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CONTENTS
All-Out war in N-E Sri Lanka. . . . . . . ... .. 4
T.N. Chief Minister warns Militants. . . . . . 6 ISSN if you want peace, prepare for War. . . . . . 7 ANNUAL
UK/india/Sri L M.P. and wife assassinated. . . . . . . . . . . 9 All other coul Honeymoon ends as War begins. . . . . . 10 Pubị Sam Thambimuttu - a profile. . . . . . . . . 11 TAಖ್ಖ SUTTON, St Views expressed by contributors are not necessarily UNITE those of the editor or the publishers. Phone:
f : A WAR ON
Again the Tamil people are at the receiving end. "Thousands flee as war is declared in Sri Lanka' and "Tamils burned out of old Tiger town' are two of the recent headlines in an English daily newspaper which reflect the plight of the civilian population in the north-east of Sri Lanka as a direct consequence of the war that has broken out between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government.
When the Tamil militant groups confronted the Sri Lankan security forces in the past or when the military confrontation between the Indian Peace Keeping Force and the LTTE broke out in October 1987, without doubt the main victims were the defenceless and unarmed Civilians. Thousands were killed and tens of thousands were displaced, and in fact people emigrated to other countries in their thousands in search of physical safety. The present war that the government and the LTTE had declared on each other, we fear, offer a worse prospect than ever before. And the people don't deserve it.
And the war itself could and should have been avoided. The LTTE and the government have been engaged in negotiations for over a year. Both parties were united in their desire to ensure the departure of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. Even the influence 1 and presence of other Tamil militant groups which were regarded as LTTE's rivals had been reduced to negligible proportions. The LTTE leadership had, not so long ago, been proclaiming their belief in the sincerity of President Premadasa. On the other hand, the government itself had invested so much on their negotiations with the LTTE to the exclusion of all others. Even though they had not gone through an electoral process to prove their representative status, the LTTE had achieved a dominant position in the north-east So much so it had virtual Control of almost all affairs in the region. The government would appear to have conceded the three basic demands of the LTTE, namely the dissolution of the North-East Provincial Council, holding of fresh elections for this Council and the repeal of the Sixth Amendment. In regard to the first two demands, the approval as to the constitutional validity of Bills to enable the dissolution and holding of fresh elections had been obtained from the Supreme Court and are expected to be placed before parliament. As for the repeal of the Sixth Amendment, the government was in some difficulty in obtaining the required two-thirds majority and therefore has to rely on the support of some opposition MPs and was making serious efforts to seek their support. In this context, unless there are other more important reasons about which the people had not been made aware, the present war and its tragic consequences are a callous imposition upon a people whose agony and suffering
 

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THE PEOPLE
do not seem to matter very much in the minds of those who have launched this war.
The response of the security forces have been predictably indiscriminate, so much so within a few days of the outbreak of this war, the full panoply of the state's war machine has been mobilised and applied in the most ruthless manner. Already casualties among civilians are reaching four figures and tens of thousands have been displaced and become refugees. From the outset, bombardment from the air and sea ostensibly against LTTE positions, constitute the main thrust of the military response. That such a course would result in large scale civilian casualties does not seem to inhibit the security forces.
it must be stressed that this time round, the security forces are engaging in military operations in the Tamil areas having already gone through an experience of unmitigated brutality in the course of undertaking a campaign of unprecedented terror in the south of the country against the JVP and its alleged supporters. It was not long ago that beheaded bodies, burning bodies, floating bodies etc., in their fifties and sometimes in their hundreds at a time were part of the southern landscape. The security forces, including the dreaded Special Task Force, have now arrived in the Tamil areas fresh with that gruesome experience. A sample of what is in store for the people of these areas has already been demonstrated in the course of their operations in Trincomalee in the last few days. Nearly 2000 Tamil youths have been rounded up in Colombo and how many of them will 'disappear' is anybody's gueSS.
Another factor is that, in past years, the perception of substantial sections of the international community was favourable to the Tamil point of view particularly in the context of the then government's pursuit of a
military solution to the ethnic conflict and the well
documented catalogue of human rights violations, and their frequent interventions acted as a severe constraint on the then government of Sri Lanka. However, presently the atmosphere at best would appear to be subdued, non-responsive or muted.
As for the government, let it be warned that there is no guarantee of total victory against a determined guerrilla group, and experience throughout the world has shown that guerrilla wars have an inherent capacity to last for decades brutalising the people that are affected by it and bleeding the country and its economy.
For these reasons and many more, the urgent task for both warring parties is to immediately come to a ceasefire followed by an end to this unwarranted War upon the people and return to the negotiating table.

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ALL-OUT WAR IN NOR
Heavy Civilian Casualties & Te
19 JUNE - Heavy civilian casualties and the displacement of tens of thousands of people are being reported as fierce fighting between the LTTE and the security forces intensified for the successive ninth day enveloping all parts of the North-East of Sri Lanka. Colombo has claimed that the security forces have brought the eastern port city of Trincomalee under their control, and while consolidating their position in the other eastern town of Batticaloa, they are engaged in a fierce battle in the Tiger stronghold of the Jaffna peninsula where two major army camps at Jaffna Fort and Palali Airport have come under intense artillery and rocket attack by the Tigers. The besieged garrisons in these two camps are being reinforced with supplies of food and weapons and ammunition by helicopters. If the Tiger attacks continued, it is feared that a full scale aerial bombardment of Tiger positions in Jaffna will be undertaken by the security forces with inevitably considerable civilian casualties. It is reported that the Tigers have already vacated their northern headquarters at Kondavil and many other buildings known to the security forces.
Following the breakdown of attempted ceasefire agreements on two occasions, the government declared 'all-out war against the Tigers accusing them of 'unprovoked attacks on police stations and army camps and the massacre of over 200 police and army personnel captured by the Tigers as they launched simultaneous attacks on several police stations and army camps in the east of the country. And the Tigers attributed the collapse of the ceasefire attempts to "large scale troops deployment' in the North-East of the island.
"There is no question of a ceasefire now. The Tigers have broken it and we are going ahead trying to recapture
our installations while defending our
positions', a military officer said. The hawkish State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne said, "the ceasefire in the North-East has been abandoned. The north-east of the country is in a situatton of all-out war and military commanders have been given authority to use any operational measures necessary to defeat the guerrillas”. Major General Denzil Kobbekaduwa, who led the "Vadamaradchi Operation' in May 1987, is heading the military offensive in the eastern province.
On the other hand, a statement from the LTTE said, 'Sri Lankan security forces began large-scale warlike troop movements and strengthened their positions in violation of the ceasefire which came into effect at 6pm on
Saturday (16 June) the allegation of the tured police and ser
Previously the L that over six hundre personnel had sur course of the first offensive in the ea Initially the Tigers have caught the s surprise, and in all police and service p Amparai, Batticaloa districts are said to ity. Sri Lankan nev that a Sub-Inspectol Ranaweera had sa policemen who had s station on the assi would not be harme sacred. “We were tak after being blind-folk stripped of our bel forms and made to li sprayed us with rifle to be dead and thoug the bullet just graze
Once the go-ahead the security forces, tl sive aerial bombardn aircraft and helicopt eastern Batticaloa : tricts against LTT where the Tigers w lentless artillery and army camps which tually besieged by Navy fired shells f eastern coastal town result was massive By 17 June, the gov ledged losing only 4 LTTE admitted the
e.
The LTTE offensi district commenced ( launched attacks on police stations at C and Muthur. Police
O The LTTE whi confrontation with government for nea a dramatic move i agreed to negotiate government. Befor and the governmen fire arrangement w tially held until 11
O From May 1989 continuous negotia government and th ties madejoint ende the IPKF at the ear
 

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TH-EAST SRI LANKA
ns of Thousands Displaced
They also denied massacre of capice personnel. "TE had claimed police and army endered in the ew days of their st of the island. would appear to curity forces by n estimated 1100 rsonnel from the and Trincomalee e in Tiger captivspapers reported of Police, Pullhiri id that all 115 urrendered at his urance that they d had been masen into the jungle led then we were )ngings and uni2 down. Then they shots. I pretended h they shot at me id at my head'.
had been given to hey launched masnents using attack Br gunships in the and Amparai disE positions from ere mounting rerocket attacks on nad remained virthe Tigers. The rom gunboats on ns. The inevitable ivilian casualties. ernment acknow) soldiers and the loss of 72 of their
fe in Trincomalee in 13 June as they army camps and sppuveli, Kinniya stations at Thir
h was in armed the Sri Lankan cly a decade made April 1989 and directly with the long, the LTTE came to a ceasehich had substansune this year. , there have been ions between the 2 LTTE. Both paravours to get rid of iest possible oppor
ROM NEGOTIATIONS TO ALL-OUT WAR
iyaya and Kinniya were vacated after they came under heavy attack. Kalmunai army camp also was abandoned. Trincomalee LTTE leader Ruben is reported to have been injured in an army counter-offensive operation. At Uppuveli, Lt. Meegoda of the Sri Lankan army was killed. In Trincomalee, five officers and 41 soldiers died in an LTTE ambush on 15 June. The Defence Ministry sources claimed that there were many casualties on the LTTE side.
The Army camps at Kiran, Kalawanchikudi, Mankulam and Muthur was under continuous attack on 15 June. Nine soldiers were killed and 15 injured in these battles. In the offensive directed at the Mankulam army camp 6 soldiers were killed with two more wounded. The Tigers were beaten back and suffered many casualties.
At Vavuniya, the fierce battle between the LTTE and the security forces have rendered nearly 30,000 people as refugees and there were many civilian casualties. Houses, shops and business houses had been gutted by the security forces.
Justice Minister and Government's chief negotiator with the LTTE, Mr A.C.S. Hameed, made another journey to Jaffna on 16 June to meet the LTTE delegation and after nearly six hours of talks, an announcement was made that a ceasefire had been agreed, but it was to prove abortive even before he left Jaffna and the fighting continued without interuption. The Tigers who were subjecting the Palaly airbase until Mr. Hameed disembarked from his plane resumed their rocket fire even before he got on to the plane after the talks. One shell which exploded near his plane hit an Air Force Officer standing nearby and was flown to
Colombo for treatment on the same
plane.
tunity, and the IPKF effected a complete pullout before the end of March. With the departure of the IPKF, having effectively removed the presence of all its rival Tamil militant groups, the LTTE took virtual territorial control over the north-east where the security forces were mainly confined to the barracks.
O During the last few months, the LTTE has been insisting upon the government to repeal the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution (which prohibited advocacy of a sepa

