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CONTENTS
LTTE declares Ceasefire. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.
Military operations resumed after 7 days. 5 ISSN 0 Euro Parliament calls for probe. . . . . . . . 8 . Publish TAM, T The illusory Peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 P.O. E. SUTTON, SUR
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A MILITARY SOLUTIO NORDE
The LTTE declared a unilateral ceasefire beginning midnight of 31 December. This was followed by the government announcing a suspension of offensive operations against the LTTE for a period of seven days to last until 10 January. The ray of hope that the war in North-East Sri Lanka and the resulting unprecedented death, destruction, displacement and sufferings of the civilian population will be halted has vanished. Fighting has resumed in full earnest after the government's announcement not to extend the temporary suspension of offensive military operations. The agony of the people Continues unabated.
After the fighting broke out on 11 June last year, it was claimed on behalf of the government that the war would be prosecuted until the LTTE was physically eliminated. The LTTE claimed that the war would Continue until Eelam was achieved. After eight months of this inhuman destructive war, neither the LTTE has been eliminated nor Eelam has been achieved despite the enormous casualties on both sides. But what are the achievements of this War so far?
Over a million people have been displaced and become refugees. About 150,000 refugees have fled to India and are 'living' in makeshift camps. More than twenty to twentyfive thousand people have abandoned their homes and moved to the south of the island. Approximately five thousand Tamils are located in 14 camps and another fifteen thousand are 'living' outside in and around Colombo. About four to five thousand have fled to western Countries. The death toll among the civilian population of the North-East is estimated to be in the region of three thousand. Among the dead are Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese. Approximately two thousand persons have 'disappeared' particularly in Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Amparai districts in the east. Hundreds have been taken into custody and their whereabouts remain a mystery. Dead bodies have littered the landscape.
Thousands of homes, hospitals, schools, temples, churches, public buildings, shops and market places have been damaged or destroyed in indiscriminate aerial bombing and naval shelling. A virtual economic blockade has brought people to the point of starvation - and in fact reliable reports indicate that as many as three hundred people have died due to starvation. No transport, no communications, no medicine and no fuel, civilian life has been disrupted and shatteredpupils and teachers could not go to schools; examinations were cancelled; public offices did not function; salaries and pensions were not paid farmers could not work in their fields; workshops and factories remained idle and shops remained shuttered. In short, all forms of economic and social activity came to a grinding halt.
Civil society in the North-East has become virtually non-existent as all resources of the people, human and material, have been requisitioned to serve the cause of the war effort. People trying to leave the war torn areas in search of physical safety have been subjected to draconian restrictions and extortionate levies of all kinds.
 

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Ceasefire because of sufferings in East. 11 56-4488 Travails of war in North. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 } by News Round-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 VES (LTE) IX 121 Tigers accuse Tamil Nadu Govt. . . . . . . 17 EY SM1 3 TD NGDOM ReaderS Forum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 -644 O972 BSCRIPTION The publishers assume no responsibility for return of a. . . E10/USS2O unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and artwork, is. . . E15/USS30
N, NEITHER POSSIBLE SIRABLE
The war has brought nothing but disaster on an unprecedented scale to the people of the North-East. When it broke Out, we characterized it as a 'Callous imposition upon the people' and that it offered a worse prospect than ever before" and that the people did not deserve it. Andour 'overwhelming concern for the people' compelled us to repeatedly call for a Ceasefire, an end to this inhuman war and a return to the negotiating table. Though belatedly, our view seems to have been vindicated and accepted in that the primary reason given for the declaration of the unilateral ceasefire by the LTTE is the pitiable plight of the people, particularly in the eastern province'. It must be said that any responsible leadership with a little foresight could and should have anticipated these tragic developments in time.
The people need a respite from the ravages of this war. The LTTE was right to announce the ceasefire and call for negotiations. There is every indication that the views of the hawks in the Sri Lankan military establishment have prevailed and prevented a reasonable and desirable response from the government to continue with the suspension of offensive operations. The sad turn on the Tamil side is that some Tamil groups have aligned with the government and are operating in collaboration with the security forces - settling old scores with and taking revenge from the LTTE have become the name of the game. As we have repeatedly pointed out, the bane of the ever suffering Tamil community has been the internecine rivalry and armed conflicts among Tamil groups born out of a lack of respect for the right of each group to exist and function. None of the groups can claim immunity from the sin of having collaborated with the government at one time or another. The State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratine said the other day that he had taken some of the Tamil groups to his bosom and that it had made his life easier to use these groups against the LTTE. It was not so long ago that the very same Minister and his government took the now derided LTTE to their bosom and used it to attack the other Tamil groups.
The most urgent task now facing those who care for the interests of the Tamil speaking people is to seek and effect a reconciliation among Tamil groups, and in this task the LTTE as the most dominant and powerful group has a big responsibility. And this means a willingness to accept and accommodate the other groups as partners in a common cause. Expression and practical demonstration of such willingness is not only the right thing to do, but also will help to wean them away from their present collaborationist role in which they are engaged. Such a development will inevitably produce a change in the character and quality of Tamil politics and bring about a renewed momentum to the political process. Simultaneously, pressure at the local and international levels must be brought upon the government to agree to an immediate ceasefire followed by a resumption of negotiations without preconditions among all concerned parties who must realise that a military solution is neither possible nor desirable.

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LTTE DECLARES CEA
The following is the text of the LTTE's
statement dated 29 December 1990 declaring a unilateral ceasefire:
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has unilaterally declared ceasefire
with effect from midnight of 31st of ,
December 1990. The LTTE will cease all its armed hostilities against the Sri Lankan armed forces from that time.
The LTTE has decided to effect the cessation of hostility with an indefinite time frame as a gesture of goodwill to promote peace and to create conditions of normality in Tamil Eelam. In case the government of Sri Lanka fails to reciprocate to our peace initiative and continues offensive operations, our
national liberation the right to defens
Our unilateral ceasefire have pl sponsibility with t ernment as to w peace or to cont against our peop provided an ideal Sri Lankan gove: trate the great il Lankan governme tively and the cea both parties, the pared to enter pea
Under the prete Lankan governme
The following is the text of the State ment dated 3 January issued by the Presidential Secretariat in response to the LTTE's declaration of Ceasefire: The Government has given its careful consideration to the statement made by the LTTE that it has decided to effect a cessation of hostilities with an indefinite time frame from midnight of 31 December, 1990. The Government welcomes this declaration of the cessation of violence by the LTTE.
It is observed that the announcement of the LTTE states that the ceasefire is intended to "create conditions of normalcy in Tamil Eelam”. The Government rejects unequivocally the existence of a so called "Tamil Eelam’ within any part of the territory of Sri Lanka. The Government wishes to reiterate that it exercises its sovereignty over all parts of its territory and will continue to defend its integrity against any aggression from within or outside.
The statement of the LTTE also claims that the Sri Lanka Government is committing a grave crime of genocide against the Tamil people. The Government does not, has not, and will not wage war against the Tamil people. This is evidenced by the Support, trust and confidence it enjoys from all other Political Parties representing the Tamil people. The Government is only engaged in restoring peace and normalcy in the affected areas. It is well known that the LTTE has unleashed a reign of terror, committed mass murder and brutal violence against the peace loving communities of Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and Burghers inhabiting the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
The Government as an interim measure, and as an indication of its commitment of finding a peaceful political solution has decided to suspend offensive operations against the LTTE in the Northern and Eastern Provinces for a period of seven days from midnight of Thursday, 3 January, 1991.
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SEFIRE
army will reserve ive armed actions.
decision to observe aced the entire rehe Sri Lankan govhether to maintain inue to wage war le. The LTTE has
opportunity to the rnment to demonsintention. If the Sri nt reciprocates posisefire is observed by LTTE will be prece talks.
xt of a war the Sri nt is committing a
great crime of genocide against our people, in particular the Tamil people of the Eastern province are suffering enormously. Thousands of these people are undergoing untold hardships without any form of relief in the jungle areas and in the refugee camps. Under the guise of a war the government has also prevented the representatives of the Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to visit the affected areas. Our decision to observe ceasefire is motivated by the urgency of bringing the pathetic life of the people to the attention of the world and to solicit an immediate relief and rehabilitation.
Therefore, we believe the Sri Lankan government will give some serious consideration to our declaration of ceasefire.
ERNMENT SUSPENDS ENSIVE OPERATIONS
'orces wili continue olling and adminiss during this period, ince of the territorial a. This is absolutely terests of maintainurity and the proper civil administration,
the territorial ina. In the interests of
hd 309 Police led since June
man, , Ranjan Wiress conference on t 859 security and had been killed and the fighting broke -East on June 11.
killed, 530 were 9 police personnel. sisted of 11 army rsonnel.
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suspension of hostiliduring this period, ne Sri Lanka Armed and the Auxiliary weapons or be dres
orces will retain the propriate action to security. They will ate as in the past n or party indulging vity. The Security action against any eapons, grenades or vill continue to oper
person or groups upt communal har
mony. They will take action against militants attempting to infiltrate into population centres and indulging in extortion. The Security Forces will also take steps to ensure that no restrictions are placed on the free movement of people and their voluntary participation in democratic politics.
It is hoped that this interim measure taken to suspend offensive operations for a period of seven days will lead to a further improvement in the climate of peace. Such a climate is a basic precondition for the achievement of a durable and lasting political solution. The Government hopes that as an initial demonstration of good faith, the LTTE would free all Security and Police personnel and civilians who are being kept in captivity by them.
The Government will consider extending the seven day period of suspension of offensive operations provided there is a continuing adherence to the conditions that govern the ceasefire. This could then lead to discussions for a political solution of the NorthEast question at which all Political Parties would be represented. Such discussions should be preceded by a declaration against the possession and use of arms by any group or persons other than those authorised by law. This would create the necessary climate conducive for negotiations.
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Military operations R After Seven-Day Susp
The Government resumed "offensive military operations' in North-East Sri Lanka against the LTTE which were suspended for seven days in response to the ceasefire declared by the LTTE. The following is the text of a communique issued from the Presidential Secretariat:
The Government in response to the LTTE's unilateral declaration of a ceasefire from 31 December, 1990 suspended offensive operations against the LTTE for a period of seven days from midnight of Thursday, 3 January.
"Since 31 December, the Government has been carefully monitoring the activities of the LTTE. Over 34 violations of the LTTE ceasefire have been reported up to Thursday, 10 January. Many of these have been of a serious nature involving loss of life. Many instances of the building of bunkers and the regrouping of LTTE cadres have been reported. On this assessment, the Government is convinced that the LTTE's ceasefire has not been dictated by a genuine desire for peace, but is a ruse to gain time to recoup their forces which are in absolute disarray.
The Government has received a communication from the LTTE dated 9 January. They make the claim that the conditions stipulated by the Government in its temporary suspension of offensive operations are unfair.
"The Government's suspension of offensive operations for a period of
seven days was whether the claim genuine or not. Ro surveillance by the ing this period we tial in the interests order and public minimum conditio constituted Govern tain in the interest tion and safegua integrity. To do le cate responsibility and the protecti population.
"The Governmen the fact that the s the LTTE so far h its so-called politic is the military win dictates action on fore, the Governm any further talks, must represent the
"The Governmer search for a peac North-East quest evening it had learning of the viev many of them rep and Muslim comm tuencies in the No
"After a careful sentations made a ground situation, t come to the follow
(1) not to ext suspension of of which ended at mi
The LTTE leader, Mr. Sathasivam Krishnakumar, alias Kittu, made it clear that the Tamil's right to selfdetermination will form the basis of any future negotiations with the Sri Lankan Government. The island Tamils' right to self-determination should be recognised, he said.
Speaking from his residence in London after the LTTE had declared a unilateral, indefinite ceasefire with the Sri Lankan Government's security forces from the midnight of December 31, Mr. Kittu said: "The ball is now in the Government's court. So far there has been no reaction from it (either about accepting the ceasefire or initiating talks with the LTTE'.
However, "There may be opportunity for talks and we expect that the talks may take place through international mediation'. He parried a question on countries involved in the international mediation. It had not been decided so far which countries could mediate, he added.
Asked whether the LTTE would lay
LTTE L
down any condit. Colombo, he said: Tamil National Lankan Governme the North and Eas traditional Tamill not conditions. Th lems. You cannot ignoring these pl pends on how f: Government is pre Tamils' demands live as equal Sinhalese. The Ta and the tradition are basic issues fo problem of the Ta he said.
Questior
"I am also makin question of laying going to take place Kittu said. He II Lankan Minister

esume enSiOn
precisely to test of the LTTE was utine patrolling and security forces durre absolutely essenof maintaining law, security. These are ns that a lawfully nment has to mains ofcivil administrarding of territorial ss would be to abdi
for law and order on of the civilian
it has taken note of statements made by ave emanated from all wing. However, it g of the LTTE that the ground. Therenent insists that in the military wing e LTTE. it is committed to a eful solution of the ion. On the 10th the opportunity of ws of several parties, resenting the Tamil unities with constirth and East. review of all reprehd on the basis of the he Government has ing decisions: end the temporary fensive operations dnight on Thursday,
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10 January. The continuing violations of the ceasefire unilaterally declared by the LTTE leaves the Government with no other alternative course of action,
(2) calls upon Mr. Prabhakaran, the leader of the military wing of the LTTE to resume talks with the Government. Such talks should be preceded by a declaration against the possession and use of arms by any group or persons other than those authorized by law. All political parties would be invited to participate in such talks,
(3) if the invitation to talks on these terms is accepted by the LTTE, the Government would be prepared to sus
pend offensive operations against the LTTE.
As a mark of respect for the Thai Pongal which falls on 14 January, the Government will suspend offensive operations in the North and East on this day.
As a further manifestation of its interest in relieving the civilian population of the hardships brought about by the actions of the LTTE, the Government calls upon the LTTE to:
- release all hostages and not take in any more hostages,
- stop all torture and execution of all captives and prisoners,
- stop using civilians in mine clearing operations,
-stop recruiting for combat boys and girls under 15,
- stop all reprisals on civilians, - stop all acts of terrorisation of civilians as a means of obtaining their support, and
- allow humanitarian access to all prisoners-of-war'.
eader's Terms for Talks
ions for talks with
"There should be a Army and the Sri ent must accept that zt of the island is the nomeland. These are nese are basic prob, find a solution by roblems. But it dear the Sri Lankan pared to concede the and allow them to citizens with the amil National Army al Tamil homeland r any solution to the amil-Sinhala divide',
not there
g it clear that the g down arms is not 2 in our history', Mr. eferred to the Sri , Mr. Ranian Wi
jeratine's repeated demands that the LTTE should lay down its weapons as a pre-condition to any negotiations and said: "If Colombo finds out why we took to an armed struggle, it will understand why we refuse to lay down our arms'.
A lot of young boys belonging to other groups such as the TELO, the PLOT and the EPDP were losing lives as their leadership was using them for their own selfish ends, he said. If these boys wanted to leave these groups and resume normal life as civilians, the LTTE would not be vindictive. We will treat them well', he said.
On the Congress(I)'s and the AIADMK's allegations that the LTTE was spreading drug and gun culture in Tamil Nadu, Mr. Kittu replied: “We are totally against drugs. In our organisation, we cannot drink liquor. We cannot smoke. We cannot even drink
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ICRC Turns Down “Monitoring Role”
The International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) turned down a request by the Sri Lanka government to monitor the unilateral ceasefire declared by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and the offer of an aircraft to carry out their own reconnaisance missions to monitor the ceasefire. The 'whole affair was a matter for the government of Sri Lanka to handle” and the ICRC was only a "neutral intermediary' in the scenario, the ICRC had said.
The ICRC had informed the government of its position and pointed out that it could not get involved in any monitoring of the LTTE's unilateral ceasefire because the ICRC had to maintain its neutrality.
"This is a very complicated affair. We don't want to get involved in monitoring activities as the ICRC is only playing the role of a "neutral intermediary” ”, the Information Delegate of the ICRC in Colombo, Claude
Chatelin said.
State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne told journalists that the ICRC had so farnot come in as a monitoring body. Defence Secretary Gen. Cyril Ranatunge said that even an aircraft had been made available to the ICRC to observe the ceasefire, but there had been no response yet.
Ms. Chatelin explained that the ICRC had no role to play beyond the boundary of its neutral stand on the North-East conflict. “We can't have an opinion on this. It's a matter concerning the Sri Lanka government. It’s not our business to get involved in monitoring, she said.
When told that it was Mr. Philiph Comtesse, the head of the ICRC in Colombo, o who had conveyed the LTTE's ceasefire offer to the government, Ms. Chatelin noted that it was only a neutral role. The ICRC is a neutral intermediary, she said.
CWC CALLS FOR GOVT-LTTE DIALOGUE
Mr. S. Thondaman, the Minister of Tourism and Rural Industrial Development and CWC President has in a letter to President Ranasinghe Premadasa stated, the CWC welcomes the initiative taken by the LTTE to declare a unilateral ceasefire and the prompt and positive response of the Government in suspending offensive military action for the time being.
"It is the considered view of the CWC that an opportunity has now been created to initiate meaningful steps towards a lasting peace in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. To achieve this objective the CWC considers that it would be counter productive to harbour any reservations in opening up a dialogue with the LTTE. In other words, despite the natural caution that would spring uppermost in the mind of the Government on account of past experiences, negotiations to reach a political settlement must commence
without preconditions being laid down.
"Once negotiations begin it would then be possible to draw up an agenda so that the issues that need resolution become crystalised.
"It is my suggestion that a Negotiating Committee drawn from among the Government and those parties in Parliament who had advocated a political settlement to problems aired by the representatives of the people in the Northern and Eastern Provinces would be the best medium to conduct negotiations to restore institutionalised democracy in these two areas.
"The CWC wishes to point out that a total stoppage of all military action in the North-East is essential not only for peace in that region but also for normality in the whole island. It is also necessary that a lasting political solution must be found for the ethnic problem especially in resolving the legitimate aspirations of the Tamil people. It must be

