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CONTENTS
IPKF intensifies operation against LTTE....................................... 3 ISSN
ANNUAL SU
Ronnie De Mel Joins SLFP.................. 4. UK/India/Sri Lank All other Countrie
LTTE seeks PKF withdrawal.............. 5 Published
TAM L T UN Sub Commission On Human Rights.................................................. 6
Human Rights Violations Continue sut Tošu in Sri Lanka......................................... 7 ÚNTED
Views expressed by contri Jaffna Rail Track Blasted..................... 9 those of the editor or the
The publish Discordent Accord............................ 10 üဇီဗျိုငါးမိုင္ငံ fift:ဦးဇံ”ို
FAST UNTO DEAT
The condition of Sellaiah Vasudevan, a long term detainee in the BOOSa Detention Centre in South Sri Lanka, is reported to be critical. He is one among some who had launched a "fast unto death' campaign to highlight their continued detention WithOut trial.
Presently there are an estimated 858 persons held in detention in the BOOSa Detention Centre, Magazine Prison in Colombo and the Prisons in Colombo and Galle. Among them are those who at Some time belonged to various Tamil militant groups and others who had no such connections at all. The detainees are made up of : PLOT-188, EPRLF- 155, TELO- 74, EROS-72, LTTE-59, Other Tamil militant groups- 46, and 264 persons unconnected with any militant or political group.
Since the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement in July last year, representations have been made on behalf of these detainees for their release, and Attorney-at-Law, Kumar Ponnampalam, has been taking a keen interest in their case. Appeals and petitions have been submitted to the authorities including President Jayawardene and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In their appeals, the detainees had given assurances that they had accepted the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement, that they eschewed the use of violence and weapons, and that they would return to the path of democracy. The Minister of National Security insisted that these assurances should be Contained in the form sworn affidavits, and this also had been complied with. Following further representations on their behalf, a total of 191 persons were released in two batches in May this year. The rest are continuing to languish in detention.
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been incarcerated and held in inhuman Conditions. The three who are engaged in this deathfast are: Kaneshalingam Thevarajah of Kayts in Jaffna, 47 years old, father of 7 children and detained for the last 23 months; Selvarajah Pakiyanathan of Trincomalee, 44 years old, father of 5 children and held for 23 months, and Sellaiah VaSuthe Van Of Eskaduwa in Sembuka Watte (plantation area). The Action Committee of the detainees have resolved to Continue the fast unto death Campaign on a relay basis.
The Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement provided that a general amnesty would be granted and all Tamil political detainees would be released. President Jayawardene does not lose time in repeating ad nauseam that the government had complied with its obligations under the Agreement and that all Tamil militant groups except the LTTE have agreed to return to the democratic process. Additionally, the detenus have individually submitted sworn affidavits giving assurances and undertakings in accordance with the government's requirements. That being the case, why has the government not released these detenus? Is this not a blatant violation of the provisions of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement?
The government of India which insists upon the Tamil militant groups to comply with provisions of the Agreement has an equal obligation to ensure that the Sri Lankan government for its part does not renege on its obligations. More than the obligations under the Agreement, the continued detention without trial of these detainees Constitutes a violation of the basic obligations of Sri Lanka under international law. The detained persons should be released before any one of them dies in consequence of their campaign of 'fast unto death .

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IPKF INTENSIFI
Speculation is mounting that the current intensified military operations by the IPKF against the LTTE in the northern Vavuniya and Mullaitivu areas are designed to enable the holding of Provincial Council elections in the northern and eastern provinces before the end of October this year.
Following the return to Colombo of Indian High Commissioner, J.N. Dixit, after a series of meetings with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and other senior officials in Delhi, Colombo sources reveal that orders have gone out to the IPKF Commanders to intensify their operations against the LTTE on all fronts.
An estimated 20,000 Indian soldiers have been inducted into the Vanni area, particularly south of Mankulam and Odduchuddan and east of the Vavuniya-Jaffna trunk road in two cordons with the intention of bottling up the LTTE militants in their jungle hideouts and bases. The double cordon is aimed at preventing the LTTE men moving out and cutting them off from receiving food and logistic support.
The current offensive described by the IPKF as Operation 3 has resulted in fierce fighting between the IPKF and LTTE cadres. Reliable reports indicate that the LTTE is offering fierce resistance on all fronts in spite of the overwhelming number of men thrown into the battle by the IPKF.
The IPKF has virtually swamped the area with men and weapons and in certain villages, it is reported that there are about 40 IPKF men for every house.
The continuing military encounters have resulted in a large influx of refugees into the Vavuniya town proper. Around 20,000 Tamil civilians have fled their homes in the Mullaitivu and Vavuniya districts and sought refuge in schools, churches, temples and other public buildings.
A report datelined 27 August stated that the unofficial curfew clamped on northern districts on 24 August had been extended indefinitely to enable the IPKF to launch an all out offensive on LTTE positions. As a result of these operations in which thousands of troops are involved and heavy artillery and helicopter gunships, a large exodus of civilians had been reported from various areas.
Providing relief to the helpless refugees has become difficult owing to continued fighting in the vicinity and the frequent imposition of round-theclock curfews. Hundreds of families are reported to be trapped in some areas where heavy fighting is continuing.
AGAIN
The IPKF h weapons includir rockets from heli to break LTTE re troops. An unac civilians are rep these operations.
Fighting was fierce in Seman and Ilamaruthal over 500 families homes and poure It is reported t have been suffer August 19, the I. sion in Colombo c militants were sh soldiers including sing in action. Ho Vavuniya stated Tamils killed wer attemptingto esca The IPKF have that they had de LTTE jungle hide tured a large qual explosives and kil and taken into cu
The LTTE deni large numbers f claimed by the IP counter-claim that had been killed f few Tiger cadres. have shot at and helicopters.
Reports from C August stated tha including a Majo were missing in suspected that th captured them. T ched a massive s the missing men.
A report datelin that about 300 Ta the IPKF of belo were rounded up sive search operat out during the pri Omanthai six mile Most of them were of a house-to-hou and some others fr The IPKF had warning to all resi to give accomodati threatened with ". if the warning wal
JAFFNA: Late that the IPKF cordon and search ern Jaffna on the the LTTE was m regroup itself in dents of attacks : between the IPK

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s deployed heavy shelling and firing opters in an attempt istance to advancing puntable number of rted to be killed in
eported to be very adu, Nettiyakulam kulam from where have deserted their | into Vavuniya. hat heavy casualties d by both sides. On idian High Commisaimed that 11 LTTE ot dead and 8 Indian an officer were miswever, sources from that 9 out of the e civilians who were pe from the fighting. been daily claiming stroyed a number of outs and bases, capntity of weapons and led scores of "Tigers' stody many more.
2d that they had lost rom their ranks as KF. They made the t over 40 IPKF men or the loss of only a They also claimed to damaged two Indian
olombo datelined 26 t 12 more IPKF men and a Lieutenant action and it was LTTE might have he IPKF had launearch operation for
2d 17 August stated mil men, alleged by ging to the LTTE, following an intenon the IPKF carried vious three days in off Vavuniya town. taken in the course e search operation )m passing vehicles. lso issued a stern ents in the area not in to 'outsiders', and rave consequences
not heeded.
t reports indicate as launched fresh perations in northilleged ground that aking an effort to ne peninsula. Incind counter-attacks F and the LTTE
cadres have also increased. Unofficial curfews have been imposed in various parts of Jaffna without prior warning causing considerable inconvenience to the people.
The IPKF rounded up 18 persons in a search operation launched following the killing of an IPKF soldier on 14 August at Kankesanthurai. On 15 August, an IPKF soldier was blown up by a mine blast at Soranampathu in Jaffna.
A grenade attack was made upon the official vehicle used by the IPKF Commandant, Brigadier R.S. Kahlon on 22 August near the Jaffna Kachcheri. At the time of the attack, the Brigadier was not in the vehicle. It is also reported that on 23 August, the Navy Patrol apprehended six persons off the northern coast at Thondamanar when they were attempting to go towards South India. In Akkaraiyan in Jaffna, a powerful claymore mine was detonated allegedly by LTTE cadres in which several persons were injured.
Five IPKF soldiers were seriously injured by a mine explosion at Vannikulam in Jaffna on 23 August.
NINE KILLED IN TRINCO
Nine persons including a Sri Lankan soldier, D. Chandrasekera, belonging to the Gajaba Regiment were killed and 20 injured in a bomb explosion near the Trincomalee Clock Tower on 16 August. An indefinite curfew was imposed immediately following the explosion.
The bomb blast was carried out, allegedly by LTTE cadres, to coincide with the opening of the market which was shut down for repairs following a previous bomb attack on July 21.
The civilian victims of the explosion included Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims.
Additional contingents of Indian troops were rushed to Trincomalee following the explosion as tension mounted in the city. Heavily armed IPKF men patrolled the streets.
A bomb exploded in a cinema at Kantalai on 21 August ripping through the building a few minutes before the 6pm show was to commence.
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PEOPLE & POLITICS
RONNIEDEMI
Ronnie de Mel's erstwhile colleagues of the ruling United National Party (UNP) which he had served for 11 years as Minister of Finance and Planning denied him the opportunity of the traditional farewell speech to mark his well publicised cross-over from the government benches to the opposition. Ronnie had in advance sought the indulgence of the Speaker to make his dramatic gesture. He came with a well prepared speech. As the appointed time of 9.38 am on 12 August arrived, there were less than 20 MPs in Parliament. It was filled with MPs only a few minutes earlier. The Speaker's attention was drawn by one UNP MP to the lack of a quorum and the sessions were promptly adjourned despite protestations from Ronnie, the deserter.
Speaking to the Parliamentary Press Corps from the Opposition Leader's office shortly following his disappointing experience at the hands of his erstwhile UNP colleagues, Ronnie after announcing his resignation from the UNP “with immediate effect, exclaimed, "I was not allowed to make a farewell speech after being a Parliamentarian for 21 years. For 11 years, I was the Minister of Finance in the UNP government. I ask: Is this the democracy in Sri Lanka now? Is this the freedom of speech the people enjoyed and is this the freedom of speech given to Members of Parliament? I can only say, Oh! liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name? Oh, democracy, what greater crimes are committed in thy name?” The complaint about the UNP's lack of democracy sounded hollow for it came from a man who was one of its co-practitioners and beneficiaries for the last 11 years.
IIlfated speech Ever since Ronnie made his illfated
speech at the tail end of the debate om
his eleventh consecutive budget late last year, his future in the UNP became a big question mark. In a rather uncharacteristic intervention by a Minister who prided himself as the then longest serving Finance Minister in the country, Ronnie said:
"This, I feel, may be my last budget. I think eleven is enough. I hope we wil have Provincial Council elections and also Parliamentary elections next year... I think we should hold them before the people of this country get up and say, "In God's name, Go'... I think it is no Secret that if I had a free vote, I would not have voted for the Referendum . . . Most of Our troubles stemmed from the fact that We did not hold Parliamentary elections at the Correct time... I think this Parliament
is stale. It is obsc Cent.' w
Ronnie is no fool. have known of the ences of such a sca of President Jaya practice of his “Fiv democracy. His arc government bayed resigned before h breaching cabinet bility. The UNP's V called for his expli infringement of Efforts were made retract his speech rehabilitation into t was only prepared grets for any feelin have caused. The W was not satisfied. the UNP hung in t
Characteri
Ronnie went abr holiday to allew thil When he returned, the limelight. Wher given by the Presic idential elections w. end of this year an tion next year, R gave thought to h prospects and mad move. He resigned promptly joined th dom Party.
Changing partie experience for Ronn gent political weath try according to the Anura Bandaranail with ancestral inhe igned from the then Civil Service in th became an instant Philip Gunawarden time leading the Peramuna. Then he vociferous leaders Jathika Balavegaya ist Force), an ex Buddhist ethno-reli along with the late and N.Q. Dias. He 1964 and was virtu wilderness along wi it was defeated by general elections. Front was swept i near 3/4 majority. pectations of a rea folio commensura proclaimed qualific guised ambition di During the waning Front regime, he SLFP and function