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rate state), dissolution of the NorthEast Provincial Council and the holding of fresh elections to this Council. The government had genuine difficuties in this regard: firstly it did not have the two-thirds majority in parliament, required to enact amendments to the Constitution; secondly, under the provisions of the Provincial Councils Act, there was no power to dissolve the North-East Provincial Council unless the Chief Minister advised the President to do so - the Chief Minister had left Sri Lanka and there was no possibility of getting him to formally advise the President to dissolve the Council. And thirdly, until the Council was dissolved, no fresh elections could be held.
O The EPRLF which had abandoned its control over the North-East Provincial Council by the end of March this year, requested the government for negotiations. A delegation of the EPRLF met government Ministers on 15 May. The LTTE 'strongly objected' to these negotiations. The LTTE regarded itself as the 'sole representative' of the Tamil people, and therefore did not like the government to talk to any other Tamil group.
O On May 18 Dr. Anton Balasingham, the accredited spokesman for the LTTE in the course of a much publicised speech said, "The 6th Amendment deprived Tamils of representation in Parliament. However, because of Indian pressure some Tamil groups including the TULF took oaths in parliament accepting the 6th Amendment and the integrity of Sri Lanka thus giving up their Tamil Eelam struggle. ...When we met President Premadasa last, we emphasised two points: dissolve the Provincial Council and fix a date for PC elections and take steps to repeal the 6th Amendment. The President agreed...The Tamil people knew the EPRLF was backed by the Indian army. The leadership of this traitor group is hiding in Orissa and other capitals. Only a few MPs who came to parliament with Indian assistance are in Colombo. The government in its new approach called this group for talks thinking that they are also representatives of the Tamils and gave them wide publicity.
"We want to tell the Sri Lankan government one thing clearly. This is the last opportunity that we give you. We are patient. We would tell them, dissolve the PC and hold elections. We are ready to face our people at elections. Let us give an opportunity for our people to form a government in the north-east. We have received information that they not only hold talks with the EPRLF but also give accommodation to hundreds of EPRLF members in Sinhala military camps and train them. If that is so, is the government tr. ig to begin a war against the Tigers with the help of a fifth columan?. . .This is a very dangerous
approach. Oun said recently government sh paramount mi government m Sinhalese gove us. If they fail plan to seek a m not hesitate to our people and O In the subseq the governmen government wi while promising to meet with L raised three m problems faced h the north-east; tion of the law thirdly the ques other political p, democratic right ance. The gun triumph over d freedom'; and 'laying aside w ment had stres question of ‘cre conducive to the fair poll in th should exist plu form of move ta monopolistic s group could be a dishing unautho timidating peopl
O On 6 June, t Defence announ ment had decide tion in parliame solution of the N and that the Bil to the Supreme ( tutional validit raised by certair Court subsequer constitutionally
for parliament t dissolve the Pr hold fresh electio
O On 7 June t tween the LTTE northern town course of which a killed and seve jured. The Tiger forces for violatil ment reached be the government sion had to be ob ventured out of north-east.
O On 10 June,
had an 'affair' w woman had be husband of the
camp in Battica government's ve on duty at the over both men 1 tion; both had m police had aske hospital. About cadres had arrive

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leader Prabhakaran hat the Sri Lankan ould not commit the take that the Indian ide. We will ask the nment to do justice to o do justice to us and ilitary solution, we will ake up arms to protect (o carry on our aims.
lent meetings between and the LTTE, the uld appear to have, to make early efforts TTE's three demands, ain issues: firstly the y the security forces in secondly the restoraand order situation; tion of the freedom of arties "to exercise their is without let or hindrcannot be allowed to 2mocratic and human the question of the eapons'. The governsed the all important ating an atmosphere holding of a free and e North-East. There ralism overriding any owards establishing a etup. . . No party or allowed to move branrised weapons and ine'.
he State Minister for ced that the governld to introduce legisla2nt to enable the disN-E Provincial Council ls would be submitted court to ensure constiy. Despite objections parties, the Supreme tly held the Bills to be valid clearing the way o enact legislation to ovincial Council and
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here was a clash beand the army in the of Vavuniya in the un Army Corporal was ral other soldiers ins blamed the security ng the ceasefire agreetween the LTTE and wherebyprior permistained before soldiers their camps in the
a Muslim youth who ith a married Simhala en assaulted by the woman in a refugee Loa. According to the rsion, the policeman efugee camp handed o the Batticaloa stainor injuries and the them to go to the 23.00 hours, LTTE d at the police station
and alleged that the Muslim youth, a tailor stitching uniforms for the LTTE, had been assaulted by the police. The LTTE cadres abducted two PCs (both Tamils). At 6am on 11 June the LTTE, cadres had abducted another three policemen. Around 7am, about 250 LTTE cadres had surrounded the police station, then moved in and taken charge of the station, removing all the arms and ammunition.
A statement made by the PFLT (LTTE's political wing) said, "The unprovoked gunfire by the Sri Lankan police on Tiger members who went to the police station on a complaint lodged by a Muslim civilian assaulted by a Sinhalese ignited and caused the eruption of the armed clashes on a major scale in the Batticaloa and Amparai districts in the eastern province. The clashes escalated into a full fledged war when Sri Lankan army confined in the barracks came out and engaged in armed confrontation with the Tigers.
O On 12 June, Plantation Industries Minister and State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne told Parliament that he had pledged to get on the necks of the LTTE and flatten them. "We are also going to use the power of the gun and sort out matters once and for all. I have given a pledge to catch them (the LTTE) by their necks and deal with them', he added.
EPRLF LEADER & 15 OTHERS KILLED IN MADRAS
K. Pathmanabha, Secretary General of the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), and 14 others including Member of Parliament M. Yogasangari and P. Kirupakaran the Finance Minister in the now defunct North-East Provincial Council were assassinated in Madras on 19 June.
An unidentified gang armed with AK 47 Kalashnikovs and grenades carried out the attack at 7.15 pm on 19 June when the EPRLF leader was having discussions with his colleagues of the Front at his flat in Kodampakkam, Madras in Tamil Nadu.
The others killed in the incident are Tharuman and his wife, Lingam, . Kavitha, Sucintha, Komalarajan, Ravi, Puvinathan, Kamalan, Ramanan, Muhunthan, and Aiya. Three Indian citizens were killed and about 25 others injured as the attackers shot their way to escape.
Although the LTTE has not accepted responsibility for the killings, and other rumours pointed to a dissident group of the EPRLF, the EPRLF and PLOTE have attributed the assassination to the LTTE.
The Tamil Nadu State Government has ordered a clampdown on all Tamil militant activity and as many as 700 Tamil militants belonging to all groups have been rounded up by the police and placed in detention.

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T.N. CHIEF MINISTER WARNS MILITANTS
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister issued a stern warning to Sri Lankan Tamil guerrillas, saying they would be deported if they indulged in violence on Indian soil.
The Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted Tamil Nadu state Chief Minister, Muthuvel Karunanidhi as saying that Sri Lankan Tamil groups should not let their members go about armed or ‘overreach” themselves in his province.
'''s is the final warning I am giving thern', he told reporters in Tamil Nadu's capital Madras, PTI said.
Tamil Nadu state has previously provided sanctuary to Sri Lankan Tamil guerrillas fighting for a homeland in their island nation.
But Mr. Karunanidhi said his government would not tolerate "any act of violence by the Tamil militants or their roaming about with weapons' in Tamil Nadu.
The Chief Minister said he was issuing the warning in the light of a shootout involving Sri Lankan Tamil rebels and Tamil Nadu police in February in which two men, including a police constable, were killed.
On Tuesday a jeep carrying some Tamil guerrillas overturned in Tamil. Nadu's Thanjavur district, he added, without giving details.
Mr. Karunanidhi said in the lasti four or five years, various Sri Lamkani Tamil rebel groups had set up offices in g Madras and its suburbs. However, the government would be forced to evict them if they overreached themselves'.
PTI also quoted him as saying he had urged New Delhi to provide him with assistance to tackle the movement of Sri Lankan guerrillas by stepping up naval and coast guard patrols off the Tamil Nadu coast. g It was the toughest warning sounded to Sri Lankan guerrillas by Mr. Karunanidhi, who in the past has actively supported the Tamil homeland campaign in the island.
Today's warning followed widespread criticism in the media and parliament about the alleged free use of Tamil Nadu by LTTE cadres.
LTTE members have been accused of entering Tamil Nadu illegally, kidnapping Indian fishermen and smuggling.
Almost all Sri Lankan Tamil groups based in Tamil Nadu are known to possess weapons, including automatic rifles.
Earlier, Indian External Affairs Minister Inder Kumar Gujral told federal parliament here that there were about 93,000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees still in India. 基 He said their return depended on the
"return of normalcy ir Ministerdid not elab
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Mr. Sam Thambim most courageous adv rights in Sri Lanka, v in Colombo on 7th N Liberation Tigers of massive turnout of p munities at his funera respects, as well as til sal condemnation of cated not only Sam also the extent t appreciated the servi the community', th Campaign for Demo stated in a press rele “In the period pr Lanka Peace Accor campaigned against tions of the Sri Lanka As the chairman oft mittee of Batticaloa deal of his time doct human rights violat ing relief to families the murder or inca: breadwinners.
Although he was ment on the EPRLF mot hesitate to critici he could not endor action of theirs. In r had been systematic LTTE extortion and North and East and
LTTE was determi him. While Sam w. was an easy target about unarmed and timidated by gunme
It is not only the condemned for this committed in broac streets of Colombo. S ers had already allen an LTTE death squa Colombo, the Sri La cannot plead igno with constant army surveillance operati and the army, how LTTE killers with a to operate freely in ombo'? The collabora ment or at least operation, seems ob
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uttu, one of the ocates of human was gunned down May 1990 by the Tamil Eelam. The people of all comal to pay their last ne almost univerhis murder, indi's popularity but O which people ce he rendered to e London based cracy and Justice 8Se.
ior to the Indo"d, Sam actively the repressive acan security forces. he Citizen's Comhe spent a great umenting cases of ions and organismade destitute by rceration of their
elected to Parlia(TULF list, he did ize them, if he felt se any particular 2cent months Sam ally documenting murders in the for this reason the ned to eliminate as aware that he he always went refused to be in
. LTTE that stands murder. It was daylight in the ince the newspapted everyone that d was operating in nkan government rance. Moreover, road blocks and ons by the police is it possible for utomatic weapons, the heart of Coltion of the governtheir tacit covious'.
/ Crime' Sition
pers of Parliament e of the Leader of animously moved
ion on the passing bimuttu, M.P., for
lation of Mr. Sam shocked us and
brought grief to us. We condemn this dastardly crime.
The crime has been committed in broad daylight in front of the Canadian High Commission, indicating that terrorgangs are moving freely with impunity even in the metropolis of Colombo.
Further, the government had been warned that a hit squad was in Colombo a few days prior to this brutal assassination but the government had failed to protect the life of Mr. Thambimuttu thus making the government solely responsible for his death.
We, therefore, demand from the government to ensure that such brutal crimes are prevented in the future'.
Chief Opposition Whip Richard Pathirana MP has signed the resolution on behalf of all Opposition Members of Parliament.
LTTE DENIES INVOLVEMENT
The LTTE has categorically denied any involvement in the killing of Parliamentarian Sam Thambimuttu.
LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham speaking to the press from his office at Kondavil, Jaffna, said they also condemned the attempt of a few leaders of EPRLF who blamed them in this connection.
President's Condolence message
President R. Premadasa has issued the following message of condolence on the death of Mr. Sam Thambimuttu.
I was shocked and saddened by the brutal killing of Mr. Sam Thambimuttu, Member of Parliament of the TULF for Batticaloa District. Mr. Thambimuttu was a successful lawyer. He actively participated in Parliamentary debates.
His contribution to uphold democratic traditions will be long remembered.
Undoubtedly all peace loving people will condemn this dastardly act. It is unfortunate that such criminal acts are committed when honest endeavours are being made to resolve controversial issues through goodwill understanding and dialogue.
This brutality brings to mind the validity of the often repeated teaching of Lord Buddha that "hatred does not cease by hatred but by love alone'. At a time when the country is rapidly returning to normalcy from a reign o terror it is the bounden duty of all who shun violence and terror to desist from promoting or provoking such crimes.
Mrs. Thambimuttu was seriously injured in this incident. We wish her speedy recovery.
Mrs. Premadasa and I extend our deepest sympathies to Mrs. Thambimuttu, their son and members of the bereaved family.

