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INDEFENCE OF AM
Amnesty International was recently maligned anc Smeared with baseless charges in the most despic able way by two Sri Lankan Cabinet Ministers, Foreign Affairs Minister and State Minister fo Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne, told a news conference on 18 January, Amnesty International is a terroris movement. There are terrorist sympathisers as wel as terrorists in the Al. Amnesty International is another terrorist organisation. You can say that said that'. Industries Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said at the same Conference, "We have reason to believe that funds of Amnesty International were used for propaganda and legal work of the JVP and its associate groups'.
Amnesty International promptly refuted the charges: Amnesty International stands for human rights, not terror. We do not support or fund the activities of opposition groups anywhere in the world. Amnesty had provided relief assistance to victims of human rights violations in Sri Lanka fol many years. Support for legal assistance in human rights cases has nothing to do with funding "ter.
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rOriSm".
Al need not have bothered to refute the utterly contemptible comments by the Ministers concerned. The reputation of the Al for its abiding commitmen to defend and promote human rights in all countries is acknowledged internationally. Its impartial reports produced with meticulous care for accuracy are regarded as authoritative pronouncements on the real human rights situation in any country. By attacking the Al, the Ministers had only displayed their total lack of concern for human rights which is amply demonstrated by the thousands of people arbitrarily and brutally killed both by members of the country's security forces and pro-government death Squads.
Not content with the disreputable attacks on the Al, the two Ministers cast aspersions on the Bal Association of Sri Lanka alleging that the funds granted to it by the AI had been channelled to 'subversives'. The Association summarily rejectec the allegation stating, that the allegation that its funds have been channelled to subversives is utterly baseless and unfounded. The Bar ASSOCiation opposes and condemns terrorism. To provide lega,
 

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assistance for persons pursuing legal remedies for
the alleged violation of constitutionally guaranteed
human rights is not to support terrorism, but on the
contrary to seek to uphold the rule of law...The Association received assistance from the governments of Australia and Canada and Amnesty I International for this purpose...The statement made by Mr. Wijeratne is not only utterly false, but derogatory of the Association and its members and is calculated to undermine the standing of an institution engaged in the furtherance of the administration of justice. It also pointed out that the members of the Association included all judges not excluding those of the Supreme Court and the Attorney General (who incidentally is heading the Sri Lankan government's delegation attending the Current sessions of the Human Rights Commission of the UN).
The present government is presiding over an unprecedented level of human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The daily death toll resulting from violence is by far the highest for any country in the world. Beheaded bodies of persons lying on roadsides and floating in rivers are a familiar spectacle. A considerable number of persons have disappeared after being kidnapped from their homes by personnel who go about their diabolical deeds travelling in unmarked vehicles. Several thousands are held in the island's many detention camps where torture is systematically practised. Members of the security forces and police are empowered under emergency regulations to dispose of bodies without inquest or post-mortem. It was only the other day that the Leader of the Opposition asserted that over a thousand members of her party have been killed under the guise of confronting 'subversives'. She also claimed that death squads trained in army camps were being sent round the country with lists containing members of opposition parties earmarked to be murdered. In short, unmitigated state terrorism reigns supreme under the present government. It is no wonder, therefore, that Ministers of the government are engaged in a malevolent campaign of targeting for attack human rights organisations with unimpeachable reputation like Amnesty International.
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DONORS MUST PROBE LANKAS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD’, Says Mrs. B.
Opposition leader Mrs. S. Bandaranaike, called upon governments of aid-giving countries to send teams to study the record of human rights violations and erosion of democracy in Sri Lanka.
"This must be done before it is too late. Probably they can bring some pressure on the government, Mrs. Bandaranaike told a meeting of the Foreign Correspondents' Association.
Despite government denials, Mrs. Bandaranaike repeated allegations that the army had trained death squads and deployed them around the country to eliminate opposition politicians and party officials, and that the government was planning to set-up a one-party dictatorship and was sponsoring death squads to murder opposition politicians.'
"The quest for a one-party state goes on', she added.
Addressing a press conference on 24 January, Mrs. Bandaranaike revealed that over a thousand members and supporters of her party, the SLFP, had been reported missing during the past one year and among the 7000 persons now in detention there were a substantial number who belonged to or supported her party. Included among the missing persons were six of her witnesses in the case that was being heard before the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the election of R. Premadasa as President. Some other witnesses had declined to give evidence because of threats and intimidation.
The SLFP leader noted that more than 15,000 persons had been killed during 1989 alone. Nobody had the actual figure. Even the government might not have the actual number killed as people were being slain and their bodies burnt everywhere.
Mrs. Bandaranaike also said that her party had written to all human rights organisations and to the Pope asking them to bring pressure on the government to stop the on-going camspaign of killings.
KILLING OF PC MEMBERS CONDEMNED
The murders of two North-East Pro
vincial Council Members, George
Thambirajah and Chelliah Ganeshamoorthy have been condemned by the (Communist Party of Sri Lanka and Nava Sama Samaja Party.
The CP statement, in condemning
the assassinations by the LTTE, stated
that these murders s credence can be plac assurances of its read democratic process.
"These killings foll
declaration by the L
not allow members
organisations who do aims and policies to
is little doubt that t such assassinations h dened, not merely by conspicuous failure t assurance to probe lingam's (TULF leac also by the policy of co ance and patronage
memt now pursues tov the CP statement ado
The NSSP stateme LTTE claimed that ul free and fair election However killings of ri e's with the support ime showed that would never prevail Cegime.
CRM CAL UN FORCE
The Civil Rights M Lanka has urged th explore the possibili United Nations Pea and to ensure a stron International Comm Cross in North-East ing the withdrawal C
A CRM statemer January, dealing wi mid November to expressed grave con lawlessness in the si including a large n attributed to vario intense suffering ur lies searching for m been highlighted.
CRM also urged nowledged detentior against vigilante gra identify dead bodies an independent inqu death of arrested urged restoration o relating to inquests deaths in custody a or police operations.
It was stated that and death of leaders tion group in mid-N to normalcy in the nent. Subsequent have so far belied su government violenc The violence of the and pro-State vigilal abated. The horrific bodies being found i district on one day i ple, the CRM staten
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howed that little 2d in the LTTE's iness to enter the
ow hard on the TTE that it will of other Tamil
not agree with its
function...There he forces behind lave been embolthe government's o implement its Mr. A. Amirthaler) murder, but operation, assistthat the governwards the LTTE, led.
nt stated that the nder their control s would be held. val political leadof the UNP regsuch democracy under an LTTE
LS FOR
FOR N-E
Movement of Sri le government to ty of deploying a ce Keeping Force ng presence of the littee of the Red Sri Lanka followif the IPKF.
it released on 12 th the period from the end of 1989, cern at continuing outh of the island, umber of killings us agencies. The ndergone by famiissing persons has
an end to unacks, effective action oups and efforts to . It also asked for iry into the recent JVP leaders, and f the normal law
in respects of all nd following army
, with the capture of a violent opposiovember, a return south was immievents, however, ch prophecy. Antie has continued. orces of the State, te groups, has not news of 174 dead n the Hambantota s a chilling examlent said.
ware that the re
sponsibility of the authorities to enforce law and order in this situation remained a difficult and onerous one. CRM was also conscious of the extreme stresses and provocations that the security forces have been subjected to. Nevertheless, the CRM would urge yet again the need for the State to adhere to basic international and humanitarian norms in discharging its responsibilities to society. Such adherence was a vital element in distinguishing the security forces from their adversaries. If the State acted or was popularly believed to act with the same degree of contempt for law and human values as its opponents, then it undermined its own moral, ethical and legal basis, the statement added.
SRI LANKA’S - EXPORTS INCREASE
Exports for the first half of 1989 stood at 562 million in SDR terms showing an increase by 5 percent compared to SDR 546 million in the corresponding period of 1988, according to the recent Central Bank's economic bulletin.
The growth was mainly brought in by industrial exports which increased 19 percent completely off-setting the fall of 10 percent in earnings from agricultural exports. Industrial exports which increased from SDR 264 milion to SDR 314 million was mainly due to textile and garments exports which increased by 17 percent.
A major blow to the export earnings came from the tea sector which recorded a drop of 17 percent, from SDR 147 million to SDR 121 million. Petroleum products fared poorly during the period but miscellaneous manufacturing products recorded a sharp increase of 39 percent from SDR 67 million to SDR 93 million.
A salient feature in the export sector in Sri Lanka during the first half of 1989 was the structural change that took place pushing the share of industrial exports further in total export earning.
In the first half of 1988 agricultural exports accounted for 43 percent of the total exports while the manufacturing exports amounted to 48 percent. In the same period of 1989 the share of agricultural exports fell to 37 percent while the manufacturing exports rose to 55 percent
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by Krishna Vaikunthavasan
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RS.89 MLLION FOR NORTH-EAST PEHABILITATION
A programme to rehabilitate the affected youths and young widows in the North-Eastern Province has been drawn up by the Ministry of Rehabilitation of the North-East Provincial Council.
Approximately 2500 youths and widows are expected to benefit from this scheme which is estimated to cost Rs.98 million and programmed to be implemented during 1990-1992.
The programme is designed to provide employment through incomegenerating micro projects to the affected youths and young widows in the Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Amparai districts. s
The project also has an education and training component to provide short-term and long-term specialised vocational training for about 1545 youths to enable them to increase the level of worthwhile economically viable employment or to increase productivity in sectors in which they are employed.
Provision has also been made in this project to offer scholarships up to a maximum of 150 youths in grade 8 or 9 whose studies were interrupted by distrubances, to successfully complete their GCE 'O' Level studies. It also provides for men and women to undertake Diploma and Certificate level courses at recognised centres of advanced technical education in the country.
"INDIA, AN OBSTACLE TO FREEDOM STRUGGLE
The Indian government has always proved an obstacle to the freedom struggle of the Tamils, and now the
people were able to distinguish be
tween the real freedom fighters and the traitors'. Yogaratnam Yogi, Secretary General of the Peoples Front of Liberation Tigers (PFLT) said at the party's first public meeting held on 15 January at Kilinochchi in northern Sri Lanka. An estimated 20,000 people attended the meeting.
Yogi charged the Indian government with supplying arms to the Tamil National Army to destroy the LTTE and not to protect the Tamils. The talks between the PFLT and the Sri
Lankan government would continue,
he added.
Poet Kasi Anandan, who also spoke at the meeting said that any alien force could take over Tamil territory but they could not reign over it. They could destroy the Tamil people, but they could not conquer them. Prabhakaran
had taught th struggle did n Lanka Agreen continuing. T halt. This is w I am repeatir political party as the culmi struggle. Our the people rea slaves any mo added.
Meanwhile, in "The Island Karikalan, lea eastern Batti said that the p armed confron Sri Lankan go out since the P al wing, was outcome from ernment.
On the cont maintain its ir mination of Ta' were bent on in of the LTTE : Karikalan said
The question with the LTT arms would als sion with the appropriate ti LTTE welcome shades of Tami next North-Ea elections, it w those organisat on eliminating t such an election
RABIES IN SEV
183 people we rabies betwee last year in S them were due anti-rabies vac
The vaccine locally product search Institut local producti reason adduce Health Organ which visited t advised agains vaccine.
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is lesson to India. “Our it end with the Indo-Sri ent. The struggle was is is only a temporary at I said then and what g now. Our forming a should not be construed lation of our freedom truggle will not end till lise that they are not e but a free people', he
n an interview reported ' on 16 January, Mr. der of the LTTE in the 'aloa-Amparai districts ossibilities of any future ation with forces of the fernment could be ruled FLT, the LTTE’s politicconfident of a positive the talks with the gov
rary, the LTTE would npetus towards the elimil organisations which npeding the aspirations and the Tamil masses,
of what is to be done E's large inventory of o be a subject of discusgovernment when the me arose. While the d the participation of all political opinion at the st Provincial Council vas doubtful whether tions which were bent he LTTE would contest , Mr. Kalikalan added.
KILLED 183' EN MONTHS
re killed as a result of n May and December ri Lanka, and most of to an acute shortage of tine. was imported as well as d by the Medical Re(MRI) until 1987 when on was stopped. The d was that a World isation (WHO) team he country in 1987 had the use of two kinds of
ly vaccine imported by nistry from two firms Germany and France for use. The imported 3.1000 compared with t which cost just Rs.15. reversal of policy and the Health Ministry,
local production in , and the first batch of ing 13,000 was com
UNION PROTESTS AGAINST “ENSLAVEMENT” UNDER EMERGENCY RULE
While we are completely opposed to and call for the revocation of all emergency regulations providing for the restoration or suppression of democratic rights such as the right of public meeting and procession, publication, the right to strike, we make specific reference to Regulation 10 under which you have empowered a number of military and police officers to require any person to do any work or render any personal services in or in connection with the national security or the maintenance of essential services'. We are of the view that this is tantamount to the enslavement of individuals by their subjection to the dictates of army and police officers as is now the case in various establishments declared 'essential services' such as "ports and banks', states a letter addressed to President Premadasa by the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers Union.
The protest letter signed by the Union's General Secretary, Mr. Bala Tampoe, further states, 'Whatever considerations of "National Security' or the maintenance of what you declared to be "Essential Services' may have contributed to your decision to resort to the use of emergency Regulations, once more on 20 June 1989, we submit that there is no justification whatsoever for your having authorised the requisitioning of personal services by army and police officers in any establishment that is not a police or military establishment, as you have done under Regulation No. 10. We request you, therefore, to revoke this Regulation also'.
Calling for the revocation of Emergency Regulation 55FF, the Union's letter states that this Regulation enabled the burial or cremation of dead bodies by "any police officer of a rank not below that of Assistant Superintendent of police or any other officer or person authorised by him in that behalf without having to comply with other provisions of the emergency regulations and any other written law relating to inquest of death or to burial or cremation.
"Neither you nor any other spokesman of your government has explained to the people of this country why any dead body should be permitted to be disposed of by any police, military or other person, in such a manner that there will be no way of the identity of the dead person being judicially established thereafter, or the cause of death, or by whom and in what circumstances the death was caused', the letter added.