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He certainly would inevitable consequthing denunciation awardene's unique ve Staro version of h rivals within the for his blood. He e was sacked for collective responsiWorking Committee anation for alleged party discipline. to get Ronnie to to enable his early he Cabinet. But he to express his regs of hurt he might Working Committee Ronnie's future in he balance.
stic move
oad on a prolonged ngs to “settle down”. he remained out of clear signals were lent that the Presould be held by the d the general eleconnie presumably his future political 2 his characteristic from the UNP and e Sri Lanka Free
s is not a novel ie, the most intelliercock in the counOpposition Leader, ke. Amply provided ritence, he had resprestigious Ceylon e late 1950's, and admirer of the late e who was at that Mahajana Eksath became one of the
of the Bauddha (National Buddhtremist Sinhalagious organisation, L.H. Methamamda ioined the SLFP in ally in the political th the SLFP when the UNP in 1965 SLFP-led United nto power with a However, his exsonable high porte with his selfations and undisd not materialise. days of the United resigned from the ed as an indepen
dent MP from the opposition.
Severe blow
In the run-up to the 1977 general elections, Ronnie joined the UNP which he had previously denounced as an anti-national capitalist gang. After the elections, President Jayawardene rewarded him with the cabinet portfolio of Minister of Finance and Planning, a post he held for 11 years.
The resignation of Ronnie is a severe blow for the UNP and President Jayawardene in particular. During the critical days immediately preceeding and following the July 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement, Ronnie loyally stood by the President and supported his actions. This was the time Prime Minister Premadasa and Minister of National Security Lalith Athulathmudali openly expressed disagreement with the President's actions and indeed defiantly boycotted the ceremonies connected with the Indian PM's visit and the ceremonies connected with the Agreement. Therefore, it came as no surprise when Ronnie disclosed that the President had tried to prevent his resignation by offering him a combination of important portfolios such as the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Provincial Administration.
It does not seem that Ronnie resigned from the UNP in consequence of any serious differences about policy or principles. The main reason would appear to be that his rivals within the UNP hierarchy obstructed his honourable return to the fold by insisting on a full retraction of his speech of December last year. Even that speech was not the product of a conscious commitment to the higher ideals of representative democracy on his part. Ronnie says that he made that speech at a time of great stress. The UNP's General Secretary, Harsha Abeywardene, had been gunned down by the JVP and shock-stricken MPs were getting ready to attend the funeral; the atmosphere in the country was heavy with tension and the speech was intended to defuse the situation.
WiSest fOO
For the SLFP, which has been in di sarray and with o ut men of heavyweight class at leadership level, Ronnie joining it has been a big boost. In his first intervention in Parliament as an opposition MP, he made a wide ranging and scathing attack upon his erstwhile colleagues of the UNP. During the debate on the extension of the Emergency on 25 August, he charged powerful sections within the govern

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ment of sabotaging the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement and thereby delaying the withdrawal of the Indian troops from the island. Ronnie, who had always advocated a negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict instead of the military solution that the Minister of National Security had been pursuing, said that the government could have solved the problem without the involvement of India if "certain powerful elements within the government did not engage in a tug-of-war and acts of sabotage.'
Directing his attack on the Minister of National Security, Lalith Athulath
mudali, in connec of the bogus agre Ronnie said, "The real agreement one signed recen greatest faux pas done by the wises A leading lig Bauddha Jathika 1960's, on the et turned out to b moderate Ministe cabinet. He suppo Provincial Counc: Lanka agreement ter-in-Waiting wl
LTTE SEEKS IPK AND REFEREND
The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka should withdraw to be replaced by an international peace keeping force and a referendum in the Tamil areas should be held supervised by an international monitoring body to determine whether the Tamil people accept the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement, states a press release issued by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The text of the press release dated 9 August states:
"Since the signing of the Rajiv-J.R. Accord, the Indian position has been that the LTTE should lay down arms and accept the Accord. But this accord was signed without taking into consideration the aspirations of the Tamil people.
"Following the Accord, the Indian army of aggression entered Tamil Eelam under the guise of a Peace Keeping Force. Yet the problems of the Tamils have not been resolved. Instead, the Tamil problem became more aggravated than even before.
“Sinhala colonisation continued in Tamil Eelam. The other militant groups were trained and armed and brought to Tamil Eelam with the sole objective of wiping out the Liberation Tigers. The Indian Government kept quiet when Sri Lanka arrested our leaders and attempted to take them to Colombo by force. The Indian Peace Keeping Force which was sent to Tamil Eelam to protect the Tamils, functioned under Jayewardene who was committing genocide of the Tamils.
“Our position is that the Rajiv-J.R. Accord was not intended to safe-guard the interests of the Tamils. But we pledged to co-operate with the implementation of the Accord if it protects the interests of our people.
"The Indian government and its Prime Minister have unleashed a malicious propaganda campaign in the world arena against the LTTE, claiming that our organisation was frightened to face the people in the elections
and therefore, ref arms. They allege no concern about Tamil people anc people of Tamil Rajiv-J. R. Accord itself as the large world, the Govel refusing to hold Nadu saying that suitable. Yet the ( insists that theres Tamil Eelam.
“We have been e the aggressive ten government and t carried out by the up its intentions.
“The problems ( are not going to LTTE accepts the arms and particip: It is because of thi pleading, over and Government of In unconditional cea negotiation to dis facing our people. India has rejected paign that we are
COUR
The Court of Appe Manjith Singh, C IPKF camp Vavu Court Kenga Para alleged is detainec Vavuniya
The Directive f Brigadier Singh t issued on him, on Court.
The petitioner in Parameswaran, alleges that her attached to the F tion Fund was arr of the IPKF camp,

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on with the debacle ment with the JVP, should have been a nlike the spurious y which led to the f the century. It was fool in the country."
, of the extremist Balawegaya in the nic question Ronnie one of the more s in Jayawardene’s ted the setting up of s and the Indo-Sri He was the Minisen the Indian PM
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arrived in the island to sign the Agreement. Now he has joined the SLFP, a party which boycotted the ceremonies associated with the signing of the Agreement; a party which has declared its opposition to that Agreement and the establishment of the Provincial Councils. Will Ronnie display the cynical opportunism characteristic of many Sri Lankan politicians and turn out to be the 'champion of the Sinhala race', or will he make an effort to wean the SLFP away from its entrenched extremist positions on the ethnic question? The next few months will provide the answer.
(F WITHDRAWAL. UM ON ACCORD
use to lay down the that the LTTE has the interests of the claimed that the Eelam support the Though it claims st democracy in the nment of India is elections in Tamil , conditions are not Government of India hould be elections in
xposing to the world dencies of the Indian he false propaganda Indian state to cover
if the Tamil people be resolved if the Accord, lay down the te in the elections. s fact we have been over again, that the lia should effect an sefire and resume cuss the problems The government of our pleas and cam
frightened to face
the people in the elections. We are prepared to face our people in the elections. But we want to ask whether India is prepared to face our people. We wish to call upon the Government of India to hold a referendum to determine the following issues.
1. The people of Tamil Eelam do not accept the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord.
2. The Indian army of aggression should be withdrawn from Tamil Eelam. An International Peace Keeping force should be sent to Tamil areas.
3. The Liberation Tigers are the representatives of the people of Tamil Eelam.
4. An International observers group should be appointed to monitor the referendum.
"The LTTE is prepared to accept the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord if they are defeated in the referendum.
"We are aware that the Government of India will not respond favourably to our request. But our call for a referendum will definitely indicate to the world that the LTTE is prepared to face the people at any time."
ORDERS IPKF COMMANDER 'O PRODUCE DETAINEE
directed Brigadier mmanding Officer, liya, to produce in neswaran, who it is at the IPKF camp,
lows the failure of respond to notice May 6 to appear in
this case Sumathy ister of Kenga, other a volunteer fugees Rehabilitasted by the officers avuniya on April 5
and is presently detained at the camp.
When the matter came up in Court, Mr. Kumar Ponnambalam, Senior Counsel for the petitioner submitted that Brigadier Manjith Singh, is subject to the laws of this land as long as he lives here.
Counsel moved that a Writ of Habeas Corpus be issued on Brigadier Singh, directing him to produce Kenga in Court forthwith.
Mr. Ponnambatam also told Court that representations made by his junior counsels and the Government Agent, Vavuniya to the Commanding Officer of the IPKF camp, had been of no avail.