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remembered that on several
occasions in the past, politic
al solutions acceptable to the Tamils and which were in the interests of the country were sabotaged by the action of extremists. This should not happen again.
Further the CWC, as the representatives of the persons of Indian origin, is intimately concerned with a
sustaining peace in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. As the members of the Indian Tamil community, they had never manifested any involvement in the ongoing conflict, but, the youth among them had also been subjected to arrests and detention under conditions similar to those in the Northern and Eastern Provinces”.
TELO Joins Forces With STF to Fight LTTE
The Government has decided to deploy Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) cadres along with the elite police commandos in the Amparai administrative district.
State Minister for Defence Ranjan Wijeratne has given the clearance to the Colombo based TELO leadership to move to Amparai as early as possible. A senior spokesman for this group which pledged support for the government against the Tigers said. Shortly after the ministerial approval two senior leaders including a Member of Parliament from the Batticaloa District met a very senior para-military officer in charge of all operations by police commandos better known as the STF.
TELO sources said that the officer had agreed to study certain proposals submitted to him during the discussions in Colombo. Sources further said that the government had indicated its desire to allow the TELO “fighters' to operate
alongside the police commandos who control most of the Sinhala majority Amparai District. The rest is controlled by the Army.
"The TELO would very much like to move to Weeramunai where thousands of Tamils live as refugees', Mr. N. Sri Kantha, the political advisor to the group said.
These sources further said that additional TELOcadres were expected from South India to supplement the men in the Batticaloa District and in Amparai.
TELO was given approval following the fall of the strategically important Mankulam Army Camp on November 23. About five days after the Mankulam debacle PLOTE was requested to beef up its 'forces' in the Wanni region.
Sources said that the government has pledged more arms and ammunitions to Tamil groups as they expand their operations” in the violence-torn NorthEast Province.
TRINCO ARMY COMMANDER KILLED N LTTE LANDMINE ATTACK
A senior army officer and a senior police officer were killed on 19 December in the Trincomalee District when Tigers exploded a landmine and blew up the jeep in which they were travelling.
Brigadier Lakshman "Lucky' Wijeratne, Brigade Commander of the army's 22 Brigade and Coordinating Officer of Trincomalee District and Superintendent of Police (Operations) for Trincomalee Richard Wijesekera died in the blast.
They are two of the most
senior officers to have been killed in the war which began on June 11. Wijeratne is
the highest ranking army
officer to be killed in this country in almost a decade of civil war.
Four other soldiers were reportedly in the vehicle during the blast. The army has identified two of them as CLI privates A. Prematilake and R.M. Kumarasinghe. The other two casualties are said to be the vehicle's driver and a radio operator.
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Pan-Medawachchiya be
tween Morawewa and Trincomalee, about 10 miles west of Trinco town. The
brigadier and SP had
attended a conference and together were travelling to check on some civilian matters in neighbouring village communities.
The explosion was likely to have been triggered from a remote control device, this being the reason why vehicles travelling ahead of the fatal jeep of the brigadier were not hit. All six inside died on the spot.
Richard Wijesekera, 41, took charge of Trincomalee's
police operations when the war with the LTTE broke out in June.
Brigadier Lucky Wijeratne, who commanded the Sri Lanka Light Infantry at one time, also possessedan indepth knowledge of Trincomalee. Having spent most of his time over the past 10 years in this eastern port city, Brigadier Wijeratne knew the area and understood its people very well, his colleagues said.
Wijeratne was responsible for planning and carrying out some of the major military offensives against the LTTE in the East.
3500 complaints to BASL About Disappearances
About 3,500 persons from various parts of the country have written to the Bar Association over the last one and a half months complaining that one or more of their family members had disappeared, a spokesman for the association said.
The complainants include persons from the North and East as well.
These persons had written to the association following a notice published in the newspapers by the Bar Association requesting any person whose family members had disappeared to write in along with an affidavit to the Human Rights Committee of the association setting out the facts and circumstances leading to their disappearance.
The spokesman said they
are in the process of listing
the complaints according to each province and would thereafter attempt to trace the missing persons by making inquiries from the various detention centres.
"We are also examining the legal aspect of the matter and are awaiting a response from the President with regard to our resolution requesting him to appoint an independent commission of inquiry to investigate the disappearance of persons from January 1, 1983 onwards' he said.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has so far referred to the Bar Association 700 of the 1500 petitions received by the Chief Justice Parinda Ranasinghe, from detainees of nine detention centres for purposes of interviewing the detainees and filing of affidavits in support of the petitions.
TIGERS DEMOLISHJAFFNA FORT
COLOMBO, Dec. 28-Tamil Tiger guerrillas are de
molishing a 300-year-old
Fort in the northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna to prevent the army from using it again.
A spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said that one section of wall around the starshaped fort built by Dutch colonial rulers had been destroyed by explosives.
This ancient fort has been the safest place for government forces in Jaffna and we want to destroy it to
prevent them from camping here in the future', he told a journalist during a visit there last week.
Tiger gunmen are guarding the empty fort which was vacated by the Sri Lankan army in September. Before that the Tigers had trapped 300-odd soldiers inside during a three-month siege. ha
Political souces said the fort had been important to the security forces, providing their only stronghold in Jaffna, 320 km (200 miles) north of Colombo, which

was otherwise controlled by the Tigers.
The security forces had not maintained a garrison there, however, because of daily mortar, rocket and small arms attacks from Ti
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ger bunkers around the fort:0 “We found it difficult to supply food and ammunition' to the camp. These had to be dropped by air, a military source said:
- Reuter.
Coup Convicts Flown to Colombo
Agroup of33Tamil separatist rebels involved in last year's coup attempt in the Maldive Islands were flown into Colombo on 20 December from Male.
Maldivian security officials who accompanied the group handed them over to the custody of Sri Lanka, police officers at Katunayaka airport, security sources disclosed.
They were later taken to a detention centre pending further arrangements, security officials said.
The 33 repatriates are part of a total of 68 Tamils, all of them members of the People's Liberation Organisation of Thamileelam (PLOT), who were captured when Indian forces helped crush the coup attempt in Male last year.
The return of the captives was arranged in negotiations between security au
thorities in Male and Colombo. The 33 repatriated , had been only marginally involved in the coup, according to official sources.
PLOT cadres are now, assisting the Sri Lankan security forces in operations against the LTTE in the northern sector. •ሩ
A Reuter i report states ; that:
The 68 members of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam were detained on a remote island in the Maldives archipelago after their sentencing for their part in the coup.
Twelve Tamil and four Maldive coup leaders were . given death sentences which were later commuted to life imprisonment by President Maumoon Abdul Gayaoom.
The remaining plotters were given jail terms ranging from 11 to 36 years.
A MILLION REFUGEES AWAIT REHABILITATION
The total number of refugees in the country belonging to all three communities mainly from the war-ravaged North and East which was 1,194,184 on September 30, this year has come down to 928,954 by December 19; a reduction of 265,230, a spokesman for the Rehabilitation Ministry. said on 21 December.
The total number of refugee camps too has come down from 726 in September to 714 in December, he added. The statistics relating to the distribution of refugee camps in the country on September 30, 1990, showed Jaffna having the highest number with 352.
The total number of persons housed in 352 camps in Jaffna, 32 camps in Mullaitivu, 46 camps in Mannar and 16 camps in Kilinochchi is 762,465. Batticaloa has 60 camps housing 144,070 and
another 78,091 are housec elsewhere in Batticaloa Anura dhapura has 53 camps sheltering 24,825, Trincomalee 36 camps sheltering 66,771, Vavuniya 32 housing 60,240, Amparai. 3 1 h ou sing 35 , 1 1 8, 2 Kurunegala 16 housing, 2,711, Puttalam 12 housing 10,641. Polonnaruwa has the least number with 10 camps having 4,587 while another 4,665 refugees are housed elsewhere, the spokesman said.
The latest statistics compiled on December 19 shows Jaffna still maintaining its earlier position with 352 camps, housing 355,000 persons. The number of camps in Mannar has increased to 46 camps housing 107,375 persons. In Mullaitivu the number of camps remained . the same with 32 camps
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housing 55,925 refugees, while camps in Kilinochchi too remained the same housing 44,050 persons. The number of camps in Batticaloa has dropped to 50 housing 61,144 persons while another 104,857 were housed outside.
The number of camps in Anura dhapura has increased to 62 from earlier 53. At present the 62 camps in Anuradhapura house 27,669 persons. In Trincomalee too the number of refugee camps reduced to 28 housing 28,728 persons with another 1,240 persons housed elsewhere.
Vavuniya scored the highest drop to be left with two camps housing 450 persons from earlier 32 camps with 60,240 persons. However, another 48,150 persons are reported to have been housed elsewhere in the district.
The rest of the refugee distribution according to latest statistics, are as fol
lows: Amparai 26 camps - 128,166 persons, Kurunegala 32 camps - 6,170 persons while another 2,245 housed elsewhere. Puttalam 54 camps (another increase from the earlier figures) housing 28,356 persons, while another 8,600 housed elsewhere.
Kalutara 4 camps housing 2,122 persons, Polonnaruwa 10 campshousing 4,853 persons while another 4,794 housed outside.
Refugees are also reported from Gampaha and Ratnapura, due to floods. Gampaha has 60,855 refugees while Ratnapura has 208 refugees. They are however, not housed in refugees camps.
The spokesman said the reduction in the total number of refugees was mainly due to most of those who took refuge in camps returning to their homes. The Department of Social Services continued to supply the remaining refugees with dry rations and other basic day to day needs, he added.
GOVT. INCAPABLE OF SOLVING
THE TAMIL PROBLEM' , ,
The unilateral declaration of ceasefire by the LTTE has put the Premadasa regime into a new crisis. However, this alone cannot lead to any solution as this government is totally incapable of giving any solution to the Tamil national problem. In fact, the Premadasa regime has openly dismantled even the semblance of a reform package, including provincial councils, inaugurated by the previous UNP regime, a press release by the Nava Samasamaja Party stated.
It further said: However, we demand that the government send relief to the people in the North and East immediately. Essential items such as food, medicine, fertilisers etc. should be made available in sufficient quantities, while health and education services should be normalised
with the least possible delay. On the other hand, we insist that the LTTE should extend its ceasefire to include all oppositional forces in the North and the East, including our Party, the Nava Samasamaja Party. LTTE made fascist style attacks and murdered our Tamil leader, Comrade A.K. Annamalai. Also, they attacked innocent Muslims and Sinhala villagers.
LTTE must stop such attacks forthwith and unite with all anti-government forces to build a mass movement to throw out this regime. Only then will it be possible to arrive at a solution to the national problem based on equality and preservation of human rights, autonomy for all people and the right of self determination of the Tamil speaking
people.
UNIVERSITY HOSTEL SET ON FIRE
Armed persons in the early hours of 2 January set fire to a building belonging to the Eastern University situated at Wandaramulai ab
out twelve miles north of Batticaloa, army and university sources said, yesterday. -
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sources as the men's hostel and built in 1982 was destroyed in the fire. However, investigations by the Army has revealed that the men responsible for this had removed everything in the building before the destruction began.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Dr. Sandanam and a section of the staff visited the university sources said. Dr. Sandanam yesterday informed the acting chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) about the destruction of the men’s hostel of the Eastern University.
The Eastern University was not functioning since the fighting broke out be
tween the Army and the LTTE on June 11 last year. Over 40,000 Tamils sought protection in the university, days after the fighting commenced but were chased out by armed gangs on September 30 last year.
Despite the troubles in the district, the university authorities took steps to conduct classes at, No. 50, New Road, Batticaloa beginning November 19 last year. A large number of Muslim students were transferred to the Dumbara campus to continue studies, sources said.
The destruction of the men's hostel has posed fresh problems to the authorities, sources claimed.
Euro-Parliament Calls For Independent Probe on Human Rights Abuses
The European Parliament unanimously passed a resolution calling upon the Sri Lankan Government to set up an independent Commission of Inquiry to probe disappearances and extrajudicial executions.
It also called on the Sri Lankan government to publish immediately a complete list of those held in detention camps, police stations and details of other forms of incarceration.
The resolution calls on the Sri Lankan government to uphold its commitment to allow a UN working group to visit Sri Lanka in February 1991 to investigate disappearances.
The following is the full text of the resolution. O Having regard to the statement of 19 October 1990 by the twelve Member states on Sri Lanka and noting their concern at human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. O Having regard to the statement of the President of Sri Lanka that the October 1990 aid package was an endorsement of his Government's policies and prog
ae. O Having regard to the European Parliament's resolution of July 1990 on Sri Lanka.
O Whereas numerous cases of disappearances and extrajudicial executions continue to be reported in Sri Lanka.
O Whereas the violence of the JVP contributed to a climate of brutality and repression. O Whereas the Sri Lanka Government has acknowledged that the JVP was suppressed by December 1989.
OWhereas renewed conflict by the LTTE in June 1990 has exacerbated problems in the North and East of Sri Lanka.
O Whereas about 1500 documented cases of disappearances and extrajudicial executions were delivered to the United Nations in November 1990 by members of the European parliament. OWhereas no lasting solution to the conflict will be found without protection of equal rights for all people in Sri Lanka irrespective of religion, caste, class, race or ethnic background.
1. Calls on the Sri Lankan Government to constitute an independent Commission of Enquiry into disappearances and extra judicial executions;
2. Calls on the Sri Lankan Government to publish immediately full and complete lists of those held in detention camps, police stations and other forms of incarceration.
3. Calls on the Sri Lankan Government to uphold its
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THE ILLUSORY PE
Rita Sebastian from Colomb
The unilateral declaration of an indefinite cessation of hostilities by the Tigers, took both government and the country by surprise. Although there were intense, behind the scenes lobbying, specially by the international community, to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table, the Tiger's surprise announcement, coming as it did, at the beginning of the new year, seemed to herald some hope to the country in general, and the war ravaged North-East region in particular.
That the government did respond positively, with a seven day 'suspension of offensive operations was to be expected. It would not have wanted to lose the moral advantage it had gained in the eyes of the international community, that it was the Tigers who had reneged on their commitment to the peace process, when in June 1990, they broke off a 13-month peace dialogue with the Sri Lankan Government and launched a fresh offensive in the North-East region.
President Ranasinghe Premadasa, bitterly criticised by the opposition for having carried on an year long dialogue with the Tigers, without making public any of the substantive issues discussed, invited all the registered political parties in the country to meet with him before the government responded to the LTTE ceasefire.
Although the main opposition Sri Lanka Freedom Party did not attend the meeting, SLFP President and leader of the opposition, Mrs Sirima Bandaranaike, together with a grouping of six other political parties communicated their response in a letter addresed to the President. One of the main conditions laid down was, that any further peace talks must be preceded by 'a declaration against the possession or use of arms by persons other than those authorised by law'. It was a condition incorporated into the Government's first response to the Tigers.
The fragile truce showed no signs of holding even in the very first days, as both sides charged and countercharged each other of violations. By the time the seven days lapsed, the Government had chalked up 34 violations by government forces to the 39 violations by the Tigers. The Government-listed violations ranged, from building of fresh bunkers and directing mortar and small arms fire at army camps, by the Tigers. The Tigers counter-charged with allegations of troops moving out of camps and firing at Tiger positions, rape of women in refugee camps and abductions. The
charges itself wer truce would noth
On the evening ment’s seven-day political parties Ranasinghe Prem time. Most of the had expressed do ness of the LTTE a ruse by the Ti order to regroup major onslaugh forces. It was le Tamil United Libe the Tiger cause, ci tion of a cessatio “unilateral, uncon cified an indefinit second meeting, th ing to those who further extend another week givi re-think their opt persuaded at least ment halfway.
So it took most surprise when on ernment communi the ceasefire woul was significant th made it conditiona cipation of LTTE Prabhakaran in ar would lead to any hostilities. The go point that since wing that decided it was the military involved in negotia
It is strange th keep reiterating, i. from London, th ceasefire is still efi appeals to the Gov positively to resur logue, the leadersh the Government's to participate in Another condition Lankan governmel parties would be p tions. A condition Tigers who have cl the sole represent, people and theref for resolving the i tween them and th
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the ceasefire by ng the Tigers time to ions and perhaps be to meet the Govern
political parties by January 12, a Govque announced that d not be extended. It at the Government l that only the partiSupremo Vellupillai ly future peace talks further cessation of vernment made the it was the military issues on the ground wing that should be ations. at while the Tigers n statements issued at their unilateral ective and repeated ernment to respond ming the peace diaip has not reacted to call to Prabhakaran any such dialogue. laid down by the Sri nt is that all political arty to the negotiaunacceptable to the aimed that they are atives of the Tamil ore any agreement issue should be bele Government. gers are forgetting is
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the Government. One constituency has pointed out that the destruction and devastation in the North-East region is so extensive that only a humane response can relieve the anguish and untold sufferings of the civilian population. The hawkish constituency however feels that the LTTE has been militarily marginalised and politically alienated, to some extent at least from the civilian population in the East and a ceasefire isto enable them to consoli
date and regroup without any signifi
cant peace dividends. The question that is still being asked is why the Tigers, always prone to hawkish rhetoric declared the ceasefire.
Political analysts feel there were several reasons. A need to redeem : themselves in the eyes of the interna
tional community, the crack-down on
the LTTE in Tamil Nadu and not least, a disarray of their fighting force. Whatever the reasons, if the Tigers are genuine in resolving the Tamil question no stone must be left unturned in achieving a durable political solution.
There are of course formidable procedural difficulties to be overcome in getting back to the negotiating table. And then of course where would the venue be for future negotiations. The Tigers coming to Colombo is remote.
i And a Government-Opposition delega
tion going to Jaffna is also unrealistic. In the circumstances the Government will have to consider a third country like it did at Thimpu.
But one important factor in the whole process will be the attitude of the Sri Lankan security forces. No civilian President can ignore the concerns of an army which has lost over a thousand men and several thousand injured, in a country besieged by two insurrections in the last decade. Given the mood in the country now with the Army Commander, Lt. General Hamilton Wanasinghe quoted as having told a Sunday newspaper last week that the Tigers would be eliminated in the next six months, tomorrow is as unpredictable as today.
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4. Calls upon the Member
states to implement adequ
ate mechanisms to indicate progress on human rights
and proper law and order before further aid packages are agreed.
5. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Foreign Ministers meeting in political cooperation and to the Sri Lankan Government.
400,000 Workers to go on Strike
About 400,000 workers in the plantations sector will come out on a one day token strike on January 21 in protest against the failure by the management of plantations to extend to the plantation workers the Rs. 300 wage increase recommended by government to the public sector.
These workers comprise 200,000 workers who are members of the Joint Plantation Trade Union Committee (JPTUC) while the rest will comprise workers sympathetic with the demand for the wage increase of Rs. 300.
Mr. S. Nadesan, the convener of the JPTUC said
crease granted to the public sector early last year was denied the estate workers. And now even the Rs. 300/- wage increase granted to the public sector had not been paid to the estate workers.
The JPTUC had written to the Ministers of Finance, Plantation Industries and Labour but no action had been taken to date although the letters had been acknowledged, Mr. Nadesan claimed.
The JPTUC had also requested a meeting with two of the major Plantation Sector Trade Unions the Lanka Jathika Estate Workers Union and the Ceylon Workers Congress to discuss the wage increase.
Judge Threatened in Case
Justice (Dr.) Ranjith Amerasinghe said on 7 January while presiding at the hearing of a fundamental rights application in the Supreme Court that a post card containing a menacing statement was received by him on December 7 last year.
Justice Amerasinghe directed the Registrar, Supreme Court, to send a copy of the post card together with a copy of Monday's proceedings to the Inspector-General of Police and the Secretary, Ministry of Defence, for investigation and very early report.
Justice Amerasinghe made the following statement from the Bench:
"On December 7, 1990 a post card containing a menacing statement addressed to me personally was received by me in my Chambers. The writer appears to have been disturbed by the fact that a Police officer had been asked to show cause why he should not be punished for Contempt of Court.
Against Police Officer
“Every private communication to a Judge for the purpose of influencing his decision upon a matter publicly before him is necessarily calculated to divert the course of justice and deserves reproof and censure as a high Contempt of Court. If we are to do what men and women of goodwill who respect the rule of law want us to do, the power they have vested in us to ensure that we who are their judges are free from peril and foul horror real or pretended, express or veiled, ought to be effectively exercised'. Justice Amerasinghe observed.
He further said: "The post card in question causes me no personal anxiety and induces no prejudice in my mind. However, since I am anxious to ensure that it may not even be mistakenly supposed that I was in any way influenced, let the rule issued for Contempt of Court and the petitioner's application be both listed before any bench of which I am