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Taming of the Sri La Muslim Congress'
Rita Sebastian From Colombo
On November 5 last year when LTTE cadres stormed two Tamil National Army (TNA) camps in eastern Amparai killing twentyseven TNA personnel and taking another one hundred and forty hostage, together with five truck loads of sophisticated weaponry, the stage was set for what was to follow.
It was only a fortnight earlier that Amparai had seen the last of the Indian troops withdraw, and the muchpublicised take-over of the law and order machinery by the Sri Lankan police and the Citizens Volunteer Force (CVF) turn out to be a mere cosmetic exercise as events proved.
The TNA raring to go, soon attacked four Sri Lankan police stations in the district, and 41 Muslim CVF were brutally massacred after being disarmed.
Batticaloa was to 'explode' next, as soon as the IPKF withdrew, with an armed confrontation between the LTTE and the TNA. The casualty figure was said to be over eighty dead although both sides played down the numbers as the LTTE drove the remaining TNA cadres into the surrounding jungles.
De-induction from Mannar, Mullaitivu, Killinochi and Vavuniya followed in quick succession and the Tigers "moved in' but not before the fighting, more bitter and bloody than before, took heavy toll of life.
Although the LTTE has been able to take control of the central Wanni sector, and the north, including parts of the Jaffna peninsula from where the IPKF has withdrawn, it is in the Amparai and Batticaloa districts, with its high concentration of Muslims that they have found it hard going to stamp their authority.
All Tamil groups have, in recent times, included the Muslims in their deliberations by using the broad definition of "Tamil speaking people”. A number of Muslim youth have been recruited to their ranks to give credence to this, and also ensure Muslim support. Even if a minority of Muslims go along with the idea that language can be the unifying force between the two : communities, the majority are fiercely protective of their distinct ethnic identity, and refuse to be assimilated by another minority.
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress of
Mr. M.H.M. Ashroff is therefore in no
mood to give into Tiger dominance. The LTTE, peeved at the SLMC for having contested the North-East Provincial Elections, and also for having a working arrangement with the
EPRLF, have come u allegations against being of SLMC cc RAW, securing arm and setting up its IPKF assistance.
Radical SLMC act of belonging to th funded by two east
tries, an allegation SLMC.
". . . . Tension that had these past weeks,
counter charges of tions and killings,
January end with SLMC Provincial C soor by the LTTE in late Mr. Munsoor
sustained a leg w cumbed to his injurie LTTE was accused ( an abduction spree. S nai town, LTTE cadr weapons had rounde dred Muslims, bundl
| cles, forcibly requis
moved them to an ur tion. Appeals to the who escaped the
brought no response
continuing refrain of between the militan
east region. Underst keep a safe distance, the power-struggle i.
Armed clashes be and the SLMC, and SLMC that the L them from any politi region, led to a joint political parties and dent Premadasa t arrest a fast deter order situation.
At a hastily sumr chief government ne of Higher Education A.C.S. Hammed, theoretician Dr An
and General Secreta
political party, Yoga present a decision w halt to offensive act to the conflict.
This was followed Ashroffleading a si tion of party memb President Premada also State Minister f Wijeratne and D. Sepala Attygalle.
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p with a string of them, the main laboration with is from the TNA wn militia with
vists are accused
Jihad, initially European coun
denied by the
been building up with charges and abductions, extorsuddenly erupted the shooting of buncillor Y. MunSamanthurai. The reported to have ound, later sucis. A day later the lf having gone on sealing off Kalmues with automatic d up over a huned them into vehisitioned, and redisclosed destinapolice, by those LTTE dragnet . This has been a civilians trapped hts in the northandably the police helpless pawns in n the region. tween the LTTE a charge by the TE had banned cal activity in the appeal by fourteen groups to Presio intervene and orating law and
moned meeting by gotiator, Minister and Technology at which LTTE ton Balasingham ry of the LTTE's atnam Yogi were as taken to call a on by the parties
by SLMC leader : member delegaers to meet with a. Present were r Defence Ranjan fence Secretary
Ashroff strongly described as the the LTTE in the sident Premadasa
assured the delegation that "all meaningful steps' would be taken to ensure that law and order was maintained in the districts by the police, and no group would be allowed to carry arms. Whether this is a workable solution is yet to be seen.
The SLMC, while denying LTTE allegations of it using violence to prevent the LTTE from campaigning among the Muslims, and reiterating its commitment to non-violence and democratic politics charged the LTTE of communal violence before, and after the signing of the controversial July 1987 Indo-Lanka accord and of killing hundreds of Muslims in Kalmunai and Kattankudy.
Today, according to Ashroff, about a thousand Muslim youth have fled from these two districts and sought refuge in Colombo. Meanwhile the SLMC has sought to internationalise, what it calls the tragic situation in which the Muslims are placed in the eastern province, by sending a two-man delegation to Muslim countries to gain support for its cause.
As political observers see it, leader Ashroff's attempts to get assistance from Muslim countries, in its conflict with the LTTE could well lead to a polarisation of the Muslim and Hindu communities in the north-east region.
If the referendum to decide whether the East would opt to remain in the temporarily merged north-east provinces or de-link from the north, is held as scheduled on June 24, then it is in Tamil interests to woo the Muslims, not alienate them.
In the face of the widening rift between the two communities it is hardly likely that the SLMC will vote to be dominated by the LTTE. The LTTE is not unmindful of the fact that rather than seek to subdue another ethnic minority, it will have to forge an alliance that will help it gain control of what it considers the traditional homelands of the Tamil speaking people. The holding of a referendum however is not on the LTTE agenda. They feel very strongly that the temporary merger of the two provinces has become permanent. Whether the government will concede this is yet to be seen.
As the LTTE leadership, back in Colombo continue their dialogue with the government making dissolution of the North-East Provincial Council and the holding of fresh elections a priority issue, Chief Minister Varatharajah Perumal has had a long stay in India, talking to the leadership, and desperately trying to make India review the March 31 withdrawal schedule.
India still continuing to voice her concerns on the 'safety and security of the Tamils is however not likely to change her mind about troop withdrawal.
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COLOMBONEWSLETER by Chithra
THE LTTE has continued to consolidate its hold in the Tamil areas of the north and east as the IPKF continued to close down its several camps in an obvious reflection of New Delhi's cornmitment to complete its withdrawal by 31 March. The LTTE's military dominance in the northern Jaffna peninsula
was reasserted without the
much
feared bloodletting as its rival Tamil militant groups with their armed local militias made a hasty retreat from their positions. It was apparent that many of the leaders of these groups
had crossed over to neighbouring south India even as the IPKF was closing
down their camps.
What is left in the Ilorthern sector is a nominal presence of the IPKF in ..Jaffna with its remaining personnel
and equipment moved to the Palali airfield camp. In the eastern sector, the IPKF presence is mainly concentrated within the confines of the Trincomalee
town and the port. It is confidently predicted even in LTTE circles that the
IPKF will have completely moved out
of the Jaffna peninsula before the end of February. The three-week visit by Chief Minister Waratharaja Perumal and the many meetings and discussions he held in Madras and Delhi with
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, senior Ministers in New Delhi and some
opposition leaders did not appear to
have had the intended effect of slowing
down the process of IPKF withdrawal. On his return, the Chief Minister would have found that even his movements within his administrative domain of the North-East were severely restricted by the LTTE's near total
control in many areas.
Events unfolded badly for the
EPRLF dominated North-East Provincial Council administration which appears to have virtually collapsed with the menacing military advance by the Tigers. The feeble attempt at resistance with the hastily conscripted "Tamil National Army' comprising ill. trained boy-soldiers turned out to be
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Crucial to the issue of course is what is going to happen not only to the TNA personnel riding on the backs of the Indian troops, but also to the cadres of other groups fleeing with the with
drawing Indian army,
Tamil Nadu is already geared to
accepting refugees from the island but a
not in the same spirit it did the refugees after the July 1983 communal
con flagration.
The question that is being asked now is whether any future poll in the north-east region will see rival parties in the fray, or just a single party
having its own way?
an absolute fiasc Council members
gunned down. The ment has not dis bring down the East administrat LTTE has been a and given the gree their Tamil rivals
thought fit. The p Once the IPKF with the Provincial Cou Indoniously dissolwE elections to be held
The many misde mildly, of the IPK and its allied group them so unpopular northern Tamils th LTTE in the scen have been popula LTTE held many Several places an attended although mander and leader yet to emerge from northern jungles appearance. Althou tinuing to be given that he is already Wounded, other LT that Prabhakara appearance. Once thi is seen to be condui
In its marchı tapı political dominance the LTTE had to from the Sri Lank: in the multi-ethnic loa and Amparai w. presumed to hawe C among the mu: Charges and count and kidnapping we the two parties. T cused of abducting, lim businessmen alleged demands contributions and k wincial Council IIlen at Samnanthurai. M.H.M. Aghraifftol January that the his party to halt its and warned that ab of other parties li SLFP was immine LTTE cadres IIIt'y that they were resp and order situation that they were wal and ordering trust, imposed by the LT the police are inacti motionless in the intimidation and th community by thic I IleInt Illust. Te Ilem LTTE's position til SLMC but I rico oth could represent th Tamil speaking peop. on which the govern talks with the LT asked. He also alle
 
