கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
இந்தப் படைப்பின் நூலகப் பக்கத்தினை பார்வையிட பின்வரும் இணைப்புக்குச் செல்லவும்: Tamil Times 1991.03

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CONTENTS
The assassination of Wijeratne . . . . . . . 4.
The Casino Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ISSN 0.
Govt. orders refugees to quit camp . . . . . 7 Publishe TAM TI o P.O. B. India moots interim Council for NE. . . . . 9 SUTTON, SUR
UNITED Wanton bombing raids in VVT. . . . . . . 10 Phone: 08
Sri Lanka flayed for abuses . . . . . . . . . 11 ANNUAL SU
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POLITICS OF A
The recent assassination of Sri Lanka's State Minister for Defence, Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne, in the course of which Some thirty others also were killed and 70 more injured, is the latest example of the reality of the scourge that afflicts political life in the country, the politics of violence and assassination.
In 1956, a group of persons belonging to the minority Tamil Federal Party assembled and sat down at the Galle Face Green in Colombo to peacefully perform a Gandhian style protest against the imposition of Sinhala, the language spoken by the majority, as the only official language. A rabble of hooligans and thugs with encouragement and support from the then authorities set upon the peaceful protesters and violently attacked them. The security forces had specific orders from the then government led by the late S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike not to intervene or provide protection to the victims of this violent attack. Presumably the government wanted to teach the protesters a lesson. On the same day, those belonging to the Tamil community were set upon and attacked and their houses set on fire in Colombo and other major Suburban centres. Thus was inaugurated the postindependence era of the use of political violence - state violence or state-inspired violence, or a combination of both, used in a deliberate and conscious manner in an apparent attempt to deal with political problems. Within two years, the then Prime Minister, Mr. Bandaranaike himself became a victim of assassination by a powerhungry coterie of Buddhist clerics.
Subsequent years witnessed an escalation of the use of such violence to deal with political protests by those representing the Tamil community against what they perceived as persistent and continuing discriminatory measures by the state. Shortsighted successive governments led by opportunist politicians refused to see the emerging danger signals - a passive people beginning to accept a growing rebellious leadership. Sections of the Tamil youth took recourse to arms in response to the state's abuse of its monopoly of violence. The extravagant repressive counter-measures adopted by the government only served to make the Tamilyouth place more and more reliance on the 'armed struggle" as the only means of challenge to the state's illegitimate use of violence. During later years, in the south of the country too, where substantial sections of the intelligentsia remained silent or even supportive of the state's violent measures against the Tamils and where the use of Such violence was accompanied by an accelerated erosion of the rule of law, the subversion of the electoral process and abuse of basic
 

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human rights, the pattern of armed rebellion was replicated with a vengeance.
Sri Lanka remains at the top of the league of countries affected by internal armed conflicts. The use of violence and assassinations has become almost endemic. Torture, deaths in Custody and 'disappearances' of persons at the hands of government forces have graduated into open and unmitigated slaughter of literally thousands. Antigovernment armed groups have also indulged in brutal and senseless killing of their political opponents. The indiscriminate use of the bullet and the bomb, the grenade and the landmine, have begun to determine the course of the people's destiny. Individual assassination is sought to be glorified as a legitimate political weapon. A licence to kill each and every person suspected to be a political enemy is equated with legitimate armed resistance to repression by the state. s
in the recent past, to name a few, on the Sinhala side, government and opposition politicians like Nandalal Fernando, Harsha Abeywardene, Vijaya Kumaranatunga and Rohana Wijeweera have been killed. University dons like Professor Stanley Wijesundera and journalists like Richard de Zoysa have been murdered. On the Tamil side, most of the well known Tamil politicians, including A. Amirthalingam, V. Yogeswaran, M. Alalasundaram, V. Dharmalingam and Sam Thambimuthu of the TULF, Annamalai of the NSSP and Vijeananthan of the CP have been assassinated. Even leaders of three of the main five Tamil militant groups, Sri Sabaratnam of the TELO, Uma Maheswaran of the PLOTE and Pathmanabah of the EPRLF have been murdered. Even those unassociated with political parties or groups like Dr. Rajini Thiranagam of the University of Jaffna and K. Kanthasamy of the Tamil Refugee Rehabilitation Organisation were killed.
Governments are ultimately responsible for whatever happens in society. And the fundamental cause for the appalling present state of affairs in Sri Lanka is the abdication of that responsibility by successive governments. The present government, while condemning the growth of gun culture, has itself promoted the proliferation of the possession and use of lethal weapons. While the so-called forces of law and order are deployed to carry out Selective assassinations and mass murder, it is in no position to condemn or arrest violence and assassination by non-state armed groups or individuals.
Today no one, including the most protected politician or the best equipped rebel leader, is safe from the scourge of political violence and assassination in Sri Lanka. Only a return to civilised political discourse and rational negotiation can salvage the country and its people.

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THE ASSAssINATIO
| WIJERATNE
Rita Sebastian from Colombo
Colombo reeled with shock at the bomb explosion in the heart of the nation's capital that killed the late State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne, and 30 others, including six members of the elite Special Task Force (STF) on
March 2, and injured at least another
70, some of them critically.
The local newspaper that described it as the day when human flesh rained
over a part of Colombo' was not far
wrong. The explosion ripped bodies
apart with heads, legs and fingers
flying into neighbouring gardens, and charring bodies including the late Minister's beyond recognition.
The assassination of the late Ranjan Wijeratne, the most powerful man in the Cabinet, next to President Ranasinghe Premadasa, has created a political vacuum that will, be difficult to fill.
Whether the appointment of Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunge, a soft-liner, is a stop gap arrangement until the scheduled Cabinet reshuffle in the next few weeks, is not yet known.
However the 69-year-old Wijetunge's first public speech to Parliament, after taking over the Defence portfolio is being interpreted by political observers as a conciliatory gesture to woo the Tigers back to the negotiating table.
"I would like to make it very clear said Wijetunge that the doors are still open for discussions and negotiations for anyone wanting to do so. For
Several buildings in the vicinity were damaged beyond repair
anyone wanting to tic process'. The g was not for a milit north-east province ted to resolving is sultation, comprom In marked cont Secretary, General telling newsmen, a briefing following that there was no change in military contrary said the Minister's plans, v was intimately av "carried out with greater confidence bring an end to it c sed doubts about W ties of handling th with the contentic has been chairing Council meetings therefore was awar on, on the ground.
Ranjan Wijeratne “wipe out the Tig repeatedly vow. H Janatha Vimukti P surrection in the S. was a matter of tim even if they didn't “ would get an upper The truth of his assi proved and that wo the military contin sive as General F would.
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enter the democraovernment he said ary solution in the s and was commitsues through “conise and consensus. rast was Defence Cyril Ranatunge, t the first security the assassination t going to be any strategy. On the general, the late vhich the military vare of, would be greater effort and with the resolve to uickly. He dismis'ijetunge's capabilie Defence portfolio on that Wijetunge National Security since 1989 and e of what was going
was determined to
ers' as he would aving crushed the eramuna (JVP) inouth he believed it le before the forces, wipe out the Tigers' hand over them.
essment is yet to be ould well be only if ues with its offenanatunge says it
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intelligence helped net in the elusive JVP leadership. Wijeratne was well aware that the battle with the LTTE was a different ball game, yet with the recent crackdown on Tiger activity in Tamil Nadu and tightened naval surveillance of the Palk Straits things seemed to work in his favour.
Wijeratne had the security forces solidly behind him. He symbolised, specially for the ordinary rank and file a strength and a determination that inspite of reversals, kept their morale high. He was a Defence Minister who led from the Front, visiting military camps, inspecting quarters of soldiers and showing concern for the ordinary soldier on the battle front, in the constant line of guerrilla attacks.
Although Wijeratne was at the receiving end of bitter criticism over alleged army excesses, first in the South where according to Opposition
s politicians an estimated 60,000 per
sons have been killed or have disappeared without a trace, and then in the north where indiscriminate aerial bombardment has led to several civillian casualties, Wijeratne stood by his ΠΘΗ. .
"It is a war we are fighting he said repeatedly to journalists, and in a war civilians are killed'. The ruthlessness
of his approach dismayed several
Liberal and Human Rights groups in the island but in a deeply divided Sri Lankan polity where the State was besieged by two insurrections he was the symbol of the hopes and aspirations of those who believed that he could return the country to peace and normalcy, where people could live, free from fear.
Even his bitterest foes concede that Ranjan Wijeratne was one of the country's few honest politicians. He said what he wanted to say, no matter whom he outraged or offended. His often brutish turn of phrase made him enemies. Diplomacy was not his forte, not even when he was Minister of Foreign Affairs at a time when IndoSri Lanka relations had hit its lowest point.
Whodunit? As crack police sleuths try to piece together evidence that would shed light on the identity of the assassins three groups have become suspect. The Tigers, the JVP and the Casino operators in Colombo involved in drug trafficking and money laundering and with whom Ranjan Wijeratne acted tough.
JVP involvement has been ruled out since the group is almost defunct now and would not have had the capability of undertaking such a sophisticated operation. That has the spotlight on the Tigers and the casino operators.
The Tigers known for their expertise in indigenous technology with regard to explosives and landmines have become prime suspect. But there is some doubt whether they could have orga

