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CONTENTS
Violence against Muslims...................... 2
Colombo NeWSLetter............................ 3 ISSN 02 " Chai killed 4. ANNUAL SUBS Citizens' Chairman Killed....................... UK/India/Sri Lanka. Bishop's House Searched..................... 4. All other Countries.
- Published mol Tamil areas - Situation Report............ 5 TAM, TIM President vs Anura................................ 6 P.O. BOX
SUTTON, SURREY Hunting for Prabhakaran....................... 7 UNITED KINI
Views expressed by contributc COmmentary.......................................... 9 Y:ಞ್ಞಇಂಗ್ಲ pl Savagery beyond belief....................... 11 The publishers assume no res
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VIOLENCE AGAIN
To say that the plight of the Tamil speaking Muslim tid population in eastern Sri Lanka has reached a pathetic vi state is an understatement. The violence in these parts pi has left thousands of Muslims in a state of total b helplessness. People have fled in their thousands from the villages in which they have traditionally lived. al As to who is responsible for this anti-Muslim violence is P. not exactly clear. The available evidence is contradictory. A The Sri Lankan media, as usual, has been prompt to lay w the blame at the doors of the LTTE, but the latter has se denied any responsibility. The names of the other Tamil a militant groups also have been mentioned for some acts sé of abduction, murder and arson. al The not so impartial correspondents of the Sri Lankan P. press also see a diabolical plot by Tamil militant groups to fo drive out the Muslims from the eastern province in advance of the contemplated referendum on the question th of the merger of the northern and eastern provinces. They tic suggest that the Muslims, by and large, would vote se against the merger proposal and hence the plot to drive M them out. It is also contended that the Indian Peace inc Keeping Force which is present in large number in these th parts is turning a blind eye to the violence against the pi Muslim population. H It must be recalled that, even before the arrival of the M IPKF, during 1986 and early part of 1987, there were di orchestrated Tamil-Muslim clashes. A special commis- pi sion appointed by the government concluded that mem- (a bers of the security forces had a hand in many instances F. of instigating clashes. The government itself distributed to arms to selected elements within the Muslim population th and employed "Muslim homeguards' in its war against at Tamil Militant groups. There was uncontradicted evi. T. dence of thuggish elements being transported to the east th to act as agents provocateurs and incite violence be- tri tween the Tamil and Muslim communities. In the present st situation, anti-India, anti-Accord and anti-Merger forces sa within and outside the government would appear to be m engaged in instigating violence with a view to driving a L wedge between the two communities which have lived in In peace for centuries. The murder of prominent members of tic the Tamil and Muslim communities who were well known a for their efforts to bring about amity between the two re peoples must be regarded as part of this diabolical frt design. al In the context of the presence of the IPKF, it would ul seem that no further major state-aided Sinhala colonisa- sé
 

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CONTENTS
Readers Forum................................... 12
6-4488 World Hindu Conference..................... 15 RIPTION 15 ... e10/US$20 Book Review........................................ . 15/USS30 Cinema Review................................... 15 thly by o S LTD Call for Ceasefire................................. 16
121 10 injured in Bomb attack.................... 16
SM1 3 TD GDOM Peace, along Way off.......................... 17 ဇ္ဈ၀t necessarily Indian Nuclear Bomb, Canard............. 19 ponsibility for return of Indian Satellite in Orbit......................... 20
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|ST MUSLIMS
on could take place. It is through fostering and provoking olence between the Muslim and Tamil people can the ojected merger of the northern and eastern provinces sabotaged. And to this end, sinister forces are at work. It is in this Context that the role of the extremist Muslim med group, Al Jihad, and the sinister role played by akistan have to be viewed. It has been reported that the Jihad group was involved in an incident in Kalmunai in hich seven Tamils and ten Muslims were killed and veral houses set alight. An armed member of this group ɔprehended by the IPKF would appear to have confes2d that Several of its members had been trained in and med with AK-47 rifles by Pakistan. Handgrenades with akistani ordnance factory markings have also been und, Tamil militant groups should guard themselves against e error of falling prey to the machinations and provocains of these sinister forces and avoid involving themlves in violent incidents against Muslim civilians. The uslim people have a common cause with other Tamils of only because they speak the same language. Both e Communities have lived in the northern and eastern Ovinces and have made these areas their homeland. owever, there is no doubt and it must be recognised, the uslim people consider themselves as possessing a stinct national identity which they want to preserve and Omote. It is in this Context that the recent discussions pril 16 to 19) between a delegation of the Muslim United ont led by Dr. Badiudin Mohamed and the LT TE that ok place in Madras and the joint statement issued 2reafter are most welcome. The statement recognises 'd accepts that the Muslims, although speaking the mil language, possess a distinct national identity and at the northern and eastern provinces are as much their Iditional homeland as are they for the Tamil people. The atement also spells out in detail the constitutional feguards that the Muslim people should enjoy in a arged north-east entity, and adds that the Front and the TE would co-operate with the implementation of the lo-Sri Lanka Accord without affecting rights and aspirans of the Tamil and Muslim peoples. Overall, the proach adopted by the two organisations not only lects a mature appreciation of the respective rights, edoms and aspirations of both the communities, but o will enable the restoration of mutual respect and derstanding which unfortunately seem to have been verely damaged in the recent past.

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COLOMBONEWS LE
STRANGER THAN PIOTION
Things are becoming curiouser and curiouser on the Tamil political front. The leader of the Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Uma Maheswaran, is reported to have had a two hour meeting with President Jayawardene recently. The PLOTE leader until recently was one of the most wanted men in Sri Lanka. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia on alleged charges of bank robbery and murder. Now he and his organisation have established themselves in Colombo with relative ease. Now Uma Maheswaran not only seems to have regained his freedom presumably from the amnesty provided under the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement, but also appear to be regarded as that important as to have had the oppourtunity of an audience with the highest in the land. The Colombo-based newspapers also seem to be giving him a reasonable amount of publicity through widely reported interviews.
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka is still in force and it bans any individual or group from directly or indirectly advocating the creation of a separate state in the island. All political parties are expected to make a solemn declaration and an oath eschewing separatism. Now that the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) has been accepted by the Commissioner of Elections as a recognised political party, is it to be presumed that the EPRLF has already abandoned its earlier stand in regard to the establishment of a separate state of Tamil Eelam? Now that it is expected to participate in the proposed Provincial Council elections, it also must be taken for granted that the EPRLF candidates will take the oath forswearing separatism.
TALKABOUT TALKS
That Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, Mr. Dixit, has become persona non grata with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is no surprise following the IPKF offensive and subsequent developments. According to reports (Sunday Times of 13 March) many anti-Dixit posters have been adorning walls in Jaffna. Two of the questions posed in these posters are:
“Who is this Dixit to condemn the talks in Sri Lanka between Sri Lankan Ministers and the
LTTE?” “We conduct talks on our sovereign soil with our government. Who is this Dixit to grumble about this?' The sentiments expressed in the
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of "imperial become "our Dilip Yogi o some Sri La. been confirm confirmed is the secret t sed like a Lankan Air In the abs either party ports appea cated that proposal tha the norther interim adm. the total co years and i abandon its the norther Having ass these two negotiable d able that th to such a p The mov, secret talks garded as a Delhi. The was reflect given by D “India has lo Lanka. No side the fra be impleme taneous pr discussed a from my Accord'. Dix dictable res media whic interference of India to Lankan Mi citizens'.
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sovereign soil with our t' is most revealing about tive change brought about vents. It is said adversity orst of enemies into best of v Mother India' is accused designs' and Colombo has government. The fact that f the LTTE held talks with nkan Ministers has already ned. But what has not been that Yogi was taken for alks from his hideout dresSinhala soldier in a Sri
Force helicopter. ence of any confirmation by to these secret talks, rering in newspapers indithey centred around the at Colombo would agree to n province being under an inistration which will be in ntrol of the LTTE for five n return the LTTE would insistence for a merger of n and eastern provinces. erted that the merger of provinces was a nonemand, it is highly improbe LTTE would have agreed roposal. es by Colombo for direct ; with the LTTE was ren attempt to upstage New Indian demonstrable anger ed at a press conference lixit in Colombo. He said, st over 400 ofits men in Sri unilateral agreement outmework of the Accord can inted’. He added that “simuloposals, which are being ld about which I have heard sources will destroy the it's outburst provoked preponses in the Sri Lankan h condemned him for 'gross ' and questioned the right challenge the right of "Sri nisters to talk to our own
ni was not prepared to be 7 Colombo and this became th confirmed reports of een Indian government offiTE stalwarts in Madras. It ocess which led to Raheem of the LTTE being trans(ndian Air Force plane to to establish contact with r W. Prabhakaran. But the ortunately ended in a tragic en the IPKF shot Johny ly by mistake when he was after contact with PrabhaIPKF's explanation was skilling was due to a breakmmunication between two of the IPKF, but the LTTE dia of a breach of faith.
Pressure in India by opposition parties and exigencies of the electoral volatile situation in Tamil Nadu have compelled New Delhi to change its previous intransigence and continue to talk about talks, at least informally, with the LTTE. The Indian Foreign Minister, Natwar Singh told Parliament that the door was always open to the LTTE to talk with India. It would seem that in these 'talks, the LTTE is seeking to resuscitate the agreement it came to with Dixit on September 28 last year under which an interim administration was to be set up to cover the northern and eastern provinces with the LTTE in dominant control.
It has now become Sri Lanka's turn to complain about New Delhi having "talks with LTTE. According to a front page report titled 'Lanka Protests Indian Secret Moves' in the Island of 17 March, Colombo had lodged a protest with India that the latter had violated the Agreement with Colombo that no negotiations would be held with the LTTE without the concurrence of the government of Sri Lanka. It would seem that Colombo is no longer willing to the proposal to set up an interim administration. It is argued by Colombo that since the Provincial Council law has already been enacted, any new administration in the Tamil areas must be on the basis of results of the Provincial Council elections which the government of Sri Lanka is prepared to hold at any time.
TULFDLEMMA
Have the TULF leaders overstayed their welcome in India? It seems to be so judging from the speech by Rajiv Gandhi who is reported to have said that the TULF leaders "would do well to stop talking jurisprudence and getback to their villages in the north and start taking an active part in the affairs of their people'.
New Delhi seems to consider that the TULF's role is essential to establish a pluralist administrative set up following the projected Provincial Council elections. After all, the TULF leaders were the elected representatives of the Tamil people until they were ousted from Parliament under the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, and they should re-establish their positions among their own people. The thinking appears to be that Tiger dominance over the Tamils, which New Delhi vants to cut down to size, would continue so long as the TULF leaders keep away from their people.
Reliable reports emanating from TULF sources in Madras confirm that its leaders including A. Amirthalingam, M. Sivasithamparam and R. Sampanthan have already decided to return to the island. To start with, they are likely to remain in Colombo. The question of their physical security must be seriously agitating their minds, particularly in the context of the recent murder of TULF ex-Senator, the 72
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STRINGENT CONDITIONS
FOR FISHING
The Joint Operations Command of the Sri Lankan armed forces has announced stringent conditions under which fishing will be permitted in the waters along northern and eastern coasts of the island.
The conditions included: (a) In the Northern area between Myliddy and Point Pedro, from 6a.m. to 5p.m. only and in the Jaffna lagoon, with permission of IPKF in location. (b) In the Eastern area from Chundikulam to Kumuna, both by day and night in Batticaloa, with the approval of Security Force Commander in Liaision with the IPKF. (c) Maximum distance, up to 5 miles from coast. (d)Maximum no. of crew four persons. (e) ID cards to be carried, or permits in specified areas issued by security forces. (f)(i) For inboard engines (vallams), not more than 36 HP (ii) Outboard motors northern area maximum 08 HP. Eastern area maximum 15 HP. Only 01 OBM permitted. Spare OBMs not to be carried. (g) Continuously light up craft at night. No movement will be permitted after nets are laid. Indicate directions of nets at night using torch light when challenged by Naval vessels. (h) Leave shore before curfew hours and arrive after curfew hours for those engaged in night fishing (Eastern area only). Night fishing in the North is not permitted. (j) Immediately stop engines and bring boat to a halt when approached by air craft-helicopters.
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year old S. Nadarajah. It may be recalled that two TULF former MPs, V. Dharmalingam and M. Alalasundaram, were murdered allegedly by members of a Tamil militant group in 1985, and since then the TULF's political or physical presence in the Tamil areas has been virtually non-existent.
The subject of the return of the TULF leaders and their participation in the proposed Provincial Council elections would appear to have been discussed when they recently met Krishnakumar (Kittu) of the LTTE in Madras. Recent statements attributed to the TULF are said to have been made to create the necessary climate to enable their return. The President of the TULF, M. Sivasithamparam, and its General Secretary Amirthalingam have publicly stated that Tamil problems could not be solved without the full participation of the LTTE and that the TULF was prepared to accord any number of seats to the LTTE in the proposed elections to the Provincial Council. However, unconfirmed reports indicate that the LTTE is not averse to the return of the TULF leaders so long as Amirthalingam keeps out of active politics.
(k) Fishing will not b harbours. (l) Colour codes for eac follows: Chundikulam — Purpl dark green, TCO-red and AMP - brown.
Boat to be painted registered Nos-Names top of engine canopy a Dinghy on forward c Nos-names to be paint minimum of 12" lette As the above system in two weeks, difficult or suggestions should this headquarters.
CITIZENS COMMITTEE
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Arumugam Velmurugu of the Citizens Committ in eastern Sri Lanka, w, killed by a gang of fou men. Velmurugu who v at the time of his murd teacher and a former Development Council
Four unidentified yo at the victim's house to force in a car despite h ate pleadings. Two min murugu was taken av was heard from the dire Hours later his body Kalmunaikadu, a pred lim village three miles residence.
Valmurugu was high loved person in the are: the news spread abo posters appeared on ve condemning the killing had done yeomen serv munity.
BISHOP’S HOU SEARCHED BY IPKF
IPKF personnel search loa Catholic Bishop's H Mary's and St. Anthor suspicion that the pers grenade at a convoy of shortwhile earlier wa During this search on 2 Kingsley Swampillai other priests were aske the troops carried out Chaos reigned briefl. loa town when the gi near the IPKF convo Central road and dama the explosion althougl casualties among IF However a civilian is been injured.

