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DABOLICAL DESIGNS
Over 170 persons were shot or hacked to death and their bodies were found on roadsides in the southern town of Hambantota on 21 December. These killings and indeed most of the killings that have occurred in the recent past, have been attributed to pro-government death squads euphemistically referred to in the media as 'vigilantes'. Reliable reports indicate that, in addition to deaths that result from operations by the services, groups of security service personnel in non-military attire and specially trained and armed pro-government gangs are roaming around the country executing people in their dozens at a time. No one has an accurate Count of those killed, but certainly they tally up to many thousands. The victims are not confined to alleged JVP men or its supporters. They include supporters of other opposition parties and innocent people.
It is in this context that the charge made by the Leader of the Opposition, Mrs. Bandaranaike, in Parliament on 12 January assumes dangerous significance. Raising a matter of public importance, she said that there was a conspiracy against the democratic opposition in Sri Lanka which, if not thwarted, would pave the way for a one party dictatorial state. She added that it was "no Secret that politically backed para-military hit squads continue to abduct and murder youth through the length and breadth of the country. In the guise of combatting subversion thousands of SLFP members had been arrested, abducted or murdered by the killer squads...it is my duty to tell this House of the information that has been brought to my notice with regard to the conspiracy which has been confirmed by persons in high authority...A group of individuals had been trained in pistol firing at the Ganemulla Army Camp and they have been given instructions to eliminate opposition party cadres, polling agents, family members and Close associates of Members of Parliament, These killer-groups have completed their training and have been deployed in different districts to carry out the task assigned to them. Prior to their deployment, these killer-groups have been provided with false army identity cards...Certain lists of persons to be killed have been given to these killer-squads. . . .
Mrs. Bandaranaike's charge is a serious one and the conspiracy she refers to "has been confirmed by persons in high authority'. The events that have taken place since the government claimed that "the entire leadership of the JVP had been wiped out" and 'the match was over' as far as the JVP was Concerned, the thousands who have been killed since and are continuing to be killed, and the unimpeachable evidence available concerning the activi
 

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ties of death squads and their connection with security forces give considerable credence to Mrs. Bandaranaike's charge.
Sri Lanka has been under emergency rule for many years. Backed by many draconian laws, the island has undergone a process of militarisation affecting many areas of civilian life. The security forces have been brought in to manage what essentially have been political problems. Senior military officers have been appointed 'Co-ordinating Officers' for districts enjoying and exercising powers over and above traditional civilian district administrators like Government Agents. With the recent escalation of violence and disruption in the south of the country, the armed forces have been drawn onto the centre stage for the management of the day-to-day political, administrative and security affairs of the country. A situation has been created in which governance of the country has become virtually impossible without the active assistance of the security forces, and the rapidly increasing role of the armed forces have made them more and more conscious of their own importance.
It is against this background that one envisages the distinct possibility of a dictatorship by a ruling clique with the active intervention and participation by the military being foisted upon the people. It could be that, in order to eliminate any serious opposition to such a move, a conspiracy has been hatched to wipe out or weaken the democratic opposition in the country under the guise of confronting the JVP. Mrs. Bandaranaike has not given out any information regarding the personalities behind this conspiracy. Democracy in Sri Lanka has already suffered serious inroads in recent years. The Rule of Law has been fatally undermined. The electoral process has been subverted. Freedom of expression has become severely restricted. Meetings and even peaceful protest marches stand banned. If a move to set up a dictatorship succeeds, it is not only the opposition parties but the entire people of the island who would lose even the limited rights they enjoy at present. Even the presently existing trappings of democracy will disappear. If Mrs. Bandaranaike is serious about preventing such a perilous and disastrous turn of events, she should identify and expose in public those personalities who are behind such a move and mobilise the people against it with assistance from other opposition parties. Making statements in Parliament will not defeat the diabolical designs of those involved being put into effect. It is people's power that has recently brought down many authoritarian regimes in eastern Europe. It is no less applicable in the case of Sri Lanka.

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HOW The LTTE SC
AS IPKF
Clutching automatic weapons in one hand and lunch packets in the other, the young 'soldiers' mount two tractor trailers parked alongside one another underneath a giant shade tree. Already stacked away neatly in the centre of the trailers are boxes of ammunition and what looks like packs of dry rations. Only the shining cellophane wrappers of the cream cracker biscuit packets are clearly visible among other parcels covered by brown paper.
The young men from the tender age of 12 to youthful 24, sit in orderly rows. They are dressed smartly in jungle green uniform, khaki coloured pouches strapped to their chests and ankle high brown boots - covering their feet.
The long pockets on the pouches hold manythings - loaded spare magazines for their weapons, grenades, a torchlight, compass, etc. one of them, obviously the platoon leader', had a new walkie talkie tucked away in the top pocket. The six inch long antenna rose over his shoulders.
No pictures
Their 'commander' whom I was speaking to, turned his head every now and then towards the tractors. At one stage, he looked towards me, said "no pictures please' and walked round the trailers. He gave his boys a pep talk. There was an air of military demeanour as he busied himself giving advice or simply asking a 'soldier to straighten out a crumpled pocket or to move a package that stood in the way.
In his late twenties, the 'commander prefers to call himself only by the pseudonym 'Dinesh'. The location is Chettikulam - a sleepy farminghamlet trapped on the one side by the Wilpattu National Park and on the other by the Vavuniya jungles.
Soon after two more armed youth take their place on the footboards and lean towards the driver's seat, the convoy moves. The men are waved off by Dinesh.
They are on one of the many "flushing out operations' to rid their 'anti-social' rivals - or simply members of other rival Tamil groups.
Dinesh is the Vavuniya district military leader for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Together with Political wing Leader, Jeyam, he has been operating clandestinely from hideouts in Vavuniya.
Last month, after Indian troops folded their tents and moved out from the Vavuniya district, they came out to the open. He based his 'detachment in the outskirts of the Vavuniya town.
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Just before the c Year, Dinesh was or ers to move to Chett "Forward Headqua flush out what he cal the butt end of th cadres of the People's nisation of Tamil Ee group that dominat district during the p) Accord days, and sm "Tamil National Ar sored by Eelam Peop. Front (EPRLF).
Dinesh accuses t indulging in a lootin the IPKF withdrew the Mussakutti vi away from Chettiku death a businessma gold', he charged.
'We had to deal died, others were ca others fled into th Dinesh. He refused but one of his aides I the figure at 48. bodies of nine of the bers were brought to bazaar and display more PLOT member
Dinesh said three Major Ahatiyar, Ca Lieutenant Alex - d on New Year's day hiding in the jungle repeated calls to the they don't they will ences', he warned.
Clearly the LTTE ousted the PLOT fr home base - the V There appears to be sistance. On the ot LTTE men, like the search and destroy surrounding jungle PLOT men are holed LTTE is establishing the area.
Parac The situation is doxical. It seems
two-tiered civil adm area — the North Eas cil running one throu official establishmen on the other hand
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awn of the New lered by his leadkulam, set up his ters' there and s the “traitors'. At is "offensive' are Liberation Orgalam (PLOT), the ed the Vavuniya e Indo-Sri Lanka all groups of the my” (TNA) spone's Revolutionary
he PLOT men of g spree soon after from the area. In lage (five miles lam), they cut to n and robbed his
with them. Some ptured alive. Yet he jungles', adds to give numbers spoke to later put Another said the dead PLOT memthe Chettikulam ed. Twenty two s were "arrested'.
LTTE members - ptain Murali and led in the clashes . Some are still s. We have made m to surrender. If face the consequ
appears to have m its traditional avuniya district. no organised reher hand, armed nes I saw, are on missions in the where fleeing up. This way the its supremacy in
OX somewhat paras if there is a nistration in the Provincial Coungh its network of s and the LTTE iaising with the o day problems. complaints has occupation. They ating to law and tes and a wide
variety of other problems faced by people in the area.
"We are looking after all matters in this area. We have asked the Sri Lanka Army to advise us before they move out to any area. When they do so, we ask one of our men to accompany them, a LTTE member told me. I asked Dinesh about it. His reply: "I cannot speak on such matters without the approval of the leadership'.
What Dinesh and his boys are doing in Chettikulam, like his counterparts and leaders in other districts tell the story of the LTTE of the nineties.
Unlike in the seventies when the movement was born and the eighties when it fought a covert guerrilla battle, the LTTE of the nineties is a lot different.
And what makes the big difference is its emergence as a "conventional army' in the districts from which the IPKF has withdrawn - Amparai, Batticaloa, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi.
The 'Forward Headquarters' at Chettikulam is very much like any Sri Lankan security installation. Located barely 200 yards as the crow flies from the Sri Lanka Army Camp in Chettikulam, within view of the railway station, the LTTE base is separated by the rail track that links Mannar with Anuradhapura.
Its outer perimeters are surrounded by sentry points located in bunkers walled by sand bags. Armed, uniformed youth take turns doing guard duty and report by radio to a 'command centre' located in a cluster of some eight houses.
Besides one main building, conspicuous by its protruding antennas, the other houses form the billets. Fuel lay in barrels. Double cab vehicles with long aerials lay parked outside. So is a lorry and a bus, lent by the wealthy in the area.
Battle ZOne
The fact that Chettikulam has become a "battle zone' has brought life to a standstill in the surrounding areas. There is hardly any movement of traf. fic along the Vavuniya-Mannar road. Escorted by a young man from a camp some ten miles outside Vavuniya we drove through a jungle track for more than six miles to fall on to this main highway.
I counted only one lorry till we reached midway at Puvarasankulam, where the LTTE flag fluttered on a 15 foot high pole at the centre of the junction. From there, the nine mile journey to Chettikulam was through another track full of craters. It lasted