 
 
 

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l, Five Provincial lave already been Premadasa governuised its desire to eleaguered Northon. Besides, the owed a free hand light to deal with he way the LTTE 'edictions are that drawal is complete, cil will be uncered to enable fresh thereafter.
meanours, to put it F and the EPRLF had already made particularly аппопg ut the arrival of the a would appear to ly welcomed. The public meetings in they were well its suргеппе сопnW. Prabhakaran is his hideout in the o make a public gh curTOncy is conto previous reports dead or seriously TE leaders assure n will make his e security situation ive. wards military and in the North-East, confront opposition a Muslin Congress districts of Batticahere the SLMC was onsiderable support 3 lim population. 2r-charges of killing are traded between "he LTTE was acabout a dozen Muswho resisted its for large financial illing a SLMC Proliber, M.P. Munsoor The SLMC leader d parliament on 30 LTTE had warned s political activities Iam on the activities ke the UNP and nt. Heavily armed 2d about claiming Ionsible for the law in the area, and king into mosques bes to collect taxes TE. “Why is it that iwe, speechless and acc. of the brazem reat to the Muslim TTE, The governbar that it is the lat not only the er political party interests of the le. Isthis the basis ment is continuing TE?", Mr Ashroff ged that over one
hundred leading Inembers of the SLMC, including its Deputy Chairman, U.L.M. Mohideen, in the eastern province had resigned from the Congress because of threats from the LTTE and accused it of forcing Muslinns to join it to create the image that it represented the Tamils and Muslims when in fact it did not represent the Muslims,
On the morning of 30 January, an estimated 200 heavily armed LTTE cadres in camouflage uniforms descended on Kalmunai arriving in three state-run buses and a private coach, some of whom surrounded the police station and the army camp while the others sealed off the Kalin unai town and Kathankudy village. They carried out a house to house search operation in the course of which scores of young muslims were taken into 'custody' and removed to some undisclosed destination. The LTTE men came on the following day and ringed the Kalumnai town again. Through loud-hailers, announcements were made calling upon jihad militants' (who according to the LTTE constitute the armed wing of the SLMC} to surrender their weapons and give themselves up within 48 hours and again undertook a house to house search operation, S. Karikalan, the Batticaloa leader of the LTTEPFLT was reported as having confirmed that they had launched a series of search operations following the killing of some muslim supporters of the LTTE.
The LTTE's response to the SLMC's accusations was contained in a statement issued on 31 January. Rejecting the allegation that the LTTE had banned political activities by the SLMC, it said, "this is a malicious lie to discredit the image of our organisation. It is the armed militia of the SLMC which is utilising violence to prevent our political party from campaigning among Muslim people'. The statement listed the following as examples: "On 3.1.90 our supporter Mr. Atham Baba was shot dead by the SLMC's armed militia at Kalmunai and his body was not handed over to his family; On
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report.
The University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) have produced 1989. Its contents are thorough and well researched. Dealing with report is characteristically forthright just as the previous two reports v
Liberation and Intel
The production of the current report (third in a series), was rudely interrupted by the assassination of Dr.
Rajini Thiranagama, who played a . leading role in the work of University :
Teachers for Human Rights, Jaffna (UTHR). The appendix is devoted to describing some aspects of her life and work. We do not wish to raise the question of who did the deed at this stage, because all the forces operating in this region, both state and nonstate, have at some stage used assassination as a political weapon. The number of people so killed run into hundreds.
A few weeks earlier, Professor Patuvathawithana, Vice-Chancellor of Moratuwa University, was gunned down in his office, together with his security guard. All who knew him testified to his high level of professionalism, courage and character. Under his leadership, the university authorities and staff were able to maintain a dialogue with the student community and move towards restoring the functions of the university. To achieve this end, the Vice-Chancellor
had been firm both with the military
authorities, who were not happy with having an organised student body, as well as with those who would interfere with the functions of a university for obscure political ends. Strongly as his loss was felt, the protest against his killing on the part of the university
community and the Institution of Engineers, of which he was President
elect, was muted by fear. Earlier in the year Professor Stanley Wijesundera, former Vice-Chancellor of Colombo University was also murdered.
In schools too, several leading filgures have been murdered over the years. Many were killed for their professional integrity. In the early '70s alleged educational privilege had been an issue of contention and there were groups calling for the improvement of educational opportunities along communal lines. Today education is being used as a hostage by liberation groups on both sides of the communal divide. Jaffna and Moratuwa are instances where the delicate threads by which a university is kept open are easily snapped.
The Crisis
The present crisis which began with the Sri Lankan state's militarisation to meet ethnic and social discontent, has been described as a crisis of morality and a crisis of civilisation. The question
is: what is needed apart to meet this?
Many academic collea lectuals in the South silence during military the state against the Ta moral and political blur recognise that the mor that has characterised is to a large measure the readiness of state scend to the most in with little restraint. T been resolutions put fo. ing academics advocatir step in resolving the cri have an accountable They see that it would qualitative difference if ple could say with confi state power is not respo baric and unjustified would also mean a guar tion for complainants a able procedure by whic punished. Such resoluti run aground amongst d confusion and fear. It ha out that the resulta amounts to complicity military approach, that sizeable section of the ( coming from the less tions.
A few weeks ago, P versity became the scer too common in the cot Following the murder Registrar, resident sta out early in the mornin to 15 or so decapitatec around the pond oppos Hall. The Sri Lankan control of the Unive Academic staff said tha in the area was down to According to informati academics in Southern a number of instances reprisals, the victims h up at random from detention centres. The lence of state-sponsore groups which began wi of the STF and Home the campaign against T a further source of com been pointed out that would have been qua rent if it could have fidently that the state been responsible for k that of Prof. Patuvatha
A state of utter confu the country as to by wh

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their third report covering the period January to August violations committed by state and non-state entities, the vere. Reproduced on this page is the preface to their third
lectual FreedOm
, from courage,
gues and intelsee their past operations by mils as both a der. They also al debasement these conflicts determined by powers to denuman depths nere have also rward by leadg that the first sis should be to government. make a great ordinary peodence that the pnsible for barkillings. This antee of protecnd an accounth offenders are ons have often livided opinion, as been pointed ant inactivity in the state's is destroying a sountry's youth privileged sec
eradeniya Unihe of what is all untry at large. of an Assistant uff who looked g were witness heads ranged site Jayatilleke Army was in sity premises. at JVP activity virtually zero. on received by Universities, in of such mass ad been picked rehabilitation/ current preval para-military th the creation Guards during amils, has been blication. It has the situation itatively diffebeen said concould not have illings such as withana. sion prevails in pm why and for
what reason particular instances of violence and murder are committed. Where the gun has taken over all avenues of accountability and legal procedure violence becomes a free-forall game. The 1983 racial violence against Tamils was an open instance of how the state pursued, political goals. There is widespread cynical disbelief about the government's allegations as to the perpetrators of this wellplanned, well-timed race riot. Political developments, group aspirations, prejudices are manoeuvred and countermanoeuvred by the different liberation movements and state powers. Thus reasons, causes, get complicated in the ensuing medley. The people are left with their own speculation, rumours and gossip.
The Liberation Movements
The common philosophy that has distinguished successful insurgent activity in the North and South is that people do not matter. By attacking the armed forces, using civilian cover, the insurgents ensure some casualties in the forces as well as a number of civilian deaths in reprisals. They gain both local sympathy and some international legitimacy when the state forces themselves are accustomed to using terror as a weapon. This has proved both potent in the short term as well as destructive. When people begin to see through this and try to express themselves, they are terrorised by their own liberation movements. Even if people try to organise some form of collective security, at least by warning neighbours to quit when there are signs of a confrontation, they are intimidated. The end result is that while the liberation movement may retain a measure of sympathy for the lack of an alternative, it becomes progressively isolated. Its mature cadres become disillusioned and it will have to resort to more questionable means to gain recruits.
An instance of the more deplorable methods used by liberation groups was evident on 29th July. The JVP forced innocent people out at gunpoint, while a curfew was in force, to demonstrate against the presence of the IPKF in the North-East. More that 100 such persons were shot dead by Sri Lankan forces. When asked about this by the Sunday Times, the Defence Minister maintained that if those people were innocent, they should have opposed JVP guns. He added that they should be more afraid of the guns of the armed forces than they were of JVP guns.

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Such were the attitudes of the state and a liberation group between which the ordinary people found themselves trapped.
At present all the liberation groups have been very much weakened. The Tamil groups have been driven to ill-disguised positions which they would have found insulting in the recent past. Many have wondered at the state's capacity to survive. A persistent prediction by analysts over the last 10 years has been the imminent economic collapse of the state, giving hope to sympathisers of liberation movements. This has not in fact happened. On the contrary, the present state of the JVP, and that of the LTTE after Operation Liberation in May 1987, point to the staying capacity of something apparently so fragile as the Sri Lankan state.
A Southern academic who is perhaps best qualified to speak on this matter made the following remarks:
'Liberation groups in this country have always under-estimated the resilience of the state. The modern welfare state is a complex entity. Its sinews reach into many aspects of people's lives. Government servants, doctors and teachers are all part of the state, as is the passive consent of people. The articulation of the state also has its ramifications in the international order, giving it added strength. There was almost universal desire not to see the Sri Lankan state collapse. The US $785 million award to Sri Lanka by the aid consortium was more than had been asked. Another important element in the liberation struggles of this country is that when liberation groups use such deplorable methods, the state bounces back with greater legitimacy than it had earlier. I have noticed a remarkable change in a number of JVP supporters in Matara, after the JVP closed down hospitals for a time and threatened families of armed forces personnel. They were now condoning widespread killings by the state, asking what else could the state do'.
He said in conclusion, "The first rule to be observed by a liberation movement is that it must maintain the moral initiative'.
Far from being liberated, the people have become mired in greater repression from the state as well as in debilitating moral depravity. Life has become cheap. As reason and tolerance declined, even families have become bitterly divided. While suave persons in the elite kill by lying and slander, the humbler folk have to live in the shadow of torture and sadism. Even cannibalistic rites have surfaced.
Intellectual Freedom
Intellectual enlightenment and honesty are essential to the liberation process, through which alone a healthy
struggle can be s against any form
role of the intellect theoretical and pol of the struggle, ana totality and makin tween the movemel This ensures the act the people and st power. Our liberati marked by use va remain at the lev pediency and tactics of our struggle do account the implica among, interests an people. It operates ) of exploiting certain opponent such as til state forces indulge leads to the concept tuals as they use ( society. They have them in any liberatic fore any form of ind coming from the int taken as a challenge down. This same te] the South too, whe viduals who in their critical stances but a them secret owing 1 state and/or other m
For the above st intellectuals are muc in this regard Raj showed extraordinar termination in pron some of her colleag critical attitude.
“Our intellectuals ture should be the c the benumbed comm to do so. In many in sidestepped confrc with the I.P.K.F. (a with militant group igned themselves to the consequence of segment of our socie their conceptual an ness have made th authoritarianism groups and had g brutality. . . . .Their duct reflected merely niches for themsel they could survive v of respectability and
The Challenge
Rajani gave her l freedom. She amor recognised that if t country is to be rest of the people to exp and ideas should be one of the aims with (Jaffna) set about ports. Far from bei cise, the questions those entwined wit. this country’s situ rooms and in studer