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“If YOU Want Pea
The inevitability of another war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan forces is very much on the southern
psyche. For them the northern war
drums have never been stilled. Some
times it has been the distant roar. very
often close at hand.
The LTTE has in no way helped to diffuse the growing tensions. On the
contrary they continue fuelling it with
preparations for war. Moreover, incidents on the ground involving LTTE's
rank and file, described by Sri Lankan security officials as "high handed and provocative' have added to the war of nerves that could easily spark off a confrontation.
Inspite of it all, at no time in the
history of the conflict have we come so
close to some kind of durable political solution, as we do now.
However much the rank and file strain at the leash, both sides know, that if there is a confrontation there is going to be no winning side.
The North-East scenario changed dramatically following Indian troop withdrawal in March 1990 and the LTTE moving into the region. It was
more relief than euphoria. But just six . . weeks later there was a visible change . in perceptions. The relief had turned to
one of fear and uncertainty as to what was going to happen next. The armed
LTTE cadres in their battle fatigues,
who were conspicuous by their absence a month earlier, had surfaced all over the place. Manning sentry points, driving heavy trucks, on motorbicycles and even on foot they had become very much a part of the scenario and people had begun to talk in hushed tones of a possible confrontation. Not only were bunkers being dug all over the peninsula but Eelanathan, the LTTE newspaper had begun to serialise extracts of a booklet on what precautions the civilian population should take in the Sevent of a “war'. A speech made by LTTE ideologue Dr. Anton Balasingham in Jaffna on May 19, and given
wide coverage, in which he warned that the LTTE was losing patience and would give one last chance to the Sri .
Lankan government to honour the pledges made to the LTTE in the year-long dialogue, added to the already tense situation.
Political observers saw it more in
terms of LTTE strategy to get the
government to act on their demands of dissolving the North-East Council, re'pealing the Sixth Amendment, and holding fresh elections to facilitate their entry into mainstream politics rather than a direct threat of confrontation.
Despite all the war noises that are
being made, the LTTE leadership has
been impatient to have the North-East Council dissolved and fresh elections held.
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Colombo Gover
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one group or g. and groups re. elections unless arms. State Mi jan Wijeratine h ment position t held under cond will be able to ir
Balasingham says the LTTE unless there is : tion to the eth
... cedes that the
or carry arms d has also invited mission to mo suggestion the averse to.
Vellupillai B Secretary of th Front (EDF), g ally of the LTT the Tamils wi cadres.
“Why do you to the LTTE if they are armed' He points t Chelvanayaka Chelvanayakan devolution, bei window simply Were not Stron

TAMIL TIMES 7
ce Prepare for War
an From Colombo
hat only through demos will they be able to de facto control of the egion and have their he sole, if not exclusive of the Tamil people,
3.
een as a growing rift government and the wever just as suddenly Dr. Balasinghaam who n to Colombo last fortvery positive note when the discussions with the nment both sides were ed to consolidate peace nd avoid conflict.
ds of discussions with efs and the decision for manders and the secur
ise at district level and . .
s' is another step forn its heels came the cision to enact urgent issolve the North-East ld fresh elections. But he hurdle of the Sixth be got over and the creating conditions for an election where no med. lity of the IPKF superst Provincial election of lestion, so too will an rms are carried by any roups. Political parties fuse to participate in the LTTE lays down hister for Defence Ranas spelt out the governhat no election will be itions where one group timidate other groups. reacting to Wijeratine will not lay down arms a durable political solunic question but conLTTE will not display, uring the election. He an international comnitor the election. A government is not
alakumaran, General e Eelavar Democratic enerally considered an E, links the security of th the armed LTTE
think they are talking not for the reason that
o , the Bandaranaikem and the Dudleypacts that envisaged ng thrown out of the
because the Tamils g enough to fight for
their rights. ...And for him that strength has now come out Af the barrel of a gun.
Balakumaran who has been vigorously canvassing support for the repeal of the Sixth Amendment "One of the reasons why we entered parliament and chose to sit in that alien environment” is bitterly critical of opposition parties whom he alleges are trying to use the Sixth Amendment as a bargaining point with the Tigers.
"It is not an LTTE demand. It is a basic Tamil demand' and he feels very strongly that there should be no need to canvass support to have it repealed. "Any Tamil or Muslim group that votes against it in parliament will have to forget the North-East for good, warns Balakumaran. "They will be considered traitors'. The EDF ready with draft legislation to present the motion for the repeal of the Sixth Amendment as
a Private Members Bill, have however
temporarily stayed it, hoping that the government would decide to present the Bill.
The EDF has still not sorted out its own problems with the LTTE but Balakumaran is prepared to bide his time.
Give the LTTE a chance to prove their bonafides says Balakumaran. And that to him is where the answer lies.

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MP AND WIFE
Batticaloa District MP Sam Thambimuttu (58 years old) was shot outside the Canadian High Commission in Colombo at around 1.30 p.m. on 7 May by gunmen who rode away on a motorcycle. He was found dead on admission to hospital.
His wife, Mrs Kala Thambimuttu? who was critically injured succumbed and died on 16 May at the Colombo General Hospital.
- The gunmen appeared to have been waiting for Mr. Thambimuttu's arrival at the Canadian High Commission, for just as his red BMW 316 drew up at the entrance gate and before he could get out of the car, they had come up to it and opened fire.
The weapons used are believed to have been two 9 mm revolvers. The shots were fired at Mr. Thambimuttu through the rear windscreen by one of the gunmen, while the other opened fire through the rear window on the driver's side.
Mr. Thambimuttu received one gunshot injury in the neck and three near the collar bone. Mrs. Thambimuttu was hit in the chest by two bullets. There were six shots in all, they said.
Mrs Thambimuttu had bullet injuries on the front and back of her chest which doctors said were entrance and exit wounds. Her condition had stabilised and doctors were hopeful she would survive although you can never be sure' as one source said.
After the attack, the assailants are reported to have ridden away in the direction of Cinnamon Gardens, from which side Mr. Thambimuttu's car had turned into Gregory Road.
Mr and Mrs Than
Sam Thambim dead on admissi Service to which himself unhurt, Thambimuttu wa critical condition.
Police, who havi description of the the two assailants are attempting to it was likely that had been “fudged'.
A Honda 250 riumber plates r parked in a grave feet from the s thought this was getaway vehicle v used.
The red BMW
Thambimuttu's Widc in touching Cemetery fa
It was a moving scene at the Kanatte general cemetery when Mrs. Kala Thambimuttu on a stretcher strained to touch slain parliamentarian Sam Thambimuttu, her husband who lay in his coffin. Mrs. Thambimuttu was brought from her hospital bed to Kanatte in an ambulance to enable her to pay her last respects to him in deference to the wishes of family members.
The event took place at the cemetery when the last rites were being performed on Mr. Thambimuttu who was gunned down in front of the Canadian High Commission at Gregory's Road, Colombo by unidentified assassins. Mrs. Thambimuttu was also shot and seriously wounded in the incident.
Her son Arun said that he visited his mother the day before at the hospital.
She could not talk instructions rega funeral in writing Hindus Mr. Th Methodist and th him to be given a
At the funeral the fact that the tu was the grane Mr. E.R. Thamb Member of the St in-law of Senator
Before his elect functioned as Sec Committee in Ba after the proble militants when th was in progress.
His death rem political scene in for democracy.
 

