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CONTENTS
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Joint Communique of 18 September. . . . 3
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SRI LANKA’S NEW DI
Once upon a time Sri Lanka was proudly presented as the pearl of the Indian ocean. Nature made the island a true paradise. Today it is neither a peard nor a paradise. It has been Converted into an insufferable Hell on earth for its entire population and a graveyard for thousands. The daily death toll by deliberate politically motivated violence is by far the highest for any country in the world today. The indiscriminate killing and counter-killing by the JVP on the one hand and the security forces and associated death squads on the other match each other for their sheer barbarous brutality. The escalating daily body count has turned this once idyllic island under the Sun into an island of sudden death.
During the third week of last month, the Sri Lankan Justice Minister informed parliament that 79 politicians and 762 civilians had been killed by the JVP. During this period, it had also murdered 31 police officers and 18 members of the armed forces. The death toll of 890 was ninety percent up on the 472 toll for the previous month, according to the Minister. What the Minister studiously avoided mentioning was the toll of the scores of people summarily executed daily by the security forces whose dead bodies were unceremoniously dumped into the sea or rivers, or burned on hastily constructed pyres of rubber tyres. Human rights organisations have asserted that the true death toll for August and the first three weeks of September was more near the 3000 mark.
What was started by the JVP as an anti-government campaign has now turned into a full scale private dirty war between the armed and police forces and the JVP. The agony of Sri Lanka reached a new dimension of horror with the JVP's ultimatum to kill the family members of service and police personnel unless they threw away their uniforms and deserted their posts by August 20. In the light of this threat, a joint communique issued by the Service Commanders and the Inspector General of Police on 19 August stated: "Having failed in their appeal to the security forces and the Police to join their ranks, subversives now in desperation are threatening their families if they do not resign. The cowardly act of harming innocent people will not be condoned. Security forces and the police who are sacrificing their lives to safeguard the peace-loving will do their duty'. That was an official response. Unofficially, sections of the security forces in concert with fraternal death squads had other plans in mind. Enormous yellow and black wall posters began to appear all over the capital and other provincial towns. They showed a grim figure in black, and under it was a retaliatory threat aimed at the JVP which read: "For every army family killed, 12 JVP families will die. Ever since, the threat and the counter-threat have been ruthlessly carried out by both sides with brutal vengeance. Hundreds of homes belonging to service and police personnel have been set on fire, and a considerable number of their family members, including women and children, have been killed by the JVP. In what are described as pre-emptive strikes and retaliatory actions, the security forces in collusion with anti-JVP death squads, as a daily routine, have killed hundreds of persons suspected of being JVP family members, and set fire to a large number of
 

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MENSION OF HORROR
their homes. The revolting spectacle of floating corpses slowly drifting along rivers finding their way to the sea around the southern coast, the sight of mutilated and partially burnt bodies by the roadside, and of bodies smouldering in rubber-tyre-pyres in various parts of the country have become a familiar feature of the landscape of present day Sri Lanka. Spotting dead bodies floating in rivers has developed into a morbid pastime for children standing on bridges!
In one instance alone, in retaliation to the killing of 15 family members of three soldiers in the village of Menikhinna in the central Kandy district, gunmen in military-style uniforms repeatedly raided three villages, namely Menikhinna, Kundasala and Arangala in the same district which left 150 people, including women and children, dead and over 70 homes reduced to ashes. The Deputy Inspector General of Police for the area unhesitatingly admitted: "These killings came after the raids by subversives on the homes of families of security service personnel and I can only presume that these are retaliatory attacks'.
In this island, which is claimed to have been blessed three times with personal visits by The Buddha himself, even Buddhist priests are not spared. Among those killed by the JVP were two prominent monks in their late seventies who were alleged to have made pro-government statements. A number of younger monks with alleged JVP sympathies have fallen victims at the hands of the security forces. In one case, men in uniform went to a temple in Dedigama officiated by a senior buddhist monk, strapped around him a belt of grenades which were then detonated. When the Sri Lankan security forces were rampaging through the Tamil areas in past years killing and maiming the innocents and the guilty alike in the Course of their 'war to save the motherland for Sinhala-Buddhists, the majority of the Buddhist clergy used to invoke the blessing of the Triple Gem upon the members of the security forces to ensure success. Today the same security forces are engaged in a dirtier war in which members of the Buddhist clergy themselves are falling victims
Enforced closure of all universities (except in the north and east) has continued for nearly two years. Two University Vice Chancellors have been gunned down in their offices in recent months allegedly by the JVP. Three human rights lawyers have been killed by pro-government death Squads. The
JVP's campaign of murder and arson continues with unmitigated brutality in the name of patriotism of the Pol Pot variety. The security forces in concert with death squads operating under various labels such as Black Cats, Yellow Cats, Scorpions, Black Panthers, Green Tigers, Eagles, Peoples Revolutionary Red Army (PRRA) etc. are also continuing with their dirty war of death and destruction in the name of law and order in a country where there is neither law nor order. Caught up in the crossfire of these competing forces of violence are the innocent and defenceless people crying out for a respite as Ranasinghe Premadasa precariously clings on to his beleaguered presidency, and in the meantime the country is inexorably and rapidly sliding towards anarchy and disintegration.

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JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUEDB) AND THE GOVERNMENT 18TH OF SEPT
1. In pursuance of the Communique signed in Colombo on the 28th July, 1989, by Shri L.L. Mehrotra, the High Commissioner of India, and Mr. Bernard Tilakaratna, Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, three rounds of consultation were held by the two Governments. A Sri Lankan delegation, led by the Foreign Minister Hon. Ranjan Wijeratne, visited India from the 29th July to 4th August, 1989. Mr Bradman Weerakoon, Special Envoy of His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, held further discussions in New Delhi from the 15th to the 17th August, 1989. A final round of talks was held between His Excellency Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, and Hon. Ranjan Wijeratne, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, during their visit to Belgrade from 4th to 7th September, 1989.
2. The talks were held in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. They covered bilateral issues, including the de-induction of the remaining IPKF contingents in Sri Lanka, the implementation of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement and measures to ensure the safety and security of all communities of the North-Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.
3. The implementation of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement was reviewed in depth by the two sides. The Sri Lankan side briefed the Indian side on the progress made and the further steps taken by them for the expeditious implementation of the devolution process, such as establishing of the Provincial Police Force and facilitating the effective functioning of the North-Eastern Provincial Council and the establishment of an adequate administrative structure for that purpose. The Sri Lankan side also informed the Indian side that it would institute all measures to strengthen the civil administration as early as possible which would ensure peace and normalcy in the North-Eastern Province.
4. The Sri Lankan side informed the Indian side of their decision to set up a Peace Committee on the 20th of September, 1989, to afford an opportunity to all political and ethnic groups in the North
COLOMBO NEWSLETTER
There was a time, not long ago, when New Delhi's mediation or intervention was an essential prerequisite for any contact to be established or negotiations to take place between the Colombo government and the Tamil militant groups. Following a sharp shift in LTTE's approach and dealings with the Premadasa government and their ongoing talks, it is the Sri Lankan government which persisted in putting forward the LTTE's case for a cessation of offensive operations by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) against the LTTE.
It is an irony but true that IPKF's announcement of the cessation of offensive operations against the LTTE with effect from 6am on 20 September, albeit being part of a comprehensive agreement between India and Sri Lanka (see box on this page), is the product of the efforts by the Colombo government. This in itself not only bespeaks about the great divide that separates the Indian government and its erstwhile protegees, but also reflects the rather unexpected close relationship that has developed between
the Premadasa LTTE.
The agreement
IPKF by 31 Decemb well orchestrated as will never pull out i island because of its nistic ambitions. Mo September agreeme diplomat told this c have been accused vened in Sri Lanll interests; yes our int Sri Lanka. An unsta not in the interest of wanted to help the T India in their thou due to violence and ( also wanted to hel government to arriv solution to the ethni spent billions of r deavour. Over a thc have lost their lives. particularly the LTTI to be withdrawn; t want them to leave a government too wam Our people in India t
 
 
 

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THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA DFSRI LANKAON THE :MBER, 1989
Eastern Province to come together to settle their differences through a process of consultation, compromise and consensus and to bring all groups into the democratic process, thereby ending violence and improving conditions for the physical safety and security of all communities. This would help restore normalcy, and contribute to the effective functioning of the North-Eastern Provincial Council. The first meeting of the Peace Committee will be held within three weeks of the setting up of this Committee. This decision was welcomed by the Indian side.
5. It was decided to set up a Security Coordination Group comprising the Sri Lankan Minister of State for Defence, the Chief Minister of the North-Eastern Province, the Sri Lankan Defence Secretary and the GOC of the IPKF, with a view to avoiding any adverse impact on the law and order situation in the NorthEastern Province and to suggest measures to ensure the safety and security in the North-Eastern Province as the phased de-induction of the IPKF and the strengthening of the civilian administration of the North-Eastern Province of Sri Lanka proceeds. This Group will keep in view the recommendations of the Peace Committee relating to the safety and security of the inhabitants of the North-Eastern Province. 6. In view of the above, the process of de-induction of the IPKF, which recommenced on 29th July, 1989, will be continued on an expeditious schedule. All efforts will be made to accelerate the de-induction of the IPKF to complete de-induction by 31st December, 1989.
7. The Indian side stated that the suspension of offensive military operations by the IPKF will come into effect at 0600 hours on the 20th of September, 1989. An Observer Group consisting of the Sri Lanka Army Commander and the GOC of the IPKF will report any violations of the cessation of hostilities and immediate consequential action taken and recommend further remedial action, to His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka.
KF TO PULLOUT ND OF DECEMBER
(overnment and
to withdraw the er puts paid to the sertion that India ;s troops from the regional hegomo
nths before the 18.
ut, a senior Indian irrespondent: "We of having intera to Secure Our 2rest was a stable ble Sri Lanka was India. But we also mils who came to ands as refugees scrimination. We the Sri Lanka at a reasonable problem. we have pees in this ensand of our men Now some Tamils, E, want the IPKF e Sinhalese also d the Sri Lankan sus to withdraw. o do not want our
army to lose any more lives. We will withdraw, but you can be sure of one thing - we will never come a second, time round'. ..., i 3
The settlement on the substantial issues of the latest agreement would appear to have been arrived at during the Non Aligned summit in Belgrade when the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne had several rounds of talks with senior Indian officials and Rajiv Ghandi between 4 and 7 September. In fact at his New Delhi airport press conference on 8 September on his return from the summit, Rajiv Gandhi said, 'We had quite extensive talks at various levels and have come to what we feel is a good agreement. The delay in the announcement of the agreement was due to the need of the Sri Lanka government to obtain 'clearance' from the LTTE and its promise to participate in the proposed arrangements. It is learnt that a senior cabinet minister had discussions with a leading LTTE spokesman in London in the course of which the LTTE was persuaded to accept the arrangements. So much so, that a confident Bradman Weerakoon,