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not a member.
The petitioner in this application Seetha Weerakoon an Advanced Level student who is detained at the Kandy Remand Prison alleged that she had been wrongfully arrested and detained in violation of her constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights.
The respondents to the application ar e OIC Gallage der a Police IP Mahendra Meepage, Army Commander Lt. General Hamilton Wanasinghe, IGP Ernest Perera, Secretary Ministry of Defence, General Cyril Ranatunge, Superintendent Remand Prison, Kandy and the AttorneyGeneral.
When the matter was taken up for consideration by court on November 16, 1990, counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Kalyananda Tiran agama complained that the officer in charge of the Galagedera Police Station IP Mahendra Meepage had requested the father of the petitioner to withdraw the fundamental rights application and that failure to do so might result in certain unfavourable consequences. Counsel undertook to file on
November 29, 1990 an affidavit in support of his complaint.
A copy of the proceedings in court on November 16, 1990 together with a copy of the letter of the petitioner's mother which was submitted to court by Mr. Tiranagama were ordered by Court to be transmitted by the Registrar of the Supreme Court to the InspectorGeneral of Police for his attention and such action as he may deem to be appropriate in the circumstances.
On November 29, 1990 Mr. Tiranagama submitted affidavits from the mother of the petitioner and another person in support of the complaint he had made on November 16.
On December 6, 1990 the Registrar of the Supreme Court was directed by the Court to issue a rule in terms of the draft submitted by the Attorney-General reduiring Edmond Mahendra Meepage, Officer in charge Galagedera Police Station, to appear before Court on January 7, 1991 and show cause why he should not be punished for the offence of Contempt of the Supreme Court.
5000 Soldiers to North Every Six Weeks
Plantation Industries Minister and State Minister for Defence, Ramjan Wijeratine recently revealed that the government was training and despatching to the North 5000 soldiers once in every six weeks to supplement troops fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Speaking at the Executive Committee meeting of the UNP at Siri Kotha, the minister explained that clearing the North would take "a little time' because of the vast extents of jungle in the region. When travelling in a helicopter one could see miles and miles of dense jungle. The Tigers had built bunkers and were hiding in those wilds. They were getting ready to attack the security forces. The first task was to destroy the LTTE bunkers. The military thrust was continuing in Vavuniya, Kilinochchi and Jaffna.
Mr. Wijeratne said that the LTTE should be destroyed without harming innocent people. This was not a war against the Tamils. Jaffna could be flattened but the government was responsible for the security of the people. There cannot be such mass killings. Once the North was captured more troops would be required to consolidate the region and provide security to the people.
He added that opposition charges of inadequate arms, ammunition and equipment on the side of forces were baseless. Rs. 100 million had been set aside for defence. That was 18 per cent of the budget.
The minister observed that so far about 450 security personnel had been killed and 1200 injured in the fighting. They were all young people. The forces were courageous and they were forging ahead.

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"Sufferings in the E motivated LTTE Ceas
Sathasivam Krishnakumar better known as Kittu, onetime Jal the LTTE now domiciled in London, gave this telephone i Jeyaraj for the Canadian Tamil newspaper 'Senthamarai'.
"The security of our people and the integrity of our territory uvill be nonnegotiable in talks with the Sri Lankan government, Kittu has said in an interview with D.B.S. Jeyaraj for the *Senthamarai', a Tamil newspaper published in Canada.
"The right to maintain a Tamil army is the only necessity for the safety of our people. This army can be a section of the forces or an auxiliary or an armed police unit. We are not concerned about the name, but it is necessary to have an armed Tamil force to ensure the safety of our people.
"We cannot accept the bifurcation of Thamil Eelam uvhich is nouv described as the North East.
'We have made it clear to those who have attempted to mediate between us and the Government that these tuvo matters are strictly non-negotiable', said Kittu.
The interview follows:
"D.B.S.J.: On what basis will your organization hold talks with the government?
Kittu: Tamil people have the basic right of self-determination to decide their future. They have a sovereignty. We are observing the changes that are taking place in the international area.
The European countries are coming together. But in the Soviet Union it is different. The tendency to demand self-rule can be seen there. Federalism has improved into a system of confederation. In Canada the Meech Lake accord has failed and Quebec prefers a system of sovereignty association.
One thing becomes clear from all this. That those countries, although they like to find greater accord among themselves, do not want to lose their identity and the right of selfdetermination.
Constitutions are changing to suit the aspirations of the people. This can be seen taking place in the world today.
The people of Tamil Eelam also need a form of rule based on the right of self-determination which would recognize our distinct political identity and ensure self-rule. (Thanaadchi).
Although the safety and the distinct political identity of our people cannot be compromised we can discuss the kind of political powers which are required without impinging upon our right of self-determination.
The substance of the discussions has
to be about the forr of this political pow
Nothing should during these talks. D. B. S.J. : What Minister R. Wijerat there can be talks ( down? i Kittu: We will ne' are not ones who lo we mentally ill. Th lay down our arms: we took up arms They won't express consider this.
We have the resp the safety of our p And then it would a to demean us by sh atists. This is a pro separate nations. A two different count
D.B.S.J.: What a the unilateral dec fire?
Kittu : It was the of the Eastern pro the plight of the compelled us to tak
Their predicamer They have been c their villages, and refugees.
The floods have there is no food, rel reach them.
Many are even liv There is no medicir No foreign aid givir organizations are a conditions nor are relief work. Two people have died th medical attention a hundred and five ol and children. It is d ple die as a direct r here they are dyin situation. It is a di these people.
We want to show to the world and wi
D.B.S.J.: If all this it necessary for th Ceed?
Kittu : Up to not government has no has accepted the c know whether they even if they accept how long they will
For 40 years ther by various governm