Iccessfully waged f oppression. The al is crucial to the tical development ysing society in its organic links bets and the people. ve participation of engthens peoples' in movements are lue concepts and l of political exThe methodology es not take into tions of divisions aspirations of the herely at the level weaknesses of the e reprisal killings in. This naturally of using intellecther segments in no wish to involve ry process. Thereependent criticism lectuals has been that should be put hdency is found in re there are indiwritings strike up ire obliged to keep o intimidation by ilitant groups. ate of affairs our ch to blame. It was ani Thiranagama y courage and denoting along with gues an objective
who at this juncatalyst to energise unity, are unable stances they have Intational issues s they have done s) and have respassivity. This is he history of this ty. For in the past d moral shallowem submit to the of the militant ossed over their unprincipled cona desire to create res within which rith the trappings nominal power'.
fe for intellectual gst many others he health of this ored, the freedom ress their feelings efended. This was which the UTHR publishing its reg a political exerdealt with were academic life in ation in lecture t problems.
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The challenge that faces us is expressed forcefully by Rajani in the following quotation taken from The Broken Palmyrah:
"Thus, the people's structures have to be organised and/or revived, they would be the internal forum for the forces which would voice their needs in devolution (in specific issues such as colonisation etc) and act to monitor the implementation of the limited decentralised power. It would enable such structures to compile, protest and organise against many army (Indian and Sri Lankan) misdoings and atrocities. Moreover, these structures are essential to stand up against the pressure of individual terrorism that degenerate elements of movements indulge in, and to see to it that individual members of the community are not isolated and victimised. And also such structures would protect them from victimisation by such external diabolicall forces'.
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David Housego of the financial Time Sri Lanka death toll may
near 30,000
The number killed in the violence in Sri Lanka appears to be far greater than has been reported so far. Figures quoted by Western diplomats suggest that as many as 30,000 people could have been killed last year - most of them in the last six months.
The casualties have escalated as the armed forces have used increasingly brutal methods in their conflict with the JVP, the extremist Sinhalese nationalist group. However, in a situation where the military does not have to carry out post-mortems or notify families of those killed, it is impossible to confirm exact numbers.
The figures range from 12,000, the number quoted by military officials, up to 50,000 over the last two years. Sri Lanka has a population of 16m.
The deaths include killings by the JVP, the armed forces, vigilante groups as well as the casualties from the conflict involving the Tamils in the north.
Western nations are putting increasing pressure on the Sri Lankan Government to halt the killings by the army and para-military forces, of opponents in the south or face a reduction in aid.
The government of the Netherlands last week warned the Sri Lankans that unless there was an improvement in their human rights record by June, it would cut the size of its programme aid. The Dutch have been working in close coordination with Norway, Canada, West Germany and Sweden, who are equally taking a more critical approach. i
The tougher attitude by Western aid donors came into the open last week when senior Sri Lankan officials met ambassadors from donor-nations to brief them on the economy. The meeting came a day after 147 headless corpses - presumed suspected members of the JVP - were found on roads in the south.
Though fewer dead bodies are now being left by the roadsides, diplomats say that killings by 'vigilante' and military forces still continue at a high level in parts of the south and in the Central Kandy region. The Government claims the JVP has been largely crushed since its leaders were killed in November.
At the same time, about 8,000 people are still being held in detention or
rehabilitation centres. The use of torture on suspects has been systematic, according to diplomats who say that
prisoners bear the signs o severely beaten and of ot
The British have in strong representations a ings and alleged abus rights. In particular, they for the lifting of emergenc that allow the armed suspects without there b for any post-mortem or f be notified.
The increasing detel donor nations to use the l to obtain an improvemel man rights situation com when Sri Lanka has been ern nations to finance t penditure in projects be country's budgetary diff World Bank, which sees needing $2.5bn (£1.5bn assistance over the next has also said that a high of it than normal shoul disbursing programme ai
Sri Lanka the an
Almost certainly, only t barbarity and brutalis Lankan conflict has con face. But if 30,000 peop killed in the struggle Sinhalese JVP movemen ment forces, as some dipl it is one of Asia's w episodes of violence.
It takes its place as a mark along with the partition India, the Kore namese wars, the supp Communists in Indonesia and Pol Pot's reign of te puchea.
The savagery of the created its own momer more gruesome atrociti first, then the armed for tion, took to leaving dead roadside and then igniti rubber tyres. In the Kar central Sri Lanka, paran recently cut up bodies them from roadside trees burning body alone w sufficient to intimidate o
Since July, when the fear into the armed for retrospect brought abo destruction - by threater lies of the army and poli

15 FEBRUARY 1990
S Reporting From Colombo
| be
fhaving been her violence. private made bout the kille of human are pressing zy regulations forces to kill eing the need or families to
mination of everage of aid nt in the huhes at a time asking Westhe rupee excause of the iculties. The Sri Lanka as ) in foreign
three years, er proportion ld be in fast d to help the
country's balance of payments.
The more critical attitude by donors on human rights also comes in contrast to the more approving attitude being taken by both the World Bank and the IMF to the management of the economy. Both IMF and World Bank loans were delayed last year until the government agreed to a stabilisation package.
O India has sent proposals to Sri Lanka for a friendship treaty between the two countries, New Delhi's High Commissioner said yesterday, Reuter reports from Colombo.
Mr. Lakhanlal Mehrotra told a group of Indian journalists that he handed over to the Sri Lankan Government a 'counter-draft' by India on the treaty. Colombo sent its proposals some months ago.
After the Sri Lankan side has studied our proposals, both sides will go
into consultations on the proposed draft, he said.
Foreign Ministry sources said the treaty would ease tensions between the two. New Delhi has promised to withdraw its remaining 25,000 troops by the end of March.
a takes its place in nals of Savagery
he tip of the m of the Sri ne to the surble have been
between the it and governomats believe, orst post-war
an ugly landriots in postean and Vietression of the a by Sukarno, rror in Kam
conflict has htum of ever es. The JVP ces in retaliabodies by the ng them with dy district in military forces
and draped - as though a as no longer pponents.
JVP struck ces — and in ut their own ning the famice, the armed
forces have not concealed their use of torture. The scars of beatings and of burns through electric shocks are clear evidence on the bodies of those who have passed through detention centres.
Interrogation procedures appear to follow a systematic pattern beginning with a heavy beating and leading in the worst cases to a Sri Lankan invention of passing a plastic tube into the rectum with barbed wire inside - and then withdrawing the plastic.
But, the contrasting reality is of a capital, Colombo, which has the festive mood of a city liberated after a long siege. Middle class Colombo celebrated the capture and killing in November of Rohan Wijeweera, the JVP leader, which led to the arrest and elimination of his colleagues.
Restaurants, long closed through
curfews or JVP threats, have been packed. Shops stay open later and there are crowds on the streets. Business confidence is picking up as the government's claims to have almost crushed the JVP gain in credibility.
Mr. Charitha da Silva, the humane and much-respected chairman of Aitken Spence, says of the investment climate: "Overall things are definitely
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beginning to take off. Aitken Spence, diversified in garments, freight handling, agro-business and tourism expects record profits this financial year.
The fear, engendered by the massive police round-ups of JVP suspects, has helped the government carry through much-needed but unpopular IMF measures to remove subsidies and raise prices to market levels. The price of bread has risen by 38 per cent in the past two months, milk and sugar by 48 per cent, rice by 30 per cent. Inflation is cautiously put at 20 per cent higher than a year ago. But there have been none of the strikes and protests that were once a feature of democratic life in Sri Lanka.
Many in Sri Lanka's establishment have great difficulty in bridging these two worlds - between the killing and terror that they sense dominate lives in the interior and the comforting signs of a return to normal in Colombo.
At last week's meeting between the government and representatives of western donor nations to review economic performance, a senior civil servant was thrown off balance by the details of human rights abuses presented by
the donors and b blunt questioning
One diplomat sai ing in the central a of the country: “Ir has come to a stan working age are r They have either selves or they Another diplomat society is being des fear may soon para functions.'
Driving up from to Trincomalee on struck by the sight children going to time in almost two the reopening o equally striking w few young boys an
There is no wa estimates of the n most obnoxious pa regulations gives power to eliminate trial or inquiry, or ing their families. E establish whether been killed or are :
European gover to get these claus
ARTHUR CLARKE'S SOLAR POWERED VEHICLE
Science fiction writer Dr. Arthur C. Clarke unveiled the first solar powered vehicle introduced to Sri Lanka on 19 January.
Capable of travelling a distance of 60 kilometres on its solar powered battery cells, the vehicle modelled on the lines of a modified Go Kart does not accommodate passengers. It has a single seat for the driver only.
The vehicle is the brainchild of the British computer genius, Sir Clive Sinclair who, according to Dr. Clarke, sustained a loss of £700 million manufacturing several hundreds of this vehicle, which failed to make an impact on consumers in England.
However, Dr. Clarke said that in his opinion this vehicle would be a boon to the urban and rural people in Sri Lanka. The advantages of this vehicle lay in the multiplicity of uses its solar battery cells could be employed for. The cells pack adequate power to light up two fluorescent lights, operate a television and a radio. The engine fitted to this vehicle is a washing machine motor packing a load of one horse-power.
Dr. Clarke was of the opinion that, if widely used, the nature of the vehicle itself would contribute largely to cut down on fuel costs and also progressively contribute to reducing levels of pollution.
JOBS ETHNIC
The government follow a firm policy between different jobs would be pro" ethnic ratio, a gov que issued on 9 Ja
President Premi party's parliament that the governme grant employment ortion basis' was i election manifesto elected.
Employment at would be on the na tion, at provincial cial ethnic propor level on the basis ( proportion. The ethnic ratio had b the basis that Sinl percent, Tamils 12. Indian origin 5.5 p 8 percent. The ren would be added to the Sinhalese. Or fourth of jobs Sinhalese, and the of them to the Tam government comm
It would howeve promotions from g. ethnic ratio basis, on a post-to-post b que added.
The President i