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the Special Advisor to President Premadasa, replied to a question put to him at a press conference in Colombo as to whether the LTTE would be prepared to come into the arrangements being discusssed between the two governments in the following terms: "A harmonious relationship has been brought about by the ongoing discussions and the expectation of the Sri Lankan goverment is that there will be no problems'.
There are four elements of the 18 September agreement. Firstly, the setting up of a Peace Committee on 20 September which President Premadasa has already established comprising 17 political parties and groups. The significance of this Committee is that rival Tamil militant groups which had hitherto been in a state of armed conflict will sit together “to settle their differences through a process of consultation, compromise and consensus and to bring all groups into the democratic process, thereby ending violence and improving conditions for physical
OPPOSITION PARTIES CALL FOR PROVISIONAL GOVT
On August 26, five opposition parties in Parliament ie. SLFP, USA, EPRLF, SLMC, and MEP have together appealed for peace and called upon 'all groups to reject violence as a method of conflict resolution' and proposed the formation of 'a Provisional Government by Parliament to run the country.
The statement said: "As the Presidential form of Government has totally failed, we propose that a Provisional Government be formed by Parliament to run the country. Constitutional reforms should be implemented. The Executive Presidency should be replaced with a Prime Minister responsible to parliament. Free and fair elections will follow.
"The forces not represented in Parliament must be included in this process by means of consultation.
"But peace must first be established in our villages and our towns must begin to bustle. Our children must breathe the air of freedom and our schools and universities must once more become the seats of learning.
"We urge all persons engaged in violence to give it up and to contribute towards making these proposals workable. We urge our security forces to act using maximum restraint, mindful of their national obligations.
"In this most crucial phase in our history, let us not forget that we are all sons and daughters of one nation and work tirelessly for the restoration of peace and democracy.
Va−YN−
safety and security mittee is also expec normalcy, and cont tive functioning of Provincial Council’.
Secondly a Secu Group is to be set up Lankan Minister of The Chief Minister Provincial Council, Defence Secretary Overall Commander Group is to ensure impact on the law a in the North-East suggest measures f security in the N phased de-induction the strengthening ol nistration proceeds.
Thirdly, in consid and second element of the IPKF woul
expedited and all
made to complete th 31 December.
LAWY GUNNED
Kanchana Abayapa lawyer who lived wi shot dead by an un at their residence at Narhenpita in Colol On the day of the
a knock on the doo) Mr. Abeyapala's m through the louvres who was at the door fied himself as S Vidyodaya campus “Kanchana Mahata went up to the doo) was shot at with an
His father also ret juries as he went up
This murder, like ders of some otl appeared in humal been attributed government death either composed o service personnel closely with the ser
Mr. Abeyapala w many Habeas Corp fore courts on behal into custody or wh had received sever, was gunned down threats he had st such cases in the victim was the nep known human righ Gunasekera. Mr. ( has now gone abro to his life.
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The Peace Com
The fourth element is the cessation
!d to help restore it of offensive operations by the IPKF to
bute to the effeche North-Eastern
ty Coordinating omprising the Sri State for Defence, f the North-East the Sri Lankan und the General of the IPKF. This that any adverse ld order situation s avoided and to r the safety and rth-East as the of the IPKF and the civilian admi
ration of the first , the de-induction continue to be efforts would be e de-induction by
begin at 6am on 20 September and the setting up of an Observer Group of the Sri Lankan Army Commander and the GOC of the IPKF to report on any violations of cessation of hostilities and to take or recommend remedial action.
Political observers believe that the latest agreement between Colombo and New Delhi provides a framework, for the first time since October 1987, for the creation of conditions, if not of immediate peace, at least of an absence of fighting and confrontation. The return of peace and normalcy in the long term will depend on the answers to two important questions: will a Peace Committee comprising seventeen political parties and groups with varying policy stances on basic issues be able to come up with acceptable solutions? Can the LTTE and its rival Tamil militant groups agree to eschew the use of violence against each other and seek to resolve their differences by negotiations?
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la, a 28 year old th his parents, was identified gunman Anderson Flats in mbo on 28 August. murder, there was r at about 6.45pm. other peeped out and inquired as to The visitor identiSeneviratne from and wished to meet ya”. As Kanchana and opened it, he automatic weapon. 'eived gunshot into his son to help. the previous murher lawyers who rights cases, has by many to pro
squads who are selected security or those operating vices.
ho has appeared in us applications befof detainees taken had 'disappeared' il threats before he
Because of these pped appearing in
recent past. The new of another well is lawyer, Mr. Prins unasekera himself ld following threats
re the murder, Mr. ived an anonymous l the caller, who
claimed responsibility for the shooting of another lawyer, Charitha Lankapura, had stated that there were three more people in their hit list'. Included in this hit list was Mr. Abeyapala and Mr. Prins Gunesekera, the caller had said.
LTTE’S ULTIMATUM
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a statement released on 10 September has demanded that all Members, including the Chief Minister, of the newly created North-East Provincial Council and all employees working for the Council should quit by 30 September.
The Council constituted in November last year is headed by the LTTE's rival Tamil Militant group, Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). The LTTE's statement issued under the authority of its political committee alleges the NorthEastern Provincial Council is a creation of India to serve what the LTTE describes as India's geo-political interests and is not meant for the safety and welfare of Eelam Tamils.
Declaring that the LTTE will not permit the Provincial Council to continue as a 'slave' of India, it has characterised the members and employees of the Council as "antinational'. If the LTTE's demand for quitting by end of September is not complied with, they will be regarded as "traitors' and "enemies of the people', and therefore liable to severe "punishment”. Even the property, including vehicles, of the Provincial Council, is liable to become targets of attacks.