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UN Sub-CommiSSiO
NGOS CALL FO AND NEGO
Attacks on Human Right
Several UN recognised Non-Governmental Organisations called for a ceasefire in the present fighting between the Indian Peace Keeping Force and the dominant Tamil militant group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and for a negotiated political solution to conflict in Sri Lanka during the 40th Session of the UN SubCommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (generally known as the Human Rights Sub-Commission).
While condemning the violations of human
The following is the text of the intervention made by the Secretary General of International Alert, Mr. Martin Ennals, on behalf of the Minority Rights Group. His intervention was endorsed and co-sponsored by several
other NGOs including Human Rights.
Advocates, Pax Cristi, International Commission of Jurists, Pax Romana, League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples, International Movement for Fraternal Union Among Races and People, and Minority Rights Group:-
"The UN Commission on Human Rights, its Sub-Commission and other international human rights organisations have been deeply concerned about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka in the context of the ethnic conflict that has been plagueing the island for the past several years.
"Among other issues, arbitrary arrests, detention without trial for prolonged periods, torture of detainees, deaths in custody, extra-judicial killings and the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism Act and Emergency Regulations promulgated under the country's internal security laws have been the subject of several reports by reputed international human rights organisations and Human Rights Commission's Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture and Arbitrary Killings.
"The concern with which the Commission on Human Rights viewed the situation in Sri Lanka was reflected when the Commission at its 43rd Sessions unanimously adopted a resolution on Sri Lanka. s
Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement
"The signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement in July 1987 by Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayawardene and the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi raised much hope about a negotiated peaceful resolution of the ethnic conflict, a return to harmonious rela
tionship between t and Tamil commun abuse of human rig
"The Agreement, for a degree of dev and legislative po establishment of E as a means of meet autonomy by the the surrender of militant groups, a g Tamil political pris discussion on ”resid pute. Following an dent Jayewardene, Keeping Force arrit the wake of the sig
ment.
"One year after t evident that the h tions raised a yea been fulfilled.
O To begin wi ments within the S represented by th dom Party and " Liberation Front) ment and the latt paign of violence this day unabated ty members and officials and secur nel, and even thos opposition United which support the become victims of terror and murder
O The Provin enacted by the go suance to the Ag described as inade 'aspirations of the Agreement also p) negotiations on ou but such negotiati place.
O There was re the north and eas consequence of i fighting between militant groups an

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R CEASEIFIRE TIATIONS
s Workers Condemned
rights by the Sri Lankan security forces and the IPKF, they also denounced the targetting of independent human rights organisations and individual activists. Special attention was drawn to the death threats made by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) upon human rights organisations in south Sri Lanka and the murder of Fr. Chandra Fernando the abduction of K. Kanthasamy by members of some Tamil militant groups in the north and east of the country.
he island's Sinhala ities and an end to hts. inter alia, provided blution of executive wers through the Provincial Councils ing the demand for Tamil community, weapons by Tamil (eneral amnesty for soners and for the ual matters' in disinvitation by Presithe Indian Peace ved in the island in ining of the Agree
he Agreement, it is opes and expectar earlier have not
th, extremist elleinhala community e Sri Lanka Freethe JVP (Peoples opposed the Agreeer initiated a camwhich continues to | Government par
supporters, state ity service persone belonging to the
Socialist Alliance Agreement have this campaign of
ial Council Law vernment in purreement has been quate to meet with Tamil people. The ovided for further tstanding matters ons have not take
newed violence in of the country in nternecine armed and among Tamil i following attacks
upon Sinhala settlers in the eastern province.
O There was only a partial surrender of weapons by Tamil militant groups.
O Dispute in regard to the composition of an interim administration for the north and east remained unresolved.
O On the alleged ground that the Tamil militant groups had not observed the Agreement in regard to the surrender of weapons, the Government suspended the release of Tamil political prisoners which it had begun immediately after the Agreement.
O The dominant Tamil militant group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) accused the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) of assisting the other Tamil militant groups to launch attacks upon the LTTE, whereas other Tamil militant groups accused the LTTE of trying to physically eliminate them. The LTTE has been asserting its claim to 'sole representation' on behalf of the Tamils but the other Tamil militant groups have contested this claim.
O Eventually the IPKF launched an offensive in October 1987 against the LTTE and its bases claiming that the offensive was aimed at enforcing the provisions of Agreement in regard to the surrender of weapons. The resulting confrontation between the IPKF and LTTE has been fierce and is continuing to this day. Besides the casualities on both sides to this confrontation, over 1000 Tamil civilians are estimated to have died in the offensive mounted by the IPKF in the northern city. Many buildings and homes have been destroyed. There are many independent reliable reports of arbitrary killings and rape of women in many instances attributed to the IPKF.
O The IPKF is presently engaged

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in cordon and search operations in the north and east of the country. Hundreds of Tamil youth whom the IPKF alleges as members of the LTTE have been rounded up and detained in the course of these operations. Instances of torture and deaths in custody have been established by reliable testimony.
O The glimmer of hope raised by ’informal negotiations’ between Indian officials and LTTE leaders in Madras and South India disappeared when negotioations broke down in early July this year. Since then, the operations by the IPKF have been intensified and the LTTE has expressed its determination to engage in a protracted guerilla struggle.
in the South
O The JVP continues with its campaign of killing all those who support the grant of limited autonomy through the establishment of Provincial Councils and those who support the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. An estimated 325 persons have been killed in the course of this campaign.
O The Government has responded to this JVP campaign by resorting to the use of arbitrary arrests and detention of persons alleged to be members of the JVP. Many cases of torture and 'disappearances' also have been reported. To meet the threat of individual assassinations, the Government has promoted the creation or armed private 'vigilantes', and distributed weapons to Ministers, MPs,s and other senior state officials besides security service personnel. There is also increased use of the Special Task Force and other paramilitary forces. The government has also enacted a law granting immunity to security service personnel who might break the law in the course of performing their functions.
Attacks on Human Rights Workers O For the first time, human rights activists and independent social and relief workers have become targets of non-state armed entities.
O Organisations like the Civil Rights Movement, Campaign for the Release of Political Prisoners, Movement for Inter-Racial Justice and Equality, Centre for Society and Reli
gion, Marga Inst been active in the concerning the vi democratic right advocated a neg tion to the ethnic of the legitimate people, and which Sri Lanka Agree settle the conflict threats from the F which is believed of the JVP. It which assassinate United Socialist Kumaranatunga.
O In the nort island, independ activists, membe Committees and vice organisations under pressure to demands of arme also been killed, appeared. Membe mittees who ha approach are forc their place those v in line are subst priest, Father Cha
was the Secretar
Citizens Committe vince was murdere in June this yea armed Tamil grou committed human who concentrated h relief and rehab, areas, Mr K. Kanth ped by an armed Ta ern Jaffnaon June seen since. Eye-wi napping have alle militant was respo napping and 'disap O Such targettir pings and killings to independent an rights, social and r "The Commission and its Sub-Com Governmental C cerned with the sit have at all times : use of violence a parties to arrive at tion to the ethnic associated problem of Sri Lanka. They an end to human r. impartial investi violations.
"Human Rights Violations
The following is an excerpt relating to the situation in Sri Lanka from the speech made during the recently held UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights by Ms. Sandra Coliver on behalf of Human Rights Advocates:
"Human Rights Advocates join with other NGOs that have addressed the Sri Lanka situation in expressing our deep concern over continuing violations of human rights committed by all
parties to the conf ties include the governments invo Peace Keeping For an Army - and militant forces, the including the Peop. or JVP, and tho including the Lil Tamil Eelam.
"Human Rights

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te, etc., which have ast in raising issues ation of human and
and which have iated political soluonflict by the grant ights of the Tamil supported the Indoent as a means to ave received death triotic Armed Unit, be the armed wing
this organisation the leader of the lliance, Mr Vijaya
and east of the int human rights s of local Citizens elief and Social Serhave not only come fall in line with the groups, but have kidnapped or disrs of Citizens Come an independent ld to resign and in ho are likely to fall ituted. A Catholic ndra Fernando who of the Batticaloa e in the eastern prod in his own church r allegedly by an p. A dedicated and righs activist and is efforts to provide ilitation in Tamil Lasamy was kidnaplmil group in north19 and has not been tnesses to the kidged that a Tamil nsible for his kidbearance'. g, threats, kidnapose a grave danger impartial human lief workers.
on Human Rights nission and Nonrganisation conLation in Sri Lanka dvocated the nond called upon all a negotiated soluconflict and other facing the people have also called for ghts violations and ations into such
*
"Taking account of the present situation in Sri Lanka, we urge the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of . Minorities to:
O Call for a ceasefire of armed hostilities between the IPKF and the LTTE; x:
O Call upon all parties to recognise the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement as a basis for the settlement of the ethnic problems, and to initiate negotiations on outstanding matters in dispute with a view to reaching a comprehensive negotiated settlement:
O Specifically call upon the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Peoples Liberation Front (JVP) to join in the process of helping the resolution of the problem by negotiations; and in this context call upon the Peoples Liberation Front (JVP) to end its present armed campaign;
O Call upon the Tamil militant groups to bring an end to their internecine armed conflicts and resolve their differences by democratic discussion recognising each other's rights to exist and function within the framework of the law and generally accepted principle of democracy;
O Call upon the government to release all political prisoners forthwith;
O Call upon the government to institute impartial investigations into all cases of alleged torture arbitrary killings and 'disappearances;
Հ*
O Condemn the killing of Rev. Father Chandra Fernando and the abduction of K. Kanthasamy, call for the release of the latter, and call upon all parties, including the government, the JVP and Tamil militant groups, to recognise the right of independent human rights activists, members of Citizen Committes, Relief and Social Service organisations to perform their much valued services without pressure, threat or intimidation.
O Call upon the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the Special Rapporteurs on Torture and Arbitrary Killings to pursue their investigations into violations of human rights and humanitarian law in Sri Lanka.”
Continue in Sri Lanka'
ct there. The parTmies of the two ed - the Indian and the Sri Lankhe two non-state e of the Sinhalese 3 Liberation Front ! of the Tamils, ration Tigers of
dvocates is espe
cially alarmed by attacks during the past year on human rights defenders, including Father Chandra Fernando and Mr. Kanthasamy. Those two people, and other members of citizens committees and relief and social service organizations, far from using or : advocating violence, actively have been working for a restoration of peace and respect from human rights.
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From page 7
"Since the Commission, in resolution 1987/61, expressed its concern as to the situation, India and Sri Lanka, in July of 1987, entered into an Accord. Now, one year after the signing of that Accord, it is clear that expectations for a prompt and peaceful resolution of the conflict have not been fulfilled. To the contrary, human rights violations continue; and the Sri Lankan Government has neither been able to maintain respect for human rights and humanitarian law nor cooperated sufficiently with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
“Accordingly, Mr. Chairman, Human Rights Advocates respectfully urged the Sub-Commission, this session, to call the situation in Sri Lanka again to the attention of the Commission and, in particualar:
(1) To request the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the Special Rapporteurs on torture and on summary and arbitrary executions to vigorously pursue investigations of reliably attested charges of violations;
(2) To call on the Government of Sri Lanka to permit the International Committee of the Red Cross to fulfill its functions, including the provision of assistance and protection to victims of all affected parties; and to institute impartial investigations into all allegations of extrajudicial killings, disappearances, acts of torture, and unlawful detentions;
(3) To call for a ceasefire between the IPKF and the LTTE;
(4) To call on all parties to recognize the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord as a basis for the settlement;
(5) To condemn all extrajudicial killings, disappearances, acts of torture, and unlawful detentions;
(6) To call on each party to end the
commission of those violations for which it is responsible; and
(7) To call on all parties to respect the right of human rights defenders to monitor, publicize, and protest violations, without intimidation or persecution.”
THONDAMAN SEEKS MORE TV TIME FOR TAMLS
The Minister of Rural Industries and President of the Ceylon Workers Congress, Mr.S. Thondaman, has told the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini (TV) Corporation of the need for telecasting more Tamil TV progra InneS.
Mr. Thondaman has pointed out that in the multi-ethnic society in Sri Lanka, Tamil programmes should have a fair share of TV time and at present, Tamil TV viewers would appear to have good reasons to say that they were being neglected.
In his letter ti Thondaman has aware of the dif producing Tamil ty locally. He hac good and adequa programmes we Rupawahin sho some of the exce mes produced in
SP 2, DR DEAD
The Superintend Mr. P. Rajeswara Paul, a police con by a group of t August 7.
Mr. Rajeswar; located in the Ja his official car t Tholpuram som when he was col gunmen near his ordered to get of and as he ran Rajeswaran and were in the car v the daughter was from her father, ned down in fra daughter with all
SP Rajeswarar in Jaffna a few w of the Indo-Sri July last year. H any normal polic are no police sta Jaffna.
JA
Train services t suspended follow sion which blast track three mile On 13 August.
The Jaffna b( which departed 11.30pm from C station with app Sengers reache 9.30am on 13 A realised that t blasted, the trai niya having drop Puliyankulam reached their de difficulty by priv
The train serv had been suspen resumed only on during weekends the Railway announced an in services to Jaffna
The IPKF lau cordon and searc attempting to track became vi land mine explos by Tamil milita]