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When human flesh
scene of carnage on Havelock Road where mangled metal and p
nised such a complex operation in the heart of the city. The local press has reported that Batticaloa's area leader Newton was in Colombo two days before the explosion. That could be mere conjecture.
The raiding of the Eelavar Democratic Front (EDF) office cum residence in the vicinity of the explosion tried to establish a possible link with the Tigers. But that has since been ruled out too
EDF Member of Parliament, Basheer Segudawood while condemning the killing said in a press statement that the 'EDF does not have any hink or agreement with the LTTE'. The party, he said had given up its armed struggle and accepted democratic principles since the signing of the IndoLanka Agreement in July 1987.
The bomb explosion has once again demonstrated the frightening implications of political violence that seems to be slowly destroying the country's democratic institutions.
It is time for the country's leaders to come to grips with what is happening. it is time to shed communal politics, time for political leaders to come together in good faith to resolve the national question and thus bring an end to the violence and bloodshed.
By S. Sel
Pieces of human within a radius of They were along side the crumbled si on the rooftops of some in the Police
That was the sc saw on arriving at t an hour after the snuffed the life out including that of th Defence, Ranjan W STF men who were cover to him.
The human fle some with bones gory sight even to mind.
Dr. K. Yohesw, surgeon of the Sri Hospital was getti work and was just k when the blast oc was at a safe 150 y garden along Have
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flesh were strewn about 150 yards. Havelock Road, inhops in the vicinity, nearby houses and grounds.
ene this columnist he scene about half powerful bomb that of nearly 150 people e State Minister for Wijeratne and eight providing security
sh, some charred, sticking out was a the most hardened
aran, the popular | Jayewardenepura ng ready to go to knotting his neck tie curred. His house fards away inside a lock Road.
se” he said and took wed the messy state litures were toppled iling had caved in. hat, come out I will ointed out the front
portion of his roof where a part of a human head was stuck on the roof. On the other side of the house he showed me a human limb dangling from a tree. It had a bone and the good surgeon unhesitatingly lifted it and said that it was an elbow. The rest of the anatomy, which he explained, was something beyond my comprehension. The doctor said he was thrown off onto the settee by the blast. Right opposite the doctor's house lives D. Nelson. "I felt as if the whole world had exploded before I came to realise that it was a bomb explosion. Then bits and pieces of my roof started falling. The front portion of my house started caving in. I rushed out with the children but could not proceed any further because there were a series of miniexplosions one after another', he added.
Nelson's children looked dazed and the women folk in the house were crying. “Why are you crying, is anyone of your's hurt?' I asked one of the women folk in the house. "How can we be- without crying. Mathathaya. Look at that and she pointed out to a woman's head just above the forehead all charred, lying on a branch of a Murunga tree in their garden. That
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part of the woman's head still haunts
ne.
Next I met Luxman Tillekaratne, a private bus driver. He was almost crying though nothing had happened to the passengers in his bus.
"I was just passing Thummulla Junction when another Maharagma-bound bus overtook me. The driver was blocking my path and I had to drive slowly behind him. When I was about yards away from the scene I heard a loud explosion and a heavy impact on my windscreen. It was a human body. Due
THE CASNO CONNECTION
Despite the widely held belief that the LTTE was behind Ranjan Wijeratine's murder, many in Colombo have not ruled out the possibility of a connection between the murder and the deportation of the controversial Singaporean casino king, Sim Hong Chye, better known among political and security circles and the growing casino community as Joe Sim, followed by a major crackdown against several foreigners, mainly from Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand, allegedly involved in a number of vices and rackets including narcotics, smuggling operations, prostitution, foreign exchange frauds and other criminal activities.
Following the government's decision, it was left to the late Ranjan Wijeratne to ensure that steps were taken to put the once powerful Joe Sim, who appeared to have had the ear of many in high places, on a flight bound for Singapore on 20 February following an expulsion order. On the following day Wijeratne told pressmen that Joe Sim had been expelled for violating the country's laws in more than one way.
In a statement to Parliament, Mr Ranjan Wijeratne referring to the expulsion order of Joe Sim said that he had been using several passports under two names. He had been operating in Sri Lanka under the name "Tribond Group of Companies' located on the 6th floor of the capital's tallest building, Ceylinco House. This company had many so-called subsidiaries including Ascot International Tours (Pvt) Ltd, Tribond Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, The Centurian Club Lanka, Continental Club, Curzon Club, Jade Gardens, Junius Mining (Pvt) Ltd., Pattaya Restaurant (Pvt) Ltd.
Joe Sim had been operating junket tours of foreign nationals for participating in gambling in Sri Lanka. Inquiries had revealed that he had been engaged in illegal foreign currency
to the explosion my Next, I saw the l burning. Aiyo Mah le passenger couldj which was envelo then. Thereafter, explosions. Igot ou for cover'. He had n over his body.
There was a crow and wailing, trying cordon, to identify t they were allowed, been successful sir charred beyond re they might succeec
transactions, pro from foreign count participating in hi tions. He had emplc als as personal bo been illegally carr Minister said.
Joe Sim had obta on 20 January 198 he would be engag project for exportin visa had been ren time. A person na been assisting Joe activities. Whilst t couraged foreign maintained an ope) not permit the mis policies to carry out al activities. Any S be giving assistan international rack engaging in immor ties would be dealt law, the Minister w
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BATTICA Hundreds of ethni this isolated distric Sri Lanka have dis months amid a civ taken into custod security forces, acco compiled by Chri and civic leaders.
Relatives of the exactly 2,009, accor - assert that the from refugee camps even hospital beds by security forces ( 'death squads' that jeeps and trucks.
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engine had stalled,
pus in front of me atmaya, not a singump out of that bus ped in flames by I heard a series of t of my bus and ran hinor cut injuries all
'd of people weeping to break the police he dead. But even if they wouldn't have hce all bodies were 'cognition. Perhaps l if they knew how
:uring prostitutes aries for customers s gambling operayed foreign nationdyguards who had ying firearms, the
ined a resident visa 8 on the basis that ged in an approved g sharkfin, and his ewed from time to med David Lee had
Sim in his illegal he government en
investment and n economy it would use of these liberal illegal and immorri Lankan found to ce or patronage to eteers and crooks al and ilegal activiwith according to varned.
to identify their kith and kin from various parts of human bodies that were strewn along Havelock Road for a distance of about 300 yards from Thummulla Junction.
There wasn't a single house or shop in the vicinity that escaped the wrath of the devastating bomb.
R. Ravindra who cycles to the Police Grounds on Saturdays for athletic practices said he was reading about the Gulf War in the morning papers when he heard the explosion from a safe 500 yards away. The first thing that came to his mind was whether it was a Scud missile attack.
During the night of 22 February, the Police Bureau of Special Operations carried out simultaneous raids on twelve casinos in Colombo and took into custody sixteen foreign nationals. Following their arrest and detention, police sources announced that many of them were going to be charged with criminal offences and for staying in the country without valid visas.
Gambling operations including casinos dominated by foreign South-east Asian nationals with local counterparts providing formal fronts had proliferated in the capital and even in suburban cities during the last three to four years, and of late they had become the focal point of all sorts of rackets and vices and underworld activities behind the facade of night-life entertainment for the rich and the powerful. Ranjan Wijeratine's promise to 'clean up the city' and swift action that followed would have naturally earned the wrath of these foreign nationals and their local counterparts.
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missing Tamils - ding to the registry youth were taken , movie houses and and then executed pr pro-government roam the region in
y they believe that
some of the youths may have ended up on the piles ofburning bodies periodically seen along roadsides here this winter.
Army and government officials have denied executing any Tamil detainees, but at the same time they are unable to account for the 2,009 missing
youths. They say some may have been killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a guerrilla force fighting to create a separate Tamil state in northeastern Sri Lanka.
The rash of disappearances in Batticaloa, a coastal city of 50,000, represents just one aspect of the brutality and terror in Tamil areas of this divided island nation.
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Govt Orders Refugees to Quit from UNHCR Camp
The lives of s e veral thousand refugees have been put at risk after the Government announced yesterday that it was going to conduct military operations near a United Nations administered refugee camp and ordered the camp evacuated. The U.N. officials said they would *“strongly protest the decision through the appropriate channels'. : The Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne, said refugees at the Madhu Church Camp, which is being administered by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) had been asked to leave temporarily to allow military operations in the area. The military was planning a land and air operation against two LTTE bases near the refugee centre.
The Minister said leaflets had been dropped over the camp asking the refugees to move out. Sources at Madhu Camp, however, reported that no leaflets had been dropped as yet, and no milit: ary activity had started
either.
Relief workers say there are at least 20,000 Tamil refugees at the Madhu Camp in Mannar district which is the largest in the North and East. Mr. Wijeratne claimed there were only 11,000 people, of whom 2,000 were Tigers'. The Sri Lan kan G o vernment, however, does not venture anywhere near the camp, which like most of the Northern Province is out
side the control of the army. The relief agencies working at the camp are a far more authentic source of information.
WULNERABLE: Relief workers say there is no way these people can be physically evacuated before military operations start, and there is nowhere for them to go. The Madhu Camp has sprung up around a church in the jungles in an isolated part of Mannar district. Refugees from all over the North and East have flocked to the camp for sanctuary because it is isolated, and free of military activity.
Once military operations start, there is a very real likelihood that the camp will be bombed from the air, and that civilians will become victims of any operations in the area. The refugees live in a vast encampment of tents, which would be extremely vulnerable to air attack. NOT PRACTICAL: Mr. Wijeratne has asked if the refugees could move to Mannar or Vavuniya town, but given the lack of transport, this is not practical. The Minister said buses and lorries would be provided but relief workers on the spot say there is no way the Government is going to be able to get enough vehicles through the jungles to evacuate such a large number of people.
Mr. Wijeratne said he had sent letters to the relief ag en cies w orking in Madhyu Church to clear out of the area.
200 TAMILS ROUNDED-UP IN COLOMBO
In a major crackdown in Colombo only hours after
unknown assassins blew up
Defence Minister Ranjan Wijeratine's official convoy of vehicles on Havelock Road in Colombo, police teams set about carrying out raids and cordon-and-search operations in the course of which at least 200 Tamils were rounded-up and detained in custody.
The detained Tamils were
moved into police stations where they were subjected to intensive interrogation to ascertain any possible connection with the car bomb attack.
The police who have so far failed to achieve any breakthrough in their inquiries, have offered a reward of one million rupees to any person giving information leading to the apprehension of those responsible or involved in the bomb attack.