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PFLT Leader Rul
With Rival
Gopalasamy Mahendrarajah alias Mahathaya, the Deputy Leader of the LTTE, and President of the LTTE's newly created political party, Peoples Front of Liberation Tigers, ruled out peace talks with rival Tamil groups for the present, as they continue with their main task of disarming the EPRLF created Tamil National Army (TNA).
The thirty-four-year-old Mahathaya, described by the Indian military as a shrewd military strategist, surfacing publicly for the first time since the Indian offensive against the Tigers began in October 1987 told newsmen in Vavuniya last week that the other groups were 'stooges of the Indian army'.
The people will never forgive them for the hardship they were put through these two years. As you can see they have been chased away'.
Mahathaya categorically denied that the Tigers committing themselves to mainstream politics was a tactical move on their part to get the IPKF out, get control of the north-east, and declare Eelam. “The question of Eelam does not arise'.
“We have been talking to the government from a position of strength and we believe that the Premadasa government will honour its pledges made to the Tamil speaking people'.
Responding to a question on the possibility of communal clashes in multi-ethnic TrinCOmalee When the
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nearly two hours. The return journey at night through the same route caused a little unease for my escort. He knew the Tigers but was worried about the wild elephants that would cross us. There were none till we reached Puvarasankulam. From there to Vavuniya, Tiger patrols on motor cycles stopped us at least three times, each time over taking us on the right, proceeding some distance and doing a U turn with the head lights pointed in our direction.
Time table
The LTTE appears to have set a time table of one month to clear the areas from their rivals. One of their senior members told me that Mullaitivu, Killinochchi, Amparai and Batticaloa have already been 'cleared'.
'But there are still small pockets of resistance in the thick jungles between Mannar and Vavuniya’, he said,
This fact was underscored by the LTTE number two and now leader of its political arm, (People's Front of Liberation Tigers - PFLT), Gopalas
IPKF leaves, Maha Were Confident that would not let that h;
Although he refus tails of the talks bet
leadership and the
admitted that subst been discussed and c a continuing process
According to Maha a few pockets of resi cadres in some of vacated by the IPKF free of TNA presenci
"A lot of them have we have after inter them to their famili have in our custody interrogated'. He de them were killed.
Those killed in ( said were less than six districts and di ports of a larger ci "exaggeration'.
General Secretary Yogaratnam Yogi, Mahathaya at the i the Indian army thousand weapons to or ten thousand we that'.
Mahathaya attrib success against the advanced military te dedication of their fi Fighting from the
w am y Mah en d “Mahathaya'.
Trail
The LTTE's Lon representatives in press conference fol north iast week. journalists includi Indian corresponde niya to see Mahath debut as PFLT lea was delayed by m. The media team wa niya to Omanthai miles away to a Mahathaya eventu
Mahathaya did his delay although very apologetic. Bu, point. After expres keeping them wi said, in a month fi would be able to phone. What he di his leader, Velupill
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Groups
thaya said they the government ppen. ed to disclose deveen the Tiger
government, he antive issues had alled the dialogue
thaya, except for stance from TNA the six districts , the others were
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surrendered, and rogation released es. Those we still nave to be further nied that some of
'onfrontations he a hundred in the missed news reasualty figure as
of the PFLT, Mr associated with nterview accused of giving eight the TNA. Eight can take care of
uted the Tigers
Indian army to chnology and the ghters. jungles as well as
ra rajah alia s
ning don office and its Colombo slotted a Mahathaya in the Local amd foreign g Colombo based hts moved to Vavuaya make his first der. Their Schedule bre than 40 hours. staken from Vavuand a few more location where ally appeared. lot give details for his colleagues were the did make one sing his regrets for iting Mahathaya om now the media each him by telenot say was about i Prabhakaran. g LTTE source in hambi Anna', as dly called, will also
from the urban areas, he himself came within a hundred yards of the Indian army but managed to escape said the man who would in the next month begin his political career by activating what he claimed was an already existing political structure that would for the first time in seventeen years of an armed guerilla struggle put them in the frontline of mainstream Tamil politics. What of his leader Vellupillai Prabakaran. When would he surface. "When the need arises'.
What did he think was India's future role in the politics of this country.
When India decides her Sri Lanka policy she should take the aspirations of the Tamil and Muslim minorities into consideration, something she did not do when signing the Indo-Lanka accord in July 1987. India however, must not interfere either militarily or politically in the internal affairs of the island'.
When the IPKF withdraws in entirety from the island, Mahathaya is confident that the Sri Lanka government will decide a date for fresh elections for a north-east council in which he says rival groups can participate and give people the chance to choose their representative freely.
Mahathaya, who married fellow militant Kalpana in 1986 is the father of a one year old.
They live with him he says, “in the jungle'.
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follow suit.
Whether the one month time table for "total control' will be on schedule or not, the LTTE is also busy with a number of other preparations. Training camps in the Batticaloa and Mullaitivu districts, besides other areas, are training new recruits in large numbers. A tailoring establishment in the Jaffna peninsula is busy stitching uniforms round the clock.
With more 'soldiers' to swell its 'army' and strong public support in the areas they operate, the LTTE has come to stay.
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1989 The Year ( Prospects for Peace.
January second marked the first
anniversary of President Ranasinghe
Premadasa's term of office. Addressing the nation from the historic Octagan in the premises of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, where, a year earlier he had committed himself to 'serve the people', the President re-pledged that same commitment calling on the people to join hands and hearts to reunite the country'.
What are the prospects for peace now, than they were a year ago?
The auspicious start to 1989 when a 'common man's man' was voted into the highest office in the land and the hope that he would see an end to the violence of the preceding year, was however short-lived, with the country soon finding itself embroiled in an orgy of unprecedented violence.
As the year wore on and the countersubversive operations by government forces intensified, there surfaced a number of vigilante death squads who struck with unrelenting ferocity.
1989, as someone very crudely put it, was "the year of the bodies'. Bulletriddled, disfigured, necklaced with burning tyres, hacked into pieces or heads severed, they lay on the main highways, in the villages, or floated down the country's rivers. Unidentified, they were, after people had their fill of the gruesome sight, burnt in a common funeral pyre, dumped in a mass grave or in some instances, left to be eaten by stray dogs.
As the parties to the conflict fought it out, innocent civilians became the hapless victims.
In the closing months of 1989 however, the Premadasa government scored what it would describe as major triumphs. The Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) leadership had been eliminated and the Tamil Tigers, engaged in an armed struggle with government forces for seventeen long years, sought and gained political recognition for their political wing, committing themselves to mainstream politics.
The other Tamil groups cried foul at the retention of the LTTE's military wing, pointing to it as a very negation of the principle of democratic politics. LTTE ideologue Dr Anton Balasingham, who conducted the LTTE's first ever press conference in Colombo to introduce the LTTE's new party and its manifesto, defended their stand saying it would be suicidal to disband its military wing, when all the other groups were armed, and there was no proper security arrangement to warr :ht it.
The Tamil National Council, com
By Rita Se
prising the EPRLF and PLOTE, has a military outfit in the East Militia.
Although the Sri ment has denied any the LTTE and the S there seems to be a ing that the gover turn the other way v take on the North-E that matter its other are of course quick they have repeate cadres of the Nort surrender and what in, is a disarming ex In whatever ter. scribes the interne has been going on in areas, State Ministe jan Wijeratne is on townships in the where the IPKF has is peace'.
In a special staten Tamil National Co headquarters in January 1st), while 'commitment to pea has warned the Sri ment that unless all are brought into the the conflict in the would be 'compelled alternative course to solution to the politic Tamil speaking peop. Whether the unil of independence in alternative, has no given today's groun be the impossible dr
Crucial to the however is the withd from the two rema Jaffna and Trincom complete IPKF de-in tirety. The Tigers h in no uncertain term io would be when the soldiers has left the
Minister Ranjan visit to Delhi in a ma the new governme office, spells out the ment’s dissatisfacti timeframe of Marcl complete de-inductic
Colombo is anx should be a more drawal from the tv tricts which thoug only twenty percent the North-East regi importance, the two the region.

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Of The Bodies
Uncertain in 1990
bastian
TELO, ENDLF dmitted its own form of a North
Lankan governcollusion between Sri Lankan forces, tacit understandnment forces will when LTTE cadres Jast Militia, or for rivals. The Tigers to point out that 2dly appealed to h-East Militia to they are engaged ercise. minology one decine warfare that the IPKF vacated r for Defence Ranrecord that in the six districts from moved out "there
nent issued by the uncil from their Trincomalee (On reiterating their ce and democracy”
Lankan Govern
the Tamil groups discussions to end North-East, they
to embark on an find a permanent cal problems of the le'. ateral declaration the region is that t been spelt out, d reality it would ea.
North-East issue rawal of the IPKF ining districts of alee which would duction in its enave demonstrated s what the scenarlast of the Indian island. Wijeratine's second tter of weeks since nt in India took Colombo governon over the new thirtyfirst for a n of the IPKF. ious that there expeditious withto remaining disthey constitute of the land area of in, are in terms of major districts in
What next after the IPKF has withdrawn, and what of the future of the North-East Council?
There is a great deal of uncertainty and confusion about the North-East Provincial Council in the wake of the LTTE demand that the Council be dissolved and fresh elections be held for the North-East Province. The LTTE's entry into mainstream politics could only be through such an election.
Government spokesmen have not been clear on the dissolution issue and the holding of fresh elections.
Bradman Weerakoon, special advisor to the President on international affairs, in an interview with the BBC, a few months ago, ruled out the question of dissolution of the Council on the premise that it was a lawfully constituted body.
The Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister Ranjan Wijeratne on the other hand, in a recent statement indicated that a new election may be necessary for the LTTE to join mainstream politics.
Uncertainty also looms over the constitutional position over the dissolution. If constitutional procedures relating to such dissolution are to be followed it will be proper for the Governor to exercise those powers only on the advice of the Chief Minister of the Council, or where it appears that the Chief Minister has clearly lost the confidence of the majority of the members of the Council.
The EPRLF administration which has an overwhelming majority in the North-East Provincial Council risks losing its authority only in the event of a negative vote of the ENDLF and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. If however there is no such vote of noconfidence the only other provision is for the President, if he is convinced that there is a breakdown of the administrative machinery, or failure indirectly of the Provincial Council to carry on in accordance with the law, to assume all powers of the Chief Minister and further declare that all powers of the Council will be exercised by Parliament. Such a proclamation will not constitute a dissolution but cripple the Provincial Council to such an extent, that it will be incapable of functioning autonomously.
Even such a proclamation by the President is subject to judicial determination, and a judge of the supreme court will be required to report on whether the grounds on which the proclamation was made were adequate.
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SECURITY ALERT
FOR TULF MPS
Most of the Members of Parliament belonging to the TULF (EPRLF, ENDLF & TELO) representing constituencies in the North-East have now moved into Colombo with their families fearing LTTE attacks. ATULF MP who did not want to be identified said that he had to leave everything behind and virtually flee to Colombo fearing a Tiger invasion of the district. It looks as if we could never go back to our home towns'. Even in Colombo, their movements were severely restricted by the grim reality that LTTE cadres operated quite freely, the MP added.
It is also learnt that most of the Members of Parliament belonging to EROS also have moved their residence to Colombo.
In the meantime, the Defence Ministry has advised all TULF Members of Parliament who have moved residence to Colombo to adopt extra security measures following intelligence reports that they could be targets of certain Tamil militant groups, according to a report in THE ISLAND of 11 January.
Quoting senior security officials, the report said that TULF MPs had been warned not to move about in the city and its outskirts without adequate security as the threat was real. Asked about the advice given by the Defence Ministry, a TULF MP remarked, “We have been asked to ensure that we are covered (security-wise) at all times'.
PLAN TO KILL RANJAN WIJERATNE
The government has claimed an alleged 'subversive' plan to kill Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne by ramming a car packed with explosives into the Minister's vehicle has been uncovered.
Military Secretary Brigadier Lucky Algama told a news conference the assassination attempt was revealed by captured JVP leaders arrested during operations carried out by Operation Combine which is responsible for the security of the Colombo metropolitan area and the suburbs.
During these operations the Army succeeded in capturing the hierarchy of the subversives responsible for the campaign of anarchy - the leaders for Colombo district, the military and propaganda wings Brigadier Algama said.
By interrogating the Colombo district military wing leader, an engineering undergraduate named Pieris, they managed to find out the location of a safe house which was known only to him.
When this house was raided a 22
year-old woman and a er were arrested and of explosives recovere
This raid enabled t car that was to be u: sination attempt whi the house of a mec Maharagama, on Dec dier Algama said. V paraphernalia requir car bomb were recove safe house in Bomiriy
(r FRESH NOR
PC ELEC IN AP
In a recent intervi Foreign Minister R. hinted at the possil fresh elections for the vincial Council in Ap expressed this view ol that the IPKF would of February.
Stating that the LT pate in the fresh electi added, “We should gi three months to go open up their politica suitable candidates t tions'.
Commenting on cla pro-EPRLF Tamil Na the LTTE, the Minist was happening beca Tamil groups were tr. remacy over one ano was trying to outdo want to bring sanity the democratic proce will of the people and development of their : ter added.
The Minister's ind elections would seem view that the gover ceded the LTTE’s den solution of the present vincial Council admin
POLITI ACTIVITES
The Government or gazette notification Security Ordinance b ties, political or other work, educational ins mises of community r ers and students.
These regulations
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nother JVPlead- స్టీ 75 kilogrammes T.
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*ー TH-EAST TIONS R
ew, Sri Lanka’s anjan Wijeratne bility of holding North-East Proril this year. He n the assumption depart by the end
TE would particiions, the Minister ve them at least and canvass and l offices and find o fight the elec
shes between the tional Army and er said that this use the militant ying to gain supther. One group
the other. “We and get them to ss, to accept the io get on with the areas, the Minis
lication of fresh to confirm the nment had conmand for the dis; North-East Proistration.
CAL BANNED
6 January by under the Public banned all activiwise, in places of titutions and pre'esidence of work
have also debarm entering such Lal institution or without prior perin charge of such
urther taboo any neeting, rally, deion, display postsuch workplace, on or residential permission of the
The notification states -
Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of these regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction after trial before a magistrate be liable to rigorous imprisonment for a term not less than three months and not exceeding five years and to a fine of not less than five hundred rupees and not exceeding five thousand rupees.
Any Police Officer, or any member of the Sri Lanka Army, the Sri Lanka Navy or the Sri Lanka Air Force, who requires to enter such place of work, institution imparting education or premises, for the purpose of performance of their functions under these regulations, shall keep informed the person in charge of such workplace, institution or premises.
Provided that where any person is arrested at such workplace, institution or premises, the officer making the arrest shall inform the person in charge of such workplace, institution or premises of the fact of the making of such arrest.
The regulations have been made by the President under Section 5 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40).
Brigadier Algama said the plot had been hatched about one month before the assassination of JVP leader Rohana Wijeweera and it was to be put into effect shortly after Christmas.
The plan was to use the car packed with explosives to ram Minister Wijeratine's vehicle while he was riding to Parliament, he said.
However it was not known when the assassination attempt was to be carried out or at which junction. Nor did they know how the explosives in the car were to be detonated, he added.
A man named Robert had been selected by the subversives to drive the car bomb into the Minister's vehicle, but the architects of the plan obviously operating on a 'need to know' basis had not told him the car was to be packed with TNT, Brigadier Algama also said.
Because of the possibility that he would baulk at the idea of a suicide attack Robert had only been told to block Mr. Wijeratine's car, Brigadier Algama said.
He put it this way: “If the Sri Lankan Tamil groups know that there is a haven for them in Tamil Nadu, they will fight in the island and come running, swimming and jumping to Tamil Nadu'.
On the other hand, if Karunanidhi makes it clear to them that they should not expect his sympathy, goodwill and a safe shelter in his state so long as the groups fight each other, they may come to their senses and stop fighting. After they stop fighting, all the problems in the North and the East are resolved, Wijeratne said.

