
in the statement that rn of effective civilian e northern and eastern country, the Govern
release resources and better organized and work in the tracing of
to have disappeared'. 2cisive inquiries appear inducted by the governur over 650 people ‘disri Lanka between 1983 In most cases there is dence that the 'disarrested by the security mer detainees, released ns of the July Indo-Sri have sworn that they he 'disappeared' being in a few cases, had to urning of some of their
bodies inside Special Task Force Camps in eastern Sri Lanka. Furthermore, relatives of Sinhalese persons recently reported to have been arrested in southern Sri Lanka complained they were unable to establish the whereabouts of arrested family members.'
The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances of the Commission submitted a detailed report on the subject. The following represents the statistical summary of 'disappearances' contained in the report: I. Cases reported to have occurred in 1987 28 II. Outstanding cases 667 III. Total number of cases transmitted to the Government by the Working Group 686 IV. Government responses
(a) number of cases on which the Government has provided one or more specific responses 213 (b) Cases clarified by the Government’s responses 14 W. Cases clarified by non-governmental SOULC8S 5
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The situation in Sri Lanka is complicated and difficult, but there are теш) hopes атdтеи) eacpectations. A Special Correspondent of“FRONTILINE” writes on the situation that is developing in the wake of the brutal assassination of a political visionary, a man of eacceptional and even reckless courage, the SLMP leader and filmstar, Vijaya Китaraтatштgа, атd also looks at other developments in the North involving the IPKF and the LTTE.
Seven months after the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement - which was expected to bring ethnic peace and other gains to the island and also to the relationship between the two countries - the situation is quite unsettled and apparently full of risk. Can implementation of the balanced and fargoing package overcome the obstacles and odds and go ahead? Can peace return to a nation which has been bleeding for many years now, both the Tamil and Sinhala components?
While several soft and even nonsensical options have been proposed all round, including by certain opposition elements in India which have called for a more-or-less unconditional pullout by the Indian Peace-Keeping Force, the hard option is precisely what India has been engaged in implementing. No one can pretend that this is precisely what the signers of the Agreement had in mind on July 28, 1987, or that the path ahead is clear. But in the face of the inter-related acts of ethnic violence, chauvinistic opposition and sheer terrorism, no one has come up with a reasonable alternative to the hard option being pursued on the ground.
In the North and East, over 55,000 Indian troops equipped with formidable firepower and logistical support and elements of air cover and naval deployment have been engaged in the deadly task of disarming and neutralising the Tigers - a task that has won partial success, especially in the Jaffna Peninsula, but has involved a fairly high toll. Will the LTTE go further in its course of taking on the Indian armed forces - fighting with "one and a half hands tied to the back' - or come to terms with the basic requirements laid down by India's role of demilitarising the ethnic conflict? With the Tigers making an offer of “unconditional talks' during which arms would be handed over in
return for se their leaders India respond have been rai major challen the Tamil re LTTE handi cooperating plementing t tering the po In the So Jayewarde weakened int political gam Minister Ran National Se Athlulathmud stream politi the murderol by the Jana (JVP) which i regime (in p knees. Sirim Lanka Freedo JVP seem to undeclared pe pose. The c accumulated mic troubles, the politicals nation. The Agreement - central, deter the ethnic co
The campai the JVP and s groups as the Patriotic Ar National Ca Traitors' (see ly toll in the S the loss of li property, it h and uncertain
Nevertheles political strug J.R. Jayeward the Indo-Sri I the Governme resourceful ol implementatic cooperator w. stake in the provides for a tion, the pro both legislativ to be devolved means holdin councils - e. combined No) being put of saboteurs. Cr this democrat formidable ch way to go, it

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blicated new hopes
curity and protection of and cadres, and with ing positively, new hopes
sed. They focussed on the
ge of establishing peace in gion on the basis of the ng over its arms and with India in imhe Agreement while enlitical mainstream.
uth of the island, the ne Government - ernally by the dangerous being played by Prime asinghe Premadasa and curity Minister Lalith ali - faces tough maincal opposition as well as Ls terrorism spearheaded ta Wimukti Peramuna s determined to bring this ower since 1977) to its avo Bandaranaike’s Sri om Party (SLFP) and the have forged some kind of olitical front for this purombination, plus long socio-economic and systedo pose a live danger to tability of Sri Lanka as a immediate target is the - and specifically India's mining role in resolving nflict.
gn of terror mounted by such death threat-issuing 'Joint Headquarters of med Forces' and "The mpaign for Punishing boxes) have taken a deadinhala areas. Aside from ves and the damage to as spread demoralisation ty all round.
is, the back-to-the-wall gle waged by President ene and the supporters of anka Agreement within nt and outside has been a ne, and India's part in in makes it a high-profile th a direct and major results. The Agreement
new democratic institurincial council, to which e and executive power is . Serious implementation g elections to the eight pecially the one for the th and East - without by the combination of 2ating the conditions for c devolution exercise is a allenge - but there is no
seems, but on into the
political minefield. Meanwhile President Jayewardene might have a surprise or two up his sleeve, for his adversaries. And India's role, going through a very difficult phase, might come through stronger and clearer by March-April.
It looks like a high-risk strategy, pursued within a tight time frame, in which tangible results achieved on the ground in the North and East are perceived to hold the key to an eventual political resolution of the crisis.
But despite the prescriptions advocated breezily by the V.P. Singhs, the Chandra Shekhars and the Karunanidhis, it is clear that capitulation and retreat would mean disaster - from the standpoint of the Tamils, from the standpoint of the viability of Sri Lanka as a nation, and from the standpoint of India's larger interests.
In the critical analysis of a scholar, James Manor, who focusses on the complexities, the risks and the new hopes: "The Accord of 1987 is fraught with ambiguities and difficulties, but it offers Sri Lanka the first genuine prospect of social reconciliation and political regeneration since 1981. If it collapses, the alternatives are without exception alarming, for every section of the island's society.' It may be added that for India the alternatives - in terms of backing out of serious implementation of the Agreement or abandoning the hard option where the soft options amount to capitulation - are equally unacceptable.
DEATH OF A VISIONARY On February 21, the backlash was moving and powerful - too overpowering perhaps to hold together as a settled fact of political life, in a nation wounded badly by ethnic strife and frequent terrorist strikes against civil society. It was a spontaneous democratic fightback against chauvinistic Sinhala terrorism which seemed to have forged a political understanding and even a nexus with a mainstream chauvinistic party. The mass mood was taken to the whole country by live coverage of the entire proceedings on
State-owned television and radio.
The death of a political visionary, a man of exceptional and even reckless courage who happened, surprisingly to be Sri Lanka's most popular filmstar, evoked this extraordinary response from all sections of Sri Lankan society. The congregation at Independence Square where the body, enclosed in a casket mainly for the reason that the
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handsome face had been blown off in the brutal assassination with a T-56 automatic rifle, was cremated on a Sunday afternoon was estimated reliably at 400,000 to 500,000. It was a very impressive figure for a nation with a population of some 16 million people.
Vijaya Kumaranatunga did not merely swim against the Chauvinistic current of the post-1983 period. He did so in a manner, and displaying a simple, heroic style, that set him off as a political leader from virtually all the rest. He spoke out, at a low moment for Tamil political fortunes as well as for the island's politics, in favour of returning to the principles and the baseline of the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact of 1957 - as a way out of the ethnic mess. When an Indian correspondent met him in Colombo in lateDecember 1985, he openly supported the proposition of merger of the North and East as the unit of devolution. În striking out in this unexpected way, with results that proved personally fatal, Vijaya was in strong partnership with his wife, Chandrika, younger daughter of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the former Prime Minister, and chair
person of the SLMP, w away from the SLFP i Vijaya Kumaranatu ismatic political figure fair and just political island's ethnic dispute brutalised over an exte publicly recognised th fact of Tamil alienati armed militancy, and t the Tamils. He favo devolution of power as progressive solution.
When the Sri Lan pursuing a costly mili the North and East, h Madras in 1986 and 19 section of the Tamilm moderates and Indian He travelled in a convc the Tigers” den, seekin release of Sinhala sold process, a civilised pi with the LTTE leaders public accolade from th er, V. Prabakaran.
After the Indo-Sri La was signed in July 1987 its strong supporter wh
* All those who supported the so-called Jayewardene-Gandhi Peace Agreement which betrayed our motherland and our people to the Indian imperialists and the legislation to establish Provincial Councils.
* All those who are supporters of the traitor Jayewardene fascist clique and its murderous policies.
the agressor forces and who attempt to whitewash its destructive actions.
* All those who attempt to betray the patriotic forces that enter the struggle to protect the motherland from the Indian aggressor forces and their puppet, Jayewardene. * All those who kill, torture or harass the patriotic forces in accordance with the illegal repressive laws enacted by this illegitimate government in order to repress the patriotic forces. * All those who organise terrorist cliques of various forms and assist the traitor Jayewardene to repress the patriotic peoples organisations (Deshapremi Janata Wiyaparaya). * All those who engage in activity of any kind against the patriotic forces and who seek to mislead the people on behalf of the enemies of the motherland. . . Patriots We shall fight against Jayewardene, against his fascist clique, against his fascist killers, against the Green Tigers that he has organised. We shall climb over mountains of corpses; we shall swim across lakes of blood; we shall sacrifice our lives; we shall fight for the independence of our motherland. This we swear to you.
However, allied with this open
* All those who support the presence of
PUNISHMENT TO ALLENEMIE
enemy and fighting ag tic forces are many ene These enemies, directe Jayewardene and reac tional orgnisations, ap people as progressives, human rights activists, leaders, or trade union by secret funds from t) Suspect organisations Church like SEDEC or acting in concert with organisations, they brought into being sometimes armed by order to terrorise an forces.
We can only protect by sweeping away not aggressor, not only th but also this third for disguise.
Who are these ene force?
The Lanka Sama which from its birth o 1935 has misled the wi betrayed the working critical juncture, has for the UNP in retur honours, etc. for the
The Ceylon Commu from its inception on fed itself from the Movement but has ac the UNP, betrayers of ing class movement in effect betrayed the rev ment in Sri Lanka.
Vijaya Kumarana tered the SLFP throug in order to split wha principal anti-UNP fo try, who spawned a conspiracy in order to

ich hadbroken an earlier era.
ga was a charwho advocated a esolution of the which had been nded period. He e socio-political n, the roots of he grievances of red a genuine he rational and
kan State was ary solution in came twice to 37 to meet every litants plus the political leaders. y to Jaffna into the negotiated ters and, in the litical dialogue
He even won a Le LTTES lead
nka Agreement , Vijaya became üle reservingthe
MARCH 1988
right to express his doubts and his criticism of the overall performance of implementation - as well as his oppositional politics. Vijaya's line in the left alliance during this period was heroic - uphill all the way. It was a line of mobilising the masses for a fightback against mainstream political chauvinism and terrorism that exploited the new mass mood. While the LTTE proved the chief obstacle on the Tamil side - taking on, eventually, nothing less than the Indian Peace-Keeping Force - the JVP proved a vicious enemy which clearly felt that its time had come in the wake of the “treacher. ous’ Agreement.
The brutal gunning down of Vijaya in daylight, at his home, marked a significant triumph for these forces. Since the signing of the peace Agreement, they have embarked on an ideological and terrorist campaign, switching back and forth to the relevant tracks. The SLFP opposed the constitutional amendments for the devolution of power through provincial councils and has announced a decision to boycott provincial council elections. But the most virulent enemy has been
'S OF THE MOTHERLAND
ainst the patriomiesin disguise. d by the traitor tionary internapear before the social workers, artists, peasant leaders. Backed he UNP or from of the Catholic * Devasaranaya, Eelam terrorist have already Eerrorist gangs, the State, in d kill patriotic
our motherland only the foreign he open traitors ce of traitors in
mies, this third
Samaja Party n December 18, orking class, has
class at every in effect worked n for privileges, reactionaries. hist Party which Fuly 3, 1948 has World Socialist ed as stooges of the entire work1980 and has in blutionary move
tunga who enh marriage only t was then the rce in the counbogus Naxalite allow Jayewar
dene to postpone the general election of 1983, who has now embraced Eelam terrorist murderers and is acting in all respects as the obedient acolyte of Jayewardene.
Vasudeva Nanayakkara who has acted in a similar fashion and a number of so-called trade union leaders who fatten themselves on the movement but refuse to lift a finger against the repression of the working class by Jayewardene.
The Janata Sangamaya which battens on support from SEDEC and Devasaranaya and other suspect foreign organisations and is a reactionary tiger in the disguise of a peasant organisation.
A clique of various human rights and women's activists who receive assistance from reactionary international organisations and are active in disseminating leaflets and pamphlets.
The Independent Students' Union which is only a catspaw of the Eelamist terrorist organisations.
These are the enemies of those who are true enemies of Jayewardene, of the real opposition to him.
At this critical juncture, all those have taken a stand on behalf of Jayewardene, on behalf of reaction.
All these are the enemies of the motherland and therefore deserve to be punished. Independence for the motherland and peace and liberty to the people requires that all these should be swept away.
Death to all enemies of the motherland.
Liberty and Peace to the People.
JOINT HEADQUARTERS OF
PATRIOTIC ARMED FORCES Јатиary 25, 1988