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KILLED
l, the Chairman tee of Kalmunai as abducted and ir armed young was 51 years old er was a retired TULF. District Member. uths had called ok him away by is wife's despernutes after Velway, a gunshot action of the car. was found at ominantly Musaway from his
ly respected and a and soon after ut his murder, hicles and cars of a man who
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ned the Batticaouse and the St. ly's churches on on who hurled a IPKF vehicles a s hiding there. 2 March, Bishop and about 25 d to stand out as , the search. y in the Batticarenade exploded y moving along aged a vehicle in in there were no KF personnel. reported to have
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CIVILIAN FLIGHTS
FROMPALALY
INDIA and SRI LANKA have decided to link their capitals direct by air and also to open Palaly airport in the island's north for India's domestic airlines, authoritive sources said in Colombo.
Officials of the two countries have to work out the details for opening of the Palaly airport in Jaffna peninsula for commercial operation of the Indian Airlines and the air-link between Delhi and Colombo, the sources said.
Civil flights from Palaly would be till Tiruchinapalli in Tamil Nadu, they said.
The decision was taken during a two-day conference of top civil aviation and defence officials of the two countries they said.
At the meeting the Sri Lankan government also agreed to do away with certain restrictions in the air travel between the two countries.
The conference also discussed in detail the issue of air security and agreed on the measures to be adopted, they said.
MUSLMS FORCED
TO FLEE
Armed men set fire to several houses in some villages in eastern Amparai forcing nearly 1500 Muslims to flee from their homes.
Ab o ut 5 0 0 familie s from Alayadivempu, Allamkulam, Ampalatharu, Vellakalthottam, Kolamaruthuvali and Vanagama had arrived at Akkaraipattu on 24 March seeking refuge.
More than 1500 Muslims, including men, women and children, had already sought refuge at the Attalaichenai Teachers Training College and a few schools at Akkaraipattu, according to Citizens Committee sources.
AUSTRALIAN AID FOR REFUGEES
The Australian government will contribute 200,000 dollars to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) special program of assistance for refugees who returned to Sri Lanka.
The Australian Foreign Minister, Mr. Bill Hayden said that the conflictin Sri Lanka had left hundreds of thousands of displaced people from various ethnic origins. Their number was estimated at 430,000 including 350,000 in the Jaffna district. A further 135,000 were now living in south India.
Mr. Hayden said that the Australian contribution would be used to establish transit centres, provide for registration and medical screening and for the issue of relief packages of household kits and food supplies.

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THE IPKFANDARBTRARY/ILL
DETENTIONS
The IPKF is known to have a detention camp at Kankesanturai and another at Palaly near the airport. According to a Colombo newspaper, there are 390 detenus, including 6 females at the former camp (the position as was known at the beginning of March). An unspecified but larger number is reliably reported to be held at the Palaly camp. Smaller numbers of detenus are also held in make-shift cubicles or enclosures adjoining many house buildings, popularly called mini-camps, where folllowing the Indian'saturation strategy' the IPKF has billeted some of their
e.
Several parents, spouses and close relatives of arrested or missing persons have visited the IPKF Jaffna Town Commandant's office and the many IPKF camps in search of their near and dear ones. Some have made numerous trips to these camps and yet received no
information a the arrested p promised that would be rele leases have n cases though has exceeded
People inter human rights the detenus an under the Pre (PTA) and v government the IPKF und tions framed IPKF is acting Regulations. reported that till procedures ers received Mr.Rao but v Indian Intelli
TORTURE AND INHUMANTREA
The IPKF is holding detenus in crowded, ill-ventilated conditions. In one instance an underground air raid shelter serves as a place of confinement. A number of persons arrested by the IPKF are stated to have subsequently died in custody. In a case reported from Chavakachcheri, a youth was arrested by the IPKF on 22.12.87. This youth was beaten right through the night of 22.12.87 in full view of
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'DSAPPEARANCES AND MISSING
Parents and spouses have reported the "disappearances' of their children and married partners. In a specific case from Jaffna town, a man has not been able to trace so far his wife and three daughters taken away by the IPKF in full view of his neighbours on 12.11.87. Another case is that of Mr. Renganathan, a government school teacher. The IPKF took him away from his Kopay residence on 16.11.87 in spite of the pleas of his weeping wife and children. The wife and children together with relatives have paid innumerable visits to IPKF camps without any encouraging news. Seventeen
year old Yas GCE Advance Central Colleg studies as evi results, was
residence by t of 17.12.87. H widow, has ye on March 1). five small chi complained all of her husbanc IPKF on 08.1. evasive replies by sending he
RANDOMSHOOTING AFTER GRENADE EXPLO
At least 25 persons were injured, nine of them seriously, when policemen and IPKF personnel fired indiscriminately after an unidentified person lobbed a hand grenade at the Batticaloa police quarters on 23 March. As tension mounted following civilian casualties,
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bout the whereabouts of ersons. Others have been their arrested relatives based early but the reot materialised in most the period of detention three months.
ested in the issue of basic are wondering whether e being held by the IPKF vention of Terrorism Act whether the Sri Lanka has delegated powers to ler the PTA and regulaunder it or, whether the g under Indian Laws and One of the parents has he had been asked to wait were completed and papback from Rao. (not ery probably RAW, the gence Service).
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persons. By morning the parts of the body of this
beled off. A week or so .
in IPKF custody. The merciful in that, before of the body, they called l allowed him to see only dead son. The father was his son died by his own cyanide.
PERSONS
otharan Thangarajah, a d Level student of Jaffna fe and who excelled in his denced by his GCE O/L taken from his Jaffna he IPKF on the morning is distraught mother, a t to find him (as reported A married woman with ldren from Vaddukoddai pout the ‘disappearance’ who was arrested by the 88. An IPKF officer gave s and tried to console her er free rations.
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CIVILIANS KILLED
Seven Tamil civilians, including women and children, were killed when IPKF personnel fired back in response to an attack on one of their patrol party at Nedunkerny, 27 miles off Vavuniya, on 23 March.
According to the Vavuniya District Citizens Committee sources, the seven victims included four members from one family. The mother of this family who could not endure the tragedy committed suicide by taking poison.
According to the Citizens Committee,
this was not the first time that civilians
have fallen victims of indiscriminate fire by the IPKF.
WARNING
EBY LTTE
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have issued a "warning to the public in the northern Jaffna peninsula against having any unwarranted relations with the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF).
Headlined “WARNING, the leaflet which has been widely distributed in Jaffna states: "The Indian Army, trying to blind the Tamil public from seeing the Army's despicable acts of rape, torture and so on is also indulging in humbugs, such as Indian Soldiers managing Tamil women.'
In this state of affairs, some traitors of our race among us, urged by motives of personal profit, are not only betraying the Tamil race, but are also operating as the paid agents of the Indian Forces of Conquest.
"We would like to have it known, that prompt action ending in death sentence will be taken against those among us engaging especially in the following activities, namely:
a) Persons furnishing information to, acting as paid agents of, or having needless relations or connections with the Indian Army of Conquest.
b) Persons needlessly establishing family-relationships or any other relationships with the Indian Army of Conquest or members of the families of such persons.
c) Persons, who making themselves out as leaders of the people, collaborate
with the Indian Army of Conquest. .
ARREST OF TAMIL YOUTHS IN COLOMBO
Tamil youths continue to be harassed by police. Six Tamil youths were arrested from Pettah, the trading quarter of Colombo on 1.3.88. Nineteen of them were arrested on 3.3.88 from Wellawatte, a predominantly Tamil pocket in Colombo; fifteen were arrested in Bambalapitiya, another residential area on 4.3.88. A further 40
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PEOPLLE 8 POILITTIOS
THE CASE OFIPRESIDE JAYAWARDENE Vs ANURA BANDARANA
THE one hundred million rupee defamation suit brought against President Jayawardene by the Opposition Leader Anura Bandaranaike was dismissed by the District Court of Colombo on 29 March. But the case, though not heard for want of jurisdiction, is important mainly for two
reaSOS.
Firstly, it highlighted the fact that the wideranging measure of immunity enjoyed by President Jayawardene under the Sri Lankan constitution ellevates him to the point of being above the law. The age old constitutional maxim that the King can do no wrong is more true of Jayawardene's position than that of the present day British monarch. For the monarch is no more than a constitutional figure-head with little or no executive power. But Jayawardene is the executive President invested with extraordinary wide powers unknown in any democracy. He is the Head of State and Commanderin-Chief of the armed forces. He is the head of the Cabinet of Ministers and appoints and dismisses the Prime Minister and Ministers. He himself holds several cabinet portfolios, but does not sit in parliament to answer for his actions. He appoints the Chief Justice and all Judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and the High Court. He has the power to suspend many of the rights, freedoms and safeguards provided for in the Constitution by invoking the Public Security Ordinance under which he could declare a state of emergency. Besides his constitutional position, he is also the leader of the ruling party and engages in the day to day controversy of party politics. He also enjoys absolute immunity from any prosecution or suit in respect of anything he has done or omits to do either in his official or private capacity. Nor can he be cited or called as a witness before any court or tribunal. Thus the President of Sri Lanka, both in theory and practice, can do any wrong, but cannot be questioned or punished for any such wrong, however grave it might be.
Secondly, the dispute between the President and Anura brought out into the open the secret plots and machinations that the two engaged in while they were thick as thieves, and when thieves fall out, the truth comes out. The dispute all started with a speech made by President Jayawardene on February 18 at the National Management Conference in the course of which he alleged that Anura was a member of the mob which attacked the building housing the Ministry of Teaching Hos
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Anura appeared to the accusation and m if not for the constiti (Article 35(1)), he wo dene for defamat Jayawardene wrote t with the promise tha the immunity he w condition that Anura into the witness box a questions which the
Among the various one disclosed that, a 1973 when the Sri Party (SLFP) was in Bandaranaike (Anu Prime Minister, Anu dene and sought his an alleged threat of overthrow his moth According to Anura, t of this conspiracy w singhe, the then s Prime Minister. At t secret that Rupasing band of the Prime daughter Sunethra, able influence with and inside the goverr was not even an M. jealous of Rupasing sented. Despite Anu trums and occasiona fore his later fathe perform Sathyagrah anaike relied heavily eldest son-in-law, R the intense jealousy Anura developed tov which made the form of the arch politic mother's governme. dene who was the Opposition. The pre President Jayawarde the No-confidence ) him in early 1974 in Jayawardene direct singhe of being linl conspiracy by the lef the government by Bandaranaike. It is was Anura who sup tion on the basis of w mounted his attack The other questic dent Jayawardene v that Anura, in his Parliament, sougl Jayawardene’s pron would not put up a c Anurain case the SL for a vacant seat.
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be incensed by ade it public that utional immunity uld sue Jayawarion. President o Anura obliging the would waive as entitled to on was willing to get nd answer certain President listed.
questions listed, Is far back as in Lanka Freedom power with Mrs. ra’s mother) as ra met Jayawarhelp in respect of a conspiracy to er's government. he main architect as Kumar Rupaon-in-law of the hat time it was no he, being the husMinister's eldest wielded considerhis mother-in-law ment. Anura who P then, was very he whom he reura’s temper tanl threat to sit ber's Samadhi and La, Mrs. Bandarr on her energetic upasinghe. It was and hostility that vards Rupasinghe er to seek the help al enemy of his it, Mr. Jayawarn Leader of the sent disclosure by ene reminds one of motion moved by he course of which y accused RupaKed with a secret to wrest control of unseating Mrs. now clear that it plied the informahich Jayawardene
on Rupasinghe. n listed by Presiwas about the fact agerness to enter it and obtained ise that the UNP andidate to contest FP nominated him
nt secret revealed that Anira had in
ing of the referendum to postpone elections and extend the life of parliament, although the SLFP was vehemently opposed to the government's move. According to Jayawardene, the reason given by Anura for his conduct was that if there was a general election, power in the SLFP would go into the hands of his second brother-in-law, Vijaya Kumaranatunga who was married to Anura's younger sister Chandrika. President Jayawardene says that when the results of the referendum giving victory to the government was announced, Anura expressed his happi
BSS.
Again, it was no secret that Anura did not get along well, personally or politically, with Kumaranatunga who with his charisma and popularity began to wield considerable influence in the SLFP. Anura tried to build his own faction with the support of members of the old guard of the party and become its undisputed leader at a time when Mrs. Bandaranaike had been expelled from Parliament and deprived of her civic rights. When his attempt failed, he caused a split in the party and formed a separate block with Mr. Maitripala Senanaike. The government of President Jayawardene gave every support and encouragement to Anura's faction - the police raided the official SLFP's headquarters and eventually sealed it using emergency powers. Presumably, Anura was at this time in cohort with President Jayawardene who was happy to offer his help all too willingly to break up the SLFP.
The prodigal son, Anura, was welcomed back to the SLFP by the time the Presidential elections were held. Anura staked his claim to be the SLFP's candidate in the context of Mrs. B's incapacity to contest. But Mr. Kobbekaduwa was chosen as the SLFP's Presidential candidate with the strong backing from Vijaya Kumaranatunga. At the time of the election campaign, many in the SLFP alleged that Anura had worked against Mr. Kobbekaduwa so as to ensure victory for President Jayawardene with whom Anura was presumed to be in the best of terms. To what extent Anura was instrumental in the subsequent detention of Vijaya Kumaranatunga on alleged "naxalite' conspiracy charges is uncertain.
Coming back to the present dispute between the two erstwhile collaborators, Anura filed the suit claiming one hundred million rupees from Jayawardene for defamation of his character. Consideration of the question whether Anura’s character is such that it could be defamed to the extent of one hundred million rupees is not relevant or necessary. In his plaint, Anura stated that by alleging that he was a member of the mob that attacked the Ministry of Teaching Hospitals, President Jayawardene had falsely and maliciously caused him pain of mind and