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OUTCOME OF A.P.c
The collective consensus of the nation that the country is heading for disaster, with a rapidly deteriorating law and order situation, was what prompted the summoning of the ALL-PARTY CONFERENCE (APC) on September 13th.
The thinking was that political ideologies must take second placc to the national interest.
The ball was set rolling by a Sri
Lanka Freedom Party led grouping of
five opposition political parties who appealed to President Premadasa, to set up a provisional government and hold fair and free elections, with constitutional reforms that would replace the executive Presidency with a Prime Minister answerable to Parliament.
No sooner had the five party grouping got into the act, than other groups and individuals, including religious bodies, voiced their concern not only about the escalation of violence and a state of near-anarchy in the country, but of the gross violation of human rights by those opposed to the government, as well as those associated with it.
Hundreds of mutilated unidentified bodies have surfaced all over the country, and disappearances have added to the fear from killer squads on the .wlטpr
The Summoning of the al-party conference was, as President Premadasa mentioned in his inaugural speech, for three purposes. The first was to express "our common desire and solidarity on a collective search for a viable solution to the problems of violence and unrest that has afflicted the country, secondly to consider and endorse the modalities that have emerged through consultations held earlier, and thirdly to make a determined and concerted effort to bring those outside into mainstream politics, to restore peace, to strengthen the civil administration and the rule of law and to promote structural reforms.
There has been a growing feeling these past months that it was the Executive Presidency that was responsible for today's crisis. Critics of the government are quick to point out that, if there had been no Executive Presidency, former President J.R. Jayewardene would not have been able to sign the controversial Indo-Lanka accord held responsible for the escalation of southern militancy. A Prime Minister answerable to Parliament would not have been able to do his own thing.
The demand for holding "fair and free elections' is based on the premise that the ruling United National Party misused State machinery for both the Presidential and Parliamentary elec
by Fila Šebestav
tions. It is a view & as well, as evide tinuing referenc regime'.
Although the in to attend the A sponse, the politica as intermediaries President accedes the setting up of a ment and the hold JVP Will participal The APC wer Illo Luncertain termil. servations groups; had, of involving t government to se problems facing th put a side widely di seek common caus The inaugural se non-event since it ing their presence holds some measul parties agreeing t with the governm who has set aside Sultations with po groups, either indi", with other parties a himself ready for would bring the de
ACCOrding to a se been agreed amon the inaugural sess Lused as a foruIIn for it could have easily slanging match opposed to each oth
What was signifi the first time since ence in 1985 we groups came tog umbrella of the E. beration FrUnt (E 13th saw them faci. across the conferen іп opposing camps.
The EPRLF de returned Loganath. a member of the EP Inittee, on a short raring to go on two was the Amnesty f Secretary K. Path Om 8: Conspiracy cha Lankan government open warrant has be
The EPRLF Cinta offence was committ ing of the Indo-Lanı such, he is entitle amnesty granted to bels,
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ndorsed by the JWP lced by their con2 to this "illegal
itation to the JWP C brought no recontacts who acted believe that if the to the demand for provisional governng of elections, the
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ar, demonstrated in that whatever reand political parties hemselves with the k solutions to the e country, they did fering ideologies to
ssion regarded as a was merely a "markexercise', at least e of hope with the o hold discussions ent. The President ten days for Conlitical parties and fidually or together nd groups, declared change "if change sired results'. nior Minister it had g the parties that sion would not be discussion, because turned out to be a between groups e,
cant was, that for the Thimpu conferin the main Tamil ether under the elam National LiNLF), September Lig each other again ce table, but sadly
egation had Oslo ап Ketheeswaгan, RLF Central Convisit to Sri Lanka, specific issues. One or EPRLF General manabha, indicted rge against the Sri t and for whom an en issued by court. ention is that the ed before the signka Accord and as d to the general
all the Tamil re
Tmportant issue is to how the Tigers onference, even as sy have issued an
ultimatum to the North-East Provincial council, constituted under the auspices of the Sri Lankan government, that the Council members must quit before October first.
The LTTE ultimatum given wide publicity in the government controlled Daily News is seen by the EPRLF as a well orchestrated plan by the government and the Tigers to subvert the legally constituted body.
And Ketheeswaran made no pretence in warning both the Sri Lankan government and the Tigers, at a press conference on the day following the APC, that any such move would be met with the EPRLF militia being used as a Tamil National AI Iny to "defend its people and its soil'.
The EPRLF, feeling its authority undermined by the on-going Government-LTTE dialogue, (expected to begin a third round shortly) has sent signals both to the Sri Lanka governInent and to India that it would, if the necessity arose, take the road to secesSl
But that, they know would be an impossible task without India's support, India however has categorically stated it would not contribute to the division of the island. And now with India and Sri Lanka determined to mend fences, the possibility seems most unlikely.
Even if the EPRLF had gained some
measure of support in the north-east region, it forfeited that support in the wake of forced conscription of youth. EPRLF defends its position by attributing conscription to the EPRLF as a political party, and not to the EPRLF dominated administration that constitutes the Provincial government. There is an apathy and lethargy among the people and if we don't take measures, however unpopular they may be, we cannot carry out our political struggle' says Ketheeswaran. "We came into the mainstream and the Inainstream is now polluted, and we in turn have soiled our hands'.
As the various parties put forward their proposals to the government, Tamil needs will also be voiced. The EPRLF has already prepared a document, still to be ratified by the party, which it will place before the government. In it, it has asked for devolution that goes beyond the 13th amendment.
But whatever proposals are made, and whatever emerges from the consultations, after the ten days set aside for discussions before the APC is reconvened on October 12th, what is imperative now is that the Tamil groups come together to find solutions to the Tamil problem. Into this will also come the agreement between Colombo and
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HEAVY DAMAGE TO
PUBLIC PROPERTY .
As security operations were intensified against them, 'subversives' (an euphemism for JVP/DJW rebels) inflicted heavy losses amounting to over hundreds of millions of rupees by destroying government and public buildings as well as important documents during the week ending 16 September in what appeared to be an emerging trend to attack government property.
Scores of post offices and hundreds of sub-post offices, offices of the Provincial Government Agents and district Assistant Government Agents and Grama Sevakas have been set on fire and destroyed.
The Polonnaruwa Paddy Marketing Board and the Government Seed Centre were razed to the ground causing damages of over Rs.150 million and Rs.45 million respectively. The most affected areas are Anuradhpura, Polonnaruwa, Moneragala, Kandy and many areas in the southern province.
Along with setting fire to buildings the attackers have paid special attention to the destruction of important government and public documents.
ASIA WATCH " CONDEMNS KILLINGS
Asia Watch has criticized the alleged vigilante killings by Sri Lankan security forces. The human rights organization also condemned the recent killings by the Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP), the Sinhala-dominated organization opposed to the Indian presence on the island.
Asia Watch, part of the Human
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Delhi which will spell out the time frame for IPKF withdrawal.
And if as envisaged, there is a ceasefire and the IPKF withdrawal in entirety by December 31st, will it be the killing fields scenario that the EPRLF predicted?
The agreement, according to Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne, will be acceptable to both the EPRLF and the Tigers, who have now made themselves the main actors in the drama.
While President Premadasa is supremely confident that the Tigers will honour their pledge to cease hostilities against all Sri Lankan citizens, the EPRLF has no such illusions. And starting on that premise not even the APC holds out hope for the restoration of peace and normalcy in the northeast regions.
But then if the APC deliberations: lead to fresh elections there is no predicting what accommodation Tamil aspirations will find in those changes.
Rights Watch, t lent of Amnesty on the governme madasato inves forces are now death squads w. lians and assass lawyers' as part down against su the JVP.
In a report rele Kanchana Abh rights lawyer wh of Habeas Cor courts in cases o. disappearances ( porters, is believ sinated on Augu backed death sq For its part, th for the deaths of Thevis Guruge, Lankan Broadca July 23 and Pre announcer for SI
Asia Watch a escalation in vi recent threat to security personn from service by that was reporte August 27.
s Explair
The rights org: however, that it ombo's 'obligatio mea Suresto resto kilings by parar to carry out ext “is indefensible a of international humanitarian la
It maintained bat the JVP i ability of the legi to maintain orde rule of law, not bodies which ope
The organizati for the Prema facilitate access Committee of til civilians in areas
ANC WICE-CH
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The Vice-Chanc University, Pro vithana, was sl along with th Security Offic September rep gunmen.
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e American equivaInternational, called
ut of Ranasinghe Pre
igate reports that its
operating vigilante ich have killed civinated human rights of a massive crackspected supporters of
ased on Sept 6, it said ayapala, a human o had filed hundreds us petitions in the illegal detention and f suspected JVP supd to have been assasst 28, by governmentLads.
JVP was condemned wo senior journalists, chairman of the Sri sting Corporation on makeerthi de Alwis, BC on August 1.
ttributed the recent plence to the JVP's kill the families of all l who failed to resign August 20, a deadline dly later extended to
Is its Stand
anization emphasized, did not question Coln to take appropriate ore law and order', but military organizations rajudicial executions, id a flagrant violation
human rights and w
that the way to coms to strengthen the timate security forces r while respecting the
to create additional rate outside the law'.
on reaffirmed its call lasa government to by the International he Red Cross to aid
of conflict.
THER i ANCELLOR D DOWN
ellor of the Moratuwa essor C. Patuwathanot dead in his office 2 University's Chief Ranaweera om 11 rtedly by two JVP
who had arrived on a about 9.30am ordered cers who were at the m to the office of the fficer Mr. Ranaweera.
There they demanded and obtained from Mr. Ranaweera his walkie-talkie. Thereafter Mr. Ranaweera was shot on the head three times with a revolver.
After gunning down Ranaweera, the gunmen walked into the offices of the Vice-Chancellor who was with his personal assistant Mr. C.S. Fernando and pumped in three bullets into the neck and head of the Vice-Chancellor who died on the spot. After the foul deed was done, the attackers escaped through the rear entrance of the University.
Prof. Patuwathavithana is the second Vice-Chancellor to be killed this year. In March this year Prof. Stanley Jayasundera of the Colombo University was also gunned down in his office.
Making reference to the contribution made by Prof. Patuwathavithana to engineering education and development of science and technology condemning his assassination, the Open University Teachers Association in a statement said, “It is certainly a cultural regression when persons who contribute to intellectualism and development of science and technology are deprived of their right to live'.
EXODUS AS JVP TURNS FIRE ON DOCTORS
Doctors in Sri Lanka who have been ordered by the JVP not to treat injured members of the security forces have become the latest pawn in the war between the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the Government, and growing numbers are trying to leave the country rather than face the prospect of being killed by one side or the other.
The pressure on the medical profession is a telling example of the way the JVP insurgency and the Sri Lanka Government's counter campaign have eaten into every section of society leaving virtually nobody immune from violence.
Government doctors received letters warning them not to treat anyone from the police or armed services. Such warnings from the JVP are taken seriously, since they are backed by death. But in the course of their duties, doctors get patients from the services, many of them critically wounded, and not to treat them would be ethically wrong and invite Government retaliation.
"I took leave for a day and stayed away from work, because I didn't know what to do', said a young doctor, the day after he got a letter from the JVP asking him not to attend to cases from the armed services, 'if an army or policeman comes with bullet injuries and I refuse to treat him, I'll probably get shot by them', he said. "But if I
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treat him, word will get around and I will be Imarked by the JWP", he said.
"I never imagined doctors would get caught in the conflict like this. I thought both sides would respect us', he added.
The medical and dental associations have made a public appeal asking that they be allowed to treat all patients without discrimination, But this is not likely to hawe much effect. The JWP has already demonstrated its ability to cripple the health services when it forced hospitals in the Colombo region to shut down for eight days earlier this month after two hospital workers were arrested for putting up posters asking doctors not to treat army and policemen. The two were released and the strike is now over, but work in hospitals has not yet got back to normal.
The propect of being shot dead at work has forced larger numbers of qualified medical personnel to go abroad. According to reports in the local media, the Sri Lankan Health Ministry got around seven or eight applications a day from doctors wishing to take leave and go abroad, up from the normal two or three a day,
A.I. CALLS FOR END TO RISING TIDE OF KILLINGS
Asserting that hundreds of deliberate killings of unarmed civilians by government forces have been carried out in the southern districts of Sri Lanka during the past few months, Amnesty International has called upon the government to take urgent action to "halt the rising tide of killings, "disappearances", torture and arbitrary detentions by government forces since the reimposition of the state of emergency in June'.
Documenting dozens of cases of extrajudicial executions of suspected members of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Amnesty International states that the Army personnel have been seen raiding houses and taking youths away at random - their bodies or limbs were later found by the roadside, on pyres of burning tyres or floating in rivers, and that "government backed paramilitary groups operating in civilian clothes and unmarked cars have been responsible for extrajudicial executions, "disappearances" and torture'.
While acknowledging that the JWP has been responsible for hundreds of killings of civilians and military personnel', and appreciating that "the authorities need to takespecial measures in circumstances involving armed opposition', Amnesty International states that "these measures must al
ways be in acco tional human rig
Аппnesty Inteг. demned "forcible of civilians, most forces of the Ea tionary Liberatio: the Eelam Nati beration. Front (E and east of the co 80IIle Women) are to participate in teer Force, a spec. works closely wi Keeping Force (IF is no basis in law an estimated 4,00 seized and are be training. A few others who escape killed or had rela rent reprisals'.
Calling for "ful the killings of una Indian Peace Kee morthern Sri Lan national states, "C 51 people - inclu seven children -w in a reprisal atta Walwedditurai afte gers of Tamil Eela IPKF patrol in t Indian soldiers. I pulled from their the back; others w walls and shot. Ov were burnt along v vehicles and fishin
POLIT 'HIRINGV
It is learnt that th of Police has order tigation into ther given to politician tection and to th guards' are being out private jobs.
Quoting a Defel the Sri Lankan WEEKEND of 1" the IGP would be complaints he hi effect that weapo out' for illegal acti Immitting murder: complaints related in the Kurunegal ern province, but would not be lin areas. Recently a politician from thi had complained Defence that insta were occurring in Some weeks ago E Member was ques in connection with weapons to friends to slaughter pigs.
The problem in S