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the JVP.
This party began as an ultra-left' non-parliamentary party dedicated to the creation of a 'socialist society' through "revolution'. It, however, refused to accept plantation labour as a genuine component of the Sri Lankan proletariat and opposed Indian expansionism'. At the beginning of the Eighties, it was 'sympathetic' to the cause of the Tamils, going to the extent of recognising their "right to selfdetermination'. After 1983, it swung again and today it is the voice of extreme Sinhala chauvinism, totally devoid of any scruples and any 'socialisto content.
The JVP's present political agenda is simple - a call to the Sinhala people to agitate for a general election at which they would be expected to elect, with a two-thirds majority, a government that would 'abrogate' the peace Agreement, send the Indian Army, dubbed an “aggressor force', back to India, scrap the provincial councils and crush Tamil militancy by military force.
Anyone who opposes this programme, anyone who supports the peace Agreement and the devolution of power exercise, becomes a “traitor to the motherland'. It is this simple logic that proclaimed Vijaya Kumaranatunga a “traitor' and publicly claimed credit for his assassination.
Vijaya was the prime mover in forging an alliance of left and progressive tendencies and parties to campaign on the chief national question in Sri Lanka - the ethnic crisis. The United Socialist Alliance was to include two Tamil political organisations - the PLOT led by Umamaheswaran and the EPRLF led by Padmanabha - and was to be the first symbol of a determination to overcome the island's ethnic division.
The three parties of the left - the Sri Lanka Mahajan Pakshaya led by Wijaya and Chandrika Kumaranatunga, the Communist Party and the Lanka
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Our motherl from slavery the illegitima tatorship of t pet Jayeward traitors in dis him.
The people traitors in sa The Vijaya which split th Jayewardene Eelamist ter. munist Party Party and t Party leaders rayal of our 1 dent Studen associate of T various socia women's arti tions which a Catholic Chu tionaries and the so-called betrayed the the Indian a These trait themselves Jayewardene forces. They
and are cons
Sama Sama working toge years, advoca of the ethnic of devolution. Party led by has struggled alliance; its o the LSSP wh sanction to w away. This d early 1988.
The first in might cover a
There is no peace today either in the North or the South. The Jayewardenes and the Amirthalingams must bear the responsibility for this situation. The people in the North are, in addition, subject to the military terror of a foreign army. After signing the secret pact with Gandhi, the JayewardeneDissanayake fascist clique is acting to repress the people's opposition by murderous assaults on patriots. . . The violence of the patriots is only a reaction to the State-sponsored fascist violence of the Jayewardene-Dissanayake clique.
The monopoly in volence that the Jayewardene regime enjoyed is now at an end. Being frightened, they are now escalating violence against the people. This will bring them to their inevitable end. All those who talk about peace must understand one thing: peace can be obtained only by chasing away the illegitimate, treasonous, fascist clique
THE ONLY
of Jayewa Thondaman. * In order to the traitor J Hitler, must * In order to the stooges sanayake, Ananda Tiss traitors - r * The India sent out of * The Secr Pact must b * The Provi which is a b majority of actually incr repealed. * Eelamist t * The State dene clique * All foreign

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LTHOSE WHO HAVE DIED ARE TRAITORS
WHO DESERVED TO DIE
and cannot be rescued
except by overthrowing te, reactionary fascist diche India-dominated pupene clique and of various guise who are supporting
recognise these as the ervice of reaction today: Kumaranatunga clique he SLFP at the behest of and then embraced Tamil orist murders; the Com, the Lanka Sama Samaja he Nava Sama Samaja who supported the betmotherland; the Indepents' Union which is the amil Eelamist murderers; l service, human rights, ists groups and associare the instruments of the rch. These are the reactraitors who supported
peace agreements, who
country, who supported ggression.
ors have now organised to assist the Hitlerite
clique against patriotic have brought to Colombo piring with Uma Mahes
waran, an Índian stooge and a Tamil murderer. They have trained some persons in Batticaloa in one of his camps; armed by him and with the blessings of the Jayewardene clique, they are now set to attack the patriotic forces . . .
James Athugala, who was punished recently, was one of these trained persons. Nandana Marasinghe was one of . their organisers and a police informer. The activists of the Vijaya Kumaranatunga clique, of the Communist Party, of the Janata Sangamaya located at Devasaranaya which is now part of the reactionary Catholic Church, opponents of so-called chauvinism, are the other parties to this.
Patriots
Do not be deceived by these traitors.
... we have correctly recognised the enemy. We shall punish them as they deserve. In the struggle for the liberty of our motherland and our people, no traitor can be forgiven.
Patriots, Unite
Sweep away all traitors and their supporters.
THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR PUNISHING TRAITORS 1988-01-18
ja Party - have been ther over the last three ting a political resolution conflict through a process The Nava Sama Samaja 7 Vasudeva Nanayakara for some time to join this vertures were rejected by nich did not wish to give hat it considered a breakifficulty was overcome in
dications that the alliance widerscope - and bridge
the ethnic divide in practical terms - was the presence of the PLOT and the EPRLF at a meeting of trade unions and other progressive organisations convened by the four parties to denounce the use of violence as a political instrument. The statement issued by the four parties chronicles the rising authoritarianism and repressive tactics of the Government in both the North and South. While condemning such 'anti-democratic' activities, the statement denounced the use of violence and
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ROAD TO PEACE
ar den e - Dis s an ayake -
bring peace to Sri Lanka, ayewardene, an avatar of be removed from power. ) bring peace to Sri Lanka, of Jayewardene - DisRanil Wickremasinghe, sa de Alwis and all other must be thrown out. h aggressor forces must be Sri Lanka. et Jayewardene-Gandhi be totally rejected. ncial Councils legislation, 2trayal of the rights of the the people and which eases inequality, must be
errorism must be defeated.
terrorism of the Jayewar. must be ended.
intervention in the affairs
of Sri Lanka, including that of India, must be ended. * The territorial integrity of Sri Lanka, the sovereignty of its people and full democracy must be reaffirmed and restored.
We do not want today a provincial council election. What the country requires is a general election and a presidential election. Therefore, all opposition parties must boycott the provincial council elections, and agitate and struggle for general elections. In order to achieve the objectives mentioned, the opposition forces must ask the people for a two-thirds majority in Parliament. We are confident that a united opposition can win this power. All patriots, all true opponent parties, all groups must realise this.
Central Committee of the JANATA VIMUKTI PERAMUNA
November 18, 1987

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WRONG WAR, WRONGF
What does enlightened Indian opinion feel about the Rajiv Gandhi Government's imbroglio in Sri Lanka? Here are relevant portions of comments made by LT GEN. S.K. SINHA, (Retd.) in an article under the title Defence Debate' and published in the INDIAN EXPRESS of 26 February 1988.
Lt.Gen. Sinha, known to be a brauny, brainy soldier-scholar, is also an effective communicator, both as public speaker and writer, and while in the Army was
acclaimed as a strategist of note.
Even in retirement he has been gaining in stature in his home state of Bihar. THE course of events in Sri Lanka has been topsy turvy. The peace accord has resulted in large-scale death, destruction and despair. We sent our troops to the island to protect the Tamils and have ended up fighting the Tamil Tigers. We now have 70,000 troops in Sri Lanka, fighting a bleeding war on which we are spending Rs. four crore a day. The rationale behind our military involvement in Sri Lanka is difficult to understand. Initially we flexed our
Contid, from page 11
terrorist methods by both the LTTE and the JVP. The thrust of the statement was in favour of the reestablishment and reinforcement of democratic norms and practices, including the exercise of their democratic rights by the Tamil people in a scheme of devolved power.
Vijaya Kumaranatunga, who campaigned against timidity and excessive caution in taking forward this line, was the prime mover in forging the left alliance. Aside from posing a sharp alternative to the Sinhala chauvinist forces led by the SLFP and the JVP, the alliance would pose a visible alternative to the UNP in the formulation of policies for economic, social and political development. It would seek to project a non-racist, non-capitalist alternative in the island's politics despite the ideological-political differences and nuances among the various parties of the alliance.
The formal announcement of the formation of the front, with the adoption of a programme of action, was scheduled for February 21. It happened to be the day Vijaya Kumaranatunga - the stuff of which political visionaries and heroes are made — was cremated in front of unprecedented numbers of people streaming in from various parts of the island to pay an extraordinarily moving tribute.
The question now is: what is the way forward and what lies in store for those who have proposed an alternative? Courtesy of Frontline, March 5-18, m 1988
military muscle by vi an air space and dr relief stores, half of fallen in the lagoons Thus this mercy mis mere 12 tons of relief beleagured people, ha succour. It greatly national pride.
Thereafter, as an in vote catching exercise an accord, which wa book repetition of the accord. Notwithstand our jawans have be exemplary gallantry a difficult for them to re arising out of a basica They have thus got en a wrong war at the W. the wrong time.
Imaginary While talking to
Shantiniketan recer Minister justified our in Sri Lanka on th Lanka, otherwise, wo a base for forces un and that would have our southern borders, pares the justificat Nicaragua, Afghar Lanka, one discerns a larity. All of them are ary threats. The sofaced from Sri Lan. discussed in detail. times smaller than In size and military stre by itself is in no posi threat to us. The supe a threat even without Lanka, but in the pres scenario, that threat 1 very remote possibilit unlikely to venture distance operation beyond its capability. forget in a hurry the phy she learnt in 197 sent her forces to Sri L have provided us an tunity to beef up the L it in a long bleeding w That would have ser her on the main fron
Almost as an aftert being argued that if o' gone to Sri Lanka, inimical to us would ha there. This gets ruled ment President Jayev about the time when concluded. He declared tried to get help from t this was not forthcomi UK, Pakistan and Chi did not respond positi then that he turned because India is “the do the region' and is frien The army chief has these operations in th perspective of India's sions”. Indeed we mus
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lating Sri Lankpped 25 tons of thich must have and the jungles. sion providing a tores for 200,000 dly provided any hurt Sinhalese
age building and
, we rushed into almost a copy
ill-fated Punjab ng the fact that in fighting with nd devotion, it is trieve a situation lly flawed accord. gaged in fighting rong place and at
threats the students at tly, the Prime military presence e plea that Sri uld have become riendly to India, posed a threat to When one comions concerning listan and Sri remarkable simibased on imagincalled threat we ka needs to be Being about 50 dia in population, ength, Sri Lanka tion to pose any rpowers can pose t any base in Sri entinternational materialising is a y. China is most on such a longwhich may be Pakistan will not lesson of geogra1. Had Pakistan anka, that would excellent opporTTE and embroil rar on the island. iously weakened ut in the north. hought it is now ur forces had not foreign elements ave got a foothold l out by a statevardene made at the accord was that he had first the US and when ng, he had asked ina. But they too vely. It was only to India for help ominant power in dly to Sri Lanka.
asked us to see le correct overall security compult do so. There is
likely to be an accretion in Pakistan's deployable strength against us. With the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan, two to three Pakistani divisions earmarked for the PakAfghan border would get released from employment on the Indo-Pak border. Some 10,000 Pakistani troops now in Saudi Arabia are returning home by March 1988. Thus there may be a 70,000 increase in Pakistani strength against us while our strength has got depleted by 70,000 due to the Sri Lankan involvement. The other argument put forward by the army chief, "If you do not help extinguish fire in your neighbour's house, it will spread to yours,' is not very convincing. There is a large expanse of water between the neighbour and us. Moreover, one does not go to extinguish a fire in a neighbour's house and then get involved in fighting him.
Vietnam solution
The LTTE chose to present an identifiable target at Jaffna and our forces smashed their resistance in a difficult street fighting operating, compounded by the former using the civilian population, as a human shield. Now we are engaged in fighting an insurgency. The LTTE may establish a link with the Sinhalese extremists, the JVP, and insurgency may spread from the northern and eastern provinces to other parts of Sri Lanka. With opposition mounting to the octogenarian President and to the accord in his own ruling party, besides the opposition parties and the extremists, and he being the mainstay of the accord in Sri Lanka, we have all the makings of a Vietnam situation on our hands. Insurgency is always a long-drawn-out affair, sucking in more and more troops. It lasted more than 30 years in Vietnam. We ourselves have been engaged in tackling it for more than 30 years in Nagaland. The IPKF started initially as a 8,000-strong force last year, and now its strength has risen to 70,000. The situation has built up for our getting embroiled in Sri Lanka for a long time.
The political fall-out from our involvement in Sri Lanka can also be counter productive. Our forces in Sri Lanka despite all the excellent work done by them, are getting isolated. The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and his minister for internal security have not hesitated to castigate the IPKF in the Sri Lankan Parliament. The opposition parties and the extremists have continued their tirade. Even within our country, there has been growing disenchantment in Tamil Nadu. This may be exploited in the coming state elections. No amount of political gimmickry and devaluation of the nation's highest award, the Bharat Ratna, will prevent this.
The door for political negotiations with the LTTE appears to have been closed. The Prime Minister and the Defence Minister have been repeatedly asserting that there can be no talks till