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SRI LANKA REFUGEES TRUST IN HOLY SHRINE
Civil war victims are struggling to keep a threatened haven. Christopher Morris reports from Madhu
At 6am on Sundays, Madhu church, deep in the heart of the northern Sri Lankan jungles is packed with worshippers. A remote village, which used to come alive only on feast days, when hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the country descended on the shrine, Madhu is now home to nearly 20,000 refugees.
It has been a sanctuary for hundreds of years. Catholics fleeing from persecution by local Hindu kings, and by the colonial protestant Dutch, arrived at a jungle clearing which had a plentiful supply of water. They carried the statue which was to become Our Lady of Madhu.
Seeking sanctuary today are some of the hundreds of thousands fleeing from the vicious war in the north and east of the island between Sri Lankan goverment forces and Tamil Tiger separatist guerrillas. Now the government has said it wants the refugee camp evacuated so it can launch military operations in the rebel-held jungles.
But the refugees are determined not to leave the security of the camp, which is run by officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Since work began on the site last September, nearly 1,000 individual huts, and two dozen large communal huts, have been built.
The UNHCR also brings
food convoys across the bat
tle lines from the south, feeding the refugees and thousands of other people in the surrounding area. These
efforts ensure there is no
shortage of basic foods here, and the surrounding jungles provide plenty of delicious extras, such as peacock, iguana and wild boar.
Madhu also has a rapidly developing market, with
fresh produce on sale every day. People pass the time helping to repair roads or by building more huts for those without shelter. There is a sense of stability about the place, which the refugees believe they will not find elsewhere.
The army argues that the middle of the war zone is no place for a refugee camp. But fear prevents people from travelling south. Nearly everyone has a relative or friend among the thousands of civilians who have disappeared or been killed in the past few months.
The UNHCR has sent a formal protest to the government, urging it to reconsider its decision to evacuate Madhu. The fear in the camp is that if no one is willing to leave, military operations, including aerial bombing, may begin anyway.
Our Lady of Madhu has been making her own news recently. The day after the government announced its plans to evacuate the camp, thousands of people say they saw one of her statues rocking gently back and forth. The next day, the government minister who had made the announcement, Ranjan Wijeratme, was killed by a bomb in Colombo. "It was a sign', said a man near the church. 'We have faith in Our Lady'.
Locals say Madhu has a history of miracles. Many people who have been bitten by snakes come to pray and are apparently cured. Sand from Madhu, which is kept inside the church, is considered holy. Pilgrims travel for many miles to be blessed with it.
So it is a powerful combination of pragmatic and spiritual reasons which draws people. Father Jayasoorajah, the adminis
trator of the shrine, said: "As
soon as fighting started again last June, people came - it has always been a place where they feel safe. People from all religions have faith in the shrine and its sanctity”.
(The Guardian 8.3.91)