*TAM MES 9
ASSASSINATED
T Y
Dinmuuttu
uttu was pronounced on to the Accident he driver of the car,
had driven. Mrs. s reported to be in a
the number and the motorbike on which made their getaway trace it, but said that , the number plates
cc motorcycle with emoved was found l by-road about 100 cene. Investigators
a possible back-up which had not been
with a blood-soaked
W reWell
but gave him all the ding her husband's Though they were umbimuttu was a arefore she wanted Christian funeral.
peakers referred to te Mr. Thambimutnephew of the late muttu, Batticaloa's te Council and sonManikkam. on to Parliament he tary to the Citizens icaloa which looked s of civilians and separatist struggle
res a giant in the i Lanka who fought
rear seat is being held at the Cinnamon Gardens police for examination.
Mr. and Mrs Thambimuttu were due to leave Sri Lanka in a few days time on a US State Department sponsored International Visitor Program grant. They had told friends that they also wanted to visit Canada for a few days and some of them said that they were going to the Canadian High Commission for a visa at the time they were shot.
Police said that the MP's car had just pulled up at the entrance to the Canadian High Commission from the direction of St. Bridget's Convent and had stopped at the gate when the gunmen, coming up to the car, had opened fire. Mrs. Thambimuttu was sitting behind the driver, and the shots that hit her are believed to have been fired through the rear window.
The driver appeared to have run away when the shooting began. One witness had told police that one of the assailants opened the rear door of the car to shoot the MP. The driver returned to drive the car with Mr. Thambimuttu who was dead and his seriously wounded wife.
The rear window of the red BMW was shattered as was the side window by the back seat passenger behind the driving seat. All Mr. Thambimuttu's injuries were above the chest.
One bullet had pierced the metal sheet of a closed gate at the Canadian High Commission. Police had recovered a spent 9mm bullet and two C2SeS.
According to one witness there had
been three assailants and all three had
left on one motorbike. At the Horton Place roundabout, a second motorbike had picked up one rider. The group had disappeared along Green Path.
Mr. and Mrs. Thambimuttu were expected to spend a few days in the United Kingdom before flying to Washington DC to begin his program. A proctor by profession who had a practice in the Batticaloa courts, he was formerly a chairman of the Batticaloa Citizens” Committee. Mr. Thambimuttu was a long-standing member of the Tamil United Liberation Front, and his wife Kala Manickam, daughter of the former TULF Senator P. Manickam, was herself an active TULF campaigner and orator.
Mr. Thambimuttu contested last year's parliamentary elections on the TULF common list though nominated by the EPRLF, the group with which he stayed. w
Mrs. Thambimuttu and their teenage son were abducted last December but were released on government intervention. Since then, the family had been living in Colombo.

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"What's going on, Sam. . . can you hear me, Sam? "Mr. Thambimuttu, any comments on yesterday's Clashes...? 'Sam, got any line on this Batticoloa killing...?
Right through the "war" in the east, before and after the arrival of the IPKF, Sam Thambimuttu was the reporter's first choice for what in the professional patois is called a "check' and a "double check". Even if you had the story, you went through the routine of a "doublecheck' just to be absolutely sure that you won't commit some bad mistake hat’Il ruin the reputation of you paper or organisation, beyond repair and re-emption. Or, in these times of peril, cost lives. The radio reporter, with far more demanding "deadlines' (in his case, tightly scheduled, programmes with a 3,2,1 you-are-on-the-air regimen) had to be doubly careful. But then there was the more exacting professional demand rooted in the very character of a highly competitive profession. Beat your rival. Get the story out first.
"For the foreign correspondent' (the foreign-foreign or the local stringer) the source is vital. So is ready access to the source. But
SAM THAMBIMUTTU
most of all, reliabil bility.
Since this is not a professional’s ti Thambimutu, I hav an old established Veal the source. however, Sam's as: international press, the BBC, was hard name has been me dred times.
Nothing reveals than his role as a Source. And Since til Secrets in this little loa or Colombo, ce glish-educated S Muslim community, Sam's work as ch Citizens Committee, man’s Mouthpiece Community's PR me link to the world.
And why Sam, el Se? He Was i ...though he sporte He was outspoken outspoken. He r press, and unders recognised its role, needs and its impor ised that the best “own people' was te know what was goir
Editor, L
HONEYMOON EN AS WAR BEGIN
The year-long honeymoon between the LTTE and the government seems finally over.
While southern sceptics predicted this "inevitable end there was a large section of the Tamil community who felt that the LTTE leadership had, after seventeen years of an armed struggle come to terms with the political realities and decided on resolving the Tamil question through the democratic processes.
Why then the armed aggression when everything seemed to be going for them. At this point, as to who fired the first shot seems irrelevant. What becomes sadly clear, inspite of government efforts even now with the battle raging, to agree to a ceasefire and get back to the negotiating table, is that no isolated incident sparked of this violence.
In the last several weeks incidents on the ground involving security personnel and LTTE cadres, were being reported, and despite a cosmetic coverup nobody seemed to have doubts that it would finally end this way.
Rita Sebastian
In a fire and
Parliament on Jun the battle began,
Defence, Ranjan the government p he said would be a the authority of the part of the countr LTTE supremo Ve an would perhaps his rival North-E Minister Varathar
"We are not figh Wijeratne "but a Although the cea tween Chief Gove Minister A.C.S. Ha leadership in Jaffr on the afternoon ignored as the figh
The governmen ments by air and army camps, said pared for the LT the approach roa areas reported to b

ty. And credi
personal, but bute to Sam had to break "ule not to rein this case, istance to the particularly to f a secret. His ntioned a hun
he man better regular news Iere are no real sland, Batticortainly the Eninhala-Tamilknew all about airman of the In fact, EveryLawyer, the n, Batticoloa's
not somebody ndependentda party label. , perhaps too 2spected the tood its role, recognised its tance. He realService to his ) let the World ng on.
Mervyn de Silva anka Guardian.
Ds IS
Fron Colonbo
hunder speech in 13, two days after State Minister for Wijeratne spelt out osition. No person, llowed to challenge government in any y and warned that lupilai Prabhakarave to go the way of ast Council Chief jah Perumal. ing the LTTE’” said unch of criminals'. 2fire agreed on be'nment Negotiator, need and the LTTE a was to take effect of the 13th it was ing escalated.
rushed reinforcesea to beleaguered o have been unpreE onslaught. With is to the troubled heavily mined, the
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government forces have resorted to aerial operations. According to official sources over 20 police stations in the North, East and the Wanni have been taken over by the LTTE and around 800 police personnel held in their custody.
The LTTE has denied an allegation by a policeman that between 125-150 policemen from the Kalmunai police station, forced to surrender by armed LTTE cadres were driven to a jungle area off Thirukovil on Tuesday and slaughtered.
Although heavy civilian casualties are reported, a body count has not been possible because the fighting continues and there has been a breakdown in communication.
Minister Wijeratne addressing the post-cabinet press briefing on Thursday 14 did not rule out the military option. "They will have to return the police stations they captured, the money, weapons, ammunition and vehicles they removed from the police stations. If they don't, we will have to force them'.
With the fighting having spread to Northern Killin och i Minister Hameed's visit to Jaffna today, June 15 to bring about the expected ceasefire, seems most unlikely.
As Tamil fears that there could be a repeat of 1983 heightened Minister Wijeratne appealed to the Sinhalese to act “with restraint and responsibility and not let their better judgement override their emotions'.
The government policy in resolving conflict through discussion remained unchanged, Wijeratne told newsmen dismissing suggestions that the LTTE while talking peace was preparing for War.
We had implicit faith in them. Otherwise do you think we would have put them in 5 star hotels and spent millions of Rupees on them', asked Wijeratne.
With the Referendum to decide the future of the temporarily merged North-East Provinces put off for January 1991, and the Supreme Court holding that the two bills to amend the Provincial Councils act to dissolve the North-East Council and hold fresh elections in the region constitutionally valid, it would be tragic if the LTTE should let the opportunity of entering mainstream politics slip out of their hands.
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SAM THA
The Brutal slaying of EPRLF MP, Sam Thambimuttu on 7th May was a tragic testament to how much human freedom and political independence has eroded in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Thambimuttu faced the assassins' bullets valiantly and paid with his life to focus attention on the frightening reality of the gunmen at the door. Mr. Thambimuttu's assassination was a stark pointer to the terrifying "gun culture' that had apparently eclipsed human values and wider human sympathies.
Sam, as he was popularly known was a controversial political figure. His gruesome killing clearly manifests the threat posed to democratic freedom by those who had placed faith in the bullet. As one senior Opposition Parliamentarian told me, 'Sam fought until he was cruelly felled'. The bullets snuf. fed out the life of Samuel Thavarasa Thambimuttu, but his vision could never be "killed'. Sam battled for a cause in which there was no turning back. As an eminent figure in troubletorn Batticaloa, he sacrificed so much for his people that he never expected a bullet in return.
Having associated with Sam for years, I had never known him to say "I give up'. He was bitter about certain current happenings, but he chose to grin and bear even the personal losses he sustained in the rampage by those who brandished arms.
Sam never hesitated to condemn the conscription of youths by the EPRLF to raise the "Tamil National Army'. As a father of a teenage son, he decried the forced enlistment of young men and rightly described it as 'counter productive'. Fifty-seven-year-old Mr. Thambimuttu was never an EPRLF stalwart. True he was nominated to contest the 1989 Parliamentary election on the EPRLF ticket. Even after he was elected, he was not in the politbureau of the party. Of course, he may have been grossly misunderstood for the role he played to restore sense and order in North-East politics. That is not at all surprising at a time when even journalists who do independent reporting purely on professional interests are cruelly branded by some as pro this group or that group. Sam, like a good journalist, was a friend of everybody.
Says Education and Higher Education Minister, Lalith Athulathmudali: "Mr. Sam Thambimuttu was a great man. He did a great deal for his people. Many were the times when he had fought with me when I was National Security Minister, but he was never angry. I regret his death the way I regret the demise of any human being'.
- 2
By Sure
For Sam life He was wealth profound comm to serve his pe obstacle in his stood his intent vious occasions t his home town Minister of Plan State Minister Wijeratne obsen Mr. Thambimu revolver that w; narrowly escape
In December raided his Lake abducted his wif Colombo at tha days, they were they came to Col at Sravasti' () after that incide the household g ables from his 9-1 caloa. In sheer plained to the belongings were
I remember hi bumped into him corridor that he d belongings (wort lion) but what pa of a large numb which he had youthful days. “I more for my peop what they had d books, it broke m
Sam never im try to kill him foi anybody. There v sonnel assigned quite uncomforta him. He was a government as w colleagues to ensl security men at a took the threat t seriously. He fou at the conclusion harm him for all people. During tl tion, he polled clearly indicated in the Batticalo, represented.
W His wife Kala, ter of Federal Par ikkam was also f attack which too. Canadian High Gregory's Road in According to IGP mm automatic pis the killing which