rdance with internahts treaties', national ha salso condetention of hundreds lly young men, by the lam People's Revoluin Front (EPRLF) and onal Democratic Li2NDLF) in the north untry. "The Ilen (and reported to be forced the Citizen's Wolunial security force that th the Indian Peace 'KF), Although there for these detentions, O'recruits have been ing given obligatory have been released: ld were subsequently tives killed in appa
investigations into ITmed civilians by the ping Force (IPKF) in ka', Amnesty Interin 2 August at least ding six women and "ere reportedly killed ck by the IPKF at er the Liberation Tim had ambushed an he town killing six Many victims were houses and shot in ere lined up against er a hundred houses with dozens of shops, gboats'.
CANS WEAPONS
e Inspector General 2d a top-level inves-ports that weapons 3 for their own proeir personal bodyhired out to carry
Ice Ministry source, English weekly, September stated following up several d received to the is Were being hired ities including comand robberies. The lo specificinstances district and souththe investigations ited to only these senior government Southern province the Ministry of ces of such "hiring" he Matara district. Provincial Council ioned by the police the loaning of his who had used them
i Lanka is that too
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In any people have been given and are handling weapons. Each of the 225 elected MPs and Provincial Council Members who number several hundreds are entitled to be issued with weapons through the Defence Ministry. They are also entitled to armed personal bodyguards not all of whom belong to the security forces. During the elections held last February this year, almost al candidates who contested were entitled to obtain weapons for their protection, but most of the candidates had retained the weapons without returning them even though they were defeated.
BARASSOCIATION PROTESTS AGAINST ATTACKS ON LAWYERS
A delegation from the Bar Association of Sri Lanka recently met President Premadasa to explain and protest against the increasing attacks and dangers faced by the legal profession. The threat to the profession came from death squads alleged to be associated with the security forces and some instances from those connected with the WPWTW.
Mr. Desmond Fernando, P.C., President of the Bar Association, and delegation spokesman said the legal profession played an important and integral role in the administration ofjustice. Lawyers were officers of court in law as well as in fact. If they were under threat they could no longer function effectively.
Explaining the nature of the threat Mr. Fernando said an attempt had been made on the life of Mr. Ian Wikramanayake. An inmate of his house was killed. Mr. Wikramanayake was counsel for Mr Dharmadasa, a senior police officer facing a charge of murder in the High Court.
Mr. Wikramanayake was shot at presumably because he was defending this police officer. Mr Wickramanayake was thus prevented from appearing. No other lawyer would undertake this case through fear of death. The police officer was without counsel and therefore if he were to be tried his trial would not be a fair one.
It should be noted, he said, that the victim in this case was the late Mr. Wijedasa Liyanarachchi, attorney at law. The police officer, just as any accused was entitled to a fair trial and his inability to find a counsel was one of the major problems relating to the administration of justice,
Another instance was the killing of Charitha Lankapura, shot by unidentified gunmen. Mr. Lankapura was appearing in a large number of habeas COTS cases.
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Mr. Fernando next cited the killing of Mr. Kanchana Abhayapala, who too handled a number of habeas corpus applications. Mr Abhayapala was threatened first and had informed the Chief Justice of the threat. He did not appear in any habeas corpus applications after that - yet he was killed. Threats were being made to Mr. Prins Gunasekara, attorney at law, on the telephone.
Mr. Fernando said it was important to stress the duty of a lawyer. No one would accuse a lawyer who appeared in a murder case of approving the act of murder; or in a case of burglary, the act ofburglary. Likewise he should not be thought to share the political or other views of his clients.
He said the association would like to see some measures taken in this regard. The first, a condemnation by the government of the killing of lawyers and of threats to lawyers while they were fulfilling their professional obligations.
The association also urged the government to give the Bar Association of Sri Lanka its co-operation and assistance in any measures it may take to protect its membership.
Mr. Fernando said SP Dharmadasa had informed the bar association that in view of his inability to obtain a Lankan lawyer, he had tried to retain a lawyer from abroad. He found however that in order to appear in Sri Lanka, a lawyer who had qualified abroad had to pass all the Law College examinations.
Lawyers from abroad had appeared in past important cases eg. D.N. Pritt, Q.C. in the Bandaranaike assassination case. This restriction on a senior barrister appearing in the courts of Sri Lanka was clearly a restrictive practice manifestly not in the public interest.
The association also urged that a commission of inquiry headed by a Supreme Court judge be appointed to Inquire into Mr. Abhayapala's death, as such a commission would be able to
ook into wider issues.
EXPATRIATE TAMILS WON'T RETURN
The majority of more than 100,000 Tamils who sought refuge in Western Europe to escape the violence here are unlikely to return to Sri Lanka. Instead they will settle in the countries they are living in now, according to the leader of the Eelavar Democratic Front, the largest Tamil party in Parbiament.
Mr. Shankar Raji who has just returned from a meeting of their branch representatives in Europe said that the hope that the stay of the large number of Tamil refugees in Europe was tem
<�skevusPiewsgash
porary and th home once the receding and 'v 90 per cent of til settle there'.
His meeting their branches Germany, Fran the UK and wil post' in West Bt late last mont about the situa tical strategy a the government about the LTTE
Earlier they h all work among they had hope Europe would b they would ret conditions were
Now, he said, European gove residenceship pe the Tamil refugi been there for n
“Come 1992 w a unified capita most of the refu by these coun "Their economie they have prob market — the av tion has shrunk
Some refugee had been allow Lanka and go b
Asked if he wa turn of events M "It's the reality v than emotion'.
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t they would return was peace here, was e now accept the fact ese peopleare going to
rith representatives of in Switzerland, West e, Denmark, Norway, at is called their 'outrlin held at Dusseldorf , was to brief them ion here, EROS' polild their dialogue with and what was known -Government talks.
ad done a lot of politicthese Tamils and that that their stay in e temporary and that rn to Sri Lanka once normal.
more and more of the nments were issuing rmits and passports to es, some of whom had hore than five years.
hen the EEC will have and labour exchange gees will be absorbed tries', he explained. s are expanding and lems with the labour ailable labour popula
s, in Berlin, he said, ved to return to Sri ack.
as disappointed by this fr. Raji simply replied: ve have to face, rather
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t 5, (Reuter) - When nt curfew begins, Coland wealthy start to the fruit machine. as been a god send', ley, who runs the Ritz hree operating in the els. at the same time as they have to stay until ing’. nt of the palm fringed and is in a desperate 2ft wing rebels trying oy calling strikes and nd police. is mounting daily and mber of dismembered found burning by the ng down rivers.
nt introduced a six July as part of a rity operation which ands of rebel suspects.
But while Sri Lanka's poor live in fear of their lives, the more fortunate seem determined to enjoy themselves regardless.
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"When people are nervous, they gamble to escape.
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CALL FOR END TO ARMED HOST
The following is the text of a statement adopted by the General Council of the London based Standing Committee of Tamils (SCOT)
"We deplore and condemn the assassination of TULF leaders, Mr. A. Amirthalingam and Mr. V. Yogeswaran and the attempted assassination of Mr. M. Sivasithamparam who escaped death with serious injuries on 13 July 1989.
We also condemn the murder of Mr. Uma Maheswaran, the General Secretary of the Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam on 16 July 1989.
These senseless and wanton killings constitute the latest examples of a pattern of political murders that have been taking place within the Tamil community in recent years. The ignominious catalogue of past murders and misdeeds is not confined to high profile politicians or Tamil militants; tragically it includes civil servants, newspapermen; human rights and humanitarian workers, educationists
and ordinary civilia lence and counter years have succeet culture of intoleran differences are sou instantly by use oft patiently by force O ment. Human r whether committed or by anyone else di mnation.
The freedom s strength from yout the basis of their and commitment pride in the fact tha dedicated itself to joining the struggl at genocide. Regret now is by coercion and the objective longer a fight for annihilation of any the internecine bat In a desperate atter cadres, some milita resorting to conscri dren are plucked aw
The mills of God grind slouly, Abut they grind etceeding fine, 7.What's uhat the Sri Lanha story' Aduvays brings to my mind.
We uere once a happy nation
When we breae the Aora's commandments We bring doun Ais urath on our heads, 7/hough we may escape the world's judgement, VEWGEAMCEASAM/WE' the Lord Alias said.
OfSinhalese, 7amil, Muslim and Aurghers, We worked hand in hand/or our freedom, We thought ourselves - sisters and brothers,
DIVINEJ
i
7// Satan souvea discora among us, 7/he Sinhalese wanted to rule and suppress They started a series of discriminations Which caused all other races distress.
77he /first to /all/victim uvas the Burg/her, Who Ze/Ž Zhe is/ared without a murmur Ae went doun to Australia to settle,
Where nou he is doing very uell. While those u/ho drove him are going douin hill, Wel/ on their uvay to Hel/. Since the 1983 carnage they nou seem to find their olduay of life has gone with the uind.
They then turned their attention on the 7amils, 7he Indians they deprived of their vote, Avou, forty years after Independence 7Whe Indians are holding them by their throats. 7o cut doun the Ceylon 7amil's pouver 7/hey decreed the official language - Sinhala, 7o deny Zamias /g/her education,
7/hey introduced their notorious standardisation.

