கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
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CONTENTS
IPKF Pull Out - Opposition refuses
to play ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ISSN 026 IPKF goes beserk following ANNUAL SUB: L TE ambush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 UK/India/Sri Lanka All other countries
CWC on Indo-Lanka Stalemate . . . . . . 5
Published m Tamil National Council formed . . . . . . . . 6 TAJL TIM The storm blows over, but suTToီဒိuီဒိ the fog remains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 UNITED KI
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THE WALVETTITH
The continued presence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in the North-Eastern Province has become a matter of acute controversy and nearconfrontation beween the governments of both India and Sri Lanka. Even at the time of its arrival in Sri Lanka following the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement in July 1987, there was much opposition among the Sinhalese population. But within the Tamil community, there was a sense of relief in that its arrival coincided with the departure or confinement of the Sri Lankan security forces in their barracks. After two years, that sense of relief would appear to have disappeared, and on the contrary, the Tamil people's experience has shown that every army, not excluding the IPKF, behaves in the same way and when confronted it retaliates in revenge as atrociously as any other army. The manner in which the IPKF ran amok and went berserk in the town of Valvetithurai in northern Jaffna on August 2 must have brought back some of the worst memories of the Tamil people when they suffered for years at the hands of the Sri Lankan troops.
The excuse given by the Indian High Commission in Colombo that the Civilians fell victims of Crossfire between the Tigers and Indian soldiers is as unacceptable as it does not bear examination. People have been massacred faraway from the scene of the LTTE ambush in which Six IPKF men were killed. The retaliation by the IPKF has been indiscriminate and deliberately intended to take revenge against uninvolved civilians. Houses, shops, fishing boats and nets have been set alight and people have been shot and burnt in their homes and streets in an orgy of uncontrolled Violence. Nor is the excuse that the LTTE deliberately provoked the retaliation by mounting the ambush from a crowded place, justifiable or acceptable. Even if the argument of deliberate provocation by the LT TE” is credible, the fact is that the IPKF fell for it and unarmed and defenCeleSS civilians had to pay the price.
The Sri Lankan government wants an immediate withdrawal of the IPKF. The LTTE also is seeking an IPKF pullout without delay. The JVP wants the IPKF thrown out immediately. The EROS/EDF is asking for a phased withdrawal. The EPRLF, TELO, ENDLF combine wants the IPKF to remain until they think it is time for it to go. The main argument of the Indian
 

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URA MASSACRE
government is that the IPKF pullout is linked to the questions of adequate and proper devolution of powers to the North-East Provincial Council and the physical security of the Tamil people. While it is not intended to question the bona fides of the Indian position, the unmitigated atrocities committed by IPKF personnel on August 2 upon the people of Valvetithurai must of necessity raise the question whether the Tamil people can in fact depend on the IPKF for their physical security.
It is not necessary for the Indian authorities to be reminded about the circumstances in which indian direct involvement in the affairs of Sri Lanka took place. After years of indiscriminate military attacks on the Tamil people under the guise of dealing with "Tamil terrorists, the Sri Lankan security forces launched the infamous 'Operation Liberation, otherwise known as the Vadamarachchi Operation, in early 1987. This was the time when the Indian government took up the case of the Sri Lankan Tamils before international fora, including the United Nations, and castigated the Sri Lankan authorities for committing virtual genocide against the Tamil people. India then contemptuously and rightly rejected the fallacious claims by Sri Lanka that civilian casualties and damage to civilian and public property were Caused in the Crossfire Or were the result of provocation. One has no hesitation in saying that the claims and denials by the Indian High Commission in Colombo concerning the August 2 incidents in Valvetithurai are equally fallacious.
In the face of incontrovertible evidence, conceaing, denying or covering-up excesses or atrocities committed by security forces is tantamount to sanctioning or Condoning such excesses and atrocities. and in fact such efforts will only encourage the forces to Commit more of the Sane in the future. The evidence of what occurred on August 2 at Valvettithurai is there for all to see. The Indian authorities and the IPKF High Command have a duty and an obligation, and in fact are left with no alternative if they are to establish their bona fides to cause the carrying out of a thorough investigation into what happened at Valvetithurai, identify the culprits and meet out condign punishment commensurate with the crimes they had committed. Anything less will be unacceptable.

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IPKFPULLOUT - OP) REFUSED TO PLA
by Rita Sebastian from Colon
Four key issues (see box) that dominated the deliberations between Delhi and the Colombo government over IPKF withdrawal from the island, was put to Parliament on July 10th and 11th to enlist opposition support, for presenting a united stand to India on the issues.
Sadly for the government, and for the country, there was no such support forthcoming. Sri Lanka Freedom Party's President and leader of the opposition Mrs Sirima Bandaranaike set the pace by castigating the government for a “faulty foreign policy” that had provided India with an opportunity to interfere in the affairs of the country. The SLFP position on the accord and the IPKF was well known said Mrs Bandaranaike and called this attempt by the government to salvage its prestige as one in a long line of shallow and meaningless gimmicks'. All the opposition speakers charged the government with concealing more than it was revealing, and wanted a categorical statement that IPKF pullout was not linked with devolution to the North-East Provincial Council.
The chief speaker for the government, Minister of Foreign Affairs and State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijoratne denied concealing the substance of the deliberations in Delhi as well as devolution-IPKF linkage.
India had accepted, he said, the
Colombo government position that IPKF pullout a purely political exercise, was not linked with devolution. Mrs Bandaranaike's statement to Parliament said Mr. Wijoratne was "opportunistic, evasive and childish' and the SLFP not taking a stand on the issues once again demonstrated its known posture of not co-operating with the government on national issues.
What finally took place in Parliament on the two days reserved for the debate was, besides anti-IPKF rhetoric a tirade against an "inept government that had failed to negotiate bilateral issues through known norms of international diplomacy.
It was SLFP's Stanley Tillekeratine who dubbed the unilateral announcement made by President Ranasinghe Premadasa that the IPKF must pullout in entirety by July twentyninth, the second anniversary of the signing of the Indo-Lanka accord, as the now famous 'Bataramulla Proclamation'. He made it quite clear that the opposition was not going to be drawn into an exercise of "filling in the blanks' for the government.
At the cabinet meeting that followed the two-day debate, President Pre
madasa, bes opposition co Cabinet Min ates like M mudali, Gam and Thondar confrontation logue to gett possible, ha Minister Wijt tion Minister
for getting th
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des taking note لتنمي tribution gave ear to his sters. While the moderhisters Lalith. Athulathni Dissanayake, Hameed lan were all for avoiding and continuing the diaLe IPKFoutas quickly as dliners like Transport pala Mendis and EducaW.G. Lokubandara were
IPKF out at once.
What was interesting however was that after all the talking it all boiled down to the four issues, which at first glance looked deceptively simple, with the two sides stating their positions. The opposition refused to take it at face value having been apprised of the thinking of the two key men, Rajiv Gandhi and Ranasinghe Premadasa in the correspondence made public last month.
Prime Minister Gandhi had made it quite clear that IPKF withdrawal should proceed simultaneously with devolution to the North-East Provincial Council. Now however India has linked withdrawal with the security of all the communities in the north-east region, a tongue in cheek statement
ONS TAKEN UPBY Two DELEGATIONs
|ES Sri Lanka
hedule for Withdrawal to be comof the re- pleted by the middle of KF contin- September ‘89. If any
troops remain thereafter due tologistical constraints they should be non operational.
of offensive rations by
Immediate and unqualified: by reciprocating LTTE cease-fire.
nplementaSri Lanka fJuly “87.
Implementation of the Agreement not linked with the withdrawal. However, the Sri Lanka delegation clarified the implementation effected and the steps to be taken to set up the Provincial Police Force, and facilitate the effective functioning of the Provincial Councils.
Entirely a matter for the Sri lanka Goverment, which assumes full responsibility. However agree to a committee to review and coordinate security arrangements during the withdrawal of the IPKF, comprising the Governor of the North Eastern Province, the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, the IGP of
security of ies in the Eastern
Sri Lanka and the
General Officer Commanding the IPKF.
India
Withdrawal on the basis of 3 ship loads per week of 1500 to 1600 personnel and equipment (including 3 weeks preparatory period) calculated to take 28 to 30 weeks. i.e. up to February 1990 (subject to the Indian position in Item 4) Unilateral suspension of offensive military operations. Subject to specific operational conditions to be announced separately, for a period of 15 days, to be extended once the LTTE joins and participates in the North-East Peace Committee. The position of Sri Lanka delegation acknowledged.
To set up a committee comprising the Chief Minister of the NorthEastern Province, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, the General Officer Commanding the IPKF and the IGP of Sri Lanka to review and advise on the measures for safety and security of all the communities of the North-Eastern Province, and coordinate arrangements as the phased withdrawal of the IPKF proceeds.