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ABRUPT END TO DE
IPKF ACCUSED
The fast unto death by 58-year old Mrs. Annammah David of the Batticaloa Mothers' Front came to an abrupt end on the 27th day amidst accusations and counter-accusations. While the IPKF which removed Mrs. David from the Pillayar Temple where she undertook the fast, said that the daughters of the lady had alleged in a letter that their mother was being forced to continue the fast against her will, the Mothers' Front under whose auspices the fast was being conducted alleged that the IPKF had forcibly removed Mrs. David against her consent with a view to bring an end to the fast.
All the circumstances point to the fact that the Indian authorities wanted to avoid the consequences following the probable death of Mrs. David had the fast continued, and therefore created a situation in which it was brought to a premature end with her removal and being force-fed.
The fast began when the two demands put forward by the Mothers' Front in the eastern coastal town of Batticaloa were not fulfilled. The Front's two demands were an unconditional cease-fire in the fighting between the IPFK and the LTTE and the holding of negotiations between India and LTTE. The fast was undertaken by two women members of the Front, Mrs. Annammah David and Mrs. Nesammah Vadivel on February 19.
Right from the beginning, the Indian High Commission in Colombo had attempted to play down the significance of the fast and discredit the Front and the two women by alleging that they had become victims of manipulation by the LTTE. On the 10th day of the fast, the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Mr. Dixit visited Batticaloa but did not see the fasting women. However, the two women took glucose and salted water on being told that a favourable situation was developing for negotiations to commence between the LTTE and India. It is said that they took this step to prevent a serious situation developing in the event of their death and damage the prospects for peaceful talks.
When the two women found that nothing was happening on the negotiating front and the fighting and the IPKF operations were continuing, they recommenced their fast. However, af. ter three more days, Mrs Nesammah Vadivel gave up the fast, but Mrs. David continued.
The death-fast of Mrs. David attracted widespread support in the Tamil areas and there were marches and token one-day fasts by women in support of the demands of the Mothers' Front and the death-fast. The trade unions in the Batticaloa district also staged one-day protest action but their march was banned by the IPKF. It also
prevented
Mamanga I begun to att the fast by
It is said David want tinue with t want her to er, their per not work.
The PK temple on 1 forcibly, rem to an IPK Batticaloa force-fed he
While the had acted in save Mrs. I Citizen's Co IPKF of hav manner. Th Committee, do, in a sta the events Mrs. David
The Citiz loa wishes ta ment with 1 the fast-unt David, organ of the Batti her subsequ yesterday:
"On 16.03. received a t dier Dhar of the Rest h mediately Assistant S President of bearers of th Sent.
“The Brig ing that he written do daughters ol the effect th made to obs ure and coe
S. Vijayanar of the Politic ist Party ofS 8 March as the morning
A note lef said that he “traitor' to th Indo-Sri Luar
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people gathering at the illayar temple which had ract large crowds following Mrs. David.
hat the daughters of Mrs. d their mother notto cone fast because they did not die in consequence. Howevsuasion of their mother did
personnel went to the 6 March and, it is alleged loved Mrs. David, took her Nursing Home in the test House and thereafter
r
IPKF had stated that they a humanitarian spirit to )avid's life, the Batticaloa mmittee has accused the ing acted in a high handed 2 President of the Citizens' Rev. Fr. Chandra Fernanitement issued concerning leading to the removal of said:
ens Committee of Batticamake the following stateegard to the calling off of o-death by Mrs. Annamma hised by the Mothers Front caloa-Amparai district and ent removal by the IPKF
1988 at about 11.45a.m., I :elephone call from Brigathe IPKF to a meeting at ouse. I went there imwith the Secretary and Secretary and found the the Rotary Club and office he Mothers Front also pre
adier informed the gatherhas received a letter, a cument from the three f Mrs. Annamma David to at their mother was being erve this fast under pressrcion and requesting the
assistance of the IPKF to save their mother's life.
"The Mothers Front said that they too had a written document from Mrs. Annamma David to the effect that she was undertaking this fast at her own will and pleasure and that also had a tape recording of her oral statement of the same nature.
'In view of these two conflicting statements the Citizens Committee suggested that we should all proceed to the spot and find out direct from Mrs. Annamma David the truth or otherwise of the two statements and hear from her own lips of free choice in this and then decide on the action to be taken if any. The Brigadier then said that his objective being to save a life, he has already decided to intervene and remove Mrs. Annamma David with or without her consent.
"The Citizens Committee then pointed out that there was no purpose in having summoned this meeting if the Brigadier had already decided on his course of action and walked out and while leaving we heard orders being issued to detain the representatives of the Mothers Front.
Later, eye witnesses complained to me that IPKF had come to the sight of the fast spot and informed those gathered there that they had been requested by the President of the Mothers Front to bring Mrs. David to the rest house where she was. On being asked, why the President of the Mothers Front could not herself come and take her away, the IPKF began to break up the shed and then by firing in the air and forcibly carried away Mrs. David to an ambulance in spite of her ဝှိest and clinking on the foot of her
ed.
"Mrs. Annamma David is a lady of mature years and capable of making her own decision. We are of the opinion that IPKF should have first sought the decision of Mrs. David on continuing or calling off the fast and that the forcible removal of Mrs. David is a violation of her rights.'
JAFFNACP
LEADERKILLED
Lathan, aged 46, a member al Bureau of the CommunSri Lanka was shot dead on he was leaving his home in
t on the dead man's body was killed as he was a e Tamils by supporting the ka Peace Accord.
hanathan, who was also the CP's Jaffna District fork in the peninsula, had been "warned' before that killed because of his activie of his party. He was also ary of the Joint Co
ordinating Committee of Trade Unions in the northern province.
Various political parties in Sri Lanka and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) have condemned the killing of Vijayananathan.
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REUOINDER TODR. SELBO
The perceptive analysis of David Selbourne on Tamil deliverance (TAMIL TIMES, Jan. 1988) is a 'sour pill' for many to swallow. It has pinpointed the flaws in the leadership which have emerged among Sri Lankans (both Tamils and Sinhalese) and Indians. However, what Selbourne says need not be the gospel for the future of Sri Lanka. Though not dismissing Selbourne's logic, I wish to submit some factual overview on the techniques of Gandhi and Mao as it relates to the political struggle of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
From the times of Caesars to Chuirchills and Chiang Kai Sheks, we have learnt that the so-called 'statesmen' with military power can also bite the dust. Only nine decades ago, during the Boxer Rebellion, Kaiser William III brandished his objectives in conquering China: "Peking should be razed to the ground. Show no mercy! Take no prisoners! A thousand years ago, the Huns of King Attila made a name for themselves . . . thus may you impose the name of Germany in China for a thousand years'. The great leveller TIME had His own game plan, so much so that Kaiser's wishes couldn't even last for half a century. Didn't the British rulers brag 'Sun never sets in the British Empire' not so long ago and have to live to eat their words?
SELBOURNE laments that the suffering of Tamils in Sri Lanka “will be prolonged as long as they fail to create from their ranks a unified and mature leadership of statesmen, not brigands'. But, statesmanship is a scarce commodity not only Sri Lankan Tamils, but also among the super powers (and senile super powers like Britain). Who are the statesmen the USA have produced after Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt? Can you consider Harry Truman (the notorious non humanist who used the atom bomb in 1945, and the shrewd, unscrupulous politician who recognized Israel as a state to win Jewish vote against the New York governor Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election) as a statesman? Other presidents of USA who followed Truman have provided only mediocre performances in their statesmanship. Among the Soviet leader, whom do you consider as a statesman after Lenin? Does Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko do credit to the term 'statesman'? Or among the British politicians, after Churchill, can anyone name a statesman? Here, among the Japanese politicians, hardly anyone qualifies to be a statesman. So why blame the Tamils only for not producing a statesman?
Selbourne also sarcastically observed that the Gandhian way is not available, since the Tamils have no Gandhi'.
I raise objection to When he was leadi against the British ) Gandhi was also ridi corners. Leo Rosten 1 called him (Gandhi hypocrite, a mystic. T maharajahs in their l preposterous rabble rc an politicians struggli he was a deluded de incredulous Parliame was a trouble maka (refer, READER'S 1983). Look at the annual reference boo A.C. Black of Londo 1930 or 1931. You entry on Gandhi. He to the British rulers e within two decades, fakir's moral jujitsu mighty British empir To be fair by the Sri leaders of yester yea Gandhi, in S.J.V. Che was an exception amo of Indian subcontinen First, in a region kn bigotry, though being commanded the res) Hindu Tamils for t former Prime Mini S.W.R.D. Bandaranai a Christian, but ha adopted Buddhis Sinhalese). Secondly, (like Mahatmaji) was tub-thumping oratory a man of action. Chelt nized Gandhian-style paigns and other nonmovements in the mi 1960s. But unfortur methods couldn't perf Tamils in Sri Lanka. reasons for the fail techniques in Sri Lai
(1) Mahatmaji was l British as his op self had acknowle tics could not hav any other enemy. minded. Praise t for being good S
(2) Gandhi was figh
who was living moves, thousand from the battle s nayakam had to who was (and is)
(3) Gandhi and his f ter and leave the rule without mu and with no thre denies that they torture). In Sri I what happened t Welikade jail in 1 (and is) in jeopar ated even for pc