TAM TIMES *1*
MBIMUTTU
Profile
sh Mohamed
nad never been easy.
and famous, but his ment and dedication ple placed many an ath. They misunderon and on three prehey tried to kill him in of Batticaloa. As the tation Industries and for Defence, Ranjan ved on one instance tu had grabbed the s pointed at him and
death.
ast year the "Tigers' Road residence and 2 and son. (He was in t time). After three set free, after which ombo to live with him MPs hostel). Shortly nt, they removed all oods and other valuoomed house in Battidesperation he comgovernment, but his never returned. s:
m telling me when I along a Parliament lid not mind losing his h around Rs. 3 milined him was the loss er of valuable books preserved from his have sacrificed much le, but when I learnt one to my invaluable y heart, he recalled. gined anyone would he had not wronged ere five security perto him, but he felt ple with them tailing dvised both by the ell as his friends and re the presence of his l times, but he never hat loomed large too dit difficult to arrive that anybody would he had done for his e last General Elec9,431 votes, which lis public acceptance district, which he
ife who was the daughy Senator, M. Mantally injured in the place close to the commission along innamon Gardens. rnest Perera, two 9 ls had been used in ook pace in broad
"{{ot დ. ir er A daylight. There were two witnesses
who claimed that they would be able to identify the killers, but Police had so far failed to make any arrests in that connection. Defence Secretary, Gen. Cyril Ranatunge says that special Police squads had been deployed to raid chummeries, lodgings and boarding houses and take into custody all persons who could not account for their presence in the City. Specific instructions had been issued to the Police to search for arms that may be concealed.
Opposition political parties have condemned the killing of Mr. Thambimuttu and declared that the government should be held responsible for the loss of his life. It is quite tragic that Sam Thambimuttu's cremation had to take place on the day (May 11) he was planning to leave on a two-month tour of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom as an International Visitor.
Mr. Thambimuttu was a brilliant lawyer who gave up a lucrative practice to work on a full time basis in the Batticaloa Citizen's Committee of which he was the President during the height of the violence. He never hesitated to intervene and speak on behalf of youths arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) which handled the security of that area prior to the signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord. Many were the times we met in Batticaloa and I vividly remember how distraught parents flocked to the Thambimuttu residence to seek his assistance to secure the release of their children taken into custody by the security authorities.
A few hours before Sam was shot dead his wife Kala telephoned me to say that her husband was trying to contact me in the morning in connection with his scheduled visit overseas under the USA International Visitors Programme. Later I was informed by a Parliamentarian that two unidentified youths had fired at the 16 Sri BMW car carrying Sam and his wife to the Canadian High Commission. Mr. Thambimuttu was killed on the spot. Mrs. Kala Thambimuttu who was fatally injured in the attack was removed to the intensive Care Unit. Later she was brought in an ambulance to "Sravasti' where the bulletriddled body of her husband was placed for the people to pay their last respects, and the grief-stricken Mrs. Thambimuttu had insisted on touching his face.
The savage killing of Sam Thambimuttu is perhaps a final salute to independent political thinking and political freedom in trouble-stricken North-East.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ON DETENTION & EXECUTIONS
Amnesty International is appealing for an immediate halt to incommunicado detention and extrajudicial executions in northeastern Sri Lanka by forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The organization is recommending that the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has been active in southern Sri Lanka since last October, be granted access to all places of detention in the northeast.
LTTE members have reportedly seized dozens of young people, including many former members of the Tamil National Army (TNA), an unofficial force recruited by Tamil groups which opposed the LTTE. The TNA was backed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) and fought the LTTE before the IPKF's withdrawal from Sri Lanka in March.
The LTTE reportedly screened former TNA members to establish whether they had volunteered for the TNA or were forcibly recruited. According to reports, those who were forcibly recruited are released, but those who cannot prove this are kept in detention centres in private houses or in LTTE bunkers and camps in the jungle area of Mullaitivu District. Others have reportedly been detained because they were candidates in the February 1989 parliamentary elections, which the LTTE boycotted. The LTTE does not permit relatives to visit detainees but has set up a central office in Jaffna to register inquiries.
Hundreds of deaths resulted from heavy fighting between the LTTE and Tamil groups allied with the IPKF following the IPKF's withdrawal. There were also reports of deliberate killings by the LTTE, outside the context of armed combat, of defenceless members or sympathizers of Tamil groups allied with the IPKF. In January, a member of the North-Eastern Provincial Council for the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress was killed by gunmen who stormed his house at Sammanthurai, Amparai District. The gunmen were reportedly LTTE members. A few days later, several other defenceless civilians were reportedly killed by LTTE members, including
five Muslim patients in Kalmunai hos
pital.
The LTTE has claimed responsibility for some killings and has denied others. It appears to condone, and threaten, the extrajudicial execution of
those it considers "traitors'. On 7 May a member of parliament for the Eelam '
People's Revolutionary Liberation
Front was killed outside the Canadian High Commission in Colombo. The
LTTE's telephone newsline service in
England attributed t known gunmen' and that the traitors of Ee not only in the Tamil the Sinhalese areas ( The LT TE is als rying out summary e ported common crim its own tribunals t putes. The Colombc that a man arrested it an attempted rape "militants' presumed bers on 5 April. Amne is urging that no sen by any body other constituted court whi nationally recognized tees for fair trial.
MP's Letters At Airpc
The incident in wh: sent by the Secretar tee of Parliamentar and Fundamental Ri da Rajapakse MP, tv addressed to the Lond ty International a janayagam, Editor through one Mr. which were seized b Katunayake Internat raised in Parliamen Leader of the Oppos Bandaranaike on 18
Mr. Bandaranaik this action by the cus right of a citizen to c another in an outside
In reply Mr. Ranil Minister of Industr Technology and Lea while obecting to the "Parliamentarians' to not officially recognis er, said that the lette had sent indicate tha used in the campaig Sri Lanka leading 1 foreign aid to Sri Lal
The Minister add janayagam, the Edi Times had for a peri been carrying on a paign against Sri L teresting to find out up between Mr. R JVP and the Sri Lal ty'. He had been app before the UN Huma sion and supplying them and he was pr to do so.
Mr. Bandaranaik prise at the evas answer given by t that Mr. Rajapaks write to anybody v The government wa human rights recor had been discussed the world, and in

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e killing to “unsaid: “this shows am will be killed areas, but also in f Sri Lanka)”.
reportedly car«ecutions of purhals and holding adjudicate dispress reported connection with was hanged by o be LTTE memsty International tences be passed han a regularly h provides interjudicial guaran
Seized r
ch three letters 7 to the Commitlans for Human ghts, Mr. Mahinvo of which were on based Amnesnd Mr. P. Raof Tamil Times, S. Athuraliyage y officials at the ional Airport was t by the Acting ition Mr. Anura May. 2 observed that toms violated the ommunicate with
country. Wickremasinghe, ies, Science and der of the House, use of the term an organisation ed by the Speakrs Mr. Rajapakse t they were to be of vilification of o the cutting of
ka.
ed that Mr. Raor of the "Tamil d of several years propaganda camanka. It was ‘inthe strange link ajanayagam, the ka Freedom Parearing at Geneva n Rights Commis
information to pared to continue
, expressing surye and perverse he Minister, said
was entitled to
hom he wanted.
well aware of its and the matter n every forum in act the Japanese
Prime Minister who visited Sri Lanka
recently had raised the issue of human
rights in the country. He demanded an inquiry into the confiscation of the letters and action taken against the officers who had acted in a highhanded
ale.
The Minister promised an inquiry into the incident.
GOVT. - EPRLF TALKS LTTE PROTESTS
The EPRLF delegation which met Plantations Industries Minister and State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne on 15 May had indicated that their group was prepared to sit with the LTTE "anywhere at any time', to sort out the issues confronting the North-East and bring lasting peace to the troubled region. It was the duty of the government to persuade the LTTE to participate at a common meeting and iron out problems.
EPRLF MP, K. Premachandran who led the delegation described talks with the government as “friendly, cordial, and accommodating.
The discussions which lasted for over 1/2 hours were held at Committee Room 2 of Parliament. In the EPRLF delegation were Messrs. K. Premachandran (leader), G. Yogasangari (EPRLF, MP), Periyathambi Kirubakaran (Minister of Finance, in the North-East PC) and Abu Yusuf (Minister of Transport in the N.E. PC).
Associated with Minister Ranjan Wijeratne at the meeting was the advisor on International Affairs to the President, Mr. Bradman Weerakoon.
Mr. Premachandran said that it was a good beginning and the response on the part of the government for certain proposals made by the EPRLF was positive. The MP said that the EPRLF was satisfied with the outcome of the first round of talks with the government and a date for the next meeting would be fixed shortly.
Mr. Premachandran added that the EPRLF had indicated to the Minister that they would co-operate with the government in all efforts to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the NIE.
“We explained to the minister the situation that had arisen in the North East and drew his attention to the killings, abductions and extortion that were taking place in the region. The people were undergoing immense suffering and mental agony as a result of those actions. There was fear and uncertainty in the region' he said.
He noted that the 19 proposals of the EPRLF were formally submitted to the minister at the meeting and they would be discussed in full at the next round of talks.
Meanwhile a joint communique
issued by the Government of Sri Lanka and the EPRLF said:

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“The delegation espressed its appreciation at the opportunity provided by the Government to initiate a dialogue with the EPRLF. The delegation placed before the Minister of State for Defence their concern regarding (a) the law and order situation in the North East, (b) the status of the North East i Provincial Administration, and (c) their readiness to co-operate in establishing peace and democracy in the North East of Sri Lanka.
"The delegation took the opportunity
explain the circumstances that had regretfully compelled them to make a declaration regarding the establishment of a Democratic Republic of Eelam in 1991 and reiterated their commitment to resolving the problems of the Tamil people within a united Sri Lanka.
The Minister of State for Defence pointed out that the appropriate forum for discussion and consensus on the issues submitted including the 19 point programme of EPRLF was the AllParty Conference.
The delegation agreed to consider seriously and positively, without any prejudice, in participating in All-Party Conference process as part of a continuing dialogue with the Government.
LTTE Protests
Meanwhile, the LTTE has protested against the government having talks with the EPRLF. A statement issued
by its political wing, PFLT, said that it
had strongly objected to the government-EPRLF talks. That Colombo should be "talking to an organisation that has been rejected by the people and has collaborated with the Indians is an insult. to the Tamil and Sinhala people...The Indians tried to prop up
groups that had no support among the
people but they failed. It seems that the Sinhala government is also making the same mistake. The Sri Lankan government has to bear responsibility for the serious consequences of this course of action.
“The Premadasa government ha
been talking to the LTTE for the pa one year. None of the fundamental problems of the Tamil people have been resolved through these talks that have been dragging on for a long time. They have been putting aside and neglecting our reasonable requests to dissolve the N.E. Provincial Council and to hold elections and to repeal the 6th Amendment, but at the same time they hold official talks with those who assisted the Indian aggression and were rejected by the people', the PFLT statement added.
Profest Over Forced Repatriation of Plantation Tamils
North-East Sri Lanka came to a standstill on 21 May as the People's Front of
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Plantation Trá sistently oppose those who fall u ment. Many of t for Indian citize now dead and fev 'wish to return National Union ..T Aiyadurai, sa agreement lapse *Joint Committee Unions (JCPTU) approach to the
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A series of rei newspapers last to the plight of 8 Plantation Tam the 1964 agreem Ootacamund hill had received p assistance and C tually destitute.
Former CWC drasekaran, now try People’s Fron at Talawakelle o militant activitie his arrest followe protests against tion plans.
Around 10,000 on 14 estates b May, demanding strikes began in and Talawakelle of mounting t drasekaran was Rs... 10,000 ($200 delegation to m Wijeratne. He as:

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'igers (PFLT) called a strike) to protest
o repatriate 100,000
nils, granted Indian er the Indo Ceylon 64.
nich was the first civil the Tigers since talks Government a year hops offices and transif the North-East. The e was rekindled after the Indian and Sri finister in early May. al sniping got undertions Minister Ranjan hdian passport holders f necessary would be ckets to India because ers were knocking on loyment'. Tamil Nadu Karunanidhi told the Assembly, a few days lantation Tamil could while Sri Lankan re
in south India.
ade Unions have cond the repatriation of nder the 1964 agreehe original applicants inship, they say, are v of their children still to the sub-continent. of Workers President ys the Indo Ceylon ed in 1985 and the of Plantation Trade called for a humane problem. is lobbying by Ceylon ss (CWC) President S te Information Miniseneral Secretary MS unced on 14 May, that send a delegation to pen discussions which CWC representative. ports in south Indian year, drew attention 30,000 of the 460,000 ils repatriated since
ent and settled in the
tracts. Only 10,000 roper rehabilitation others were now vir
official P. Chan
leader of the Upcoun
it (UPF) was arrested in 15 May accused of s. Local sources say d attempts to launch Government repatria
) Plantation workers egan a strike on 16 his release as hunger temples in the Hatton areas. After four days ension, Mr. Chaneleased on 21 May on )) bail to join a UPF eet Minister Ranjan sured them no Planta
tion Tamil would be forcibly repatri.
ated.
PUT ASIDE GUNS TO ENSURE FAIR POLLS - Ranjan Wijeratne
The government has told the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) à that they would have to "put aside their guns if a free and fair election is to be held in the North-East. “We cannot hold elections with people brandishing arms and creating a fear psychosis. There can never be a peaceful and fair poll if people were allowed to move about with guns threatening and intimidating others. In Sri Lanka there exists a multiparty system. Otherwise. why should we waste time and money holding elections. We can gazette the names of some persons and go without a poll, Plantation Industries Minister and State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne said last week.
Addressing the weekly Cabinet news briefing the Minister noted that the government had from time to time sounded the LTTE on the question of creating a gun-free climate if a free. and fair election was to be held in the North-East. The LTTE should understand that it was not the only Tamil group in the North-East Province.
There were in fact seven other political parties and they had their own aspirations for their people. The LTTE's claim that it was the sole representative of the Tamil people should be manifested and proved through an election. Then the entire country would accept their assertion, he said. s
Mr. Wijeratne explained that the government was making every endeavour to bring all Tamil groups and their aspirations together. Everybody should be treated equally and squarely, and fairly, he added.
He noted that the LTTE had at last week's meeting with Minister A.C.S. Hameed expressed their 'displeasure at the talks the government was holding with the EPRLF. The LTTE should realise that the government cannot "write off any citizen of Sri Lanka'.
The government had a duty cast upon it to talk to all sections of the people, and resolve their grievances. Despite the likes' and "dislikes of anybody including the LTTE, the government had to do its duty. s Q: Houw would you describe the las round of government-LTTE talks? A: It was a healthy discussion. Mr. Hameed brought to the notice of the LTTE leadership the "violations' that had taken place on their side (by their cadres). The LTTE openly opposed the talks the government was having with the EPRLF. They called for a hartal
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Lhe Murder of Richard de ZG
ARREST WARRANT ON SENIOR POL Mother & Lawyer Under Thre
The preliminary proceedings into the murder of the popular journalist, Richard de Zoysa took a new turn when the Magistrate conducting the inquiry order issued a warrant of arrest against Senior Superintendent
of Police, Mr. Ronnie Gunesinghe on 1 June.
The arrest warrant followed the filing of an affidavit by the mother of the murdered journalist, Dr. Mrs. Manora
· ni Saravanamuttu identifying Mr. Gunesinghe as one of a group of men who abducted her son on 18 February whose bullet riddled body was found floating off the south-western coast of the island. Mr. Gunasinghe was standing with a revolver among other persons who she believed were police officers before her son was taken away from her house.
... In the meantime both Mrs. Saravanamuttu and her lawyer, Mr. Batty Weerakoon have received death threats from an organisation calling itself the Organisation for the Protection of the Motherland. On 30 May Batty Weerakoon received a telephone call warning him not to appear in court on June 1. The next day a letter arrived telling him that his effort to win human rights for people who have been traitorous to the country is itself traitorous' and that his life depended on his silence and non-involvement in the Zoysa case.
Mrs. Sarawanamutu, who is persistent in her efforts to see that justice is meted out to those responsible for her son's killing, has been similarly threatened and is living in hiding.
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Civil Rights Movement, Movement for Inter Racial Justice and Equality and other human rights organisations have called upon the government to investigate into the threats and the probable involvement of the security forces in these threats and to provide adequate protection to the lawyer Mr. Weerakoon and Mrs. Saravanamuttu.
Meanwhile, ASIA WATCH, a human rights group based in the USA which briefs State Department officials and Congressmen on human rights issues, has called upon the government of Sri Lanka to inquire into the possible involvement of police personnel in making these threats and to prosecute those found responsible.
"The government of Sri Lanka has consistently attempted to absolve itself of responsibility for Richard de Zoysa's murder, despite credible evidence of police involvement. If the government does not identify and prosecute those responsible for these threats, and en
sure the protection of Weerakoon and
Saravanamutti to another egre Director of A: Jones said.
Mothe
Dr. Mrs. Sar Richard de Zoy the form of an
This is the tendering to c investigation ir Richard Manic
I have been appearances of amongst those on the 18th of F away my son R
I have now s identifying one Gunasinghe, Se Police, Colombo
From inform on my descript persons who ac Gunasinghe te reason to believ officers statione name them if I identifying then
I have refrair of this informa cause I am con safety, and bec have no faith which the polic ducting. I have about the poli
eaSOS:-
The persons i under investiga and their high understood only vance with pers
Lankapuwath ment owned nev the State ownec ing Corporation of March 1990, tion about my sc and justify his claimed that thi given to it by revealed in th were being cond my son.
In the inqui police in court o the admission the then A.S.F 18.2.1990, he ha from Mr. Arju possible danger same night threatened Mr. had obtained th:
of my son. Inspi

CE OFFICIER at
, it will become party gious crime', Executive a Watch Mr. Sidney
's Testimony
vanamuttu, mother of sa in her testimony in |ffidavit stated:
fourth affidavit I am urt in respect of the to the death of my son de Zoysa. able to remember the Ehe persons I saw from who entered my house ebruary 1990, and took chard.
ucceeded in personally of them as Mr. Ronnie nior Superintendent of
ation I have gathered aion of some of those companied Mr. Ronnie my house, I have re that they are police ed in Colombo. I shall
succeed in personally (a. ved from divulging any tion to the police, becerned about my own ause, in any event, I in the investigations e claim they are concome to this conclusion ce, for the following
nvolved in the matter tion are police officers, -handed act can be as one done in connions in high authority.
, which is a governspaper published, and Sri Lanka Broadcastbroadcast on the 2nd wholly false informan in order to vilify him killing. Lankapuwath information had been he police as matters investigations that ucted into the death of
y notes filed by the the last day, there is y Mr. Henry Perera,
Nugegoda, that on advance information la Ranawana, about o my son because that ome persons had Ionter of Nawala, and ough him, the address e of this warning, the
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police were unable to give any protection to my household although the Welikade police station is almost within sight of my home.
In the notes filed in court, the police state that General Sepala Attygalle, the then Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, had on 18.2.1990, inquired from the Inspector-General of Police about the whereabouts of my son, and that the latter had assured him that my son was in safe hands. It is to mean unfathomable mystery as to how the Inspector-General of Police could have given that assurance to a person of General Attygalle's position without he himself being satisfied about the circumstances in which my son came to be in the said safe hands, and whose hands these were. The notes filed in court do not reveal that the investigators have paid any attention to this aspect of the case.
I have the greatest respect for court and the process of justice, but I have every reason to believe that the police, in whose hands the investigations are, have suppressed the truth from court: and are trying to mislead all concerned about the death of my son.
Richard de Zoysa Award,
The Inter Press Service (IPS) and ther Inter Press Institute have unanimously proposed to present the 1990 award of outstanding performance to the memory of the late Richard de Zoysa. "
The selection was made by an eminent panel headed by the Director of the Inter Press Institute, Peter Galliner. The IPS and the IPI have a way of recognising outstanding contributions towards the exposure of human rights violations in Third World countries.
The award to be given this year is a small tribute to the courageous journalistic struggle Mr. Zoysa waged against human rights violations in Sri Lanka.
Dr. (Mrs.) Manoranee Saravanamuttu, mother of the late Mr. Zoysa has been informed by the Director General ofIPS that the presentation of the award would take place on September 18 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Meanwhile, the United Nations, Secretary-General has given instructions to the United Nations Human Rights Centre in Geneva to examine the case of the abduction, torture and brutal killing of Richard de Zoysa, according to another letter received by Mrs. Saravanamuttu.
We apologise to our readers for the late publication of this issue which is due to the inclusion of the latest reports received from Sri Lanka and India.