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considering two recent incidents in
IPKF occupied territory'.
Last fortnight in eastern Akkaraipattu, a Muslim provincial council member and two others including a Sinhalese woman were gunned down by an armed ex-militant group right under the nose of the IPKF.
This is nothing new. Atrocities by all sides, ex-militants, militants and the IPKF in the past two years have been legion. And so the Indian contention that Indian troops must remain in the country to assure the security of the people in the region falls flat on its face.
In the two years there has been no return to any meaningful civilian administration, and a civilian population trapped between the Indian troops and the feuding Tamil groups. have had to battle it out as best they can.
Today IPKF protection extends only to the groups that Delhi has decided is the leadership for the Tamils, but it has failed to realise that peace cannot be returned to the region at the point of a gun.
The much talked of secret agreement between former President Jayewardene and Prime Minister Gandhi, signed in New Delhi on November 7th (see box), which was believed to give India a stronger hold on the island nation, finally surfaced in Parliament during the debate on the IPKF withdrawal.
What the letter in fact implied was that in the establishing of the provincial councils "the legislation creating them and their functioning as referred to at the discussions will be given the most serious and urgent consideration and steps will be taken to include such changes as are mutually deemed necessary for more effective devolution, better functioning of the proposed provincial council and the complete implementation of the Indo-Lanka agreement'.
Among some of the matters referred to in the agreement were size of provincial councils, size of Board Ministers, provincial council list and problems with regard to land and land settlement.
To the opposition this was another instance of an agreement negotiated in secret, without the knowledge of parliament and the people.
Leaving the agreement aside the most significant of the proposals arrived at in Delhi was the forming of a peace committee to bring all the Tamil groups together. Every single Tamil group is to be represented in the committee which will be presided over by a Cabinet Minister.
India's insistence on such a committee is to force the LTTE into a firm committment to drop their guns and join mainstream politics.
Will the LTTE agree to participate in such a committee'? What is tragic is
The text of the letter sig Jayewardene and Mr. R. follows.
The visit of President J. to Delhi provided an oppo sides to review the progr mentation of the Indo-Sri L
The Indian side pointe Lanka Government the in incorporate some addition the proposed legislation in functioning of the Provisio) the devolution more mea and self-contained. The pointed out that if the dra before Parliament is notp: approved by the Suprem Provincial Councils are no up in their present pro process of implementation delayed. On the establishm cial Councils, the legislati and their functioning as r discussions will be given i and urgent consideration a taken to include such ( mutually deemed necessal tive devolution, better fu proposed Provincial Cour,
that all the Tamil gro short for words when th “the aspirations of our pl well-being but yet whe chance to get together i of the Tamil people theil ings are thrown to the
No one can shut hi reality that it is not whe goes or stays that matt analysis, but whether region can be returne and peace if the groups and continue their feud
The Colombo governr atedly called on the IPE offensive operations aga citing the LTTE's ceas against the Sri Lankan well as against all citizens. India refused ta request. On the contrary fied its operations agai and in the last fortnight ber of LTTE cadres, am of the second rankers leadership.
In the "withdrawal pa er, India has agreed t fifteen-day ceasefire, f playing it by ear after t Premadasa feels that fif short a period for the their bonafides and w least four weeks.
Whatever decisions Lanka finally arrive at hard fact that Indian main on Sri Lankan Indian elections are ovel government's plan to h out by mid-September likely in the least. Me would work-out to son cember.

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ned by President jiv Gandhi is as
R. Jayewardene rtunity to the two ss of the impleanka Agreement. di Out to the Sri perative need to all provisions into Order to make the nal Councils, and lingful, adequate Sri Lankan side ft legislation now assed into law as Court, and the t immediately set Josed form, the will be avoidably ent Of the PrOVinon creating them eferred to at the the most serious and steps will be changes as are y for more effecnctioning of the Cils and for the
ups are never ey speak about eople and their in they have a in the interests ir public posturwinds. s eyes to the ther the IPKF ers in the final the north-east d to normalcy remain apart ing. ment has repe&F to cease all inst the LTTE, sefire declared government as the country's o accede to the it has intensiinst the LTTE t killed a num
ong them some of the LTTE
ckage', howevo a unilateral or a start and hat. President teen days is too LTTE to prove ould prefer at
India and Sri t, there is the troops will resoil until the . The Colombo ave the troops does not seem eting halfway netime in De
complete implementation of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. .-
J.R. ayewardene President of Denocratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Rajiv Gandhi Prime Minister of the Republic of India. Ney Delhi
November 7, 1987
List of some of the matters referred to in the document dated November 7, 1987 signed in New Delhi by the President of Sri Lanka and the Prime Minister of India.
1. Size of the Provincial Councils. 2. Size of the Board of Ministers. 3. Governor's discretionary powers. 4. Parliament's powers to amend the devolution package.
5. Parliament's powers to legislate on subjects in the Provincial list.
6. Matters relating to the Interim provision (Section 37).
7. Emergency Provisions. 8. Imposition of President's rule on the ground of failure of Governor to comply with directives.
9. Provincial Council List. 10. Problems with regard to land and land settlement.
11. Any other matters by mutual agreement.
Although the Janatha Vimukti Peramuna agitation is not wholly on the IPKF issue, the Indian troops out of the country will definitely defuse the very explosive situation in the country today. Plantation Industries Minister Gamini Dissanayake who has come in for censure by his cabinet colleagues for his open criticism of the security situation in the country has likened the spate of killings island-wide to a 'Pol-pot like regime in Cambodia' that left one point five million people dead.
"Is not the same thing happening in the country today? queried the Minister in a speech he made recently. "there are bodies in every junction burnt to ashes. Are those done by the Green Tigers, the Yellow Tigers or the scorpions? The entire country is paralysed and the politicians watch from where they receive applause. We have to go on a new path. The politics of today must change'.
Is there any hope for a country that is sliding daily into anarchy and economic ruin? Will the democratic institutions be able to survive the onslaught of so many forces of violence is the question everybody in the country is asking today.
21 PKF MEN KILLED
Twenty-one soldiers of the IPKF, including officers, were killed in two separate incidents in Trincomalee and Vavuniya on 25 July.
Fifteen soldiers, including an officer, were killed on the spot and several seriously injured in a Sinhala village in Kantalai area in the Trincomalee district when the vehicle in which they were travelling was blown apart in a landmine explosion at 4pm on 25 July. The explosion has been attributed to the LTTE.

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51 KILLED; 70 INJURED; 123 h 69 VEHICLES, 12 FISHING BC
IPKF GOES BERS FOLLOWING LITTE A
Chris Nuttall in Colombo
Soldiers of the Indian peacekeeping force are reported to have gone on the rampage and massacred 51 Tamil civilians in the worst atrocity of their two-year occupation of the north and east of Sri Lanka.
Reliable independent accounts of the massacre in the northern coastal town of Valvedditturai reached Colombo yesterday (11.8.89), after an attempt by the Indian army to cover up the incident.
The massacre, during which troops tried to raze the town, took place on August 2, but details were suppressed by an Indian curfew. Reporters were not allowed past roadblocks and even doctors were barred from the Area.
According to the first independent witness reports reaching Colombo yesterday, the victims, including women, children and the elderly, were either burned to death in their homes, bined up against walls and shot, or made to lie face down on the ground where they were shot in the back.
The massacre is thought to have been provoked by the ambush by
Tamil Tiger gué patrol in a busy town.
The Indian Hig ombo said six . rebels and an of nine other soldie yesterday admitt that there had be but said that only and that they ha
But independer were found all ov people and that th died in crossfire.
Valvedditturai, Tigers' leader, W an, is a guerrilla soldiers appear taking revenge.
Analysts here have been campa withdrawal, may ambush deliberat violent reaction, k crease pressure or Of 51 people ki now been identifie six women and sev other people were
cwc ON INDOLANKAST
The Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said in a communique dated 25 July
that its Political Committee had re
solved at a special meeting that the CWC should take immediate steps to focus attention on the need to end the present stalemate' between the Government of India and Sri Lanka and “to restore as quickly as possible the friendly ties which have traditionally existed between the two countries'.
It added that the Political Committee of the CWC "Calls upon the Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of India to take immediate steps to review the situation with a view to re-establishing the friendly relations which have traditionally existed between the two countries'.
The communique said that:
The Committee noted that the stopping of the phased withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka begun in January 1989 has led to misunderstandings and suspicions. There is no reason why India cannot resume the phased withdrawal of its troops and to have consultations about the completion of the withdrawal within a
The refusal of ment to participa ter's meeting of unwillingness to Summit in Nover the differences be ernments. The C SAARC meeting v tunity for Sri Lanll and narrow the d every effort mus SAARC back on t
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and 50 suffered minor injuries.
Several badly wounded people had to have legs or arms amputated.
In the attack, 123 houses, 43 shops, four cinemas, a library, 69 vehicles, 12 fishing boats and 129 nets were set on fire.
The town is now virtually deserted after most of the population fled. More than 5,000 refugees are being housed in Hindu temples, churches and schools.
Aid workers appealed for help to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the League of Red Cross Societies. The soldiers burned nearly all food stocks and supplies are expected to run out by tomorrow.
One witness said: 'When the curfew was finally over, the people burned the bodies of their relatives - those that had not already been burnt in their homes. They were burned on the spot where they had been killed'.
India has been trying to justify the force's extended stay on the island, against the Sri Lankan government's wishes, by saying it has to ensure the safety and security of the Tamil community. The Sri Lankan cabinet was meeting last night to decide on its response to India's offer to pull out its remaining 40,000 troops by February. (The Guardian, 12.8.89).
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NO CLAIMANTS FOR ASSASSINS' BODIES
Colomb o Magistrate, M.M.A. Gafoor, on 20 July ordered the burial at the General Cemetery at Kanatte in Colombo of the bodies of Rasaiah Aravindarajah alias Visu, Peter Aloysius Leon and Kandiah Sivakumar alias Arivu who died of gunshot wounds on July 13.
The three men were killed in a shootout at the Bullers Road residence of TULF leaders, A. Amirthalingam, V. Yogeswaran and M. Sivasithamparam on July 13 by Amirthalingam's security guards. The three were the gunmen who shot dead Amirthalingam and Yogeswaran and seriously wounded
TU LF President M. Sivasithamparam. The assassins had been gunned down by the security guards when they attempted to escape.
The inquest commenced after the bodies were identified by Wilson W. Mariyadas of Anderson Flats, Narahenpita and Nandarajah Sathyanandan Kumar of Kashyapa Road, Colombo 5. No relatives of the dead men had come forward to claim the bodies until the date of the inquest, 20 July. From July 13 up to the time of identification, the bodies were lying at the Colombo police morgue.
FORMER PRESIDENT CALLS FOR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
Former President J.R. Jayawardene confirmed that he had called for the establishment of a 'national government as the best way to solve the present crisis in Sri Lanka.
The former President said that the “reigning United National Party should join with the main opposition Sri Lankan Freedom Party and other parties and
set up a national government to solve the present crisis'.
In reply to a question as to who should head such a government if it came to be formed, the ex-president declined to comment but ruled himself out as a potential head of such a government by saying, "My decision to retire from politics is a permanent one'.
POLICE FIELD HOrs RADED
A gang, allegedly belonging to the JVP/DJV, got away with many weapons including two T-56 rifles, some SLRs and T-81 rifles when they carried out an armed attack on the Police Field Head Quarters at Thimbirigasyaya in Colombo on 2 August.
Investigations had revealed that the attackers had failed to penetrate the armoury but had despite resistance from the Police and Air Force mobile patrol, grabbed some weapons from an outer section of the building. Three policemen and two air force personnel were injured in the raid which took place at about 6.30 pm.
The getaway green Mitsubishi van was later found
abandoned at Nedimala in the Dehiwela area and the vehicle was smeared with bloodstains indicating that some of the raiders might have been injured. Some military-style uniforms were also found in the van.
Coinciding with the raid, several bomb explosions were reported from Pettah, Borella and Kirulapone, and it is believed that these were caused to distract and divert attention.
A three-man committee chaired by a Deputy Inspector General of Police and two officers from the Army and Air Force has been appointed to investigate suspected “insider” participation and collaboration in the raid.