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Opposition Boycotts Parliament
Members of Parliament belonging to the opposition parties are continuing a boycott of Sri Lanka's parliament following violent incidents on 21 February in the course of which MPs and even Ministers belonging to the ruling United National Party are alleged to have physically attacked opposition MPs.
The chief target of the ruling party MPs was the irrepressible NSSP MP, Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara, who following disputed ruling by the Deputy Chairman of Committees, occupied the Speaker's chair while the Deputy Chairman was occupying his seat below the Speaker’s rostrum. Mr Nanayakkara is reported to have been dragged from the chair, violently assaulted and kicked by government MPs and when other MPs of the opposition
"Govt’s Conditions Unacceptable
came to the rescue of Mr Nanayakkara, there was a general violent free-for-all. Some members wrestled with each other on the red carpet of the parliamentary floor.
Trouble started on the previous day when opposition MPs disputed the ruling by the Deputy Speaker allowing the government to debate the Agrarian Services (Amendment) Bill which the opposition alleged the government was trying to rush through without adequate notice and violation of an agreement reached previously between government and opposition whips.
Even as the opposition MPs are boycotting parliament, a motion of censure against Mr Vasudeva Nanayakkara was subsequently moved and adopted with only government MPs in attendance.
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- LTTE Deputy Leader
LTTE second in command Ma hen dra raja a li a s Mahaththaya has told "The Hindu' that the three conditions the Sri Lanka Government has laid down for talks with "Tigers' were unacceptable.
The conditions are, the LTTE should lay down its weapons, the military wing of the LTTE should be involved in the negotiations and all the other political parties should be involved.
In his first interview since the fighting resumed last June, Mahaththaya had told "The Hindu' correspondent Thomas Abraham in Jaffna:
“We have already clearly told the Sri Lankan Government that we will not lay down our arms until the Tamil problem is solved'. On the condition that only milit3ary wing should be involved in talks, Mr Mahendraraja said: "It is for our leadership to decide who will participate in talks. He made it clear that the LTTE was not going to tolerate other amil groups, whom he described as "anti-national', participating in future peace talks. "They don't have a policy at all. One day they
will support the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, one day they will support the Sixth Amendment, one day they will accept the unitary Constitution ... and they have cooperated with the invading armies to kill our own people'.
"The Hindu' report said: Mr. Mahendraraja, a soft spoken man who chooses his words carefully, appeared perfectly relaxed, and showed no sign of being under any sort of pressure. The interview was conducted in an LTTE office near Kondavil, in a long thatch roofed room lined with portraits of the LTTE martyrs. Outside, armed LTTE cadres in well tailored camouflage uniforms and ankle length combat boots stood under the palm trees scanning the horizon for Sri Lankan aircraft. "Mahaththaya' spoke in Tamil, and Mr. Yogaratnam Yogi translated it into English.
The LTTE leaders did not give any indications that they felt they were on the losing end of the war, and seemed confident that they would be able to outlast the Sri Lankan Army. Asked for his assessment of how the

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war was going for the LTTE, "Mahaththaya' pointed out that the LTTE was no longer a solely guerrilla force, but had become a conventional "National Liberation Army'. ,
Change in Tactics: "In 1970 we began as a guerrilla force. But from June (when the current round of fighting broke out), we have changed our mode of struggle to that of a national liberation army. We have captured a Sri Lankan Army camp'. The LTTE second in command, however, added that the change in tactics was only partial, and
that the Tigers would still use guerrilla tactics when they thought it appropriate. He would not, however, be drawn into a discussion on the LTTE's military capabilities and tactics, or give his assessment of how the war was evolving. "We cannot predict what is going to happen.The struggle will go on, but we cannot predict what exactly is going to happen'. Mr. Mahendraraja said the Sri Lankan Government might take advantage of the international community's pre-occupation with the Gulf war to launch a major offensive.
INDIA MOOTS INTERIM COUNCIL FOR NORTH-EAST
The Indian High commissioner, Mr N.N. Jha, has suggested that an interim administration for the North and East Comprising the non-LTTE Tamil groups be formed as a first step towards restoring Tamil self-government in the area.
Mr. Jha said that as it would not be legally possible to resurrect the North-East Provincial Council, an interim council would be formed to allow the Tamil groups to play a role in the civil administration.
The High Commissioner said that even if the ground situation did not allow the interim council to play a major role in the civil administration, there would be a psychological benefit for the Tamils. "The Tamil groups could at least attempt to play a role then. They could do relief work, distributing rations and so on. This would have its own political impact'.
India has not formally made this proposal to Sri Lanka, but Mr. Jha said he had discussed the idea with Sri Lankan officials and Ministers.
He said that the proposal was a follow-up of the political concerns expressed during Mr. V.C. Shukla's visit here last month and added that 'since we are committed to the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of 1987, we have a continuing interest in what is happening in the North and East by virtue of the agreement
The High Commissioner also made it clear that his proposal was intended to support the political initiatives that the President, Mr. R. Premadasa had taken. "The President has made a lot of concessions. It can be carried a small step further'.
Mr. Jha said that by leaving a vacuum in the administration in the North and East, an impression could be created that "the seat was being kept warm for the LTTE”.
'Why should that be so?' he asked. "There are other groups who also enjoy a presence in the area'.
In his last press briefing before his assassination, State Minister for Defence Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne ruled out the idea of an interim Council on the ground that the laws of the country as they stood did not provide for such a Council. If one was to be set up, then new legislation had to be enacted.
Asked about the reaction of other Tamil parties to the setting up of such a Council, Mr. Wijeratne said, "I would not expose them to the wrath of the Tigers. I would have them alive rather than dead. The LTTE had decimated almost the entire Tamil leadership'. To a suggestion that some Tamil group favoured the formation of an interim Council, the Minister said, "I know. Some of them want to go to the next world. I do not want them to go there. I prefer to have them with us'.

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wanton Bombing R.
in Valvettiturai
From Thomas Abraham
VELVETTITURAI (Jaffna peninsula). Sri Lankan Airforce planes dropped at least one barrel bomb, a crude version of a napalm bomb, on a school in this coastal village, and destroyed temples, churches, schools and houses during four days of wanton bombing and artillery fire that appears to have been aimed solely at civilians. A good part of this town, which is the birthplace of the LTTE leader, Mr. V. Prabhakaran,
and several other LTTE leaders, has been reduced to rubble, but an LTTE
cause these are th ple take refuge du “We were lucky, m to the temples an They either ran aw or went into their bombing started', s sundaram.
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base slightly outside the town was not
touched.
The attacks took place from January 20 to 23, but news of the extent of
destruction, and the scale of attacks on
civilian targets has not yet filtered to 's-
the outside world. "This is the worst attack we have ever suffered, worse than the Vadamarachi offensive, worse than the IPKF. It is the worst in our history, said Mr. K. Shanmugasundaram, a former ship's purser who has formed a rehabilitation committee for the town.
The Sri Lankan Government said the air attacks were aimed at the LTTE boat landing points on the coast', but a visit to the town makes it clear that the air force has concentrated on unmistakably civilian targets.
The roofs of the two huge temples, Sivan and Muthumariamman temples have been destroyed. But the walls of the 100 year old temples, which adjoin each other, are intact. Their interiors are littered with debris from broken tiles. Four other temples have also been bombed. A bomb dropped in the compound has taken the roof off the local church.
Barrel Bomb
The twisted remains of a barrel bomb can still be seen sticking out of a crater in a class room in Sivaguru Vidyasaram school. The bomb consists of a metal barrel, of the kind that is used to tranpost kerosene and diesel, stuffed with pieces of rubber, chemicals and petroleum products which explode on impact. Bits of molten rubber which stick to a victims skin are also released when the bomb explodes. Fortunately there were no children around when the bomb was dropped, but desks and chairs have been burned to cinders, and the walls of the class room have been charred. Other conventional bombs have completely wrecked the school buildings.
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old girl, who was hit by splinters on her left leg. According to eyewitness, the bombers came in at around 5.30pm on January 31 and dived straight at the market place and let loose four bombs at the crowd of between 100 and 150. A school with refugees and a small medical post flying the Red Cross flag was just 100 metres away, and the people on the spot are convinced that the refugee camp was the real target of the bombers.
Another school which was being used as a refugee camp at Kokkuvil in Jaffna was bombed in the evening of February 2. There were 43 refugee families in the school, and a 14-yearold girl lost her leg while two others . suffered minor injuries.
Curious Object
The previous week, the Hindu high school at Kondavil had been attacked, the boat jetty at Pooneryn was strafed, and a temple at Murukandy, south of Killinochi was bombed. A man, his three-and-a-half year old daughter and a 10-year-old boy were killed at Murukandy. A barrel bomb dropped in a field at Murukandy failed to explode, and has now been kept in the market place, where the curious gape at it.
"They seem to be concentrating entirely on civilian targets', said a long time Jaffna resident. "Civilians have always been killed, but over the past few weeks, the air force seems to be concentrating on market places, schools and refugee camps'.
There is little evidence that any LTTE member has been killed or wounded in any of these attacks, and the only result they seem to be having is to confirm the people in their belief that they can never expect any justice from the Government in Colombo.
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UNITED NATIONS HUMA
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The human rights situation in Sri Lanka figured prominently during the 47th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission held in Geneva during February-March this year.
Reports submitted to the sessions by the Commission's Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances and the Special Raporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Killings contained substantial sections relating to the large scale 'disappearances' and summary executions that have taken place in the island and reported to the United Nations.
During the debates on the gross violation of human rights, a number of government delegations and NonGovernmental Organisations intervened to critically comment on the widespread violation of human rights in Sri Lanka covering the situation in the Tamil areas as well as in the rest of the island.
In their reply, the Sri Lankan government's delegation led by the Presidential Special Advisor on International Affairs, Mr. Bradman Weerakoon did not even make an attempt to challenge or deny the various allegations of human rights violations against his government.
Joint Statement by 22 NGOs The following is the text of a joint intervention by 22 NGOs, патely:
1. International Federation —Terre des Hommes, 2. International Educational Development Inc., i3. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 4. Pax Romana, 5. Liberation, 6. International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples,
7. International Organisation for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
8. Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples,
9. Latin American Federation of associations of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees,
10. World Conference on Religion and Peace, 11. Disabled Peoples' International, 12. International Abolitionist Federation, 13. International Indian Treaty Council, 14. World University Service, 15. World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 16. International Association of Educators for World Peace, v−
17. International Alert, 18. American Association of Jurists, 19. International Peace Bureau, 20. International Association of Democratic Lawyers, 21. Centre Europe – Tiers Monde, 22. Arab Organisation for Human Rights. w:
As a group of 22 NGOs we wish to convey to the Commission our very serious concern regarding the viola-' tions of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka. Concerns have been identified in the oral interventions of a number of member nations of the Commission, by
 