SEPTEMBER 1989
LTES AMONG TAMIL GROUPS
n Tamils. The vioviolence of recent ed in spavvning a e in which political ht to be resolved he gun rather than 'reason and argughts violations by state agencies serve equal conde
ruggle drew its ls who joined it on onviction, courage and parents took , their progeny had
a just cause in against attempts tably, recruitment and not persuasion it appears is no
freedom but the dissenting voice in tle for supremacy. npt to sustain their nt groups are now ption. Hapless chil'ay from screaming
parents to keep alive the struggle which has taken this unfortunate turn. We deplore the practice of forced recruitment of innocent children into a process of enforced militarisation.
The IPKF for its part continues to intensify its activity and under the guise of flushing out operations turns its wrath on innocent civilian Tamils and frequently indulges in the most flagrant violations of human rights.
The killing of Tamils by fellow Tamils will outnumber those caused by the security forces of Sri Lanka and India. This is a spectre that we can do without.
A disunited, depleted and demoralized community has become the hunting ground for a variety of competing interests and forces.
We call upon all Tamil militant groups to institute an immediate cessation of armed hostilities among themselves, to eschew the use of force or arms as a means of conflict resolution, and to seek to resolve their differences by negotiations.”
USTICE
hey hept our boys out of universities, ence most left the Island/or higher studies hough scattered uorld over - like the /eus - hey brought credit to the countries they did choose. hose u/ho stayed behind had no choice ut to see that the world heard their voice heir lives they've sacrificed in the fight paeep their honour and regain their right.
he universities they reserved for their boys ave turned into hotbeds of violence and vice. he youth stand out and hopefully gaze, at the Varsity doors are slammed in their face. ven the young ones are denied education at forced to taee part in political demonstration, heir little Alives are also in danger. s the work of the dogs in the manger.
hey sent their troops Worth with bombs andguns iven license to Atill and burn - /ouse and barn. illing and burning they did their job well ut the brave 7amii/spirit they just couldn't quell. ou see u/hat a mess they have made of the South heir sons perfecting uhat they practised up Mort/h. he very guns used against the 7amil unrest re nou turned against them - pointing at their breast.
h God/Aou many more plagues'/have you to send? 2fore they open their eyes and begin to mend here are still some in our country who are just playing ball 7ho cant even see the uriting on the wall, 7ho will tell them of your promise that still stands 7 MY AOPLA SHALL AUMBLA 7'HEMSEZVES WD SEEK MYAACEWILL AAAA, 7 HE/AAMZO. (2 Chronicles ch. 7 verse (4)
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Learning From History
What prompted the LTTE to have direct dialogue with the Sri Lankan government, an offer which you Were spurning for nearly a decade now?
The first reason is, of course, that we Want to get rid of the Indian army from this place because it is responsible for all the problems in Sri Lanka. The second reason is that we have learnt a lessor from history, Over a period of time Warious alien, occupation forces hawe OCCupied this island by capitalising on the prevailing ethnic differences between the TaTills, Sinhales and Muslims, We don't want to repeat that historic mistake. We think it is our duty to join hands with the Sinhalese to get rid of the alien Indian occupation force. We spurned earlier offers for talks because of the preconditions laid down by the govīment. HWgver, this ir Presi. dent Premadasa's open invitation without any preconditions and terms, paved the Way for direct dialogue.
- Extracť fron gr7 Interwisew with LTTE's Deputy Leader, Mahendrarajah (Mahathaya) fra India Week,
Cunning and Caprice of History.
And yet, just a few years ago, when eminent bankers and businessmen, distinguished men of letters and retired civil servants, Huiftdorp "heavies' assorted academics, some self-styled, and the dogged Contributors, often pseudonymous, to the correspondence columns beat the antique war drums, the BBC and the rest of the international press, and of course Amnesty International Were also plainly a part of the global conspiracy of Catholic Action. And Reaction, Then, powerful voices would be raised from Opposition benches too,
To the Many-faced Mr. Gunman of the Pearly Island
by Prof. Kopan Mahadewa
Wher you feel urged to take one's life SOP arid thsrk – Jusf er icks: Whal WOLuld you wish, were you har Wife And firl your shoes stood ?
Dü PL" ydur frigger, if you musi, ČCOL"yard of kiirgus, To thus profect your pegwish life, Those of your childrer, wife.
To shoot proved leaders, the senile, sick, Mothers, kids, and the public, While claiming you are righteous, their friend That's mot brawa, no sair a frend.
Slave, you are, of some salaric CLIFISA,
OÈO, Arbridlersa, Because your Own fire you Care format, YfgLu'MY kñW' th)g ré9st ? MWhat rot ?
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hall Our Air Force back lo the Stone ! at least of the same ATnesty Internati Voices of reason a Wêëpo ower the IPKF at WWT and appla fEPDrts of) HLImar r the same agencies and caprice of Hist Vanities and stupid class intelligentsia.
Only those Sri L allow race and relig their judgment and inter Tis of (Third W. institutions - part growth of the Natic Carl afford to Sr Tile,
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Putting til On Jaya
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Haiting the B:
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ment and demanding bomb the bastards ge. Today for some Crowd, the BBC, and Onäl are the Scole Td truth. Today, we 's "My Lai massacre' Ud Amnesty for its ghts violations...by ! How the cunning Dry mocks the petty ities of Our Tiddle
ankans who did not ion to cloud Cor Colour chose to read events forld) processes and icularly the steady nal Security State - Sadly.
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nayake, a Senior latdead bodesare es. What is your
him to make such Ist withdraw it. The OLurrmen.. lin future r 10 fed to make arbitrary ct Our defence.
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glign Minister Ranjan with the Sunday 1999.
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children to go to school; the freedom of the sick to get medical attention; the freedom of the Worker to work; and the frêėdoT of the woter to wote freely, at a just and fair election, in the international sphere, our task is not so much to make a contribution to the peace and prosperity of Thankind, as to regain the respect and dignity We Once enjoyed.
In short the task that faces Sri Lanka today, is not so much to go forward, as to hall our inexorable backward slide into the bottomless abyss of anarchy and disintegration, and to fan ever so much more vigorously, the hardly discernible flar The of democracy, which is all but extinguished, and to thereby create the necessary conditions that would enable us to go forward, on the path to peace, prosperity and happiness,
- S.L. Gunasekara, SLFP) MP, at the Sennar held or 9.989 affe BMICH,
Suicidal Diplomacy
That of course was the whole point about the "quit notice" to the IPKF which was issued in a most unorthodox manner, to put it mildly. But then Mr. Premadasa's style is almost compulsively unconventional. A temple ceremony is neither the place mor the occasion for conducting diplomacy, Manners apart, it may be dangerous, perhaps even suicidalto issue a vacation order to the world's fourth largest army. You simply don't go public with these things.
- Kaufflya. In Sunday Island, 17.9.89.
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THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT Bank has allotted Rs.14 lakhs to renovate the Veera Singham Hall in Jaffna and the storeyed buildings connected with it. These buildings were badly damaged by repeat shell attacks. O AT LEAST 12 unidentified dead bodies were found burning near the Potupitya (Wadduwa) General Cemetery, Galle Road and near Moronthuduwa bridge on Horana road on 1 September.
O THE NEWLY MARRIED bride of the officer in Charge (OIC) of Angunakolapelessa police station, his mother and sister were killed in a landmine blast on 2 September at Binkama. The OIC who got married the previous day was returning with his family in two vehicles. He and his father had been travelling in a jeep while the victims and his brother-in-law had followed the jeep in a car which was blasted in the explosion. The dead were identified as W.A.W. Weerasinghe (wife), N.M. Tikiri Menike (mother) and N.M. Indra Kanthi Nissanka (sister).
OTHE GOVERNMENT has directed Government Agents of
the districts in the North-East Province not to take any instructions from the IPKF on matters pertaining to civilian administration. They had also been asked to bring to the notice of the Secretrary of the Ministry of Defence any interference by the IPKF in civilian administration as well as any contravention of laws relating to immigration, customs etc. so that each individual case could be reported to the Indian authorities.
O A HOUSE belonging to the family of a Special Task Force commando was set on fire on 3 September at Thirapanne in Anuradhapura.
O DOCTORS are perturbed over the arrest of their colleagues and their family members resident at the medical living quarters in Barnes Place, Colombo in a raid by police on 4 September. Police are alleged to have stormed the medical quarters at about 1.30 am, searched the premises and taken the doctors, family members and friends who were in the premises at the time. A number of those arrested had been released the same night but others were released the following day after the intervention by the Health Minister.
O A PROMINENT organiser of the SLFP in Kurunegala, identified as H.P. Wijesekera, was shot dead by armed persons in the Dompe electorate on 4 September. An armed gang shot and killed the Batwala Gramasevaka Mrs. Malani Chandralatha and her husband C. Perera, a Project Coordinating Officer of the Attanagalla AGA's office.
O THE RUBBER RESEARCH Institute Chairman and former Deputy Minister and ex-UNP MP, Merryl Kariyawasam was shot dead by gunmen at his office in Ratmalana on 5 September. The assailants, who had entered the office under the guise of attending to official duties, later shot dead a security guard and seriously injured a Secretary. O A GOVERNMENT communique issued on 5 September stated that security forces conducting cordon and search operations all over the island took into custody 885 suspected 'subversives' of whom 243 had been detained and the balance released after interrogation. Security forces killed 3 'subversives', including the area Commander of Welewewa in the Puttlama district when they tried to escape from a safe house. A large quantity of 'subversive leaflets', posters with envelopes addressed to the people of Nawagathegama was recovered. Four 'subversives who were hiding on the river bank at Lewella in Kandy were arrested with repeater shotguns, eight pistols, ammunition, M.14 grenades etc. O MASKED GUNMEN shot dead two women, identified as W.M. Seelawathie (45) and P. Nilmini Jayasinghe (17), at Angamapitiya in Padukka on 5 September while more bodies with burn injuries continued to surface in the
 
 

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southern province, Colombo and coastal areas of the western province. At Akuwela in Morawaka three burnt bodies were recovered, and a poster near the dead bodies indicated that they were killed by anti-JVP death squads. A number of bodies were also recovered from the river Maha Oya.
O HOPES OF RETURNING to normalcy at the General Hospital Colombo remained dim as hospital services remained crippled for the ninth consecutive day. Most hospitals in the country were non-functioning although the Kalubowila Hospital and the Ragama hospital continued to treat emergencies, according to a report in the SUN of 6 September.
O UNIDENTIFIED gunmen shot and killed a person, identified as J.K. Gamage, in Kiribathgoda on 6 September. On the same day two bodies with gunshot injuries were recovered at the Kiribathgoda Housing Scheme. An armed gang set fire to two Indian made Tata buses at Igaloya in the Siyabalanduwa area. The passengers in the buses had been ordered to get off the vehicles before they were set on fire. The gunmen also forcibly removed the national identity cards from the passengers. O AREUTER REPORT dated September 7, Colombo stated that the remains of eight unidentified civilians smouldered on a pile of burning rubber tyres in northern Sri Lanka (Ulukulama lakeside park in Anuradhapura). The bodies had gunshot holes and were on the roadside. They were not people from the area. Murders of civilians, some believed to be terrorist sympathisers, have escalated in recent weeks. Most of the dead have been dumped in rivers or burned on roadsides.
Four more bodies, with gunshot injuries and partly burnt, were discovered by the Passara police at the 13th mile post along the Passara-Namunukula road on 7 September.
O FOUR CHILDREN identified as P.A. Gamini (16), A. Saranayake (8), H. Tilakasiri (12), and P.A. Sajeewa (10) were killed on the spot and another girl was seriously injured on 7 September when a bomb they were examining in a house in Lenawa, Akuressa exploded. The bomb had been brought to the residence by Gamini of Telijiwila Central School. On the same day in a separate incident two soldiers were killed and two others injured in a landmine blast at Morawewa in the Trincomalee district. At the time of the incident, the victims were travelling in a jeep which was blown up by the explosion. O RAISING AS a matter of public importance, K. Premachandran, MP (TULF-EPRLF), told parliament on 8 September that all districts of the North-East had been without electricity for the previous two months and that the whole economy in the region had come to a standstill as a result. Work at all rice mills had come to a halt depriving peoples livelihoods and also pushing up the price of rice. Hospitals were among those institutions that had been badly affected. The KKS cement factory too was not functioning. The supply of electricity which was disrupted due to sabotage in the south had however been restored to Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Medawachchiya, but the North-East had continued to remain without power. The matter was brought to the notice of the Minister concerned, but the promises made had not been kept. The MP accused the government of giving step-motherly treatment to the North-East. O TWENTY-THREE undergraduates were taken into custody within week, ending 9 September bringing the total number of university students arrested to over 100 during the previous three weeks. O AT LEAST 41 YOUTHS were shot dead in three separate incidents in the early hours of 8 September in the central province. Of the 41, the bullet riddled bodies of six youths with serious burn injuries were found close to the Bellanwila Purana Maha Viharaya. The faces of the victims had been completely burnt defying identification. At Pahala Kadugannawa gunmen armed with automatic weapons

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were responsible for gunning down at least 30 youths. Their bodies with gunshot wounds were found by residents on the same day. Another six dead bodies of youths were found at Balakaduwa. All these killings are reportedly attributed to reprisal killings by security forces or death squads operating with support from service personnel. On the same day, in a separate incident, an armed gang of allegedly suspected 'subversives' raided the residence of SLFPMIP, Mangala Samaraweera, in Matara and removed several guns and some ammunition.
O ACCORDING to a government communique issued on 8 September, three 'subversives were killed and one captured by the security forces on the Peawatta-Neluwa Road, Kalutara. Three repeater shotguns and a shotgun were also recovered from them. At Yahalatenna in Peradeniya, police counter attacked a group of 'subversives'. A repeater shotgun, army uniforms, swords, locally made hand grenades, jungle boots, helmets and masks were also recovered. Security forces also recovered several repeaters, shotguns, grenades, gelignite, ammunition, galkatas and cartridges in search operations conducted at Pellekapugalle, Maharagama and Maliduwa. O A GOVERNMENT communique issued on 10 September stated that a group of 'subversives' had entered the house of Lieutenant R.J.W. Rajapakse at Ilukwatta in the Kadugannawa area. Rajapakse who serves in an army detachment in Ratmalana near Colombo was on leave and had gone to the bazaar. Subversives' had forcibly held the family members awaiting the return of the officer. Friends of Rajapakse who had suspected strangers in the house had alerted the security forces who rushed to the house and arrested one 'subversive' with two handbombs and a knife, and the others had by then fled. In another incident, about 20 persons had entered the Geekiyanakanda Estate in Tebulwana area, collected diesel from the stores and set fire to the factory. In the Matara district, 'subversives' set fire to documents in the Grama Sevaka Offices at Heegoda, Beragama and Thihagoda. A SLTB busworth Rs. 12 lakhs was set on fire by 'subversives at Ransegoda junction. Eighty-seven suspected 'subversives' were taken in for questioning. A leading LTTE militant named Cheena of the Rama Group was shot dead by the IPKF in Batticaloa.
O APERSON believed to be the JVP leader of Rajawatte in the Kalutara district is reported to have surrendered to the police and according to police sources has divulged 'valuable information' concerning the activities of the JVP/DJV in the district. The same sources claimed that the armed forces had killed seven deputy leaders of the movement' in the same district.
OTHE GOVERNMENT of the Federal Republic of Germany has pledged a sum of 200,000 Deutschmarks (about Rs.3.8 million) for UNHCR sponsored activities in Sri Lanka. The money will be used by the UNHCR for assistance to be given to refugees returning to Sri Lanka.
O FOUR IPKF soldiers were killed on 10 September when the jeep they were travelling in hit a landmine, reportedly planted by the LTTE, at Walathapitiya. The soldiers were travelling from Samanthurai to Amparai at the time of the incident. Another soldier was critically injured. The jeep after hitting the landmine was thrown against an electric post setting the jeep on fire. Meanwhile clashes between the IPKF and LTTE were reported at Puliyankulam in the Vavuniya district in which at least five LTTE members were reported to have been killed. LTTE militants fled after an exchange of fire with the IPKF in Trincomalee. A captured LTTE member committed suicide. the LTTE attacked the EPRLF at Kilinochchi and one EPRLF member was seriously wounded in the attack.
O A BUDDHIST MONK committed suicide on 10 September by hanging himself within the temple premises at Padukka minutes after one of his colleagues was taken into custody and was being questioned by the police for alleged links with the JVP/DJV. At Kala Oya in Anuradhapura an armed gang shot and killed the Chief Incumbent of the