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'DEVOLUTION, A PRECONDITION FOR IPKF PULLOUT
Wore devolved powers to he North-East Provincial Douncil by enacting further amendments to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution must precede the withdrawal of the IPKF, O hief Minister A. Varatharaja Perumal told a government Ministerial deegation comprising Foregn Minister Ranjan Wieratne, Minister of Plantaions Gamini Dissanayake and Minister of Textile and Rural Industries S. Thondaman which visited Trincomalee on 24 July.
Prior to the Ministerial visit to Trincomalee, a reuest made to the Chief Minister by the President Lo make a visit to Colombo or discussions was turned down by the CM on the grounds of lack of adequate security. ソ
According to Gamini Dissanayake, the Chief Minis
ter had said that although they had given up demands of federalism and separatism and joined the democratic mainstream, there had been no progress at all. The Chief Minister had pointed out that inadequate devolution even in terms of the law, the lack of political will toget her with bureaucratic and administrative inertia and lethargy were the reasons for conflicts among the different communities.
Commenting on the talks between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government, Mr. Perumal had said that it was an irony that the government was negotiating with a group that had killed the largest number of Sinhalese, including babies, while giving stepmotherly treatment to those who had accepted the democratic process.
TV BROADCASTER SHOT DEAD
Premakeerthi de Alwis, the 44 year old popular Sinhala radio broadcaster, TV announcer and programmer and lyric writer was shot dead by six unidentified gunmen allegedly belonging to the JVP/DJV outside his residence in Homagama on 31 July.
“TAM NATIONAL
A joint front called the Tamil National Council was constituted on July 25 by three Tamil militant groups, the EPRLF, ENDLF and TELO.
The EPRLF General Secretary K. Pathmanabha, TELO Secretary A. Selvam and P. Rajaratmam of the ENDLF held a joint press conference at the "Seven Islands' hotel in Trincomalee to announce the formation of the Council.
Explaining the purpose of forming the Tamil National Council, Mr. Pathmanabha said, 'We have constituted this Council today to achieve the ideals and aspirations of the Tamil speaking people to establish and exercise their inalienable right of self-determination, a state
The six-member gang had stormed his house at
about 8.30 pm, dragged Mr.
Alwis out and shot him at point-blank range. The bullet-riddled body was later recovered on the Homagama-Katwana Road some two hundred yards away from his home.
COUNCIL FORMED
in the Tamil homeland that shall be fully responsible for the people. We appeal to all political organisations functioning among the Tamil speaking people to come forward to join the Tamil National Council and work together to achieve this ideal.
He also attributed the killing of TULF leaders Amirthalingam and Yogeswaran and PLOTE leader Uma Maheswaran to the direct outcome of talks between the government and the LTTE.
Mr. Pathmanabha added that the rights of the Muslims living in the NorthEast Province would be fullly guaranteed and safeguarded. The rights of the Sinhalese people living in the province would not be infringed.

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LEADING BUDDHIST MONK GUNNED DOWN
The Ven. Kotikawatte Saddhatissa Thero Chief Adhikrana Sanganayake of the Colombo Navatotamuna and Chief Incumbent of the Kolonnawa Raja Maha Viharaya was shot dead allegedly by a gang of five men belonging to the DJV/ JVP on 3 August within the precincts of his temple.
At the inquest held subsequently it was revealed that the priest had received abusive and threatening telephone calls after he had made a speech broadcast over national TV in support of the government.
The cremation took place on 9 August in the presence of a large crowd.
DONS OPPOSEAWARD OF DEGREES WITHOUT EXAMS
All academics, from the highest to the lowest, vehemently oppose the idea of awarding degrees to final year university students without holding examinations”, Prof. Osmund Jayaratne, President of the Federation of University Teachers Associations said in a statement.
He added that they would even consider resigning from their posts if such a step was taken because the standard of the universities was at stake. The Professor was respond
ing to a recent proposal put forward by the University Grants Commission to confer temporary degrees on final year university students without them having to sit for their final examinations.
It is to be noted that most of the universities in the south of the island have remained closed for nearly two years due to student unrest and a campaign of disruption instigated by the JVP sponsored Inter University Student Federation.
STF TO BE BEEFEID-UP
The Special Task Force (STF) is to recruit more personnel in a bid to fortify the security cover now being provided by this paramilitary force to a number of sensitive installations in Colombo and to Sinhala hamlets in the eastern district of Amparai.
Senior security officials declined to divulge the additional number to be recruited, but it is believed that it would be a substantial increase.
The STF comprises specially trained commandos, but do not fall within the regular army or police
force. To begin with they underwent training in Pakistan. They were a dreaded paramilitary force when they operated in the Eastern Province before the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement and accounted for a large number of extrajudicial killings and "disappearances'. Since the Accord, they were confined to barracks, but still maintain a number of camps in the Batticaloa and Amparai districts.
Some units of the STF have now been moved to the southern province to 'deal' with escalating JVP/ DJV violence.
BUDDHIST MONKS DEMONSTRATE
O v er 5 000 “Buddhist monks', some of whom were masked, almost all of them youthful in appearance, staged a demonstration near the Maligakande temple in Colombo on 24 July carrying anti-government placards and chanting antigovernment and anti
Indian slogans. The slogans they shouted called for an end to killings, abductions, disappearances and operations by so-called antisubversive organisations.
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SOCIALIST ALLIANCE AGAINST PRICE INCREASES
“The United Socialist Alliance vehemently protests against the recent increases in the prices of bread, flour, sugar, and Lakspray products. In fact the prices of essential goods have been sharply and continuously rising throughout this year. According to independent economic analysts, the rate of inflation has already topped 30%, the highest ever in recent times, states a press release issued on 26 July by the United Socialist Alliance comprising four left parties in Sri Lanka.
The USA statement added, "It has become appa
rent that the government attempts to cast further burdens on the people. under cover of the hysteria built up in the country over the issue of the withdrawal of the IPKF. The withdrawal of the IPKF is our objective as well. Yet we wish to prevent a needless confrontation between the two governments, and we call upon all concerned to settle this and other connected matters in a peaceful manner. However, we strongly condemn the resort to communalist and racialist hysteria as a means of evading responsibility for the hideous reality of the plight of our people'.
GUNARATNAM SHOT DEAD
Business magnate, K. Gunaratnam was shot dead by an unidentified assassin riding on the pillion of a motorcycle near the British Ceylon Corporation (BCC) at Sri Sangaraja Mawatha in Colombo on 9 August.
The 68-year-old Mr. Gunaratnam, one of the richest men in the country, was being driven to his Rosmead Place residence to have his lunch when a motor cycle overtook his Datsun car and the pillion rider fired at Gunaratnam who was sitting in the front passenger seat. Struck by at least two bullets, the multi-millionaire was killed on the spot.
The shooting took place a short distance away from one of Mr. Gunaratnam's business concerns, K.G. Industries.
A semi-automatic pistol is believed to have been used in the killing, the motive for which was not immediately known. 'It looks like a planned and professional job', a high-ranking policeman commented.
Police said they were trying to ascertain whether Mr Gunaratnam had been killed by subversives or whether it was a 'contract job'. There was also a reported industrial dispute involving one of the late business tycoon's concerns, which police were yesterday trying to get a line on.
Police officials said a fullscale probe into the killing had been launched and all angles of the case were being gone into. Police were also trying to find out whether Mr Gunaratnam had received any threats during recent weeks.
CHINESE GUN-BOATS
The Chinese government has "responded positively' to Sri Lanka's request for the purchase of Chinese-built ships and gun-boats for use by the Sri Lankan navy. Defence Ministry sources
indicated that there was a possibility of a Chinese delegation visiting Sri Lanka or a Sri Lankan delegation visiting China to finalise the deal.
Since the 1971 insurgency the Chinese government has supplied the Sri Lank
an security forces with various types of defence equipment. China had previously supplied the Sri Lankan navy seven 'Shan ghai' class gun-boats. Later during the 1984-85 period, the government purchased fast attack craft from the Israeli Defence Forces.
In the present state of relations between India and Sri Lanka, the decision to strengthen the Sri Lankan navy is said to be not with out significance.