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NEWS ROUND-UP
OMEMBER OF PARLIAMENTS. Sivamaharajah belonging to the Tamil Militant group, EROS has resigned from Parliament. In his letter of resignation addressed to the Speaker, he had cited personal reasons' as grounds for his resignation. O LAMP POST KILLINGS, which had been practised in past years by some Tamil militant groups would appear to have been reintroduced. On 17 May a man from Telliapalai in northern Jaffna, identified as Kanthasamy who was alleged to have committed the offence of murder, was tied to a lamp post and shot in public.
O UMA MAHESWARAN, former leader of the Tamil militant group PLOTE was killed definitely not by the LTTE. "We know the parties who were responsible', said Mr. Karavai Kandasamy, one of the present leaders of PLOTE/DPLF. O A.L. SEYLABDEEN of Akkaraipattu was shot dead by a group of unidentified youths on May 14. Although the body was first handed over to the brother of the victim, the gunmen returned shortly thereafter and removed the body for disposal. O M. SADAMBAWA (46), the Kalmunai local leader of the PFLT (political wing of the LTTE) was shot dead by an armed gang on 21 May. Following the incident, the PFLT called for a "hartal' in the area and all activity came to a halt from the following day with shops remaining closed and transport services off the road and LTTE members carried out 'search operations' in the area in an attempt to apprehend the assailants.
O JUSTICE MINISTER and government's chief negotiator with the LTTE, Mr. A.C.S. Hameed, after two meetings with the LTTE delegation said that there was a need to create an environment conducive to democratic political action in the North-East as impressed by other political parties. In the event of a dissolution of the N.E. Provincial Council, there should exist pluralism with facility for effective political activity to overcome any form of monopolistic set-up in the creation of the new Provincial Council. O THE LTTE has directed that owners of all four-wheeled vehicles should obtain certificates of roadworthiness from them. Only vehicles that have been so certified by a selected team of examiners and mechanics will be allowed to run on the road. O THE REPATRIATION of Tamil plantation workers entitled to Indian citizenship should take place concurrently with the moving out of the large number of Sri Lanka refugees now on Indian soil, Deputy Indian High Commissioner in Colombo Mr. P. Rath said.
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government to initiate a fresh dialogue with the Indian government on the proposal to repatriate nearly 100,000 Tamil plantation workers. "There should be a fresh look at this human problem. This had been a longstanding problem and has to be viewed in a human and sympathetic manner, said the General Secretary of the CWC, Mr. M.S. Sellasamy. Previously, Plantation Industries Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne told a press conference in Colombo that the government was proposing to undertake the repatriation of the plantation workers who had been given Indian citizenship but had remained in Sri Lanka and that it was even prepared to offer free air tickets to expedite the repatriation of the 100,000 plantation Tamils.
O A REST HOUSE known as "Running Bungalow' meant for railway guards and drivers at Talaimannar in northwest Sri Lanka was taken over by LTTE cadres and turned into a LTTE camp and bunkers have been constructed around it.
O MEDICAL ECUPMENT valued at Rs.120 million donated to the Jaffna and Kilinochchi districts by the government of the United Kingdom are expected to be received in September this year. O A GOVERNMENT COMMUNIQUE alleged that the 16 elephants found killed recently in the Kumanajungles was the work of the LTTE and this was done to protect those involved in the felling of trees for timber. It said that approximately 200 bullock carts were being used for transporting timber from the jungle. Three bulldozers brought from Colombo were being operated in the area. LTTE cadres had killed wild buffaloes and deer and transported the meat to Thirukovil in Batticaloa district. Replying to a question in Parliament, Lands Irrigation and Mahaweli Minister P.Dayaratne said that the LTTE had been felling trees in the west of Akkaraipattu-Pottuvil area. They had hired contractors and were felling trees and transporting to Thirukovil where they have set up a timber depot. O ACCORDING to the Defence Ministry, of the 6117 weapons issued for the purposes of personal protection during the Provincial, Presidential and Parliamentary elections, only 1671 weapons have been returned. The UNP had returned 607 and the SLFP 438 weapons. Some politicians have stated that they would not hand over the weapons until the LTTE surrenders its weapons. O FORMER MAYOR of Batticaloa, Mr. R. Ambalavanar, died of a heart attack on May 24. It is reported that he was depressed after his abduction in March by the LTTE demanding a ransom of Rs.3 million and his subsequent release following the payment of a sum of Rs.500,000
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last week to protest against that. The EPRLF made certain demands and we asked them to forward them to the All Party Conference (APC) where a consensus was reached on issues. They attended the APC last week. We told the EPRLF there was no point in sending letters or declaring UDI. We have to discuss matters at the APC. The LTTE dislikes us talking to the EPRLF. The LTTE should accept reality. As a government we cannot refuse to talk to our people. What, if all the other parties ask us not to talk to the LTTE? It's simply not practical.
Mr. Wijeratne said that the government was giving serious consideration to the LTTE proposal to repeal the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution. A two-thirds majority would be required if we decide to repeal it. Cabinet would take a decision on that in due
COUTSEB.
JVPSWitches Stance on India
COLOMBO, May 13 (UNI)
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), known for its anti-Indian tirade in the past, has paid a left-handed compliment to New Delhi for prompt withdrawal of the Indian PeaceKeeping Force (IPKF) from the island.
In the first public statement in months, published in The Island newspaper here today, the JVP said Indian had "intelligently and with great foresight' withdrawn the IPKF in the face of the campaign launched by it and other patriotic organisations against the "Indian occupation'.
The statement was signed by Mr. Somawansa Amarasinghe, one of the few survivors of the JVP's central committee who described himself as the 'acting president' of the group.
Other members of the central com-, mittee, including the JVP supremo, Mr. Rohana Wijeweera, were killed in a series of successful security operations since November last.
The JVP statement criticised the treatment of the Tamils in the island and said they were 'second class citizens and victims of racial and sectarian policies' followed by successive governments.
Communal Line
At the same time, the statement condemned the Tamil leadership for following a communal line themselves.
It said Mr. Wijeweera had predicted that India, by allegedly supporting Tamil separatism for "tactical reasons' of security, would be doing great damage to herself strategically in the long
UA.
India must realise that it had made a mistake by supporting Tamil separ
atism', which was western imperial to India's interest
The statement tion' had only he Lankan governm damage' to India
The latest st mark the begin shift in the JVl under the new le
The statement JVP is unwilling president, Mr. R sa, for forcing th IPKF, as the go everyone to belie attitude to the unchanged, obser
BRITIS “KI ASYLUN
British Airways () of 'kidnapping t seekers on arriv, forcibly deporting tive fines for p. with illegal docun
The three men and were detaine tions about their After two hours, allowed access to ities and to claim were returned to put them om a flig two of the three v Indian officials a ombo.
One of the thr nan, managed to phone before he l authorities say clearly illegal an campaign to prote lum seekers arriv Home Office has the incident.
Since the Carr 1987, airlines a every passenger documents even : proved that false fugee’s only mear been fined £3.5 m the last three mo tioned the Home ( over their failure
Some 564 Sri seekers arrived in three months oft cases have been e. a backlog of 1,81. migration author decisions in the conditions in Sri I
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serving the cause of sm and was opposed
s said “Indian occupalped prop up the Sri ent and done "great s interests.
itement could thus ing of a significant 's attitude to India adership.
also shows that the to give credit to the anasinghe Premadae withdrawal of the rernment would like re, indicating that its government remains vers here said.
AIRWAYS )NAPS”
SEEKERS
3A) has been accused hree Tamil asylumal at Heathrow and them to avoid puniassengers travelling ments.
arrived on 9 April d by BA after quesdocuments in Rome. despite pleas to be immigration authorpolitical asylum, they Rome. Italian police ht to Bombay where were badly beaten by nd returned to Col
ee, Vasudeva Krish) alert relatives by eft London. Refugee their removal was d plan to mount a ect the rights of asyring in Britain. The refused to condemn
ers Liability Act of e fined £1,000 for travelling on illegal f it is subsequently papers were a res of escape. BA has illion - £379,000 in nths — and has peti)ffice for an amnesty to pay.
Lankan asylumBritain in the first his year. Only three amined and there is . Observers say imties are postponing hope of improving anka. ree Tamil asylumted on 25 May after al. There are three ! at Schiphol airport
who may be deported in the next month. Over 400 Sri Lankan asylumseekers arrived in Holland in January and February and legal sources say a return to a hard-line deportation policy is imminent. Of 8,000 asylum-seekers who arrived in Switzerland in the first four months of this year, over 1,000 are Sri Lankan and Swiss authorities will introduce a tough new asylum law in June.
Detained Refugees Released. After Protest Fast
Over 100 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees i who escaped with their families from camps in Orissa were released from Madras Central prison in mid May after they began a hunger strike, demanding they be relocated in refugee camps in Tamil Nadu.
The refugees, former militants with EPRLF and other Indian-backed groups, had petitioned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karumanidhi over inadequate medical provisions in the Orissa camps after a 12-year-old boy and a 22-year-old woman died from heatstroke. The escapees and their families have been sent to the Mandapam and Kottapattu camps south of Madras.
Mr. Karunanidhi has reiterated his demand that all Tamil militants who fled Sri Lanka as part of the IPKF withdrawal be sent to the Andaman Islands - a penal settlement in colonial times.
There is still concern in Tamil Nadu over the undercover activities of feuding Sri Lankan militants. Over 70 members of the Eelam People's Democratic Party, a little-known militant splinter group were arrested in a Madras suburb in early May with weapons and ammunition. Further south in Vellore, five members of PLOTE were arrested without identity papers. Opposition MP, P.R. Kumaramangalam accused the Tamil Nadu government in late May, of colluding with the LTTE and actively encouraging sedition in the south Indian state.
KANTHASAMY REMEMBERED
It was on 19 June 1988 that Kandiah Kanthasamy, one of the most committed human rights and relief and rehabilitation workers, was kidnapped by a gang of Tamil militants' from his residence in Jaffna and his whereabouts are still not known. However, he is now presumed dead having been killed by his kidnappers within a few days of his abduction.
Kanthasamy will be remembered by his friends and colleagues who had worked with him and by those who benefited by his devoted and dedicated Ser“VlCe.