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Kala Oya Wijaya Bodhirajaramaya and the Anurdhapura Saman Viharaya, the 75 year old Ven. Kahawe Wimalasiri Thero. A note left behind by the assailants stated that the monk had been punished' for criticising the actions of the "Deshapremis' (patriots). Another armed gang shot and killed two sisters, Ariyalatha and Chitra Jayasooriya at Develgoda in Nikaweratiya. On the same day in a separate incident, seven gunmen arrived in four push cycles, abducted R.S. Perera, the Manager of the Anglo-Asian factory in Ratmalana, in his own car and shot him dead on Attidya Road. Police recovered 28 dead bodies in Kottawa in the Yakalamulla police area on the Udugama Road.
Five houses belonging to families of service personnel were set on fire and destroyed at Galadawala allegedly by the JVP/DJV. The inmates had evacuated following threats and the houses had been locked up at the time they were set ablaze. At Ratmale in Parasangaswewa persons in military style uniform raided a shop and stabbed to death a person identified as T. Tilekaratne. O THE DEMAND for passports has recorded an unprecedented increase during the last two to three months. The Department of Immigration and Emigration is receiving over 2000 applications daily. In addition to applicants for new passports, another one thousand passport holders called daily for renewals, change of endorsements and alterations. According to the Commissioner, the department is now issuing an average of 20,000 passports a month. Before the recent rush for passports, the department received a daily average of 500 applications. O AT LEAST 47 PERSONS were killed, over 20 stateowned buildings were set ablaze and 14 sub-post offices in the southern province looted and set on fire in a wave of violence on 11 September. Of the 47 killed only three persons were identified. The highest number of bodies were recovered from the Panadura river. Residents in Panadura said that on 12th night armed gunmen in military fatigues brought several youth to the bridge, tied their hands and burnt them on a pile of tyres. When the victims struggled, they were shot and the bodies were flung into the river.
At Kurunegala, eight bodies with gunshot and burn injuries were recovered on roadsides. In Kadugannawa, six bodies were recovered by officials. It was only four days
earlier on 8 September 30 bodies were recovered under the
bridge with gunshot and burn injuries.
In separate incidents in Rambukkane and Pelawatte, three persons were killed by suspected 'subversives' for their alleged links with other political groups and for being critical of the JVP/DJV in public. O COLOMBO MUNICIPAL Council member, S.H.M. Kamil, of the UNP who had been taken into custody for alleged attempted murder following a shooting incident at Mallikarama Flats, Dematagoda in Colombo, in which one person was killed and two others injured was released on bail in a sum of Rs.5000 and surety bail in Rs.25,000 on 12 September by the Colombo Additional Magistrate. A 75 year old bystander, Edwin Wickremasinghe died when he was shot through the head and two others were injured when an altercation between two politicians and their respective bodyguards developed into a gunfight on September 6. The two politicians, Kamil and Provincial Council Member Ladington and four others were taken into custody after the incident.
O DR. MRS. GLADYS JAYAWARDENE, Chairperson of State Pharmaceuticals Corporation and sister-in-law of former President J.R. Jayawardene was shot dead by gunmen on 12 September. Mrs. Jayawardene, aged 72, was shot on her way home for lunch when her car was caught in a traffic jam.
O THE RESIDENCE of the Minister of State for Textile Industries, Dayananda Wickremasinghe, was attacked by
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O A SEVERE SHORTAGE of essential food items including flour, sugar, milk-foods has gripped the entire Batticaloa district due to the disruption of lorry transport services following the recent looting of goods from at least 15 lorries by armed gangs operating at Manampitiya (BatticaloaColombo Road) and Arantalawa (Batticaloa-Amparai Road) areas. O UNIDENTIFIED armed persons hacked and shot dead three farmers, identified as M. Somasir Banda, B.M.W. Tikiri Banda and Sarath Ranasinghe, at Karagahawewain Eppawala on 13 September.
O OF THE TWENTY-SEVEN political parties invited by President R. Premadasa, twenty-one attended the All Party Conference held on 13 September with a view to finding solutions to the present crisis. The JVP, NSSP and the Muslim United Liberation Front did not attend. In his opening address, the President spelt out three purposes as the objectives of the Conference: (a) To express our common desire and solidarity on a collective search for a viable solution to the problems of violence and unrest that have enveloped our motherland; (b) To consider and endorse the modalities that had emerged during our informal consultations leading to this meeting; and (c) To make a determined and concerted effort to bring those that are outside the mainstream of politics into the democratic process, to restore peace, to strengthen the civil administration and the rule of law, to introduce structural reforms and promote stability. Following his address, he announced that separate consultations with all political parties would take place from September 18 to October 6, and that the APC would be reconvened on October 12.
O JVP MEN in a new move on 13 September rounded up families of service personnel in the south of the island and ordered them to march into the security forces camps demanding the release of all political prisoners. A group of men in civies, believed to be members of the security services had stopped the procession' moving towards Beliatta, given them anti-JVP placards and ordered them to march around the town shouting anti-JVP slogans.
O MORE THAN 320 arrests and disappearance have been reported to the Parliamentary Committee for Human and Fundamental Rights since its inception two months ago. A spokesman for the Committee revealed that the number of recent arrests and disappearances reported had exceeded 40 a day and the number was increasing daily. He also said that it was difficult to compile accurate figures of people killed because very often the bodies had been burnt to ashes or thrown into rivers.
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actress and TV announcer was abducted by an unknown gang and shot dead on 13 September. The 28 year old artiste was forcibly removed from her Dehiwela home and her body was found with stab and gunshot injuries on the beach the following morning at Angulana. Sagarika's elder brother is attached to the Sri Lanka Air Force. The abductors had searched the house for weapons and uniforms. They also demanded the identity cards of all the family members. O AT LEAST 25 persons, including suspected 'subversives' were killed in incidents as violence swept all districts during the 24 hours ending 12 noon on 14 September. At the Colombo General Hospital, an unidentified person slashed to death a patient identified as Sumanadasa who had been transferred from the Kalutara hospital. At Daranagama two suspected 'subversives' were shot dead by police. At Waggola and Ambalangoda three youths were shot dead by the security forces. At Kottegoda, a retired army soldier identified as P.M. Rhilakadasa was shot dead. At Wawinna, armed persons severed the head of a man identified as R.G. Wijeratne while in a separate incident gunmen killed four persons including three women and set fire to their bodies. OTHE CABINET has decided to provide insurance cover for houses of police and security personnel. Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Defence, Ranjan Wiejeratne, briefing news reporters on 14 September said the decision had been taken in the wake of the reports that the JVP/DJV were attacking and destroying houses belonging to police and service personnel. The government would insure all their houses and pay the premium.
O FOURTEEN MAJOR trade union organisations have called upon the government to form a provisional government' elected by Parliament, to hold peaceful, free and fair elections to be conducted by such a government to enable the people to elect a government of their choice and to amend the Constitution with the view to replacing the Executive Presidency by a Prime Minister who will be responsible to Parliament. O THE MOUNT LAVINA railway station was set on fire, allegedly by JVP/DJV men on 15 September at about 8.30 pm. The ticket counter and telephone communications system and some other parts of the station were damaged before the fire services brought the fire under control. O A GOVERNMENT communique issued on 16 September stated that security forces conducting cordon and search operations throughout the island (except North East) had arrested 226 'subversives' in various parts of the island. Among the arrested was a second year medical student. Eleven 'subversives' were killed during these operations. At Henapitigedera in Gampaha, three shotguns, gelignite sticks, cartridges, detonators, gunpowder and DJV flags were recovered from a 'safe house'. 'Subversives' set fire to several government buildings and burnt documents in the Matara and Badulla districts. A principal of a school was abducted from his residence and killed by an unknown gang at Amunugama in Kandy. LTTE men set off a claymore mine at an IPKF route clearing patrol killing six IPKF soldiers and injuring 11 others.
O THE STRIKE in the tea estates run by the Janatha Estates Development Board and State Plantations Corporation which commenced on 14 September continues without settlement in sight. The strike by over 150,000 workers in 85 estates has been called by the Estates Employees Action Front. O AROUND 150 persons indicted under the Emergency Regulations and the Prevention of Terrorism Act in the New Magazine Prison in Colombo have refused to attend Courts till the prevailing situation in the country improved. In a memorandum addressed to the Judges of the High Court, the remand prisoners state that they feared abduction by "unknown persons' on the way to the Courts, and their lawyers too were often not in a position to represent them in courts as a result of the prevailing situation.