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about Defence he's statement that inly if arms are laid
fer accept that. We ve weapons nor are ose who ask us to should find out why in the first place.
such views if they
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plight of the people vince particularly, Tamil there that e this decision. nt is most pitiable. hased away from are suffering as
wreaked havoc, lief supplies do not
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ng or social service lowed to see their they allowed to do hundred and one Lere due to lack of nd starvation. One these are women ifferent when peoesult of a war. But g because of this uty by us to help
r their predicament ll provide them aid. s is to be done isn't e ceasefire to suc
w (2nd) Sri Lanka t announced that it easefire. We do not will accept it, and it, we do not know let it last.
e has been cheating ents in power. It is
not clear whether they will come for talks. Even if they come we do not know whether they will allow any good, to come out of it. But it is the duty of the movement to use any opportunity that it may get to remove the suffering of the people. That is why we have begun this effort. We have given an opportunity to the government to settle the problem through peaceful means. We don't know whether they will accept our offer but it is our duty to create an opportunity for peace.
D.B.S.J.: if that is so what have yout got to say about the opinion that you did not make use of the opportunity before the June 11 War?
Kittu: We will not allow at any stage, anyone to deprive us of our right in the guise of peace. What will those who express this opinion have to say about the fact that 35 army camps were put up in Trincomalee following the withdrawal of the IPKF
D.B.S.J.: What do you have to say to those who ask why you should not give up arms for good if you are concerned with the suffering of the people?
Kittu : I would ask such people whether anything called the Tamil nation would remain in the country if we give up our armed struggle?
D.B.S.J.: The LTTE said earlier that there will be a four day ceasefire for the New Year. Why have you now declared an indefinite ceasefire?
Kittu : Earlier we had decided to have a brief ceasefire for the New Year. But later it was felt that it was necessary to have a long ceasefire in view of the sufferings of the people in the East. Now even when we have asked for an indefinite one the government has requested three days to make its reSpOnse.
Under these circumstances it was thought that a ceasefire for three or four days would not be practicable. We also thought that the government could agree to an indefinite one if a brief ceasefire was acceptable to them.
D.B.S.J.: Once you said that some countries and independent organizations stressed the need for talkS but Prabhakaran at that time had said that the time was "not ripe'. Do you now feel that the time is ripe for talks?
Kittu: Prabhakaran did not use those words. But he expressed his opinion to the effect that the conditions had not arisen to make the Sri Lanka government feel the need for negotiations.
Even now we do not believe that the government will come for real negotiations. But we are trying. If the government ignores negotiations then the truth that they are warmongers will be known to the world.
D.B.S.J.: Did international pressures, the arrests in Tamilnadu and the
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TRAVAILS OF WAR... TWO
The following are extracts from a letter received from a Catholic Sister in Jaffna: The war continues in the north with aerial bombing, helicopter shooting and gunboat shelling. Besides, we are being strangled to death by government's ban on food, medicine and fuel. Since the Mankulam attack, the government has refused permission to the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) and other NGOs to take medicines to Jaffna. Sister Jane Mary of Holy Family Convent, Jaffna, was bitten by a dog, taken to ICRC for treatment, but ICRC did not treat her since they said they were here to attend to only victims of the war. So, Sr. Mary died of tetanus. This is only one case. There are hundreds of such
C3SeS.
Is there any international pressure that can be placed on the SL. Government to lift the ban on food and medicine? Because of the indefinite curfew, the ship that brought food returned to Colombo three times without unloading. Even in a war, the government must protect its citizens which is not the case with us. Innocent civilians are being killed in hundreds by indiscriminate aerial bombing. Only 4 LTTE men died during the last six months, and only one camp destroyed by bombing operations. But more than one thousand houses have been destroyed in Jaffna alone.
This is our life in the north. Please pray for us. 15.12.90 (The author's name and address is withheld for obvious reasons - Editor).
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The following extracts from another letter dated 27 December 1990 received from a person who had been in the UK on a visit and returned to Sri Lanka in early DeCerber:
“. . . . Remittances and letters to the north have to be sent through doctors and patients handled by the ICRC. In my case it is through the kind courtesy of our mutual friend, Dr. . . . . We also had quite a number fleeing from the north being unable to bear the indiscriminate air bombing and firing from helicopters and shells and rockets from the sea and land. Spiralling prices of scarce consumer items in a situation where there is no money available (banks are not functioning; salaries and pensions have not been paid since June) have added to their woes. Many people have come to Colombo and crowd the telex and telephone booths to contact their dear ones living abroad while staying in lodges' paying exhorbitant rents. While it is so crowded in the city, the youngsters gossiping in front of eating houses are also rounded up by the police and released after
paying up a stated su of course one is prej usual three to checking. . . .
Travel cost from J. doubt one has to h; days to : get the vis Tigers after intensi visas are being issue or job-related reason pay the demanded v and kind which is v than the amount I pa Commission when I to come over there.
It looks as if this for years in the pro north will be flattene swept away either t south of the island situation for the Tan the north or east, is b name the east is unc losses to forces from tinue at regular inte means surprise ch camps and young Ta up, taken away and to the others to rul jungles. Recent flo affected the people. floods have taken a h lives.
Tellipalai (in Jaffna are deserted being c air base and K.K.S. H by the forces. The continue to shell whi continues indiscrimir fall of Mankulam, t have their control git the forces at Elephan way is demolished st travel is via Poonery considerable risk an and continuous cur north and east obviol of essential supplies is unconcerned. Hos stations in the nort troyed and no atten repair or replace t damaged or destroy during JVP times w. night. Intended pu Tigers only affects certainly not the generators etc for th Cultivation, indust tions, transport, liqu essentials continue affected. It's really state of affairs with behalf of the people little voices go unhe You know Mr. . . old) and his daught came to the UK b started to attend h duation; they hav asking whether the

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var will continue ess of which the and the civilians India or to the or by death. The ils, be they from leak. Although in ler control, many landmines conrvals; retaliation ecks of refugee mils are rounded shot. This has led n away into the ods have badly Starvation and heavy toll of their "
) and its environs lose to the Palali arbour controlled boys' in bunkers le aerial bombing lately...With the he boys seem to ving headache for tPass. The causethat the limited in and jungles at d cost. Indefinite fews in both the isly affect the flow of which the state pitals and power h have been deshpts are made to hem while those red in the south ere repaired overnishment of the the civilians and LTTE who have eir own purposes. ries, communicaidity and above all to be severely a continuing sad no one to speak on - their agonising ard.
(who is 94 years 2r Mrs. . . . – both afore the fighting s grandson's grawritten to me y could return as
the old man and his daughter find unable to bear the winter there....In view of the drug shortage and lack of hospital facilities the items that are permitted to move there, it is best for the old to be away at this time. My doctor friends have repeatedly stressed the unreasonableness of the JOC (Joint Operations Command - Army) - every time some of their men are killed by the Tigers, vengeance in the form of cutting off supply of medicine and food to the north is added to the many other unreasonable restrictions.
Another sad turn within our own people - some of the other Tamil groups are using the present occasion to settle old scores and take revenge from the Tigers and are operating together with the security forces in the east and the Vavuniya areas. All of them have brought disaster to the people. What they want now is peace so that they can pick up the pieces and live normally; they don't want anything else.
There is so much that is happening here about which those outside will not know. They must be engulfed in the Gulf crisis and other international affairs. ...And of course the many Arangetrams, recitals, dances and the many social occasions in which our people in the UK seem to be very much engaged. . . .
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NEWS ROUND-UP
OTHE GOVERNMENT and the Opposition have agreed on the need for the appointment of a "Nominations Commission' which will be responsible for recommending suitable appointees to all high level public service posts. The method of appointment will be that the Commission will submit a list of suitable names and the number to be appointed from which the President will choose the officer or officers concerned. The proposal to appoint a Nomination Commission was recommended by the Presidential Commission on Youth Unrest to depoliticise the public service at top level. O THE SRI LANKA NARCOTICS Bureau has recently bared a massive multi-million rupees heroin and gold smuggling racket between India and Sri Lanka and arrested a 12 member ring. The latest detection was made when one of the couriers who had been operating from 1987 was arrested. The suspect had spelled out details of the operation which had "terrorist' connection. Gold had been smuggled into Colombo from the Middle East and Singapore, and in turn smuggled into India where the price of gold was high. The same couriers were used to smuggle large quantities of heroin to Jaffna by boat and Colombo by air. The suspected courier had been nabbed by customs at the Katunayake airport trying to smuggle Rs. 400,000 worth of gold to India.
OTENS OF THOUSANDS of Tamils were fleeing from North-East Sri Lanka due to atrocities committed by the LTTE which was making efforts to incite anti-Tamil riots and clashes in Colombo so that those Tamils who had gone to Colombo would go back to their homes. The LTTE was trying not only to prevent the people from the north, but also had already announced that it would get all Tamils now living in the south back to the north. A large number of Tamils were aware of the LTTE move and many of them were trying to sell off whatever belongings they had and leave the country, claimed Douglas Devananda, the leader of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party which is now supporting the Government in its war effort against the LTTE. O SEVEN COMMANDOS belonging to the Special Task Force were killed in a Tiger ambush at Panama on the Panama-Kotuvil road when a contingent of STF personnel were on routine patrol. According to Defence Ministry sources five LTTE men were killed when they attacked an army patrol in the Pachanoor village in the Muttur district of Trincomalee. OTWENTYSEVEN lecturers of the Moratuwa university, who have been sent abroad on scholarships for specialised training, had either not returned or left the university's service on their return, according to a report of the Auditor General.
O OVER 500 REFUGEE families from Puthukudiyiruppu, Kovillady, Palampoddur, Pathmedu and Pokunari villages who have been occupying the buildings and premises of the Tamapalakamam Tamil Maha Vidyalalaya and a section of the rural hospital have expressed reluctance to return to their homes because of the fear of being attacked by Muslim homeguards'. O A JVP LEADER high on the wanted list, Chandradasa Wijemanna alias Neviraja - a deserter from the Sri Lanka Navy - was recently arrested at Matugam by the police. He is alleged to have been involved in several attacks - attack on the army cantonment at Panagoda, Police Field Force at Bambalapitiya, the daylight robbery at the Peoples Bank Branch at Wellawatte in Colombo and raids on the Moratumulla, Padukka and Kirulapone police stations. ONNE SOLDIERS were killed and eight others injured in a Tiger landmine attack on two vehicles in which they were travelling followed by shooting at close range on 17 December at Meeyankulam on the Punnani-Valaichenai road. In a separate incident on the same day the Special Task Force claimed that it killed three alleged Tigers who attempted to attack STF personnel at Periyakalappu near Akkaraipattu.
O THE COURT OF APPEAL in Colombo recently re-issued notice on the Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Lt.Gen. Hamilton Wanasinghe and the Attorney General on a Habeas Corpus application by Mrs. Chitralekha of New Chetty Street in Colombo who had said in her application that her husband S. Muthiah Hari was removed from their home by a group of men in army uniform and when inquiries were made from the army camp at Battaramullla, the authorities had denied arrest and detention of her husband. All police stations in the area had failed to give any information regarding her husband whom she had not seen since the day of his abduction. When the case was called on December 14, the Army Commander and the Attorney General had not responded.
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December and claimed to have killed at least 20 persons including 15 alleged women cadres of the LTTE. The death of Major Sundari, a leader of the LTTE's women section, has been confirmed by the LTTE. In a separate incident about five miles north of Mullaitivu helicopter gunships attacked and reportedly sank five boats into which supplies were being unloaded from a bigger craft. It was claimed that all those who were in the boats were also killed. O UNIDENTIFIED armed persons opened fire on the residence of TELO leader in Batticaloa town immediately killing the leader identified as David, his wife, another family friend and critically wounding the son. O JAYANTHA SAMARADIVAKARA, a youth alleged to be a JVP student leader, who had led protest campaigns and school strikes in the Matugama area during the height of the JVP's violent, campaign, was believed to have been killed in a Navy attack at Pantiya, Matugama in 1988 was recently arrested at Nugegoda.
O AT LEAST 100 persons were injured when police used violence to disperse an anti-government picket and "Satiyagraha' organised by the United Socialist Alliance in Kandy recently. The organisers stated that the police used unprovoked and unnecessary force and violence to break up a group of peaceful placard carrying demonstrators who settled down opposite the Dalada Maligawa Buddhist temple to perform the satiyagraha. The action was in protest against the high cost of living, abuse of human rights and political victimisation by the government. Member of Parliament Athauda Seneviratne complained in parliament that several participants including the LSSP leader, Bernard Soysa and Secretary of the CP, K.P. Silva and Secretary of the USA, Raja Collure were beaten up by a group of around 300 policemen.
O THE GOVERNMENT claimed that a Navy Davora class fast attack craft on patrol off the coast near Mathagal in the Kankesanthurai sector detected a fibreglass dinghy allegedly ferrying supplies to the LTTE opened fire destroying the dinghy and killing three men on 18 December. O MR. S.W.B. WADUGODAPITIYA, the Commissioner appointed to investigate the Mossad involvement in Sri Lankan affairs has returned from Canada with the testimony of Victor Ostrovsky, the ex-Mossad agent and author of the book, "By Way of Deception - the Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Agent'.
O THE LTTE has claimed that it lost 53 of its cadres including fourteen women when they attacked and overran the Mankulam Army Camp in late December last year. It also published pictures of the arms and ammunition captured from government forces when the Camp fell.
O FOLLOWING the landmine attack on 19 December in which the Trincomalee Army Commander and a Superintendent of Police were killed, government forces backed by air cover launched simultaneous attacks on LTTE positions in the Trincomalee district. A curfew was imposed from midday on 20 December in the southern part of Batticaloa district and troops began a search and destroy operation. Nearby jungles were subjected to air attack. The government claimed that about 30 LTTE men attempting to escape in five boats from bases under attack by security forces were killed when the boats were attacked and destroyed by helicopter gunships. At a press conference in Colombo on 21 December, State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne said that security forces had begun an all-out drive against the LTTE in Batticaloa, Amparai, Vavuniya and Mullaitivu districts where a 24 hour curfew had been imposed.
O FOUR SOLDIERS were killed and one injured on 22 December in a Tiger attack at Kondaachchi in Mannar. The soldiers were on routine clearing patrol when they were ambushed.
O THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMED that nine soldiers were killed and twentysix more were wounded and seventeen persons allegedly belonging to the LTTE were killed in battles at Tellipalai in Jaffna on 22 December. It was reported that the Tellipalai operation was conducted with air support to eliminate three LTTE bases, but the LTTE cadres had fought back with machine-guns, five-zero guns and grenades restricting the advance movement of the troops.
O THE ADDITIONAL Residential Project Manager of Mahaveli System L., Capt. Aberatne Banda Pussella was shot dead allegedly by LTTE cadres at Halambawea in the Padaviya-Weli Oya settlement area on 22 December. The Captain, a volunteer of the Gemunu Watch Regiment was driving his official car when the attackers opened fire with automatics.
O TIGERS ON 28 DECEMBER ambushed a truck proceeding to Amparai to collect supplies for the Bakmitiyawa army camp killing ten and wounding two. The dead were identified as six soldiers, one policeman and three civilians.