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this statement. g the struggle Lulers, the great uled from many 2minisced: "They a crackpot, a ) the rajahs and alaces, he was a user. To the Inding for home rule, magogue. To an ut in London, he r in a nappie'. DIGEST, July WHO'S WHO ks, published by n for the years annot locate an was a non-entity ven in 1930. But this half-naked dismantled the
e.
Lankan political r, Tamils had a lvanayakam. He ng the politicians t for two reasons. own for religious ; a Christian, he pect of majority wo decades (c.f. ster of Ceylon, ke, who was born d to become an t to lead the Chelvanayakam not recognized for '. Instead, he was vanayakam orgasatyagraha camviolent resistance 1950s and early Lately, Gandhian orm any trick for There are many ure of Gandhi’s lkan atmosphere.
Lucky to have the ponents. He himdged that his tace worked against who is less civiche - British rulers ports. ing an oppressor and planning his s of miles away cene But Chelvaight an oppressor living next door.
ollowers could enails under British h physical agony at to life (No one suffered mental anka, considering ) the 52 Tamils in 983, one's life was dy when incarcerlitical reasons.
Therefore, for four decades (1944-83), the Tamil struggle in Sri Lanka based on Gandhian principles and cooperative action within parliamentary democracy practised by C. Suntheralingam, G.G. Ponnambalam, S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, A. Amirthalingam, M. Sivasithamparam and their colleagues did not bring much sun shine to many Tamilians. However, it helped in protecting the flame of ethnic identity of the Tamilians against the statesponsored onslaught of Sinhala language dominance and Buddhist chauvinism. These leaders of yester year deserve credit for this achievement. The Westminster model of parliamentary democracy could work in the United Kingdom to cater to a single ethnic and single religious constituency. It has failed to take firm root in other countries with multi-ethnic and multi-religious constituencies. So, the younger generation of Tamilians drifted towards the military ideology of Mao Tse Tung, since 1977. One may label it as a reckless move. But it remained as a practical alternative. And among Tamils of Sri Lanka, a small faction led by trade unionist N. Shanmugadasan had espoused this cause, though not with much popular support.
Mao (the foremost tactician of guerrilla warfare) summed up his method in just four lines: “When the enemy advances, we retreat; When the enemy camps, we harass; When the enemy tires, we attack; When the enemy retreats, we pursue'. Mao should have known what he was talking about. In 1930, Chiang Kai Shek's forces were superior by ten to one, against his raggedy-pants army. Chiang led a 900,000-strong army, formations of 300 bombers and a German general van Seeckt. Mao's guerrilla army amounted to only 140,000 poorly-armed men (c.f. the present scene in North and East of Sri Lanka; 50,000-strong Indian Peace Keeping Force with superior artilleries against the LTTE rebels, a cadre of 5000!). The results of Mao's victory against the combined strength of Chiang's forces and Japan's Imperial Army reveals that the great leveller TIME doesn't put much faith in the numbers and sophisticated weaponry.
I agree with David Selbourne that, in a conventional war, the LTTE does not have a dog's chance to annihilate the IPKF and Sri Lankan armed forces. How are the chances for a victory for LTTE rebels in a guerrilla war against the IPKF2 General Mao has also noted the five requirements for victory in a guerrilla war. These are: (1) support from the masses (2) party organization (3) strong guerrilla army (4) favourable region for military moves (5) economic self sufficiency. I leave it to the readers to assess, how many of these requirements are satisfied by Tamil rebels at present. Like the Ten Commandments, Mao also formulated the following norms of conduct for his army.

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... speak politely
pay fairly for what you buy return everything you borrow pay for anything you damage do not hit or swear at people ... do not damage crops
do not take liberties with women ... do not ill-treat captives
These orders also could have been delivered from the mouth of Mahatmaji. He had expressed similar sentiments in his newspapers HARIJAN, NAVJEEWAN and YOUNG INDIA during his campaign against British imperialism. But in the present conflict in Sri Lanka, which side (the IPKF or the LTTE) has abided by these norms of conduct? It is only those who follow these commandments who will win the hearts and minds of Tamil population.
History is also replete with examples of powerful armies winning the battles and then losing the war. In his book, HIMALAYAN BLUNDER, a combat participant in the Chinese-Indian border war of 1962, Brigadier J.P. Dalvi, has critically analyzed the debacle of the Indian army. Two interesting para
graphs from tha ducing for those
military science
In difficult t tain, jungle O pe, it is some avoidable to t This is a s Military histc amples to prc primary aim enemy forces, of impossible reasons or t operations to public opinio Both in 18 invaded Russ Hitler launch Russians dr armies deер tory. They r formidable w winter and thaw (facet Generals an which turns sea of mud, t,
LIGHT THROUGH GANDH
METHODS
First, let me congratulate you on the three excellent articles in your Feb. 88 issue. I trust you will develop the theme in these articles in your forthcoming issues.
"In Great Failure' Mr. A.P. Venkadeswaran gives an authoritative and forthright exposure of the hypocrisy of Rajiv Gandhi and his colleagues. This is indeed an eloquent background to a positive call to carry on the Eelam Freedom Struggle.
In "Where do we go from here' Mr. Sivanayagam in his usual inimitable style focuses attention on three options. 1) accept Singhala domination, 2) accept Indian domination or 3) Continue the struggle for independence.
In Tamils a time for self examination' Dr. R. Narendran in a uniquely balanced intellectual and emotional analysis calls for continuation of the freedom struggle and hints at Gandhian methods.
First and foremost every Eelam Tamil should realise that there is no alternative to a Sovereign Independent Eelam to preserve the dignity and welfare of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
In all the rigmarole that has been churned out by Sri Lankan and Indian press, let us not forget the final and firm call of Thanthai Chelva for a separate state of Eelam. Chelva is sacred and dear to Eelam Tamils as Gandhiji is to the Indians.
This call was not sent out in a rash hurry or in a spirit of arrogance. It was made after thirty long years of protracted endeavour to find a peaceful
solution to the Lanka. Every effort of Chelva carded by Singl In the light tions, the Ind rushed with ino Gandhi is a cal truth, a mere deliquency in th statesmanship ( The course o struggle after C commentary on Eelam Tamils b tant. y
Dr. Narendra dhian methods · non cooperation If through th esteemed journ Narendran to struggle along C be rendering a community in c I firmly belie dhian methods their freedom devastated land Indian sub con whole world.
I feel it in th bones that th eminently suite of life by tradit May the force and simple life over evil threat

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book are worth reprowho are interested in
errain, be it mounsnowcovered steptimes militarily unrade space for time. ark military fact. ryaffords many exve this. In war, the is the destruction of It is not the holding ground for political he undertaking of appease an aroused
l.
12, when Napoleon a and in 1941 when ed an invasion, the ew the advancing into Russian terrielied on their most eapons - snow in he dreaded spring iously known as uary and February) Russia into a vast hat brings armies to
a grinding halt. In both cases, the Russians sapped the vitality of the advancing enemy; and on both occasions mighty Russian counter offensives regained all lost territories and destroyed or ejected the invaders'. So, losing ground for strategic reason is a time-tested design in warfare. Mao employed this sound technique against Japan's Imperial Army in late 1930s. The mighty American army succumbed to the same technique in Vietnam in late 1960s. How will the IPKF forces manage, if the guerrilla war spreads into the hill region of Sri Lanka? Well, analysts say that the stock of the Indian army has appreciated since the 1962 drubbing by Mao's conventional forces. But, the Indian army have yet to win a guerrilla war in a foreign land, if they consider Sri Lanka as a foreign territory. We have to wait and see what that great leveller TIME has in His mind for the Tamil.
SACHSRI KANTHA (University of Tokyo, Japan)
AN
Tamil problem in Sri genuine and patient was spurned and disnala chauvinism. of the above observao-Sri Lanka Accord rdinate hurry by Rajiv ricature of justice and exhibition of juvenile he face of consummate of Thanthai Chelva.
f the Eelam Freedom helva, is indeed a sad
the leadership of the both political and mili
n’s spirited call to Ganspecially in the field of
is most opportune. he medium of your all you can help Dr. organise the Eelam andhian lines you will signal service to a listress. ve that through GanEelam Tamils can win and reconstruct their and be a light unto the tinent and indeed the
le very marrow of my e Eelam Tamils are for the Gandhian way ion and temperament. s of Truth, non-violence of Gandhiji triumph ening to engulf Eelam.
S.A. DAVID Anna Nagar, Madras
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LANKAN FOREIGN MINISTER A.C.S. Hameed has said there will be no change in the original number or in the capacity of the transmitters to be installed in the Voice Of America (VOA) broadcasting station on the island, which will be solely used for public broadcasting.
Hameed was answering an adjournment notice by the Chief Whip of the main opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Lakshman Jayakody, in parliament last week asking whather the power of the VOA transmitters was going to be reduced.
He stressed that the VOA station would be used only for public broadcasting and not for any military or intelligence purposes and any added equipment would be monitored continuously to ensure that the agreement was not violated.
The present agreement provides for the setting up of two transmitters - one of 250 kilowatts strength and the other of 500 kilowatts, Hamid said, adding the VOA will pay $80,000 annually for lease of 1800 acres at Anamaduwa in the Puttalam District, 80 kms north of Colombo.
The annexure to the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord stipulates that Sri Lanka's agreement with foreign broadcasting organisations will be reviewed to ensure that any facilities set up by them on the island are used solely as public broadcasting facilities and not for any military intelligence purposes'.
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SEMINAR ON PIGHTTO LIVE''
On 27 February 1988, the Tamil Refugee Action Group held a full-day seminar dealing with Tamils: Right to Live'. It was aimed to bring about 'an awareness of the Tamil problem' and seek 'avenues of redress'.
The seminar held at the Middlesex Polytechnic in London was attended by nearly 300 persons representing various organisations. The Mayor of the Council of the London Borough of Harringay, Mr. Andrew Mikkides, inaugurated the seminar by lighting the traditional oil lamp (kuththu vilakku) while Councillor Toby Harris made the welcome address. Mr. A.L. Vasanthan, acting Chairman of TRAG presided.
Speakers from different organisations including British Refugee Council, United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants in the UK, Amnesty International, and Tamil Women's League spoke at the seminar. The speakers dealt with the situation of Tamils in Sri Lanka, the circumstances in which many thousands of Tamils became refugees abroad, the plight of displaced people within Sri Lanka and the need to help them, the plight of Tamil refugees in European countries, the recent severe restrictions placed on asylum seekers by legislative and administrative measures and how international aid could be mobilised to help the refugees.
Later in the afternoon, the participants broke into three working groups to discuss in detail and draw action plans on designated areas.
SUPPORT FOR MINORITY SCHOOLS
A Labour education spokesman pledged support for Hindus and Muslims who want to set up separate schools in Britain.
The pledge was made by a member of Parliament Derek Fatchett, at a Republic Day dinner hosted by the Indian Journalists' Association here, and is hikely to fuel argument within his own party and in the House of Commons. Separate Jewish and Catholic schools have long existed in Britain, as well as the many Church of England schools. Several private full-time Muslim schools have also been established in recent years, in London, Bradford, Leicester and elsewhere.
But the idea of publicly-funded separate schools is still a contentious one. Fatchett said it would be 'inconsistent to reject educationally justifiable proposals for separate schools from Muslims or Hindus if such proposals would be approved from other religions, such as Jews or Catholics.
His comments coincided with discussions by governors at a largely-Muslim state school in Brent, London, to opt
out of loca terms of ne
INDIA SUSPE
Inderjit Sin on Februar bomb in lu Pacific Airc handlers at 1985, wasp) Magistrate four weeks. He will April 5, whe a Canadian extradition.
The defer adjournmen object becau ing the case Canadian a
Reyat is authorities bomb that e. was being tı dian Pacific plane.
On the sa Air-India Ju London expl people on boi assembling t luggage on b craft. The bo aboard Air-I. transfer from
Reyat wo factory as a He was first 1985, in Van der Singh F Activist on ch sives, but w; India crash o It was after n that the Cana sufficient evi asked the Bl on provision
STUDY HEART
The British F to spend £1. projects aim Asians in Bri disease deat population.
The extra seem to be d pressure, s cholesterol.
Asians are higher frequ abetes, and linked to that explain the h
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authority control under
education bill.
AIR CRASH CT REMANDED
Reyat, who was arrested
4 in connection with a gage aboard a Canadian ft that killed two baggage Narita Airport, Tokyo, in duced before a Bow Street hd remanded for a further
ppear in court again on the Magistrate will hear overnment request for his
e asked for a four-week The prosecution did not e all the papers concernhad not been received from thorities.
wanted by the Canadian in connection with the ploded when the baggage ansferred from the CanaAircraft to an Air-India
me day a bomb aboard an mbo from Vancouver to ded in midair killing 329 ard. Reyat is charged with he bomb and placing it in oard Canadian Pacific airlimb was timed to explode ndia, but went off during one aircraft to the other.
ked at the Jaguar car h electrician in Coventry. arrested on November 6, ouver along with Talvain'armar, a Babar Khalsa larges of possessing exploas not linked to the Airr the Narita bomb deaths. early two and a half years dian authorities gathered dence against Reyat and itish police to arrest him tl extradition warrants.
INTO ASIAN DEATHRISK
eart Foundation is going 5,000 on two research d at finding out why zain have a higher heart rate than the white
risk to Asians does not e to differences in blood moking or levels of
also known to have a ncy of one type of dihe biochemical changes rulnerability may help to gh rate of heart disease. health of 3,000 London
them Asians, will be ofessor Michael Marmot cKeigue, researchers at College and Middlesex
School of Medicine, London.
The results will be analysed in the hope of finding out the importance of diabetes as a factor in heart disease, particularly the part played by raised amounts of the hormone insulin in the blood of many Asians.
The second project will involve screening 1,000 Asians and 1,000 nonAsians in west London with genetic differences between them being studied by Professor Marmot and Dr Steve Humphries of the Charing Cross Sunley Research Centre.
Another grant, worth £57,500, has been awarded by the heart foundation to researchers at Dundee University to study the diet of 12,000 people in Scotland, which has one of the world's worst death rates from heart disease.
ETHNIC MINORITIES ANDEMPLOYMENT
Although ethnic minorities only make up 4.6 per cent of Britain’s population of working age, their unemployment percentage is as high as 20 per cent, i.e. double that for the white population.
An article on workforce trends in the Employment Gazette, published by the Department of Employment, concentrates on the UK's 1.54 million nonwhite workers: 489,000 Indians, 375,000 West Indians or Guyanese, 269,000 Pakistanis or Bangladeshis and the remainder mainly of mixed, Chinese, African or Arab origin.
They are concentrated in certain industries and regions, with 27 per cent of the men (especially Bangladeshis and Pakistanis) in the hotel, catering and repair industries compared to 16 per cent of white men, and 20 per cent of Indian men in the retail distribution.
Ethnic minority workers are also disproportionately highly represented in transport and communications, the health service and parts of manufacturing.
Ethnic minority women often work in the health service and manufacturing while white women are more likely to be in education and banking.
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they have surrendered all their weapons or we have recovered them all. This is reminiscent of the stand taken by the allies towards the end of the second World War about no talks with Germany, unless it surrendered unconditionally. In the event, the western allies found a political map drawn in Europe after the war in a manner adverse to their interests. Further, after we succeed in totally disarming the LTTE, what is the guarantee that on our withdrawal from Sri Lanka, and possibly in a post-Jayewardene era, the Tamils on the island will be treated fairly particularly when their ability to offer resistance would have been neutralised.