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o the Chairman, Mr.
stated that he was ficulties in regard to programmes of qualii suggested that until ate number of Tamil re produced locally, uld consider buying llent Tamil programMadras.
VER SHOT NUAFFINA
ent of Police in Jaffna, an and his driver K.A. stable were shot dead hree Tamil youth on
an whose office was iffna fort had gone in o visit his family in e 6 miles off Jaffna nfronted by the three home. The driver was the car, asked to run was gunned down. his daughter who vere also ordered out, s asked to move away and the SP was gun}nt of his screaming utomatic weapons.
had assumed duties eeks after the signing Lanka agreement in e was not engaged in ze functions as there ations functioning in
Soldier guns down two Colleagues
A soldier shot down two of his colleagues at the Unnaruwa Army Camp in the Minuwangoda Police area and got away with a Chinese-made T56 automatic assault rifle on 14 August.
They said the incident occured around 10.00pm in the camp, situated in a Sarvodaya building about one and a half miles from the Minuwangoda Police station on the AndiambalamaMinuwangoda road.
Police said that the suspect-soldier is believed to have escaped in a van and all Police stations were informed of the incident immediately after it was reported.
Police said they suspect the soldier to be a subversive.
In a bid to take no chances, cordon and search operation was conducted in the vicinity of the incident in a bid to arrest the suspect-soldier if he was anywhere around there.
Sunday night's incident was similar to the Oruwela incident where a soldiershot dead several of his colleagues, Police said. The Unnaruwa shooting and escape were “well planned', Police added.
The suspect-soldier, Police said, "wanted to take away two or three T56s. Somehow his plan failed and he had to be satisfied with only one of them.
FFNARAL TRACK BLASTED
7 IPKF MEN KILLED
o Jaffna were again ing a land mine exploied the northern rail s south of Mankulam
und Yal Devi train on August 12 at olombo Central Fort roximately 1,500 pasd Puliyankulam by August. When it was he track had been n returned to Vavuped the passengers at from where they stinations with great ate transport. rices to Jaffna which ded for a year were 5 August to be run . Following the blast authorities have definite suspension of l.
nched an immediate h operation and while cepair the damaged ctims of three other ions caused allegedly hts belonging to the
LTTE. It is reported that 7 members of the IPKF were killed and a number of their vehicles were damaged by these explosions.
Although the destruction of the railway track is attributed to the LTTE, it has been speculated that there are others who do not want a resumption of train services to Jaffna. A lucrative private coach transport service has come into being in recent years between Jaffna and Colombo, and it is suggested that these vested interests might have had a hand in seeing a continued suspension of the train services.
In the meantime, the IPKF Commandant's office in Jaffna issued an announcement fixing the fares between Colombo and Jaffna for : cushioned coaches and mini buses -
the fare for a single journey in a
cushioned coach is Rs. 100. and for a mini bus is Rs. 90. The order states
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DSCORDA ACCORD
India blundered badly in Sri
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's 'accords' had acquired such a malodour by July 29, 1987, when he signed an agreement with President J.R.Jayewardene on the Sri Lankan ethnic tangle in Colombo, that K. Natwar Singh, minister of state for external affairs, was at pains to emphasise in Parliament that it was not an 'accord' but an agreement. To be precise, the one he had signed with Sant Harchand Singh Longowal on July 24, 1985 was entitled "memorandum of settlement. While Rajiv Gandhi wrecked it by going back on its terms, he was able to conclude the Sri Lankan accord only by going back on the two fundamentals on which rested India's entire mediatory effort since 1983.
One was that India was a mediator. It was for the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil groups to arrive at an accord of their own free will. Whether in Colombo, New Delhi, Thimpu, or Bangalore, India had played the role of a mediator. The other was that "this is a political problem and only a political settlement offers along-term solution." Under the Indo-Sri Lankan agreement India settled with Sri Lanka the terms of a solution to the ethnic issue and undertook to “underwrite and guarantee' that settlement with its armed might. In the process it has
initiative Gandhi and J R Jayewardene
భ
expended Indian lif In return, Sri Lar exchange of letters which respected strategic concerns. Now, a year lat the ethnic problem the time schedules procedures devised the guarantee has the costs have m pectations; India h one concerned; Pre: cleverly wants the security matters to and weak; and reaped unpopula praise for the acco ish everywhere. Es of Indians who care
The agreement haste and is flawed tions to provincial held within three event before the er There was no de all on the heart o powers of the cour "negotiated from M cember 19, 1986 wi The matters “resid solved between Sri There was no prov the Tamils. That In to allow its territ
O Rajiv Gandhi has reaped unpopularity rather the accord. India looks foolish everywhere. Especi of Indians who care to keep them open.
 
 
 
 
 

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ANT
Lanka
e, blood and money. hka recorded in an an "understanding
some of India's
er, the "solution' to has come unstuck; stipulated and the have been ignored; proved open-ended; ounted beyond exas alienated everysident Jayewardene "understanding on ) become reciprocal Rajiv Gandhi has rity rather than rd. India looks foolspecially in the eyes to keep them open. was concluded in intrinsically. Eleccouncils were to be months and in any ld of 1987. finite settlement at f the matter - the cils. The proposals day 4, 1986 to Deere to be 'accepted'. ual were to be reLanka and India. ision for consulting dia bound itself not ory to be used for
than praise for ally in the eyes
activities prejudicial to Sri Lanka was understandable. It is an obligation in international law, anyway. That it undertook "to guarantee and enforce the cessation of hostilities was also, perhaps, understandable. But why did India undertake “to afford military assistance to implement these proposals which provided the mere outlines of a settlement? W
The mess began from the very beginning. Just the day before the agreement was signed, the PM confidently told opposition leaders that the hostilities would cease within 24 hours after the signing. The day after the document was signed, Indian troops landed in the Jaffna peninsula. On August 1 the PM blithely told a public meeting in Allahabad that the Tamils “have got much more than what they were demanding.”
This was before the councils' powers had been definitely specified. He also asserted "we have succeeded in getting certain things included in the accord which will strengthen our country". The claims became taller as the descent into the mess became deeper:
August 2, 1987: The PM addressed a massive public meeting in Madras and declared "there should be no sympathy for anyone who acts against this agreement.” He added: "I am told no such agreement has been signed by any country in the world at least in this century. It is an agreement without any precedent in history. It is an agreement which does not have a parallel in the world.” He did not reveal the identity of the person who provided this education. He said that the militants had agreed with the accord. It was not an imposition: "The militants could have reached an agreement with the Sri Lanka government in the past four years, if they wanted to.” August 4: LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran addressed a public meeting in Jaff. na: “This agreement, concluded suddenly and with great speed between India and Sri Lanka, without consulting our people and without consulting us, our people's representatives, is being implemented with expedition and urgency ... We made it emphatically clear to the Indian government that we were unable to accept this agreement. But the Indian government stood unbudging on the point that whether we accepted or did not accept the agreement, it was determined to put it into effect. We were not taken by surprise by this stand of the Indian government.” The accord “contains within itself clauses for binding Sri Lanka within India's superpower orbit.' The PM offered him "certain assurances ... I do have faith in the straightforwardness of the Indian Prime Minister... We decided to hand over our weapons to the IPKF.” August 5: Sri Lanka declared an amnesty for those who surrendered arms. At a symbolic ceremony Dileep

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Yogi surrendered a revolver to the defence secretary of Sri Lanka in the presence of Major-Gen. Harkirat Singh of the IPKF. Prabhakaran declared that LTTE would not allow the reemergence of PLOTE, EPRLF, and TELO as they were anti-social." September 1: LTTE declared that it had taken over the civil administration of the Tamil areas. September 13: LTTE put forth some demands- end to Sinhala colonisation; closure of police and army camps, release of militants, etc. September 15: LTTE launched a "nonviolent agitation in support of its demands.
O The IPKF has cost the country Rs 97.8 crore - up to May 31, 1988. The death toll: 534 Indian soldiers; 800 militants and 1,700 civilians.
September 19: Prabhakaran accused RAW of stirring up intra-group violence in Sri-Lanka. September 20: Government of India warned LTTE of stiff action unless it stopped the acts of violence against other groups in which 100 Tamils and others had been killed. September 26: LTTE leader Thileepan died after a 12-day fast. September 28: The Indian High Commission and LTTE signed "agreed minutes' on the setting up of an interim administrative council of 12 members. It was to comprise five from LTTE, two from TULF, two Sinhalese, two Muslims, one of whom was to be an LTTE nominee, and a chief administrator to be appointed from a list of three submitted by LTTE. Prabhakaran agreed to surrender "the remaining arms' and to "cooperate in the implementation' of the accord subject to the PM's assurances to him in July. September 29: President Jayewardene duly set up the council with C.V.K. Sivagnanam, former Jaffna municipal commissioner and LTTE nominee, as administrator. October 1: LTTE rejected the council and demanded appointment of another nominee, N. Pathmanabhan, as administrator. October 2: New Delhi called LTTE's action a 'complete breach of faith and contrary to the "agreed minutes'. The 13th Constitution amendment bill and the provincial councils bill were gazetted.
October 3: Prabhakaran accused New Delhi of breach of faith' and of 'aligning’ itself with Colombo. October 4: 12 LTTE guerrillas, including two leaders Kumarappa and Pullendran, committed suicide after their Sri Lankan captors tried to shift them from Jaffna to Colombo. October 7: Nearly 150 Sinhalese were killed by LTTE in retaliation for the suicides. October 9: IPKF began a crackdown on LTTE bases.
October 26: Jaf long delay. Meal kirat Singh was A.S. Kalkat. October 27: The of ceasefire stil down its arms a November 6: Jayewardene he after the SAARC du, on the devol council. The PM had been solved ones are being lo mavo Bandaran was "an exercis regional power o bours.”
November 8: Sri Lanka approv November 9: Th statement in Parl LTTE ‘deliberatel
agreement . . . m. members of ot groups.
November 12: T amendment and cils bill were pa parliament. (On tion law was pass November 19: P definitive statem terms. India shou and not "compel u agreement witho November 20: In day ceasefire effe November 22: I terms. November 26: assurances to mi they surrendered December 15: II resolve to "elimin groups in northe Lanka on the ann on EPRLF in the ment was made fighting with TEI January 15, 1 wrote to the PM a changes in provir als, and "a crucia future negotiation January 26: Pre
held talks in New
February 27: J attempt by Sri L India by talking groups would not
O On May 22 karan’s deput ing taken on and politically a position to d
February 28: LT ditional talks wit March 2: Lt-Gen retired from the a ing in the IPKF, s large section of the are averse to the l