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O THE EDUCATION AUTHORITIES in Jaffna have informed the Department of Education in Colombo that the LTTE had agreed to the proposal of holding special examinations for the GCE ordinary and advanced level examinations in the north-east. Normally the examinations are held simultaneously in the whole of the island but they could not be held in the north-east last year due to the fighting between government forces and the LTTE.
O WHILE THE ARMY with air support continued its operations in the Batticaloa district, Tigers struck back on 24 December in the Anuradhapura-Trincomalee sector killing at least nineteen soldiers and three civilian women. The Tigers activated a landmine under the truck in which the soldiers were travelling along the Horawaptana-Aluthoya road. Weapons, ammunition and communications equipment belonging to the soldiers were removed by the Tigers who escaped before reinforcements arrived. In the Batticaloa district the troops continued their operations backed by armoured vehicles and airsupport in the Mandhur-Kokkaddicholai area. PLOTE cadres were reportedly helping the security forces. The government imposed a ban on fishing north of Mollikulam and south of Mannar as from 24 December. Meanwhile Tigers began a sustained attack on the Army Camp at Elephant Pass. On 23 December they attempted to ram into the camp two trailers packed with explosives. Soldiers from the camp spotted the trailers in time at a distance and opened fire on the loaded trailers which blew up along with its occupants. State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne told a press conference on 27 December that Tiger suicide squads had made three abortive attempts to attack the Elephant Pass Army Camp with explosive laden vehicles but were blasted before they could ram their way into the camp and a number of Tigers were believed to have been killed during these attempts. O SRI LANKA AND CHINA recently signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement in Colombo under which China would provide an interest free loan of approximately Rs. 385 million during the period 1991 to 1995. The money would be used to finance projects to be mutually agreed. The loan would be repaid in equal instalments over ten years after an initial grace period often years.
O THE HEALTH MINISTRY has offered an incentive of Rs. 10,000in addition to their normal salary - to all surgeons, specialists and anaesthetists who would serve in government hospitals in the North-East on a voluntary basis. O ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT of Police T. Jeyakumar, a brother of the ruling party MP for Vavuniya, Mrs. Pulendran, and Superintendent of Police Gopalakrishnan who were abducted by LTTE cadres soon after fighting broke out in June are reportedly being held in a Tiger detention camp in the north. The information comes from former detainee of the same camp who was subsequently released. O TWO LEADERS OF TELO (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation), G. Karunakaran and N. Sri Kanth have called upon the Indian Government to release 400 of their men detained in a recent crackdown against Tamil militants by the Tamil Nadu police. They met the Deputy High Commissioner for India in Colombo on 26 December and handed over a memorandum requesting the release and deportation of their men to Sri Lanka. Mr. Sri Kanth said that the arrested men included the TELO leader A. Selvam and two central committee members.
O A MARRIED WOMAN returning from Saudi Arabia and on her way from Colombo to Jaffna was stopped for questioning by some unknown gangsters at Vavuniya town. She had returned to Sri lanka where her children are and had with her cash in Sri Lankan currency worth rupees one lakh inside her purse. This cash was taken away by the gangsters and the woman was asked to go without anything. She was on her way to her native village of Kopay. O FIVE TAMILS including women and children were reported to have been hacked to death in the heart of the Trincomalee town near Samadhu Pillaiyar Temple. Their bodies were burnt on heaps of old tyres. The report states that the Sinhala Army committed this crime. This happened on the 18th December. O SRI LANKAN AIR FORCE planes bombed Pallai Railway Station and the market areas on the 22nd of December. One person sustained injuries and many buildings were damaged. The person injured is S. Shanmugathas aged 50. O A TODDY TAPPER named Swakim aged 45, father of six children was cut to death by the Sri Lankan Armv 'rrs on 22nd
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December when he went to Karampon from his house at Naranthanai to tap toddy.
His body was later recovered in the day by some of his relations. His own knife used for the toddy tapping was found blood stained by the side of his dead body suggesting that his own knife had been used to cut him.
O ARTILLERY SHELLS from the Vavuniya Army Camp exploded at Pampaimadu junction. Many people including small children were injured. This occurred on 21st December. A young woman named Suthagar Punithamalar (24) and her daughter Kirija (3) have been admitted to the Jaffna Hospital with serious injuries. O REPORTS FROM VALACHCHENA state that nine Tamils were hacked to death at Valaichchenai by Muslim Homeguards. Three of the dead have been identified. They are Nallathamby Kandasamy aged 37, father of five children, Arumugam Nadarasa aged 27 and Nallathamby Palaiah, father of one child. All these persons are from Valaichchenai. The others have not been identified.
O ON 22ND OF DECEMBER from early morning till afternoon, heavy artillery shells were fired from the Army Camp at Palaly towards the villages of Kadduvan, Varathalaivilan, Tellippalai, Sooduvilunthan and Kilanai in the Vali North Division. Hundreds of shells exploded in these areas and the whole of Wali North Division was affected. An old lady, 60 years of age died and two others were severely injured. The Thalavankaladdy Pillaiyar Kovil, the buildings of the Tellippalai M.P.C.S. and several dwelling houses were badly damaged on this account.
O AFP NEWS RELEASE states that bodies of 50 Tamil women were found shot and thrown along roadsides in two villages in the Batticaloa District. The Sri Lankan Government has, however, stated that these killings would be investigated.
O ON 15TH DECEMBER at about 5.00 p.m. two Sri Lankan war planes dropped two bombs at random in the Vaddukkoddai area. One bomb fell near the Adaikkalam Thoddam Kandasamy Kovil at Mavady, Vaddukkoddai. A woman T. Sivakumary aged 22 was badly injured in her leg and was admitted to the Jaffna hospital. One house was heavily damaged. The other bomb was dropped near the Serukkan junction in Naranthanai area where Selvanayagam aged 70 and Thangamma aged 69 were injured seriously and were taken to the Jaffna Hospital. Thangamma succumbed to her injuries on her way to the hospital.
O ON THE 16TH DECEMBER, at Kokkuthoduvai village in the Mullaitivu District, the Government Tamil Mixed School was bombed by the Sri Lankan Air Force Planes when the School was in session. Nine students were injured when the bombing occurred at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The school building was partly damaged. The dwelling house belonging to one Veluppilai Vadivelu situated nearby was completely destroyed.
O ON THE 16TH DECEMBER, At the Velanai junction two Sri Lankan War planes dropped many bombs. Many people were gathered in front of the MPCS shop building to purchase their food rations. Thevarajah Thanaledchumy and her daughter Thevarajah Brintha were killed on the spot. Another youth by the name of Manickam Kandeepan aged 13 was also killed on the spot. Many others were injured and they were taken to the hospital. In addition to these bombings, artillery shell attacks were aimed at the Velanai Village by the Karainagar Sri Lanka Navy and a young girl Rasiah Karthika was killed. The father of the dead girl was injured and he was later admitted to the Jaffna hospital.
O IT HAS BEEN reported that on the 17th December at Anthoniyarkulam in the village of Thathamalai in Batticaloa District, the Sri Lankan Army troops shot and killed five civilians who were with their cattle in the fields. The dead were V. Masillamany (20), N. Thiruchelvam (18), M. Uthayakumaran (20), and S. Ariyanayakam (18). The dead bodies were later removed by the villagers.
O REPORTS HAVE BEEN received that Mr. Jeganathan, Principal of the Kalkuda Maha Vidyalayam in Batticaloa District was arrested on the morning of 6th December on his way to the school by some unknown gangsters. Later he was shot dead and his body was found in the same place on the same day evening.
O INFORMATION HAS since been received to the effect that in the Eastern Province there is an acute shortage of essential food items and medicinal drugs. In many villages in the Batticaloa District, in view of the military operations, the refugees are mostly underfed and they are undergoing immense difficulties for want of the basic minimum necessities like food, clothing and sanitary facilities. Even ordinary drugs and medicines are not made available to the sick refugees. Further it has been reported that about sixty Tamils have died for want of food and medical attention from the month of June this year in the Batticaloa District.

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Crackdown on Tamil M
in Tamil Nadu
THE ALLEGED links between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have become
the latest basis for a continuing crack
down against militants belonging to all Sri Lankan Tamil groups in the southerry Wyday state of Tamil Nadu.
Prime Minister, Chandra Shekar recently told the Indian parliament that confidential information given to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister had not only reached the LTTE in Madras but also in Jaffna in Sri Lanka. He warned the CM not to go on challenging the Centre like he had been doing lately. "Gone are the days when the central government was run from Madras', the PM said. Assuring that his government would “think a hundred times” before resorting to Article 356 of the Constitution to dismiss the state government, the PM said that he had given no directives to the CM but had shared with the state government the information the Centre had, but the information had been passed.
* There was not only a nexus between the ULFA and the LTTE, but the former actually had six centres in Tamil Nadu. Two ULFA activists had been arrested from a hospital in the state and they had given very "disturbing’ information. The situation in the state had become really serious, and Tamil Nadu had become a market of AK47 rifles for insurgents from various parts of the country, the PM told parliament.
Rejecting the allegations about the links between the LTTE, ULFA and his DMK-led government providing assistance to the two groups as an "imaginary web being spun to dismiss 'the duly-elected government', M. Karunanidhi told a press conference in Madras on January 9 that even assuming that there were links between the SLTTE and ULFA, it was for the Centre ito detect in time and take appropriate action. He accused the Congress and * AIADMK with initiating the propaganda deliberately with political motives. He said that people from the North-East of the country including Assam had been coming to Vellore in Tamil Nadu for medical treatment in the Christian Medical Hospital there. If some of these people belonged to the ULFA, how could the state government be held responsible, the CM asked. He denied that the Centre or the Assam State Government had informed the Tamil Nadu Government about the presence of ULFA activists in the state.
... In recent weeks, hundred of Sri Lankan Tamils have been rounded up
and detained in Tal a sustained campa dhi's Congress(I) ai
led AIADMK and s 'an media about t
between DMK-led s Chief Minister M. the LTTE accompar the central governn be forced to dissolv ment on the prete law and order situa
Navy Seize
Over 70 boats re Sri Lankan Tami pounded in the las Indian Navy. The ing for the Tan according to info here.
The impounding lows the strength along the coast af the State Governn tre on checking m. Tamil Nadu.
As part of the pa this purpose it boats illegally use cross the sea wou by the Navy and
Information on the boats as also v used by militant fugees is not still
Due to rough wi seas and crack along the coast, fugees from the almost ground to cember 25. Howe 30, 11 families of ing of 59 member pattinam near Pu
The State Gove allocated Rs. 18 ch relief and accom refugees, the tot 117,365.
The following a many reports con tions against the ment and Tamil m.
År “If terrorism i mir is a legacy government at the terrorism in Tamil work of the Nation Minister of Tamil a White Paper on activities of the LT BJP President L. 8.12.90).

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ilitants
hil Nadu following gn by Rajiv Gand the Jayalalithaections of the Indi
he alleged nexus .
ate government of Karunanidhi and ied by threats that ent at Delhi might the state governit of "deteriorating tion in the state'.
S 70 boats
portedly used by ls have been imt few days by the boats were headmil Nadu coast, mation reaching
of the boats foll2ning of vigilance ter talks between ment and the Centilitant activity in
ckage evolved for was agreed that d by the Tamils to tld be impounded Coast Guard.
the contents of hether they were s or to ferry reavailable. 2ather in the high lown operations
the arrival of re- .
sland nation has a halt since Dever, on December refugees consists reached Gopaladukottai. rnment has so far ores for providing modation to the al number being
'e some among the erning the accusaDMK state governilitant activity:
Punjab and Kashof the Congress(I) Centre, the rise of Nadu is entirely the al Front'. The Chief
adu should submit .
the presence and TE in the state, said C. Advani. (Hindu,
Y Tiruchi, Nov. 30: Ten LTTE militants in the 20-25 age group surrendered to the police at Thillainagar after nearly a 10 hour drama of suspense and tension. Acting on orders from Madras, police laid siege to the house in which the militants were camping. The militants were taken by surprise and when Pulavar Kasi Aanandan, a poet who was their guest came down from upstairs where the men were sleeping, he was quickly secured. After several hours of refusal and threats to swallow cyanide if the police tried to arrest them, tine militants came dowm and surrendered. Some of them had injuries apparently from clashes with , the Sri Lankan Army. They were taken to the Woriyur police station. (Hindu).
dr Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has decided to take firm action against the LTTE and close down all LTTE offices in the state of Tamil Nadu. The Indian Navy and the Police would be ordered to keep a surveillance of militant activities in coastal areas. (All India Radio).
Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi who met Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar on December 3 expressed confidence that the Union government would help the state government in the execution of its future plans to contain activities of Tamil militants. He said that Lankan groups in the state had been armed with superior weapons like AK47s. The State Government had recovered about 100 AK47 rifles from an "Indian Government training camp for militants'. At the instance of his State Government, three Indian Navy ships had been deployed in the region. Dur
ing the regime of M.G. Ramachandran,
there were 31 LTTE camps in Tamil Nadu. He accused MGR of donating Rs. 4 crores (Rs.400 million) to the LTTE in 1987 for the purchase of weapons. Quoting from the official journal of Jayalalitha's AIADMK calling her party workers to support the LTTE, the CM charged those who were accusing his administration of being soft towards the LTTE of themselves encouraging it. (Hindu).
År Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, Nagendra Nath Jha dismissed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's claim that 31 camps were established in Tamil Nadu for the training of LTTE cadres during the former regime of AIADMK under the late M.G. Ramachandran. (Sunday Times, (Colombo), 16.12.90).
The Indian Government pledged that New Delhi would not allow Sri Lankan Tamil guerrillas to use its territory for their anti-government struggle. Foreign Minister V.C. Shukla stated at a meeting of MPs that Indian policy was aimed at persuading concerned parties in Sri Lanka to end
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Tigers Accuse Tamil Nac Of "Inhuman Actio
“A statement issued by the LTTE ex- fraternal Tamil
pressed deep felt sorrow and pain of feelings implicit in
mind at the "unexpected inhuman ac- Tamil Nadu Gove tion of the Government of Tamil Nadu shock and surpris in arresting and detaining the injured, over the world.
maimed and sick LTTE fighters receiving treatment in India' and thus showing a complete lack of fraternal feel- LTTE 部 hters the ings of sympathy for fellow Tamils are si t havin facing genocide in Tamil Eelam. maimed in battle
The statement adds:- them have lost th
“The Tamil Eelam people are facing lost his eyes and genocide, unprecedented in history, in benumbed below t the hands of the Sinhalese racist gov- female fighter. ernment. The LTTE is carrying on the battle for the survival of the Eelam The Tamil N: Tamils shedding the life and blood of assaulted those det their own fighters. The Government of these wounded and Tamil Nadu, which in this grave situa- ers. It is notewor tion is bound to extend its moral wounded LTTE figh support to the LTTE, has instead in hospital where embarked on steps inimical to Tamil treatment.
interests and which appear to provide Some of the ver assistance to the Sinhala racist rulers fighters of the L of Tamil Eelam. treated under sec
s:
The Tamil Nadu Government apart Tamil Eelam due from heaping completely baseless brought to the kno' allegations against the LTTE has Minister of Tamil farrested and put behind bars our sick, condition of those
injured and maimed fighters receiving jured fighters and treatment in Tamil Nadu. The lack of Government after
Continued from Page 11 Kittu: Sri Lanka g as yet agreed to á When there is a pro will be observed b arrangement can be ing the ceasefire.
D.B.S.J.: Earlier said that the Tigers only if India acted a is your position no
Kittu: Even thoug India has not indica on its part to med even been a signa. they are hunting d our wounded fight circumstances the p
drawbacks in the East compel you to declare the Ceasefire?
Kittu: There were efforts at the international level to bring about negotiations. You cannot call that pressure. But those efforts were considered with due respect. All those who are being arrested in Tamilnadu are not our fighters.
Our wounded fighters for whom Karunanidhi had made medical facilities available are the ones who are being arrested without any mercy.
It is not appropriate to say of us who opposed even the Indian army that the arrests in Tamilnadu have affected our ediation is beco
capability. D.B.S.U.: There
Our struggle is not based on Tamil- earlier that you W
inadu. In the north we have the upper with the Sri Lank hand, militarily. The situation there is sioner in London
such that another camp may fall into Did you and the ფo\ our hands. In the East we have carried talks about a cease out many successful attacks recently. Kittu : After th
Even the Brigadier-In-Charge of the J th နီမျိုး e Trincomalee district was killed. Our နိ်† Št S ರಾ? strength in the East is increasing. ို '' Qပ Therefore none of what you cited are ရှို့”ူ Ա reasons for this ceasefire. As I men- စီမံt ee ;
tioned earlier the reason was to give ಙ್ಗಃ ions. relief to the people in the east and an 'E' opportunity to the government to set- ment through these i tle the problem peacefully. D.B.S.J.: About
Colombo D.B.S.J.: Why haven't you asked for
夔 Kittu: Arular met išo 1.
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lu GOVt.
y 1.
and humanitarian the actions of the
nment has caused to the Tamils all
of Tamil Nadu has nd put behind bars majority of whom
been injured or r freedom. Many of eir limbs. One has three of them are heir hips. One is a
adu police have ained to look after sick freedom fight
thy that all these
hters were arrested they were under
y seriously injured TTE could not be cure conditions in
to the war. We wledge of the Chief Nadu the pathetic such seriously inthe Tamil Nadu consultations with
government has not a proper ceasefire. per ceasefire which y both parties an 2 made for monitor
Dr. Balasingham
would go for talks
9 patrolling will continue.
s a mediator. What W? gh we had said that ted any willingness iate. There hasn’t from them. Now own and arresting ters. Under these ossibility of Indian ng less practicable. had been reports ere holding talks an High CommisSepala Attygalle. fernment have any fire at that time? fighting began in tact I made with ur statement on the uny organisations in trying to bring There have been with the governorganizations. Arular's efforts in
; Mahathaya, Yogi nd told them that
the central government admitted the fighters for treatment in Tamil Nadu.
The Government of Tamil Nadu to
day has arrested and put behind bars
these very injured and maimed fighters whom it earlier admitted into Tamil Nadu for treatment. We regard this unjust action as an act of betrayal of the LTTE and the people of Tamil Eelam.
We are not at all interested in the power politics of Tamil Nadu. Our people, facing genocide, are engaged in a life and death struggle. It would be most unreasonable for anyone to make use of our struggle for their selfish political gains. There is germane in this type of selfish politics the dangerous seeds of encouragement of genocide.
The LTTE as representing the Liberation Movement of the people of Tamil Eelam has been fighting for the last 18 years for achievement of a high ideal. Symbolic of the rise of our people our movement has made untold sacrifices. The LTTE is the only bulwark against the genocide faced by the defenceless people of Tamil Eelam. We therefore beseech the people of Tamil Nadu and the political movements in Tamil Nadu to recognise this fact and to provide the necessary support to the LTTE and to its struggles to ensure the security and freedom of the people of Tamil Nadu.
he was going to make peace efforts. We told him that we were not opposed. He is doing it on his own. He is not our representative.
D.B.S.J.: How should it be with the security forces during the ceasefire?
The army has said that the regular
Kittu : This regular patrolling can cause trouble. There is no patrolling in the north. But if the army tries to make use of the ceasefire and move out
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peacefully the fighting between the Tigers and the Colombo government. India would not be a party to the disintegration of the island. He voiced concern at the serious situation prevailing in the Tamil-dominated northeast Sri Lanka and regretted that efforts to solve the ethnic problem had not yielded positive results. (AFP - New Delhi).
Though the Congress(I) in particular, often in conjunction with the AIADMK, has been raising embarrassing questions on the presence and activities of Tamil militants, especially the LTTE, in Tamil Nadu, the ruling DMK did not feel the pinch thanks to the “friendly' National Front Government headed by V.P. Singh at the Centre. As DMK was a constituent member of the Front, the PM chose not to go public on this controversy.
But with the change of government at the Centre and the new PM, Chandra Shekhar, known to have some very strong views on Sri Lanka and the militants, the Tamil Nadu Government could not afford to play cool on this front any longer. The Congress(I)- AIADMK-Janatha Dal(S) combine felt that the time was ripe for it to demand the dismissal of the DMK government on a charge of extending patronage to the "militant and smuggling activities' of the LTTE, besides using the state as a base for its military programm.
Even as the pressure was mounting, Chief Minister Karunanidhi, began to demonstrate that the state and its police could act, if they so wished. A group of crippled militants, reportedly in Madras for treatment after they were wounded in battle in Sri Lanka, were held, though many of their colleagues staying in the same house in Adhyar were allowed to escape. But within days another 10 LTTE boys were picked up in a house in Tiruchi. These incidents are seen by the detractors of the DMK as a mere drama to impress upon the Centre that the state government can be tough with militants.
According to one senior official, after the Chief Minister's latest visit to Delhi, there is a change in the government’s attitude towards the Sri Lankan Tamil militants. There was hectic activity in the Secretariat with the top officials of the home department, the state police, the navy, customs officials and coast guards putting their heads together to work out strategies to at least curtail the unlawful acts indulged in by the militants. At the moment the government appears to want to get tough with the Sri Lankans. The weeks ahead will show to what extent precisely. (Hindu, 9.12.90).
# Indian police arrested 86 members of Tamil militant groups on 15 December in a continuing crackdown in Tamil
Nadu, the PTI re took to 167 the r held over two days carried out simulta tant hideouts in arresting 65 in the ras, and 21 elsew belonged to asso such as Eelam Pe Front (EPRLF), Organisation ( (PLOTE), and Tam Organisation (TEL Was 29 EPRLF persons belonging PLOTE (18) TE (14), TELO-Kand; EROS (1).
All 81 arrested c 14 December, belo The arrests were a seizure of a powe mitter, two high s one jeep, gelatine and pistols, PTI sai ment press release
The EPRLF con swoop calling the ate and alleged th had been violat appealed to the Ir help secure the rele (AFP, NeuvDelhi, 1
The Tamil Nadu persons suspected an early morning parts of the state. Ir 14) simultaneous Madras and the d Anna, Salem, Tiru houses believed to LTTE men were se
An official press in Tiruchi the polic less set and three from a locked ho village, Erinjiyur, a sticks, medicines a recovered. Five mo Madras and one in seized. Police said found. In Madras cadres were picked raids conducted : Kalakshetra Colony gambakkam. The were in the age gro they are likely to camps. (The Hindu,
År An LTTE Nataraja, was arre International Airp his arrival from Pa the LTTE man w France was carry amount of ammun tridges of 22 bore g ing devices. The su to be the secretary ( tion in Paris. (UN Hindu (IE), 22.12.9
k Answering qu Tamil militant activ