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IT HAPPENED
: IN JAFFNA
3000 CVLANS FORCED TO SQUAT UNDER SCORCHING SUN FOR NINE HOURS
We carry below a translation ofa special report published in the JUNIOR VIKATAN, a popular Tamil-language weekly of Madras in its issue of 24 February. JUNIOR VIKATAN is a lively sister publication of the presitigious ANANDAVIKATAN with its office at 757, Anna Salai, Madras 600 002. (Editor: S. Balasubramaniam. Associate Editor: Mathan)
The question whether the military offensive ordered against the Liberation Tigers was justified or not may be left aside for the moment as a debatable issue. There could be pros and cons. Okay, let us even grant for the sake of argument that there were good reasons that motivated the action. But how in the name of humanity could anyone condone or justify the high-handed and brutal way in which the ordinary citizens of Jaffna were treated?' asked a prominent newspaperman speaking to us in Madras. He had just come from Sri Lanka.
He continued: "Why did Indian newspapers who prattle time and again about freedom and democracy in their own country maintain a monumental silence and callous indifference when in the stupid hope of disarming the Liberation Tigers in a day or two, the Indian forces went about killing innocent peaceful citizens and treating them as a herd of cattle?
"Imagine the plight of the people. Not knowhing when a shell might burst, and take away whose life, at what place, the dazed citizens of Jaffna were running helter-skelter in seach of shelter, and having found it, hiding in fear wondering whether it would be safe enough? The Liberation Tigers were living mingled with the people it was being shouted. So what? Where else could they live? Does that mean that the entire population has to be put to sword and fire because the Indian Army does not understand the concept of a "degree of war'.
There was this incident in the "Muddasukkadai' junction ( a commercial and business area) in the Jaffna town,' he said. "A Liberation Tiger had taken a pot-shot at an Indian jawan and killed him. Within a short time a whole battalion of Indian soldiers moved into the area, cordoned off all the environs, marched every man, woman and child found in the area and ordered them to squat on the tarred roads in the hot sun. This began around 9 a.m. and very
soon they had lined persons. There was
sideration whether t.
elderly men or wome young. Until about kept there, withou drinking water, wi facility to ease the shops and roads and and corners were flu the lone Tiger guer
"Any young Tami who he was, and with being asked, was pl with rifle butts. In so elderly people wer handled.
"One group of sold the office of the Tami the EELANADU, pu all the members of th outside. Interestingl charge, Mr. Peruma recent Indian origin tions and one who v ated with the elder one-time editor Mr. Indian national who in India - Ed.) Mr was dragged out and explain, he was beat a piece of wire.
"Next, Indian sold the well-known Tar tional institution, t Vidyalayam, also in t pulled out both the teachers and roughe presence of their owr them suffered face i of being pushed and
"Humiliated as th forced to sit on th convicted criminals, ple were not even a place to ease themse all pleas.
"Repeatedly the s the group of squ threatened them: ' the fellow who kill could not have happ one here knowing person. Tell us, tel they kept shouting
Unable to endu any longer, an elde “Sirs, we come t( observe what is h come here on busin for our living, and get out of this pro fast as we came i remain here one m. necessary. We do (because of the da nor the mind nor with suspicion at here. As for you, yo
 

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up nearly 3000 solutely no cony were old folk, or the sick or the p.m. they were
food, without
not even the selves, until all anes and nooks hed in search of la.
irrespective of ut any questions Imptly assaulted he instances even shabbily man
ers who entered daily newspaper, hed and dragged 2 staff to the road 7, the editor in l is a person of from the plantaas closely associ
ly and respected.
Haran (He was an passed away later Perumal himself when he tried to 2n with a belt and
iers stormed into mil Hindu educahe Vaidheeswara he same area, and men and women d them up in the students. Some of juries as a result hit by rifle butts. ey were by being public road like the suffering peolowed to leave the ves, despite sever
ldiers went up to tting people and You should know ed our soldier. It ned without somehe identity of the
us ... or else ...", at them.
e the tormenting y citizen spoke up: the town not to opening here. We is, urgent business ce we finishit, we lematical place as
We don't like to ment longer than is ot have the time y evening curfew) authority to look Bryone else who is have sentry points
here every 50 yards. You should be having at least 100 jawans in this area guarding, watching, questioning, examining all of us. Are you fair in asking us this question that should properly be addressed to your own sentries?”
"The elderly man who spoke up, paid the price for it. He was slapped and kicked.
"Only vehicles, whether buses or cars or two-wheelers, which have been issued IPKF passes could carry people. Even if you have a woman with childbirth pains to be rushed to hospital you have to find a vehicle with a pass. Getting a pass is not that easy anyway. It would be like boring into a mountain to catch a mouse. Many people who have waited vainly in queues for these passes decide that it would be easier to walk the miles.
“On the appeal made by the Liberation Tigers, or maybe because of their threats, government officers have refused to attend offices. As a result essential government business is paralysed. Only the Jaffna General hospital is functioning somewhat.
"Out of the Jaffna newspapers, only the “Eelanadu” has been given permission to come out, since January 15, and that too under a specific condition; that no news relating to happenings in Jaffna could be published without IPKF clearance. The publishers were told that the imposition of this condition itself should not be published. (Since then, the publication had again ceased with the blowing up of the Eelanadu office building by a Tamil militant group on February 29 - Ed.TT).
"On top of all these, the harassment that Tamils undergo at the hands of some supposed Tamil militant group of youths on the Jaffna-Colombo road, at a spot barely 50-100 yards from the IPKF and Sri Lanka army checkpoints has been causing untold misery. When they identify merchants and business people they are promptly abducted from the place and ransom demands are made; apart from this, all travellers are questioned and treated with disrespect. The funny thing is that such high-handed behaviour, extortion and robbery take place in such close proximity to the IPKF camps. One does not know whether a part of this loot goes into the hands of the IPKF personnel. Jaffna businessman V.K. Rajaratnam who deals in radios, Television sets, Tape recorders etc. was recently identified by these youths and a ransom demand of Rs. 3 lakhs was made in return for his freedom. Only after a sizeable portion of the ransom money was paid was he released.
"The Jaffna residents are convinced in their own minds that any attempts to hold elections without arriving at a political settlement with the Liberation Tigers would only result in a volcanic eruption of violence in Jaffna. Will the Government of India, and its officials grasp this reality?"
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ELECTIONS TO PROVINCAL COU
SLFPTOBOYCOTT, BUT
CONTEST
Four hundred and thirty-six candidates belonging to three recognised political parties have handed in their nominations to contest the elections to four of the nine provincial councils in Sri Lanka. The nominations closed on 9 March and the elections are scheduled to take place on 28 April.
The elections are for the North Central Province comprising the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa tive districts, the North Western Province comprising the Kurunegala and Puttalam districts, the Uva Province comprising the Badulla and Moneragala districts and Sabaragamuwa Province comprising the Ratnapura and Kegalle districts.
The elections for the Central, Southern, Western, Northern and Eastern Provinces have been postponed presumably because of the unstable security situation. An order under the Public Security Ordinance has been promulgated to enable this postponement. Although no official reason has been given, the postponement of elections in these provinces has been attributed to the continuing violence in the north and east occasioned by Tamil militancy, and in the south by the terrorist activity by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP).
Taking account of the security situation, it would seem that the government has decided to hold the elections on a phased basis starting with the elections for the four Councils on April 28. In the second phase, elections will be held for the Western and Central Provinces, and in the last phase for the Southern, Northern and Eastern Provinces. Although at the time of President Jayawardene's visit to New Delhi during late January it was anticipated by India and Sri Lanka that elections for the north and east would be held by April-May, clearly the continuing violence in these parts make it impossible for any elections to be held in the near future.
Three recognised political parties have submitted nominations for the April 28 elections. Although for electorall purposes they are being treated as parties, in reality they are political coalitions of several parties. The Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC), a recognised political party in its own right, has
decided to field candidates under the
ruling United National Party ticket. The United Socialist Alliance (USA) is a left-combination of the Sri Lanka Mahajana (Peoples) Party, Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Communist Party of Sri Lanka and the Nava Sama Samaja Party. The Muslim Congress is
a new poli tuted in the sciousness o ty. The UNI ated 179 ca vinces while fielded 78 c
The Sri
(SLFP), the the ruling U tions becaus to boycott t that it was c Provincial ( was present viding for th cial Councils and declare laws concerr The irony in when it is d should be gi general ele boycott the F to be held on people in the ing 2,897,54 the right to since July 19 call upon til exercising th call will be hi which has be of terror is b of the SLFP violence with elections.
The UNP i to gain cont Councils. All of Parliamen bolster up t four province the UNP is a power and p. in its campa
It is gener ited Socialist ably well cor of the gove front. If the the SLFP's b to show th misrule of t years by re favour of th their favour the USA w Sinhala carc because the Indo-Sri Lal does. If the cessfully in provide the as far as the the SLFP m opposition ir