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LTTE FORMS POLITICAL
h Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the dominant Tamil militant group, has transformed its political wing into a political party, according to a press release issued on 21 December.
Named the People's Front of Liberation Tigers, the party has received official recognition by the Sri Lankan Election Commissioner. The LTTE's deputy leader, Mr. Mahendrarajah, known as Mahattaya, is the President of the new party and Mr. Yogaratnam Yogi will function as its General Secretary. The party is to have a red flag of rectangular shape with the Tiger emblem in the centre.
The new party has announced its aims and objectives comprising ten points.
At a press conference in Colombo on 20 December, LTTE's chief spokesman Anton Balasingham said that the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran would continue to head the military wing which would also continue and not be disbanded considering the present "concrete conditions'.
Explaining why the LTTE had formed a political party, Mr. Balasingham said "we have renounced violence as a means to achieve political ends, and we are registering as a political party. This is a significant development”.
He reiterated that the LTTE was prepared to accept the provincial council structure as an "interim arrangement', although considering it "totally inadequate', and would contest the election.
But in an earlier interview, Balasingham said the group had asked the government to repeal the controversial Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which required politicians and public servants to disavow separatism.
“The Constitution should not constrain us from articulating our ideology', he asserted.
But he did not say whether the new party had formally subscribed to the Sixth Amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution which requires the eschewing of 'separatism' for recognition as a political party.
Asked if the LTTE had given up its demand for a separate Tamil state of Eelam, Balasingham said: “It is not prudent for us to give up Eelam." The demand is there'.
Post-Election Talks
He said the LTTE would enter talks with the people of the north and east after the provincial election to find a permanent political solution to their problems.
He denied reports that the LTTE and the Sri Lankan army had jointly
attacked the so-calle Army, military wing ( People's Revolutional eastern Amparai anc tricts, but admitted th an forces were awal attacks.
'We have advised government not to all launch offensive ope the TNA, as that w prolonging the stay of island', he said. "The that the LTTE would them.
“If there is an un tween the Sri Lanka the LTTE after six mol ing talks, it can’t b diabolical’.
In answer to a que that the "Tigers are thi government.
While upholding the arm its cadres, he reje that the group enter a ment with the rival T. the TNA, which he c army of RAW (Resear Wing)”, India’s exter, outfit.
Mr. Balasingham LTTE would continue t and said the Tigers “we struggle to disarm the had already succeeded Batticaloa and said th that the LTTE had d apply to the TNA.
Asked why he though the LTTE should carry TNA could not, Mr. Ba. that it was not possible LTTE with the Tamil N The LTTE had been in years and was recogni fighting for national l TNA on the other h; hurriedly created and a and was not a genui Balasingham parried q the assistance that til received from India in th and training in the pre by saying that the LTTE strong, self-sufficient fo they received Indian s how long the LTTE inte an armed force, Mr. Bal that after the IPKF pu Lanka and once the banded, the LTTE wou agreement with the Sri ernment under which wing can be transform lated into the security that would be made for east.
He made clear that laying down arms was

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t it proper that arms while the asingham said to equate the ational Army. xistence for 17 ed as a force beration. The nd had been med by India he force. Mr. Lestions about e LTTE had form of arms accord period, had become a *e even before pport. Asked ded to remain singham said ed out of Sri NA was disarrive at an Lankan Govthe military and assimirrangements he north and
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safety and security of the Tamil. speaking people.
He warned that any attempt to
forcibly disarm the Tigers would lead to disaster for the whole country.
According to the LTTE's press release, the aims and objectives of the party will be: 1. To fight for the social, political and economic emancipation of the Tamil and Muslim
aSSeS. 2. To fight against all forms of oppression, discrimination and exploitation of the Tamils and Muslims. 3. To fight for the right of self determination of the Tamils and Muslims. 4. To protect and preserve the geographical identity and integrity of the traditional homelands of the Tamils and Muslims. 5. To eliminate the oppressive caste system and work towards the establishment of an equalitarian social formation. 6. To fight and defend the rights and interests of all workers and peasants.
7. To work towards communal peace har
mony and co-existence.
8. To fight against the oppression of women
and support the struggle for Women's liberation. 9. To fight for the defence of political freedoms and democratic rights of all the people of the island.
10. To support the world national liberation
struggles against imperialism and neoColonialism.
The PFLT has embraced democratic
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socialism as its political and theoretical ideology. The Party holds the view that democratic ideals of liberty, equality, social justice and self determination are essential components
of an authentic socialist system. The Party advocates a socialist political system based on democratic principles, an ideal political society that would enhance the material and spiritual development of human beings.
The People's Front of Liberation Tigers
shall be constituted with the following struc
tureS.
1. Members. 2. People's Committees (Village Units) 3. Regional People's Committees (AGA Division Branches)
4. District People's Committees (District
Branches)
5. Student Organisation 6. Women's Front 7. Trade Union's Federation 8. General Council ề 9. Politburo (Central Executive Committee)
Any person over 18 years of age who accepts the aims, objectives and the programme of the Party and is prepared to abide by the rules and regulations of the Party shall be eligible for membership of the Party.
The Party members shall be enrolled through the People's Committees or through the Political Commissar of the Region or District.
The Liberation Tigers are agreeable to multiparty democracy and they are ready for the Provincial Council elections which can be supervised by an international team of observers including journalists. All parties can contest and campaign in the poll freely. The newly formed PFLT will contest the elections under the Provincial Council framework only as an interim measure. After the elections, as the elected representatives of our people, the Liberation Tigers will negotiate with the Sri Lankan Government for the permanent resolution of the question of Tamil and Muslim
people, the statement concluded.