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No, said an Indian official spokesman in New Delhi on March 21. The denial came in the wake of mounting concern and warnings from Tamil Nadu. "If Prabhakaran is killed there will be grave consequences in Tamil Nadu', New Delhi was warned. The warning came from practically all party leaders except the Congress-I and the Communists. In a rare expression of solidarity DMK leader Karunanidhi, both AIADMK factions - Janaki Ramachandran and Jayalalitha, cine star Sivaji Ganeshan, DK leader Veeramani and Kamaraj Congress leader Nedumaran, they all warned New Delhi individually. And so quickly came the reaction from the powers in Delhi. It was threatening to become an explosive issue and that was something they could not afford, particularly when the Congress-II was already facing an uphill task in the forthcoming Tamil Nadu elections. The question now being asked is: How sincere was the denial? How much credence can one attach to statements made by official spokesmen from New Delhi?
The New Delhi report said: India described as 'baseless' news agency reports emanating from Colombo that the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) was "hunting for LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran in its present operations. An official spokesman further told newsmen that these reports gave a “distorted perspective” of the IPKF operations. "The operations of the IPKF are not aimed at hunting for any individual', he said... Asked whether a member of the LTTE had been sent from Madras as a messenger from the Prime Minister to talk to the top LTTE leadership and had been killed in firing, the spokesman said the person concerned 'Johnny' had been sent by the LTTE itself. He had been killed in a cross-fire in the northern province, he
Contd. from page 6
injured his personal and political credit and reputation.
The case, if it went to trial, offered the prospect of a sensational legal battle raising the probability of a lot of political skulduggery in which Anura was involved along with the UNP as against leading members of his own party and family coming out into the open. But it was not to be.
In spite of the so-called voluntary waiver of presidential immunity, the District Court held that the Court was precluded from entertaining or continuing any proceedings against the President who was conferred with blanket immunity under the Constitution. The judge added that the absolute Immunity of the President may conceptually be inconsistent with the principles of democracy and sovereignty of the people, but it is not for the Court to question the validity of any particular provision of the Constitution.
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confirmed. A leader Rahe ny the spoke in Madras at any specifics' any message was being se
Meanwhile ombo, quotin Johnny' whic LTTE leader garatnam al when the tw making cont Raheem' and dropped by ar ter somewhe jungles of Va was carrying an from Sat alias Kittu” f of the LTTE.) had been und since October. with Indian ol the conflict ir said.
On March 2 statement mi Government ( for the death Johnny in th northern prov ing its version happened, the circumstances died reflected LTTE said it h al talks and ha ment of India 1 had reluctant and Raheem t on March 5 i the people of T and Raheem identity cards India. Instead they were int Peace-Keeping
PLOT
The leader oft Tamil Eelam
waran, met Pri nearly two hou Security Mini mudali and M and State Affai were also pre:
sions.
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ked if yet another LTTE m' had gone with Johnman asserted that he was present. "I will not go into he replied when asked if From the Prime Minister to the LTTE leadership. a UNI report from Colinformed sources, said was providing escort to Balasubramaniam Canaas 'Raheem' was killed o were returning after act with Prabhakaran. Johnny had been earlier Indian Air Force helicope on the borders of the runiya district. Raheem' a message to Prabhakarhasivam Krishnakumar rmer Jaffna commander Both Kittu' and 'Raheem" ir house arrest in Madras Kittu had been in touch ficials recently on ending the island, the sources
3, the LTTE alleged in a ade in Madras that the of India was "responsible'
of its member “Lt. Col.” e Vavuniya area in the ince of Sri Lanka. Relatof the details of what had LTTE alleged that the in which Lt.Col' Johnny a breach of faith'. The ad proposed unconditionad requested the Governto institute a ceasefire. It ly sent ‘Lt. Col’ Johnny o Vavuniya from Madras the "larger interests of amil Eelam”. But Johnny
were not even given
by the Government of , they were told that if ercepted by the Indian Force, they could ask it
to get in touch with its Vavuniya camp. However Johnny was killed in the IPKF operations.
The question now being asked is: If the Indian Air Force thought it necessary to airlift Raheem and Johnny from Madras to Vavuniya, was it part of a genuine effort to initiate a dialogue with the LTTE leadership, or was it a ruse to trace the whereabouts of the LTTE leader?
On the day after the Delhi denial, President Venkataraman was on a visit to Tamil Nadu. DMK president M.Karunanidhi met the President at Raj Bhavan and urged him to use his good offices to initiate a process for a ceasefire by the IPKF and arrange for talks with the LTTE. In a letter handed over to the President, Mr.Karunanidhi said Tamils all over the world were shocked by the reported manhunt launched by the IPKF to capture LTTE leader W.Prabhakaran 'dead or alive - most probably dead'.
Speculation on the question of Prabhakaran's safety was first fuelled by a UNI report from Colombo datelined March 19, which said: "The search by the Indian Peace'Keeping Force for V. Prabhakaran, the elusive chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, seems to have narrowed down to a triangular stretch of land in north Sri Lanka, according to military analysts here. They said judging from last week's operations, code-named 'Vajra' had resulted in the killing or capture of a number of hard-core LTTE men and women and the smashing of the group's operational headquarters near Oddusuddan, the area of the operations extends from Devil's Point, north of Mannar on the western coast to Mullaitivu on the eastern coast and Kuchcaveli, about 60 km south of Mullaitivu. There are large tracts of secondary rain forests with thick undergrowth in the area, providing ideal hideouts. The sources said Prabhakaran had apparently chosen the area for retreat in the hope that the onset of the monsoon in about a month's time would hamper the IPKF's operations and give the group time to recoup from its recent reverses. . .
E LEADER MEETS JAYAWARDENE
he Peoples Liberation of PILOTE), Uma Mahessident Jayawardene for rs on April 8. National ster Lalith Athulathinister for Information os Anandatissa de Alwis ent during the discus
s meeting, a statement TE said that President had sought the assistTE leader to enable the hold elections in the astern provinces and to o the violence there. ent added that Uma ad said that his orgalot stand in the way of a re a peaceful future for ple, and that in the
present circumstances would not upset any arrangement for an interim solution that recognised needs of the Tamil people. However, as pre-condition, the government should take the following steps: (a) Unconditional release of all political detainees, whether they be Sinhalese, Tamils or Muslims, belonging to all political groups including those belonging to the LTTE; (b) To bring an end to the military action undertaken by the IPKF under the pretext of searching for Tigers; (c) The IPKF should stop the arrest of those social workers and militants who are working among the people to pro
vide relief and rehabilitation; and
(d) To stop all attempts at forced colonisation and to dismantle all such forced colonisation which has already taken place in the Tamil areas.