TARTIKviš of
orted. The arrests imber of militants in the state. Police neous raids on milipre-dawn sweep state capital, Madhere. The suspects ted Tamil groups ples Revolutionary 'eoples Liberation f Tamil Eelam l Eelam Liberation D). Topping the list adres followed, by
to ENDLF (22), OS-Selvan Group n Group (2) and
n the previous day, nged to the LTTE. ccompanied by the ful wireless transpeed boat engines, sticks, detonators d quoting a governin Madras. demned the police irrests indiscriminat only the LTTE ng the law and dian politicians to ase ofits members. December 15).
police arrested 81 o be LTTE men in swoop in different today's (December raids conducted in istricts of Chengai lchi and Madurai, be occupied by the arched.
release stated that e recovered a wire: cyanide capsules use. In a nearby bundle of gelatine nd bandages were tor cycles (four in Salem) were also no firearms were alone 70 LTTE up in simultaneous at Tiruvanmiyur, 7, Adyarand Viruarrested persons up of 25 to 30 and be sent to refugee ).
militant, Dulango 2sted at the Sahar Ort in Bombay on ris. Police said that ho arrived by Air ring a staggering ition — 15,500 carun and two signallspect was reported fa Tamil organisaTI — Dec. 15, The O).
estions relating to rity in Tamil Nadu,
Union Minister for Commerce, Law and Justice, Dr. Subramaniam Swamy said that his impression was that three districts of Tamil Nadu - Ramanatha puram, Thanjavur and South Arcot - were out of control of the state admi nistration. (The Hindu (IE), 22.12.90) # The recent rounding up of Tami militants in Tamil Nadu was an eyewash to give the impression that the Tamil Nadu Government was serious about curbing militant activities, Tamil Nadu Congress(I) MP Mr. K. Ramamurthy said. He alleged that "prior intimation has been given to the militants so that they can escape and only some students who have even shown their examination hall tickets and some invalids have been picked up for the sake of statistics'. In regard to a recent report that ten LTTE militants were taken into custody from a house in Tiruchi, he said that his information was that nearly 50 militants from the same house escape with four lorryloads of arms and ammunition’. When officials at a
"have been allowed to
check-point intercepted the group they
were told that the vehicles were being taken with the permission of the state government.
Militants among the Sri Lankan
Tamils were taken away from the refugee camps in Thanjavur, Pudukot
tai, Madurai, Tirunelveli and Chidamparanagar districts and lodged in spe
cial camps. The 52 militants who were
taken away from refugee camps be
longed to: LTTE (22), EPRLF (11),
TELO (15), PLOT (2), and ENDLF (2).
(The Hindu). s:
k “The series of arrests of Sri Lankan Tamils believed to be militants during the past fortnight or so has created ill-will between the groups and the Tamil Nadu Government. Many of those detained claiming to be students
are complaining about "unnecessary
harassment", according to informed
SOUll`C6.S.
"Even as the Government of India
has asked the state government to
strengthen security in the coastal dis
tricts, besides alerting the Navy and Coast Guard to step up vigil to check
the movement of militants and smug
gling, the state administration accepts
the case that the illegal movement cannot be stopped altogether given the long coastline. But it had instructed authorities to impound any unknown or unidentified boats or vessels found on the shore.
The Centre which had decided to
send the BSF (Border Security Force) or CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) to the coastal districts has apparently made it clear that the militants should not be allowed a "free run' in any part of Tamil Nadu. While genuine refugees were welcome to seek security, militants will not be allowed
to use the state as a base'. (The Hindu,
Dec. 21).

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A Commitment to P
by Jehan Perera
In the city of Newcastle in Australia is a war memorial. The visitor from Sri Lanka will be moved by it for it commemorates tens of thousands of young Australians who died in war. Bronze figures of a man and woman hold hands and gaze at the legend, 'With ennobled minds we stand, before our noble dead'. In Sri Lanka today can we see a similar ennobling?
In the West, wars in this century alone that were meant to solve disputes over land, wealth and the right to rule took a staggering toll in life. Much greater than in our wars beginning in 1971 in the south, and continuing today in the north. In the Soviet Union alone 30 million died in the two decades after the Russian Revolution. Another 20 million died in the five year period in World War II. In Germany, six million people were put to death for being Jews. These are well-established historical facts. In Sri Lanka, perhaps a hundred thousand lost their lives in the past decade. Much less and still too much.
But now for close to 50 years there has been no war in Europe. The most powerful armies the world has ever seen have confronted each other across the border that separates Eastern from Western Europe. But they have not fought. Out of the bitterness of the experience of war the people of Europe have learnt and not forgotten. Soviet tanks did not roll into the West to shore up the crumbling Soviet system because of the memories of war and its horror. There has been a commitment to peace within Europe which European governments have chosen to respect because it has arisen from the bottom up, from the people themselves. Perhaps a similar process is evolving in Sri Lanka.
Not so long ago, in 1983 for instance, a warlike and belligerent mood encompassed the people of Sri Lanka, both Sinhalese and Tamil. There was a perception of Sinhala-Tamil conflict in which each community wanted to defeat, humiliate and collectively punish the other.
What else can explain the 1983 riots? During those terrible days it appeared as if the entire Sinhalese population had agreed to inflict collective punishment upon the Tamils. On more sober reflection, it is apparent that very few Sinhalese actually went about killing and wounding Tamils or destroying their houses. The majority acquiesced. That is the sin we will have to live with and because of it the great divide between our two communities. Unless forgiveness is sought.
Neve
The 1983 riots in the attitude of the Sri Lankan st ment that represe we need to dwell though it is. Man have vivid memor in July. There wa the bright blue raging fires and remember setting morning to find th igasyaya junction tion whether the were being burn responsible for t north brought fo know whether Sinhalese. I rem friend back from F mer holidays in a taking him to his find it looted and listening to our Pr and hearing him were witnessing anger of the Sinha
I also remember and explaining to had happened wa had been "coming terrorism could no tion. The events t country since then of those actions a had tried to ration outrageous crime Had Ibeen a Sri La Sinhalese my pro events of July 19: very different. It say to my Tamil sorry, what had h wrong, and that Iv to working for a one would be left tected. A commitr Lanka will call f whether we are : Muslim.
COmmor
Such a process is the grassroots lev lective hostility of against the Tamil evaporated. Ther same perception a that the war in th Tamil one. There confrontation. Th change, and is a potential for a
Perhaps the Tami and east feel this
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Again vere a turming point the Tamils towards ate and the governnted it. That is why upon it, unpleasant 7 of us will no doubt ies of that hot week is not a rain cloud in sky to quench the he enraged mobs. I off for work that e shops at Thimbirin flames. My quesTamils whose shops in Colombo were he ambush in the rth the demand to I was Tamil or ember locating my larvard for the sumrefugee camp and house in Dehiwela to burnt. I remember esident on television say that what we was the righteous lese people. visiting a Tamil MP his wife that what s to be expected, it to the Tamils, for t but bring retaliahat unfolded in the are a manifestation nd states of mind. I alise and justify an to my Tamil friend. ankan before being a per response to the 33 would have been would have been to friend that I was appened was totally would commit myself Sri Lanka where no unequal and unproment to peace in Sri r no less from us, Sinhalese, Tamil or
Suffering
indeed occuring at el. The sense of colthe Sinhalese people people has largely is no longer the mong the Sinhalese north is a Sinhalas no more desire for s is a tremendous t the base of the peaceful solution. people in the north vay tOO.
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perception to come about? Perhaps it is because the war in the north is not ending fast but is only bleeding the country, its people and the economy. Perhaps it is because the LTTE war against the Indian army and the sufferings of the Tamil people at the hands of the Indians convinced the Sinhalese that the loyalty of the Tamil people was to their homeland. Perhaps it is because of the sufferings of the Sinhalese themselves during the JVP insurrection which has given them a sympathy for the suffering of the Tamils, and the understanding that injustice lies at the root of the insurrections in the north and south. Perhaps it is because of repeated government statements that the war is not one against the Tamil people but against the LTTE.
Whatever the reason federalism, which at one time had the potential for upsetting the Sinhalese people, will today in all likelihood not be an objectionable solution to a wasteful war. To the extent that federalism satisfies the desire of the Tamil people for self determination, for participation in development and for democracy it cannot be objectionable to the Sinhalese for that is what they also want along with the Muslims. The fact cannot be ignored that Sri Lanka is still a very inequitable society. The bottom 40% get only 7% of the national income. They do not participate in development. Decision-making power is still concentrated in the hands of a westernised and English-speaking class of people whose interests are very different from that of the 90% nonwesternised and non-English speaking people. So the majority do not determine their own futures. Elections have not changed this basic future of our society. Our democracy needs to be improved. So self determination, participation in development and democracy are problems of justice common to the Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims.
Properly presented at a referendum there is a strong possibility that federalism will be approved by most Sri Lankans as the compromise solution least injurious to their real interests. A solution ratified by the people at a referendum will also be the firmest guarantee that it will be respected and not violated.
The reason that federalism will be acceptable is that the war in the north is no longer seen as a Sinhala-Tamil one. On the contrary it is seen as one in which the government is pitted against the LTTE. So any stable solution that the government will enter into will be acceptable to the Sinhalese people. Of course separation into two independent states will not be a stable solution. Two national armies cannot possibly coexist peacefully on a small and densely populated island, more densely
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populaterl Ewen than , India, []n the other hand federalism will ensure a single national army in which the minorities will enjoy a meaningful voice. A federal solution will transfer power presently located in the central government to provincial or state gowernments. It will not weaken the Sinhalese people in their own endeavour of self determination, participation in development and democratic government. Certainly no more than the war, and the colossal military cost and the abuses of emergency rule hawe. So the Sinhalese will Illot lose through federalism.
Gradually a constellation of forces is emerging that favour a federal solution. Firstly, federalism was the demand articulated by mainstream Tamil opinion until the guns of the militants silenced the voice of the mainstream. So federalism is not simply a solution to be offered or accepted because of a military stalemate, but because it satisfies a long-standing Tamil sense of justice. Secondly, the opposition parties will find it difficult, if not impossible, to mobilise Sinhalese Sentiment against federalism because such a sentiment does not exist as the powerful force it once was, Thirdly the opposition parties are unable to come up with any alternative solution, both with respect to the political options as well as the military ones.
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But will the LTTE be prepared to accept federalism? Can they be trusted. At one level it will appear that the group of individuals who form the leadership of the LTTE neither want federalism nor can be trusted. Instead We should place our trust in a process that will lead to justice. That means winning the support of the Tamil penpleby putting forward a solution based on justice to all, obtaining the support of the international community and, most of all, changing our own attitudes. Such a process will be very difficult for the LTTE leadership to oppose.
In uther words, an offer offederalism to the LTTE leadership in the spirit of a tactic to end the war is unlikely to work. The LTTE leadership will sense opportunism and be opportunistic in turn. Rather the offer of federalism must be seen in the spirit of justice to a section of the Sri Lankan people and as a part of a wider process of social change that will ensure more and Inore justice to an ever-increasing proportion of Sri Lankam people. This must include special provision for providing those young men who have become Tigers with an assurance of employment and a brighter future. OT else humanly speaking they will be very loathe to lay down their arms,
The LTTE leadership in turn will be
unwise not to mal tunity that is open perhaps the first
decades, Sinhales sympathetic to the have equal right. system. For the fi also has a head of Premadasa who : terms of maintain domination - over
rather in uplifting
ary people. This is to be missed. If it i people together w and Muslim brethe trapped in a dow must inevitably cu trywide social tex unemployment an their inevitable toll an children betwe
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D.B.S.: What and organizations ETO?
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ke use of the opporing up to them. For time in over three epublic opinion is
Tamil aspiration to 5 within a federal rst time, Sri Lanka g0 Werin ment im Mr. is not thinking in ling elite Sinhalese
the country but the masses of ordinmot an opportunity smissed, the Tamil ith their Sinhalese In will continue to be "nward spiral that lminate in a counlosion as poverty, malnutrition take - Already, Sri Lanken the ages of one
and two suffer from more severe malnutrition than the children of Bangladesh.
A critical step in this wider process of social change that Sri Lanka needs is for each of us to turn the searchlight inwards and seek to acknowledge the w Tongs we hawe do Ille to others. At the level of the grassroots, this process is already taking place. With minds ennobled by suffering and by their realisation our people now stand before their noble dead. This is why there have been no retaliatory killings for massacres even 50 times greater than those which sparked off the July 1983 riots. A commitment to peace requires a Wrenching and noble change, both within ourselves as persons and in our country's political institutions. To speed up this process from the top is the challenge.
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R. Shanmugananthan (R.S.) has found fault with me for not being "balanced' in my short note on anti-Muslim violence (written in Colombo while on a short visit) published in the October 1990 issue of Tri Tirres. He writes: "It is not clear why Mr. Shanmugaratnan ignored the Tamillside of the story. Is it ignorance or hypocrisy"My answer is, it is neither. If I failed to appear balanced in the eyes of readers like R.S., it is precisely because I wanted to avoid any hypocrisy on my part. It is, indeed, regrettable that the only reader of Tamil Times who took the trouble to put pen to paper after reading my note had chosen to disregard its main points. I was airing my criticisms of the dominant tendencies in the Tamil liberation struggle and of Tamil nationalism itself. I was focusing at a level, more fundamental than human rights. When a liberation movement consistently violates the rights of other people in the name of the liberation of its own people, something has fundamentally gone wrong with its politics. A point, has been reached when one is justified in doubting the emancipatory potential of the struggle, For a movement that does not respect the rights of other people cannot be expected to respect the rights of its own people. And all the main Tamil militant groups hawe been accused of such violations by bodies like Amnesty International.
The Home Guards are an arm of the chauvinist, oppressive state. They are killers aided and abetted by the government to terrorise local populations, The government has been assiduously sowing discord and promoting violent conflicts between Tamils and Muslims. Tamils and Muslims in the North-East share a common language and a common homeland. It does not take a great
Machiavellian to see that the most
effective way to thwart the Tamil demand for a nerged North-East homeland is to keep the Tamils and Muslims divided. The government is doing just that. The Muslim Home Guards are a cheap and an effective tool for the government to achieve its aim. The acts of the Muslim Home Guards should be condemned indeed. I never meant to give the impression of condoning them, But when armed Tamils calling themselves freedom fighters behave like the Home Guards, We have to go beyond a so-called balanced approach and question their politics because it is in the name of our nation's liberation the revenge is being taken. The killing of Muslim civilians in the East and the expulsion of the
Muslim people fr only served the e government. The
Muslim leaders c and the extremist could not haveh Таппil cause i has political and mora
The anti-Muslin isolated phenome armed civilians by a history. Such wi part of the milit main Tamil grou pura massacro an dents inst which Muslim people known to all of safety of ther w societies', to bor) Shan mugamanth majority of us haw, hypocritic and cov these blatant at appalling silen C2 l апетеп погe app, the sufferings of themselves, The gama captured th Tamils most brilli
"A state of resig community. The gun has not only power and glory, terroras Well. In t play, forces comple dance in each oth paralysing depress violence and auth outside, but rathe wiolence emanati womb of Our Societ
Rajani was livin, wrote this and pai for stating the tru violence has clair innocent lives, Th ary violence is not totally defensible i to free themsel oppression and ger means revolution behaviour of the and its hirellings lil and unleash terri. lians. It is not an a the gun meant t enemy and defend against the people The highly militar: flicts between Ini caused the death . Tamil, The rivalr groups has gone : them can collabor against which the in the first place t people, to annihila olut any Compunct tion " ha s · become2 ill-fated Indo-Lank instances the Ins laboration has be armed forces,