 

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observer nations, and by many of the NGOs present. We make this statement together to urge the Commission to further express its collective concern regarding Sri Lanka in the form of a resolution as it has done in the case of many
other countries. −
The resumption of armed hostilities in June 1990 in the North-East Province between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been accompanied by increasing human rights violations in this region. In addition to 3,000 combatant deaths reported by the government, local organizations have reported at least 4,000 deaths amongst the unarmed civilian population. Of particular concern is the relentless and indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the north. The proliferation of violence has resulted in the total disruption of economic life and inadequate supply of essential services such as food, electricity and water. The population is being deprived of their human right to survive.
As of December 7 1990 the Department of Social Services indicated that it was providing assistance to 1.2 million people displaced from their homes in the north and east. At least 210,000 people have fled to Tamil Nadu as refugees.
In the South, too, the human rights situation continues to create grave concern. The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances still has 1,140 outstanding cases. Human rights organizations in Sri Lanka became aware of 40 disappearances in the month of January 1991 alone. The government of Sri Lanka acknowledged on December 3, 1990 that 8,295 people remain in detention under Emergency Regulations and the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The continuation of the state of emergency permits the state to engage in violations of many of the democratic rights of the people of Sri Lanka such as the right to freedom of association and the right of expression. The failure to safeguard the rights of all peoples on the island, the overall militarization of society and the continuing atmosphere of violence and terror all create a situation in which democratic and fundamental rights are continually abused and violated.
As NGOs we are convinced that a resolution on Sri Lanka from this 47th Session of the Commission on Human Rights would decrease human rights violations and promote fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka. We urge you to pass a resolution which: (i) recalls resolution #61/87 which recognizes the necessity of ending the existing armed hostilities to enable the resumption of negotiations; (ii) expresses serious concern regarding the continuing violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Sri Lanka and (iii) conveys its support for the role that the Centre for Human Rights and its mechanisms can play in the promotion of human rights in Sri Lanka'.
Pax Romana The following is the text of the intervention by Pax Romand
"The years 1989 and 1990 can perhaps be called the darkest in the history of Sri Lanka. During this time we, the people of Sri Lanka, witnessed mass killings, abduction and disappearances. We saw bodies burning on the roadside, and bodies floating down our rivers. Most of the people

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affected by this violence were from the poor and rural areas of the island, north and south. The Amnesty International Report for 1990 recorded over 2,000 cases of disappearances, while the Report of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said it had trans- . mitted complaints regarding 1,182 cases to the Sri Lankan government, of which 1,140 remained as "outstanding” as of the date of the report. A fact-finding mission consisting of 2 British members of the European Parliament and 2 lawyers who visited Sri Lanka in September 1990 reported in November 1990 that they had received reports of over 60,000 cases of disappearances, in the south of the country alone, since 1987.
The case of the abduction and murder of journalist Richard de Zoysa is well known throughout the world. Despite a demand for an Independent Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances of his death, there is no sign of the state taking any steps to prosecute the Police personnel identified by Mr. de Zoysa's mother as being among the group that took her son away on the night of February 18, 1990. Among the yet unresolved cases of abduction is that of Mr. K. Kugamoorthy, a well known human rights activist and programme producer of the Tamil service of the state Broadcasting Corporation, who was abducted while on his way home from work on September 6, 1990. These are only two cases which have received wide publicity internationally; there are thousands more who have been abducted, killed or simply "disappeared'. In recent months the Mothers' Front of the South, the Organisation of Families of the Disappeared and Mothers & Daughters of Lanka have joined hands with human rights organisations in the country to demand justice on behalf of their loved ones.
In January 1991, the President announced the appointment of a Three Member Commission to inquire into "cases of the involuntary removal of persons'; however, the mandate of this Commission is dated from the 11th January 1991. Thus, the period of 1989 and 1990, years during which thousands of people disappeared in Sri Lanka, will not be taken into account by this Commission, and all groups concerned about the violation of human rights in Sri Lanka should be concerned about the implications of such an act.
The continuing state of emergency in Sri Lanka also permits the restriction and violation of fundamental rights with impunity. For example, Emergency Regulation No. 1 of 1990 restricts the rights of workers and students to organise in their places of work, study or residence, severely restricting the right of association and organisation.
In recent months, we have also observed a new trend in the form of arrest, detention and even disappearance of persons. In some of the suburban industrial areas of Colombo, for example, we have seen the Police and state officials conniving with factory owners to harass and intimidate workers. The case of Raymond Perera, a trade union leader of the Associated Battery Manufacturers factory, is one that deserves special mention. He disappeared on the 4th September 1990; due to heavy pressure from national and international labour organisations, he "re-appeared” on the 21st September, having been abandoned, blind-folded on a bridge at one of the entry points to the city of Colombo. He was formally arrested on the 5th October, and is still in detention at the Mount Lavinia Police Station, with no cause given as to his prolonged detention.
The Emergency Regulations also permit the indefinite detention of suspected "subversives'; in December 1990, the Minister of State for Defence admitted that there were 6,952 youths detained under Emergency laws, and a further 1,343 under the infamous Prevention of Terrorism Act. The rights of these persons are severely restricted; many detainees have not been permitted access to family or lawyers even after Court has given directions that such permission be granted. In recent months, there have been