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na fell to IPKF after a while, Maj-Gen. Harreplaced by Maj-Gen.
PM said India's offer
stood if LTTE laid d eschewed violence. PM and President d talks in New Delhi, summit in Kathmantion of powers to the said "some problems while the remaining oked into”. Mrs. Sirilike said India's role of hegemony by a ver its weaker neigh
the Supreme Court of ed both the Bills.
e IPM made a major tament on Sri Lanka. y set out to wreck the assacred about 100 her Tamil militant
he 13th Constitution the provincial counssed by Sri Lanka’s January 22 the eleced.) rabhakaran issued a ent setting out his ld “begin peace talks" is to support fully the ut reservations.” dia announced a twoctive the next day. ndia rejected LTTE's
India announced litants provided that their arms. TTE announced its ate' all rival militant rn and eastern Sri iversary of its attack east. The announce
after two days of O and PLOTE. 988: Prabhakaran sking for a ceasefire, \cial councils proposl role (for LTTE) in Ls” on them. sident Jayewardene
Delhi with PM. .N. Dixit said any anka to circumvent secretly to militant be accepted.
, Kittu, PrabhaV, said that havIndia militarily LTTE is now in ictate terms.
TE called for “uncon
India.
... K.B. Mehta, who my after participatlid in Bombay that a people in Sri Lanka
'very heavy casualties; the militants had not hesitated to use women and children; and LTTE's feelers were a
Se. March 18: Natwar Singh told the Rajya Sabha that India would not accept a joint army operation with Sri Lanka and was prepared to talk to LTTE if it surrendered arms and accepted the accord. March 21: Capt. Raheem of LTTE was flown back to Madras without Prabhakaran's response to PM's message on talks. His colleague Johny had fallen to bullets on his way back from the Tigers” den. March 23: Authoritative press reports appeared of RAW negotiating with LTTE. April 6: Natwar Singh explained in the Lok Sabha, J.N. Dixit's remarks to a pressman about 'certain payments made to LTTE in connection with the accord. It was 'interim financial relief. April 14: Press reports of President JRJ's parleys with Uma Maheshwaran of PLOTE. April 19: Press reports of a RAWLTTE accord "before the month end, LTTE being represented by Kittu and Rahim in Madras. April 21: Complete normalcy would retun to the Northern and Eastern provinces “very soon', IPKF's GOC, Lt-Gen. A.S. Kalkat, declared in Madras. April 29: UNP won elections to the councils of North-central, Northwestern, Uva and Sabragamuwa provinces. May 5: Natwar Singh referred to reports of secret talks between LTTE and Sri Lanka government and said any deal contrary to the accord would be rejected. May 15: UNI reported from Colombo that Indo-LTTE talks had reached a "crucial stage' and an announcement was expected in the next few days. The hitch was over the quantity of arms for surrender and LTTE's demand for a 52 per cent representation in the council. May 22: Kittu told a weekly briefing that having taken on India militarily and politically, LTTE is now 'in a position to dictate terms'. He called for the scrapping of the bills and for fresh negotiations. June 2: The UNP won the elections to the Western and Central provincial councils and on June 9 to the Southern council. Polls remain to be held in the northeast alone. June 30: The Sri Lanka government said in a communique that it would hold elections to the councils of the northeastern province after New Delhi 'agrees to disarm totally LTTE'. It said that the PM had informed the president that LTTE had "given indications of its willingness' to lay down arms and work the accord. July 1: Kittu said in Madras that the talks with RAW had reached an "advanced stage'.
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READERosy Foru
LIFE, ON THE BRIN OF ENDURANCE
I returned from Jaffna only two weeks ago on the 6th of August after a fortnights stay. During this period I toured a good part of the peninsula and meet a cross section of people which left me with certain strong impressions which I would like to share with the Tamils abroad.
1. The dearth of young and middle aged men is strikingly obvious. The reasons for this are not difficult to work out. Not only the grim statistics confirm that up to two to three thousand have died in the past year
alone, but the total loss of lives since
the ethnic conflict began in the early eighties will run to many more thousands. Added to this is the mass exodus of many Tamils to foreign countries which includes the West and the Middle East.
Amongst the Youth who are left behind and are not directly involved in the Militant movements there is a desperate desire to seek greener pastures abroad. Exploiting their desperation are many so called Travel Agents who extort huge amounts of money with the promise of safe deposit in a foreign land regardless of whether it is legal according to the regulations of the Countries concerned. Many would reckon that this kind of action has brought the entire Sri Lankan Tamil Community into disrepute in the Western eyes. Further more there are many accounts of Families and individuals robbed of all their wealth by criminal Travel Agents who had disappeared after extracting their money.
Silent Resignation
2. The resignation of the Jaffna populace to face any eventuality. The Tamils in the Western world have a fairly vivid idea of the atrocities, destruction of property, the grim toll of human lives and the immense hardships the Jaffna people have endured in the aftermath of the Indo-Sri Lankan accord. The statistics have been repeated so often that we in the Western world even tend to silently switch off when the subject is mentioned. But when one meets with them face to face the silent resignation in their faces cannot escape notice. The resilience of the people has to be seen to be believed. Perhaps this is not unique to the Jaffna man and any human stretched to whatever degree of endurance will still improvise ways
of keeping alive. Th lities are restricted, stop running within examinations as i Advanced level can out prior warning. S can be ordered to asked to observe a c and fancy of the se ing my short stay least twice. But the to expect this as rol pressed lives. Neve: there is a limit to and the Jaffna man brink of such endur
3. There is con and loyalty to the L ity of the Jaffna p obviously an impre not have the benefi open poll to estima one Ayurvedic phy respect them for the tion, discipline an stand. However n physically or emotio any further escalati withstanding their LTTE.
4. The last and impression left in m the educational sy schools and in the slow death. By far frightening prospect who live in Sri L competition to enter unbelievably tough gate required to qu each year. The o) education is woef Medicine and Engir nating as the prefer minds of an averag fifteen years ago.
University E Stand
The schools are by destruction to b and laboratories. F leading education forced to conduc makeshift buildings school premises. St desperately collectir their laboratory.
The university e stand still in the w let alone in Jaffna University is facin ties. There is a se
 

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e elementary facithe transport can a minutes notice, important as the be postponed withShops and Markets shut and people urfew on the whim curity forces. Durthis happened at people have come utine of their hard rtheless I felt that human tolerance is teetering on the aCe
siderable support TTE by the majoropulation. This is ssion as one does t of conducting an te popularity. As rsican observed "I ir courage, convicld self sacrificial o Jaffna man is inally fit to endure ion of violence not
support for the
most distressing y mind was to see stem both in the university dying a
this is the most , facing the Tamils anka today. The the universities is
with the aggre|alify being raised ptions to further ully limited with neering still domired courses in the e parent as it was
Education
sti
adversely affected buildings, libraries Hartley College, a al institution is t its classes in remote from their . Johns College is ng funds to rebuild
'ducation is at a hole of the nation ... But the Jaffna g unique difficulrious shortage of
staff and personnel in virtually every department. This is in addition to extensive damage to University property. Jaffna Medical School is no exception, desperate for staff to keep their disciplines open. In my brief encounter with some of the Doctors at the Jaffna Hospital I was left with two impressions.
Firstly, they deserve our unstinted admiration and praise for what they are doing in caring for our people in the most difficult of circumstances.
Secondly, the Jaffna Medical School requires the support of every Sri Lankan Doctor working abroad.
A lot has been said about the ethnic conflict in the past five years. Far more has been said about the political wrangling and efforts to settle the dispute with the four main forces namely the Sri Lankan Government, LTTE, Indian Government and the Sinhala extremists who have all played their part to destroy or recreate the peace as the case may be. We have read and re-read scores of political analyses, and hundreds of view points from learned historians, politicians, religious leaders, academics and the like. Many of us are none the wiser except that these act as catalyst for
relaxed conversation at friendly meet
ings and parties of Sri Lankan Tamils abroad. Without denigrating the vital role played by the publication of such scholarly articles I must confess that the Tamil community in the North and East has not tangibly benefitted by such actions. We need to ask ourselves as to what we can do, as humble members of our community to redress the situation in practical terms, however small the contribution may be.
Education Crucial
My humble suggestions would be to concentrate on Education. Economic rehabilitation crucial may be, but in the present context is a non-starter, until there are sure signs of some form of durable peace. The future of the Tamil community lies on the youth and the future of the youth depends on the education they can possibly receive. This stiatement may sound irrational when the youth have abandoned the books in preference to guns. Nevertheless we need to direct our attention to education, and education in the fullest sense and not merely to become Doctors, Engineers and Accountants. Most of us are products of some illustrious schools in Jaffna. We would do well to make contact. with our alma mater, be aware of the needs of the institutions, mobilise support among the old boys and supply the needs. There are numerous ways of helping your old school. One possibility is to support a deserving student's education abroad. Each year students who are capable of qualifying the Cambridge entrance come through the system but they fall by

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the wayside due to lack of information, guidance and support. The Jaffna University and the Medical Faculty is another area which needs help. The Formation of Tamil Doctors Organisation in London is a welcome move in this direction as this would serve to help in specific ways with regard to many areas of need. Meeting the cost of foreign medical journals, willingness to spend short term assignments
with the University are areas which need serious consideration. There is at present an attempt to set-up a Haemodialysis Unit by the Jaffna Doctors. The enthusiasm is there but they are hamstrung by lack of expertise. Many such examples can be quoted. There are many who are already engaged in supporting valuable projects such as the Jaipur Artificial Limb Centre. These efforts and all other forms of rehabilitation work deserve our praise.
As a community we need to think positive despite the extremity of our circumstances. Let us realise that the Youth who is the future of our society need to survive and be protected from the forces of darkness that has engulfed our conmmunity. We owe it to them.
Mahen Muthiah, Consultant Physician, Worksop Notts.
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My heart weeps and bleeds for the youth of my land Of birth. They have been led into hate And to kill at random. Was this caused by fate? Or by the will of some big-headed man-gods?
How different are you, young ones, from each other? You have indeed a thousand and one things in common And just one, or may be two, points one could summon Which are not same, yet pose no real cause for bother.
My heart weeps and pleads for the bewildered youth
Of my so-called race, whatever may be the truth Of the concept of race (in these otherwise blessed Civilized times) uvhen considered in the scientific sense.
They are well-born and well-bred children, God's creation
Driven to the courting of death and destruction Sadly, seemingly madly, their motivation Being a convinced sense of self-preservation.
I now feel ashamed to say that I was born In the Pearly Island. I really am. That I own.
Do our ancestral faiths preach us to kill and hate? If the
do,
Then I opt not even to glance in the directions Of those bloody beliefs. And I will not poke The corpses of the disciples of such sickly religions
With a million million metred pole.
O, you men with power, slimy sinners in the saddle, Do something, soon, to solve the Island's muddle.
My heart weeps when of hard-built homes I hear