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COMMENTARY
O Amnesty
O Murders in the East O Chasing Prabakaran
"If these Sinhalese, Tamils, or Muslims, wherever they may be and whoever they are, give up violence, surrender arms and accept the agreement, I shall grant them an amnesty and remove the proscriptions that prevent them from participating in democratic elections. I invite them to join the other parties in this non-violent and humane democratic process.'
The words referred to above, excerpted from President Jayewardene's address to Parliament last month has given hope to many a political offender behind and outside bars. The IndoLanka Accord in terms of Clause 2:11 stipulates "General amnesty to political and other prisoners now held in custody under the P.T.A. and other emergency laws and to combatants as well as to those persons accused, charged and or convicted under these laws...' Several clauses of the hastily drafted IndoLanka Accord have been disputed in its implementary stages. One such clause is the one that relates to an amnesty. New Delhi feels that the amnesty covers all types of offences in all parts of Sri Lanka prior to the accord being signed on July 29th. Colombo's contention however is that the amnesty extends to only offences committed in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. The political rationale behind Colombo's view is that (1) it would be politically tenuous to grant amnesty to offenders who have harmed civilians in the seven provinces outside the North and East, (2) it would be politically embarrassing to release Tamils committing offences in the south when Sinhala extremists are under detention for alleged offences in the south.
The end result of all this was that in the aftermath of the accord certain categories of alleged offenders were not being released. The growing disenchantment peaked when 17 Tigers including the Trincomalee Tiger leader, Pulendran alias Amman were arrested in October '87 off Point Pedro. Pulendran was suspected ofbeing the perpetrator of the Habarana massacre where 147 persons were killed. The crime was committed outside the North and East. So there was mounting pressure on bringing the Tigers to Colombo.
It is in that context that President Jayewardene's reiteration of the amnesty offer has to be viewed. Already it has fuelled hopes to the extent of hundreds of detenues writing letters to President Jayewardene. Their basic position is that they eschew violence and that the question of laying down arms does not arise because they
are already incarcerated. It is learnt
that these detenues are now required to file affidavits to the above effect. The
moving force Mr. Kumar Po Congress,
Int
The interpri clause by Co harsh on the Organisation (
The flashpo EROS arose Haran along arrested by t Haran had ear IPKF on sus months. The brought to Col Haran were tervention of t. Dixit. The rat tinuous detent of Pulendran. being the man ing of Oberoi ] Nath Dixit st: sinew and got Lankan custod lly and is being Since Colomb amnesty does 1 being detained rogation.
But Haran kind which is c benevolent in dated March 1 Dixit for the t keeping him u the orders of t ment was ridi immediate rele would comme) campaign. He reply until Ma the campaign.
The views ex the recent UN sion sessions il gest that Colc amnesty as b North and Ea already expres views to the S.
The contrad: the amnesty is hasty manner signed. A clear ty would have and controvers
The post-Ind nario has seer campaigns ain tion on cruci demands. If an issue would be case is now a continued dete whether the entire country alone.
O Murders
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B.S. Jeyaraj , k !
hind this manoeuvre is nambalam of the Tamil
2rpretation
tation of the Amnesty ombo was particularly Eelam Revolutionary EROS). nt of tension for the when Niranjan alias with three others were he STF at Batticaloa. ier been detained by the picion for nearly two four EROS men were ombo. The others except released following inhe Indian envoy Mr.J.N. ionale for Haran’s conon was the same as that Haran was suspected of behind the EROS bombHotel in 1984. Jyotindra rained every diplomatic Haran released from Sri y. He was taken to PalaI kept in IKPF custody. o still feels that the not apply to Haran, he is to be available for inter
loes not seem to be the ontent to be in a state of carceration'. In a letter 7 he has written to Mr. hird time. Stating that inder Indian custody on he Sri Lankan Governculous Haran urges his ase. He also says that he nce a fast unto death would await Mr. Dixit’s rch 26 before initiating
pressed by Sri Lanka at Human Rights Commish Geneva seems to sugimbo still interpret the eing applicable to the st only. Mr. Dixit has sed concern over these ri Lankan Government. ctory interpretations of another indicator of the in which the accord was definition of the amnesaverted many a tragedy
y. o-Lanka Agreement scemany fast unto death ned at focussing attenul issues and winning d when Haran fasts the the amnesty. Haran’s est case. His release or ntion would determine imnesty applies to the or the North and East
in the East
cock Robin?” late question in the t, “who killed Vel Muru
gu of Pandiruppu? The previous question in the Batticaloa district, who killed Ahamed Lebbe of Kattankudi” The earlier question of the Trincomalee district, "who killed Abdul Majeed of Kinniya?
Given the complex nature and peculiar nuances of Eastern Province actualities one would ponder a great deal before venturing out with an aSWe.
There is a difference in the case of mass killings. The past weeks have seen a series of massacres. The majority of those killed have been from the Sinhalese community interspersed with incidents where the minorities, mainly Tamils have been victims. Yet in the brutal carnage one could detect a method in the madness, motive in the mayhem. Hypersensitivity bordering on xenophobia towards the issue of demographical changes in the province along with the Mosaic tradition of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth has led to genocidal frenzy.
The deaths of ex-Senator Nadarajah, Mannar GA Makbool, Communist Party leader Vijayanandan, Mutur and Sammanturai AGA's and a host of lesser-known personalities it was not difficult to ascertain who the killers were. In some cases the Tigers claimed credit.
One cannot however rush into conclusions about the deaths of former Deputy Minister and ex-MIP for Mutur Mr. Abdul Majeed; former DDC member and Citizens' Committee Chairman Mr. Vel Murugu; former T.C. Chairman and Citizens' Committee Chairman Mr. Ahmed Lebbe. Some have openly pointed the accusing finger at the LTTE. The LTTE certainly has to bear its share of the guilt but the objective seeker of truth must be on guard against the common tendency to make a scapegoat of a Tiger. Two of those killed were called off their homes. Abdul Majeed was shot dead in his compound while Vel Murugu was abducted and killed. Ahmed Lebbe was shot while on the pillion of a motorcycle.
There is a common factor among the three. All of them were persons who worked hard in thought, word and deed for Tamil-Muslim unity. Mr. Abdul Majeed was a tower of strength to the TULF during the 1981 DDC elections where despite the Tamils being only a third of the district Trincomalee was won by that party. In recent times he rendered yeoman service in reducing tensions between the Muslims and the Tamils, the Muslims and the IPKF. After his death a leading Muslim politician remarked publicly that Homeguards were responsible for the killing. A newspaper reported it and was never openly contradicted.
In the case of Mr. Ahmed Lebbe it cannot be forgotten that he helped the LTTE open a branch in Kattankudi at the residence of a close relative. He played a mediator role in the clash between the LTTE and the Jihad. More importantly he was elected VicePresident of a newly-formed Muslim
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organisation which openly supported the North-East merger. Shortly afterwards he resigned his post allegedly under pressure from a fundamentalist Islamic group. He was killed a few days later. In the ensuing panic eight Tamils were abducted by a Muslim group carrying sophisticated arms.
Contrary to the impression that Mr. Vel Murugu was against the fast knowledgeable circles assert that Mr. Vel Murugu was the motivating force behind the fasts. The fasts were in sympathy of the Mothers' Front fast. Mr. Vel Murugu who helped pour oil on troubled waters during Tamil-Muslim clashes in Kalmunai was instrumental in getting Muslim youths also to fast in support. The IPKF took great umbrage at this and forcibly broke up the fast threatening that "Muslims should not fast'. They were supported by antiLTTE groups. Mr. Vel Murugu had then coaxed the fasting persons to call off the fast to avoid violence. Also the car used by the killers was found in Karaitivu which could not be described as a Tiger stronghold.
The Eastern Province cocktail consists of various admixtures like the Police, the STF, the Homeguards, the IPKF, the LTTE, the non-LTTE Tamil groups and the Muslim armed groups. Speaking to a cross-section of sources emanating from Security, Police, Journalist, Citizen and religious circles a broad answer by no means conclusive emerges. All indicators are that:
The Killing of (a) Mutur's Abdul Majeed, (b) Kattankudi’s Ahmed Lebbe, (c) Pandiruppu's Vel Murugu is presumed to be the work of (a) Homeguards, (b) Muslim armed group, (c) armed Tamil group other than the LTTE respectively.
O Chasing Prabakaran
“Curiouser and curiouser’ the ungrammatical yet quaint phrase from "Alice in Wonderland' appropriately describes the grand manhunt launched by the Indian Army in search of that elusive Tiger leader Velupillai Prabakaran.
In the good old days of Sri Lankan Army-LTTE clashes Sri Lankans were regaled with "media-centred tales' of Prabakaran's movements. Seen here, there, everywhere; captured here, wounded there, "killed' everywhere. Fortified with past experience Sri Lankans react with a casual response to Indian spokespersons, Indianinspired leaks and Indian newspaper scoops about the adventures of the elusive Tiger.
Holed up in Kokuvil was the first, trapped in Kopay was next. Then he was injured in Chavakachcheri from where he hobbled on one foot to the base hospital in Manthikai, Puloly. He was sighted limping yet he was not captured or killed. A red herring then swam all the way across the Palk Straits. The search was on in Vedaranyam and Rameshwaram. The Tiger leader according to intelligence (Indian) reports found Jaffna made too hot for him and crossed over to India from where the Indian Army came.
The red herring swamb to the Islands off Jaffn search was in Vadamara The logic (Indian) was th Vadamaratchi soil would at the hands of the Indian native soil. Unfortunately want to die.
The scene then shifted Prabakaran could not co superior Indian forces in t he moves on to the Eas hunt is on, still Tiger No.o former friends and prese In the meantime Praba time to send innumerabl sages to his cadres in Mac leaders in India including dhi. The IPKF was ver "intercepting several m tween Prabakaran and his Still no capture. While going on Sri Lankans v different times that (1) was running from place lowed closely by the India were allowing him neith respite, (2) Prabakaran's luxurious bunker, has bee with couchesto recline and watch (Rest and Recreatio karan has surrounded women and children. It wi catch him because the Indi not want to harm the civili mentioned about civilian l ing Operation Pawan), (4 Army knows where Praba only a matter of time caught.
Adding to the confusic contradictory statements politicians, bureaucrats a the Indian media. "India dead; India does not war India wants to capture hir does not want to capture he would commit suicide, confounding themes.
The situation however rious. Whatever the Inc establishment may feel has scented blood. Thre Shastry Koolankulam i were bombed by helicopte of information that Pral there.
So now the spotlight is c The natural habitat of th jungle. So the Wanni ju) "happy hunting grounds' God of the Devas has the as his weapon. "Operation ting Edge) has been lau Wanni. Area of operations districts of Vavuniya, Mu nochchi and Trincomalee. are in the jungles.
Again comes the conf this time by contending p Karunanidhi of the DMK all over the world inc Nadu are shocked that I were making efforts to ca karan dead or alive. "The Prime Minister Rajiv G, stained forever with the Tamils by the efforts to LTTE or Mr. Prabakaran beginning had respect a

ack this time . The next chi.
at the son of prefer to die Army on his VP did not
to the East. pe with the he North, so . The Tiger he eludes his it foes. karan found : radio mesras, political Rajiv Gany skilful in essages becadres here. all this was vere told at Prabakaran to place foln forces who er rest nOr hide-out, a n discovered television to n), (3) Prabahimself with as difficult to an forces did ans (nothing ives lost dur) the Indian karan is; it is before he is
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in India'. Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President Karuppiah Moopanar was quick to respond. It was not the intention of the Central Government to'kill the LTTE leader Mr. W. Prabakaran’, he said.
In such a situation one would like to conclude with an excerpt from Sukumar Ray, the Indian version of a Lews Carrol. Sukumar Ray whose centenary was last year is called the "Nabab of Nonsense' and is well-known for his comic verse and fantasies. A passage from his fable "HA-JA-BA-RA-LA' reads as follows.
'Who's cousin Treehopper?' I asked. Where does he live?”
"Up in the trees of course, the cat replied.
Where can I find him?' I asked again.
"Oh you can't do that, he cried. "Quite out of the question.'
“Why?" said I. "It's like this you see,' said the cat. Suppose you're looking for him at Vluberia: you'll hear he's in Motihari. So you go to Motihari only to find he's at Ramkrishnapur. Off you go again, but they tell you there he's left for Cossimbazzar. You just can't run him to earth.
Then how do you manage to meet him at all? I wondered.
(Courtesy of "The Island)
Protest Journey to protect Tamils' rights
A contingent of political leaders, intellectuals, cine artistes and students began a 740-km “Protest Journey' on March 26 from Madras to Kanyakumari, demanding protection of the rights of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and urging that the life of the LTTE leader, Mr. V. Prabakaran, be safeguarded.
The journey, which began in a convoy of cars and vans, was organised under the auspices of the Confederation for Protection of the Rights of Eelam Tamils. Led by Mr.V.C. Kuganathan, the journey was inaugurated by the DMK president, Mr.M. Karunanidhi, near the Periyar statue on Anna Salai.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Karunanidhi charged that a large number of Tamils were being killed in Sri Lanka daily without any let-up. A fight had been launched against the Tamil race on the island. The various political parties in the State had raised their protest, he said and hoped that the Central Government would pay heed to their feelings.
The participants raised slogans criticising the IPKF's hunt for Mr. Prabakaran, and its role on the island. The participants passed through Tiruchi, Madurai and Tirumangalam before reaching their destination on March 29. Public meetings were held all along the route.