by the increasingly he had to face. ld of what is happennd southern regions many villages life udstill. Many men of not there any more. left to save themhave been killed.' says "the fabric of stroyed (by fear) and lyse the way society
Colombo last week the east coast I was of large numbers of school for the first years as a result of f classrooms. But as that there were nong them. y of substantiating lumbers killed. The rt of the Emergency the security forces people without any without even notifyarents often cannot their children have simply missing. nments are pressing es removed on the
S ON
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of Sri Lanka is to y on employment as ethnic groups and vided strictly on an vernment communinuary stated.
adasa told a ruling Cary group meeting nt's firm decision to , on an ethnic propin keeping with the
upon which it was
the national level tional ethnic proporlevel on the provintion and at district of the district ethnic composition of the been worked out on halese comprised 74 1 percent, Tamils of ercent and Muslims maining one percent
the entitlement by this basis, threewould go to the balance one-fourth ils and Muslims, the unique said.
r be difficult to give rade to grade on an but it could be done basis, the communi
s reported to have
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grounds that they can no longer serve any purpose. Security forces apparently regard them as necessary during "mopping-up operations.' But there is concern that their use could be extended from suspected JVP members to other opponents of the regime and “troublemakers.”
The direction the country will take is difficult to foresee because President Ranasinghe Premadasa is a lone figure who does not take his cabinet or even his senior officials into his confidence. He seeks the advice of gurus and , astrologers and was recently photographed being raised on a chair by a spiritualist.
But he is in a much stronger positions than in August when the JVP threat was at its height, the foreign exchange reserves at an all time low, and he was faced with a difficult dispute with India. i
Some think his pragmatism will steer him to solutions for other problems, from bringing the armed forces back under civilian control, to achieving some form of national reconcilia- iš tion and settlement in the north. But the civil war has opened a Pandora's Box, and it is still unclear what will* emerge. 醬
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told the government group that 'all employment would strictly be on qualifications and merit as stipulated for a particularjob and not on political considerations'. s
45 BUDDHIST MONKS IN CUSTODY
Forty-five Buddhist monks, the major ity of them university students, are in detention camps in Sri Lanka for alleged involvement in 'subversive activities'.
According to the State Minister for Buddha Sasana, Lal Gamge, 25 of the detained monks were held in the southern Boosa Detention Centre while the rest were held in various army camps and police stations.
The Ministry has sought guidance and assistance of prominent Buddhist monks to launch a "rehabilitation scheme' for the monks in detention.
According to the Minister over 30 monks had been killed by 'subversives' during 1989. But the Minister failed to indicate the number of monks killed by the security forces.
However, Rev. Maduluwawa Sobitha Thero, the Secretlary of the Maubima Surakime Viyaparaya (Movement for the Defence of the Motherland) said that the killings and disappearances of Buddhist monks were going on unabated and that there had been no positive response from the government on the matter.

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NEWS ROUND-UP
O PERMANENT appointments are to be given to Sri Lankan doctors who returned to the island after serving in foreign countries, according to a scheme in preparation by the Ministry of Health. At present doctors who return after working in other countries are recruited to the State Health Service only on a contract basis. The new proposed scheme provides for an initial two-year contract with an in-built guarantee of permanent appointments. The Ministry has taken this step in view of the acute shortage of doctors because it gave Sri Lankan doctors employed abroad an incentive to return.
OTWO BUDDHIST MONKS were killed by pro-government vigilantes on 8 January. The victims were identified as the Chief Priest of Kahagalle Temple, Ven. Elagalle Jayananda Thero who was shot dead in his temple, and Ven. Batadunnege Somananda Thero who was shot dead at Udahamulla in Mirihana. In separate incidents, an armed gang shot dead three persons in Badulla while police conducting an anti-JVP operation at Udisspattuwa in Kandy district shot dead two persons whom they described as 'subversives'. On the previous day, 7 January, four smouldering bodies with burning vehicle tyres were found at Bandattara in Matara. Eight bodies of young men were found floating in the Nilwala Ganga at Wellatota and six more bodies were seen at Akruagoda on the Kamburugama-Kirimetimulla Road. These killings have been attributed to pro-government death squads and members of the security services. O TWO SOLDIERS, identified as Wimalesena and Nandasena, were killed at Pallerotta in Hambantota by suspected 'subversives' on 9 January. The victims had returned from an Army Camp in the North to attend a funeral of one of their relatives. In a separate incident on the same day, another soldier, identified as Somaratne, was knifed to death at his residence in the Anuradhapura district. Three members of the same family were shot dead at Sapugolla in the Badulla district. Five persons described by security sources as 'subversives were killed in separate incidents at Kahathuduwa in Colombo district and in the Kurunegala district.
O FOREIGN AFFAIRS and State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne said on 12 January that the military wing of the Peoples Front of Liberation Tigers (PFLT) had been requested by the government to stop all offensive military action in the North-East, but the response from them was very slow. The government was concerned about continuing fighting between rival Tamil groups. If they stop shooting each other, half of these problems will end, the Minister added.
O FIFTY-ONE PERSONS, including two from a Buddhist temple, were arrested by the security forces from various parts of south Sri Lanka, a government communique issued on 14 January stated.
O AT LEAST 15 persons including women and children were killed in violent incidents in Kandy on 12 January. A minor employee of the Railway Department, identified as K.G. Sugathadasa and an employee of the Kandy General Hospital named Sugathapala and his wife were among the victims some of whom had been beheaded. A Gram Sevaka, R.G. Jayasena and his wife were also killed. In separate incidents smouldering bodies were found at Kottawa and Elpitiya. In Hambantota a soldier Palitha, Piyaratne, on leave at his sister's residence in Wellode in Hunugama was shot dead. O THE SYSTEM of providing jobs through government sponsored Job Banks in Sri Lanka has come under scrutiny by the World Bank. It has gathered information and details pertaining to the Job Bank system that has been in operation for the last ten years. The system had become notorious for corruption and nepotism.

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OTHE LAST REMAINING politbureau member of the JVP, Somawansa Amarasinghe, had been captured by the police, Minister Ranjan Wijeratne told Parliament on 12 January.
O THE SRI LANKA MUSLIM CONGRESS (SLMC) has sought a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, W.P. Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, to discuss the 'all important question of bringing all Tamil militant groups together and establishing permanent peace in the North-East region. We want to act as a bridge between warring Tamil factions and bring about a compromise and consensus, a spokesman for the SLMC said. We will also ensure that the Muslim case does not go by default. The primary aim is to help make a collective search for peace', he added.
O POLICE DETECTIVES are reported to have busted a major racket at the Colombo port where forged documents have been used to clear goods worth millions. Investigations so far had revealed that over 20 containers have been cleared through the customs based on such questionable documents. Several business establishments in Colombo had been raided and goods worth tens of millions of rupees have already been seized. Ten businessmen have already been taken into custody and handed over to the customs for legal proceedings to be instituted.
O AN ESTIMATED 80,000 teachers presently teaching in Sri Lanka's schools are untrained, and among them are teachers who teach mathematics, science and English, according to the Secretary to the Ministry of State for Education, Dr. Thilokasundari Kariyawasam.
O THE CEYLON COMMUNIST PARTY has vehemently condemned the banning under emergency regulations of all political activities in work places and educational institutions. This draconian regulation was a serious blow to the democratic freedoms of the people. At a time when almost the entire country was demanding the withdrawal of the state of emergency, the government was entrenching with repressive legislation which have had no precedent in the country. It was an expression of its unpopularity and complete isolation from the people, the statement of the CP said.
O HEAVY ARTILLERY attacks and counter-attacks broke out between the LTTE and the IPKF in the Navatkuli area in northern Jaffna on 21 January resulting in about fifty deaths on both sides. Both sides had used sophisticated lethal weapons in the clash including guns, rocket propelled grenades, machine guns etc. While the IPKF also employed helicopter gunships to fire shells, the LTTE was reported to have used mortars, rockets and other advanced weaponry recently captured from the Tamil National Army which was equipped by the IPKF. While the LTTE claimed that the IPKF had intervened without provocation in a clash between itself and its rival ENDLF, the Indian High Commission stated that the IPKF was not conducting any offensive military operations and the fighting was the result of an unprovoked attack by the LTTE on the IPKF which lost 11 men and 15 injured. The LTTE charged that the IPKF had gone on a rampage following the clashes killing civilians and destroying their property. O ACCORDING to Special Task Force sources, four persons described as 'subversives' were shot dead by commandos of the STF near Buttala on 21 January. Eleven were arrested in two separate search operations in Sooriyawewa and Wellawaya. At Minneriya, 9 'subversives' were shot dead allegedly while attempting to escape during a search operation. Meanwhile at least fourteen smouldering bodies of males were seen at Pitiyagedera on 22 January and these killings have been attributed to pro-government vigilante gangs. OTHE LTTE has sent out directives to the general public in the Kalmunai, Akkaraipattu, Sammanthurai and Batticaloa areas warning the people to desist from logging, dredging and sale of alcohol effective from 1 February
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O SHELTON RAJAPAKSE, described as deputy leader of the DJW, the military wing of the JWP, was arrested at Ratnapura on 22 January. The bodies of three youths were found dumped by the roadside near the Bellanwila Buddhist temple on 26 January.
OMR. SAM THAMBIMUTTU, TULF MP for Batticaloa has complained to the Defence Ministry that LTTE members had raided his residence in Batticaloa and removed valuables, household goods and vehicles on 26 January. Meanwhile the mother-in-law of the MP, Mrs. G. Manikkam, took refuge at the Batticaloa police station following threats made allegedly by the LTTE who had taken over the MP's Batticaloa residence. Mrs. Manikkam took refuge in the Batticaloa police station and was later flown to Colombo.
O A UNP MEMBER of the Dehiwela-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council, Mr. Lakshman Perera, belonging to the UNP, was abducted by an unidentified gang from his sister's residence at Dehiwela on 27 January,
O NORTH-EAST PROVINCIAL COUNCIL member Mr. C. M. Ganeshallingam (60) a former Provincial Minister for Rehabilitation and Agriculture was shot outside his residence on 28 January. Two armed Inen, allegedly belonging to the LTTE, had gone to the victim's residence at Rajavarothayam Road in Trilco Ilalee and called him out. The unsuspecting Ganeshalingam had stepped into the compound when he was shot dead,
O ASSISTANT DIRECTOR of wild life (Eastern and Uva Ranges), M.M. Dharinasena Perera and three other emiployees of the Wild Life Departilent were killed and three others injured when a group of suspected Tamil IIilitants opened fire at their vehicle at Helawa in the Amparai district on 27 January.
AN AIRMAN, a member of the National Auxiliary Force, an ex-Buddhist monk and four women are along 40 persons rounded up by the Sapugaskande police for involvement in a series of armed robberies. The arrested persons operating in gangs had been committing robberies masquerading under the name of the JWPD.W.
D TWO WOMEN AND A MAN were killed and several persons wounded in a military encounter involving the IPKF at Chunnakam in the Jaffna district on 30 January,
O ALAWYER named D. Wickremasinghe was hacked to death with another person identified as W. Prema siri at the lawyer's residence at Embilipitiya in the Ratnapura district on 30 January. Twelve smouldering bodies of males were seen at the 13th Inile post on the Badulla-Mahiyangana road. According to a statement issued by the government's information department, 697 persons described as sus pected JWP members had surrendered to the security forces fron December 1 to January 29. Two alleged JWPDJW IIlen were shot dead by police at Thalgaswatte in the Colombo district on 1 February. O THE LTTE is collecting its own taxes from people in the Tamil areas which have come under its control. In the Batticaloa district, LTTE cadres are reported to have taken up position at the Oddamawadi bridge and collecting taxes from private buses, lorries, wans, cars and motor cycles entering the district, Rates were Rs.200 for private buses and lorries and walls Rs.50. Taxes from traders on Warious items sold are also being lewied.
O FIVE PERSONS described as 'subversives were shot dead by soldiers in two separate incidents, according to a government con Immunique dated 2 February, Of the five, three were killed at Galapatha in the Kegalle district during a search operation. The other two were shot dead at Aluthgama. Ten smouldering bodies of youth, including a body of about 12 years, were found on 2 February near the Parakrama Samudra in Polonnaruwa. The victims had been hacked to death and then set om fire. In another incident, S.H. Kapuge, a supporter of the SLFP and an employee at the Matara office of Mr. Mahinda Wijesekera MP, was killed in the Welligama area.