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Qm the North häve will intentions of the government and the ollaborating with it, advocates of jihad' oped for more. The
suffered its worst l defeat,
m violence was notam non. Killing of un"Tamil militants has olence has become a arist politics of the ps. The Anuradhadi several other inciSinhala, Tamil and got killed are well us 'who live in the estern IT democratic ow a phrase from anı, But the i vast echosen to observe a wardly silence about its of terror. This has now turned into alling indifference to the Tamil, people ate Rajani Thiranae state of the Eelam antly: לחדד nation envelopes the long shadow of the been the source of but also of fear and he menacing shadow imenting each other, cers momentum. The sion is not due to the ority imposed from ir to the destructive ng from within the by". g in Jaffna when she d the ultinate price ith. This destructive ned a heavy - toll of e use of revolutiononly inevitable but In a people's struggle ves from Linational ocide. But it is by no arry to imitate the state's armed forces ke the Home Guards Ir i oħmi u marmed ciwict of liberation when 0 fight the armed the people is turned 2 to terrorise them. ised inter Ilecine con litant groups have of Iany an innocent y between militant so far that some of "ante with the state, y armed themselves liberate the Tamil te their rivals withiom... Such Collaboracommon sin C: the ia accord. In all such t active form of colen with the state's
All these are un mistakable i symptons of the inversion of the relations between the political and the military levels of the liberation struggle; i.e. the latter is in command of the former. In the past few years, this violence has become an institutionalised process with its own logic of militarist author. itarianism which cuts across apparent lines of ideological division. This insti. tutionalisation, which may be an indication of a nascent authoritarian state' in the Tamil homeland, has its politics and its ideology of legitimation, The ideology is a chauvinist form of Tamil nationalism which looks like a mirror image of Sinhala nationalism.
One hears instant theories about the brutalisation of our society. It would be a mistake to think that it is due to the violence of Imarauding bands. Nor is it a product of any Inental aberration in 'our boys'. It is a manifestation of an institutionalised militarist approach to all kinds of conflicts including real and imaginary political differences. In such an approach there is not much room for resolving contradictions among the people, and between the different political formations with a common cause through dialogue and exchange of Ciriticisms. It is a deadly combination of self-righteousness and military might which thrives by Inilitarising every possible contradiction. One of the most damaging results of this Inilitarist politics is that potential allies are conWerted into adversaries and the struggle is weakened from within. The militarisation of conflicts between Tamil organisations and the ensuing fratricide and the arıti-Muslim violence should be seen in this light,
As to how such a process became so strongly established in a matter offew years, and as to how the militarist approach becaппе а сопmmon property of all the groups is a subject for serious study. The internal and the geopoliticall factors that have determined or Contributed to this process have yet to be analysed and interpreted.
Nevertheless, the gravity of the situation is so palpable that we can mot be indifferent to it any more. As Tamils, we should engage ourselves in a serius Soul Searching Exercise im a spirit of self-criticism and a deeper concern with the destiny of the Tamil Speaking people in our country. Concorned Tamils should, before it is too late, open a serious dialogue with the liberation movements. This, rather than prayers as suggested by Shan millgarianthan, is something worth paying aHHHS aLLLLLLLaH LLLS LLLLLL HLLa LCHL HH LLLL safety of the western democratic societies' would be guilty of crass indif. ference if we failed to I do our bit to promote deilocracy back home in the North-East and in the whole of Lanka. There is a great need to build a powerful mass consensus capable of forcing the movements to return to a

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path of revolutionary politics in which people - Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese - matter as the makers of history. This is a humble plea from a concerned individual, not a prescription from a comfortable seat.
N. Shanmugaratnam.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE TAMIL TIGERS
PERMIT me to reply to K. Thambiah and S. Sivasegaram (Tamil Times, Nov. 90) both of whom were critical of some of my previous communications to this journal. First, being a Tamil born in the post-independent Sri Lanka, like so many hundreds of thousands of Tamils living in Sri Lanka, India and elsewhere on this globe, I share the ideals for which the LTTE is fighting a revolutionary war against the Sri Lankan government's armed forces. But this does not mean that I agree with all the actions of the LTTE and I also have no authority to speak on behalf of the LTTE. However I am not going to give up to anyone who does not acknowledge the positive contributions of the LTTE to the Tamil liberation struggle.
To be brief, I would answer in the negative to each of the ten questions posed to me by Thambiah. However, as a student of history, I would add that the LTTE has behaved (and is behaving) like every other revolutionary movement in the world which initiated an armed struggle against a more powerful, entrenched adversary. Beginning from the American revolutionary war (led by George Washington) in the 18th century to the Soviet revolution (led by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin), Chinese revolution (led by Mao Tse Tung and Zhou En Lai) and Cuban revolution (led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara) in this century, all the revolutionary struggles have shed much blood, not all belonging to that of adversary. Hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians also died for no fault of theirs. There were also an adequate share of blunders in every revolutionary struggle which became a success. So why one has to set a different standard to the Tamil Tigers, while paying homage to the actions of revolutionary heroes of the past, whether it is Washington or Lenin?
Thambiah did pick up the brief for Jehan Perera, to whom I issued the challenge to 'show a State which originated in the past two centuries without violating "the human rights of other people". But he himself could not come up with a single answer to my challenge. This further explains my point of view that if we study the historical events in proper perspective, the actions of the LTTE infringing the human rights of fellow citizens (whether they are Tamils, Muslims or Sinhalese) is neither applausable nor
despicable, in terms struggle. It will be born without a shec under the leadersh non-violence Mahat India was born wi millions of lives, v term baby' Pakistar a tragic birth again
It is also amusi has selectively citec Amirthalingam to condoned the way i leader was assassin his memory failed ence in which I al. dered by some de belonging to their (Tamil Times, Se another letter in which I noted, “I sh Selbourne's) apprel way in which the Amirthalingam me has Thambiah's me member this line al
Regarding Sivas reference to my e David Selbourne's wards Sri Lankans ( '89), I will let th whether what I wr abuse' or 'a crude re. amis entitled to hav could say that it is this pretender of preached Marxist ideology in his Perac trotting out phrase rights' and "democ struggle'. What a ch era has brought to S I have one doubt ab democracy Sivasega the Yankee version glasnost version' Japanese version? C version?
The funniest thin the USA, as Richard "So controversial wa crat' that it does no the famous documer the birth of the U Declaration of Indep Constitution or any stitutions’ (Legends ished Myths of A 1988).
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if a revolutionary great if Eelam is of blood, but even of the apostle of na Gandhi, a free a loss of many th another "prewhich itself gave o Bangladesh.
g that Thambiah from my eulogy to ortray that I have which the TULF ted. I wonder why o locate the sento stated, "...muranged individuals own ethnic group' pt. '89). I wrote he same issue in are his (Dr. David ension about the TULF leader A. , his death'. Why mory failed to reso? agaram's indirect arlier criticism of condescension toTamil Times, Sept e readers decide ote was a pile of sponse'. Sivasegare his opinion. But I a pleasure to read Diogenes (who -Leninist-Maoist leniya period) now s like 'democratic ratisation of the lange the glasnost ome intellectuals? out which type of ram refers to? Is it ? British version? ' Mao version? ir Lee Kwan Yew
g is that, even in Shenkman wrote, 3 the word "demo5 appear in any of ts associated with SA - not in the endence, the U.S. of the State con
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have got through and we have got replies. Are all these letters getting through, only transported by the Red Cross or is there some functioning postal service. Also some encashment of cheques drawn on Jaffna Banks seem to have been possible. Also transport in lorries had been made available to the thousands of Muslims to the South from Jaffna and Mannar. Although it is sad to hear of this mass evacuation of Muslims from their homes, this information reveals that petrol has been made available for this transport. Are there any lorries plying to and from Jaffna and if so are any provisions reaching Jaffna. What form of public transport is available for the people out of these areas.
In addition there are reports in Tamil Times of ravages in the North. In your report “Operation Jaya Shakthi” Major General Kobbedaduwa was quoted as saying that he wanted to secure 40 kilometres (you probably mean 40 square kilometres) around Palaly Air Force Base and K.K.S. Harbour and that 1000 houses are destroyed. Those of us who have friends and relations in this area wish to know the names of the villages which are destroyed and the degree of destruction.
I feel that information on the above and similar incidents is of vital importance and should be published in Tamil Times.
As you have correspondents in Colombo this should not be too difficult. I am sure most of your readers will be thankful if you could see that this information is given monthly. Yours faithfully
Dr. S. Puvirajasingham
76 Rating Lane - Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria LA139LD
Continued from Page 5 Coca-Cola. If they say we are selling drugs or guns, it is a lie. It is a planned propaganda against us. The LTTE also has no connection with the death threat issued against some leaders in Tamil Nadu. It is painful that local politics is being used to damage our people's future'.
The crackdown on the militants in Tamil Nadu would not affect the LTTE. It was yet another lesson to the LTTE that it should stand on its own. Would the LTTE like India's mediation in any future negotiations with Sri Lanka, he was asked. "We have not received any good signal so far from
India. On the contrary, action (crack
down in Tamil Nadu) has been taken against the LTTE in an uncivilised manner. In this situation, we are not able to say anything. We are not able to understand India's standpoint, the LTTE leader added.