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a panel discussion in One year of Indo-Sri an assessment”, Dixit ; “new discussions’ beka and Tamils while
· Gamini Dissanayake satisfaction with the mance - "the fourth the world being held at
of boys'. t was revealed in the the IPKF had cost the } crore - up to May 31
or death are 534 Indian ilitants and 1,700 civixpress; July 25). Last khye estimated (THE 13-19), that the IPKF 00 men and another ng sent.
e in the Sri Lankan r a probe. Imagine 2gotiating political
e who played his y is the 20th cenPresident J. R.
e.
he accord was signed, it
ernment of India's
r Kopan Mahadeva
assessments, political and military, in July 1987 were wildly wrong.
2. The accord was intrinsically flawed.
3. No gains have accrued to India's interests; the letter will lose value with the demand for a treaty.
4. India is unpopular with both sides, Sinhalese and Tamils.
5. The PM's policies were tailored to domestic ends and were based on showmanship.
6. Internationally, India looks ridiculous taking on the protege, LTTE, it had armed.
7. India is in a worse position in July 1988 than it was a year ago. Far from extricating itself, it is getting yet deeper and deeper in the mess with no end in sight.
8. RAW's role in the Sri Lankan issue before and after the accord calls for a probe. Imagine policemen negotiating political disputes.
9. LTTE is no less a sinner against India as well as the other Tamil militants. It has acted without scruples, humanity or sense.
10. The only one who has played his cards cleverly is the 20th century fox, President Junius R Jayewardene.
- A.G. NOORAN
(Courtesy of THE WEEK: Aug 14-20, 1988)
EPS AND BLEEDS
by
And public buildings with savings and belongings set on
fire,
The infrastructure of our impoverished, developing lands Incinerated, demolished, destroyed--by our own hands.
Will the world give aid and assistance in view of such
ιυαrλίοη ιυαSίεβ
What for aid? To burn and break and bury again, in
hateful taste?
IfA wants to be free and to himself rule, Is it wrong if B aspires for these too? If C seeks to secure his people's future D could rightly do so too. The same applies to culture, Language, religion, health and life and kin and kith.
s Others' rights and liberties are wrongful things to play
around with.
O, men of reason, justice, right and honour, wake up. To open all eyes and minds, the leadership you must take
up. Do find the keys to the kingdoms of peace and love And teach the youth of brotherly, sisterly, mutual love.
O, men with power, use it now and well. Be fair To all the different sections in equal share. Stop the killings, arson, rape, and usher amity Or else abandon and proceed, forthwith, into history.
My heart weeps and bleeds for the youth of my land Of birth. They have been led into hate And to kill at random. Was this caused by fate? Or by the will of some big-headed man-god?
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THE TRAGEDY OF T
In Bombay nobody starves. As the financial capital of India, the metropolis has earned a reputation for itself an enterprising person can find no better place to make it big in. For the brave and the innovative there are also several underground avenues to make money - quickly and dangerously.
It was but natural for many of the desperados from the Sri Lanka Tamil militant groups, now out of a job' to : probe Bombay for opportunities'. That a large percentage of crime in the city came to be dominated by Tamils from Tamil Nadu came as a great help. The Sri Lankan Tamils would have made it on their own, even without help. Their grip over Bombay's underworld has tightened considerably and little empires controlled by ex-militants began cropping up in Dharavi, Sion and Matunga - grounds where once the legendary Tamilian, Vardabhai, reigned supreme.
For anyone with some links in the Bombay underworld, Capt. Kumar is a familiar name. It is the pseudonym for a former senior leader of the Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), called Vamadeva. Disillusioned with the way the Tamil liberation struggle in the island has been taking over the years and a victim of the convulsions within his own PLOTE group, Vamadeva decided to quit and become "Capt. Kumar'.
Ready to Help
Ask any Sri Lankan Tamil in Bombay and he will agree that Vamadeva is the new Vardabhai in the making. He has his men in every piece of action and like his notorious predecessor is always ready to help out a compatriot. When this correspondent finally found his headquarters at a Bandra hotel,
Tamil youths in Bombay's Dharavislum: haven for criminals
R. Bh
there was only claimed he was an LTTE dropo Vaman with ac was happy with heart after rec right thigh.
"Sometimes t for us here, but that problem. V this place, but a away. This plac the cousin open ing. It was unlu said because V Singapore fligh night and was week. "Many p for help and he not bother if t otherwise and PLOTE or the I he helps,” the y famous cousin. operator with ac smuggling hou deadly internati And he is not : number of exLankan Tamil c. such activities, scale.
Mohan is ones now, he admits h he has ambitions in the near futur the Tamil Eelam tion (TELO), hel as a courier of India. “I have do a Bombay jail, af September 1985 with two kilos of included one yea SA,” Mohan tol with a sad smile
 
 
 
 

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HE TAMILDROP-outs
guan Singh
little limping lad who amadeva's cousin and ut. He said he helped ministrative work and his lot now, having lost iving a bullet in his
e police come looking we manage to tackle aman does not stay in a house some distance is too risky for him," d up after some coax2ky for the visitor, he aman had taken the t only the previous 2xpected only after a ople come to Vaman obliges them. He does hey are militants or f they are from the TTE Or the TELO) . . . oung man said of his apt. Kumar is a big ivities extending from sehold goods to the onal trade in drugs. alone. There are any militants among the ommunity involved in perhaps on a smaller
uch operator. Only 22 e is a small man. But to make it to the top e. A former member of Liberation Organisahopes to make a living brown sugar out of ne a two-year term in er I was caught on 30 at the Sahar airport heroin. My jail term under the COFEPOd this correspondent on his face.
Stepping into Danger
He had got the stuff from a friend, also a Lankan Tamil, who had promised him 5,000 American dollars at the delivery point in Cairo. This friend had worked on a ship for some time and saved enough money to buy two kilos of heroin at Rs 40,000 per kilo. Mohan was to make contact with another Lankan Tamil ("He was earlier in Bombay, so I knew him”) in a Cairo hotel and deliver the two kilos for 40,000 US dollars. Mohan could keep his fee and deliver the rest - 35,000 dollars - to his "employer in Bombay.
Was it not risky, this business of smuggling heroin across and bringing dollars in? "Yes, I knew it was very dangerous. But what could I do? I was starving,” Mohan replied after a pause. He continued: "When I left home and joined a militant group, I knew I was soon going to die. But at that time the thought that filled my dreams was that my death would be for the cause of my Tamil nation. Now I am stepping on danger to keep myself full."
Mohan had succeeded in his first attempt when he took a 'sample' across to Cairo, about a forthnight before he was caught at the airport. "That trip was meant to give me self-assurance while building up my employer's confidence in me,” he explained. Even on the second trip, he said he had almost made it and would have boarded the plane but for a last-minute check following a tip-off from some rival group of smugglers. A few minutes before boarding, the police came into the lounge with sniffer dogs. There were two other Lankan boys with one kilo of heroin each for different people in Cairo and all of them were caught. Mohan's suitcase was ripped open and

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the heroin was retrieved from the false bottom. "After that I received a good bashing at the hands of the police, followed by imprisonment for two long years,” Mohan recalled bitterly.
Self-survival There are any number of boys like Mohan sprinkled across the city of Bombay and their only hope for saving themselves from starvation is to smug
gle the deadly stuff out of India, and
not get caught by the sniffer dogs at the airport. Such activity goes on at the airports at Delhi and Madras too, but on a much smaller scale. Though
the traffic is believed to be heavy, the
Customs department does not appear to be adequately geared to tackle it. There seems to be a feeling among senior Customs officials that the Lankan Tamils are mostly involved in bringing in electronic goods and textiles from abroad.
“The Sri Lankans have never been found with drugs,” the additional collector of Customs at Sahar airport, A.K. Raha, told this correspondent. "It is not the Lankans but mostly the Nigerians who have been caught ... besides, the International Drug Bulletin published by the UNO has said that drug smuggling out of India is now on the decline.” That only meant the Lankan Tamils are very lucky and very clear. According to Raha, most of the Lankan Tamils caught by his department were trying to sneak out of the Customs enclosure after their arrival from the Gulf countries. "They try to escape by forging the gatepasses. They are mostly small operators working for self- survival.”
But anyone taking a close look at the Lankan Tamil settlements in Bombay will understand why Raha is wrong. “These men are traditional fishermen and it is not unlikely that the traffic between Bombay and Pakistan - which is the supply centre - is dominated by the Lankan,” said a senior police officer in Bombay. The established dons of the drugs trade do not want to lose their own men to European prisons or rival marksmen, so they employ the cheap Lankan Tamil manpower as couriers. "There could be at least 2,000 of our Tamil boys in the various prisons in Europe and America,”said a sad PLOTEleader Dharmalingam Sidharth. "It is a very disastrous situation as far as the Tamil community in the island in concerned.”
Nothing to live for
The world over, there has always been a close nexus between the drug trade and liberation movements because it is the former which invariably becomes the major fund-raiser for buying arms and feeding the rebel ranks involved in the latter. All the Eelam groups are thus involved in drug-trafficking to
some degree. Though they may deny .
it, drugs are being used by the displaced militants in the underworld. Explained a senior TELO functionary
while introducing an Bruce Lee, would no cigarette when he v member of a libera would display his ripp his prowess with th cannot even walk st brown sugar.”
Bruce Lee - that name, but one he took when he left school t movement - mumble "I was a very loyal T had to flee my co murderous attack on LTTE in early 198 leader Sri Sabaratna Our group subsequen and my own family \ hunting Tigers. Now thing to live for, so Ir these drugs to escape ture caused by bitter
Then there is this
gan, a 28-year-old fi Jaffna district, living years in different sha bay. "I want to return cannot last even or smoking brown suga Can you help me get Abnu spoke incohere eyes half-shut.
Abnu had landed in after spending three y Germany. He had b Europe and had mana money. But then he India only about 1,00 he left the remaining friend Navan Prab smuggled into Bomb would have it, Nava his Paris hotel with heroin. "I incurred dollars and hundred heroin. I went crazy am on this suicide tri
Gone are th
The list of such never-ending and it that the governments Maharashtra and th ment - are seriously the plight of thes militants. "Gone are t were treated with I soldier. Now, the gove are visibly hostile Tamils, whatever be ures of the politician. get popularity with t said Sidharth of the
This pain is share leaders of the moder Liberation Front ( secretary-general Ap lingam: "I feel there to adequately appreci of the Sri Lankan Tau the refugee camps a them. Young men w out ofthe various mil to be the worst hit. C Tamil Nadu governin