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COLOMBO, Dec 29 (PTI)
Sri Lanka saw so much violence during the year that it lost count of the thousands killed even though new executive President Ranasinghe Premadasa assumed office promising to restore peace through the cardinal policy of 'consultation, compromise and consensus.
Instead of the three "C's', the island nation of 16 million witnessed a fourth 'C', confrontation - between security forces and the extremists (both Singhalese and Tamil), between IPKF and LTTE and among rival Tamil groups. Sri Lanka was also on a virtual ‘confrontation' course for a while with India after an ultimatum by President Premadasa to India to take back all troops.
Starting with anti-Indian demonstrations demanding immediate withdrawal of the IPKF and abrogation of the July 1987 accord, a violent Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) campaign turned into an anti-government agitation demanding fresh presidential and parliamentary elections. The agitation snowballed into a transport strike that spread to government departments and hospitals.
Terming the November 1988 presidential and February 1989 parliamentary elections as 'a fraud on the public', the JVP went on with its violent campaign to dislodge the government forcing the authorities to reimpose emergency on June 30.
Five and a half years of emergency was enough and "I hope we will never have to reintroduce it again', the President had asserted while withdrawing the emergency immediately after assuming office on January 2.
The emergency has since been extended by parliament on a monthly basis.
Despite offers of general amnesty and several rounds of unilateral ceasefire, President Premadasa failed to get the Sinhala extremist JVP to the negoulating table. The resultant confrontanon saw many killings, both by the extremists and security forces, mostly in the Sinhala majority JVP strongholds of central and southern parts of the island.
The emergence of death squads of anti-JVP vigilante groups added a new dimension. Bullet-riddled bodies ofsuspected JVP activists and their supporters and sympathisers lying scattered on the roadside, often smouldering in a pile of used tyres, became a regular gruesome sight. The average daily death toll of 25 crossed on some days the 100 and occasionally the 200 mark. Most of these retaliatory killings generally followed the murder by JVP
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unt of thousands killed
members of security force
ity operations succeeded
year end in eliminating ne top leaders of the miliation. JVP supremo Rohaand his deputy Upatissa e were captured and killed stody in early November icial account of the circreated a lot of doubts. tion and human rights the two were eliminated ity forces in a pre-planned st Lankans tend to believe he officials.
ituation in the Sinhala as worsened and mounte came from the united nd the powerful Buddhist dent Premadasa offered to endment of the constitustitute an all-party interim provided all political parg the JVP agreed. ge, he suggested a referende whether the executive should be replaced by a ry form of government Le minister responsible to - a demand pressed by five tion parties. he government's efforts to e JVP were met only with 'ess, its efforts with the ants were an unexpected
ration Tigers of Tamil E), the dominant Tamil ganisation, in a surprise ted the offer of President and came to the negotiatApril. w easefire by the LTTE with orces that was later exhe IPKF on a reciprocal ember, the peace talks led ants converting their polito a full-fledged political nas won recognition from commission. cleared the deck for the 1 mainstream politics.
LTTE and the Sri Lankan say the TNA was trained by the IPKF, India has 7 denied the allegation and s argued that the TNA was name given by the Sri ernment to volunteers retrained for absorption into onstituted Citizens VolunUVF). The CVF was raised its recognition by the Sri vernment, Perumal said, that the Colombo admilacked out of its commitise the CVF strength to the recognised strength of
The LTTE has now offered to contest elections in the north-east expecting the Sri Lankan government to dissolve the present council led by the EPRLF, and the IPKF to completely withdraw before the elections.
The IPKF withdrawal issue continues to cause concern to the Lankan government as a section of the force still remains at the end of the year.
A sudden ultimatum by President Premadasa on June 1 to India to withdraw the IPKF before July 29 took not only India but members of his own cabinet by surprise and led to the brink of a major confrontation with India.
Hectic diplomatic activities in both the capitals ultimately saved the situation. On September 18, India declared that it would do its best to complete the IPKF withdrawal by December 31, while Sri Lanka reiterated it would take all steps to ensure safety and security of the people of the northeast and expedite devolution of powers to the provincial administration. The IPKF also announced a cessation of hostilities against the LTTE.
But the situation took a turn for the worse as rival Tamil groups fought to establish their supremacy in the areas vacated by the IPKF.
When a change in the government took place at Delhi following general elections, the Sri Lanka government was prompt in its attempt to establish rapport with the administration of Prime Minister V P Singh and rushed Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne to Delhi even before the new government could settle down.
The LTTE also expressed a similar desire. A round of discussions took place in Madras between the LTTE and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi, acting at the behest of the Prime Minister, but a concrete outcome may take shape only in the new
year.
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Honouring a Herc
Reggie Siriwardena (Reporting from Jaffna)
"She was a heroine of human rights', said Martin Ennals, speaking at the Rajani Thiranagama Commemoration Meeting in Jaffna, and is now a martyr'. The words didn't belong to the fulsome vocabulary of post-mortem eulogies; they were nothing more than the simple truth. Rajani was an extraordinary woman, and her role in Jaffna during the agonies of her people in the post-1987 period was proof of her enormous courage, total commitment and tireless activism in the human rights causes she served.
She choose to return to Jaffna after her academic training abroad, at a time when scholars and Professionalsnot only from the North but also from the South - were flying away as plentifully as migrating birds. With her brilliant intellect and distinguished academic record, she could easily have found a comfortable nest in one of the cities of Europe or America, but these possibilities she rejected.
During the last two years she singlehandedly ran the Department of Anatomy at the Jaffna University, and her
students testify that they found her -
not only an inspiring teacher but also a warm friend, a trusted counsellor and a source of succour in times of distress. But her greatest service to the people of Jaffna, and indeed to the indivisible cause, of peace, democracy and human rights in Sri Lanka, was in the founding of UTHR (University Teachers for Human Rights), in which she was the Principal activist. UTHR retained its independence of all political parties and groups, of the IPKF and the Sri Lankan State. In its three reports so far issued as well as in the manuscript The Broken Palmyrah (still to be published), it has recorded impartially and objectively all violations of human rights, irrespective of whether they were committed by, the IPKF or by militant groups.
This however, was only part of Rajani's activity in these years. She intervened personally on behalf of people who were victims of injustice, came to
the help of women who had been raped
or had lost a member of the family, strove to defend the rights of freedom of speech, writing and organisation, as well as the rights of women. Her vision was one that rose above fanatical and destructive nationalism and the reliance on coercive violence. What she worked towards was the restoration of free democratic life in Jaffna, based on the activity of the people. And it is for this that she died.
Six days before her death Rajani wrote in a letter: "One day some gun
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You refused to of exile, returne of death pursui They shot you Will be rememb l bring you no
will silence me. And by an outsider, but b the womb of this ver woman with whom shared'. Running av her nature, but wha tained her in this pl death was the knowl built a consciousness people which would perhaps that her v fertilise the social m begun. "And so it proved - two-day commemor, march organised for her death by UTHF University Stut *MADAM'S VALU DEAD" said one of th on the march, "THE THE HEARTS OF H Over 600 people - st teachers and represe south - attended thi man rights and the meetings on the two ( tional esteem and re had won for her worl the presence of seve human rights and activists - British, D Indian and Pakistar Nighat Khan from P. the appointment of three-member team f tan and Bangladesh 1 killing, and the comn ing endorsed the pro
PEACE MA
The peace march was a moving experi had not known suc: mobilisation forman ers plastered on the placards (in three l; on the march test commitment of the p ple’s rights and aga HUMAN RIGHTS TION'; 'STOP ALLF INGS’, said some oft newspaper-less city v Jaffna and Colom

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FOR RAJAN
eat the bounteous and bitter bread ld to live With the hot breath ng you, yet held your head high. like a dog in the street, but that death ered as their shame, your pride. wreath, flowers as for a bride.
it will not be held y a son — born in y society - from a my history is vay was alien to t must have susremonition of her edge that she had and a nucleus of live after her, ery blood would ovement she had
in the impressive ation and peace the 60th day of R and the Jaffna dents Union. sES ARE NOT eplacards carried Y LIVE ON IN ER STUDENTS”. udents, university ntatives from the e seminar on hucommemoration lays. The internaspect that Rajani k was signified by ral distinguished
women's rights utch, Tanzamian, ni. One of them, akistan, proposed
an independent rom India, Pakisto investigate the hemoration meetposal
ARCH
through the city ence in a city that h an independent ly years. The postcity walls and the anguages) carried ified to the firm articipants to peoinst violence. "NO , NO LIBERA''OLITICALKILLhem. Others - in a where papers, both bo-produced, had
R.S.
been banned by different groups, appealed for the freedom of the press. Some posters and placards forthrightly condemned the practice of violence (“BARBARISM STRIKES AGAIN!”; MURDERERS, HANDS OFF THE UNIVERSITY!'); others sought to reason with those who resorted to it. I was particularly struck by one pasted on a city wall whose deviation from the Queen's English testified to its authenticity as a student utterance. It read: “DEAR OUR MILITANT BROTHERS; WE SALUTE TO YOUR SACRIFICE, BUT WE DISAGREE WITH YOUR METHODS, WHICH IS DESTROYING BOTH YOURSELVES AND US. PLEASE THINK CONSTRUCTTVELY”.
I came away from Jaffna with only one regret - that there was nobody from the southern campuses among the twenty-odd people who travelled up there. If they had come, they could at least, like the rest of us, have learnt something. Would such initiative and such courage have been possible on any campus in the south two months after the killing of a member of university community?
Continued From Page 5
The only way now for the dissolution of the North-East Council is for Chief Minister Waratharajah Perumal to be persuaded to recommend to the Governor that the Council be dissolved. Although the Chief Minister did, a few months back, offer to dissolve the Council to accommodate the LTTE, it seems quite unlikely now in view of the armed conflict between the groups. Once again it will be India who will be called upon to mediate between the groups, since the Colombo government's efforts so far have failed.
Although the LTTE has committed itself to a multi-party democracy in the region, there are serious doubts whether that kind of scenario is possible now, given the reality on the ground that the LTTE holds the whip hand.
The people - Sinhalese and Tamils - yearn for peace, but prospects are quite uncertain for 1990.

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ALLPOLITICAL ACTIVITY BANNED IN VARSITIES
All political activities, rallies, meetings and demonstrations have been banned within the premises of all universities in Sri Lanka when they are reopened. This is one of the ten conditions laid down by the Defence Ministry for the reopening of universities.
Police will be empowered to enter any university premises and to arrest any student without the authority of the Vice-Chancellor contrary to the previous practice which required prior permission to be obtained before any police entry into the universities.
Another condition stipulated that no outsiders should be permitted in the University premises without authority and any presence of outsiders should be brought to the notice of the authorities.
All students who return on reopening of universities are to be issued with new identity cards.
The Inter-University Students Federation condemned the conditions as "the latest conspiracy against the students delivered in the wrapping of reopening”. “These repressive and slavish conditions alias military rule is the death knell of freedom of thought, expression and speech that is a basic ingredient not only of academic freedom but also of democracy.
The Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA), at a joint meeting held with the Minister of Higher Education, the University Grants Commission and the ViceChancellors of the Universities, asserted that several conditions laid down for the reopening of the Universities could lead to provocative situations resulting in the disruption of university education once again.
ΡΚΡ EXPEDITES WITH DRAWAL.
The Indian Peace Keeping Force has effected total withdrawal from six of the eight districts they were occupying since July 1987, and they are Amparai, Batticaloa, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts.
The two remaining districts are Jaff. na and Trincomalee. Recent reports indicate that even in these districts, the IPKF have already vacated from most of their outlying camps. In the Jaffna district, their presence is limited to the Jaffna city itself and the majority of them are in the Jaffna Fort. They had even vacated the Government Agent's Residency which was used as the IPKF Head Quarters. Reports also indicate that the IPKF is no ringer engaged in any routine op
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Even in the IPKF presenc a few miles r.
LTTE sourc able numbers quantities of being hurried of Kankesant Trincomalee are that effo effect total w March deadlin ment in Delhi
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Leaders of m senting the M told the Minis Science an Hameed, who the governme prepared to a ger under c under the p willing to cor provided legis power sharing for the Muslir
Among th have been ho took place ór with Mr. Ha UNP, SLMC, Liberation Fr Muslim Leagu Sri Lanka, E representative also had di Mohamed, the ment.
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President Pri cised poverty known as Jar mid-day progn criticism in Bank. The rep viya programı tive anti-pove it was poorly address the lo ty and finally As for the m it says that t reach the po nutritionally children.
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Trincomalee district, the *e is concentrated within adius of the city itself. 'es confirm that considerof men and enormous military hardware are ly despatched to the ports hurai in the North and in the east. Indications rts are being made to ithdrawal before the 31 he set by the new govern
LIMS WANT WER SHARING
any organisations repreMuslim community have ter of Higher Education, d Technology, A.C.S met them on behalf of ent, that they were not ccept a North-East merne Provincial Council resent set-up but were sider it under one that lative guarantee of 33% ; in the Eastern Province in community. e organisations which lding discussions, which December 24 and 28, (meed were the SLFP, DWC, Muslims United ont (MULIF), All Ceylon le, Council of Muslims of ROS and ENDLF. The es of these organisations scussions with M.H. 2 Speaker of the Parlia
hisations are reported to set up a Land Matters d additional Committees !ation, employment and expected to be set up hulate concrete proposals d to the government on Wuslim community.
RLD EBANK ITICAL OF VYA PROJECT
emadasa’s much publialleviation programme, asaviya, and the school amme have come under a report by the World ort regarded the Janasame as being "not an effecrty programme because targetted; it did not ng term causes of poverit was too costly.
id-day meal programme, his programme failed to pulation which is most at risk, i.e. pre-school
native to the JSP, the as suggested that in the
future it would be "probably desirable not to discontinue the National Food Stamp Programme, but to improve its targetting”.
In view of the criticism, the government decided to contain the overall expenditure on Janasaviya, National Food Stamps and School mid-day meal to no more than 3.5 per cent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
"The decisions, together with the new tax revenue measure envisaged in 1989 and 1990 ... should allow a gradual reduction in the fiscal deficit to 10.4 per cent of GDP in 1990, nine per cent in 1991 and eight per cent in 1992, the Bank predicted.
The government's decision to restructure the JSP has avoided the numerous budgetary and economic pressures, as well as the social tensions, that the large scale implementation of the JSP would have inevitably brought about, the WB report said.
MP’S WIFE & SON ABDUCTED & RELEASED
Mr. Sam Thambimuttu, TULF MP for Batticaloa District, has written to President Premadasa complaining about the raid on his Batticaloa residence in the course of which his wife and son were abducted allegedly by a group of LTTE men after they had shot dead four bodyguards.
Mr. Thambimuttu said that a 30 member LTTE gang which stormed his house on 12 December had assaulted his wife and son in the course of kidnapping them. They had also damaged household goods and removed cash, jewellery and other valuables amounting to over Rs.400,000. A part of the jewellery robbed had been returned to his wife at the time she was set free two days later.
"I have protested to the President against the LTTE which entered the house of a Member of Parliament with impunity and made an attempt (as admitted by them) to remove weapons issued by the government of Sri Lanka', he added.
According to a report in the Sri Lanka English language daily, THE ISLAND, of 10 January, a foreign envoy of a European country was instrumental in getting Mrs. Thambimuttu and her son released on 14 December. The foreign envoy had informed the LTTE's accredited spokesman, Dr. A. Balasingham that counter-measure would be taken against the LTTE establishment in Europe unless they released Mrs. Thambimuttu and her son without conditions. It was not the Sri Lankan government that got them released. On the day of their release they were hosted to a party by the High Commissioner responsible for their release.