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AT THE HANDS OF THEP
SAVAGERY BEY
BELIEF
(The names of the eye witness, whose family was also attacked, and the names of all victims are left out for obvious reasons.)
At about 7.30a.m. on 6.11.87 I heard shouts in a language foreign to me. A little while later, the windows of my house were smashed and shots were fired. I opened the door and about fifty Indian soldiers in uniform entered the house and one of them hit me with the rifle butt on my shoulder and kept the barrel on to my ear and threatened to shoot me to death. The Indian soldiers asked me, in colloquial English, whether we were supporters of the LTTE, I denied and said that our family had nothing to do with them. I also told them to take us into custody and inquire if they suspected us to be LTTE supporters. My whole family (self, sonin-law and two daughters) except the crippled son, were ordered to go to the sea-beach. My Crippled son who is also an imbecile, was pushed down to the ground and trampled by the soldiers.
"Having led us to the sea-beach, a soldier ordered us to lie down and we did so. A fair-complexioned young officer said something in Hindi and im
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Prof. Maurice Jones, ethnic Conflict
"But that is by no means the only problem. Leaving aside serious economic difficulties, it has to be said that Sri Lanka is no longer a thriving democracy. The political process virtually came to an end a decade ago with the concentration of power under the new constitution in an executive presidency at the expense of parliament, judiciary and elective participation. If violence now stalks the land, is it not in part because the channels of open, free democratic politics have been for so long blocked?” asked Professor Wyeth Maurice Jones, an international authority on ethnic relations.
“But even if Sinhalese/Tamil relations were the only problem, it cannot be spoken of as something the island has always endured. The two people lived side-by-side for several centuries, not by ignoring each other but actually by interacting amicably. Communal tension came as a by-product of social change in a previously very stable society. Ceylon entered independence as a cosy, almost cacooned little world led by a westernized, well-educated elite of high social status for whom English was almost their mother tongue. Both Tamils and Sinhalese belonged to this elite; and probably saw less distance between each other than between them and ordinary folk, who accepted the gulf. It was a placid socie
ty; and indepe the result of ment stirring the British, bu manly negotia So national before but aft came as Sin easiest way ol nized alliance Sinhalese was defence of buc of the Sinhal was heard by la educated their rise imp elite. Thus so verted into c
From then Party, wher cautiously to Tamil leaders of power, ha sentiment tc agreement. T moved at each moderation tc fence of Tam If part of til rising social e. easily exploit the very high and hatred p) Lanka’s smal India's giant

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oldier shot my son-in-law, r, we were brought to our e soldiers demanded that the cash and jewellery. I did not have any. They e house and searched the uitcases. A little later we ed to the sea-beach and to lie down. There I saw Ir, T's wife and children y were crying loudly and ly lying on the ground. T een shot a few minutes body was still twitching. my daughters, (J and V) naked below the waist by ey were both crying and mercy. My daughter, (J), to lie down and hug her dy which she did. One ated her legs and shot her private part, keeping the rifle between the thighs. aughter, (V), who rolled ister and hugged her was the same soldier, in the , between the legs. I saw standing with her infant her breast and her three her side. An army man er and shot at her twice.
She fell down dead and the child fell down unhurt and was standing in the water, crying. When my daughters were shot, their blood splashed on me and my upper garments were wet with blood. I watched the brutal acts of the Indian soldiers while lying on the seabeach. I pretended to be dead, moving my head to and fro, whenever the waves passed over me. From the corners of my eyes, I saw T's children being ordered to lie down. They were lying beside me and were crying. The army men went towards the houses and came back with paper bags full of some things. I closed my eyes and pretended to be dead. Someone shouted some words in Hindi and an army man shot the two daughters of T, (S and S) between their legs, in the same manner as he did to the other girls. Thereafter, I heard three other shots and heard the moans of the two little boys (K and T). sons of T and realised that they were dying. The crying of the child stopped and I thought that child too had died instantly. After the army men left, I raised my head a little and found that all persons who were shot were dead.' The parents and five children of the (T) family and three members of the eyewitness' family were killed in the above stated manner. Senior IPKF officers who try to fraternise with civilians, when told of atrocities by the IPKF, have said that their men did such acts to avenge the loss of their comrades.
On the
endence had come notas a loud nationalist movethe people to rise against ut rather through gentleations at the top. ism came to Ceylon; not 2r independence – and it halese nationalism. The f challenging the westerof elite Tamils and elite to appeal in the name of ldhism and advancement a language. The appeal the now awakened Sinhamiddle-class which saw eded by a non-communal cial aspirations were conommunal hostility. on each single Sinhalese in power has tried reach deals with the hip; and each, when out s stoked up anti-Tamil prevent any durable The Tamils in response stage further away from wards more vigorous deil interests. he trouble has been that xpectations have been too ed in communal terms, levels of mutual distrust robably owe much to Sri ness especially alongside size. This has created a
deep sense of vulnerability, even on the part of the majority community. But not every Sinhalese, not every Tamil, in Sri Lanka has lost objectivity, even in the terrible times through which the island has been passing. It is around such pockets of sanity, but by reexamining the past forty years, that it may still be possible to find ways out of violence and despair.’ - B.B.C
Commentary on Independence Day |Feხ.4
IPKF Major caught
with Gold
A Major of the IPKF in Sri Lanka arriving on leave at Chandigarh airport in Punjab was nabbed by Police. He was found to be carrying 100 sovereigns of gold in broken pieces of jewellery. His explanation was that he bought the jewellery. Police believe he snatched it from Lankan Tamils. The Major had earlier flown from Lanka via Madras.
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DUBIOUS PROPOSITIONS
I did appreciate the two pieces in the April '87 issue of Tamil Times one by Mr. Ed Benedict (p.6) and the other by Mr. A.J. Wilson (pp.12-13). Mr. Benedict convincingly argues why the Tamil Boys who are freedom-fighters should not be too glibly described as terrorists, communists or separatists. Mr. Wilson shows the wise alternatives open to the Sri Lankan Government to resolve the ethnic crisis.
While agreeing fully with most of the points made, I have serious reservations about how both authors try to make Sri Lankan Tamils attractive to the West and to the U.S. regime, and how both take their distance from leftist politics.
The fact that the Tamils are naturally conservative, individualist and family-oriented does not mean that they have to remain closed to liberal, community-oriented socialist options. If they have not been as left-oriented as some of our Sinhalese brethren, it is not necessarily a quality; nor should that fact be used as Benedict tries to - to make the Tamils' cause attractive to U.S. public opinion. It can be counterproductive.
Mr. Benedict writes: "It is against the very ethos of the Tamil people to be communists.' Now, that is an overstatement. It is not against the Tamil ethos to grow into a more leftist, socialist frame of mind. In fact, some of the new groups fighting for liberation, independence and self-respect seem to find inspiration in the life and work of great Asians like Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Mao Tse-Tung and Ho Chi Minh, who all knew how to take their distance from certain capitalist and nationalist ideologies. So, let us not for the sake of convenience and Western acceptability think that the Tamils are better than the Sinhalese because the leftist movements made no serious inroads in the Tamil homelands. It is not necessarily a plus. It just shows how conservative, insular and fencedin most Sri Lankan Tamils have been. No wonder, communal politics became an attraction.
In fact, in spite of their occasional opportunist betrayals, the leftists in the South (much more than even the religious organisations) seem to be the only voice of sanity for a just settlement in Sri Lanka. Thus, it is unwise to try to buy U.S. support by portraying the Tamils as individualist, capitalist, and family-oriented. If that is true, then it is time they become more communityoriented, socialist and left-leaning too, as most of the revolutionary groups happen to be. We can learn from our Sinhala brethren in the South.
The same argument used to be made about China, India and Indo-china. And these conservative lands, without losing their traditional values have all become left-leaning too.
As for Mr. Wilson, speaking to the U.S. sul Asian and Pacific Affair have to bend over back our closeness to U.S. id pared with the leftist o with most of Dr. Wilson of the situation, and th tives he proposes. Wha exaggerated and unacce he says: "There has bee tion of education thro mission in the Tamil u people feel morally oblig institutions which spent over their education. A therefore with the U.S will be honoured.' First, ically true. Though Christian Mission mad contribution to educatio one should not canonize does. There were mar significant ways in wl took place for the Tam North and in the rest
What I find particular the type of conclusion this dubious proposition the Tamils will be more of U.S. interests (broadc: and the like) than the Si he fails compoletely to s of Sri Lankan policy tow and imperialist inter another area where the open to learning from th Lankans under the B and the Senanayakes influence of great lefti. Colvin, N.M. Perera, Pl
HO
Your February issue Times asked the questio go from here? We ha avoiding violence and escalation.
One gets the feeling attention is being devo ing the nature of the c less about how to get the mistake that bef attempt to implemen Lanka agreement of J
But this does not should not carefully col in a broader perspect those who feel tired of far undertaken, and wi terms of the agreement they are tired. This is enough. There are con broader perspective wh conclusion, that we sh the agreement.
Fundamentally what in Sri Lanka seek? degree of freedom tha enjoy. The Tamils are ) Sinhalese in numbers, wish to be under greate their freedom to live
 

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true, he was -committee on ; but we do not wards to show 20logy as comutlook. I agree s fine analysis » wise alternaseems totally ptable is when h a long tradilgh American nit. The Tamil ed to the U.S. so much time ny agreement ... Government it is not historhe American a significant h in the North, it the way he y other more nich education ils both in the of Sri Lanka. ly distasteful is he draws from . He says that : accomodating asting facilities inhalese. In this ee the wisdom 7ards capitalist ests. This is Tamils can be e Sinhalese. Sri andaranayakes because of the st leaders like hilip Gunawar
W do We
of the Tamil n: Where do we ve to proceed, preventing its
that too much ted to considerestination, and here. This was ell the Indian t the Indo-Sri uly 29th.
mean that we sider our goals ive. There are the journey so sh to accept the purely because not convincing siderations in a ch augment the ould proceed to
, do the Tamils they seek that t the Sinhalese Lot as big as the but they do not r constraints on und progress in
dene, Bernard Soysa and many others, did wisely change their tactics in relation to whatever agreements they had with the West. Thus it is rather unwise to fail to admire the foreign policy of the successive Sri Lankan governments, and even their openness to the Left, specially under the SLFP. JR's unprincipled antics of the last few years should not make us oblivious of Sri Lanka's bold and enlightened stand on foreign affairs.
Tamils do not need to pose as proAmerican or anti-left in order to fight for self-determination and basic human rights. Nor should we disown Sri Lankanforeign policy of the last few decades which rightly fought colonialism, feudalism and imperialism.
To conclude: the Tamils' individualism - even if it be true - is not a virtue that should exclude a healthy democratic socialism. The Tamils' purported education by American missionaries (which may have affected a small minority) cannot be construed as making the Tamils more reliable partners in agreements with the West or the U.S. The Sinhalese have qualities which we have to acknowledge, and even learn from; and our dubious ‘virtues' should not be exploited in our dialogue with the West or the U.S.
While we deplore Sinhala Buddhist extremism, nationalism and chauvinism, let us not fail to appreciate the qualities and achievements of the Sinhala nation as a whole. Honesty is the best policy, even if it may not be the best politics in certain situations.
Fr. C.A. Joachim Pillai
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accordance with their ability.
Some degree of disadvantage to minorities is evident in very many states throughout the world, at the present time. In all these cases there are varying degrees of protest and revolt. Even in the reputedly quiet USSR there has arisen the Armenian uprising. But neither any state nor the United Nations has produced a solution that can be generally applied. Demands for separate states continue to increase.
At the same time there are areas of the world where a tendency is arising, for separate states to merge together. The Scandinavian countries have had a great degree of co-operation among themselves for a long time. The countries of the European Economic Community are diligently continuing their efforts to bring their governments to coalesce. The reasons for these countries to pursue this trend are dictated by modern technology. For survival they find they have to join together.
These are generally between neighbouring countries. In those regions of the world which have recently gained independence the neighbours start fighting. Among the countries who