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Iddict, “This guy, t even smoke a as a prominent tion group. He ling muscles and e gun. Now he adily, hooked to
is not his real up six years ago o join the Eelam his own excuse. ELO fighter but untry after the »ur cadres by the , in which our n too, was killed. tly disintegrated was killed by the I have got noesorted to taking the mental tormemories.” Anbu' Anbazhaom Tellipalai in for the past four dy pads of Bomhome but then I Le hour without r. What do I do? treated please?” ntly, his dreamy
Bombay in 1984, ears in Paris and been working in ged to save some could bring into 0 US dollars. So, amount with his
hakaran, to be
ay. As his luck n was caught in some packets of a loss of 50,000 ls of packets of and since then I p," Abnu said.
e Days
addicts could be does not appear - in Tamil Nadu, e Union governconcerned about miserable exhe days when we espect due to a rnments in India to the Lankan the public post; here in order to heir electorates,” PLOTE ' d even by senior ate Tamil United TULF). Said its papillai Amirthahas been a failure ate the hardships
mils living outside
nd to provide for ho have dropped tant groups seem 'ur appeals to the ment, made about
three months ago, to give some means of subsistence to these men have gone unheard . . . ”
According to Amirthalingam, the government of India provided only for the Lankan Tamils living in the refugee camps in Tamil Nadu. A few got some educational benefits through scholarships and reservations in admissions. Nearly one lakh of the others who had fled the island after the July 1983 Colombo riots, did not ask for any help from the Indian government at that stage, but a majority of them have now come to the end of their tether and are in very difficult circumstances. There was some response last year to an appeal from the Tamil groups for help and about 2,000 of the youth in dormant militant groups were given Rs 1,000 each at the rate of ten rupees per day for three months. But nothing was done after that. And even that first instalment, it was then suspected was paid under orders from the then chief minister, M.G. Ramachandran, to divert attention from the hefty Rs three-crore gift he had then given to his favourite group, the LTTE.
No Outside Help
The Lankan groups did not turn to any international funding agencies because they believed India would look after them. "As early as 1983, the TULF wrote to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) seeking help for the Lankan refugees flooding Tamil Nadu. But we were told by Delhi not to pursue our request to the UNHCR and that India would provide for all the refugees here. Maybe the central government did not want us to involve outside agencies in the Tamil problem, but then nothing much was done to keep their promise and help the refugees," Amirthalingam said.
Starting as great admirers of India as their sole savour, the majority of the Tamils from across the Palk Strait now appear to be unhappy with the manner in which the host country has treated them over the years. Things have gone bad even for moderates like the TULF leader Amirthalingam to openly express discontent. He said: "These young Lankan Tamils living in terrible conditions here seem to be nobody's concern. Even one year ago, I had written to then Tamil Nadu minister Panrutti S. Ramachandran - he was in charge of the refugees mင်္ဂါဂဲမို႔ helping these militants. Some money was paid and after MGR's death, nobody cared much about the problem. I sent a list of 54 names of young ex-militants who approached me for help, to the Tamil Nadu government through one of its officers. This officer told the boys to go to the police 'Q' branch (which deals with local Naxalites when it is not going after Lankan militants). The 'Q' branch, in turn, told them to report there everyday. Now the boys who had no money to buy food had to find

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money to visit the 'Q' branch everyday. What is the crime they have committed for this kind of treatment?” Amirthalingam himself provided an answer: "One gets the impression that they (Indian government) are anxious to pressure the Lankan Tamils to go back." The senior leader commented ruefully: "But these young men are unable to return home because a number of them who ventured back became targets of attack by rival militant groups... it is high time that some arrangement to provide relief to these people was made without treating them as criminals to be rounded up and put behind bars whenever the Indian Prime Minister or any VIP visited Tamil Nadu.”
Treated like Criminals
"It is disgusting how the politicians here have used our Eelam issue for selfish purposes, for self-propaganda,” remarked an ex-militant, now waiting to return home whatever the consequences. "It is better to go back and face the bullets from the LTTE or the IPKF, rather than continue this humiliating stay here."
Said an LTTE spokesman at his Indiranagar office in east Madras: "About 70 of our boys were picked up from here by the police on 18 April because your Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was visiting the city (for the AICC session at Maraimalainagar). They were released only on 25 April. All of us were taken away, barring a handful of injured ex-militants.” The angry Tiger leader recalled that the police who knocked on the door that night had said that the boys were needed at the police station just for a few minutes for questioning.' But then they were taken away to the prison and locked up. “We had done nothing to deserve such treatment as though we were criminals.”
The experience of the organiser at the Tamil Refugee Organisation (TRO), Yoganathan, appears to be even worse. A seven-member TRO team had gone to Vedaranyam on 11 February, 1988, in their ambulance with medical supplies to some of the Lankan Tamil refugee camps in that area. It was nothing unusual for them to be doing this kind of work for which they received funds from some international relief agencies and expatriate Tamils in Western countries.
The TRO team was staying at the hotel they usually put up in Vedaranyam when a police constable visited them. The deputy superintendent of police had come there, he said, and would like to see them. So, they went over to meet the police officer. On reaching the DSP's camp office, some constables checked out the ambulance in the presence of the officer. Only medicine packets were found. The officer then told the TRO to return home the next day and when they did so, he told them they were being
charged under could get bail fron told.
Falsel
Yoganathan r “Of the seven, fou documents and pl ramaniam that v ated harshly wit He would not liste awaited us when for there we wer were being charg sives Act. The against us said we mite and anti-Inc ambulance van a did not stop on be by the police.”
The TRO offici met the 'Q' brancl tore and explaine been assured that not happen again wanted to be info TRO team visited are still on bail ar ambulance release furnishing a secur
“We have stopp anyam after that cannot help the rel Yoganathan said. ceded that the poli against the TRO s that the relief org ties with the LTT cause all the LTTE had left the place Lanka that the pol: us instead,” he sai
"The police have problem as a sensi them it was just an matter to be dealt lamented K. Padr general of the Eel
tionary Liberation
appeared hurt tha held in such gre Indian governmer years ago, were no as common crimin fact that there are ex-militants who h minals over the p Several cases of
reported and mol tions of rival gr taken place with a cy. The 'retired' c nants in the Eelan up jobs as gun-ca smugglers in Ta neighbouring state ate ones decided t and were even ca Chingleput (East Thanjavur and Ra came hives of und the Eelam boys, m crime to ward c wanted to make el a passage to their

assport laws. They the court, they were
charged
called the incident: of us had valid stay aded with DSP Subere were being trenout proper reason. h. But a bigger shock ve went to the court, were told that we ed under the Explopolice charge sheet were carrying dynaia pamphlets in the nd that the vehicle ng signalled to do so
ll said he had then officers at Coimbad the case. He had such things would But the 'Q' branch rmed whenever the the area. The men d they have got the d from the court on ity of Rs 50,000.
ed going to Vedar
incident. Now we ugees in that area,"
However, he conce might have acted ince it vas believed anisation had close E. “It could be beboys in that locality and returned to Sri ice decided to harass d.
never looked at our tive social issue. To other law and order with an iron hand,” manabha, secretary am Peoples RevoluFront (EPRLF). He ut the Eelam boys, at esteem by the it until a couple of w looked down upon als. But then it is a also several of these ave turned into criast couple of years. dacoity have been 'e seriously ’execuoup members have n alarming frequenaptains and lieutegroups have taken rriers for the forest mil Nadu and its s. The more despero rob Indian banks ught. Madras city, ) range, Madurai, manathapuram beerground activity of st of them taking to ff hunger. Others lough money to buy dreamlands in the
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West. The most harassed among the police officers on this issue is the superintendent of police Chingleput (East) range, K. Subbaiah. "Yes. They have kept us on the move constantly during the last two or three years. There have been many cases of dacoity and now they are also concentrating on stealing motorcycles," the SP told SUNDAY. He was of the opinion that the LTTE was not involved in such criminal activities and was considered a disciplined outfit by and large.
"Their problem, as I see it, is poverty. They are not able to get even one square meal a day. And my problem is that the one who commits a crime in my area vanishes. He goes away to another district or even to Bangalore or Andhra. It is difficult to keep a tab on them, for there are no exhaustive records with finger prints,” Subbaiah said. (Excerpts from a special reportSUNDAY magazine, an Ananda Bazar publication, Calcutta)
CITIZENS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN MISSING
Mr. Balasubramaniam Wijayanthan, aged 70, Chairman of the Trincomalee Citizens Committee, has been missing from his home since August 3. It is reported that he had taken away by a group of men at about 2pm on August 3 when he was at the office of the Citizens Committee located at the Urban Council building.