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also many complaints of attempts by state and Police personnel to subvert the cause of justice even in those cases which have been brought to court. In December 1990 alone there were 2 instances on which the Supreme Court warned 'Police officers not to intimidate or interfere with persons who had filed fundamental rights cases alleging illegal detention and torture, after the applicants had made representations to the Court that such acts of intimidation had taken place. Thus the right to a fair trial is seriously jeopardised. Conditions of imprisonment is another matter of concern; in January 1991, one political detainee was killed and several others injured in a clash with prison guards at the Magazine Prisons in Colombo; human rights groups have expressed their concern at the manner in which the inquiry into the incident is proceeding.
The emergency has also been used to disperse antigovernment demonstrations, even when they have been peaceful and silent protests, as for example, the demonstration organised by the United Socialist Alliance in the Central Province capital of Kandy on the 15th December 1990. In January too, several anti-Gulf War demonstrations were dispersed by the Police. When questioned on this issue, the Ministry of State has said that demonstrations and pickets are not permitted but meetings could be held.
Recently, at a public meeting in a small town in the south, Hakmana, the President of Sri Lanka was reported as saying "but remember, under the emergency, the security forces will get a free hand to implement certain measures to restore peace in the country, which I won't be able to help. In that event, please don't ask for statistics once the job is done'. Given that this is the attitude of the ruler of Sri Lanka, can we expect any effort on their part to defend the right to life of the citizens of Sri Lanka?
It is in this context, Mr. Chairman, that we strongly urge the Commission for Human Rights to support those initiatives within Sri Lanka that are making a stand for peace and democracy. We urge you to support a process which will lead to the cessation of military hostilities and to the evolution of a negotiated political settlement of the ethnic conflict in our country. We see this to be an essential pre-condition for the restoration of peace and democracy to our country. We also appeal for your support to ensure that the visit of the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances to Sri Lanka will take place as scheduled in 1991; we appeal for international pressure to compel the Sri Lankan government to publish a list of all detainees and to appoint an Independent Commission of Inquiry into Disappearances dating from 1987 onwards. The support of the international community is a crucial factor in deciding the future of our country and of our people, the people of the island of Sri Lanka'.
international Education inc.
The following is the text of the intervention by International Education Development Inc.:
"In Sri Lanka a civil war still rages. We were heartened by the peace initiative of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of December 21, 1990 and by the government's initial response announced by a Communique on January 3, 1991. Regrettably, the government was unwilling to continue a cease fire.
The situation in Sri Lanka has been detrimental to the Tamil people there for forty years, especially since the 1950 disenfranchisement of the plantation Tamils reduced Tamil voting power to less than 20% and increased the Sinhala voting power to 80%.
The many peaceful means to defend human rights tried by the subjugated Tamils all failed, and, especially after the massacres of Tamils in 1983, the Tamil people have increasingly sought the use of force to defend basic human rights and their aspirations as a people. At this point, the Tamil people appear totally unwilling to accept any alien domination - they have justifiably lost all confidence that a

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Sinhala-dominated government will ever protect the full rights of Tamil people.
This forum has heard voluminous testimony about Sri Lanka from many NGOs and governments at one time or another in the past ten years. Today, the situation is probably worse than at any other time in these ten years. Current examples include:
(1) 2009 disappeared Tamil youth in recent months, according to a tally compiled by Christian missionaries, some of them Jesuits affiliated with IED;
(2) nearly 6000 Tamil civilian casualties since June 1990;
(3) up to 60,000 deaths in the South since 1987;
In spite of the worsening situation there has been no official Commission action on Sri Lanka since 1987. IED most strongly urges the Commission on Human Rights to address the on-going armed conflict and human rights situation in Sri Lanka with a view to helping the parties to the conflict arrive at a ceasefire, a process of dialogue to meet the legitimate demands of the Tamil people and full restoration of human rights to all Sinhala citizens'.
Amnesty International The following are extracts from the intervention by Amnesty International
There are still other situations where the Commission's expressions of concern have not been followed by sustained scrutiny. In 1987 the Commission adopted a resolution on SRI LANKA. Although the government has, since 1989, granted access to the International Committee of the Red Cross and has taken some other steps aimed at containing abuses, grave and widespread human rights violations have persisted for more than seven years and continue in 1991. These have occurred in the context of government measures to suppress armed opposition movements in the northeast and the south. Abuses, by opposition groups, including the torture and killing of prisoners, have been extensive but Amnesty International believes that this cannot absolve the government of its responsibility to curb violations committed by the security forces. During 1990, thousands of people, including young children, 'disappeared' or were extrajudicially executed by government forces in the northeast after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had renewed its offensive against the government in June. In the south, 'disappearances and extrajudicial executions continued to be carried out by government forces and 'death squads' linked to them, although to a lesser degree than in 1989. However, last year evidence of the scale of violations committed in the south in 1988 and 1989 mounted, indicating that tens of thousands of people had "disappeared' or had been extrajudicially executed. The government has taken no effective steps to clarify the fate of these or the thousands of other people who have "disappeared” or been killed in recent years.
Those committed to the cause of justice in their respective communities (are frequently viewed as threats to the security of the state and) often become targets of "disappearance”. In SRI LANKA, where several thousand people have "disappeared” in the context of the current conflict, Kumaraguru Kugamoorthy, a member of the Tamil minority who was active in the defence of civil rights, was detained by a group of armed men, one in camouflage uniform, and "disappeared” in September 1990. The search undertaken by his relatives has included letters to the President of Sri Lanka and to the Minister of State for Defence. His whereabouts remain unknown'.
Women's International
The following is the text of the intervention by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: From Sri Lanka, too, we have received disturbing reports about the way in which more than 1.2 million persons displaced as a result of the internal conflict are being treated, and would like to draw your attention to the basic needs and rights of these persons.
Many women have been killed as a result of state violence
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and non-state armed groups, especially since 1987. As usual, the sexual abuse of women is one of the most terrible consequences of the war and civil conflict.
Many who have witnessed killings and abductions have been silenced. Fear and intimidation are used by both state and non-state armed groups. People who dare to speak out against this injustice have been brutaly assassinated. Rajini Thiranagama, a well known human rights activist, was shot in cold blood in Jaffna in September 1989, shortly before the publication of the book The Broken Palmyrah, which she co-authored. The book condemned human rights violations committed by the armed forces of the Sri Lankan and Indian governments, and by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In the same month, Gladys Jayawardena, chairperson of the State Pharmaceuticals Corporation was shot dead in Colombo for having defied a JVP-People's Liberation Front edict prohibiting the import of essential drugs from India.
The brutal manner in which the Sri Lankan Armed Forces have treated women taken into custody for alleged involvement in "subversive' activity, has been well documented. One woman testified that she had seen bodies of raped and sexually brutalised women floating down the river near her home. There are many women on the lists of disappeared persons.
In recent months, several cases of the disappearance of released detainees have been brought to our attention. Many family members of the disappeared have been threatened not to proceed with inquiries or with habeas corpus cases. Reports of threats and intimidation of persons who have filed cases alleging violation of their fundamental rights have reached us.
These examples show that there is little justice for victims of human rights violations in Sri Lanka at present. We are concerned that the mothers, wives, and daughters of those who have been killed, abducted, disappeared or detained in the past are today being intimidated and targeted.
Despite all efforts to silence them, the Mothers' Front of Sri Lanka held its first national meeting on 19 February 1991. More than 10,000 women came together to affirm their commitment to peace, negotiation among all parties to the conflict, and unity in demanding justice from the government. We appeal to this Commission to urge the Sri Lankan government to facilitate the visits to Sri Lanka in 1991, of the Working Group on Disappearances and the Special Raporteur on Executions and to guarantee protection to all who speak out against violations of human rights.
In each of the cases mentioned, there are non-violent alternatives to war. These alternatives begin with the cessation of hostilities and the gross violations of human right that accompany armed conflicts, and the initiation of negotiations to settle the conflicts peacefully. States are furthermore obliged to promote respect for political and civil, as well as economic, social and cultural rights to create conditions favourable to the realization of the right to
development. (Continued in next issue)
President refers to "Mothers of Murderers'
Addressing a public rally at Galewela in Dambulla on 23 February President Premadasa in an obvious reference to the public rally held by the "Mother's Front on 19 February, said that it should be remembered that the thousands brutally killed by the JVP also had mothers. He added that during the orgy of JVP killings and violence those in the opposition had come to him and pleaded to re-enforce the state of emergency and take concrete steps to wipe out the JVP.
"At that time I thought to myself what they would say after the threat was overcome and everything was over. I consulted political parties for several days and had a five hour discussion with the government parliamentary group and every MP also wanted the emergency re-enforced. I can bring out the tapes of the talks I had with the opposition at that time and the relevant press clippings and show to the world what those who had now joined hands with the mothers of JVP murderers said then, "Don't force me to do it, the President said.