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have been independent for a long time, and have fought many wars in the past, the tendency is to foster closer ties. Let us follow the example of the more advanced countries and foster closer ties among neighbours.
In all these geography plays a very important part. It influencesterritorial, commercial, and cultural interests, with historical overtones added. We cannot change the land, the river basins, and the seas. These determine who our neighbours are. The closest to what is being called Elam, is South Sri-Lanka which is peopled by Sinhalese.' Next comes Tamil Nadu, and thereafter the whole of India and South Asia.
Taking these and many other factors into consideration one is driven to the conclusion that the next step should be to work to reach the political terms of the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement.
This has become very difficult owing to the growth of violence during the last decade. Fortunately there is an endeavour on the part of India to settle this conflict. The presence of the Indian army can provide the breathing space to work constructively.
We should reach the stage for political decisions by creating the correct climate of public opinion. For this the people should be back in their homes and free to discuss and express their opinion. We should work in the faith
EELANADU
Many established institutions in the Tamil areas have been destroyed or damaged during the past several years. EELANADU survived the violence and trauma of these years and was one of the institutions about which the Tamil people could and should have been proud of. It had been the target of the Sri Lankan police and army, indeed the government too, but its publication never ceased.
The senseless destruction of EELANADU and its cessation of publication will go down in the history of the Tamil people as one of its worst tragedies.
S. Nadarajah Colombo 12, Sri Lanka.
TAMIL DOCTORS
MDICAL FACULTY
It is ironic that on the same page of Tamil Times (page 25, March '88), two stories appeared - one about the threatened closure of the Jaffna Medical Faculty and shortage of medical staff in all fields at the Jaffna General Hospital; and the other about Tamil doctors in the UK forming a new organisation to enhance and entrench their already well established positions.
Doctors and other professionals who had gone abroad on scholarships or those who went on holiday have not returned to their posts. Some of them ဗုbandoned their posts due to the vio
that the min expressed, aft the best guide progress.
For the abo steps have to 1. Establish is free, unfette san or better 2. Give prote fugees to get
In order t genuine old in sion compose Tamils, Sinha ment, should l will guide the people. This sl Sinhalese, Mu population liki habitats. 3. Aid from should be used up, and in h refugees. Cou proceed the r tures of comm ties, schools, 4. . All those suspected mili They should their return short training tion. They wo the reconstruc available in
lence and the
face in the Ta abroad. Most c ly to return u return. Even turn for they jobs with bet who are left out. If they fa abroad, they Lanka from after July 19. Years of co sulted in the destruction of
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d of the people freely er adequate discussion is for the future course of
ve purpose the following
be taken: full media coverage, that red, and either non parti
still all-partisan. ction and enable all reback to their homes. o determine who the habitants are, a commisd of representatives of lese, and Indian governpe set up. Their decisions authorities in settling the hould bring back Tamils, uslims, and the floating e the fishermen, to their
all acceptable sources to finance the media set ousing aid to returning pled with these should estoration of infrastrucunications, medical facilietc. detained as militants or tants should be released. be followed through to to their habitats, given , and fixed in an occupauld then be involved in tion work which will be plenty. The same would
apply to all militants who wish to enter this Elam service. They should be suitably orientated, and instructed on social engineering, to divert their energy into constructive channels. This aspect is important to eliminate violence. For even if a political settlement were implemented and accepted, unless the militants are otherwise engaged, the violence in the country will emerge in other forms.
All these will take time and patience and will cost much. But it will be worth it. Not to face the task now, and allow the violence to continue, will mean situations as in Ireland and Palestine. One can see that things only get worse. So let us all divert our energies, all of Sri Lanka, all of India, and our friends throughout the world.
The returning Sri Lankans will themselves form an effective force to turn the course of the country. The authorities of India will not grudge their contribution, as it will ensure the peace of the South of their domain. There are many agencies in the world who will be happy to assist in such a bright venture. The world faces a proliferation of non-nuclear violence. So an attempt to reverse the process evenin a small area as in Sri Lanka will be encouraged by many.
S. Rajan Adelaide, Australia
insecurity they had to mil areas and have gone of these people are unlikeuntil normalcy and peace then, some may not rehave been able to obtain ter salaries. Even those behind are trying to get lil in their attempt to go are moving to south Sri where they fled in fear 83.
inflict have not only redeath of thousands and more homes, but also has
ANKA ARMY
ACATES
NT PEDRO
kan army hitherto staht Pedro vacated the camp in 34 vehicles escorted by
2nts are being made to tley College and the irls College which were for the past three years ct that they were situated ibited Zones' and in the Le army camp. The Point s are also likely to be th a view to reopening. , the Thondamanar SelMurugan Hindu temple of bounds to devotees for years was now returning Recently, a Kumbabishely was held at this temple.
severely affected the entire infrastructure - social, economic, educational and cultural - of the Tamil community. Appeals through the columns of Tamil Times which is essentially read by expatriate Tamils who cry for the continuation of the 'struggle' from the security of the life of luxury they lead will be pointless until peace and normalcy return to the troubled Tamil 883.S.
A suffering Tamil eJafna, Sri Lanka.
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Two custom made bullet-proof Benz Cars have been imported recently by the government of Sri Lanka to enhance security for the island's President.
The Benz cars, after their windscreens and the windows were tinted at the local agents of the Benz company in Colombo, were delivered at the President's House on 23 March. The two cars are estimated to have cost the government Rs.14 million.
The two cars have been purchased to supplement the fleet of presidential cars as a security measture.
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WORLD HINDU CONFERENCE
KATHMANDU, March 25 - In a colourful ceremony amidst the chantings of Vedic, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh sutras, King Birendra of Nepal formally inaugurated the five-day second world Hindu conference at Kathmandu's Dashrath Stadium today.
The Sankaracharyas - Swami Swaroopananda Saraswathi of the Dwaraka Peetam and Swami Jayendra Saraswati of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam; the Jain Muni, Sri Sushill Kumar, Bhikshu Amritananda and Sirdar Jagir Singh and Nepal's royal preceptor offered them blessings.
In his inaugural address King Birendra said Nepal had known since the Vedic times as the abode of Lord Shiva and Parvati. It the sacred stone, Saligrama, found in Nepal is revered as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Rudraksha that consecrates our beads is still sought after in the forests of Nepal, he added.
The King noted that it was in Nepal where Sri Sita was born so was the apostle of peace, the Buddha and it was here that the great sage Valmiki had lived the life of a recluse. Highlighting Nepal's efforts in conserving its religiocultural heritage the King referred to the Mahendra Sanskrit University founded last year to promote the teaching and research in Hindu reli
gion and philo krit language Noting that Hindus to join with respect other's belief,
Hindu unity f the conferenc more appropri On the occas wati conferred ma Samrat” (E Hindu faith) C Eternal reli note to the c Acharya said nal as were t extolled Nepa resembled a
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Re-ele Mr Nagendr Prime Ministe unanimously re World Hindu ( the second ter This was an assembly of th ence at the Roy by the electio and former Chi Bhagvati Pras:
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Britain's mistreatment of refuge
This country has an obsession with immigration controls bordering on the pathological. Such controls have come like waves throughout this century. In the last few years they have come like tidal waves - to such an extent as to have made King Canute's historic task appear easy. The escalation of immigrataon restrictions within the last decade has undoubtedly been provoked by the Prime Minister's election speech in 1979
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being "swamped by aliens'. From the Jews to the Tamils examines within the context of increasing immigration restrictions the UK's denial of asylum to those seeking refugee status. It looks at the role of the press, of the courts and of parliament. It examines the practices of the Home Office and its immigration officers. In particular it describes the refusal of asylum to Tamil refugees and shows how “the mistreatment of Tamils over the last 3 years has proved to be the catalyst in tightening not just the laws in respect to asylum but also in respect to immigration controls generally.
From the Jews to the Tamils also exposes a myth. The myth is that
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sophyalong with Sansand literature. he time had come for all hands and move ahead ind tolerance for each he King said the theme r world peace' chosen by had made the meet te and relevant. ion Sri Jayendra Sarasthe title of "Hindu Dharmperor of all people of n King Birendra. gion: In his blessing onference the Kanchi Hinduism was as eterhe sun and moon and 's national flag which Dharmapataka”.
assembly decided to d Hindu centres and different parts of the of this, the delegates an increase in the
cted president a Prasad Rijal, former r of Nepal, has been -elected president of the )rganisation (WHO) for m of five years. nounced at the general e World Hindu confer'al Nepal Academy here n commission member ef Justice of Nepal, Mr. ad Singh.
ditionally been a haven g oppression elsewhere. he reverse is the case - in has behaved oppreshose seeking asylum. It lewish refugees in par|roughout this century try. The first ever imation, the Aliens Act of ned specifically to keep g anti-semitism in Rusn Europe. Again imols were used to deny ntold number of Jews pe Nazism in the 1930s. did get into the country ernment camps. From he Tamils reveals all ory and raises the questhe history has been torted. vailable by mail order, ing post and packing. l be made payable to
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CINEMA
“Raasaavae Unnai Nambi"
Next time Radharavi sees a military uniform in the costume section, he will definitely throw a fit. He must have been tired of playing the military man and that too suspecting the fidelity of his newly married wife. Red Sun Art Creation's "Raasavae Unnae Nambi’ follows such a story line, the differences being that the man suspected to be the cause for the wife's condition is his adopted brother. The tension and pity this particular scene is supposed to evoke is lost with the placid face of the hero, Ramarajan. Uniformity is some
thing Ramarajan believes in and his
countenance is a fine example. The director T.K. Bose even has him murdered in the end, just for a variation, before the military man learns the truth about his potency from the doctor (Poornam Viswanathan) - that is another tale of cinematic sacrifice, if one is still interested in staying on.
Every fourth minute Rekha vows to marry her man (Ramarajan) but her family connections with an undesirable father (Malaysia Vasudevan) at the helm, make the hero reluctant to nod his head. An element of surprise is ushered in when Ilavarasan (not a bad job by this youngster) makes his appearance threatening the military man's wife with exposure of her past. This mystery is short-lived as the director, unable to extricate himself, takes the easiest way out.
Saritha, Rekha and Radharavi just go through the motions as if on remote control. The mole hunt seems to have caught up with our producers and in this movie S.S. Chandran, Senthil are at it with Usilai Mani holding the key to their problem. Of the seven songs by Ilayaraja, “Rasaathi manasilae” takes the top slot.
Refugee movement in Tamil Nadu
By end-March, 6,600 camp refugees had been sent back to Sri Lanka, practically all of whom are residents of Mannar. They were sent in batches of 500 ever since the refugee return was initiated in December 1987. But there are still 18,000 refugees in camps in Tamil Nadu, a large number of whom are reluctant to get back, particularly those from Trincomalee, Vavuniya and Mullaitivu districts.
Besides the remaining 18,000 in the camps, there are, according to Indian Government authorities 1,25,000 Sri Lankan Tamils living outside the camps who are self-supporting and are no burden to the Indian government. The Indian Government's announcement that all these Tamils should register and arm themselves with Refugee Registration cards has met with poor response despite the extension of the deadline from December 31, 1987 to February 29, 1988. Visas have not been extended beyond last December except to students.

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INDIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES CALL FORCEASEFIRE
Eleven opposition Members of Parliament said prolonging the Indian PeaceKeeping Force's offensive against Tamil rebels would not improve the situation in Sri Lanka and demanded an immediate ceasefire.
In a statement in Delhi, they said any future political settlement would be jeopardised if Sri Lankan forces were allowed into Tamil areas on any pretext.
They said the Indian Government should act immediately to prevent the Sri Lankan forces from entering the Tamil areas and resume negotiations
with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil :
Eelam (LTTE) to bring peace to Sri Lanka.
It was "unfortunate that the Sri Lankan Government had sent its forces to the eastern province' while LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran had come forward with a proposal for unconditional
talks with the Indian they said.
The statement said, “un text of the so-called gueril LTTE,” the Sri Lankan was "reluctant to implem demands of the merger of and eastern provinces as devolution of power to t council before elections.
The signatories to th were M.S.Gurupadaswa Dandavate and Thampau the Janata Party, P.Up Telugu Desam, Aladi K.R.Natarajan of the Ja of the AIADMIK, W. Gopa N.V.N. Somu of the DM ni of the BJP, V. Kishor Congress-S and Lt. Ger ¥it Singh Aurora of til
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THE NADESAN CENTRE FOR HUMA
RIGHTS
Mr. S. Nadesan Q.C. who was enrolled as an advocate of the Supreme Court on 7 October 1931 and who died on 21 December last year was a fearless and dedicated champion of human rights and civil liberties throughout his long and distinguished legal career. He was elected President of the Bar Council in 1970. Mr. Nadesan campaigned ceaselessly for the legal rights of individuals and groups in the Senate of which he was a member almost continuously from its inception in 1947 until its abolition in 1972. He was a founder member of the Civil Rights Movement in 1971 and remained its driving force until the day of his death at the age of 83.
THE NADESAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH LAW has been set up to perpetuate his memory. It will be primarily a governmental organisation and individuals active in human rights work. The constitution of THE NADESAN CENTRE specifically provides that it will 'seek to complement rather than duplicate the efforts of others active in the field of human rights, and to this end shall place emphasis on providing a service for lawyers and organisations engaged in the pursuit of legal remedies for human rights violations with a view to making their work more effective.'
The initial projects of the Nadesan Centre will be the establishment of a human rights law library and the provision of a consultative and advisory service for lawyers engaged in human rights cases.
There have been remarkable de
velopments in internat rights law, and the creatic jurisprudence in this fi engaged in such work i have experienced difficult access to this body of law the decisions of internal regional tribunals and national courts in other c library will meet this ne In providing a cons advisory service to lawye the field of human right will aim at strengthenin and making it more effec mising duplication and effort.
THE NADESAN CENT pendent and non-politica also aims to provide a fo larly discussion, to engag and bring out publicatior topics, to examine violati rights and provide legal r in selected cases, to liaise organisations elsewhere
ote public education in h
THE NADESAN CENT HUMAN RIGHTS THI
LAW No.26, Charles Place, C Chairman: The Rev. Celestine Fern
Jt. Secretaries: Radhika Coomaraswamy Wickremasinghe.
Treasurer: Sithie Tiruchelvam.
 