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THE STORMBLOWS OVE
While the war of words between the Indian and Sri Lankan governments was assuming an undignified high pitch, with India becoming the major sufferer in terms of international as well as domestic image, the word-war was soon replaced by a show of muscle. On the 27th of July, INDIA ABROAD correspondent Tarun Basu reported from Colombo:
"About 60 Indian commandos landed today at a military airport here to protect Indian diplomats two days before the expiry of President Premadasa's deadline for the withdrawal of the IPKF. . . . The commandos, mostly belonging to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police will be accommodated in camps in the sprawling premises of India House, the residence of the Indian High Commissioner. "There was no other alternative", said a diplomatic source, "this should be a message for the Sri Lankan
If y
government".
On the same day, an unknown "Special Correspondent reported from New
Delhi to THE HINDU:
"India has moved one division of its infantry as well as two independent brigades to southern India, along with four squadrons of Jaguar, Mirage and MIG-23 BN strike aircraft to deter any attacks against its nationals () and to pre-empt any adventurism on the part of the Sri Lankan government. . . . An Indian Naval Task Force headed by the aircraft carrier INS Viraat and comprising a Kashin class cruiser and several frigates is also off Colombo with its own complement of airborne fire power and Marines that may be required for any operation. . . .
As if the scenario was not frightening enough, a Bangladesh mass circulation vernacular daily ITTEFAQ quoting "American Intelligence sources' said that Sri Lankan Armed Forces were girding up their loins' to take over as President Ranasinghe Premadasa has put the security of the island state into jeopardy. The paper claimed that a coup was imminent. "The military coup might occur any day before the Indo-Lankan tussle takes the shape of a full-scale war. ()
Now that the dreaded 29th of July has come and gone and the panic merchants have exhausted their wares, one has to read the implications behind the show of excessive military build-up by India during the final week in July. One might even pass over the landing of the 60 Indian commandos in Colombo as a precautionary measure to protect Indian lives and property - on the argument that the Sri Lankan security forces themselves might find it difficult to handle a highly volatile situation in the city. Moreover, the commandos, (unlike the IPKF) were reported to have come with proper papers, passports and visas, and with the permission of the Premadasa government. But how does one explain the formidable movement of divisions, bri
S. Sivar
gades, squadrons, gates? Surely mi intend to go to Lanka? Was the Indian nationals : again makes no se using an army of out an ant-hill. W Was it in anticipati coming to the aid government? Was Lanka and occupy empt a coup? Or None of these sou only rational con word - INTIMIDA An intimidatory. the South Asian r show of naked pow stay. The old-fashio cy” no longer preva Dr. Samuel Joh celebrated English told his biographer it was useful to car it would be pruden the same time. Whi the big stick that neighbourhood, the tor is that Indian di learn to speak softly good face to the neighbourhood dip need to perfect it in considered unne geography may hav that surrounded a weak neighbours t that India requires. be Pakistan with w has to deal with a caution and respec shadow of a super the uncertainty of (
The sudden eas hours before the loc was by no means - triumph of diploma to suspect that the was itself delibera section of the India ing towards that p pected an IPKF pi least of all Preside self. The deadline ruse to bring the IF proportions, in orde make a COMMITN tual withdrawal. It bered that in the Premadasa govern people, the JVP, an of the popular Ind Indian governme statements encoura some part of the IP to remain in Sri I Even Prime Mini speaking to the Arı late April spoke ol "the bulk of the PK

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cruisers and frihty India did not var with tiny Sri bjective to protect nd property? That lse. It would be like bull-dozers to wipe as it over-reaction? on of "foreign forces' of the Sri Lankan it to invade Sri it? Was it to preto stage one? No. ds convincing. The lusion lies in one TION. Indian diplomacy in 2gion, backed by a ær has now come to ned 'art of diplomails. It was I think nson, the onceliterary figure, who Boswell that while ry a big stick along t to speak softly at le everyone can see ndia carries in the disappointing facplomacy has yet to y! and, to present a world. As far as lomacy goes, the to an art is possibly cessary because e dictated the view s she is by small, he big stick is all The exception may hich country India certain amount of it, because of the power behind and Chines intentions.
ng of tensions 48 ming July 29 crisis as is made out - a cy. In fact, one has build-up of tension tely done, with a In media contributrocess. No one exill-out by July 29, ht Premadasa himequest was only a KF issue into crisis r to compel India to MENT on an evenhas to be rememperception of the ment, the Sinhalese indeed in the case an thinking itself, ht attitudes and ged the belief that KF would continue anka for all time. ter Rajiv Gandhi by Commanders in ly of getting back ''. Optimistically, a
bulk withdrawal' could mean 30,00040,000 out of an estimated 50,000 troops. What was to happen to the remaining 20,000 or 10,000?
Opposition leader Ramakrishna Hegde was reported to have agreed with a questioner in Pondicherry that the government was trying to "find some kind of justification to stay back in Sri Lanka. On January 1 this year, the TIMES OF INDIA carried a cartoon by R.K. Laxman, a man who through laughter could drive home a point quicker than a verbose political commentator. The cartoon showed an IPKF soldier showing his palm to an astrologer who says: “Very likely you will be a Lanka Citizen and stay on for good!’. This then was the fear in Sri Lanka - that there would be a permanent IPKF presence in Sri Lanka, bolstering a regime of its choice, with the possible motivation of retaining the northeast as an Indian protectorate'.
The Indo-Sri Lankan communique of 29th July: The President of Sri Lanka has requested the Prime Minister of India to recommence the withdrawal of the IPKF. The withdrawal will recommence on the 29th July 1989”, . . . . simple as the words may sound, carry a major diplomatic advantage for President Premadasa. Firstly, it entrenches President Premadasa's position that under the Indo-Sri Lanka accord, it is obligatory on the part of India to withdraw her troops when requested by the President of Sri Lanka. Secondly, India has committed itself to a total withdrawal, however long it takes, or however phased it is. It is this timeframe that has now to be decided through bilateral talks. The communique also delinks the question of devolution of power with an IPKF withdrawal, which exactly was what President Premadasa had been insisting upon. But of course, as far as the two governments are concerned, this is not the end of the story. While President Premadasa has made his point through the communique, this might mollify Sinhala opinion but it cannot be considered adequate enough for him to gain leverage either with the JVP or the LTTE. As for India, the Rajiv Gandhi administration has to ensure that President Premadasa does not make any more unpredictable moves and embarrass the Congress-I government at a time when elections are round the COTTner.
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne, tall, stately, with an elegant thatch of grey hair, is now occupying the centre stage in New Delhi, aided by the experienced, once globe-trotting ex-Foreign Minister A.C.S. Hameed. New Delhi must have
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A MAN AND A MISSIC
by T.S. Subramaniam
The high-profile Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) leader, A Amirthalingam, gunned down in Colombo on July 13, relentlessly worked in the background till his last for one cause: the unity of the Sri Lankan Tamil groups.
An incident typifies his commitment to the cause. During the south Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Bangalore in November 1986 when Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader V. Prabakaran was flown to Bangalore for discussions with Indian officials, the other militant groups complained to Amirthalingam about the preeminence given to the LTTE. His reaction was typical. Quoting a Tamil proverb, he asked: “Does it matter who pounds, if there will be rice?"
At Thimpu in July and August 1985, when all the Tamil groups acted in unison at the talks with the Sri Lankan official delegation, his hopes rose. But later fratricidal clashes between the groups saddened him and he remarked, "If only we had remained united, we would have hoisted the Eelam flag long ago’. He was happy when the Eelam National Liberation Front, an umbrella group consisting of the LTTE, the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation and the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front was formed, and was equally disheartened when it split.
A staunch advocate of a non-violent struggle to achieve the Tamils' rights, he was deeply influenced by India's freedom struggle. With a phenomenal memory, he could recall the exact date of Mahatma Gandhi's fast against the Naokhali riots or hartal against the Rowlatt Act in 1919. He once said, "The Tamil people are in a minority on this island. Placed as we are in this situation, we fear that the unarmed Tamil people can only struggle in a nonviolent way and win our legitimate rights. Ours is a non-violent struggle. If the youth feel otherwise, we have no quarrel with them. we cannot follow them.
While Mahatma Gandhi espoused non-violence, Subhas Chandra Bose was forming an army and fighting. Only historians can say whether it was the non-violent struggle or violence, or whether a combination of both factors that won independence for India'.
Through his 40-year struggle for the cause, Amirthalingam took part in a number of fasts and satyagrahas, He was the only major link between the early struggle of the Tamils and its current phase. Indeed, his career is entwined with the history of the Tamil struggle since Sri Lankan independence in 1948.
The All-Ceylon Tami in 1948 over Colomb Citizenship Act to ma plantation Tamils s father-figure of the Chelvanayagam, who president of the Cor. from G.G. Ponnambal the “llangai Tamil Ara Federal Party, and 21. thalingam was one o Amirthalingam was el ment in 1956 and he col MP till 1970. He and M. Sivasithamparam, f duo of debaters in Parl the elections that year,
In 1971, when the ernment under Siri anaike adopted a new E stitution and the Tam ments relating to the were rejected by th Assembly (into which constituted itself), the walked out. As Amirth April 1986, "It became new Republican Consti away even the few saf discriminate legislation shrined in Article 29 ( Constitution and wo Sinhala language the c guage by a constitut and also give foremo: Buddhist religion'.
Chelvanayagam conv of Tamil political parti and youth organisati malee on May 14, 197; United Front (TUF)
O it was an emotion farewell the people of paid to Amirthalingama Their bodies were cre State honours at the College ground around While the pyre of Amirt by his eldest son, Kar Yogeswaran was lit by
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TUF urged the Tamil members to boycott the final meeting of the Constituent Assembly on May 22, 1972 convened to adopt the Constitution, and called for three days of mourning on May 22, 23, and 24 in the Tamil areas. On the final day, its members burnt copies of the constitution. Hundreds of youth were arrested and the agitation against the Constitution was on, with Amirthalingam in the forefront.
On October 2, 1972, Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, Chelvanayagam resigned from Parliament, challenging the government to field a candidate against him in an election to see whether the Tamils had accepted or rejected the Constitution. But the government put off the by-election for more than two years and when it was held in January 1975, he had a resounding victory from Kankesanturai. He termed the victory a mandate for the "restoration' of the Tamil State, which was conquered by the Portuguese in 1670. The first convention of
all and touching Jaffna peninsula nd Yogeswaran. mated With full
Jaffna Central 7pm on July 17. halingam was lit deepan, that of his Sister S huS
band, Dr Ramass. Earlier, their bodies were kept near the S.J. V. Chelvanayagam memorial stupa to enable the people to pay their homage.
The peninsula observed a hartal. As is the custom, there were plantain trees tied to lamp-posts as a mark of grief. Thousands of mourners went past the bodies.