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NEWS ROUND-UP
OMANY MEMBERS of the Tamil National Army sponsored by the EPRLF and its allies are said to have deserted and found their way to Colombo from the North-East after either throwing away or selling their weapons. At a press conference in Colombo on 20 December, the Secretary of the PFLT, the political wing of the LTTE said that the LTTE would keep all weapons they had captured from the TNA and they would not be handed over to the government.
O MORE THAN 170 young men were killed during the night of 20/21 December and their bodies were found on the following morning dumped on roadsides in Sri Lanka's southern district of Hambantota. Most of the victims had been shot and their bodies placed on burning motor vehicle tyres. The killings have been attributed to the security forces and pro-government vigilante groups. O FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister and State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne told Parliament on 22 December that, according to intelligence reports, the JVP had drawn up plans to kidnap and murder politicians of the government and the opposition including the SLFP, LSSP, SLMP, NSSP and CP.
O PRO-GOVERNMENT vigilantes shot dead 19 members of two families in Sri Lanka's central province on 21 December allegedly in retaliation to the killing of a policeman three days earlier. After killing the 19, their homes were then set on fire with the bodies inside. O AN LTTE DELEGATION headed by Anton Balasingham had a round of talks on 21 December with President Premadasa which concerned the LTTE team's visit to Madras and their discussions with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. O FORTY-FIVE MEN of the Tamil National Army who were retreating after a three-day fierce battle with the LTTE were killed on 25 December at Aralagamwila in the Polonnaruwa district; 176 others surrendered with their weapons to the Singha Regiment camped at Aralagamwila, and the captured weapons included 89 T-56 assault rifles, four Chinese light machine guns, 20 hand grenades and over 10,000 rounds of T-56 ammunition.
O SRI LANKAN troops have moved into several camps vacated by the departing personnel of the IPKF in the Vavuniya sector. The withdrawal from this sector was completed on 30 December and State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne flew to Vavuniya, Kilinochchi and Elephant Pass with top officers of the Sri Lankan army to review security arrangements following the IPKF withdrawal. O TWENTY EMPLOYEES including private security personnel attached to the Colombo University were arrested on 30 December allegedly for painting slogans on university walls defamatory of government leaders. O FOUR LEADERS of the military wing of the JVP in the north western province were captured by police in a late night swoop on 30 December from a hospital quarters in Kuliyapitiya. The four have been identified as Dissanayake alias Tissa Wijesundera, G. Wijesundera alias Pathirana, H.M. Chandradasa and U. Dissanayake, a second year medical student. A quantity of weapons and ammunition were also captured. O PEOPLES LIBERATION Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOT) in a letter to the Minister of Information has sought time on state television and radio to express its views in the same manner as the LTTE was afforded the opportunity recently. O TWO YOUTHS were beheaded by suspected progovernment death squads at Naihothpana on the KandyKurunegala Road on 30 December. They were among over twenty persons killed by death squads in other parts of the country. Over ten smouldering bodies of males were found
 
 

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at Gonapinuwela in the south of the island while some more bodies were found at Siyablape in the Kelaniya area. During the night of 31 December, the heads of three persons were chopped off and their house was set on fire with the bodies inside at Kerala in Moneragala; the victims have been identified as Dhammika Ratnayake, Prasanna Manamendra and their grandmother 72 year old Podi Menike. Meanwhile 'subversives' set fire to a state-run bus at Godagana.
O SOLDIERS RAIDED an alleged JVP hideout in the jungles of Kandy district on 1 January and killed at least 16 persons and recovered some arms and ammunition. At Elahera in the neighouring Matale district several smouldering bodies were found on 2 December; they had been killed by pro-government vigilantes. Several burning bodies were seen on the streets at Middeniya and Beliatta in the deep south. A gang walked into the offices of the Rubber Control Department in Galle during office hours and beheaded a woman worker.
O HEAVILY ARMED cadres of the ENDLF, a Tamil militant group, visited the party headquarters of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress and ordered the party's assistant Secretary R.E. Anandarajah to vacate the premises threatening reprisals if he did not do so, the leader of the TC Kumar Ponnambalam said on 3 January. O OVER ONE HUNDRED Tamil militants died and many more were wounded in fierce armed clashes between the LTTE and PLOT at Chettikulam in the Vavuniya district. The clashes commenced on 1 January when a contingent of the LTTE attacked PLOT positions in the area. PLOT had over a period established itself securely in the area and the effort on the part of the LTTE was to dislodge the PLOT from there. After three or four days of fierce fighting and severe casualties on both sides, LTTE claimed that it had routed the PLOT. But the PLOT claimed that the LTTE had received operational support from Sri Lankan security forces in the attack.
O SRI LANKAN Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratne left for New Delhi on 4 January to have talks with his counter-part of India, Inder Kumar Gujral in an effort to expedite the total withdrawal of the IPKF before the deadline of March 31 unilaterally set by the Indian government.
O SEVERAL OPPOSITION parties have placed a noconfidence motion before parliament against the government accusing it of having failed to discharge its primary duty of giving the country peace, order and good government; of having acted in defiance of the fundamental rights of the people and the Rule of Law; of having deliberately permitted and encouraged illegal para-military organisations to kidnap, abduct, torture and murder citizens and to commit other offences; of deliberately permitting or causing the rate of inflation to go up and of allowing the cost of living to spiral to unprecedented heights; of increasing poverty by removing existing subsidies on essential foodstuffs and causing retrenchment in the public sector; of failing to stem corruption in public life; and of discriminating against political opponents while according favoured treatment to supporters of the ruling United National Party. O TWO LEADING members of the LTTE were shot dead by the IPKF on 3 January at Chavakacchcheri in Jaffna. The victims were identified as Capt. Nadesan and Lt. Babu. The LTTE in a statement claimed that a large number of youths forcibly conscripted to the Tamil National Army had deserted and sought refuge in India and that over a thousand conscripted students had surrendered to the LTTE. O POLICE IN search operations in Banawalikana in the Kandy area shot and killed 16 alleged 'subversives' and recovered a quantity of weapons and ammunition on 4 January. In Badulla five Buddhist monks were arrested for suspected 'subversive activities'. In the Rambadagalle police area, security forces raided an alleged 'subversive

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hideout' at Navgalakanda in the course of which they sh dead three persons described as 'subversives'. Two oth alleged 'subversives' were killed at Ranna in the Ratr pura district. On the same day, in continuing nightti 'anti-subversive' operations 85 persons were arrested in t Ahangama police area. In similar operations at Kalegal in Galle and at Tangalle over 160 persons were taken ir custody. Two student Buddhist monks, identified as Ve Polgaswatte Pemananda and Ven. Kokmaduwa Indrajo both of Heenetigala Vidyakeerthi Pirivena were abduct by armed men from a temple in the Habaraduwa.
O TWO ARMY OFFICERS and a civilian produced unc Emergency Regulations for extortion of two million rupe from a wealthy businessman were remanded to custody
the Colombo Additional Magistrate on 5 January. T suspects who posed as members of the Deshapre Janatha Viyaparaya (DJV), the military wing of the JV had contacted the complainant businessman W.P.G. Sta ley de Silva of Ward Place, Colombo and demanded t money. Later two of the suspects had called over at t businessman's residence on a motor cycle and collected t two million rupees in cash. They were injured in a poli ambush, but managed to escape. However they we apprehended later while still undergoing treatment f gunshot injuries sustained by them during the poli ambush.
O ALMOST 12,000 people were killed in violence throug out the country during 1989, according to statistics co piled by the security forces. The month of August sa violence reach a peak with about 1435 killings reported. C the first of January 1990, 52 violence-related deaths we reported.
O ARMY COMMANDER Lt. General Hamilton Wanasing has proposed to the government to take back all arms a ammunition issued to various political parties. This follo several disclosures of some weapons issued to vario politicians had been used in criminal activities includi murders. Gen. Wanasinghe revealed that 1500 soldie were trained to give security cover to politicians. Most them have been deployed to protect ruling party politiciar Some of the opposition parties have been allocated weapo which are used by security guards employed to prote leading members of those parties.
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MADRAS (PTI). Five persons, three of them policemen, suffered bullet in
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juries while nabbing a group of Sri Lankan Tamils who were fleeing after committing a dacoity in Salem town
Tamil Nadu director general of police P. Dorai told reporters that three Lankan Tamils were arrested and an AK-47 rifle and a pistol with American markings seized from the culprits, who were in the age group 25 to 30. A special police team from Madras left for Salem for further investigation.
Giving details, Dorai said five persons stated to be from Sri Lanka went on three motorcycles to the house of one Natarajallingam, also a Sri Lankan Tamil, settled in Salem. They demanded Rs. one lakh, threatening the occupants with firearms. They then got away in a car belonging to Natarajalingam with a typewriter and a two
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O ALLPOLICE officers in the country have been instructed by the Inspector General of Police to identify themselves before conducting any search operation in a house, and accordingly members of the public would be able to request any police officer to identify himself before entering a house to search or arrest any inmate.
O THE UNIVERSITIES of Peradeniya and Moratuwa
reopened on 8 January and those of Kelaniya, Colombo and Jayawardenepura reopened on 11 January. All the univer
sities in the country, except those in the North-Eastern
province had remained closed for more than a year due to unrest and violence. Reports indicated that attendance on the first day of reopening was below twenty per cent, but was expected to improve.
O THE POLICE in the southern city of Galle took into custody 137 persons in a sweep of the entire Galle district. Four smouldering bodies were found at Bandattara in Matara on 8 January; motor vehicle tyres had been used to burn the bodies - a common method adopted by the security forces and pro-government death squads. Eight
bodies of young males were seen floating in the Nilwala
Ganga at Wellatota on 7 January. On the same day the charred remains of six more bodies were seen at Akurugoda. O THE CHIEF MINISTER of the North-East Provincial Council, A. Varatharaja Perumal left for Madras on 8 January to "persuade the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to unite all Tamil militant groups in the interests of the Tamil speaking people. He stated that he would make use of his visit to India to explain to the new Indian Prime Minister V.P. Singh the obligations of the Indian Government under the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. OTHE SLFP LEADER Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike, addressing a commemorative meeting on January 8 to mark the 91st birth anniversary of the late S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike accused the government of supplying arms to the LTTE in order to destroy its rivals. Dr. Balasingham who is not a Sri Lankan citizen had been provided with STF security at the Colombo Hilton International Hotel. He was given vehicles and even helicopters to travel. The LTTE had not given up its demand for Eelam and its insignia was still the Tiger, Mrs. Bandaranaike said. She also charged the government of killing thousands of SLFP supporters by claiming that they were members of the JVP.
all the border police stastrict were then alerted.
ILLED, SLTB ES BURNT IN VED VIOLENCE
families of security personnel and relatives of politicians.
The leftwing People's Liberation Front (JVP), fighting to overthrow the government, was blamed for the attacks.
In other violence, two Buddhist monks were killed and dumped on the road in central Kandy district and the bodies of four other people were set
Dec. 11, (Reuter) — Leftse rebels killed about 40 tfire to buses and governin a sudden outbreak of oss Sri Lanka, military vesterday. s occurred on Sunday in stern and central areas. es said two railway enher government vehicles ldozers were burned.
railway stations, a bus 2 and phosphate factories :e were among buildings
victims, most of whom h separate attacks, were
afire in the same area.
Kandy residents blamed progovernment vigilantes, hunting JVP rebels, for the attacks.
Military sources said JVP attacks had eased after front leader Rohana Wijeweera and other top rebels were killed last month.
"Yesterday's attacks come at a time when we want to thin out troops in the rebel's southern strongholds, an officer said.
He said it was possible that the attacks were a ploy to prevent Sri Lankan reinforcements being sent to the north and east where Indian troops are withdrawing.