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WHO KILLED SAM?
THE LTTE has denied responsibility for the assassination of Member of Parliament Mr. Sam Thambimuttu and his wife. Can anyone accept this denial?
When TULF leaders A.A. Amirthalingam and V. Yogeswaran were killed in July last year by three gunmen who had gone to their residence claiming to be from the LTTE, the leadership of the LTTE denied responsibility. In fact they did not claim and even abandoned the dead bodies of their erstwhile comrades to dissociate themselves from this crime.
However, in a recent interview, the Deputy Leader of the LTTE and the Leader of the PFLT, Mr. Mahendirarajah (Mahathaya) publicly admitted that the TULF leaders were killed by the LTTE as they were "Indian agents and traitors'.
In this connection I quote below a revealing extract from Men and Matters by Kautilya' in "Sunday Island' of 13.5.90:
The mind of Mr. Prabhakaran, a militarist pure and simple. Don't talk to the traitors and the quislings while we are talking to you. Is that the message? May be a message to his cadres and commanders too. Don't get soft with , all this talk of peace. . . .there's a long way to go. . . .the war is not over. Keep your powder dry. Jaw-Jaw, war-war. And so, Black Monday, the Day of the Tiger, its long claws over Colombo.
The LTTE denial has been published.
But what was Colombo's reaction? Using the journalistic network for opinion-sampling, I tested the Sinhala response. Nearly 90% believe that the LTTE was responsible. Only ten percent was doubtful or offered other, somewhat exotic theories. Public opinion is political reality and that's what matters most to President Premadasa, his government and its strategy planners, including its negotiators. If Colombo opinion is correct, I conclude:
a). The LTTE does NOT want the government talking to any other parties because that undermines the LTTE position that it is the SOLE authentic voice of the Tamil people. The implications of that assumption should be examined in terms of what sort of society will emerge in Jaffna under LTTE control. Regimentation? Authoritarian or some degree of political pluralism? The first casualty would be intellectual and academic life.
b). The LTTE will have “Eelam” or
something as close but its actual writ w borders of that "Eel any Tamil, even ou ders, the North-East its "law-enforcement crime as heinous as Indian quisling line
These are persona I sincerely hope tl wrong.
But if I am corre fundamental change cept of a nation. The its citizens answeral not necessarily thos the territory of Nort quasi-Eelam, or are citizens-voters. Its re ter - up to Gregory's
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I DO NOT write to
would like, to exp thanks for your effo publication of Tami tremendous pressure publish various sh found among Tamils It is so easy to fall i dominant point ofvie tivity in the process. published some corr atening and/or black submission in this re for publishing them a ing up to those press We have seen many
and go, and I can't t publication which can the writings of Mess Sachi Srikantha,
Sivasegaram, Rita s Siriwardena, Tehan
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SACHI SRI KANT “expatriate Tamills” Tamil Times Feb. perhaps an attempt Tamil to salve his o His attack on the " events organised b abroad have little
Most of these event. motive, the proceeds institutions in Sri
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) that as possible ll run beyond the m'. For instance, side its own borwill be subject to if he commits a (reachery’ i.e. the if thinking. speculations, and at I am proved
have not had the advantage of years in a host country to establish a home, a life and a future. As they painfully go through that process in a White, Western world alien to them and hostile towards their culture, Community functions such as a 'dinner and dance' with Sri Lankan music and food are much appreciated occasions.
The social intercourse of Sri Lankan Tamils, conversing in our mother tongue, exchanging news from Sri Lanka of our relatives, mutual friends and of our progress and aspirations is invaluable. It is a psychological boost for the first generation Tamils to face the trials of tomorrow and a moral boost for younger generations to recognize the qualities in our culture and to
t then there is a
here - the conTamil 'state' and le to its writ, are who live within h-East Council or egistered there as ach is much grea
Road'. derive vigour from our roots in Sri
S. Anthonipillai Lanka.
Sachi Sri Kantha's suggestions on use
O PRESSURE ful roles for Tamils abroad are note
worthy but at this stage in the socioeconomic development of the Tamil diaspora, I fear only intellectuals like Sachi Sri Kantha will be in a position to provide and utilize those services.
Mr. B. Skanthakumar Russell Square, London WC1N
you as often as I ress my sincere rts in continuing | Times. Despite s, you continue to ades of opinion the world over.
nto line with the w, and lose objec
Not long ago you espondence thremailing you into agard. Thank you ind thereby standUlr€S. publications come hink of any other 1 provide space for rs. Sivanayagam, Dr. Selbourne, Sebastian, Reggie Perera etc. )rk.
N. Karan
OF E TAMILS'
THA’s lament on (Readers Forum, ruary 1990) was by an expatriate wn conscience. dinner and dance' y and for Tamils moral foundation. have a charitable going to academic Lanka and often e West.
Sri Lanka in the 983 riots are not (patriates' but reexiles. It is genernize these events esume Sachi Sri as directed. They
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Tamil Orphans' Trust
A variety performance in aid of the Tamil Orphans' Trust was held on Hall. The Mayor of Brent, Councillor Len Williams was the Chief Gue present was an indication of the wide support, the Trust's worthy ca
The Bharatha Natyam items were performed by students of three de Joachim, Mrs. Rajani Shureshkumar and Adayar Shri Ramarao anc Sreetharan, Navasha Joseph, Suki Balendra, Prema Parameshwar ajah.
There were two instrumental programmes, one a violin solo by Mr. an ensemble of Vocal, Veena, Violin, Mirdangam and Ghatam by the Sivanesan, Dr. Jayan and Mr Balasri. The climax of the evening's p Vocal Recital by Mr. M. Yogeswaran.
Mr. Wimal Sockanathan, the Chairman of the Tamil Orphans' Trus the Trust's activities since its inception, assistance rendered and briel plans for the future. For more details, please contact, The Secretar
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Veena VirtuOSO S. Balachander - An A
The 13th April 1990 was a dark day for the music world as one of its greatest musicians S. Balachander passed away. Veena Vidwan S. Balachander was unique in many ways. Although the name of Balachander is synonymous with veena, he displayed and excelled in varied artistic pursuits during his life.
He learnt to play the "Kanjira, a percussion instrument all by himself when he was about six. At 10 he was accompanying on stage his elder brother Rajam, a vocalist, on the Tabla, which instrument he learnt to play without a master. It was while he was accompanying Rajam at a concert in Karachi, way back in 1938 that a woman was so impressed with the young boy artist on the Tabla that she took him to her home and presented him with a sitar. That present marked a significant turn in his life. He trained himself without a tutor to play Carnatic music on the Sitar and later discarded it for the veena. He adopted the veena. He cared for it more than he would for his body.
Born in a well-to-do artistic family in Mylapore, Madras, Balachander had the ideal upbringing and environment for his pursuit of art and music. His father was a lawyer but, the family's love for art was evident in 1933 when Balachander was merely six, the whole family acted in a film called "Sita Kalyanam". Later Balachander interested himself in directing film music and in acting too.
In the late forties and early fifties he interested himself in directing film and particularly film music and his outstanding contributions were "Kaidhi', 'Yedhi Nijam?', 'Bommai, 'Devaki, Andha Naal, to name a few films that he directed. Andha Naal was considered to have created history in the Tamil film world by the fact that the entire film did not have a single song or a dance which were vital ingredients of any Tamil film of those days.
Many who have met Balachander casually got the impression that he was egoistic and arrogant. Those of us who had the pleasure of knowing him closely saw the nicer, affectionate side of him. He loved art in any form. He would give credit to anything good. He would
enjoy good Hinduste ern classical music | politely say that he Western music.
He loved childre their company. It wa with his grand chila when he himself be
He enjoyed natu special affection f England. Once wh Cumbria in 1983 he in the lay-by, and gi lessly for nearly 15 "Doctor do you see meadows, the dista hills which appeara, ragas in a melody!”.
He believed in ex to praise anything g he would not hesita when things do not tions.
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28.4.90 at the Brent Town it, and the large gathering se had gained.
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all beauty. He had a the Lake District in n we drove around in sked me to stop the car out and stood speechminutes and then Said the beauty of the long t trees and the rolling the merging of different
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Jaffna Old Centralites Champions
at Festival of Cricket
L to R Muralitharan, Thomas, Thamilalagan, Anurudran, Paul Prahalathan, Manodarmaraj, & Prabaker.
The Maori Club, Worcester Park, Surrey, U.K., was the venue of a grand festival of cricket in which teams representing the O.B.A.s of some of Sri Lanka's leading colleges took part in a 7-a-side tournament on Bank Holiday Monday, 28th May 1990.
It was a sunny, clear, bright day and over 1000 cars, vans etc clogging the surrounding parks and their precincts brought a festive crowd that could be counted in five figures. Sri Lankan delicacies - buriyani, string hoppers, egg hoppers, Watalappam, you name it, it was available. Everyone had an enjoyable time.
Cricket teams representing the U.K. O.B.A.s of Ananda, St Peter's, St Thomas', Royal, St Anthony's Trinity, Jaffna Central, Mahinda, St Joseph's and Zahira took part in the tournament, in the finals, Jaffna Old Centralites defeated the old Royalists by a margin of 3 runs.
The organisers who had worked very hard to make this event a success deserve the support of more teams taking part in future fOürTarnentS.
skills were beyond dispute. His musical scholarship and redoubtable creative energies, which manifested themselves in feats like elaboration of all the 72 Master Scales of carnatic music (presented in 12 long play records) bore testimony to his genius.
Balachander has been close to the Tamil Community in Sri Lanka, in London and elsewhere. He has been hailed as manasika guru by several students and teachers of veena music. He gave the first recital in London in aid of the Highgate Murugan Temple in London.
Balachander was just 63 at the time of his demise. Let us cherish the memory of Padma Bhushan, Veena Vidwan Dr. S. Balachander multifaceted genius, his creativity, virtuosity, warmth and above all unshaken integrity and reverence for the truth in music and in life. Let us draw inspiration from his bold example and cherish those ideals he strove so tirelessly to propagate in the interest of prosperity.
Our sincere words of comfort should go to the widow Mrs. Shanta Balachander, son S.B.S. Raman (an Advocate) and daughterin-law Mrs. Dharma Raman.
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the Food, Ambience and ality that
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Service second to none. Try us once-you'll be there every week.
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RathbOne Holidays Limited
GENERAL & BUSNESS TRAVEL 55 RATHBONE PLACE, LONDON WP AB ENGANO
(CARRIED THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PASSENGERS ON AIR LANKA IN 1989)
Fly To Colombo On
AR ANKA >
Seats Available 21st/28th July & 25th August
Air Lanka's New Weekly Flights to Singapore and Melbourne Return from £710
Free Stop-Over in Colombo
(Instant Confirmation Through our Inhouse Computer Reservation System) Call on 071-580 4460 For Reservation and Ticketing
We accept all major Credit cards - Visa/Barclaycard/Access/American Express
WE ARE NOW OPENSATURDAY BETWEEN 10.00 HOURS TO 13.00 HOURS
Standing Committee of Tamil Speaking People (S.C.O.T.)
presents
Chitra Visveswaran
One of the finest exponents of Bharafanatyam in india today
accompanied by
Sri. R. Wiswegwaarar Vocal
Srikala Narasimhan Natuwangam
Sri Ragunathan Gopinath Flute
Sri Shankar Jegadelesan Mridangam
on Saturday, 28th July 1990 at 7.00 p.m. (Doors open 6.30 p.m. at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 4A Castletown Road, London W149HQ
Tickets: E5.00
For tickets and information telephone: 0277223981
08 904 6472 08.1870.9897
Net proceeds in aid of university student scholarships in Tamil homelands, Sri Lanka
Nearest Tube: West Kensington Buses: 28 & 91
女 立 Refreshments available ☆ ☆

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