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In the midst of war and tragedy, when people are overwhelmed by hopelessness and feel powerless to do anything for themselves, our reports are causing uneasiness amongst many quarters abroad. We address this section mainly to the expatriate community with a view to raising some important questions concerning our survival and our future. Whether they like it or not their wishes, perception and activities very much influence the fate of the people at home. Moreover in the meantime, large numbers of boys and girls are voluntarily and involuntarily giving their lives, and people with no avenue to leave are bearing the brunt of the War. Thus, those who make judgements and influence the course of events have a grave duty to seek out facts, think seriously and understand what it means to the community and where we are heading. There are many who supported the cause, directly or indirectly helped to destroy lives, then came out of it saying they made a mistake, and devote themselves to pursuing lives and careers in the West. To them the whole experience was as water off a duck's back. Many more are likely to follow this irresponsible course. But to the community at home, the damage done is irreversible.
On the other hand if they take responsibility for what has happened, dissociate themselves from present trends, enlighten others and move towards creating a new history, they can make a positive contribution. This would also create space for healthier developments at home and influence benignly the culture of the world as a whole.
We need to first look at the struggle in the context of Sri Lanka's history and explode some myths that are prevalent in the Tamil middle class — particularly abroad. We need to see the historical connections and pose the question whether we ever had a liberating politics.
We will not go into matters that shave been written about at length elsewhere. But we merely highlight some developments and pose some questions. When the majority Sinhalese community succumbed to the politics of narrow nationalism, the process of nation building was des... troyed from within. Politicians from the minorities too responded with variations of the same ideology. They became prisoners of it for their political survival. There were small groups of Tamils trying to promote alternatives, creative responses to Sinhalese chauvinism. They failed, partly on account of their own limitations, and largely because of the potency of narrow nationalism. When questions were raised about the honesty of politicians, their hypocrisy and the world of a difference between rhetoric and reality, there were the usual cliches con
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cerning motherla traitor. At best pe ignore appearances rass the politicians achieve something.' gle was super-impo without exposing th futile nature of na Some of the militan up against the sam and often had a fat that of their non
SOTS.
In the actions an dominant politics of clear stamp of the legacy of the TUI difference between r is far more glaring. has this politics s munity feeling a speaking peoples? In unite Tamils and M. why did this politics division and bitter where no such exist ing politics rely on and appealing to sec mobilisation? Today the horror of the log narrow nationalism
It is not our tas issues of violence an it suffices to point o of liberation strugg component, have pl of thought and ac Tsung and Hamilca a few, who have wri the subject. Our lea service to them. Th about which they a gle must be about ple, on whom it i liberation fighter i sence inspires conf the people feel thei To take the secon people have only degraded and wo situations here, the er actually inspires The question too ol trick will he play to kill us? In place of

15 MARCH 1991
AL TO EXPATRATE TAMLS
N THE MIDST \R AND TRAGEDY
section titled 'An Appeal to Expatriate Tamils' from Report No. 6 y Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) in February 1991. The 113 Ender the title "The Politics of Destruction & The Human Tragedy ber 1990 to January 1991. Since the outbreak of the war between
the LTTE in June 1990, the UTHR(J) has published many on War of June 1990, Bombings in Jaffna', 'Operation Major - he Islands off Jaffna', 'A Bloody Stalemate', and "The War and its
parai District.)
ind, purity and ople were told to and not to embarwho were trying to The militant strugsed on this politics le totalitarian and rrow nationalism. ts who tried, came e kind of rhetoric more tragic than militant predeces
hd rhetoric of the today, we see the narrow nationalist LF, although the hetoric and reality How successfully trengthened commong the Tamil stead of seeking to uslims in the East, also have to create ness in the North ed? Can a liberatfomenting hatred tional interests for we are witnessing ical progress of our
k here to discuss d non-violence, but ut that the history es with a military 'oduced great men cion such as Mao Cabraal, to name ten extensively on ders too payed lip ere are two things e clear. The strugdefending the peos centred, and a s one whose predence and makes human potential. l, in our struggle een made to feel thless. In many presence of a fight
fear and anxiety. ten asked is what get the other side assurance We too
often find women and children fleeing and screaming without any guidance, or people cowering in silent fear afraid to complain, awaiting the grim fate of the inevitable. What we have seen is the erosion of any sense of cohesiveness in our society. And in consequence of identifying fighting with having a gun and the ability to kill, what have we produced? A liberation army or a killer machine?
A large number of our expatriates would contend that they went abroad for the sake of their children. They must know what it means for an eleven year old child to be sent about with a gun without the parents having any influence in the matter. What then of a struggle that makes a virtue of this, knowing well that these children are only machines with no understanding of what they are doing, merely satisfied that a good meal is on the way? The elite are certainly privileged when it comes to their children. Do these child recruits have the philosophical maturity to cope with their short and brutish lives being snuffed out and in particular their limbs blown up? Do people know the agony and the cursings of the injured?
Further, how does the military strategy square with the concept of liberating the people? Here again myths are built up based on a few sensational attacks like in Kokkavil and Mankulam, which have made headlines. Those in Jaffna and abroad can dwell on these to their satisfaction with no sense of concern or sensitivity to the plight of the people in the East who suffer the terror of the army and the STF. What was the politics behind their suffering? It is easy enough to take a foreign reporter to parts of the East or even to a suburb of Batticaloa and pretend that it is a liberated area. But what is the reality? Is there the will or the ability to protect a single civilian home in the North or East? There seems to be an awareness of reality only when an army walks in to parts of Jaffna with its attendant consequences as has happened twice recently, which we easily forget. We

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also forget that there are Tamils outside Jaffna. With this forgetfulness : that accompanies idle triumphalism, how capable are we of seeing the overall picture? Are not the Tamils and the country losing inexorably all the time? What are the factors that lie behind this military strategy?
There is also something sensationally unique about our struggle. Almost every liberation struggle has been fought by a number of groups. Very seldom has one group set out to ban other groups. Where this happened it was always after the enemy's capitulation. Is it a sign of exceeding strength or of the need to silence reason in order to defy reality? Is it not a sign of fatal sickness, a part of the same militant psychology that forces people in a besieged peninsula to put up festive decorations in the sight of angry air force pilots?
The more we dig into reality, the more indefensible the whole thing becomes. When the Tamil elite are questioned by foreigners, they would readily run down the Sinhalese, talk about the insecurity faced by Eastern Tamils because of state violence coupled with colonisation, and about the exploitation of hill-country Tamils, throwing in slogans like "Don't drink Ceylon Tea - It is Tamil blood'. But how has the current politics tried to address the very real problems of these people?
During the 14 months of the LTTEPremadasa honeymoon, did the LTTE put forward a cogent set of proposals to resolve the constitutional issue and the thorny land question which is a matter of life and death for Eastern Tamils? There was one hartal on the citizenship question of a group of hillcountry Tamils shortly before the outbreak of war. This served to drive home to the government, the LTTE's capacity to paralyse the North-East through its gun power. But then, was the issue of hill-country Tamils addressed with any cogency before or after the hartal? Where were the rights of the people during the LTTEPremadasa talks? Were they not mosthy about how many people from which party are to carry guns and where? Was not the most disgraceful arresting and torturing of ordinary Tamils against whom there was some suspicion of political links one of the few issues on which working agreement was reached?
Is it not time to face the truth that Eastern Tamils and Hill-country Tamils and sometimes the Muslims, are only being used in a politics that springs from the Jaffna man's ego? How else does one explain the military strategy in the East? Why have started the war in the East where the Tamils were mostly endangered? If are was seriousness about the Easten Tamils' well being, why stir up the contradictions by killing hundreds of
policemen taken p Muslims from that : had been made coul have been used to safety ofTamil civili admit that a mista take disciplinary a offenders as part of cess? Then to tell
that this was the fin brutal army by des dead servicemen (K land mines whe approaching civilia and run away, leavi fight the one sided f
Is not this military simply using the an Eastern civilians f plined army, just to where are these rec mainly to fight in liberate their own had become so de many parts of the require sophisticatio the government to S Tamils and then to tors of both Muslims same time.
ls Peace F
Now that talks of c tiations is once more to go into the impor conflict. The LTTE
to the government itself and not about a bargaining chip a for other eventualit parallel military bui thousands of childre the larger expecta people were about
To break through attract recruits, the sort to the language that the present only a temporary s goal was Tamil Eela internal dynamic of ing war. On the oth
sentiments were bei
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Coupled to this, t parties of the South tangible concerm fo] whenever there was quickly agreed upo) tion. With the poli responsibility, the a without political gui a parallel political p Tamils confidence. W ing done its stuff, it ised and looking we get going now, it is b to expect from South kind of wisdom that Tamil people and no
groups.
The LTTE now ap) about Federalism a constitution for in