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THE TAMIL
This Is No Tine
In passing by the side of Mount Thai, Confucius carrie On a woman who was weeping bitterly by a grave. The Master pressed forward and drove quickly to her; then he sent Tze-fu fo queston her. "Your MFarg", 5ald he, "s that of one who has suffered sorrow on sorrow". She replied: "That is so. Once my husband's father was killed here by a tiger. My husband was also killed, and now my son has died in the same way". The Master said, Why do you not leave the place?" The answer was, "There is no oppressive government here". The Master then said, "Remember this, my children: орpressive government is more terrible than tigers'.'
- Erofed by Bertrand Russel in his book,
S. Swanayagan
Both these quotations, selected from two disparate sources, divided in time by centuries, one from the wisdom of the ancient Chinese four centuries before Christ, the other from a book dealing with present-day muclear terror, bring of course as a focal point of interest (and in a symbolic way) the four-footed animal known as the tiger. A dictionary defines this quadruped as 'a type of very large fierce wildcat that has yellowish fur with black bands across, and lives in Asia'. A figurative description of the word "tiger' is given as "a person like such an animal in fierceness, courage, etc.' In aderogatory sense, “ап етпепmy which wishes to seem powerful, but is really not so is defined as a "paper tiger'. The expression "to ride the tiger' is explained as living "in a very uncertain or dangerOus Way',
Well, these are matters of semantics; but semantics has become importantin today's world for the resolving of conflicts, for the signing of treaties and communiques, for the reaching of understanding between governments and warring parties. Take for example the word "de-induction' of the IPKF, used in the Indo-Sri Lanka coln Inuni. que of September last. It is meant to be the antonym of "induction', but where did the word spring from? If it is in any dictionary, I have yet to discover it (maybe some reader could help), but why that involved coinage? The word "withdrawal' of the IPKF would have been the common sense description, but that could connote an army, Since the image of the IPKF as a peacekeeping force had to be maintained, this interesting exercise in semantics was found necessary by some Indian bureaucrat. Once when a TW interviewer in India referred to the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of 1987 as an accord", the then Minister of State for External Affairs Mr. Natwar Singh Corrected him, “Arı Agreement, not arı Accord, he said. Maybe there is some
nuance involved in mortals like us Ini пе оf an old story Parliаппепt where political rivals, [Hlau were in Wolved in When Disraeli ke words "disaster an course of his speech a spokesman from benches, who dema difference between Speaker', said Dis stone were to falli would be a disaste were to pull hiIn Col calanity!"
Semantics apart of mind of all Tami Sri Lanıkla or Tamı don, New York, Washington, Toror in Paris, Berna, A. gart, Or Oslo, or M Auckland, has beer the wery mention brings into mind 1 legged species whi centuries in the jur tion Tiger of Tamil would be fascinatir. to the real thing, a two quotations. Bu more to it than tha deductions we dra quotations, provide right ones.
Tilt til LTTE Тапmil scепе, апсd T for a decade is be: acceptance of that Imatter of controve oppose the LTTE, reason or other, s with grace, becaus truth. As to how th achieve that distin issue, depending Cor. Üfwig W. A. Critic Dft say: “Even the ba German life and

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To Fall Behind
'... ...The Eiger kis in accordance with Is nature. Humans did, foo, when they were in a palaeolithic stage of development. King in the hurf was no act of violence then, but self-expression appropriate to that stage, Historical kinds of killing, however, began to break with this pafter when the stafe arose as the means of organizing death, Kling under the aegis of the State violates nature, and becomes more violent as history becomes more technological...There are no enemies, strictly speaking, in the state of nature. The tiger does not remember or generalize; it does not kill for revenge, or out of principle, through delegated, deluded, and dehumanized troops. And certainly not by pushing buttons. It defends ferritory but not a way of Ife. Wolence is the historical context of aggression. It kills abstractly and for a higher purpose..."
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it which ordinary ss. Which reminds about the British the two traditional dstone and Disraeli a verbal exchange, pt using the two d"calanity' in the , he was heckled by the Government inded to know the the two. Well, Mr. raeli, "if Mr. Gladmto the Thames, it r. But if somebody ut, that would be a
the political state ls today, whether in il Nadu, or in LonBoston, California, ito, Scarborough, or msterdam or StuttMelbourne, Sydney, L Bo coInditioned that of the word "tiger not the noble fourich has existed for gle, but the LiberaEelam. I thought it g to jerk our minds ind hence the above t of course, there is t. It depends on the Lw from these two 2d we arrive at the
has dominated the amil consciousness yond question. The fact should not be a sy, Ewen those who or dislike it for some hould concede that Ie it is an objective eLTTE managed to ction is a subjective Leath person's point he LTTE might well d Hitler dominated
the German con
(1933) sciousness for twelve tempestuous years, so what?" True. But there is a wital difference. Hitler was able to achieve that dominance through the exercise of State pouer, and that was what enabled him to send six million jews to the gas chambers. The now unlamented, deposed, and executed Romanian despot Ceausescu with his wife, son, and 50 close relatives was able to lord it over 23 million Romanians for an unbeliewable period of 24 years with the help of fascist thugs of the communist variety because he had State power in his hands. Even a tin-god tyrant when clothed in authority can gain the status of a respected head of state - so respected that cven the Queen of England had thought it fit to Inake an oppressor like Ceausescuan honorary knight, and Her Majesty had to wait till the Romanian people pulled him down from his pedestal before she would strip him of his knighthood. The case of ex-President Jayewardene was no different except in degree and shade; it was State power and all the arrogance that goes with it that made him thrive for eleven years at the cost of several thousands of Tamil lives - not to mention the lives of thousands of his own Sinhala constituents. Interestingly, all these dictators grabbed power through "democratic elections'. In contrast to all these examples, the pre-eminence of the LTTE these past few years had not only nothing to do with State power; on the contrary it was achieved in the face of State power used against it, not by Orne i government but by two governments. More specifically, the preeminence Was attained by fightkrig State power! Is that not an achievement, that cannot be disregarded by anyone who is able to think detachedly? But why is it, that of all people, sume Eelam Tamils themselves are unable to digest this truth
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These prefatory remarks are occasioned by the "Changing scenario in the North-East' (TT: 15 Oct. '89) now changing rapidly since then - particularly with the advent of the National Front government in India. The ground situation in the North-East is undergoing a transformation. Attitudes are changing. Indo-Sri Lankan relations are entering a new phase. The LTTE is moving towards mainstream politics. A new political party, the People's Front of Liberation Tigers (PFLT) has been given constitutional recognition. The IPKF has been completely "de-inducted' from six of the eight districts in the North-East - Amparai, Batticaloa, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitiwu and Kilinochchi, leaving the IPKF presence only in the two districts covering the exit points, Trincomalee and Jaffna. The Citizens Volunteer Force (CVF) and the socalled Tamil National Army (TNA) are losing ground wherever the IPKF has been withdrawing. Teenage Tamil youths conscripted forcibly are either being sent to slaughter or are surrendering. I am told that in the very
first week of December '89, at least 200
Tamil youths had landed at Amsterdam airport with false passports and visas, having each paid Rs. 1 lakh and twenty thousand in Sri Lankan rupees in their act of fleeing, not from the oppression of any government or armed forces, but from what they had told the Dutch officials, from the 'drunken devilry (they used the Tamil word “veriattam”) of "our own groups'- not a happy advertisement to the entire Tamil cause! Adding to the dismal picture are bands of other youths crossing over to Tamil Nadu, complete with weapons, and beginning to create law and order problems on Indian soil. In the North-East itself, the collapse of the Provincial Council appears imminent; Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr. Karunanidhi was himself unable to say until the last day of the year whether Mr. Varadaraja Perumal was arriving for talks (as was publicised in the Indian media) or not. The EPRLFENDLF-TELO-PLOT combination acting in concert under the name of the Tamil National Council appears even at this point of time, to be determined to offer a last-ditch stand, with no hope now of receiving either open or secret support from the new Indian government or its Intelligence agencies. The National Front Government is moving towards a more open policy. The roles of the bureaucracy and the Intelligence services are being whittled down gradually. Unlike in the earlier set-up in Delhi, the present government contains at least three Cabinet Ministers who had come to office with intimate knowledge of the Eelam Tamil question - Mr. George Fernandes, Mr. P. Upendra and Mr. K.P. Unnikrishnan.
In many respects, t wall is getting cle: even if the myopia o Tamils is getting v When events are n crescendo, when the lems are beginning more in Tamil hand earlier grasp of two g Sri Lankan and the lack of a consensua among the Tamils t now threatening to c further.
What is the possib likely to evolve in months of the New governments or mili future hopes depend ground situations an now voiceless people vious to them by nc tions of the populat whether Tamils ol growing sick of 'gun tive of who wields th that the LTTE is r popular mood. Some made by LTTE sp Balasingam at the Pl Colombo on Decem significant. "We hav lence as a means tc ends', but "would cont organisation to prote ple”, he said. “We are polity, and we will all contest freely...let The ceasefire that t clared did not app National Army (TN. a phoney army” cre and the RAW. The process of disarmin however the LTTE Sri Lankan army or any attacks on ar groups. We had dis President and the a and advised the Sri ment not to allow forces into action a groups'. Asked if the up its demand for state of Eelam, Mr. "It is not prudent f Eelam. The demand totally inadequate, t pared to accept the structure as an "inte and contest the ele DU:21. Dec. '89). Ex might debunk the w frozen anti-LTTE at read in the statemen to the unfolding of th These remarks also ring entrenched posi and any Sri Lanka the question of Tan understanding has tween the two partie the political process future, and Sinhala
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e writing on the rer and clearer, the part of some orse, and worse. oving towards a solutions to probto rest more and s, away from the overnnments, the Indian, it is the
honest thinking hemselves that is rag the problems
le scenario that is the next three Year? Whether ant groups, their on responding to d the mood of the . It should be obw, that vast secon in Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, are culture', irrespece guns. It is clear esponding to the of the statements pokesman Anton ress Conference in ber 20 are very e renounced vioachieve political inue as a military ct the Tamil peofor a multi-party low every party to our people decide'. he LTTE had dely to the "Tamil A) because it was ated by the IPKF LTTE was in the g the TNA but did not want the police involved in y of the Tamil cussions with the rmy commander, Lankan governthe Sri Lankan gainst any of the LTTE had given a separate Tamil Balasingam said: or us to give up is there'. Though he LTTE was preprovincial council rim arrangement' tion. (THE HINcept for a few who hole thing from a titude, others can ts made, the clues he future scenario. indicate that bartions by the LTTE n government on nil Eelam, a close been forged beis on the nature of in the immediate Tamil relations in remembered that
as early as November 20, President Premadasa had told the Government Parliamentary group that while the Sri Lankan forces could easily launch an all-out war against the "illegal Tamil National Army, that would not be prudent because “it will be construed by interested parties as an attack on the Tamils so as to justify the presence of the IPKF in the East'.
Nome of the current developments should anyway startle anyone who had read the trends carefully over the past one year; they represent the logical outcome of the various acts of foresight, or the lack of it, on the part of the four contending parties that were shaping events in the North-East: the Delhi 'dispensation'. the Premadasa government, the LTTE, and the surrogate anti-LTTE groups. Once the LTTE and the Premadasa government agreed on a mutual ceasefire, the bottom fell out of the explanation given to the Tamil people to justify the presence of a "peace-keeping force'. The legal sophistry that the IPKF was there under a bilateral agreement which cannot be revoked unilaterally could not be sustained in the light of the agreed position that the IPKF was there at the will and pleasure of the head of state in Colombo. The argu ment that the IPKF was called in to disarm the Tamil militant groups as per the agreement could not hold water in the face of its known failure over a period of two years. The Colombo communique of September '89 by which the Rajiv Gandhi government. committed itself to the "de-induction' of the IPKF was therefore not an act of good grace on its part. Circumstances compelled the commitment, caused by its own lack of wisdom or foresight. If the LTTE and the Premadasa government got together in a joint act, that again was the logical culmination of the personal pique displayed by the ex-Indian Prime Minister and the intransigence of his advisers in refusing to talk to the LTTE except on condition that the group laid down its arms first. If it was possible for a Colombo government — the proclaimed enemy of the Tamils - to carry on a friendly dialogue without preconditions, with a group that it had sought to crush, why was it not thought possible that India - the proclaimed "friend' of the Tamils - could not do the same? What we are about to witness is a gradual reversal of the situation, with a new government in Delhi trying to shake off the hangovers of its predecessor.
It is now unofficially known that the National Front government in expressing difficulty in taking back the weapons that the IPKF and RAW had surreptiously given the surrogate groups, had given orders however that no new supplies be given. It is explained that the IPKF is in the process
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Conspiracy To Set Up
MRS BANDARANAKE ALL
Opposition Leader Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike raising a matter of public importance in Parliament on 12 January said that there was a conspiracy against the democratic opposition in Sri Lanka which, if not thwarted would pave the way for a one party dictatorial state. She added that she was making the disclosure with full responsibility.
Mrs. Bandaranaike said that this matter affected the democratic structure of Sri Lanka which is based on the multi-party system. It was a matter both of national and international interest, especially when we see the developments in Eastern Europe, where the framework of one party system was being dismantled.
The Opposition Leader further observed "You may recall the statement made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne soon after the arrest and subsequent death of the JVP leadership, that the match is over. "The reality is far from it. In the weeks that followed we witnessed the continuation of the bloody murders and mayhem committed both by the subversives as well as government sponsored hit squads. The SLFP is committed to democracy and does not in any way condone these murderous acts, irrespective of which quarter they come from.
"It is no secret that politically backed para-military hit squads continue to abduct and murder youth through the length and breadth of our country. In the guise of combatting subversion thousands of SLFP members had been arrested, abducted or murdered by these killer squads. Nothwithstanding assurances by the government that these hit squads would be brought to book, so far not a single person of these death squads had been brought to trial.
"We know for a fact that the majority of security forces and police personnel have had nothing to do with these gruesome acts. On the contrary they too view these dastardly acts with horror but are constrained due to political patronage enjoyed by the hit squads.
"It is my duty to tell this house of the information that has been brought to my notice with regard to the conspiracy which has been confirmed by persons in high authority and put beyond reasonable doubt by the events that are taking place in the country.
“A group of individuals had been trained in pistol firing at the Ganemulla Army Camp and they have been given instructions to eliminate opposition party cadres, polling agents, fami
ly members Members of groups have and have b districts to c to them.
Mrs Bandarc
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false army i also instruct cial Council names of opp destroy then to be killed killer squads been put il ordinating o tricts.
“The COS orders from Army Headc with these tions. This ceived.
In this co attention to Ranjan Wije quote releva ment in the *In the cour sive element recent past a Since the su rungs ofJVF associates, t are leaderles have resorte strategy app politicians o and oppositi families and mands for innocent citi democracy, ( opinion inclu lateral dono) Sri Lanka parties and
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and close associates of Parliament. These killer completed their training een deployed in different arry out the task assigned
anaike
heir deployment these kilhave been provided with dentity cards. They were 2d to contact UNP Provin
members to obtain the Iosition polling agents and h. Certain lists of persons had been given to these . These squads have also n contact with the cofficers of the various dis
have been given special a high ranking officer at uarters to cooperate fully groups and ask no quesis the information I re
ntext I wish to draw your a statement issued by Mr. iratne on December 22. I nt extracts from his stateHansard of December 22. "se of questioning subverstaken into custody in the new picture has emerged. ccess in getting at the top leadership and their close he remaining cadres who s and in a state of disarray d to new tactics. The latest leared to be: (a) to kidnap both sides - government on and members of their to make impossible detheir release, (b) to kill zens who had stood up for c) to canvass international lding bilateral and multi's, to prevent aid flow into (d) to infiltrate political .rade unions. es of persons killed by are being dragged on to and exhibited. In doing so appears to be thiree-fold.
(a) to apportion blame on the services for such gruesome murders, (b) to frighten the people so that the reign of terror can be reintroduced, (c) to give an opportunity to antigovernment elements to make capital out of the situation through the international media's human rights organisation”.
Mrs Bandaranaike said that in the light of the information that is before her no question arises whether the government is trying to draw a red herring over its plans for eliminating political opponents.
The Opposition Leader said "We also believe that this conspiracy is aimed at crippling opposition political activity, at grassroot level to ensure that the opposition will not be in a position to conduct any form of effective election campaign in the near future.
"Since last month or so several witnesses in my election petition including a Buddhist priest had been abducted, others had been threatened. Some are now reluctant to come forward to give evidence. My only witness at Kamburupitiya had been severely assaulted. He has now gone into hiding through fear. He was my only witness in Kamburlupitiya. Some witnesses are missing.
"Finally I earnestly appeal in the name of democracy and justice to all service and police personnel to take serious note of this critical situation and to take every possible action not only to disassociate themselves with these killer squads but also to take appropriate action against them'.
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of de-induction and that it has no more role to play in the intervening period between now and the complete deinduction by end-March. It is also known that the original brief given to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr. Karunanidhi was limited to talks with the LTTE only and not with any other group. The thinking in Delhi is reported to be that the North-East Chief Minister Mr. Perumal would be well
. advised to step down from office on his
own rather than wait for a situation where President Premadasa might dissolve the council. It is even rumoured that the LTTE might be given formal sanction by the Centre to reopen its political office in Madras.
The trends are therefore clear. The soomer that all Tamil groups stop obstructing the process that is already set in motion, the faster the 'overground' Tamils including expatriates reach out to a consensual approach on the future, the quicker will be the return of stability and peace in the North-East. As the biggest trendsetter of contemporary times Mikhail Gorbachev once said: "When you fall
behind you are punished by life'.
2nd January 1990