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the TUF on May 14, 1976 at Pannagam in Vaddukottai adopted the achievement of Tamil Eelam as its objective. And the TUF became the TULF. Chelvanayagam, Ponnambalam and S. Thondaman (the Ceylon Workers' Congress leader) were elected joint presidents. Sivasithamparam and Amirthalingam became joint secretaries.
When the resolution calling for achievement of Eelam was passed, Colombo responded by imposing emergency regulations. The Tamils defied the ban. Copies of the resolution were openly distributed on May 22, 1976, the Sri Lankan Republic day. Amirthalingam and three others were charged with sedition.
The trial was an opportunity to present the whole case for a separate State. As Amirthalingam recalled 'sixty-seven lawyers led by Chelva, Ponnambalam and M. Tiruchelvam appeared for me in that case. After 40 days of trial, the judges held that two issues were raised: the validity of the Constitution and the validity of the emergency. The judges held that since they were appointed under the Constitution, they were not competent to pronounce on its validity. They also held that since the emergency was not properly declared, the constitution of the trial bench was invalid. Amirthalingam was acquitted.
Later, the TULF received two severe setbacks when Chelvanayagam and Ponnambalam died. In the 1977 parliamentary elections, the TULF contested 24 seats and won overwhelmingly in 18 seats when it put forward a mandate for Eelam. It lost only one Tamil-majority seat by 500 votes and also five Muslim-majority seats. The United National Party led by J.R. Jayewardene rode to power and the TULF became the largest Opposition party. Amirthalingam became the Leader of the Opposition. In an unprecedented move, Parliament passed a no-confidence motion against him on July 24, 1981.
A weeping and wailing
After the July Tamils on the isla Sivasithamparam, R. Sampanthan t. Madras. Amirthal Government Guest Madras, became t activity. He was a fellow-Tamils an Tamil refugees wo him for help. He pl getting admission students in sch polytechnics in Tal July 1983 riots, h Tamil Nadu Gol admission in medic students from Jaff to Madras. Again, Lanka Agreement 29, 1987, when t India asked Tamil get back to Sri Lan their studies, Ami the matter with N order was reversed
As Dr. T.R. Jana of the World Tamil who had known Ar years recalled. "He tunistic politicain. hesitate to speak ol spade a spade. Wh
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1983 massacre of nd, Amirthalingam, V. Yogeswaran and ok up residence in ngam's room in the House at Chepauk, he beehive of Tamil lways accessible to d also reporters. uld endlessly call on ayed a silent role in
to Tamil refugeebols, colleges and mil Nadu. After the le lobbied with the vernment to give all colleges to MBBS na, who had to flee
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to him for help, he never gave them false promises'.
Amirthalingam could recite hundreds of songs of Subramania Bharathi and had deeply studied them. He once said his long periods of imprisonment in 1958, 1959, 1961 and 1976 gave him a lot of leisure and that was when he learnt Bharathi's songs.
He loved Tamil, and often regretted that students in Tamil Nadu did not speak chaste Tamil and wondered whether the teaching of the language in Tamil Nadu was up to the mark.
He was the key negotiator on the Tamil side, be it at the All-Party Conference through 1984, the Thimpu talks in 1985 or the TULF's talks with the Sri Lankan Government in JulyAugust, 1986 or with Union Ministers P. Chidambaram and K. Natwar Singh. He hit it off very well with G. Parthasarathy, Indira Gandhi’s special envoy to Colombo in 1983 and 1984. He had a very good working relationship with "G.P.'.
Though Amirthalingam was committed to Eelam, he never made it a fetish or struck rigid, dogmatic stances. He was prepared to accept a rational alternative to Eelam within the framework of a united Sri Lanka In the TULF's negotiations with Colombo from 1983 to 1987, he concentrated on the unit and substance of devolution of power, be it the regional councils, district development councils or the provincial councils. His mastery of detail, especially when it came to areas such as finance, law and order and land and land settlement was stupendous. His knowledge of the Tamil struggle and his legal background stood him in good stead.
He continued to press both India and Sri Lanka for more devolution of powers to the North-Eastern Provincial council after the Agreement was signed.
He steered the TULF without identifying it with any particular militant group. As Janarthanam said, when
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O SRI LANKA'S drug smugglers bring into the country an estimated 4 to 5 tons of prohibited drugs annually, according to the Narcotic Bureau. There are an estimated 26,000 drug addicts in the city of Colombo alone and 80 per cent of them are addicted to heroin while 10 per cent use pot and opium. The remainder use various other forms of drugs. An estimated one million are using drugs today.
Heroin, opium and ganja weighing over 20,000 kilos were confiscated by anti-narcotic personnel in 32,400 cases of arrests during the past one year. According to Narcotic Bureau sources, drug trafficking and smuggling are on the increase with local drug syndicates bringing in their 'goods of merchandise' through a Jewish connection via Amsterdam. One of the new methods used by local syndicates was to use attractive females as pushers in their illicit operations.
O DURING 25 DAYS, from 21 June to 15 July 1989, 472 persons were killed in various parts of the country, Mr. Vincent Perera, Minister of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs said on 20 July in Parliament moving the motion for the extension of the emergency.
During this period, 60 political killings and 412 homicides by 'southern subversives' had been reported; they had also stolen 273 firearms, including sophisticated automatic weapons and shotguns, from civilians and security forces. In the north and east, during the same period there have been 69 civilian murders and one police personnel, said the Minister.
O A LANDMINE explosion, allegedly caused by the JVP/ DJV in Medirigiriya on 23 July killed an Assistant Superintendent of Police, P.K.N. Jayasinghe, his 13-year old son, Nuwan Jayasinghe and four police constables, Seneviratne, Herath, Priyantha Wijesinghe and Driver Adikari.
O THE CENSORSHIP of news imposed under emergency regulations on July 5 was lifted on 24 July. In announcing the lifting of censorship, Minister of Foreign Affairs and State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne suggested that newspapers should not seek to 'glorify 'subversive activity' and should exercise self-censorship on matters concerning such activity. . . .
O RESIDENTS in Batticaloa, Vavuniya and Mannar responded to a call by Tamil militant groups, EPRLF, ENDLF and TELO to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the massacre of 53 Tamil political prisoners in the -Colombo Welikade jail on July 25 and 27, 1983 by observing a 'hartal' on July 25. All government and corporation offices, banks and shops remained closed throughout the day. Transport services came to a halt. The towns were deserted as the residents confined themselves to their homes.
3. O AN ESTATE Superintendent identified as Priya Ratwatte, Minister of Tourism A.S.M. Adikri's brother-in-law and two officers of the security services were among over 20 persons killed during 48 hours ending noon on 25 July. Nine persons were killed in separate incidents in the Kandy area. In the Kandy town a powerful bomb exploded killing a woman and wounding 8 others. Around 80 'suspected subversives' were rounded up by security forces in the district. At Wahalkada in Polghawela a former principal and Justice of the Peace identified as W.M. Jinendrasinghe and his son were shot dead. Rs. 1.5 million was stolen from the Bank of Oman at Parsons Road, Colombo; two youths had held up the vehicle transferring money from the Central Bank before getting away with the loot; this was the first time a foreign bank had been robbed.
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NINE PERSONS including two women were abducted by hidentified gangs in separate incidents in Deraniyagala ld Panadura on 25 July. The abducted persons have been entified as students. It is believed that the gangs involved these abductions might be anti-JVP elements or conected with security forces. A TAMIL YOUTH has been taken into custody by the Sri ankan police in connection with the assassination of Uma aheswaran, the founder leader of the Tamil militant roup, Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam 'LOTE). The arrested person is reported to be a former ember of this group.
EMPLOYEES at the state hospitals in Badulla and atnapura struck work on 25 July in protest over the hooting of a doctor and the abduction of three student urses in separate incidents on the night of 24 July. Doctor uruge Wimalasiri attached to the Badulla Hospital was not at and injured by a police patrol as he was driving ome after a late night operation. The police claimed that he shooting was an accident.
) THE INTER-UNIVERSITY Student Federation has urged he University Grants Commission not to conduct any xaminations until all university students taken into ustody have been released. The Universities remain closed ndefinitely.
) ALL ACTIVITIES of government departments, mercanle establishments, state corporations, commercial and tate sector banks were paralysed on 28 July as the JVP alled for a five-day closure of factories and business stablishments in its continuing anti-government camaign and protest against the presence of the IPKF. 'ollowing threatening posters and other forms of nnouncements, thousands of employees kept away from fork. Although the health services and transport rehained unaffected, even those who turned up for work lithout knowing about the 'stoppage' call, walked out of he workplaces after marking their attendance. The Colmbo port too remained paralysed.
Employees of the Welikade and Mahara prisons did not eport for work. Employees of the Galle prison, main post ffice and sub-post offices, co-operative outlets and courts n the Galle area did not function.
Two bombs exploded outside the State Bank of India uilding in the heart of the capital in the Fort, but no one tas injured. A third unexploded bomb was removed by the rmy disposal unit. A bomb was also thrown at the Indian verseas Bank building at Main Street, Pettah. An Indian int venture, Hume Pipe Company at Bokundera in 'iliyandala was set on fire.
DABUDDHIST MONKVen. Padagahagoda Saranankaara hero of the Korossa temple in Kurunegala was among ifteen persons killed on 26 July. Of the fifteen 5 were police ind service personnel killed in clashes with the JVP/DJV. Among those killed was one of the bodyguards of a senior SLFP politician at Bingiriya. Three soldiers and a civilian were killed in a pitched gunbattle at Queens Estate in the Jiva Province. At Alawwa and Veyangoda two police onstables were shot dead in separate incidents. At Kadunannawa, two dead bodies were recovered. At Warakapola ind Ruwanwella five bodies with burn injuries were ecovered. At Mampe, a person alleged to be a 'subversive' was shot dead. Scores of alleged 'subversives' were rounded p by security forces.
D MR. BRADMAN WEERAKOON, a senior retired civil ervant who had served several Sri Lankan heads of state, as been appointed Advisor to the President on Internaional Relations, and his duties will include participating in pecial missions to foreign governments for the purpose of xplaining and clarifying Sri Lanka's position on internaional affairs. He will also assist in the restructuring of all Sri Lankan Missions overseas making them the focal point if the countries activities abroad.