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cal manifestation consticontext of increasing cona separate Muslim identi
and the USA have nomin
ndidates in the four prothe Muslim Congress has andidates.
Lanka Freedom Party main opposition party to NP did not submit nominait had previously decided Le elections on the ground pposed to the setting up of ouncils. When legislation ed before parliament proe establishment of Provin, the SLFP voted against it that it would repeal the ed when it came to power. the SLFP's conduct is that emanding that the people ven the right to vote at a :tion, it has decided to Provincial Council elections 28 April, the first time the se four provinces number1 voters have been given deliver their judgement 977. The SLFP is bound to he people to desist from heir vote, but how such a eeded is doubtful. The JVP 'en engaged in a campaign ound to come to the rescue by attempting to unleash a view to disrupting the
smaking a determined bid rol of the four Provincial eady four senior Members t have resigned in a bid to he UNP campaign in the is. Being the ruling party, lso expected to employ its atronage to the maximum ign. ally believed that the UnAlliance will fare reasonsidering the unpopularity nment on the economic people are not swayed by oycott call, they are likely ir displeasure with the he UNP for the last ten gistering their votes in USA. Another factor in s that the UNP cannot hit th the ethnic and proas they did in the past USA also supports the ka Accord as the UNP USA emerges fairly sucthese elections, it may lternative to ruling UNP people are concerned and ght cease to be the main the eyes of the people.
* EELANADUP PRESS BLASTED
THE office, press and buildings of the EELANADU, a Tamil language newspaper with the largest circulation in the Tamil areas and published in northern Jaffna, were blasted to the ground on 29 February.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam claimed responsibility for the blast alleging that the paper had become a tool in the hands of the Indian Peace Keeping Force.
The attackers are reported to have arrived in the afternoon and ordered all 44 members of the staff working at the time to move out, laid explosives within the building and under the printing machinery and set off the blast causing considerable damage.
The IPKF which operates from the Jaffna Fort did not intervene although the newspaper building was in close proximity and the attackers had spent some 45 minutes within the premises before it was blasted. The IPKF's explanation for its lack of intervention was that had they intervened there would have been considerable civilian casualties.
The Eelanadu was the last surviving of four Tamil newspapers published from Jaffna. The others, the Udayan, Murasoli and Eela Murasoli stopped publication after they suffered serious damage after the IPKF offensive began on October 10.

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T-E PIKE OPERAT
NAFFINA
AN INDEPENDENT ACCOUN
The following is the text ofan account given by Dr Antoine Crouan of Medecins Sans Frontieres at the International Conference on Tamil Refugees held in Paris in Decerriber 1987. Medecins Sans Frontieres is a French humanitarian medical organisation which had been operating in northern Sri Lanka when the IPKF offensive began on
IIC) October 1987;
"We hail from the Medlecins Sans Frontieres, a humanitarian organisation which has been involved in Sri Lanka for the last 18 months in four different areas: Jaffna peninsula, Batticaloa, Trinconalee and Mannar. I, along with my colleagues M. Jean Louis Menchieres and Ms. Poulair] Guillemette who have spent four and six months in the northern port-city Point Pedro, and Mannar, are present here for the conference. If you like to ask us any questions, you may do so later in the proceedings.
"I would like to make a brief statement of what we hawe seen there in Sri Lanka and give you a brief analysis of the situation over there. Anyway, as you know, it is not easy. When you want to make an analysis about a resistance war, you have to analyse three aspects: the political, military and civilian aspects, I will take these three main points briefly,
The political aspect: Who wins? Who will win? Until now, it is certainly not the civilians! I should say, for the Inajority of the international commun ity Indian government has always been considered a mediator. They Inake ev. erybody feel that they really try their very best to resolve the problem. In fact, that opinion still continues! All the newspapers and all the reports made by the journalists have been, of course, as corroborated by other friends this morning, really totally biassed.
"When a group of journalists are briefed only by the Indian Joint Operation Command or when all the journalists are brought to a place where they had gathered all types of weapons claimed to be those of the Tigers, in a war situation, of course, you can show even with a small picture the consequiences of the land mines, and with the land mines itself you can prove to the world at the outset that the Tigers are terrorists. In fact, it has been proved by In eans of photographs, films etc. So, politically, I should say that India continues to enjoy this kind of image in the international arena. It is very difficult to gains ay this.
60,000 TE
"Militarily, we are by the means emplo Air Iny. About 60,00 personnel all over th lot.
"Strategy is also They succeeded in their side the majori an people, I mean pressing on them th doing a bad job, air Sinhalese permitted to do what they t have otherwise don are frcel They are fr want, And, when no TarTil arcas, you kni what one wants rea ducted in silence is, really worse and W. also changed froIIn tl not referring to the signing of the Pact during the fighting. at the beginning, troops tried to drive sula and everywhere Batticaloa, Mammar their own force. In through the roads somewhere, If you h you do nothing. strategists pushed th weapons or a bom During the first t offensive more thau and they changed t lly, You could hawe difference between t Ind the Point Ped changed their stra weeks later, by Co. bardment of humar As a result, the to been notably wery
CIWILIAN "Wc hawe lots of rent military of commissioned offi peninsula. I re Ther Jaffna Port; it was ber, 1987, one of the officers was telling curious, Just today eration Command c to kill the civilians wеге given. It pго" strategy is the sar “Militarily, in su ance yolu Can't fi because it is takin civilian population, the famous theory of water, where on take out the fish strategy is used in all over the world
 