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N-E PROVINCIAL COUNCIL LAW CHALLENGED
President Premadasa's reference to the Supreme Court to determine the constitutional validity of a law passed by the North-East Provincial Council taking over the assets and liabilities of the Northern and Eastern Provincial Transport Boards is being considered by a Bench of five Supreme Court Judges.
The reference by the President followed the refusal by the Governor of the Provincial Council to give his assent to the law, His refusal was purported to be on the basis of a ruling given by the Attorney General that the Provincial council had no power to enact the impugned statute in terms of Article 154(G)7 of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
The Provincial Council's law has also been challenged on the basis that it was inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution as it relates to matters which are not within the legislative competence of the Provincial Council as provided in Article 154(g)(1) read with the Ninth Schedule to the Constitution.
IPKF PU BY 31 M
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and further strengthening Indo-Sri Lanka relations, they agreed to finalise the Friendship Treaty expeditiously.
RANJAN ON TALKS WITH KARUNANDH
Foreign Minister Ranjan Wijeratine who met Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi in Madras on his way to New Delhi, paid rich tributes to the veteran India Tamil leader.
When asked about his talks with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi in Madras on 4 January, Wijeratne said: "Mr Karunanidhi is a seasoned politician, I don't think he likes to have (Tamil) refugees coming from the North and the East (of Sri Lanka).
Wijeratne said he conversed with Karunanidhi in Tamil during his 30minute meeting. He appealed to Karunanidhi to use his clout to bring about an understanding between the warring Sri Lankan Tamil groups.
In the Minister's view, Tamil Nadu is important for the Sri Lankan Tamils. If Karunanidhi asserts his authority and makes it clear to the Sri Lankan Tamil groups that "they should not fight and go to him for refuge', Wijeratne believes that “things will sort out faster'.
NORTH-EAST PC MEMBERS KILLED
Two members of the North-East Provincial Council have been murdered.
George Thevarajah, an EPRLF member of the Provincial Council and four others described as his bodyguards were ambushed and killed allegedly by cadres of the LTTE in Trincomalee on 10 January.
The victims were killed about six miles away from Trincomalee town on the Nilaveli-Trinco road close to Sampaltivu when they were on their way to attend an EPRLF meeting when LTTE men attacked them.
Attended by a large crowd, the funeral of Thambirajah took place on 11 January at Trincomalee after his body lay in state at the Provincial Council Secretariat.
In the second incident, the Deputy Speaker of the North-East Provincial Council, Chelliah Ganeshamoorthy and three others described as bodyguards were abducted at Uhana and killed at Chavalakadai in the Amparai district on 11 January, allegedly by LTTE cadres.
Four charred bodies burnt beyond recognition and found lying behind the Amparai hospital on 13 January had been identified as those of Ganeshamoorthy and his bodyguards, Kingsley Angelo Joseph, Siva and Juli.