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O HUNDREDS OF YOUTH suspected of “subversive” activity were rounded up by the security forces during 30 July to 1 August during combing-out operations all over the country. Most of the arrested were from Matara, Galle, Hambantota, Kurunegala, Matale, Kandy and Colombo areas. A vehicle in which ASP Paul Gurusinghe, the personal assistant to DIG southern range, was travelling was fired at at Baddegama on 30 July and the police driver identified as Wimaladasa was killed in the incident. On the same day in a separate incident, a former police constable, M. Mahindapala (40) was shot dead at Gonapiuwala in Hikkaduwa for selling goods from a boutique in breach of the 'curfew’ imposed by the DJV. At Rassagala in Balangoda, an Army Corporal was killed in a landmine attack on 30 July. O A SENIOR OFFICIAL of the Irrigation Department, identified as A. Ganeshapillai was beaten to death at Malwatte in the Sammanthurai area in the eastern province on 2 August by men allegedly belonging to a Tamil militant group. He was abducted by the men while he was travelling in a bus.
O SHORTLY AFTER a member of the ENDLF was gunned down by unidentified persons at Addalaichenai in the Akkaraipathu area, several members belonging to this group are reported to have gone berserk and shot indiscriminately and raiding and attacking houses in the Akkaraipathu town on 1 August in the course of which three persons were killed including the SLMC Provincial Council Member M.I. Ali Uthuman. As tension mounted following these incidents, the IPKF moved in, sealed the ENDLF office located along Pottuvil Road and seized all weapons in the possession of ENDLF cadres. A 72 hour hartal was announced and observed at Akkaraipathu in protest against what was described as indiscriminate shooting. All shops and business establishments remained closed and transport services were disrupted. .
O ALL ACTIVITIES, including public and private transport, banking and commercial activity etc came to a grinding halt in almost the whole of Sri Lanka, except the northern and eastern provinces, on 4 August as the JVP enforced one of their now familiar 'curfews'. Most of the highways in the city and suburbs were virtually empty as most people remained indoors following threats. Heavily armed security forces and police personnel patrolled the streets and took up positions at several points. Attendance at government and private sector offices were minimal as most of the employees kept away from their work places.
O ACCORDING to a government communique issued on 5 August, 'subversives' exploded a bomb in front of the Fort
Hotel injuring four passers-by; security forces in combing
out operations in the Colombo district took into custody over 100 suspected 'subversives', and also were reported to
have captured revolvers, swords, grenades etc from their
hideouts.
O FOUR POLICE constables were killed and seven injured in a landmine explosion in Embilipitiya on 6 August. Five unidentified dead bodies were recovered on the same day at Talatuoya. In Prappe in the Rambukkana area police
rounded up several suspects and recovered a large quantity
of police uniforms, peak caps, cap medals, boots, shorts, overcoats, gloves, empty cartridges and ammunition. At Gonapinuwela in the Galle area security forces arrested three alleged 'subversive suspects' and recovered explosives, detonators, army uniforms and boots. At Moneragala, the DJV claimed responsibility for killing A.S. Sivalingam, leaving a note stating that he had not supported their 'cause'. During cordon and search operations at Wewagamain the Anuradhapura district two hundred and fiftysix 'suspected subversives' were taken into custody for 'questioning. At Polonnaruwa, during search operations 21 'suspected subversives' were arrested with 15,000 posters, petrol bombs and stolen national identity cards.

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O MORE THAN 5000 medical operations per month which should normally have been carried out in government hospitals are being postponed due to lack of anaesthetists and surgeons. In some hospitals there are no anaethetists posted. In certain hospitals only emergency and casualty operations are being carried out. O ALL RECRUITMENT to government services this year is to be stopped due to the severe financial crisis presently. affecting Sri Lanka. However it has been decided that this general embargo on recruitment will not apply to essential services to which special financial provision will be made available under stringent conditions. s O THE PRICES of all brews produced by the State Distilleries Corporation have been increased by prices ranging from Rs.3 to Rs.15 with immediate effect. According to the new price list, a bottle of Extra Special Arrack has been raised from Rs.69 to Rs.73, Special Arrack from Rs.66 to Rs.69, Coconut Arrack from Rs.78 to Rs.88 and VSOA from Rs.104 Rs.116.
OTHE SRI LANKA Muslim Congress has hit back at its one time General Secretary, M.S. Osman who claimed on July 23 that the SLMC had accepted money from India through the Indian High Commission in Colombo. In a statement issued by the present General Secretary, the SLMC characterised Mr. Osman's allegations as "figments of his imagination and therefore do not deserve or merit serious attention'. O THE PANADURA and Wadduwa police have solved a major problem faced by the residents of the area by arresting the leader of a gang which had terrorised the area for months. The arrested man is said to be a Sub-Inspector in the Police Reserve who is under interdiction. He was arrested when he turned up at a house at Talpitiya, Wadduwa to collect a ransom of Rs.50,000 from the Principal of Balaka Maha Vidyalaya, Panadura. The arrested Sub-Inspector admitted that he had been involved in 'subversive' activity and in the commission of eighty robberies. Following his arrest, a number of his collaborators also were taken into custody among whom were four former constables in the Police Reserve.
O IN AN ISLAND-WIDE search operation during the weekend of 5-6 August, the security forces took into custody over 750 persons. 59 of the suspects were being interrogated for alleged 'subversive’ activity.
In Colombo suspected 'subversives' had placed improvised explosive devices in over 20 places. An unidentified gang had set fire to the hosue of a reserve constable at Watanne in Baduraliya; the father of the constable had been killed and the mother brutally assaulted. At Ruwanwella and Mawanella areas, security forces recovered shot guns, cartridges, parcels of gunpowder, police and army uniforms etc. and took into custody four persons in the course of raiding several 'subversive hideouts'. At Puttalam a Buddhist monk, Ven. Pokunu Bandana Hemaloka Thera of Nandi Mitta Raja Maha Viharaya was killed allegedly by 'subversives'. At Wariyapola an elderly woman was taken away from her residence and hacked to death. At Kuliyapitiya, over 300 "suspected subversives' were taken into custody for questioning. A person identified as P.V. Jinadasa was killed allegedly by 'subversives' at Elpitiya; a placard found near the bullet-riddled body accused him of being a police informant. At Poramba in Akkuressa a man named R.A. Nimalasiri was gunned down by a group in army-type uniform. O THE SRI LANKA delegation led by Foreign Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne, which went to New Delhi for talks with Indian leaders on the withdrawal of the IPKF returned to Colombo on 5 August after seven days of discussions.
O SECURITY FORCES recovered two unidentified dead bodies with gunshot injuries at Panamra junction in Ratnapura on 9 August. Two posters near the dead bodies stated "punishment for supporting the subversives, pasting JVP posters and killing persons'.