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really impressed ved by the Indian Indian Inilitary e countryside is a
wery importarit.
winning Over to
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d, until now, the
the Indian AIIIly
hemselves should
2. So, the Indians 2e to do what they body can go to the w that one can do
lly!! This War con
lay hy day, getting irse. Strategy has le beginning I am. eriod following the . I mean later on I should say that, the Indian Air Illy iInto Jaffna peIn ilelse; Trincomalee,
etc. only thTough ean, you julst drivɛ
until you arTiVE have no opposition, So, the military leir nel in front of b. Consequences wao weeks of the 200 people died, heir strategy totalnoticed a fantastic he Jaffna offensive rt offensive. They tegy totally. Two trast, direct bOTT1beings took place. ill or civilians has high.
KILLING
estimonies of diffeoficers and ni CDIcers froIl Jaffna. mber Ine from the around 28th Octoa non-commissioned пе: "Eh! It is very only the Joint. Oparne and told u8 mot "Before, no orders wes Teally that this The everywhere,
ch a war of resistld any resista rice. E place amidst the
as is the case with of fish inside a bowl empties the bowl to 1. The very sa Ile so larly countries by different armies.
The same strategy is also used in Sri Lanka by the Indian Army! We do not know, and for many reasons nobody will be able to say cxactly the number of injured people in Jaffna peninsula and in other parts of the north and the еанlt.
THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE
"First of all, it's just another story! During the first three weeks of the offensive, every time the civilians were killed, the Indian Air Ily cut down some trees and burnt all the bodies immediately in order to conceal their identity, thus enabling them to make propaganda out of it, that it was the terrorists" who had done that and, of course, not the Indian Army. With the result that the civilians have been turned into hostages or used as human shields! It has been impossible for the military strategists to differentiate be. tween the real civilians, the helpers and what they call "terrorists" from among the population. For us, who hawe worked a lot and continue to do so from a Tedical point of view, what could be our conclusion? There are three kinds of people differing one from the other,
"As far as the civilians surrendering themselves at the hospital are concerned, today it is possible for thern to go to hospitals only if they are not well known. When they think that the Indiains can recognise them as "HELPERS", they are, of course, totally frightened, and they do not go to the hospitals. Certainly, there has been a certain percentage of the population, mayhe about 20 to 40 per cent, who are totally frightened to go and get either the humanitarian aid or the medical and surgical facilities from the hospit. als. We have to focus our attention on this part of the population
"Of course, the last third of the population constitutes the militants themselves. They are totally hiding in the jungles, where they have no access to medical or surgical facilities. I should say that there are about 400 to 500 of them who are really badly injured, still in the jungles. These areas are really controlled by the Indian Air Iny, If you take a resistance war of this kind, and a situation like that which has been prevailing in the north and the east, the ICRC or any humanitarian orgaInisation must come to the aid of the population, and thus to the resistance fighters themselves, who are really not in a position to get any humanitarian aid that they are in need of Unfortunately, until now, there has been Inc. attempt. Besides it is very diffi. Լ:ԼllԼl
URGENT MEDICAL NEEDS
"So, the medical facilities or the medical reeds are Teally urgent and important. But, for many reasons, We are not ourselves able to do what is necessary in all the conflict areas, First of all, we cannot do all the things because, as you know, almost all the Tamil Inedical team members have fled
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Sri Lanka. Secondly, the people are not able to reach the hospitals, and, therefore, we must organise mobile clinics both in the country and the jungles. But, it is very difficult to organise these because the Indian Army does not allow us to do what we must do as a humanitarian organisation, and they do not allow us to do what is necessary. This is the real scene there, as far as medical aspect is concerned.
"Another important thing is that everybody is afraid. You can imagine what is going on right now in Sri Lanka. To live during the last five years in a sort of war situation, while the war intensified during 1986 and 1987, with the Indian Army being a friend then and an enemy now, the population is now really without any future. We feel, I mean all the members of the medical team, that a wide crosssection of the civilian population, Sri Lankan doctors and the other professionals, they really do not see for themselves a viable future I cannot think of a situation where for a whole population, the future is threatened by a lot of extremism. Extremism is one of the main words in Sri Lanka now. It is impossible to be in the middle. Whether you are for the humanitarian cause or whether politically you want to resolve the conflict by taking the middle of the road, it is impossible to express what
you want O. Indian side the Tamil si main word.
"Obviously do is to find real mediato the way, too Sri Lanka rated by othe cannot expec Cross to ext certainly bac information Red Cross. though they rian work, th as they oug
'Also, in m conflict, we
cease-fire zor I will say t Lanka are q reasons. Ofc this
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of human rig would like ta
Madras, March 1: A spurt in the entry of dutiable goods brought from Sri Lanka by some Indian army officers has led to the introduction of unusual Customs check at the military airbase at Tambaram.
Informed sources said the Defence Department requested the Customs to send a team of officers to check the average six military flights a day arriving from Jaffna, mostly carrying middle level IPKF officials.
There is considerable resentment among the defence officers, most of whom land at the Tambaram airbase in normal weather. Defence officials are puzzled by the continued arrival of dutiable goods from Jaffna even after
A bre
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Soon after Lankan agre items like VC sets of Japar at throwawa kets. Indian comed by th discounts for Indian rupee mainland wa baram was a
Since Octol shops have
NUMEROLO
There is an 'octopus' grip on the island politics, according to numerology buffs. At least five of the central characters on the Sri Lankan scene have eight as their birth number.
Two of them are Sinhala leaders, two are protagonists of Tamil Eelam and the fifth is the most important Indian in Sri Lanka.
Numerologically, eight represents cunning, adamance and sharp swings in fortunes.
President Jayewardene was born on September 17. The sum of the two digits (one plus seven) is eight, which is his birth number. A decade ago, as opposition leader, he had only eight MPs in the UNP.
The birth lathmudali, Jayawarden born on Nov accepted tha Jayawarden
Athulathin Prabhakaral though they Prabhakaran 26, 1954. Ha the early ei rivals and is
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what you wish. On the r the Sri Lankan side or e, extremism is really the So, we are pessimistic what will be important to mmediately a mediator, a , given all the means all tain the ICRC presence in ermanently. As corrobor friends this morning, we , the Indian National Rec rcise neutrality. This is We have a great deal of bout the Indian National We know certainly, even are doing some humanitaat they are not as neutral ut to be.
any places in the areas of must succeed in obtaining es. This is very important. hat the hospitals in Sri uite militarised for many burse, you can understand
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is all. Finally, I would like that I myself and other our teams have enough of uncommon activities of testimonies on violation hts in Sri Lanka. Also, we ) emphasise that we are
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here not on behalf of the Medecins Sans Frontieres, a humanitarian organisation freely giving its services in Sri Lanka. We are here individually on behalf of only ourselves. You may wonder why we do not represent the Medecins Sans Frontieres. It is simply because of our presence there in Sri Lankal Until now, the gentleman's agreement with the Sri Lankan government, more precisely with the Sri
Lankan Health Ministry, and different
resistance groups who know what we have been doing, we have established some measure of integrity with all the difficulties, and we must continue maintaining our integrity in giving our services to the needy ones. Anyway, it does not mean that we must remain blind to all what we have witnessed there, or that we should refrain from saying what we must say. I am sure that some friends in Paris know well enough that those of us from the MSF have rlways been trying to do our best, and that we, the members of the medicall teams from the Medecins Sans Frontieres, never hesitate to say personally what we have seen in Sri Lanka.
"If any of you want to ask any question or get more information from us, we shall be pleased to provide you with the relevant answers or the necessary information.’
eak With Custom for IPKF
here closed in the wake of its with LTTE.
the signing of the Indo-Sri 2ement, many electronic 'Rs, stereos and television ese make were available y price in the Jaffna mararmy officers were wele Tamils and even given purchases they made with s. Bringing them to the s not a problem as Tam
"free' air base. per 1987, however, Jaffna been closed, some even
destroyed in the conflict. Even essentials are scarce, and their prices have shot up.
The Tambaram Customs post, however, came into force only recently, "on the invitation of the Defence Department', according to Customs sources. Three officers are posted there. Navy officers who visit foreign ports routinely face Customs check when they return. At Meenambakkam airport, however, senior defence personnel can pass through a special enclosure without Customs check.
Indian Express, March 2, 1988
GY & POLITICS
number of Lalith Athu who is tipped to succeed , is also eight. He was ember 26. It is generally at he is second only to
in craftiness.
nudali and Tiger leader have the same birthday, were born 18 years apart. was born on November shot into prominence in ghties, hunted down his
a hunted man today.
ler A. Amirthalingam has resting date of birth - L927. He was born in the h and the sum of digits in 26) is eight. The sum of all
digits in his date of birth (26-8-1927) is also eight. In 1977 he became the leader of the opposition in parliament, which was unexpected. He lost the position equally unexpectedly.
The most important Indian in Sri Lanka whose birth number is eight is High Commissioner J.N. Dixit. In his case there is no need to add the digits and obtain the sum: his is a clean eight. He was born on the eighth of January 1936. Does this mean he is the cleverest of them all? Or could New Delhi make him the fall guy and call him back? That is something that the numerologists cannot figure out.
(The WEEK, India)
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A MELODIOUSVOCE
Professor S. Govindarajan, Head of the Department of Music, Annamalai University and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts passed away on Thursday 24th March at the age of 55. Popularly known as 'Sirgazhi Govindarajan' and affectionately referred to as 'Isaimani' by millions of fans and music lovers not only in India but far beyond its shores as far as Great Britain, USA, Mauritius and Australia he had occupied a place of honour in their hearts.
Born in Sirgazhi, South India he followed long years of rigid training on the Guru-Sishya system under the guidance of an able master Thirupamburam Swaminatha Pillai. Those who attend his recitals would recall that he never fails to dedicate a song in honour of his Guru in every performance. Such was his Guru devotion - Guru Bakthi.
By means of regular practice, dedication and sincerity of purpose Isaimani Govindarajan shot to stardom and appeared virtually in every music festival and classical concert in South India. His popularity took a new dimension when he started singing play back
songs for thi the South In one of the fev pronunciatic both of which in the film Government play back si movies was I but also in classical/dev.c in various Nandanar a As a distir India Radio an National and given p programmes a few “Cha musical featu inathar - Kumaranum Although Isa records, 7 con tional song a gan (Tamil I them.
As an ac attainments i honoured by with the Deg Within a sho formances, h tions to musi Central Gove State Gover which honou uished “Padm (Aasthana-Ki tively.
Profile of courage
The first thing that struck you about Vijaya Kumaranatunga was his simplicity and lack of pretension. When FRONTLINE's correspondent met him at his home in the Colombo suburb of Polhengode last December, the first impression was of mild disappointment: could this man, dressed in a lungi, looking like any other middle class Sri Lankan, really be the star of over 100 films, an idol of the Sinhala screen? But then, the man's physical presence began to sink in. The well-known face, darker and more rugged in real life than in his films, the muscular, athletic physique and the deep voice, helped to explain the secret of Vijaya's success.
As he began to converse, his political also became apparent. His ideas might not have sounded profound or original, but they were stated with great conviction and sincerity, in slow, occasionally halting English. He spoke of socialism as the only solution to Sri Lanka's crisis, and argued the need for a non-racial left front as an alternative to the island's two main political parties, the ruling United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) led by his mother-in-law, Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
It was his Vijaya to the his political ( SLFP were ce Bandaranaik younger dau was, like him socialist by c the party hie: jor role in th paign of the Kobbelkeduwe
Vijaya and the left wing often in conf led by Sirim Anura. Grow. between the Vijaya to wa start the Sri 1984, along like-minded p
But more t was his unw creating a p Tamils and S ners that ma sial figure. In by ethnic an anatunga sto and courageo racial politica unite the Sin
 

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heroes of yesteryears in ian movie world. He was singers who had clear cut
and contributed to his success world. The Tamil Nadu ionoured him as the best ger in 1971. His role in pt only behind the screen ront of it. In about 12 ional films he had acted les such as Agathiyar, di Narathar. guished artiste of the All nd Door-Dharshan (IndiV) he was always invited ide of place in national of importance - to name rana Kamalalayam”, a re based on Sri Arunagir“Kumaranum Kosalai — a TV presentation. mani has sung on 24 LP cert recitals, and 25 tradibums his songs on Murueity) tower among all of
knowledgement of his n the field of music he was the University of Madras ree of Dr of Literature'. rt period of time his perIs style and his contribuc were recognized by the rnment of India and the nment of Tamil Nadu red him with the distingashri' and State Artiste'' alaignar) awards respec
Sirgazhi had conducted recitals abroad in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, England, USA, Canada, France, Germany and Switzerland. His recitals abroad have always been dedicated to a particular cause. He had visited London on more than one occasion. In 1978 he visited UK to raise funds, in aid of the first Hindu Temple being built in UK. This Temple - the largest in Europe built by the Britannia Hindu Temple Trust stands proudly today in Archway, Highgate remembering the worthy support and contribution given by artistes like the late Isaimani.
The late Sirgazhi has left behind a legacy to the Tamil music world in the form of his son Dr Sirgazhi Siva Chidambaram who although a Doctor of Medicine and a Post Graduate Medical Scholar ably assisted his illustrious father in all recitals and proved himself to be an able musician in his own right.
Isaimani Govindarajan visited London less than four months ago - in November 1987. The sponsors of his tour Messrs Sivraj Enterprises invited me to compere his two shows in Tooting and at Goldsmith College London. I felt honoured to be offered this rare opportunity to introduce this Great Maestro. But fate had also decreed that four months after that cold wintery night in November, I shall be also writing an appreciation of this outstanding performer - an Emperor among Tamil Classical Musicians.
May all the deities whose praises the late Sirgazhi had sung grant his soul eternal peace.
WIMAL SOCKANATHAN
socialist beliefs that drew SLFP, where he started areer. His ties with the mented after he married te’s Sorbonne-educated ghter, Chandrika, who , a political activist and a onviction. Vijaya rose in archy, and played a mae 1982 presidential camSLFP candidate, Hector
Chandrika were part of of the SLFP, and were ict with the "right wing avo Bandaranaike's son ng differences of opinion two groups finally led k out of the SLFP and anka Mahajana Party in with his wife and other Yople.
an his socialist beliefs, it avering commitment to litical system in which inhalese would be parte him such a controvera nation bitterly divided mosity, Vijaya Kumard out for his principled s efforts to build a nonmovement which would alese and the Tamils. lt
was this commitment which made him undertake politically risky, high-profile visits to Madras and Jaffna between June 1986 and January 1987 to talk to leaders of the Tamil militant groups. The visits did not contribute specifically towards resolving the ethnic conflict, but they were important symbolic gestures. At a time when Sinhalese and Tamil politicians regarded each other with distrust and hatred, Vijaya went out of his way to demonstrate to his own Sinhalese community that the Tamils were people who could and should be talked to.
When a solution to the ethnic conflict appeared in the form of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement, Vijaya supported it enthusiastically, earning the wrath of Sinhalese extremists who dubbed him and everyone else who supported the accord traitors. Vijaya saw shortcomings in the Agreement, and described it as "not perfect, but the only way to end this war'. He had doubts about India's ability to persuade the LTTE to lay down arms, and he had reservations about President Jayewardene's willingness to implement the other provisions. Vijaya Kumaranatunga was highly critical of the politics of the UNP and the SLFP, and he had contempt for the Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP).
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Contd. froMn pago 23 "They have no backing, no strength. They only have the power to disrupt, he said last December. He felt the JVP's strength was being exaggerated by the ruling party and the media. They have only been able to kill petty village level UNP workers so far, he said. (This was before the assassination of the UNP party chairman, Harsha Abeywardene.) He knew his life was in danger, but shrugged it off: "Our partymen are young and strong. We can look after ourselves.'
The JVP probably felt threatened by
Vijaya Kumaranatunga more than by other Sinhala politicians because he appealed to the same segment of the Sinhalese population that the JVP was trying to build as its base: young, frustrated, radical, rural youth. Vijaya Kumaranatunga was perhaps the only Sinhalese politician who could match the charismatic JVP leader Rohana Wijeweera, and he was confident he would be able to weaken the JVP's base. Had he lived long enough, he would have had a chance to test his popularity during the presidential election, in which he was to have been the candidate of the United Socialist Alliance.
The impression that one was left with after meeting Vijaya Kumaranatunga was of a man who lived for his political beliefs, and was willing, if necessary, to take his politics out on to the streets and fight for what he believed in. It is this quality which will probably be missed most by the left and the secular political forces in Sri Lanka during the crucial election year ahead.
Thomas Abraham
2250 MEN DESERT
Around 2250 security personnel have deserted the Sri Lankan armed forces since lastyear, according to security sources in Colombo. The majority of those who abandoned their posts was from the army.
Intensive investigations are being undertaken by the National Intelligence Bureau and the Counter Subversion Unit to track the whereabouts of these deserters. The fear is that many of them have joined southern based armed political groups like the JVP.
With the arrest of several former servicemen in connection with many murders, armed attacks and raids and seizure of army uniforms in secluded hideouts, police sources believe that the JVP has recruited a considerable number of service deserters into their ranks.
It is also suspected that the JVP had infiltrated the services by making their members join the forces during 1984 and 1985 when the government was engaged in feverish campaign of indiscriminate recruitment to bolster up the numerical strength of the forces with the view to fight against Tamil militants.
Satyendra Cooms tionately known as friends and associat 15th January 1988 after a heart attack Battaramulla, Color:
Sathi was a spor ence. Cricket was h spite his brilliance in tics. He was a produ and was later at Uni at both institutions Tennis, Athletics an the national 100 yarc
Sathi had the r captaining his count - The Tamil Union tic Club. His inte career began in 194 under M. Sathasi memorable team led Don Bradman. In bagged four wickets sed a hat trick. La played against the led by John Goddar the famous Three V aggressive half cent ing year he played a
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A founder of "The '43 Ivan Peries, who was whose perspective tı rian distinctions, leat ing legacy for an inti ity as well.
Born in Dehiwela was an enduring firs Ivan made his way W war to continue his dedication,. He work French Art Centre ir in Paris. Since 1952 first exhibition at t tute, he has exhibitec in England, India an including the Petit the Biennale, Venice for an exhibition at lery. His paintings duced in many pub Collections in Engla and India.
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The United Nations for Refugees (UNH launched a $13.5 crores) special prog assistance to Sri La asylum-seekers ret land nation.
Talking to pressp. dapam refugees tra Sampath Kumar, U Asia and Oceana, s was planned to ben or asylum-seekers