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OTHE PRINCIPAL of a school in Panadura has been under questioning by the CID over the alleged issue of a school leaving certificate to a child of the late Rohana Wijeweera in the name of Attanayake, a name under which the JWP leader was masquerading until his death. The name does not appear in the school admission register and the child had been admitted to Ulapane Maha Widalaya on the presumed authenticity of the forged document. The Principal described as a well known government supporter has denied that he issued the certificate.
O A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT belonging to the Eelavar Democratic Front (EROS), Mr. G., Savundararajah has resigned his seat. Early allegations that he resigned following threats from the LTTE were later denied.
O AT LEAST FIFTEENyoung men were shot and hacked to death at Malwana in the Biyagama police area during the early hours on 3 February, and the killings have been attributed to pro-government death squads, Several bodies, were seen floating in the Kelani river a few yards from the scene of the crime.
O A SUB-INSPECTOR of Police and six other policemen attached to Slave Island Police Station in Colombo have been remanded in custody on charges of rape committed on 17 January. The victim of the rap, a toacher in an international school in Colombo, alleged that while she was driving hone after a game of tennis and dinner at a Colombo hotel, she was stopped at Slave Island roundabout and asked for various documents. Thereafter she was forcibly driven to a lonely spot at Slave Island by the policemen and repeatedly raped by the Sub-Inspector and other policemen.
O SPECIAL TASK FORCE commandos shot dead three suspected 'subversives' during a raid on an alleged JWP DJW hideout at Dambagolla in the Bibile area on 19 January. In cordon and search operations in three areas in the Monetagala district by the STF, 65 youths were rounded up and detained, O COMPENSATION for 'terrorist' victims now paid only in the North-East Province is to be extended to other provinces too. In addition to compensation for damaged or destroyed property, dependents of each person killed in the North-East Province were cntitled to receive Rs.50,000. Now the Ministry of Rehabilitation has instructed the Government Agents in the southern seven provinces to submit information about death and destruction of proper. ty resulting from "terrorist' attacks.
O THE SUPREME COURT has directed the Ministry of Defence to produce in Court. Mr., Athula Dissanayake, a university student and a detainee at the Boosa Detention Camp, to verify the contents of a petition he had sent to the Chief Justice, Parinda Ranasinghe, Mr. Dissanayake in his petition states that he was arrested by the police on 3 March 1989 and has since been in detention; although he was served with an indictment returnable on 20 November 1989, he was not produced in court on that date. He contends that there is imminent threat to his life and requests the court to remove him from the Boosa Detention Camp and place him at the Magazine Prison in Colombo,
OELEWENMEN belonging to the Citizens Wolunteer Force of the N-E Provincial Council were abducted on 13 January at Umayakulam as they were travelling in a train from Jaffna to Trinco Imalee. According to the Provincial Council Minister of Transport and Industries, Abu Yusuf, the abduction was carried out by the LTTE and the whereabouts of the wictims were not known. In a separate incident, a School principal was among five people who were chopped to death at Nannapuruwa, Bibile; The dead were identified as H.M. Kiribanda, principal of Senapathiya school, H.M. Appuhamy, R.M. MinhiIdupala, R.M., Heer handa and R.M. Karunaratme.

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JAFFNA REVISITED
A conspiracy of fear surrounds anyone intending to visit Jafna. 'Why do you want to go to Jaffna?' enquired a surprised friend sipping whisky at a Tamil get-together in England. 'You will be heart-broken when you see the place' warned my brother. Yet the emotional need to visit one's homeland is strong. Attachment to the soil has been the basis of the freedom struggle. Three days before departure a telephone call from Colombo warned me that it may not be possible to proceed to Jaffna. Two days before flying, a BBC World Service report described Sri Lanka as the new killing fields'. There was an 18 hour delay at Gatwick and uncertainty prevailed right up to my arrival in Colombo.
I was able to reach Jaffna within a day of arrival in Colombo. The flight by Helitours, operated by the Sri Lankan Air Force, was courteous and efficient, at a cost of Rs 1250. Signs in English and Hindi at the Palaly Airport announced the New Order. Hiring cars, mostly the old familiar Austins, charged Rs 350 for transport to Jaffna as there was a petrol shortage. The cars had to wind through lanes with large puddles of water as the main road had been blocked off by the army in the interest of defence. The Indian presence everywhere added a new dimension to the landscape. Yet it was great to be in Jaffna, and to feel a part of the place - a wonderful sense of belonging which had eluded me for the past six years.
"Change and decay in all around I see’ were words from a familiar hymn which came recurrently to my mind as I went around. Added to the decay and neglect seen in Colombo, destruction was evident in Jaffna. The old familiar sites such as the Town Hall and Veerasingham Hall were all gone. Buildings had been destroyed, roads damaged and there were multiple road blocks and sentry points. There was general insecurity of life which the people have accepted with courage or fatalism. Yet there was also a sense of hope that the conflict would cease and peace return.
Conditions of life were very basic. There were no telephones working except the internal lines of Jaffna Hospital. The few links with Colombo were out of order during my stay. Messages were carried very rapidly by word of mouth. There were long and frequent power cuts and one night in two was spent in darkness. There was an unofficial curfew in operation, imposed by one of the groups apparently to prevent thefts by another group. Petrol was in short supply and sold at Rs 30 per bottle. Gallons are a thing of the past People with cars use them
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Freedom of expression is a luxury and is dangerous is the message spelt out by the murder of Rajani Thiranagama. There was widespread revulsion about the killing and there were posters to the effect everywhere. The saddest event during my stay was the news on New Year's Day that a brilliant student from St. John's College, Jaffna was killed by a pro-Indian group for alleged sympathies with the Tigers. That killings of this nature should be carried out for a matter of belief is very tragic.
For me as a Christian, the visit to Sri Lanka was a spiritual experience.
Having opted out of the consumerism of British Christmas, I spent an austere Christmas with my people in Sri Lanka. The sound of fire crackers, permitted for the first time this year, announced the festive season - a welcome change from the sound of guns. On Christmas Day I attended the morning service at the church in Nallur where my father had worshipped and his father before him. "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us' was the essence of the reading from the Bible. It was a statement of God's identification with an oppressed people in a remote corner of the Roman Empire - a situation which has many parallels with that of Jaffna today. I was happy to be in Jaffna and share in a small way the joys and sufferings of my people.
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If the non-return of even a single DMK M.P. to the Lok Sabha at the last Parliamentary elections was a bitter blow for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr. Karunanidhi, the emergence of the National Front Government at the Centre has more than made up for his discomfiture. Not only was his nephew-confidant Mr. Murasoli Maran given a Cabinet berth - (remember, the Rajiv Gandhi government never gave Tamil Nadu representation in the Cabinet) - but Mr. Karunanidhi himself was brought into the centre of the picture in being asked to play a highprofile role in the Sri Lankan Tamil tangle. While during the pre-election period he gave the impression of being unsure and diffident, (even insecure), the Karunanidhi of today sounds his usual seasoned politician. He speaks with assertiveness and authority. But on the other hand, by beginning to assume the role of a peace-maker among Tamil militant groups, he has now ended as a controversial figure. For a man who had not shown much warmth towards the LTTE in the past (perhaps the feeling was mutual), and whose softness towards the other groups, particularly the TELO, was well-known, today he is being accused publicly by his critics of throwing his weight behind the LTTE - a criticism that is valid if one goes by the kind of statements that he has been making.
When on January 18, Congress-I members raised the question in the State Assembly that the withdrawal of the IPKF should be linked to the safety of the Tamils, Mr. Karunanidhi retorted that he was second to none in protecting the interests of the Tamils, but the IPKF should have taken steps to protect the Tamils instead of butchering them. Again on the 22nd, speaking in the Assembly, he charged the Rajiv Gandhi government with bungling, and said the LTTE was pushed into the adversary, Sri Lanka Government's camp, as a result of the Rajiv Gandhi Government's mistake. On his talks with the Tamil groups Mr. Karunanidhi said he had conveyed to Mr. Perumal the LTTE's demand for the disbanding of the TNA'. It was wellknown that the IPKF was arming and sustaining this force. If the TNA was disbanded, the LTTE would cease fire the next day, he had said. All these brought on Mr. Karunanidhi the wrath of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President Mr. Vazhapadi Ramamurthy who charged him with
pressurising North-Eas Minister Perumal to res to favour his 'pet LTT time brings home its re ago, Mr. Karunanidh inclined to believe that “the pet” of his politi MGR. Now he himself is with adopting “that pet Mr. Karunanidhi's understandable; it is c several factors: Firstly, within the brief handed the Delhi Government, which is clearly depart policies of the Rajiv G ment. While the new honest enough about it: the safety of the Tami volution of powers to Provincial Council, it about the complete wit. IPKF. Surely Mr. K aware that no amoun campaigning in India porting the anti-LTTE to delay the scheduled the IPKF.
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"...Several shopkeepers said cadres of the other groups had gone on a looting spree during last month, taking away things from shops and houses under the very nose of the Indian soldiers. They were shifting the goods from the shops to their homes for fear that the groups would break open the shops and take away everything before they flee the town with the Indians.
Residents said three boatloads of cadres of these groups had been arrested by the public and handed over to the LTTE while they were fleeing to India with the loot ...
'"We are waiting for the Indians and their stooges to leave”, a shopkeeper said, busy shifting goods from the shop to his house.
IPKF officials said a host of cadres of these groups wanted to go along with them to India. "A decision will have to be taken at the highest level on what to do with them', a senior IPKF official said, adding that they were right from the beginning opposed to arming these groups. "Taking these men to Tamil Nadu would mean they would not only create a law and order problem there, but create socioeconomic tensions as they would deprive the local people of their rightful jobs”, he said ...'. (THE INDEPENDENT, Bombay, 29 Jan. 90).
This then is the third factor compounding Mr. Karunanidhi's dilemma. What was after all a domestic headache for the defenceless population of the northeast in Sri Lanka was now going to become Mr. Karunanidhi's worry. What is really the problem facing him is not an influx of genuine refugees as is made out through inspired reports in the Indian media, but the influx of indisciplined cadres of these groups used to robbing at gunpoint flocking into Tamil Nadu, bringing with them arms and ammunition. This trend has already begun by mid-January. According to a report in THE HINDU of January 22:
"The 40-km. stretch from Uchipulli to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu has come under police surveillance following the recovery of arms and ammunition worth Rs.10 crores. . . These arms with foreign markings and a package with an ENDLF tag were found buried in the sea coast of Dhargavalasai village near Uchipulli. . . It is suspected that these large quantities of arms and ammunition were from Sri Lanka. Not able to face the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Army attacks, the other militant groups could be smuggling their arms into Tamil Nadu. . .”.
Another report in THE HINDU of January 23 said:
Police are looking for 52 Sri Lankan Tamil militants belonging to the ENDLF group who are missing from the Mandapam refugee camp where
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they were registered as Sri Lankan refugees. . . Recalling the arms burying incident, the villagers said in the early hours of Saturday (Jan. 20), they saw about 25 persons including four women, one carrying an infant, getting off three speedboats. They noticed that the women were heavily decked in gold ornaments, ...'.
On the 24th, a high-frequency transreceiver set with automatic antenna and a notebook containing code words and cyclostyled key for code words for transmission were seized by the police from a house at Anthoniapuram in Thangachchimadam near Rameswar. am. Are all these not ominous signs of which the Tamil Nadu government has to be seriously concerned? Mr. Karunanidhi cannot be seen as accommodating towards these groups which in the coming months are likely to cause law and order problems for his own government, At the same time, if he has to maintain his own credibility as a Tamil leader, he would have no choice but to sustain his rapport with the LTTE which has already established a de facto control of three-quarters of the northeast at the time this is being Written.
A fourth factor that necessarily has to circumscribe his thinking is that as a leader of a party which is a constituent member of the National Front, he cannot afford (even if he wishes) to deviate from the New Delhi line. The National Front government in its approach to the Sri Lankan issues has no hangovers, and unlike the Congress-I has no wested interests in the internecine rivalries between the Tamil groups. It can therefore afford to look at the problems in Sri Lanka with a straight eye; without sacrificing Indian security interests it can nevertheless, without feeling a loss of prestige, accept the ground realities as they are. Two realities stare one in the eye: Firstly, the government of that country appears to be working with some kind of understanding with the only Tamil group that matters; secondly, the LTTE has already proved that it has the potential to take over the administration in the northeast, whether de facto through superior military power or de jure through a democratic election in the future.
A fifth factor that is bound to influence Mr. Karunanidhi in his future options is an interesting new development. For the first time since the ethnic war hotted up in the island, a Sri Lankan Foreign Minister had called on a Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the significance of which has hardly been highlighted in the media. As far as Mr. Karunanidhi is concerned, it should come as a flattering gesture, Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne followed up his courtesy call on Mr. Karunanidhi by making complimentary references to
his efforts to bring settlement among while addressing a Colombo on his r. cians are expected gue-in-the-cheek 1 fact that the Colom prepared to Owerc. hostility to Tamil portance in the li velopments. "Tamil ty Iniles away an must have good Tamil Nadu gorwer1 Wijeratne has bec Mr. Wijeratne's wis the Wisit of another ter, the Inild-m speaking Minister Mr. Wincent Perer Mr. S. Thondaman, Tamil Nadu, talkir in Coimbatore, sai the view expresser parties that the G should not have lef the problem to pointed out that Mı is intimately col Tamils of Sri Lank to deal with this Centre. He appeal parties in India In issue, which is a death for the Tamil Thondaman also cr Price Chief Mil al's romarks that revert to a separat mand if the prom powers to the gove did not materialis pull-out, and want was doing in the p, the induction of the He could have pu| mand earlier When and could have ea sier. To a questi til Sri LIlk THIT threat from the air withdrawal of the sent situation, it i between the Sri La Tamils, but botweel groups".
The implications that Mr. Karunani way amidst contri both friendly and Mr. Perumal rema: ter on paper, heh wincial head in ab: EPRLF leadership likely to get back, a refuses to sit dowIn Mr. Perumal. As th W. Balakumar saic should the LTTE li8, when they are winn support of Colombo political reasons'. T there is that the LT listen to Mr. Karum EROS group itself,