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READERS FOR
BURYING THE HATCHET
MAYI congratulate you on the excellent editorial in your November 1989 issue calling all our youths to bury their hatchet and unite for the sake of all the Tamils. If we miss this opportunity, we Inay miss everything and all lives so far sacrificed will be all in vain. May they listen to your voice and Inay God guide them through difficult times.
A. Ratnasingham Graydon Hall Drive, Ontario, Canada
PUBLISHE BE DAMNED
I WISH to inform you that I am no longer willing to subscribe to "Tamil Times'. I think that originally the paper was valuable but I find myself increasingly angry at the equivocal nature of the views expressed. How can one possibly defend a traitor and opportunist like the late (unregretted) Amirthalingam? How can one compare people in EPRLF, who collaborate with the IPKF, with the LTTE, the only group who have sacrificed their lives in the fight?
As always I will mot sit con fences but choose which side I am on. My views are Inure accurately represented by other papers.
You may publish or not this letter, 88 you wish.
Dr. W. Arkley
165 Minister Court, Liverpool L7 8QE, UK.
WORTHWHILE
SOMETIME back there was talk that the TT was "nearing its end'. I should again congratulate you for making a success of your paper. We are happy with the efforts you hawe made to bring out the paper to give us up-todate news and worthwhile editorials.
Edward B. Ginamaratnam Scarborough, Ontario, Canada,
SWISS CRACKDOWN ONASYLUM-SEEKERS
Switzerland has tightened up legislation relating to the deportation of asylum-seekers say recent reports, which has caused widespread concern among refugee agencies and the Tamil community in Switzerland,
Swiss Delegate for Refugees, Peter Arbenz, who visited Sri Lanka in July 1988, has enlarged the criteria for summary deportation from capital crimes and drug dealing to include conviction of any crime and "illegal' applications for asylum - e.g. the use of a false name.
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ENCLOSED pleas scription to the T TOT October 1988 year of debating In should continue II not. This is becaus bias Over the last I It seems, howe beginning to reali India always has Eelam, long after had the same теа that you will now E Tigers, who saw t deception long befo take a more crit sociopathic EPRLF opportunistic pos Sinhalese politicia masters in the air treatyabrogation, up and down the Parliament.
Rajiv and India the Tigers will ma bad enemies, wh make tricky frient mies because of the ism (sic) and delusi
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e find 2 years sub'amil Times dating . It took me a whole yself as to whether I my subscription Cor e of your pro-Indian ouple of years.
wer, you are IlDW se the Self-interest had in the affairs of everybody but you lisation, I do hope eless critical of the through the Indian ire you did, and also ical look at those F personnel, whose turings have the ins, who are pastt of deception and rolling with mirth, aislės of the Kotte
should realise that ke good friends but ile Sirıhalese will ds but wicious enel-ir imheremt marcissions of superiority.
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ears of publication. ta Sebastian and | TaInil areas (TT, like sad reading, lds and relations in chaos, "Boys' blow extort IIoney from ng civilian life to a f going back to the etter Coff, emigrate. "t for the boys' can LIIils in the form of
are in part an h an influx in the OOO Tamil asylumwhom have cone
other European
im Switzerland's cisure industry. s say despite the ion in norther Ilı Sri he Tamil refugee erland are now at portation and hawe Luthorities. In Deg conflict between ants in the north of recognised both as asylum and for the cible return.
a Pol Pot type of regime. The only
effective pressure on Sri Lanka gowernment and LTTE can come from India.
What the Sinhalese and the LTTE seem mot to realise is pro-American and anti-American politics is un realistic. The advocates of this suicidal politics only play the tune of their paymastĖTES,
Great responsibility lies with Tamil Times to focus attention to realistic political and economic goals to Tamils however unpalatable it may be to the West and economic migrants.
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Besides the technical quality of the paper, the contents of Tamil Times, by and large, reflect a courageous moral stand that you have taken over the years. There is no doubt that you would have been praised by some and revilled by Inany. At a time when there is tremendous pressure to fall in line with the prevailing dominant view, your journal has served as a forum for all shades of opinions and views in our Society thereby offering a unique opportunity to its readers to formulate their own opinion.
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international Tamil Conf
In Mauritius
The tourist paradise island of Mauritius was overwhelmed by a sense of international Tamil solidarity during the week-long Seventh International Conference - Seminar of Tamil Studies which took place from 4th to 8th December 1989 at the Mahatma Gandi Institute, Moka, Mauritius and attended by over 150 delegates and 100 observers representing 16 countries as far apart as U.K. and South Africa, France and Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Australia.
The joint organisers of the Conference were the International Association of Tamil Research, National Organising Committee of Mauritius, and Tamil University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, S.India. The success of the Conference was in no small measure due to the wholehearted support of the Government of Mauritius and in particular, to the Honourable Mir Arumugam Parasuraman, the Mauritian Minister for Education, Arts and culture who was Chairman of the National Organising Committee.
In the multi-ethnic Mauritius of approx one million people, the Tamils constitute about 10% of the population and although the majority of Mauritian Tamils cannot speak the Tamil
language, they seen Tamil identity by aspects of Tamil cultu ing interest in Saivite is kept alive and vi network of over ten l. ple organisations, w delegates to evening tainment and vegetal
During the conclu thanksgiving to the the Hon. Dr. Dato San ter for Energy in the ernment made an im hold the next 8th Ta one of the countries gesting London as ar 1991, a view endorse gates. It is hoped tha Asher of Edinburgh Chairman of IATR ar of SOAS, London Un. initiate steps to est National Branch of co-operation of all tives who are ex wholehearted suppor holding the next Int Conference in U.K. summer of 1991.
(K. Gnanasoorial
Kanapathippilai Navasothy - An Appreciation
It is often said that the bad times for the Tamils have not erded. Kanapathippilai Navasothy, the well known Tamil Scholar and Orator has been snatched away from the members of his community, at the comparatively young age of 48 by the cruel hands of fate. He met his untimely death in a road accident on 4th January 1990. Navalar Navasothy as he was popularly known was a poet, broadcaster and an author par excellence.
Navasothy had his early education at the Vivekananda Maha Vidyalayam and later at St Benedict's College. After his university education he started his career at Navalar Hall, Colombo as a lecturer in History and Tamil and from there moved on to the Official Language Department. In 1977 he was appointed Assistant Archivist in the Department of Archives and in 1983 he was sent On a government scholarship to further his archival research in the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Soon afterwards he arrived in London and
threw in his lot with a ser self denial to further the community. He wrote se and research articles Several books have be and he edited the Tam His voice was heard ( programme 'Thamil Osa listeners.
Navasothy was a te London Tamil School, important role in setting and conducting examina, ed the London Tamil London SW17.
He was an active parti International Tamil Res and was a founder and c. International Association Sri Lanka Branch. His la: "Tamil Eelam Struggle ar the 7th International Tan ence held in Mauritius fro ber 1989, was a notabl Conference.
The problems of Ta deeply concerned him wholehearted support to promotion of freedom Tamils there. His voice forums and his writings an effective contribution
He is survived by his
anee, three children May Yalini, four brothers an must be a great blow t derive some consolation their grief is shared by se community and perhaps sustain them in the days
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proud of their preserving many ure with an abidHinduism which brant through a arge Hindu Temhich hosted the ; cultural enterian dinners.
Iding session of joint organisers, mmy Velu, MinisMalaysian Govpassioned pleato mill conference in of the West, sugideal Venue for d by many deleat Professor R.E.
University and ld Dr. John Marr iversity will soon ablish the U.K. IATR with the J.K. representapected to give t to the idea of ernational Tamil possibly in the
h, U.K. Delegate)
se of dedication and interests of the Tamil averal poems, songs of a high standard. 2n published by him ! magazine 'Sinthu'. offen On the B.B.C. ', to the delight of his
acher at the West where he played an ехатination papers tions. He later foundSchool in Tooting,
cipant in most of the earch Conferences, ouncil member of the of Tamil Research - st research paper on ld Modern Poetry at nil Research Conferim 4th to 8th Deceme Contribution at the
mils of Sri Lanka, and he gave his all activities for the and justice for the was heard in many on the subject were to the struggle.
mother, wife Ruparnivannan, Vathani & di a Sister. HiS lOSS p them. They might from the fact that veral memberS of hiS that thought might fO COrne.
m Niththyananthan
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Sri Lanka Surgeon - "Countdown' Champion
Sri Lankan Tamil Surgeon, Dr. R. Yogasagarar, resident in Cheshire in England has bagged the honour of 'Countdown' champion for 1989 in the annual BBC TV competition. A Tamil by birth, speaking Tamil at home, and having English as a second language, he out scored dozens of those with English as their
mother tongue, in a programme that tests the
contestant's ability with the English vocabulany and mental arithmetric skills to emerge the champion in a series of protracted contests, culminating in the quarter-finals, semifinals and the finals, proving that his achievement was not a mere flash in the pan. More often than not, he proved his prowess with the English vocabulary by producing more than one word with the maximum number of letters. He is perhaps the first Asian to have bagged this honour. Dr Yogasagarar hails from Batticaloa in Sri Lanka where his parents the Rajaratnams were both teachers by profession. He was Resident Surgeon in Colombo and Visiting Surgeon in Avissawela before moving over to U.K.

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Widya-Sakthya Bharatha Natya
Vidya and Sakthya, daughsers of Mr 6 Mrs Kugananshan of Catford, London SE6 had heir Arangetrarm orħ 9. 12.89 at tħall Logan Has Linfiversity of Londor, Lordon WC1. Friends arīdriglasiwgs, in Wilfeld fo ffıE OCCaSiOF) looked forward to an entertaining evening of sorg, and darice - particularly in view of the fact that the i darice:5 War CropSGd ard choreographed by the Maastro from Adayar Padrashri Adayar Laksformarlar, Their skpectarions were greatly fulfilled when the dance director for the performance was personally conducted by Sri Lakshmanian's brother Adayar Farrarao. It was an enjoyable evening watching the brilliant dancing by the duro Widya and Sakthya so the rich rasculing Worce of Adayar Ramarao who Tof Orly directed the performance but also randered as the songs. Widya and Sakthya had started their dancing LLLLLL LMMLL LLLM LLLCLM LLLOML0LGL ad safar Confrudd Lurdar Srirafi Wijayamibgại Imdrakumar. Thay CornplEled their Coursa SLLS SL SL SLaLMLL LLLLMMCCM Academy of Fine Arts, Madras.
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The përformāričå dype, for led by the High Muuga Terple, foMo fing thegir blessings fro. rers and he Eders дегіотпапсе. Опе со traalidra Order grid rynaintainiad by Sri Fan Widya ала! Sakthya p all of ther happily in Easig . 5 ਸ਼r: by boff, Sakthya pers. varm and VIdya деп Separafely. T7re WarT]3a irn Daryasi was per Sakthi ya jirfly, DLIYfing Earls hosted gir,
്', Mrs. J. R. Fisher, pre: LMrTir of TEachré9rS . M#a this function, Mrs F address elegany dres Sarae. Mrs. Parimari, ft Series of Srirka fiori popularly know 7 Carey as "Waif A speaker, Among the eight piece and Sakthya the rros Padannis, Lindoubtedly of "War Oru Wilayafi'r posision by Paparasari asa Karada) and 'Ch scort position of ATEL were of high calibre, F. E EPK TITE frili, kbygd frigyrrgradors a brighffurfura, Sakthya (the yoLingar versatile in her perfor KUTra Wela', 'CorrpD05 Sivar1 in Hindolarm). Sal both broughs creds of GSAYArred fr:SiffLife Qf and a feather in the Lak:Sıralarlar.
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Professor Muttaiya Sunderalingam has bester) appoin 7fed Ohio ErT7ir Erf Scrollar fr Biosiogical Macrorreçusar Structure ir fhio Skals Lriversity. He js fra Eight Er7iner Scholar in the Ohio Eminent Scholar progra TMnr 79, Creased by the Gerrera ASSēribly and administered by the Board of Regents. He comas la Chio State frorii he LIniversity of Wisconsin-Madisor, where he was SteelLL LLLL0aEk L HLLL LLEkL KM Chair of Ire doctoral programme in Brophysics. He is internationally known for his work ir defeT7irring the structure af farge biological TaseCulas (rPlacrorrosCLUlas) such as proMMLL Otk kLkLLk OkLkuLS S LL LLLCLLLCLL LL uses high infessity X-ray bear 15 to reveal the free-dimensional arrargarmers of a subsisAroces molecules,
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in everloving memory of Mrs Kanagamany Thamby Thurai, on the first anniversary of her passing away on 7.1.89. Fondly remembered by her sons Dr. Raj Chandran, Rajathurai (both of U.K.); Daughters Loheswary Cheliah (UK), Rajeswary Pulendra (Pt. Pedro, Sri Lanka), Rani Thurairatnam, Maheswary Cookathasan (both of U.K.); fifteen grand children and sixteen great grand children. A poojah in her memory was held at the Highgate Murugan Temple on 7.1.90. A cheque for £1000 was presented by members of her family to the Temple Trust, to initiate a Tamil/English library on Saivism. This was preceded by a well attended Bajan and followed by a lunch.
Tsomasekaram Departed 5th January 1988
Fondly remembered and sadly missed by wife Haima; children Kannan, Niranthari, Ungiand Ketheecharan; grand children Anuca and Rishi; brothers Dr. Raja Muthaiah, Ramanathan, Yogananther and sisters Mrs Cheevaratnam, Mrs Velaiuthar, Mrs Nadarajah and all members of the family. - "Kripa, 34 Pamancade Lane, Colombo 6, Sri Lanka.
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