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FOREIGN RESERVES HAVE DSAPPEARED
By David Housego in Colombo
In chemists' shops in central Colombo, shopkeepers have put up signs announcing that they do not sell Indian-made products.
The signs were put up after the extremist Sinhalese movement, the JVP, threatened shopkeepers with retaliation if they sold Indian-made goods. Low-priced drugs have been a big Indian export to Sri Lanka.
But if the JVP ban has been hard on the poor, it is probably their only action which has had a beneficial (albeit unintentional and short-term) impact on the balance of payments, through reducing imports.
Otherwise the stoppages and strikes that the JVP have inspired in recent weeks, particularly the transport strike and the stoppages at the port, have eaten into output and exports. With the trade and current account deficit continuing to widen, the foreign exchange reserves have virtually disappeared.
A sign of Sri Lanka's plight is that the government is having to finance
imports of wheat on 180-day letter are demanding t banks independel ment will be ma essential goods a up a 100 per cent As business circ of payments squ irresistible press ment to come to t national Moneta. mission left 10 d agreement, and a days.
The IMF is w drawing on a st facility until Sri commitments. Pay unlock $60m m payments suppor Bank and new aid nations.
Some hard deci been taken. The viya programme, il a-month (644) payı families, has bee year, along with a ramme for mid-d: would have cost Rs But the most di main. The remov wheat and flour col
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by now satisfied its curiosity about this man Ranjan Wijeratne, an unknown political quantity until six months ago, but had meanwhile earned the reputation of being able to - in the analogy of a Tamil proverb - jump ten feet, if the king jumped five! While New Delhi reports convey the usual diplomatic blah-blah about warmth and cordiality and free and frank talks, not much of a headway appears to have been made after three days of talks on the hard issues. It is easy to predict one aspect of the strategy that New Delhi policy makers must be working hard on, and that would be to wean the Sri Lanka government away from its new-found allies, the LTTE. But it would be naive to expect the Premadasa government to throw away the one strong card they have in their favour. The inspired reports about heavy losses by the LTTE and their serious setbacks, released by the IPKF and publicised by THE HINDU during the time the talks were going on in New Delhi are probably intended to show the Sri Lanka government that the LTTE is a doomed ally, as far as future calculations go. But a distressing miscalculation in Indian policy in arming the EPRLF-ENDLF-TELO combination against the LTTE is that the Premadasa government is in a position to play the same game. Already, allegations are being made that the EROS group, strong on theory and tactics but short in arms, is being backed by the Prenadasa government, after its entry
into Parliament ur var Democratic F. LTTE and EROS commonality, the has always shown ness that it would b premature, to be cross-purposes wi short, the Indo-Sri for Peace which se on the noble missio now turned out to for more ARMING price? The Tamils
I wonder whethe ises that the Prem still holds a trump ( is the Referendum merger or demerge east, which has bee by President Jayew Mr. Premadasa – f 1990. India cannot of a referendum, be for in the Indo-Sri The merger of then issue in which ther sus, and on which TULF took a str Indian policy has dividing the east President Premada the referendum or year and campaign will have the ent Sinhala population as outside, as wel ex-President Jaye gone on record tha campaign for a de

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sugar, rice and fuel of credit. Suppliers at off-shore foreign ly confirm that pay. Importers of nonbeing asked to put ‘ash margin.
ssee it, the balance eze is putting an re on the governrms with the Interr Fund. One IMF ys ago without an other arrives in 10
thholding a $87m uctural adjustment Lanka enters new ment on this would re in balance-of
from the World from western donor
ions have already President's Janasavolving a Rs.2,500ment for the poorest shelved for this other welfare progly meals; the two 4bn for 1989. ficult decisions real of subsidies on ld push up the cost
of a loaf of bread by over 40 per cent to about Rs.5. Mr. Premadasa evidently feels that this could cause food riots and play into the hands of the JVP.
Overall, the IMF wants to contain the budget deficit to 12 per cent of GDP, as againt the 15 per cent in the government estimates. This marks a softening on its original goal of 10 per cent of GDP.
Parallel with this the Fund is seeking a slight slowing of monetary expansion (M1) to 18 per cent this year — which allows for an optimistic 2-3 per cent real growth in GNP and 15 per cent inflation. Interestrates have been rising, with one year Treasury bills now at 19 per cent, reflecting the tightening of monetary policy.
The influence of Fund thinking is already being reflected in the accelerated depreciation of the rupee over the last two weeks.
Failure to reach an agreement with the Fund would make it almost impossible for Sri Lanka to obtain the commercial credits needed to finance its import bill and current account deficit. Because the consequences in terms of shortages and higher inflation would be so painful, businessmen believe the president will submit to the
inevitable.
(F.T., 10.8.89).
der the name Eelaront. Although the have no ideological EROS leadership a pragmatic awaree foolish, or at least seen as working at th the LTTE. In Lanka Agreement out two years ago n of "disarming has be the instrument Who has to pay the ertainly. r New Delhi realadasa government ard in its favour. It n the East for the of the north and twice put off, first ardene and now by the 29th January ontest the holding ause it is provided anka Agreement. rth and east is one was Tamil consenren the “moderate” ng stand. Today, nly succeeded in om the north. If a decides to hold January 29 next or a demerger, he 2 support of the the east as well as the JVP and ardene who has he would publicly erger. While the
Muslim voting will have a decisive influence, it is doubtful whether all Tamils in the East would back a merger, given the suspicion that they would come under a LTTE-dominated Jaffna. If the result of the referendum turns the wrong way and the East rejects a merger, Indian policy would have done the greatest damage to Tamil aspirations; apart from losing its
own protege administration which
could function with Indian help only in the East. It might sound ridiculous, but one basic difference between President Jayewardene and President Premadasa is that, if pushed too far, President Jayewardene was prepared t write off Jaffna to India, while President Premadasa under similar circumstances may well write off Jaff. na to the Tigers - under a mutual agreement of unwritten autonomy
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a for the cessation of hostilities with the Sri Lankan Government is unable to agree the same with the Indian Government (the very party without ... whose support the Sri Lankan Tamils * Government's rightful insistence that LTTE accommodate the other Tamil Groups in power sharing and give up arms so that members of the other Tamil Groups and civilians who do not fall in line are not killed by the LTTE. Isn't it strange that LTTE was able to agree for the cessation of hostilities even before a finalisation of what a Sri Lankian Government would give in return - which certainly should be much more than provided under the Indo-Sri Lanka accord to justify the stance hitherto taken by LTTE that resulted in the destruction of many lives and properties let alone economic and social degeneration?
Sir, this is indeed a strange world with strange bedfellows who profess to fight for the rights of the people but who all along only seek domination at the altar of the lives and misery of the people. And, it is really saddening that the people not realising it, give implicit acceptance to the ploys of the terrorists because the people view their problems with their heads and not brains thus effectively paving the way for their own misery and downfall.
・ A. KUMARAN 24 Buckleigh Road London SW16
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I feel extremely sad and angry at the letter from Mr S. Manoharan from South India (June issue), who by saying IPKF action in Sri Lanka was IPKF-LTTE confrontation, has dismissed IPKF barbarism against Tamil civilians who had nothing whatsoever to do with LTTE.
a) Mr Manoharan, do you know in Jaffna IPKF murdered nearly two thousand Tamil civilians (including babies and crippled grandmothers) in just five weeks; a chilling statistic which makes the Sri Lankan Army look like angels.
b) Do you know IPKF men raped nearly two hundred and fifty Tamil women in the same period; a crime not heard in Jaffna until the IPKF rapists arrived.
c) Do you know of the massacre at our Jaffna Hospital, when IPKF shot Tamil doctors, nurses and patients inside the hospital wards; and burnt their bodies in a big bonfire. Do you know in the human history, since the Second World War, only two armies have committed mass murders in hospitals; one was Pol Pot's men in Cambodia and the other IPKF in Jaffna.
The only force in this world that could have saved the Tamil civilians in Jaffna from murderous IPKF was the fifty million strong South Indian
Tamils. Had they in Madras in mill determination, N feared and stopp in Jaffna at once
Alas, when IPK ing the Tamil civ five weeks (a per outlawed each an own homeland for Madras slept pea
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The July 89 and "Tamil Times' cal ing opinions on th and the subseque Mr Manoharan (in the June issue that while the I. with the LTTE wa all brought about to eliminate all ot up a dictatorsh people'.
As for India's lieves that this st bounden duty of ment to act to p legitimate intere pendence and ti (Which was unde Pakistan-Sri Lank
Mt Ganesherat,
* resident writing in
April 89 blames th the Tamil attitud as being '. . . .ung un com promisi plimentary.
Interestingly, b IPKF-LTTE conf brought about b reaction to LTT Provocation'.
It is the writer's this is a simplisti neither fits in with IPKF assault no RAW and other In long period of tim
Indian assault not a reaction to i vocation, but, an signed to impleme cy in regard to S perceived to be n Pakistan axis and proving to be trul ing a degree of aut Homeland (Eelam what was being e. within the Indian The Gandhi appeared to hav emergence of a Lanka, enjoying autonomy than States would prov own unity and h liquidate/weaken