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about an amicable the Tamil groups, Fress Conference in eturn, While politito make many tonemarks, the very bo government was ome its traditional Nadu assumes imght of current deNadu is only twend our Govern Ilent relations with the nment as well', Mr. quoted as saying. sit was preceded by * Sri Larıkarı Minisаппеге d, Тапnіlfor Rehabilitation, a. A third Minister, on a private visit to ng to press persons d he did not share by some political overnment of India the task of solving arı individual. He ... Karunanidhi who linected with the a is better equipped problem than the led to the political ot to politicise the |uestion of life and ls of the island. Mr. iticised North-East mister, Mr. Perumhis party would O Tamil Eelam d2lised devolution of rnment led by him before the IPKF ld to know what he Elst two years since IPKF ill the island, l, up the same dethe IPKF was there achieved it much on, he replied that Lils do not face any TIny even after the IPKF, "In the pres mot the problem hkan Army and the in the various Tamil
behind all this is dhi has to tread his adictory pressures,
hostile. Although ins as Chief Minisas become the prosentia. Neither the mor its cadres are is long as the LTTE for a dialogue with e EROS leader MT, in Madras, "Why ten to anybody now ing? They have the even if it is only for he underlying hint TE does not have to anidhi himself. The
which had in the
past worked with some kind of understanding with the LTTE, appears to be feeling the pressure, and is preparing in the words of a senior EROS leader for a long stay in India'. In other words the field is being left free for the two Inajor forces in the island today - the Premada sa Government and the LTTE. The fact that both of them are today working in a friendly tanden does not deceive anybody. What would happen when once the IPKF is completely withdrawn, and the ground is not cluttered with other forces, if the two of them begin to feel each other's pressure? That might not happen inmediately, but it is a likely prospect in the foreseeable future. What then would be Tamil Nadu's role in such an event? Ironically, even if the Tamils have to pay their sacrifice with another round of bloodshed (possibly the final round), that could be the only possible occasion when Tamil militant unity could be forged, and a permanent solution found for the Eelam Tamils, Prolonging that kind of eventuality rests almost squarely on what the Premadasa Government hlas "up its sleeve'.
SRI LANKA LOSES 1250 DOCTORS
Sri Lanka has been losing some 500 doctors a year for the past two-and-a- half years making a total loss of approxiinately 1250 doctors due to the closure of the country's universities, including the private North Colombo Medical College, "Nothing can be done to immediately eradicate this shortage" a senior Health Ministry official said.
At present the country needed at lcast an additional 1000 doctors to provide a reasonable medical service.
The basic cadre uf doctors is 2875. At present there are 2350. The ideal requirement would be a cadre of about 3350, the official added.
During the past few years there had been a rapid exodus of doctors frorn Sri Lanka. A major reason was the incTeased earning capacity in foreign countries. But recent widespread violence and threats to Inedical personnel and their families have resulted in a large number of better qualified doctors leaving the country. Doctors were leaving with their families to educate their children following the total breakdown in university education,
Each year the government sends ten specialists and ten more grade doctors for training abroad. In addition another 15 to 20 doctors are ser1t for specialist training by the PGIM. A. substantial Inumber of these doctors fail to return on completion of the training courses and stay back in forc. ign countries having obtained lucrative jobs.