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Mrs. Gnanammah Ro: head teacher, belove Saminather (retired 1 mother of Anton Jeyan, ga Baladasan, Josy Jeyadeva, Jerald Je mother-in-law of Pame Nalini & Jugini grar Yvonne, Ahelan, Brinth ni passed away peace, Lanka. Burial took pla Erilalai Cemetery, Chur
Mrs. Pasupathy Kr Colombo on 7th Nov the beloved wife of t (Chief Trains Control Sister of the late K. P. K. Palakidnar, Mrs.
(both of Sri Lanka), lat Dr. K. Rajagopal, K.
Mrs. Rukmany dev babwe); mother-in-law neswari, Selvarani,
Santhanapoopathy ar nother of Ananthakr Meera Ganeshan, D. dra, Ratha Arunthé Lanka), Gitanjali Je (both of Norway), Ramesh, Renuka Sh U.K.), Ramjeevan (L Gokulan, Shyamalan grand mother of Amin
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So unexpected was Which has grieved u Only those who lost The pain of parting v
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ishnapillai expired in ember 1990. She WaS he late S. Krishnapillai er, C. G.R., Sri Lanka); onnampalam; mother of Subathra Ramanathan e K. Gopalaratnam, late Ratnagopal (Australia), i Gmaneswaran (Zimy of Lakshmidevi, Wiglate P. Ramanathan, d Gnaneswaran; grand ishnan, Rathakrishnan, evaki, Yasotha Yogenavanathan (all of Sri yaratnam, Sanjeevan Uma Selvaratnam, lankar-Chandran (all of I.S.A.), Rajiv, Sanjeev, and Mathuran, great ha and Janakan.
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r: . IN MEMORAM
loving memory of our beloved Dad
A.Cheliahpillai
Born: 28.12. 1908 Rest: 24.01.90
Our hearts still ache with sadness Dad, the secret tears still flow For what it meant to lose you Dad No one will ever know. Mr. A. Cheliahpillai, Merchant, Ratnapura, Sri Lanka was the son of the late Mr. & Mrs. S. Arunachalam (Pungudutivu, Sri Lanka); sonin-law of Mr. & Mrs. Sinniah (Pungudutivu); beloved husband of the late Mrs. Packiam Cheliah; dear father of Mrs. Parameswary Kandiah (Sri Lanka), Mrs. Thanaluxmy Nagendram (Germany), Mrs. Kamalambigai Vasudevan, Mrs. Kamalasany Sivapatham (both of U.K.), Mrs. Masilamany Rajalingam (Sri Lanka), Pushparajalingam (France) and Punniyalingam (U.K.); father-in-law of P. Kandiah, T. Nagendran, S. Wasudewan (Fleet Food & Wines Ltd, U.K.), S. Sivapatham, K. Rajalingam (Pakeerathan Stores, Jafna), P. Pathminidevy & P Meenakumary, grandfather of Balakrishnan (U.K.), Kalanithy Sabanathan (Bharain), late Arunthavanithy, Karunakaran, Kirupanithy (both of Germany), Thevaginy, Sivaginy, Sivatharshini (all of U.K.), Sivamainthan (Germany), Shayeemainthan, Kunrakkumaran, Koneshakumaran (all of U. K.), Rajapakeerathan (France), Valarmathy, Vanmathy (both of U.K.), Marie, Jegan, Johnson, Shantha (all of France), Shinthiya & Arjun (both of U.K.), great grand father of Birendran, Warendran (both of U.K.), Thanuja, Thatshika (both of Bharain) and Sankeethan (Germany) - 22 Turton Road, Wembley, Middx., U.K.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
February 2 600 p.m. Hounslow Thamil Sangham presents “Kalai Vizha' at Hounslow Manor School, Cecil Road, Hounslow, Middx. For tickets and information Tel: 081847.366O. Feb. 33.30 p.m. Novena at Asian Chaplaincy, 48 Gt. Peter Street, London SW1P2HA.
Tel: O71-2222895.
Feb. 12 Maha Sivarathiri Feb. 17 6.30 p.m. Shakespeare's School of Oriental Dancing presents 'Shankunthalam, Dance Drama at Brent Town Hall, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middx. Tel: 081-8473660.
Feb. 28 MaSi Maham
At the Bhavan Centre, 4A Castletown Road, London W14 9HQ. Tel: 071-381 3O36,4608. Feb. 2.5.30 p.m. Slide Show of the Splendours of Rajasthan by Jayant Thakkar. Feb. 9. 7.00 p.m. Odissi by Shubhada Rajesh. Feb. 16 5.30 p.m. Ethics in World Religions with particular reference to lslam by Dr. M.A. Zaki Badawi.

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Feb. 17 530 p. m. Batik Exhibition & Workshop by Savita R. Kalhan. Feb. 22 7.45 p.m. Kathak by Asavari Kumar. Feb. 237.00 p.m. Carnatic Vocal Concert by Sivasakti Sivanesan. At the Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High Street, London W8 6NQ. Tel: O71-603 4535 ext 250.
Feb. 3 7:30 p.m. Bharata Natyam by Monisha Patel. Feb. 7 7.30 p.m. Correspondences, the story of Indian Mathematical Prodigy Ramanujam in Bharata Natyam by Shobana Jeyasingh and others.
Emily Pushpam Arulanantham (née Aseerwatham) A Tribute paid at the Service of Thanksgiving for her life at St. John's Church, Folkestone, U.K. on 24th November, 1990
I consider myself privileged to have the opportunity to pay my humble tribute to a great person whom I have known for more than forty five years. It could be more, but at least for forty five years I have known her very closely, first as a schoolboy and then as a teacher at St. John's College, Jaffna.
Emily Pushpam Arulanantham born on 11th December 1904 and who died on the 15th of this month was indeed a great person. She and my mother were class-mates at Chundikuli Girls' College, and I can recall very vividly my mother referring to Mrs. Arulananthan as 'a bundle of charm and beauty'. I always saw her and found her to be a person of great beauty. It was a beauty that came from within herself - an inner beauty and an outer beauty. In all that she said and all that she did there was that glorious beauty about her, and this is something that nobody who had known her could easily forget. That was one of her greatest qualities to which I pay tribute today, and thank God that we had such a person among us to beautify what would otherwise have been a desolate place.
Born of a sense of mission, this beauty that made her work for others, to feel for others - born of that sense of mission was her sense of dedication - a dedication to everything she did and everything she was associated with, first to her family, her parents and her sisters and then to her husband and her children.
it so happened that she came to be married to a priest who was also an educationist and the principal of a leading school, the late Rev. J.T. Arulanantham. It was no easy task to carry out her various duties; her responsibilities were So many and so varied, but she carried them out to the best of her ability. As anyone associated with the school would know it was not an easy role to play, especially as the wife of one who himself
displayed great qualit age and vision, of inc action. His success very much on the hel wife.
I can recall very viv, walking across the plé students individually, was friendly with ever self to anybody and S group. She was alwa interested in, and id making others feel ha themselves.
Her greatest and r tribution to the School she helped her hust community, a sense oj around the school. It was very strong. Be th or Muslins or Buddhis - even StudentS frOn Studied there - there munity that was built up two decades, and Mrs tribution to it was trem
She brought her children. They were ar. in the school as anyol Seen them as Small k and boys used to have but they were so cult took it so well. For suc
the credit goes very r
who taught them what them what a home W what a community was and what their respo them an open heartar was an open heart and an open home, a life m beauty, dedication and
She was a great mo her life singing, promc ing others to sing, an they could praise God be made of her con music and the Combi
Jafna.
Her prayers have be gone into God's pr magnificent face. All til is to congratulate achievement, thank G our silent prayers for
Computer Font Mr. K. Sivagurunati College, University of the departments of C tics and Electrical & E South Bank Polytecl demonstration on 21. in Computing, Mathe On the work he had c Designs in Tamil.
Mr. Sivagurunatha long time Tamil chara on computers becau; (247) characters req velopment of font di abled Tamil charact reduced to the numb tional keyboard (52), I 26 keys available for
He used the grid I how he created the computer, allocating t the letter, for examp Tamil "Ra". He explait
 

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os of intellectual courependent thought and s Principal depended ) he received from his
dly Mrs. Arulanantham ying field and meeting 'veryone of them. She sone, could adapt herhe could mix with any ys pleasant and kind, 2ntifying with, others, ppy and secure within
host outstanding concan be said to be that and in building up a community life, in and swas a community that y Christians or Hindus S, Tamils or Sinhalese other Countries had was a sense of COnover a period of about Arulamantham's Conendous.
Ove to bear On her example to the others he could testify. I have ds, little chubby ones, a lot of fun with them, ured and so kind and :h a kind of upbringing uch to agreat mother, love was, who taught tas, who taught them what relationship was nsibilities were, gave dan open mind. Hers an open mind, indeed arked by grace, charm, 'simplicity. ther who spent most of ting music, encourag'd learn music SO that Special mention must tribution to Orchestral ned Carols Festival in
en answered. She has sence and seen his at remains for us to do her on her splendid Od for her life and offer he repose of her Soul.
Dr. K. Paramothayan.
Design in Tamil
apillai of Goldsmith's London was invited by 'omputing & Mathema'ectronic Engineering of nic to give a lecture/ 1.90 at a Joint Seminar natics and Applications One on Computer Font
billai Stated that for a ters were not available e of the large number fired. The recent design programmes enrs to be created and r of keys on a convenaving another 2 sets of urther development.
lap and demonstrated amil characters on the 'e keys for the sound of e the letter R for the ed how he reduced the
247 keys to 52 keys using an Apple Macin
tosh computer. He said that he has developed Tamil fonts on BBC 48OZ and Nimbus computers as well, but the fonts available on the Apple Macintosh, which uses a better bitmap version, reproduce reasonably good Tamil characters. He has produced a bilingual Tamil/English book titled 'Stupid Crocodile' using the Tamil fonts designed by him.
At present he is developing a software package where the computer can talk in Tamil. He hopes that this package would encourage youngsters to listen to the Tamil version displayed on the computer screen, Create their Own Tamil stories and words and print them out as they do in English during their normal school hours.
Christmas Carols in Vancouver
British Columbia's Tamil children sang Christmas Carols for the first time in Tamil at the 3rd Annual Carol Service held at the Kerrisdale Community Centre in Vancouver on 22nd December 1990. The highlight of the Tamil Carols was the Children's Carol "Varun Palare" sung by 11 children between the ages 3 and 12. The youth choir of seven teenagers sang Bethilahem Ennum Oorile accompanied by M.S. Rajah on Flute, Elmo Rajah on Tabla, Vasuki Balachandran on Piano and Jonathan Lewis on Keyboard. The Christmas Message was delivered by Chaplin Mervin PeterSon of the Vancouver International Airport. The service ended with the singing of th
traditional Mangalam.
Shakespeare's School of Oriental Dancing (Bharatha Natyam)
presents
SHANKUNTHALAM
"Dance Drama" Sunday, 17th February '91 at 6.30pm
at Brent Town Hall Forty Lane Wembley
Middlesex HAS 9HT
Tickets:
For information and tickets Adults: 5.00 contact 081-951 0594 Child: E3.00

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Taprobane Travel Achieves Record Sales to Sri Lanka
Taprobane Travel/Sri Lanka Tours, one of the leading agents for travel and tours to Sri Lanka, achieved a record sales figure of £1.3 million to Sri Lanka in 1990 on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (for whom they are the sole consolidators to Colombo) and on Air Lanka, the national carrier. Managing Director, Gamit Ameresekere, expects 1991 to be a "boom' year for travel to Sri Lanka and aims at an
Mr. Gamit Aneresekere increase of at least 25% on account of Air
Lanka's fourth flight to Sri Lanka and the
re-introduction of KLM's second filight in July.
Taprobane Travel besides being one of Air Lanka's top Consolidators acts as consolidator for KLM to Colombo, Bangkok, Singapore, Manila, Sydney and Melbourne. From January, they have on offer new KLM destinations New York, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Los Angeles. The company's association with KLM dates back to 1978, when there was only one weekly flight to Sri Lanka. They were also One of the first Consolidators for Air Lanka from September 1979 when the national carrier commenced operations from London. The UTA network is also used by Taprobane Travel to the Far East, Australia and Africa on a consolidation basis.
Tamil Service on Sunrise Radio Completes One Year
The weekly Tamil Service on Britain's first community broadcasting station, Sunrise Radio completed an year's service on 6, 11.90. The broadcast Continues on the Medium Wave Band on 1413 KHz (212m) on Mondays but the time has been changed to 10.00pm to 11.00pm instead of from 9.00pm to 10.00pm.
M 雛,畿, Presenters of Tamil Programme to R - Nada Mohan, R. Janarthanan, Mrs. Yoga Thillainathan, Miss Thulasi Thillainathan, Dr. Ratnam Niththyananthan and Kanapathipilai Sanguhan.
The Circulation Manager thanks all subscribers, readers and well wishers who readily responded to his letter sent with the last issue of Tamil Times by sending several new subscriptions, gift subscriptions, renewal subscriptions for two years and more and names and addresses of prospective subscribers. He regrets his inability to thank them individually.
“KURAVANJU” -
The Lakshmi Arts Cen choreography of its Selvaluxny Ramakrish a literary favourite amc cers, composers and London Stage this Tau and could easily be co,
Students from The narrated this well know able style with their ge novements. The mea conveyed beautifully Were no doubt ana. interpretation and sk found among the yo whom were born in Uk atmosphere alien to culture. Their ability to c the real essence of the masterpiece in its full mended. Performance: nanthan, Sapna Billimo than were par excelle Kavitha Thevarajah an the entire Cast of about their respective roles e credit for the training moulding them into the which theybeautifulyfi choreographer and d Institute Mrs. Selval Obviously she could no completed successfully colossal production wit and willingness of the p were seen on stage curtain pullers, lights o
There appears to p that Tamil literary epics nale Chauvinisn. This Hindu mythology and 7 intertwined with Hinduis of the heroine pining f (for example Sakthi lo, really does not depic female inferiority as it i Only symbolises the J union with Paranathm already been proclaime Tamil literature and Hii such as Sivam and Sak each unit cannot inde the Other.
Karunandhi \\
Dr. R. Niththyananthai London met Mr. M. Ka ter of Tamil Nadu on 2 to inaugurate the birth of poet Bharathidasan April and May 1991. It Of artistes, Who have poet's compositions w
 
 
 

15 ᎫᎪNuᎪᏒY 1991
-(Tamil Ballet)
're under the excellent Dance Director, Mrs. nan staged "Kuravanji' Ingst all classical danmusicians. For the 7nil Ballet MvaS a 'firstʼ nsidered the best.
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wn story in their inimitntle but efficient dance ning of this epic was 'o the audience, who red at the power of ill of communication ing dancers most of ... and brought up in an the traditional Tamil onvey to the audience. ancient Tamil literary glory should be Coms by Chithra Satkunaria, Vanathi Nithianannce. Others including d Parul Mandavia and 34 dancers performed xtremely well. The full of these dancers and respective roles into tted-should go to the ance director of the Ixmy Ramakrishnan. f have undertaken and this spectacular and hout the co-operation arents some of whom as stage managers, Jerators and so on.
revail a minority view like Kuravanjireek of is clearly incorrect. In amil literature which is Sm we see a Set theme or the love of her Lord nging for Shiva). This male domination or s understood today. It eevathma longing for a. Sexual equality has 2d and propounded in duism by statements thi are indeed one and pendently act without
Wimal Sockanathan.
ted to London
, Director of Fine Arts, runanidhi, Chief Minis3.12.90 and invited him centenary celebrations to be held in London in is expected that a team been exponents of the ill accompany him.
Arumսga Navalar Day in London
Arumuga Navalar Day was celebrated in London at Graveney School Hall, London SW17 by a large gathering of his admirers and followers on 8.1290, for the sixth year in succession. Proceedings commenced with the conducting of a Guru pooja by Vaheesa Sarma. Mr. V. R. Ramanathan welcoming those present referred to the services rendered by Navalar as a patriot and a saint. Mr. l.T. Sambanthan who had been a member of the Navalar Sabai, Jaffna, spoke about the great service rendered to the Tamils and the Hindus by Navalar when their language and religion were threatened by foreign influence. His influence spread throughout Sri Lanka and South India where he established a school in Chithambaram and a printing press in Madras, which still continue to spread his message.
items of light entertainment followed and these included an instrumental orchestra of seven veenas and two miruthangams by the pupils of Mrs. Senthilselvi Vamananthan, speeches by Niroshan Arulambalam and Thenuka Jegatheeswaran, a flute recital by Balamurugan Yogarajah accompanied by his brother Balamurali, and the singing of devotional songs by Bramhi Jegatheeswaran. The highlight of the evening was the rendering of songs on Navalar composed by the poet Gnanamaniam by Mrs. Vijayakumari Thavasilingam. She was accompanied by Sivasankar on Violin and Visakan Sivarasa on Miruthangam. Mrs. Mutucumaraswamy who had been organising the function for the last six years proposed a vote of thanks.
Pioneering Transplant Operation Without Pain
Consultant Cardiac Thoracic Surgeon Sabaratnam Sabanathan has pioneered the first Single lung transplant operation in the English Midlands at the Bradford Royal Infirmary. Forty minutes after the complex four hour operation, the patient 57-year-old, Peter Cronie was fully awake and feeling no pain. The new system in which severe pain around a Surgical chest wound is blocked for five days with a continuous supply of local anaesthetic through a catheter tube was devised by Mr. Sabanathan. The new pain killing technique involves the surgeon making a pocket between the chest wall and the lining on the inside of the chest and creating a pool of anaesthetic which covers the four or five nerves above and below the incision.

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