taken to the streets ns with emotion and w Delhi would have d the ghastly crime
were callously killlians at random for od in which Indians every Tamil in our two thousand years) efully.
yanthi Selvaratnam
upril 89 issues of the ried letters expressIndian intervention it Indo-LTTE war.
writing from Madras expressed his belief PKF's confrontation s"regrettable', it was by the LTTE's desire her groups and 'set p over the Tamil
intervention he bemmed from ". . . .the the Indian Governrotect the country's sts, security, indeerritorial integrity'. r threat by the USka alliance).
nam, an Australian
the Tamil Times of
e Indo-LTTE war on which he describes rateful, provocative, ng and uncom
oth views imply the ontation to be one 7 IPKF's knee-jerk E's "Intransigences
view, however, that explanation which the intensity of the the action of the lian Agencies over a
n the Tigers was/is transigence or prontentional move dent Mr Gandhi's poliLanka which was oving into the UShe LTTE which was committed to seeknomy for the Tamil far greater than joyed by the States Jnion. administration
believed that the amil State in Sri
greater degree of ny of the Indian
detrimental to its lce the decision to e Tigers.
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At the same time the Indian central Government was aware that an understanding with the Tigers (who had emerged to be the dominant military force in Sri Lanka) was essential to legitimize Indian intervention on "humanitarian' grounds.
This understanding was obtained through a mixture of 'carrots and sticks' whereby the LTTE was promised pride of place' in the interim government while measures were taken to indicate to the LTTE its dependence on the Indian Government. (For example. In November 1986, all communication equipment of the LTTE was confiscated by the Government and Mr Prabakaran placed under house arrest and in May 87 when "Operation Liberation was underway the Indian Government was withholding arms and ammunition to the LTTE to indicate India's hold on the direction of the war).
The actions of the IPKF shortly after their arrival in Sri Lanka were quite clearly designed to draw the LTTE into a confrontation with a view to weaken it militarily. This is borne out by the obviously provocative actions of the IPKF which included the creation of the Tri Star' group, the deliberate delay in the setting up of the Interim Administration and the arbitrary arrests leading to the suicide of 17 senior members of the LTTE.
From Mr Gandhi's point of view the exercise had proved disastrous only because of the underestimation of the LTTE's willingness and ability to stand up to the IPKF.
It is the writer's assertion, that, had the LTTE been defeated militarily, Mr Gandhi would have succeeded in signalling to Colombo, India's total control over the Tamil militants and its willingness to use the militants to realise its own objectives. These objectives being primarily to ensure Sri Lanka's total subservience to India in regard to foreign policy.
Indian propaganda would have in the meantime ensured that the meagre provisions of the Provisional Council is drummed up to be 'a great victory” for Indian diplomacy, satisfying Tamil Nadu's concerns and boosting Mr Gandhi's political career.
As far as Eelam (Sri Lankan) Tamils were concerned, the "peace' would have been a hollow one indeed having gained a provincial government with little or no power at the cost of being forced to abandon the means to continue with the armed struggle.
As for the Sri Lankan Government, the price of compromising on its sovereignty would have meant an end to Tamil Terrorism', and the freeing up of its considerable military machinery to combat the Southern Subversives'.
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In July 1987, when the Indian army arrived in Jaffna, calling itself "The Peace Keeping Force', the entire Tamil populace welcomed them with great joy. But within three months of their arrival, in the name of enforcing peace, they murdered hundreds of innocent Tamil men, women and children in Cold blood and left their bodies to decompose for days with contempt. Grief-stricken people who went to inquire about their murdered family members, Conscientious citizens who tried to Cremate the dead and attend to the injured were themselves butchered by the Indians. The savagery of the Indians was beyond words. The Tamil soul never experienced such heartless brutality even during the peak of the Vadamarachi operation by the Sri Lankan army. Forty years after the Nuremberg trials and Subsequent hanging of the war criminals, its deterrent value has been made a mockery by the Indians.
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On July 21st twelve of the thirteen members of the Eelavar Democratic
Front EDF (the former EROS) elected to Parliament in the February polls took their seats in parliament.
For four months they had boycotted its sittings. At a press conference before the parliamentary sessions in March, they expressed what they described as two main concerns that were holding them back. The release of Tamil political prisoners was a priority issue which they took up with President Ranasinghe Premadasa and had resolved. The other concern, the repeal of the sixth amendment which requires the swearing of allegiance to the unitary concept of the constitution they have now decided to resolve, by being a part of the parliamentary process themselves and working towards a consensus of all political parties,
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EDF IN PARLAMENT
By Rita Sebastian
irrespective of party lines.
When the twelve members of the EDF took their seats they became the largest Tamil group in Parliament.
The change from the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students to the Eelavar Democratic Front has been long, and hard for some of its cadres, trained in the Palestinian camps in Beirut in acts of sabotage and subversion. From an armed military struggle they have now committed themselves to the established parliamentary structure to fight for their
rights.
Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy, Member of Parliament for Jaffna, often described as the 'founding father of EROS, the ex-journalist who calls himself an economic researcher traces the early beginnings of EROS to having its roots in the country's rural economy. “Our main thrust was the economic well-being of the Tamil speaking people'... But came 1980 and the fourth Tamil International Conference in Jaffna that took nine lives. What happened then is now history but it was the turning point for EROS. We became a political movement with a well established structure”
recalls Ratnasabapathy.
Today as the EDF looks forward to articulating the grievances of the Tamil speaking people in the country's supreme legislature Ratnasabapathy says 'individuals create institutions, institutions throw up the leadership and the EDF has thrown up its own leaders that will emancipate the Tamil
speaking people'.
Here Ratnasabapathy answers a number of wide ranging questions.
Q. - Have you dropped the deтапта
for Eelam?
A. - We have never demanded Eelam. There is a difference between separate state and statehood. What we
have been asking within the framew Lanka. Statehood demarcated area people can manag within the govern government. Take dom — Scotland, E. within a United K. try in three nations framework that th Party should evolv Q. - Do you thin can come together question?
A. — We still ha unity, only unity peace for the Tamils used her good offic unity specially afte ference. President making the effort t together but he m same mistake of t ment which was tal separately. There sł programme which v cipation of all the always stood for tr governments of Sri the groups. After all the accord, and such helped in effecting the Indian troops.
Q. - You had Workers Congres Thondaman who is the Premadasa cabin thing specific you di A. - No. It was m friendly relations. W the CWC as a Trade we didn't organise a plantation sector. B concerned about the ers and that is why person from the pla ment under our ba first time in the parl of this country that representing the no plantation sector in plantation workers separate representat
Q. - What are you Liberation Tigers (LTTE) ?
A. - We have had with the LTTE but S not helped to work o meaningful solutio problem.
Q. - What in your ing Tamil unity?
A. - There is a leadership. The Tan need a leadership interests of the Tam at large.
C9. — Ноир ироuld politics of your party A. - People call us describe us as dialec

or is a statehood rk of a united Sri heans a politically thin which Tamil
their affairs, but nce of the island's the United Kinggland and Wales - gdom is one counIt's such a political United National
the Tamil groups o solve the Tamil
re hope for Tamil an bring lasting India should have es to forge such a the Thimpu conremadasa is now bring the groups lst not make the e Indian governKing to the groups ould be a common ill have the partigroups. We have partite talks, the Lanka, India and India is a party to talks would have he withdrawal of
alks uvith Ceylon is President S. also a member of net. Was there anyscussed?
erely to establish e are not against Jnion, that is why Irade union in the ut we are deeply plantation workwe nominated a tations to parlianer. This is the amentary history political group is th, east and the Parliament. The ave always had D.
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crats.
Q. - Why didn't your party partici
* pate in the provincial council elections?
iOS ?
A. - We made it quite clear that any political solution of the Tamil question must include the problems of the plantation workers as well.
Q. - Will EROS take up arms again?
A. - We hope the Sri Lankan government and other parties like India will not force us to a situation where we will be compelled to take up arms again. Today we carry arms for our protection because of the prevailing security situation in the country.
Continued from Page 11 Prabakaran approached Amirthalingam when the LTTE was a fledgling and requested that the TULF support it, he declined to do so. All groups were close to him and their members would often visit him in Madras. But LTTE members seldom did so. Before the Thimpu talks, the LTTE had called him a "traitor' and there were reports much earlier that it had passed a death sentence on him.
The relationship between the LTTE and the TULF became obviously strained after the confrontation between the LTTE and the Indian PeaceKeeping Force began on October 10, 1987. (Earlier, in September 1987, the LTTE had agreed to give three seats out of 12 to the TULF in the interim administrative council) in the last few weeks, with the TULF taking a stand that the IPKF should continue on the island and the LTTE demanding that it should pull out, there was obviously no meeting point between the LTTE and the TULF.
(Frontline, July 22-August 4, 1989).
Continued from Page 17
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