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MADRAS NEWSLETTER
KARUNANDH WA
When the DMKromped home to power at the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections early this year with a comfortable majority, it was hardly expected that now - towards the end of the year - it would be facing a major challenge to its authority. While the battle lines are already drawn for the forthcoming Lok Sabha General Elections in the whole country, in Tamil Nadu, the DMK while being a constituent of the Opposition National Front appears to be walking a tight rope on all issues, not excluding those relating to Eelam Tamils.
What is causing this diffidence on the part of Mr. Karunanidhi? In his relationship with the Centre he is like a man willing to strike but afraid to wound. Even on the issue which is most emotive in his own state, the one concerning the Eelam Tamils, he is one step behind the northern partners in the National Front. While people like V.P. Singh, Ramakrishan Hegde and George Fernandes are uncompromisingly critical of the Rajiv Gandhi policies and have called for an immediate pull-out of the IPKF in northeast Ceylon, Mr. Karunanidhi favours a phased withdrawal and that too after getting a guarantee from all concerned for the safety and security of the Eelam Tamils. While on the face of it this might appear that he being a Tamil leader is more concerned with the safety of the Tamils than the northern leaders in India, he is really echoing the same stance adopted by the Delhi government.
There are many reasons for Mr. Karunanidhi's lack of assurance, one of which is the fear that the Centre might even topple his hardly 9-month old government on some pretext or another. Recently, DMK M.P. Murasoli Maran alleged in the Rajya Sabha that a 'conspiracy' was being hatched to dismiss the elected DMK goverment; as in Karnataka which continues to be under Governor's rule. He waved a circular purported to have been sent by the Tamil Nadu Congress (I) Committee about the holding of State Assembly elections along with the parliamentary polls. His colleague Mr. V. Gopalasamy said: “It is a diabolical move to topple a non-congress government'.
Another reason for Mr. Karunanidhi's lack of confidence is the sea change that had occured in the complexity of Tamil Nadu politics between January this year and now. While the Assembly elections early this year was a four-cornered contest, today it has emerged as a straight contest between the DMK-led front and an anti-DMK front spearheaded by a unified AIADMK and the Congress-I. Ms.
Jayalalitha, more about whose poli hung a big questiol has now bounced with the kind of ap rized her cinema h her most surprisi only to bring one foes, R.M. Veerap but create for him party hierachy asj ary that virtually over the heads o Thirunavukkarasu ary Raghavananda AIADMK alliance in attracting to it Makkal Kadchi” ( the Vabniar Sanga das and a disside) Ganeshan’s “Tam: Munnani' let by
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State-controlled Radio and TV in spreading the unconfirmed news of Prabhakaran's death and causing law and order problems in the state. He went further to say that suspicion had arisen in the public mind as to whether somebody had planned to kill the LTTE leader and was "testing the waters' by circulating such reports.
Two days later he told pressmen: "My
information is that Prabhakaran is alive', and it was his wish that he should live. Notwithstanding such gestures, it is difficult to resist the impression that an influential youth section of the DMK is getting increasingly radicalised especially on the Eelam Tamil issue and which could prove to be an embarrassment to the DMK leadership intimes to come.
THE AUGUST 30 "BANDH
Meanwhile, the all-India bandh for August 30, called by the Opposition parties demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (this is being written two days before the bandh) can prove to be another challenge for the DMK in the state. Both the DMK-led alliance as well as the Congress-I-AIADMK Front appear to view the bandh as a run-up for the parliamentary poll. Already state-wide public rallies and meetings are being held for and against the bandh by both adversaries in apparent show of strength with an eye on the national elections which have yet to be announced. Schools and educational institutions are being closed for three days covering the day of the bandh. While a ruling party has the capacity to make the bandh a success, Mr. Karunanidhi's aim is to do so without adopting a confrontationist stance towards the Centre. This again shows a line of action not altogether consonant with the more aggressive mood of the other National Front partners. Another aspect of Mr. Karunanidhi's strategy that differentiates him from his National Front allies was evident in his Independence Day message on August 15. While highlighting the need for additional powers for the States, he was careful to add that his government stood for co-operation with the Centre, while it would continue to raise its voice for the rights of the states. All in all, the DMK position today seems to be one of having the cake and eating it tool
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Sheraton was the venue recently of a programme titled "In Their Shoes' at the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Madras South. Guess who got into whose shoes? five Rotarians lined themselves up - one got "into the shoes' of an Eelam Tamil militant leader with a fictitious name; another into that of a Tamil from Tamil Nadu, a third 'into the shoes' of the Prime Minister of India; a fourth into that of President Premadasa; and the fifth into the boots' of the IPKF chief. They all said their piece, the tongues that had savoured the Chola Sheraton chef's creations, now in the cheek. A Rotarian with an appropriate name got into the Tamil militant's shoes and made a brave declaration about the causes that led to their struggle, the birth of the movement, their goal etc. While the Rotarian who got into President Premadasa's shoes helpfully suggested that India could make better use of her armed forces in Punjab, Assam and elsewhere. The Rotarian with a name
that was not Tam IPKF chief's boots and said they had above, but showed tion for the LTTE \ course their enemy got into the India shoes proved very : with, he said: "I am and the downtrodd fuse to get into shoe into only chappals domination or conq smaller neighbours record at Nepal and only want to help uphold their soverei ask us where the TI their training, arms pletely ignorant anc In fact our Navy Straits so efficientl could not get across smuggling was comp signed an accord wi dent of Sri Lanka. T
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AMIRTHALINGANM
Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Sheik Mujibur Rahman - these three leaders share some distinct similarities in their epoch-making public careers. All three are recognized as symbolic "fathers' of their "modern nations'-United States, India and Bangladesh respectively. These visionaries also share the fate of being assassinated by their own kinsmen. Now, Appapillai Amirthalingam also has joined this elite group of leaders who had the will and vision to lead the struggle for freedom of their nations and then being murdered by some deranged individuals belonging to their own ethnic group.
I still vividly remember an appearance of a poem in the SUTHANTIRAN (the weekly newspaper of the then Federal Party) sometime in the mid 1970s, with the title, Amirthalingam our Abraham Lincoln'. It compared the
political careers and the struggles of
both leaders. Now I wonder, whether the poet who penned those verses would have presaged the fateful ending of Amirthalingam at the hands of an assassin.
Call it coincidence (or not), in the final analysis, the political career of Amirthalingam did in fact show many resemblances to that of Lincoln.
1. Lincoln was the most esteemed and maligned of the American presidents. Similarly, Amirthalingam was the most esteemed and maligned among the Sri Lankan political leaders of this century. Both were admired and
loved by their con the same time, atta basis as the perso) for every major cris nations when they some power.
2. Both were enc tery of rhetoric wh to their supporters.
3. Both Lincoln a were subjected to vi the Opposition part the radicals of their
4. Epithets sucl headed', 'dictator' a were flung at Lin lingam by their own disagreed with the
However, Amirt from Lincoln in ol While Lincoln (as Gandhi) understoo lence and secrecy in lingam did every fashion. Thereby, to physical abuse campaigns of 1956, (and his wife) we instigating the 19 sion against the Ta While he was the L. tion between 1977 a even a No-confider him in the Sri L. Among the parlia ruling UNP, only league, Shelton against this nonsen S.Thondman absta All the other UN the orders of the pa
 

who got into the sounded helpless take orders from a sneaky admiraho he said were of The Rotarian who Prime Minister's ticulate. To begin lways for the poor n, therefore I re; instead I will get
We are not for est of our friendly, Look back at our the Maldives. We he neighbours to inty. . . Don't ever amil militants got etc. We are cominnocent of it all. atrolled the Palk that even a fly the waters. Even letely stopped. We h the then Presihereafter we went
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in full force to disarm the militants in 72 hours and we did it. The handful now remaining there with arms are the puppets of a "foreign hand”. We concede that the President of Sri Lanka is the Supreme Commander of our armed forces there, but how can we give the reins to an inexperienced President? We want to help him stabilise his position before we leave. That is why we are there. We will be there till our elections are over. Come what may, whether I am voted back to power or rejected we will leave only after the elections, certainly not before...'
This Rotarian said many more mouthfuls (remember, Whither Rotary: To Lunch) and was greeted by deafening applause. Visiting Rotarian Sundha who was called upon to offer comments had a poor appetite. He said: "You all are fortunate enough to have a ringside view of the action. But we are the ones inside the ring'
这 s
stituents, while at cked on a partisan n most responsible is which faced their held the position of
lowed with a masich endeared them
nd Amirthalingam triolic attacks from ies as well as from
own parties.
as "timid', 'hotld "political coward' oln and Amirthaparty radicals who l. halingam differed le character trait. well as Mahatma | the value of sipolitics, Amirthahing in an open e exposed himself n the Satyagraha 958 and 1961. He e also accused of 7 Sinhala aggresmils of Sri Lanka. ader of the Opposihd 1983, there was e motion against nkan parliament. lentarians of the Dne Sensible ColRanaraja voted ical motion, while hed from voting. members obeyed ty whip.
Like Mahatma Gandhi and Mujibur Rahman, Amirthalingam also had his share of incarceration for the cause he believed in. And like Gandhi, he also became easy fodder for cynicism and ridicule in the hands of politically, biased journalists, commentators and cartoonists. One should only just glance through the pages of the partisan press of Sri Lanka from 1977 and tabulate the cartoons of Wijesoma, Opatha and Amitha to learn how Amirthalingam was derided for the views he stood for. A short, rotund figure in verti and saalvai with a pottu on his forehead who always gets mugged by a loyal "Sri Lankan patriot, or who always was found hanging by the tail of a tiger - that has been the caricature of Amirthalingam in the Sri Lankan national' press.
Amirthalingam differed from Mahatma Gandhi in one significant manner. He was not a journalist or an author. So, he has not left behind any significant writings which could be passed on to posterity. What is left behind as his primary intellectual contribution remains buried in the Official Proceedings of the Sri Lankan National State Assembly (popularly known as Hansard). So that his contributions to the human rights problem in Sri Lanka are not distorted or belittled, efforts should be made to (a) compile the speeches made by Amirthalingam in the Sri Lankan parliament (19561970 period and 1977-1983 period); and (b) publish them in Tamil and English. That will be a memorable tribute for his four decades of public service.
Sachi Sri Kantha
Medical College of Pennsylvania, 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA.
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DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING
A Public Meeting was held on 27.7.1989 at Pavarnar Hall, L.L.A. Building, Anna Salai, Madras in remembrance of the 53 Eelam Tamils massacred in Welikade Jail on 25th and 27th July, 1983, and nearly 25,000 Eelam Tamils who have lost their lives in the Eelam Freedom Struggle.
It was attended by nearly 200 people and I presided at the meeting. The following resolution was passed unanimously.
“This meeting requests Eelam Tamils around the world to observe July 27 every year as a Day of National Mourning in remembrance of the 53, Eelam Tamils massacred in Welikade Jail on the 25th and 27th July, 1983 and the nearly 25,000 Eelam Tamils who lost their lives in the Eelam Freedom Struggle.'
It was also the wish of the meeting that this day should not only be a Day of National Mourning but also a Day of Positive resolutions and follow-up actions to further the freedom struggle and progress of Eelam Tamils.
We will be very grateful if through the medium of your esteemed journal you bring this resolution to the notice of Eelam Tamils around the world and request individuals and Societies who are interested to contact us at the address below so that the Eelam Tamils National Day of Mourning may be better organised and observed in future years throughout the world.
S.A. David President, ` Gandhiyam, f Sri Lanka No.1078, I Block, 19th Street, West Anna Nagar, Madras-600 040
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LTTE-GOVT TALKS T.
The talks going on between the LTTE and Mr Premadasa are said to be proceeding satisfactorily. The LTTE consider him a man they could do business with and a certain amount of trust has developed between the two parties. Mr Premadasa has said that he will be able to control the LTTE after the IPKF vacate. Obviously there appear to have been some concessions made by the once unyielding LTTE who surprised the world by consenting to dialogue.
Mr Premadasa has always been talking of consultation, compromise and consensus and is anxious to remove the causes that led to the Tamil minorities demanding separation. He has said openly that with the obstacles and injustices presented to them it is no wonder that the Tamils demanded
Eelam, he will h opposition in the H. including a majorit who have always o cessions or devoluti W R D Bandarar Senanayake had th Jayawardene mere was there ingraine psyche, just as Hitle against the Jews.
Guarantees given could never be susta sors. Even now the and the opposing J ties are against gra the Tamils.
It may be necessa flow, but we must the fact that we wil our freedom and al. Security is as valu shelter. Tamil Eela easy in the night se ledge that they will their hostile Sinhala numerical and mili who are even now col land with a vengeal that we cannot hol guerilla warfare whi and run, delaying an type of warfare wa entrenched occupatic IPKF. For proper de operations we need co operating on land, sea this reason that thi have not been able to Kabul, despite milita US through Pakista training a new regula
So the question ari can keep our freedo cient military superi LTTE will give this thought in their nego Sri Lankan Governm
Lt. Col Anton N Blenheim Court Alsager Stoke on Trent, UK
DR. SELBO CONDESCE
I wish to make some views expressed by bourne in the Tami 1989. While I share about the way in v leader A. Amiratha death, I felt uncon condescending tone a of language shown te ans by Selbourne. (R "civil libertarians to and Tamil of what v conduct, if they were Many may agree that the Sri Lanka composed of "thieves, boys”. But what he ha