Government,
der the prea war by the government ent the main the northern one unit and ne provincial
e statement my, Madhu Thomas of endra of the Aruna and naki faction lasamy and K, L.K.Advae Deo of the Leral (Retd) 1e Akali Dal
ional human on of a body of eld. Lawyers in Sri Lanka ies in gaining in respect of tional bodies, decisions of ountries. The eed. ultative and rs working in is the Centre g their work :tive by minidilution of
[TRE, an indeall institution, rum for schofe in research ns on selected ons of human epresentation with similar and to prom
uman rights.
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10 INJURED IN BOMBATTACK
While the Matara Urban Council was holding its monthly meeting on March 20, at about 11.25a.m. two youths rushed into the Council premises and hurled three bombs that they had brought with them in a brown-paper bag into the meeting.
Two of the bombs exploded while the third, which has been recovered, failed to do so.
Ten persons, including seven members of the Council were injured in this attack and had to be rushed to the Matara hospital for treatment.
Two of the Councillors were representatives of the C.P.S.L. They are B.Y. Tudawe, former Deputy Minister of Education and Leader of the Opposition in the Matara U.C., and Chandrasiri Gajadeera, President of the Communist Youth Federation of Sri Lanka, member of the Party's Central Committee, and an attorney at law. The third Communist Councillor, Kithsiri Wijesooriya, was slightly injured.
Four U.N.P. Councillors, including the Deputy Chairman who was presiding were also injured.
The only SLFP Councillor Tudor Gunasekera did not attend the U.C. meeting that day.
FIVE MORE
5 employees of the Council were also injured. They include the Electrical Engineer, the P.H.I. and three other employees.
The attackers, who took to their heels after flinging the bombs, are said to be from the J.V.P. Their appearance has been described by some persons who witnessed the incident.
Communist leader B.Y. Tudawe was the object of an earlier J.V.P. terrorist attack last year, when a J.V.P. gunman shot him in the back through the window of his house while he was watching television.
On that occasion he was hospitalised for several weeks and had to undergo several operations. On this occasion, too, he had to undergo surgery to remove shrapnel.
The Matara U.C., which is UNPdominated, did not apparently have Police or army personnel guarding it. The only security provided was by five security guards of the U.C. itself.
MARTIN ENNALS
Mr.Martin Ennals, Secretary General of "International Alert' was refused entry into Sri Lanka when he was turned back at the Katunayake (Colombo) airport on 9th March. He was on a fact-finding mission into alleged IPKF atrocities in the North and Human Rights violations in the South.
"International Alert was founded in 1985 to focus attention on problems of group conflict which violate human rights and work towards viable peaceful solutions.

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PEACE IN JAFFN
Jaffna, April 1: A top official of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) has indicated that peace and normalcy in Sri Lanka’s war-torn Jaffna peninsula may still be a long way off because, though weakened, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is not 'down and out yet'.
"The peace which has descended on the peninsula is apparent, but we do not deceive ourselves into thinking that we have brought the situation under complete control,” Maj. Gen. Sardesh Pande, General Officer Commanding in Chief of the IPKF, told UNI in an interview at his Palaly headquarters, 20 km north of here, on Wednesday. He said there were no signs of the LTTE running out of weapons. "Either they have a large number of weapons hidden away or they are getting fresh supplies. So we have to continue to recover them.' Gen. Pande, who took charge of the IPKF operations in the peninsula in January said.
Gen. Pande dismissed the LTTE's overtures for a ceasefire as “unreasonable, clever and manipulated'.
"You stop firing and we will stop firing, he said and pointed out that the LTTE had, so far, not shown any inclination for a ceasefire.
Gen. Pande said the LTTE had, in fact, distanced itself from a ceasefire by continuing its attacks on the IPKF. "Everyday they are blowing up vehicles, throwing grenades and killing innocent people. What credibility do they have?”
He said LTTE leader Prabhakaran was waging a 'full-fledged war against the IPKF which showed no sign of ending as far as the group was concerned. "The only thing the LTTE believes in is the gun and its power. So they simply can't afford to think of laying down the weapon. That will be their end.'
Million dollar question: Though the IPKIF had established military control over the peninsula, when normalcy would be restored was a "million dollar guestion”, Gen Pande said. Normalisation of the situation would depend on the people's willingness to assert themselves and convince the militants that 'violence is no longer necessary'.
Public opinion, which was now prostrate on the ground’, would have to stand up. "It will take some time for us to give it that confidence.'
He said that with both the political and militant leadership having disappeared from the peninsula, the atmosphere was now characterised by 'substantive fear on the part of the civilian population. The fear was “total some months ago.
Gen. Pandesaid that Jaffna peninsula, which was the stronghold of the LTTE would continue to be so because ‘90 per cent” of the population was pro-LTTE'.
If the people were not pro-LTTE there would be something wrong with them’ because the group was a 'social
projection' of vances of the community for LTTE had foug safety and it is society,” Gen. ) The response the IPKF was COO at W in peace. The p the IPKF was h the price'. Of li started helping “What they c. have suddenly with the LTTE Asked why t flict if it felt t popular suppo tered: “Why dor to the political officials?'
Biggest imp said the biggest the peninsula the people show "The people hav body. They fee taken for a ride. playing the Sr. think that we a see it through."
One of the con the IPKF was strategic interes to gain control o 'We have bette) where we can interests,” he sa In this backgr difficult to fix at the 'deep-seated to restore peace Gen. Pande sa peninsula only t and "that has be tarily insurgenc osition' to solve a several countrie! mind that at this tion of military will be possible normalcy in the Gen. Pande sa had disappeare because, confide people, they di their efforts hel
'We feel that hold on Jaffna. their grip, he a Gen. Pande sɛ relaxing movem of the peninsula started coming the peninsula impossible to sto militants. "The porous, they are Anyone can wac or move in a fi Asked about a that the IPKF the rival milita] men, Gen. Pan

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he accumulated grieland's minority Tamil he past 40 years. "The it for their honour and part and parcel of the ande said. the civilians had given "tremendous and the as genuinely interested ople now realised why ere and 'seen us paying te, they had positively the IPKF, he added. n't stomach is that we entered into a conflict
Le IPKF Went into conhat the LTTE enjoyed t, Gen. Pande coun't you ask this question eaders and top military
ediment: Gen. Pande impediment to peace in was the “total distrust' ed towards everything. e lost all faith in everyl that they are being They think that we are Lankan game. They re not clever enough to
stant refrains was that here to protect its ts and that it was keen fTrincomalee harbour. r places in India from ಖ್ಖ೦let our strategic C. ound, it would be very ime-frame to overcome distrust' of the people
id the IPKF was in the o control the situation en achievedo. But miliy was a 'difficult propLs history had shown in ... I am confident in my 1 rate "with the applicaund persuasive force, it to restore peace and peninsula.” d the LTTE leadership from the peninsula ht of the support of the l not want to "waste e'. they still retain their Our aim is to loosen dded. id that with the IPKF nt of people in and out some LTTE men had ack. The geography of ras such that it was p the movement of the lagoons are not even like bottomless sieves. e across these lagoons hing boat.” legations by the LTTE tas using members of t groups to spot their le said that anybody
who helped the IPKF fight the war would be given 'a sympathetic hearing. Many had come to the IPKF because the LTTE had threatened them.
He said the hatred between the other groups and the LTTE had reached such levels that it was going to be their (LTTE's) weakest point in the days to OOIYθ,
(Courtesy of The Hindu)
GOVERNMENT EMBARRASSED
The frank views expressed by the General have caused tremendous embarassment among official circles in New Delhi. An official spokesman reacting quickly to the UNI report, said General Sardesh Pande’s remarks have been "reported completely out of context'. The spokesman said the position had been checked with the officer and he had confirmed that he had been misquoted.
It will be remembered that Gen. Pande's predecessor, Maj. Gen. Harkirat Singh was earlier recalled home because it was believed that he was 'soft' on the LTTE.
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INDIAN NUCLEARB
A CANARD
The Indian Ambassador to the United States, P.K.Kaul, has dismissed as 'a figment of the imagination' a United Press International news agency report that India possessed 20 or more nuclear bombs.
The report, quoting US intelligence sources, former National Security Council members and Congressional staffers, said last Sunday that India had assembled a handful of highly sophisticated low-yield atomic bombs' that can be delivered to targets by combat aircraft.
"It is a figment of their imagination taking different peaceful and scientific programmes out of context,' Mr. Kaul told Press Trust of India.
According to observers in Washington, this was a deliberate canard designed to help Pakistan get further aid from Washington despite its own clandestine nuclear programme.
The observ moment there playing up th threat to Pal
Pakistan Foreign Relat its highly pai whether he v mous ex-staf wire service.
Islamabadi ensure that 1 down in US a Afghan peace
The World aid commitm ditional on a defence expen the next five it had become prove that it defence front.
ASIAN TEACHER VICTIM OF DISCRIMINAT
The City of Bradford Metropolitan Council was found by the Leeds Industrial Tribunal to have discriminated unlawfully against Miss Ranjit Arora on the grounds of her race and her sex. In a unanimous decision the Tribunal awarded her £500 compensation for
injury to feelings and costs against the
Council.
Miss Arora has been Head of Multicultural Education at the Bradford and Ilkley College since 1983. In April 1987 she applied for the post of Head of Teaching Studies. She was invited to the first interview but not selected for the second. The Industrial Tribunal found that the interviews were not conducted within the recommendations
LIBERAL, HEAD REFUSED ENTRY
The Executive Vice President of Liber
al International, Mr. Urs Schoettli, has been refused an entry visa to Sri Lanka. No reasons have been given by the government for rejecting his application.
Mr. Schoettli is the Executive head of Liberal International which is a world union of fifty Liberal parties from around the globe.
Among its leading members are the Liberal Party of Canada, the Democratic Party of the United States, Union for French Democracy of France and the Free Democratic Party of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Mr. Schoettli was to address a seminar organised by the Council for Liberal Democracy in April on the topic "The Presidency and the Institutional form of the Sri Lankan State'. He was also expected to discuss the monitoring of
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Miss Arora representation
One of the ty custody by the the murder of the leader of t custody. Police died of pneum The decease Saparamadu, early twenties custody from N previously. Th fused to disclo Saparamadu d According tc amadu had rid
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ers pointed out at the was a special urgency in so-called Indian nuclear istan.
as employed a former ons Committee staffer as lobbyist. It is not known ras among those anonyers interviewed by the
snow trying very hard to
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settlement.
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by CRE.
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police sources, Saparlden the motor cycle on
REFUGEES HIT BY SOCIAL SECURITY
CHANGES
Refugees and people seeking asylum in UK will be particularly badly hit when changes in the social security system come into force on 11 April.
Asylum-seekers will be most affected. Many are forced to rely on Income Support as they have no money and are initially not allowed to work. Yet they will receive only 90 per cent of the normal rate of Income Support.
“We don't accept that people seeking asylum should receive less than others, says Nick Scott-Flynn, welfare rights worker at the British Refugee Council, "The DHSS seems to have created another complication for themselves that will cause real hardship for this small group of claimants.' BRC estimates that about 2,000 new claims are made every year by asylum-seekers.
The new Social Fund will also cause hardship. BRC is worried that asylumseekers' genuine needs may not be met. Many refugees arrive with just the clothes they stand up in. They could previously claim single payment grants for such basic essentials as clothing and furniture. But the Social Fund offers no guaranteed support. Any money that is made available will mostly be in the form of loans. Paying back loans will be especially difficult for asylum-seekers on their reduced level of Income Support.
BRC is very worried that the changes will hamper the successful resettlement of refugees in Britain. "The DHSS has departed from along-standing commitment to meet the needs of refugees and asylum-seekers,' says Nick ScottFlynn. We will be closely monitoring the new changes and if our fears are realised we hope the government will adjust the system.'
UNIVERSITIESTO REMAIN CLOSED
The Vice-Chancellors of the various universities in Sri Lanka who met on 25 March decided that there was no point in opening the universities in the present atmosphere with students demanding a general election and the release of students held in custody for alleged subversive activities.
The Vice-Chancellors would appear to have felt that there would certainly be an outbreak of violence and trouble if the universities were reopened in the prevailing atmosphere. They also entertained the fear that university property and other assets would be damaged in the event violence broke out following the reopening of the universities.
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INDIAN COMMUNITY SEEK
DISTINCT STATUS
Indians in Singapore want the government to accept them as a distinct minority group in any proposed constitutional reform, groups representing the Indian community told a parliamentary select committee.
The parliamentary committee is considering constitutional amendments to introduce "team MP legislation to institutionalise multi-racial politics in Singapore.
Under the proposed legislation, candidates in certain constituencies will be allowed to contest in teams of three, with one seat reserved for a racial minority.
Addressing the 13-member committee, the Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said Indians did not have any real problems making their way to the top of any field in Singapore. Mr Lee said the government specifically wanted to mention the Malays because there was a relatively small pool of qualified people among them.
On the other hand, the Prime Minister said, there was a huge reservoir of Chinese and a large proportion of Indian groups to be selected as candidates.
The president of the Tamil language and cultural society in Singapore, Mr. W.T. Arasu, told the committee that the proposal to acknowledge the community in a separate provision in the legislation would be the most effective way of ensuring multi-racial representation in Parliament.
He said there was apprehension among th are the third largest c( Chinese and Malays tha left out of the new leg
Indians who form se Singapore's population ( been historically accep community, he said.
The Deputy Prime M Chok Tong, who sponsc tion assured the India their views would be co committee.
OLAND STRUO
NANN
The Oil and Natural G of India has discovered Nannillam, 12 km wes town in Thanjavur di Nadu. The well, drilled 3,460 metres, is yielding rate of 150 barrels a c 2,933 cubic metres a (
Announcing this on ONGC said this disc fourth in the onland The other three hydroci
... AN APPEAL SKANDA WARODAYA
During the day and night curfew which started on 10 Octol lasted without a break for six weeks, thousands of refuge vicinity took shelter in the College as the bombing and shell unabated. When the army moved, all fled in the clothing they w in leaving behind their homes and valuables. No movemento permitted, all communications cut-off, no shops were open a no electricity. The refugees in the College had no food.
anything to cook, there was no firewood. In desperation, the the substantial part of the furniture of College as firewoo reigned supreme. The lab was damaged. Not even a screwdri the motor mechanism workshop or in the carpentry work
THE MOSTURGENT NEED NOWIS THE PROVISION OF FUR. WITHOUT FURNITURE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE TE STUDENTS TO CONTINUE EDUCATION, The College authorities and the Old Students Association c from Chunnakam have appealed for immediate financial help lost furniture. The minimum required now is Rs.100,000. This urgent donations from past pupils and well-wishers of the ( hour of desperate need. Please send your generous doriations without delay. Cheque be drawn in favour of S.W.C.O.S.A. and sent to: The Treasurer ٠ ۔ " SKANDAVARODAYA COLLEGE OLD STUDEN
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considerable Indians, who mmunity after , they would be slation. en per cent of 26 lakhs have ed as a major
nister, Mr Goh red the legislan groups that sidered by the
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at Kovilkalappal and Narimanam (both in Thanjavur district) and at Bhuvanagiri in South Arcot district - had been put on production. They together supplied 1,40,500 barrels of oil so far to the Madras Refineries.
The ONGC had started supplying gas to the steel rolling mills at Nagapattinam from the Narimanam wells. It was drawing up a plan to supply 40,000 cubic metres of gas a day to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board for power generation at Kovilkalappal, while the TNEB was taking action to set up a five MW gas turbine unit. The ONGC had undertaken a market survey for the utilisation of associated/free gas that might be available by 1990 from the Cauvery Basin.
Sixtyone wells had been drilled so far in the Cauvery Basin (both onland and offshore). Forty two locations had been identified for drilling on the onland Cauvery Basin, out of which 15 were deep locations (over 3,500 metres).
IN DAN SATTELLITTE
NORBIT
India's first indigenously produced satellite, IRS-1A, went into orbit on 17 March making India the fifth nation to have its own operational remote sensing satellite in space.
The Rs.650 million 975 kilogram satellite shot into space after a magnificent launch by the Soviet Vostok rocket from the Baikonaur cosmodrome.
The authorities said the spacecraft was circling the earth over the poles at a height of 904 kilometres, taking 103 minutes for each orbit.
The launch was witnessed by Professor U.R.Rao, Indian Space Commission Chairman, Dr.K.Kasturi Rangan, Project Director of the Indian Satellite Centre where the satellite was built and Indian Ambassador to Moscow T.N.Kaul.
For the Soviet Union, the launch was the first since its space business went commercial. India will pay Rs.75 million for the launch.
IRS-1A carries three linear imaging self scanning cameras that will take pictures of 148 kilometre wide scenes in four different colours with a spatial resolution of 38 and 76 metres, officials -said.
ground station near Hyderabad originally set up in 1979 to receive pictures from the American satellite Landsat.
CHOLERA AND VENEREAL DISEASE
Cholera which is endemic in India has spread its tentacles to North Sri Lanka. At least 52 cases have been detected in Jaffna Town, Manipay, Kayts, Chavakachcheri and Kankesanturai. Nine have died of Cholera. The Government of Sri Lanka is concerned that it might
The data will be received at the