MARCH 1988
Appreciation
uswamy, affecathi to all his passed away on Thaipongal day) his residence in
O. man par excellfirst choice deennis and Athleof Royal college rsity college and won colours in Cricket. He was sprint champion e distinction of y before his club ricket and Athlenational cricket when he played am against the by the legendary hat match Sathi nd narrowly miser that year he West Indies team which included s' and scored an Jry. In the followgainst the touring
Pakistani team against stalwarts like Khan and Fazal Mohammed. His last appearance in international cricket was in 1950 against the Commonwealth Eleven led by Bill Alley before becoming a member of the National Selection Committee and serving on it for over a decade.
He first worked for Shell and later became a Director of Shaw Wallace & Hedges Ltd. His father Mr. C. Coomaraswamy was a highly respected public servant who retired as Government Agent, Jaffna, a very senior post at the top of the ladder in those days. His brother was the famous Roving Raju", a former diplomat at large. He leaves behind his wife Padmini and three daughters Priya, Mrs Shyamala Surendranathan (U.K.) and Anushya (Colombo).
Sathi was the gentlest of gentlemen who never allowed his successes to cloud his humility. He was a true sportsman who could face success and failure with equal composure. May a great soul rest in peace.
Kay
Painter Departs Peries leaves his easel at 67
Group', Colombo, of that generation ranscended sectaves behind a lasternational poster
whose first light t love, the young West just after the one demanding ed at the AngloLondon and then when he held his he Imperial Instiat several venues on the continent Palais, Paris, and His work was due the Hayward Galhave been reproications and is in ud, Europe, Africa
Critics place him as one of the enduring painters of the modern period of European art. The Arrival (1959-60), which visitors to the Lyre Room, Royal Festival Hall, Exhibition in June last year will remember, being regarded as perhaps his greatest creation and the one which secures his place of permanence.
A gathering of fellow countrymen and friends of his second home at his last resting place in South End, Essex, included the English Painter, Adrian Morris, Dr. Robert Skelton, Keeper of the India Section of the Victoria & Albert Museum which has some of our countryman's work, and Martin Russell, Collector and great friend and patron of The 43 Group.
The eye which opened on our west coast and closed on England's east is an unsetting star.
D FOR RETURNING REFUGEES
High Commission R), Geneva, has lilion (Rs. 17.55 amme of limited kan refugees and rning to that is
sons at the Mansit camp, Mr. R. NHCR director for d the programme it 75,000 refugees eturning for the
most part from India spontaneously or through organised repatriation by December 1988.
"The financial requirement is currently projected as $13.5 million (Rs. 40 crores - Sri Lankan) not including the food needs, which will be covered by the World Food Programme, he said.
As security conditions improved in Sri Lanka, refugees and asylumseekers in other countries too might wish to repatriate voluntarily,

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MARCH 1988
JAFFNA MEDICAL F THREATENED WITH (
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Jaffna is in the throes of a crisis. And if meaningful steps are not taken immediately to sort out the crisis, the "Tamil Times' understand that the Faculty could face closure, perhaps as early as June '88.
This is the latest disaster facing Jaffna, after being savaged by those who came to give salvation. Education, the priceless heritage of the Tamils of Eelam, had already been reduced to the status of a lame duck as a result of the events of yesteryears. And now - the closure of the Jaffna Medical Faculty could mean the end of the road for aspiring doctors from the Tamil community.
The primary and most pressing problem that has precipitated the present crisis is the woefully inadequate staffing levels of most clinical and para clinical Departments of the Medical Faculty. It is understood that if this situation continues the Faculty would be forced to fold up by June '88.
Realising the seriousness and urgency of the problem, students of the Faculty have launched a "SAVE THE JAFFNA MEDICAL FACULTY' campaign through the Medical students' committees of the Faculty. A campaign office has been set up at the Faculty. And from here appeals are going out to Tamil doctors working overseas and to well wishers of the Jaffna Medical Faculty.
They are sending job application forms to Tamil doctors working overseas and pleading with them to apply for one of the vacant posts.
"If you do accept to fill in a vacancy, we will be most grateful and obliged, they say. If due to personal obligation you are unable to do so now, please help us by contacting as many people as possible and tell them about our needs.'
Plucking at the heart strings of the overseas Tamil doctors, they appeal: "This is the Faculty's hour of need and we would be most grateful if you could kindly help us to solve this crisis. We need grace, we need help from you - NOW.
They have circulated a list of some of the vacancies that have to be filled urgently: Vacancies at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna (Clinical
Department)
Medicine: Professor 1, Registrar 2. Surgery: Senior Lecturer 2, Registrar
1. Obstetrics & Gynaecology: Senior Lecturer 2, Registrar 2. Paediatrics: Senior Lecturer 2, Registrar 1.
Vacant posts of Consultants/SHO at the General Hospital (Teaching) Jafna
Consultants: Neurosurgeon 1, Ortho
paedic Surge Dermatologi Physical Me Eye Surgeon Senior Hous Surgery 1, Ol Paediatrics 1
Para (
1. Professor 2. Professor 3. Professor 4. Endowme 5. Endowme Surgery 6. Senior Lec sitology, Phy stetrics & ( Surgery, Bio
7. Temporar Lecturer in Microbiology Obstetrics & Surgery, Me mistry. 8. Assistant turer in Phys robiology, Ar Positions on
The road t with good int not enough to Jaffna Medic is prepared t help out the the address "SAVE THE FACULTY, tees, Faculty Jaffna, Jaffn
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on 1, Thoracic Surgeon 1, st 1, VD Specialist 1, dicine 1, ENT Surgeon 1, | 1. se Officers: Medicine 2, bstetrics & Gynaecology 2, l, R.O 1.
Clinical Vacancies of Anatomy of Pharmacology of Medicine nt chair in Oncology nt chair in Orthopaedic
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Lecturer/Temp. Asst. Leciology, Parasitology, Micatomy & Biochemistry. contract also invited. o hell, they say, is paved entions. But that alone is prevent the closure of the al Faculty. To anyone who to rise to the occasion to Jaffna Medical Faculty, for correspondence is: E JAFFNA MEDICAL Vedical Students Commitof Medicine, University of a, Sri Lanka.
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Rs 14m damage
to Jaffna campus
As a result of the operations of the IPKF in the Jaffna Peninsula in October last year, the Jaffna University which had been functioning smoothly up to that time, suffered heavy losses in both human and material terms.
Since the Head Office of the LTTE was situated just opposite the university, the IPKF found the university grounds a suitable place for the dropping of paratroops. Butt with the shooting of paratroopers by the LTTE, the campus and the surrounding area turned into a bloody battlefield, 29 civilians were killed while heavy damage was caused to university property.
At a special meeting of the council of the university of Jaffna held on December 12, it was revealed that eight people including a Professor, one staff member and six students had been killed.
Professor Chandrasegaram who was killed, had rendered very valuable aervice in the field of Education. He had been a lecturer at the Universities of Colombo and Peradeniya and a visiting lecturer at the Universities of London, and Kerala.
According to the Report submitted to the Secretary of the University Grants Commission by Prof. S. Withiananthan, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, the total loss amounts to Rs. 14 million. Damage caused was mainly in respect of University buildings, teaching equipment, lecture and student notes, library material and laboratory equipment.
The Jaffna University is expected to reopen next month.
LDOCTORS IN UKFORM NEW ORGANISATION
organisation in UK, bearisional name and style of itute of Tamils', was launbnth.
gathering of Tamil docfrom both Eelam and discussed and endorsed launching such an orgagave the green light to an ing committee elected for to go ahead and draw up a or the organisation and to mil doctors resident in the purpose of drawing them
of aims and objectives ed and approved at the eeting convened at East rs S. Mahendran, N. SivaNerminathan and A. Sel
2 a forum to exchange wledge
* To provide a venue for social gathering
* To serve as an information centre for prospective Tamil Medical and Paramedical graduates and postgraduates.
* To provide a resource centre (Library - Audio & Video cassettes - Examination guidance literature etc.) for such graduates arriving in this country, seeking further education. * To act as a pressure group working for the recognition in UK of Medical schools based in Tamil homelands.
Also discussed were proposals to generate a regular income for the organisation for its activities.
A spokesman for the organisation stressed that the new grouping aimed to supplement existing organisations and not to supplant them. This view was unanimously endorsed by the
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O3TUARY
Ponnuswamy Waithilingam — Beloved husband of late Amirthavalli and Sundaravalli, father of Pathmavathy (Australia), Ramanathan (Canada), Sathiavathy (Malaysia) Sathianathan (Australia), Thilagavathy (Jaff. na), Indranathan (Canada), and Dr. (Mrs.) Dharmavathy Jegatheeswaran (Canada), passed away peacefully on February 15th,
1988 in Vannarponnai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
April 17, 1p.m., S.C.O.T. Tamil New Year Lunch, Lola Jones Hall, Greaves Place, off Garratt Lane, Tooting, London SW17. Tickets available from The Treasurer, 181 Torbay Road, Harrow, Middx., Telephone 01-422 8984.
April 23, 7p.m. Cultural Show by students and teachers of institute of Tamil Culture, Surbiton in Hollyfield School Hall, Surbiton Hill Road, Surbiton, Surrey.
April 24, 1.30p.m. Festival of Our Patron Saints, Mass at Westminster Cathedral, folllowed by Asian Bazaar organised by Asian Chaplaincy, 48 Great Peter Street, Westminster, London SW1P2HA (Phone 01-2222895).
April 30, 6.30p.m. Star Night by Leading Cine Artistes at Central Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster, London SW1. Tickets from Siv Raj Enterprises, Telephone 01-767 8201/ 8388.
At Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 4A Castletown Road, London W14 (Phone 01-381 3086/ 4608): April 5-10, 10.30a.m. to 7pm. Bhavan's Book Exhibition. April 23, 7p.m. Santoor by Nandkishor Muley, April 29, 7p.m. Lecture by Prof. Veera Raghavan on "Moving Towards integrated Culture”. April 30, 7.30p.n. Bharatanatyan by Prakash Yadagudde.
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