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A COMPROMISE FORMULA
EVEN a casual observer not involved directy or indirectly in politics will note that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have consolidated their position. Today they are a force to be reckomed with, both militarily and politically. It is obvious that the LTTE seem to have made their position quite clear and that the ball is now in th government's court. 3
An analysis of the political situation in our country indicates that the government has to move in the right direction if it is to solve the ethnic problem once and for all. It is clear that a solution should be sought politically and not otherwise.
The President has made it plain to the nation and the world that he and his government are available for consensus, compromise and consultation. It is not always easy to compromise one's position but it takes courage and large-heartedness to agree to a compromise in the interests and welfare of the nation.
Different views have been expressed for and against Provincial Councils that are already in existence. The reasons adduced are certainly valid and cannot be ignored. In the light of what has transpired, it may be worthwhile to consider introducing a federal form of government.
In that case, Sri Lanka will become a Federal Republic, in a form which would be a compromise with the present form of government. It means doing away with the Provincial Council set-up and grouping together three or four Provincial Councils to form a Regional Federation - that is, a trifederal government consisting firstly, of the North-East; secondly the Central-West; thirdly, the South. Each will have a separate federal constitution.
I am certain this grouping, if implemented, will help keep our nation not only united but also prevent a recurrence of ethnic violence and the cry for separation. I have no doubt such a compromise formula will be acceptable to all sections of people, even the LTTE/PELT.
C.S Thevabalasingham Colombo 5.
EXPATRIATE TAMLS ONE paragraph of N. Shanmugaratnam's thought-provoking article, Seven Days in Jaffna' (Tamil Times, Sept. 89) touched me deeply. It was the comment made by a tenant farmer who had complained, about the "Tamils who had the means to escape, to run away to Europe and waiting to come back to rule, when the war is over'. I
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guess this kno' should belong to who had studied t of the Tamils in S
Pon. Ramanath lam, A. Mahadev balam belonged absentee politicia Tamils of Jaffna, Trincomalee, Batt plantation region: of Cinnamon Garc other category o Chelvanayakam a originated from th class Tamils who Malaya, Singapor tury ago, and reti) twilight years. T tenant farmer directed against t ership the Tamils the past century.
And when one si Lanka reads sol which appear in th as 'dinner and ( disco') his or he expatriate Tamils come reinforced. ' kind of Tamils' w disco in far-away natives suffer mu fear; so emanates is a valid one too.
However, away of dance and disco expatriate Tamils able service to the newly adopted c clude, being volun (a) archivists of til chroniclers of evel of Sri Lanka;
(b) active contribu Eelam Tamils, by nating informatio ments to the n magazines and ol various cities and tries;
(c) unofficial (but information for academics, humar international orga
(d) collectors of m like books, acade tific instruments : plements, whic academic and econ future generation Lanka.
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low Tamils who had become wellestablished in their adopted countries. The role of these patriotic expatriate Tamils should not be ridiculed, if not recognised.
wledgeable farmer Sachi Sri Kantha
che older generation 3300 Henry Avenue he leadership profile Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA.
ri Lanka. ʻNAYAR PUDDICHCHA PULI an, Pon. Arunacha- VALU”
a and G.G. Ponnam I AM not sure what the long preamble
o the elite class of to the article by Mr. S. Sivanayagam ns who ruled the (TT, January 90) was in aid of or why Mannar, Vavuniya, he thinks that it will be fascinating to icaloa, Amparai and jerk our minds to the "real thing' (not , from their cases coke, by the Tiger). As far as I am lens in Colombo. The aware the word "tiger' (in singular) f leadership (S.J.V. always brought to my mind the animal nd M.Tiruchelvam) and its plural invariably refers to the he families of upper: LTTE, at least as far as the Tamils of worked in colonial si Lanka are concerned. Neverthee and Burma a cen- less, I did jerk my mind a little and a ed to Jaffna in their whole host of proverbs, fables and he sarcasm of the parables involving the tiger, including should have been the one about the four wizards who hese classes of lead- brought back to life. a dead tiger and had patronised for the one about the goodbrahmin who took pity on a drowning tiger, crossed uffering Tamil in Sri my mind. Somehow, it was the me announcements Malayalam film title of the early e Tamil Times (such 1960s, “Nayar Pudichcha Puli Valu” lance', 'dinner and (The Tiger's Tail Which Nayar Grabr contempt for the bed) which made the strongest imshould bound to be- pression in the context of what Mr. They are the worst Sivanayagam wrote.
ho enjoy dance and Turning to matters less frivolous, he London, while we objects strongly to people drawing palch humiliation and rallels between the LTTE and the the thought. And it German fascists because unlike the former, the latter apparently achieved from the enticement their dominance through state power. , a small segment of What he seems to ignore is the fact do perform invalu- that the fascists of Germany (and, for Tamil cause, in their that matter, all European fascists) ountries. These in- started as underdogs and fought their tarily functioning as: way to power. Their style was based on intolerance and appeal to narrow, nationalism.
It is interesting that the killing of innocent civilians by the armed forces of the government of President Premadasa does not attract any comment in the article (although a study by International Alert indicates that many more civilians have been killed during 1989 than in any year before). a- The writer also chooses to ignore the authentic) sources of fact that the Indira Gandhi governnon-Sri A. Lankan ment which made cynical use of the rights activists and Tamil National question of Sri Lanka unizations; to further the strategic interests of aterials (not money) India had many people who were very mic journals, scien- sympathetic to the Tamil cause and and agricultural im- that it is the same RAW which proh could aid the vided training for the fighters and lomic development of subsequently planned strategy against is of Tamils in Sri the LTTE which is advising the
National Front government. He also
hese tasks mostly in prefers to ignore the fact that the
and without any beloved Dr. Kalaignar Karunanidhi of o them. They also do Tamil Nadu has been no less cynical al support for their than Indira Gandhi in his handling of
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What is more important is that Mr. Sivanayagam takes exception to criticism of the LTTE by concerned Tamils who are not necessarily its opponents. There is no use denying or defending the intolerance prevalent in some of the Tamil liberation organisations. It is this intolerance which led to the killing of people like Dr. Rajini whose contribution to the Tamil community was and would have been invaluable. Worse than this intolerance is the intellectual dishonesty which rationalises, and very often glorifies it. If the writing on the wall as the writer perceives it is "The LTTE is on its way to power. Therefore, join the bandwagon', I refuse to accept it because that certainly is no way to be ahead. Rajini was killed, not for falling behind, but for being ahead and refusing to sail with the wind and drift with the tide. Still, her actions deserve to be emulated, not rejected. I have a feeling that Mr. Sivanayagam has missed the small print on the wall.
S. Sivasegaram London SW20
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THE only parallel I can see in the quotations at the head of Mr. Sivanayagam’s article (page 15, Tamil Times, January 1990) is to the Devil which often quotes scriptures to justify its devilish acts. However, I agree with the sentiments contained in the quotes, particularly the following: "Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers’, and “the tiger does not remember or generalise; it does not kill for revenge, or out of principle, through delegated, deluded and dehumanised troops.
What I found very difficult to comprehend was Mr. S's attempt to favourable compare the LTTE composed of
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22. 1.90, our supporter Mr. Raja Mohamed was beaten up and tied to a lamp post with the note accusing him as a traitor; On 29.1.90, Mr. Rasul was shot dead at Kathankudi and his body was not returned; On 30.1.90, armed militants of the SLMC attempted to arrest our cadres and in that scuffle, a person named Munsoor was killed. These incidents clearly illustrate that it was the armed militia of the SLMC that has been on a war path attempting to provoke us'.
"It is a well-known fact that the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, has atttemped to sow the seeds of discord among Tamils and Muslims. Thereafter, the Indian armed quislings EPRLF, ENDLF, TELO and PLOT harassed the Muslim people and tried to incite communal violence. But now, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, in
men (who have den potential and capacit "oppressive governme) whom have become gated, deluded anc troops') with "the no species the authors O had in mind.
There is no dispute has dominated the T Tamil consciousness f as to "how the LT achieve that distinct not merely a 'subjecti ing on each person’s pe capable of objective as amining the facts a themselves. In his way, Mr. S asserts eminence of the II achieved in the face used against it, not ment, but by two gov specifically, the pre attained by fighting True, the LTTE confr of Sri Lanka and India objective fact. But the too. Even before it a dominant role, the L its authoritarian idec monopolistic right to entire Tamil people to all other Tamil parties in pursuance to this pli fact sought to elimina ties and groups and TELO, TULF, PLOT, etc. it did not and it even a "friendly' group LTTE also has kille Principals, Governmer tant Government Ag Revenue Officers Teachers, Undergradu public figures. when "tiger . . . does not kil out of principle", one know from Mr. S as
collusion with RAW át adopting the same stra the Tamils and Muslin point out that the SL calculated silence wh army and the Indian groups were killing the The SLMC not only co these armed quislings b armed training from t SLMC has been extort. the Muslim civilians ar large quantity of arms National Army. Now th created by the SLMC h ising the Muslim peop the views of the Tamil who work for commu harmony between Ta lims”.
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onstrated their 7 to become an It', and many of virtually dele
dehumanised ble four legged f the quotations
that "the LTTE amil scene and r a decade'. But E managed to on' is certainly fe issue dependint of view'. It is sessment by exs they present rather partisan that "the preTTE WaS of State power by one governernments. More -eminence was State power'. onted the forces , and that is one 'e are other facts chieved its preTTE proclaimed logy of its sole represent the the exclusion of and groups, and osition, it had in te all other partheir leaders - EPRLF, ENDLF does not brook like the EROS.
2d MPs, College ht Agents, Assisents, Divisional , University lates and other the four-legged l for revenge or would like to to why the two
ents is bent on tegy of dividing ns. We wish to MC adopted a en the Indian backed armed Muslim people. llaborated with ut also received he Indians. The ng money from ld has bought a from the Tamil e armed militia as been terrorle who support igers and those nal peace and mils and Mus
thy reply, cateTE allegations ng a non-violent
never incited
legged variety among Tamils carry out these killings? Out of revenge or principle? The LTTE is 'dominating the Tamil scene' and had "achieved preeminence' not only because it fought "State power', but also because of its capacity for use of brutal terror within the Tamil community.
Mr. S says that Hitler and Ceausescu used state power to kill and oppress their people. I agree that the Tigers are away ahead of these dictators, because they have done it even before they assumed state power. One dreads what they would do with at least Provincial State power in their hands
"Saturday Review' was deservedly described as a "beacon of light' by an eminent person from south Sri Lanka when Mr. S was editing it. One wonders whether he would have been able to exercise that right to free expression under a regime of the LTTE. I also remember reading an excelent contribution by Mr. S in the Kanthasamy Commemoration Volume in which he wrote, "As a believer in human rights, I was saddened at the disappearance of a man who was a crusader in the field'. Mr. S was terribly hurt that Kanthasamy 'should come to his fate at the hands of some mindless small men themselves Tamils; whose minds could neither grasp the finer human values, nor a world beyond guns'. Although he had the space and the opportunity, the fact that Mr. S chose not to mention even a word on the innumerable senseless killings that had since taken place, not excluding Government Agent Panchalingam, TULF leaders A. Amirthalingam and V. Yogeswaran, and Dr. Rajini Thiranagama, is a sad reflection of his present stance even in regard to basic human rights and values.
S. Anthonippillai Colombo 3 Sri Lanka
and/or utilised violence'. It also reminded the LTTE, "If the LTTE/PFLT only remember that it is the Muslims who did not expose them to their pursuers when they were running for safety from their erstwhile friends, the IPKF, the LTTE/PFLT will build a bridge of mutual understanding and goodwill instead of indulging in genocide of the same benefactor”.
Following a meeting between the Minister of Higher Education Mr. A.C.S. Hameed and an LTTE delegation on 2 February, the LTTE released most of those whom it had previously rounded-up in Kalmunai. The developments in the east and the resulting tension would appear to have been the main reason for the deputy leader of the LTTE and President of the PFLT, Mr. Mahendrarajah (Mahathaya) to go to Batticaloa and personally take
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In 7 reasured Memory S. Shanmugasundara A.G.A. Born: 17:01 1926 DieCd 09.02., 1985 A day to remember, sa Without farewell you le Hard working hands inc God broke our hearts t He only takes the best.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
March 4 3.30 p.m. Novena at Asian Chaplaincy, 48 Great Peter Street, London SW1 P2HA. For details phone: 01-2222895.
March 185.30 p.m. Mahajana Old Students Association U.K. presents Tamil Comic Sketch 'Kalladda Kalyanam' in aid of college project at Riverdale Hall, Rennell Street, Lewishan, London SE13. For ticket and details Phone. O277223981 & O1-399 7848. March 24 7.15 p.m. Music Concert by The Students of the Temple arranged and presented by Smit Rudrani Balakrishnan at London Sri Murugan Temple, 78 Church Road, Eastham, London E12 6AF. All WelCOne.
March 25 6.30 p.m. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan presents "The Abduction', dance drama based on Ramayana at Hammersmith Town Hall, London W6. For tickets Phone: 01-381 3O36.
At Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 4A Castletown Road, London W14 9HQ. Tel: 01-381 3036/ 4608
March 4 & 18 Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre Lecture by Swami Bhavyananda. All WelCOEe. March 10 7 p.n. Bharatanatyam by Prakash with Sivasakthi, Balasri & musicians. March 177 p.m. Bharatanatyam by Sudharani Raghupathy & Troupe from India. March 18 6 p.m. Carnatic Vocal by Madurai Krishnan and Troupe from India.
LOFUJ helps Needy Students
in response to a request from the Vice Chancellor, The League of the Friends of the University of Jaffna (LOFUU), has remitted £1000 to the Vice Chancellor's fund to help needy students at the Campus. The amount was raised from the annual dance held in December 1989. LOFUJ had sent E3200 last year for various projects at the University.
'45 Swiss Avenue, Watford, Herts WD1 7LL, U.K. Tel: O92323987.
WORLD RELIGIONS INDIALOGUE
The Central YMCA, London is organising an 8-week course titled "World Religions in Dialogue, one evening a week beginning on Thursday, 19th April 1990. The session will last 90 minutes from 7.30 p.m. and participants will be required to pay a fee for the COLSe.
Rev. Swami Siva Nandhi (formerly Mr. K. Gnanasoorian, who has recently been ordained a Hindu Swami), Head of London Meikandaar Aadheenan Trust, London E1 7 has been invited to deliver two lectures on Hinduism. Prof. Keith Ward of Kings college, London will preside and initiate the dialogue on Christianity and Hinduism. Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and lslam will be included in the Course and the relationship between each of them and Christianity explored with lectures and dialogues. Guidance for the study of each religion will be given. intending applicants are requested to contact Mr. Tim Page, Director, Christian Purposes, Central YMCA, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NQ for all details regarding the course, Phone 01-637 8131.

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