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READERS
FORUM
The Tamil Community constrained to remain in Sri Lanka is on the horns of a vastly self consuming dilemma. The year just past has already seen the bloodiest and bitterest fighting in the North and East. Never before in recorded history has this area of the Tamil heartland, the North, ever been billetted and buffetted by the full fury of any Government, be it Sri Lankan or better. At the beginning of the year itself Sinhala frustration that had been bottled up ever after the July 83 conflagration and consistently and persistently thwarted by the sheer determination, dedication and grit of the Militants who contained the State Forces and had them effectively confined to their barracks: the showdown had become inevitable, the reassertion of their lost authority almost imperative. Started the Vadamaradchy 'Operation Liberation'. Virtually the entire might of the Sri Lankan war machine went into action. It was planned and executed as one massive sweep of the Northern coastal belt, the Vadamaradchy region, Tiger Territory as it was called; the Army, Navy and the Air Force rolled in to subdue its own people. Everything before this State power was blitzed to smithereens. Civilians fled from their homes, they hardly had the time to pick up even the bare essentials. Hundreds lost their lives, mostly the innocents and children. Nearly five thousand young boys and men between the ages of 15 and 40, were marched into ships and boats lying in wait to transport them to Boosa and similar "concentration' camps of doubtful notoriety, hostages in interrogation centres, perhaps. It was indeed a disastrous situation. The Militants have had to slink away from the ferocity of the war machine which no guerilla could or want to withstand. They fought determinedly but moral resolves alone do not win battles. The civilians were left to bear the brunt of it all.
Baffled and aghast at the scale of the operation and the destruction it created - temples, churches and hospitals bombed, damaged and destroyed, even apathetic onlookers the world over conceded it was at least breaking butterfly on a wheel. World opinion fumed and scorned at the injustice and the immorality of it all. The Sri Lankan Government reeled under this contemptuous international indictment of a chauvinist Government seeking to annihilate its own peoples to find a military solution to what is often mouthed as a political problem and essentially involving the fundamental rights of a section of its inhabitants. Empty verbiology and encomiums from however high they emanated could not do sufficient recompense for the misery and wanton loss of life sustained by a Community already depleted by the
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military option that had arily foisted on it by obnd design and no less. kan Army beefed up by uccess in overrunning a orth (the entire territory to the Militants for over n) seemed only too aninto Jaffna proper. The 3 crowed over their Pyrut the Tamil hearts could them. The morale of the e the main thrust of the beaten. The attack was }cted in its intensity as it isconceived. To expect to ry against the complete an entire people is to it the host. It was not stand the entire war Government with the ponry at their disposal fore the guerillas melted another day. It was their ccording to their rules. 2 tune and none else. The for whom they fought to fend for themselves. unfortunately we are a d with short memories. is at once the clue to our o out of dire disaster and scathed and mentally inly provides the ingenuity ou may) to explain our elfish approach even to 2ms as though they only mmediate family circle Commiserations apart, he Tamils in Sri Lanka d hit its lowest ebb. That 7 1987.
a good guess to make if intervene at this stage, he dispute. The morale of was low not merely for sustained with the Sri s but largely because of 2 quarrels and the power began to obsess their resulting in brutal assaskillings of compatriots in ions, some no doubt less others. It would also be ny that some of these 2njoyed the patronage of interested in whittling ularity and enthusiasm mong the Tamil masses. 2 Sri Lankan Army was wings for the final push e only deterrent was the h casualties and adverse overage by the world devoting front page Sri Lankan atrocities. tainly grave consideraan already battered Sri ation.
dits now argue that the en the Tamils and the
Sinhalese could have been better left for either party to settle between themselves, even in 1987. Such plain and wishful thinking over the last thirty years and more had by now consigned even experienced politicians to the dustheap of history. Tamil rights remained an internal matter only if it did not involve minority fundamental rights the denial of which remained their cause for grief. It was a singular lack of appreciation by a racial majority which refused to be magnanimous largely because of the political system foisted upon it and the exploitation of which was the chief concern of scheming politicians anxious for power. Glibly they argued that it was the will of the majority. And that everyone knew was . only a racial majority groomed by propaganda doled out by the State and the servile media. This is the five star democracy thathas failed in Sri Lanka. This is the political system that is in the doldrums today and threatens the very fabric of society that lived a harmonious existence over centuries, until fifty years ago. By errors of omission and commission, breach of faith and downright political chicannery the dispute between two peoples of the same Motherland, had become internationalised and their feelings alienated and estranged almost beyond repair. The minority was thus left with nothing but a military option and the Government countered it with more force and little logic or any reason. And force begets force.
India's intervention was a natural logic of events. It was a festering footsore right at India's heels. India was not merely the super power of the region concerned with its stability but the segregationist tendencies allowed to develop by sheer force of neglect could itself threaten the very structure that India was straining to maintain. The proximity of Tamil Nadu and the close cultural and linguistic togetherness that the Sri Lankan Tamils always claimed and enjoyed with the sixty million just across the Palk Straits could not be brushed aside whatever New Delhi or the South Block thought of these hard facts diplomatically.
Nor could India forget the one hundred and fifty thousand Tamil refugees who had sought shelter from Army atrocities and arrived on Indian soil as if to claim a birthright vested on them by history. No passports, no visas: they just arrived by any means of transport available: planes, ships, boats and catamarans. India was home from home for the Sri Lankan Tamils.
To vivisect India's role in the Tamil struggle and attribute motives to her intervention on our behalf is not merely
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ungrateful. What was terest only up to now, ankan Accord that is ly not have been the r the best of circumstlly does not enjoy the ll parties to the dishe first international Lanka has made on and a pledge to the ty rights are not to be uphoria and goodwill generated among the th and East had to be d. The Peace Keeping was welcomed with rs. The mass meeting lai Amman Temple subsequent gathering ed the necessary enpeople involved for for the solution in have never been the t a complete solution, o have their rights ensured by a super by a neighbour like ing they desperately he vacillations and
backtracking of their own Government and against which they campaigned both inside and outside Sri Lanka after the breaches of faith they experienced all along for the past thirty years. To be elated at this sudden development and when all seemed lost after the Vadamaradchy; disaster, the scales were turned and the mood jubilant. How then did this feeling of gratitude and gratification turn sour among the civilians, particularly in Jaffna?
Have our perceptions been oversimplified and wrong? And does that include India? Why has it not been possible for the civilian groups to express themselves freely? Does the barrel of the gun rule the roost in Jaffna? Has not India made a catastrophic blunder in trying to isolate the Militant Groups and particularly the Tigers from the Tamil population with whom they are in fact so closely identified and it is so impossible to separate? To arm dissident groups motivated by envy and greed against dedicated liberation groups is to cut the ground under your own feet and belittles the nobility of India's venture.
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