ve almost total se of Parliament; of the opposition tructed any conto the Tamils. S ike and Dudley problem and JR exploited what in the Sinhala did in Germany
by Mr Premadasa ned by his succesntire Government Pand other parting autonomy to
y to go with the lways be wary of have to fight for o keep it secure. ble as food and 1 wil never sleep ure in the knowot be attacked by heighbours with a tary superiority, onising our homece. It is obvious our ground by h is mainly a hit d nuisance effect ged against an bn force like the fence and attack nventional forces a and air. It is for 2 Afghan rebels invade the city of ury aid from the : n and are now r"Islamic Army'. ses as to how we m without suffirity. I hope the matter sufficient iations with the Ynt.
vins Selvadurai
RNE'S NSION
omments on the Dr. David SelTimes of Aug. is apprehension nich the TULF ngam met his ortable by the d immoderation vards Sri Lankad for instance, mind Sinhalese uld be civilised apable of it). with Selbourne government is hugs and playhidden was the
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fact that the composition of clique which ruled the island (prior to its independence) for 150 years were also notable for “thieves, thugs and playboys'. They represented His(Her) Majesty of Great Britain.
Dr. Selbourne also stated that, 'one's of the marks of rationality and wisdom is to recognize that sometimes there are no solutions to certain problems. The Sri Lankan case is one such'. Is this a cosmetized version of modernday revisionism to hide the plundering misdeeds of British colonialism? I would say that, other features of rationality and wisdom are to recognize the root cause of the problem and to ask the criminal who created the problem to pay for his misdeeds. The Sri Lankan ethnic problem was a British creation. To put it simply, the British colonialists did not leave the island in 1948, as it was when they began their colonial rule in 1802.
Since Dr. Selbourne has now disengaged himself as 'a partisan of the savage Tamil struggle', I wish that he would hereafter concentrate his efforts to study the sinister role of the British imperialists (between 1802 and 1948) which caused the Tamils to lose the political power they had previously for centuries. In the recently held nonaligned conference in Belgrade, the Libyan leader Col. Mohammer Quaddafi suggested that every colonial power should pay reparation to every other ex-colony. If only the self-righteous British can heed Col. Quaddafi’s suggestion, what a windfall Sri Lanka will receive. At a nominal rate of 100,000 pounds sterling per day (considered as a mere pittance of what the tea brokerage companies like Liptons and Brooke Bonds sucked from Sri Lankans), Britain should pay 100,000 x 365 x 150 = 5475 million pounds sterling as reparation. will Dr. Selbourne campaign for this righteous cause among his influential colleagues? One is reminded of the proverb, "it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness'. This reparation, if provided to the descendants of the victims, will at least erase a major portion of the colonial misdeed committed by the British to the indigenous Tamils and Tamils of recent Indian origin in Sri Lanka.
I am also concerned that while Dr. Selbourne vociferously criticising the action of Sri Lankan "hoodlums' and 'gangsters', remains silent about the misdeeds performed by the British mercenaries and arms dealers. I wish he will spend his energy on identifying these British "hoodlums' and "gangsters' and suing them in the British courts for their crimes against the suffering Sri Lankan civilians. The civilians in Sri Lanka will ever be grateful if this is done.
Sachi Sri Kantha 330 Henry Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA
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sĖPTEMBER 1989 -
Bharata Natyam Arangetram of
It is indeed fortunate that, in Britain in general and in Wimbledon in particular, the practice and experience of South Indian music and dance have grown so immensely over the past 40 years! It seems a far cry indeed from when I first heard Dikshitar's Bala Gopala Sung by Smt Leela Gopalan at our house in Hillside in 1949, and from when Ram Gopal and his troupe danced at the Wimbledon Theatre in July 1949.
So, it was with delight and reminiscence that, together with my wife, I sat in the Wimbledon Civic Hall (now called Merton, I noticed!) on June 4 to witness Kumari Vasuky Sriskandarajah's Arangetram. The hall was packed, we were delighted to see: even in the 12 years since a Bharata Natyam recital there had formed part of Wimbledon's celebration of H.M. The Queen's Silver Jubilee, South Indian culture had grown in stature.
Vasuky is a disciple of Smt Subathra Sivadasan, of the Sri Ghanapathy Temple, Wimbledon, so this was truly a celebration of local talent.
Smt Subathra Sivadasan after obtaining her diploma in dance in Sri Lanka proceeded to India where she was fortunate to COne under the renowned dance guru, Shri Adayar Lackshman and obtained diploma in dance and nattuvangam.
Vasuky is the sixteenth of Mrs. Sivadasan's students to receive the accolade of Arangetram and the first in Britain so to do. As such, she was taught in the Kalakshetra style, and it was interesting to me to see the differences between this and other styles such as Pandanallur.
At the age of 12, Vasuky has already achieved great poise and grace and an assurance that belies her tender years. She dances with great fluidity, with rippling, liquid movement, all delivered with an ebulient lightness that clearly stems from her guru's teaching.
Most elegant is her footwork - indeed on occasion Vasuky verily seemed to float across the stage, not touching the ground at all All this was accompanied throughout - where appropriate - by brilliant facial Abhinaya whereby the different Bhavas, Emotions, chased one another kaleidoscopically across her face. Transformations from the comic to the pathetic, from the heroic to the amorous, were achieved with lightning preciSkOዘገ.
A note of innovation was struck early in the programme which, after the Shree Ghanapathy Gowthuvam featured a Nirthianjali based on Alarippu, the more usual invocation. There followed a Jatheswaran set in Gowri Manohari raga - an unusual one — that featured words as well as the usual syllables.
The toughest part of the programme, the Varnam, followed. Set in the raga Sankaraparanam, it was danced to a beautiful Tamil text that narrated various exploits of the Lord Vishnu, addressed by a maiden as her lover. I especially liked Vasuki's depiction of the spiteful crocodile which seized Gajendra's trunk. This in itself was interesting as much of the iconography, e.g. at Halebid, depicts the crocodile seizing the elephant by the leg. I always feel that Kipling had this story in mind when he wrote his Just So story on How the alephant got its Trunk (though the story itself is set in Africal).
The Varnam afforded Vasuky full scope to deploy her versatility of emotional expression,
VASUKY
and established firmly ha rapid changes of mood. particular were her disgu trayed during the episod dicing their kingdom away After the interval, Kuma us three Padams, the fir Thalattu Lullaby, praising Murugan. Vasuky showed and love in this piece.
The next Padam was kambikai, the goddess-cor Mylapore, Madras. She ay peacock, and Vasuky po most affecting grace and
The third Padam was was addressed to the LC was the episode taken frc or Sthalapurana, of the go Madurai, the Tiruvilaiyad in the god takes the guise front of Sundara Pandiyan ai. As with other stories, narrated for us beforeha Canbow who, together w anathan, compered the Padam, Vasuky matchec splendid manner with the N. V. Balakrishnan when , the god Siva dancing.
There followed a speed his vote of thanks. The pieces, a Viruttam in most lively and tuneful Ti ali raga. Vasuky here shc and happiness that wet especially when one cons, had elapsed since the col programmel
Our thanks go to Vas hospitable parents, Dr. an jah for a wonderful even promising luminary of dau accompaniment was pro Guru, Smit Subathra S support of her star-pupil a throughout the recital wer See.
 

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Kumari Vasuky Sriskandarajah.
er skillin depicting gain noteworthy in St and dismay por e of the Pandavas /.
ni Vasuky first gave st of these being a the child-god Lord d great tendenness
п praise of КараSOrt of Lord Siva at 2peared there as a rtrayed her with a charm.
truly splendid, and rd Siva. Proninent in the site Legend, d and his consort at puranam, whereof a lowly cooly in the King of Madurhis was beautifully d by Kumari Nina fih Sri Wimal Sockrogramme. In this her footwork in a Mirdangam of Sri he was portraying
7 by the writer and 7 Caffe WO fira agamalika, and a ana in Kuntalavarved a climactic joy
truly bewitching, er that three hours Tref Cefnert Of her
ky's devoted and Mrs. Sriskandarag, and for a most el Nattuvangamded by Vasuky's adasan, and her d rapport with her a delight for all to
The music was superb. Vocal music was provided by Smit Sivasakthi Sivanesan, who studied at Central College of Karnatic Music, Madras, and also under Chittoor Sri Subramaniam, under whom the writer too had the privilege to study at Annamalai University in 1950. Also singing was Smit Renuka Shriananda, who holds an M.A. Music of the University of Madras. She Sang a number of interesting and unusual items. Dr Lakshmi Jayan, a disciple of our great friend Sri Lalgudi Jayaraman, provided violin &CCOrnpaniment in her accustomed Plife and accornplished style. The Mrdangam was brilliantly played by Adaiyar Balu’ - Sri N.V. Balaknishnan, and his rapport with Vasuky was a joy to witness. Dr. Thamotharam Nimalaraj, forsaking the Staff of Aesculapius for the Flute of Lord Krishna, gave a delightful flute accompaniment. Sruti-drone was kept by Kum Sudarshini Pararajasingham and Kum. Sujithra Ambikapathy
We were given a fully informative brochure that was extremely well produced, and I was delighted to see the Thevaram extracts included in it. Among messages of felicitation was one from Mrs. Sandra Buchanan, Headnistress of the Tiffin Girls' School, where Vasuky is a pupil. They are rightly very proud of so distinguished a student. indeed, we were one and all touched by the privilege of witnessing the talent, poise and accomplishment in Bharata Natyam of Kumari Vasuky Sriskandarajah. We salute her, and wish her that bright future she so richly merits.
Dr John R. Marr.
Appointed to Human Rights Tribunal.
Mr. Paul Nallanayagam, the well known Human Rights Activist, who is resident in Canada now has been appointed a part-time member of the Human Rights Tribunal Panel for a three-year term. This is the first time a Sri Lankan Canadian has been honoured in this manner. The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in his letter of appointment states, "Your impressive professional qualifications and long standing commitment to human rights will no doubt render you an effective and valuable addition to the Panel. I am sure you will find that the experience will be rewarding as well, and that you will gain immeasurably from the opportunity to adjudicate important and precedentSetting human rights cases.

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Gently with love your memory is kept We who loved you will never forget lf memories bring us closer We are never far apart For you are always in our thoughts And forever in our hearts Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by your wife Arul, children Rohini, Renuka, Rajiv; sons-in-law Vijayan, Sriharan; grand-children Vasi, Ravi, Prathi, Jayanthy, Ajit.
lin loving memory of Mrs Rasamalar Kandiah (Retired teacher, Mahajana College, Tellippalai, Sri Lanka), on the First Anniversary of her passing away on 17th September 1988.
Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her children Sriskandarajah, Sriravikulan, Varathadchayani, Vanithamany, Verlikumar, Thulasibai and Anandanadesan; daughtersin-law Chandra, Theiva, Ranjani and Bhavani; sons-in-law Kanagabhavan, Sri Murugadas and Manohara and grand-children Thanuja, Shusha, Narayani, Thileepa, Shankar, Parthipan, Narmatha, Kapilan and Mayooran.
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Oct. 14 7.00 p.m. Bharatanatyam Arangetram: Geeta Cambow.
Oct. 15 7.00 p.m. Veena Arangetram: Sudharshini.
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