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"Your son has died, the messenger spilled the sad news.
“Is that so? How did he die? Where did he receive the fatal wound?", the mother asked inquisitively. "From what I heard, he was fleeing from the battlefield and one of enemy's spears pierced through his back', murmured the messenger. "A fleeing son, and a spear in his backl What a shame?, filmed the mother. Her sadness turned into anger. “I had lost my father, brother and husband in the on-going battle and nothing is worse for me to lose my son. What I'm ashamed is that his fatal wound was in his back", the Tamil mother screamed.
The messenger was dumbfounded for
words.
"Now I'll leave for the battle field to search for my son. If your word proved to be true, I'll mutilate the breasts which fed him the life spirit” thundered the mother.
And, after a while, there she was in the middle of the battle field, turning the bodies of soldiers, horses and elephants in search of her departed son.
Had he brought fame for his family or shame for his mother? That was the question pondering her at the time. Finally she located his smiling, youthful face, spattered with blood.
Anxiously, she turned his body to look for the fatal wound. There wasnt anything in his back. The messenger was wrongl
Her son had received the fatal wound right in the centre of the chest. The mother's eyes shed tears. Those tears told the story of heroism she fed to him with the breast milk.
What I had described above have been told umpteen times by Tamil poets in diverse forms. This anecdote had also been enacted in numerous folk plays, theatre, dance dramas and even in Tamil movies. Though the poets and actors would have changed, the central theme remains the same. Tamils adore heroism from ancient times. They had been a race of warriors. To the international audience, Prof. K. Kailasapathy succintly summarised these themes in his 1968 classic book, Tamil Heroic Poetry (Oxford, Clarendon Press).
It is often expressed that the Tamils had lived in peace for thousands of years. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the poets who lived in the Sangam Age (two millenia ago) to our contemporaries like Subramanya Bharathi and Kavi Arasu Kannadasan, Tamils extolled the virtue of heroism in the battle field. Pura Nanooru poetry is all but anything about the bravery and chivalry of Tamil masses.
Sachi. (University c
The flags of Cl (Tiger) and Pand dered as veneral the duty of Tam the dignity of th were harnessed t far corners of I South East Asiar great Tamil p Avvaiyar and Je the virtues of C8Se.
In one of his p children (Paapaa Bharathi provide
In front of those do not get any fe stomp and attack spit on their face
(“Paathaham sei payam kollalaha Mothi mithithu v Muhathil umlizhr
Kavi Arasu Ka similar sentiment the MGR's great Mannan' in mid the verses read li
Fear is none but the symbol of Dra At six or at hund but
Protection of hom
For the growing 1 a Tamil mother ti In challenging ti face
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Many have lived c - but in the minds of long? Those blessed uit chivalry live forever in the
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roism among Tamils
Sri Kantha
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era (Flower), Chola ya (Fish) were consile objects and it was l youth to safeguard ese flags. Their aims raise the flags in the dia, Sri Lanka and territories. Verses of bets like Kambar, yam Kondaar praise ighting for a noble
opular songs for the Paatu), Subramanya the following advice:
vho do misdeeds r — Раараа them Paapaa - and ; too Ρααραα
pavaraik kandaal hu Paapaa idu Paapaa - Avar thuvidu Paapaa”)
nnadasan expressed is in a lyric for one of
movies, “Mannaathi 1950s. In translation, ke this:
couvardice - and
vidas is chivalry red one could die -
eland is the duty
oetus in her body
2aches bravery mes, to protect her
" progeny
ind many have died
masses who stay
h great heroics and
annals of history
ll of this lyric is as
u madamaiyadah ar udamaiyadah orilum saavu
a pa t h u ka da
um mazhalaiyin
al Thamil Annai anthal petraval
ni Aval pillai”
i — Marainthavar
Makkalin manathil nirpauaryaar? MaPerum veeram, Maanam kaapoor : Sarithiram thanile nirkinraar”
In our times, it was MGR himself,
by his more than 120-odd movies spanning four decades (1936-76), who instilled the "fighting spirit” to the younger generation of Tamils. He was well versed in the traditional martial arts of Tamils such as horse-riding, fencing, wrestling and silambam. Even MGR's miraculous escape in real life, from a near-fatal gun attack in 1967 seemed to infuse the sense of emulation among the young Tamils. As one journalist noted recently about MGR's cinematic career, "He created the image of an action hero who used his fists more than his tongue. He showed the masses through his films the importance of fighting to help themselves” (Far Eastern Economic Review, 4. Feb, 1988). It is a happy coincidence that the LTTE Tamil rebels who grew up watching MGR's heroic exploits in the celluloid screen, received considerable emotional and material help from him in their struggle against their enemies.
Two years ago, in an interview for the Newsweek magazine, the LTTE leader Prabaharan was asked whether he had received any military training in Cuba. After denying it, he was reported to have said: “I use my natural instincts and I watch war films and Westerns by Clint Eastwood". An American journalist Jared Lubarsky wrote a humorous piece on this quip in the Mainichi Daily News (8 Aug, 1986) of Japan. “This particular freedom fighter learned his notions of warfare from Eastwood spaghetti Westerns. As far as I can tell, Eastwood's loftiest strategy in these movies is to shoot the shit out of anything that moves. That doesn't bode well for the future of Sri Lanka. If the president of the United States can derive his whole outlook on life from the movies, why shouldn't a Tamil Tiger?".
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900 JVPers in Police custo
Sri Lankan police have detained about 900 members of a Marxist group ac
cused of assassinating hundreds of
government officials and supporters.
Inspector-General of Police Ernest Perera told Reuters in an interview that the members of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), which has been blamed for 419 killings since August 1985, had been held for the past year. "We have in all something like 900
in custody as it is.” he said in the first
official statement by a Sri Lankan Police Chief about the number of JVP detenues.
The JVP launched the assassination campaign as a protest against the Indo-Sri Lankan pact aimed at ending the island's Tamil conflict.
Police sources said the JVP members
were being detained under emergency
regulations and the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which give police wide powers to detain subversive suspects. Suspects can be detained without trial
under such legis
Perera, appoi the JVP had cre
fear in areas wh
had a military to give the im effective force
The Front, dr majority Sinha South and centr government off since the pact w; Sri Lanka in Ju
Perera decline of the JVP's stri Sources put it a plus 8,000 suppc
"I don't think increased and I reached an insu. tion. It's not a arms against the
He said the gi
VARSITY TEACHERS COND
“The USTA condemns and strongly protests against the seemingly calculated and indiscriminate attacks on the civilian population by members of the IPKF in the aftermath of incidents for which ordinary civilians can in no way be responsible.” declared the Jaffna University Science Teachers' Association in a press release issued on 30.8.88. They further state these beatings and sometimes shootings have followed a pattern:-
Pt. Pedro: 1st June
Chulipuram: 19th July
Jaffna: 17th & 18th August
Karainagar: 20th August
Inuvil: 22nd August
Those beaten include women, university employees, students, and others maintaining essential services at the IPKF's invitation and on the basis of the protection promised by them. Three persons totally unconnected with any violent activity were shot dead on 18th August by the CRPF, apparently in reprisal for an incident that took place elsewhere an hour earlier. In one incident, a bridegroom was made to get down from his car at Uduvil Junction and was virtually stripped publicly while his bride looked on in agony. People have been beaten without warning by soldiers making forced entry into premises. Several of those admitted to hospitals have suffered hearing impairments from blows received on the head with heavy gadgets.
The USTA expresses grave concern at statements made by very high ranking IPKF officials which are threatening in character and appear to justify the present pattern of activity.
The USTA also expresses grave concern over the IPKF Town Comman
dant’s statemen legation (Uthaya effect that: "Ass: not be avoided v are subject to att When innocen attacked and kill Indira Gandh Prime Minister condemned such tive punishment when acts of a si by a 'disciplined' There are per officers being a troopers. Is it a army to have o general assault (
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ly -IGP
lation.
ited on August 1, said ated an atmosphere of ere they operated and ving which attempted pression of being an
awn mainly from the lese community in ll areas, has killed 419 cials and supporters as signed by India and y last year, he said.
d to give an estimate ength but other police about 2,000 officials irters.
their numbers have don't think we have rrection type of situamass of people taking government” he said.
roup had armed itself
with 300 to 400 shotguns but added he was more worried about the 90 automatic weapons it had stolen from police and army personnel.
Perera said the presence of 52,000 Indian troops, posted in the Northern and Eastern provinces to enforce the peace pact, had helped the security forces concentrate on the JVP problem.
He said the 26,000-strong regular police force was thinly spread and it's present ratio of one policeman to 800 people was far from the ideal one to 100 in other countries.
"We'll have to increase our police strength to 32,000 and we have a flood of applicants already.” he said.
He said there have been JVP infiltration in the police force. "But I don't think it's as intense as it's made out to be."
He said police had evidence that a few fomer policemen and former members of the security services had given weapons training to JVP cadres. —(Reuter)
DEMMIN ATTACK ON CIVILLANIS
t to a University den: 30th August) to the aults on civilians canwhen IPKF personnel cack”. it Sikh civilians were ed in the wake of Mrs. li's assassination, Rajiv Gandhi himself indiscriminate collecas madness. What milar nature are done
army? iodic reports of army ttacked by mutinous viable basis to run an ther troops launch a In troops belonging to minority as the muti
nous trooper(s)?
Answers to these questions will throw considerable light on the IPKF's role in this country.
The USTA points out that far from restoring democracy and normalcy, the IPKF's present conduct will only lead to anarchy, increasing casualties and will render almost hopeless the present climate of assassination and senseless internecine violence, with incalculable consequences for India itself.
The USTA calls upon all responsible Indians to make an urgent reassessment of the role of India's forces in this country. We demand that the IPKF immediately cease its present mode of conduct and make its position clear and consistent.
otesters greeted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Premadasa and his wife Springvale, Australia. The protesters, members of the Ceylon Tamil
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red outside Springvale City Hall, on 30.7.88 waving placards and Dr. Rajan Rasiah, Vice President of the Association said that the ised to drive home to the P.M. their grievances with the Sri Lankan
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Padma Subrahmanyar
A Dancer with U.
I had visited the British Museum a couple of times, but was never aware that it possesses a large collection of Amaravati sculptures - about 120 pieces - ranking with the Elgin marbles and the Assyrian reliefs and they form the only major series of early Indian sculpture outside India.
For nearly three decades these sculptures were not for public viewing since some erosion was found on them in 1960, when they were on display in the main staircase of the museum. After going through chemical tests, they are now kept in a 'sacred' - temperature and humidity controlledroom in the lower ground floor, where I had the privilege recently to view them, when I accompanied Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam, the scholarly dancer. Padma was in London with her troupe to give performances and to have a workshop at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan London Centre, in connection with the Bhavan's Golden Jubilee celebrations. When she arrived in U.K. she wished to visit the India Section of the museum, and the very next day we went to the British Museum in Bloomsbury. That was her first engagement, and that was Padma's uniqueness.
Padma is a research scholar and obtained her doctorate for her thesis "Karanas in Indian Dance and Sculptures", from the Annamalai University. It is her research and her dancing, like the knight's move in chess, that created a tremendous effect in the Bharatanatyam field. She explored many things and narrowed the gap between academic theory and the active practice of dance. She revealed that Karana is not merely a static posture; that it has three elements in it: Sthana or static posture for the body, a Cari or a movement of the legs, and a Nritta Hasta or a movement for the arms. She explains that every sculptured figure depicting a Karana is like a still photo of a moving dancer.
She is emphatic in that Nritta is not merely mundane physical action natural to real life but action which has an aesthetic value. It is that act that must be pleasing both subjectively and objectively through a radiation of grace and beauty.
The other major aspect of her dancing is her usage of the realistic ellements of the lokadharmi technique with the stylistic and sophisticated natyadharmi style. Natyadharmi is formal and perhaps easier to be handled, whereas the lokadharmi is informal and requires consummate skill, understanding, mental involvement, imagination and sobriety. Padma says that using any one style will be monotonous and she uses these styles according to the needs of the theme.
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Actually lokadh well is more eas uninitiated audie Padma’s “Kri Namah”, a tou. lokadharmi style seventies, which fame. And today sus that more th the rise of Padr Kamala Luxma Kamala’s own ac aswati.
Padma started sources of Bharat a dance style w atanrityam'. She Natya encompas artistic elements including drama sent Bharatanat and nritiya in its its true sense.
Her dance is observed: “Padm woman dancer t into a contest wi cer, equal him in and throw the l Siva at Thiruvala ence of Time” It is divinity. If we are bhava in M.S. Sul we can see those dancing. That ex ence is moved t recitals. She ac abhinaya or bliss music and her th She dances for th gam literature, t the music of the g er Peter Ilyich Ts
 
 
 

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armi when performed ily understood by an 2nce. Positively it was sh n a y a Tubh ya m tir de force, in the 2 staged in the early propelled her into there is wide consenan anything else it is ma that has effected n's preeminence as vert had on Balasar
her research on the anatyam and evolved nich she calls "Bharargues that the term ses in itself all the of the theatre art and in fact the preyam is more nritta nature than natya in
unique. One critic a is perhaps the one oday who can enter th the Supreme danhis dancing exploits egendary triumps of ankadu in the transifull of dedication and moved by bhakti and obulakshmi's singing, qualities in Padma's plains why the audio tears at Padma's hieves the Sattvika with great ease. The emes are closely knit. e vedic themes, Saneveram and even to reat Russian composchaikovsky.
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Padma's London programmes were well-attended by capacity crowds including many dancers, dance teachers and students. In recent years there is an increasing number of dance schools, teachers, students, and even rasikas in London, and actually it was an appropriate time for Padma's recital. She left behind an indelible impression on every audience before which she performed.
The British Museum Authority has invited Dr. Padma for a series of lecture demonstrations during next summer and if she accepts this invitation, lovers of the art form in this country can look forward to another treat.
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