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risoner, including area? If a mistake d not the prisoners bargain for the ans? Or if too late, ke was made and
ction against the
the ceasefire proa cringing people al battle, incense a ecrating bodies of almunai), explode in troops were un concentrations ng the civilians to inal battle
r strategy based on ger and misery of acing an undisciget recruits? And ruits being used? - Jaffna and not to land! Our politics generate that in
East, it did not bn on the part of et the Muslims on step in as protecand Tamils at the
Possible?
easefire and negoin the air we need tant causes of the had earlier talked about power for the people. As both nd in preparation ies, it launched a ld up and recruited an at a time when tions of ordinary permanent peace. this mood and LTTE had to reof violence saying arrangement was solution and their m. This created an its own necessitather hand different ng uttered in Col
he major political have never shown r the Tamils, and a crisis, they had n a military soluticians abdicating army was sent in dance and without rocess to give the Vith the army havended up demoralak. Even if talks eing too optimistic ern politicians the t will address the tjust the militant
pears to be talking nd the Canadian ternational con
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sumption. Its weakness prompt it to look for some diplomatic gains to justify having started the war. It will skirt the question of whether it was worth all the lives lost and bringing the society to the brink of collapse? Whether there was not a public mood
in the South that was willing to be
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generous, with the term Federalism appearing in much high level discourse? Whether the same thing could not have been achieved by mobilising the people politically?
Of course the Tamils need a form of Federalism that would guarantee their security and unfettered development. But as we have shown, there is no solution unless the present mould of our politics is broken. We need a form of politics that will genuinely respect the Sinhalese and Muslims and not seek to kill and humiliate them. We need to be responsible by them.
Such a politics can emerge only by placing the people at the centre and guaranteeing their democratic and human rights. It is only then that the ordinary common sense of the people would assert itself. There is much that can be done by Tamil expatriates to create such a space.
No political will - EPRLF
Neither the government nor the major opposition parties in the south seem to have the political will to reach a lasting solution to the ethnic problem, EPRLF leader and Member of Parliament, K. Premachandran said.
He said that his party was unhappy with the lack of progress in the talks at the All Party Conference which had dragged on for months with no sign of a permanent settlement.
The talks so far had concentrated on the unit of devolution and the other matters like the powers that will be devolved had not been taken up, he added.
Asked if the EPRLF was thinking about pulling out of the APC because of this apparent lack of progress, he said that that was an option that had to be considered if nothing fruitful emerged from the talks.
He also dismissed the allegations made by the Muslim United Liberation Front (MULF) which withdrew from the Tamil - Muslim talks under the APC the week before last, saying they were prepared to talk to iron out the few remaining differences between the two sides.
He said that they had worked out the ethnic Councils for the Tamils and Muslims in the north-east but there were still some differences of opinion on matters like the EPRLF's demand for more power for the Provisional Council apex body.

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The 'Self as Obstad Peace in Lanka
BETWEEN DEATH AND U
G. Ramesh
(Paper presented in a Seminar (October 7-10, 1990) on Obstacles to Peace in Sri Lanka, organised by Minority Rights Group, Swedish Section, Uppsala, Suveden).
(Continued from last issue)
Thus, when, Sinhalese are butchered in Anuradhapura (June 1985) or a bomb is set off at the busy Pettah area in Colombo (April 1987), it is to only make the government 'see reason' in order to suspend its ongoing offensives and bring it to the negotiating table, at Thimpu and New Delhi. When Tamils of Valvettiturai are bombed and killed (May 1987, August 1989 and now) they are punished for being the neighbours of Prabhakaran, an insult of pure circumstance for the government. When Muslim congregations are massacred, it is only to convince them that they as a minority cannot go on collaborating with the Sinhala chauvinists. Any number of such instances can be cited.
Several such acts inevitably reach the level of a spectacle in their execution and justification, enacted for their utility value in the media. Each of them becomes an incident as journalistic cliche would have it. Getting the better of a situation, however traumaticit may have been, lies in the player's ability to enact a spectacle of death and 'get out of it for a breather till the next situation. To that extent, the sense of a win is good media management, something lacked by the Indians, but found in abundance with the LTTE, and to a less extent with the Lankan govern
ment.
The question concerning media is not the documentation of facts or that of managerial ethics, but something totally different. In the recent Hollywood film Batman, journalist Wicky Wale, whose report about the "Maltese Revolution' has appeared in the Time magazine, is posed a question by Jack Nicholson playing the evil joker, just after he destroys a museum of avant garde art with heavy metal rock, paint and caricaturing. Producing a live model, he asks her: 'Would you allow your disfiguration, just as the corpses shot by you?' She recoils in horror. This time for real.
Thus, total war realises a reverse of
an utopia, that is, pia is bewilder mediocre and with that is recognizabl Moreover, an utop an ideal state. Her tic struggle, visual will not be able t dystopia is synch able. It has a sense dystopia is an ut Verse.
The issue here Tamil homeland is pia, what seems to a dystopia. Yet, h even as a questior asked whether Ta would exist, say, 1
The tragedy of shared by the Sinh of the militarism ( militarism in soci time, it must also b land utopia of the monist and geogra enunciated in the ( island. Such hon generally sustaine tives of grudging liberalist variants.
Aren't these m times by their mod sions? This is true exclusion has been and without, Ta societies, primarily caste system. But Sinhala Buddhism Siddhanta, in the tions, have not universalist philos Western mould, bu ces constituted up constitution of th objective entity, a 19th Century, has which any modern would not miss.
This is certainly full-fledged debat but it is suffice to ism is not just th tion'. Perhaps it inability to balanc a long memory in ern apparatuSeS language, like the army barracks,

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cle tO
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a dystopia. A dystoing, benumbing, out hope, something 2 as a reality today. ia, by definition, is ce even a democraised diachronically, o achieve it. But a ronically approachof here and now. A opia realised in re
is that while the ; posited as an utohave got realised is as this been asked ? Would it now be |mil as a language 00 years from now.
Tamils is equally alese in the tragedy of the JVP and the iety. At the same be stated that home
Sinhalese is hegephical in nature, as 'oncept of the whole neland myths are d by various narraadmission on their
yths fuelled in our lern Orientalist verto the extent that h a practice, within amil and Sinhala r in the form of the , the paradigms of l, as well as Saiva ir moderm incarnajust aspired to be sophies cast in the It also totalist scienon themselves. This e Self as a total ound the end of the
been the threshold , historian of Lanka
not a place to have a 2 of the above issue, state that chauvine produce of "tradi
is a result of an e out two cultures of the context of modof body, power and state, the prison, the he school and the
refugee camp. Perhaps it is an oblique admission of a new fact that modern apparatuses of power constitute a political technology of the self just as their traditional invariants were intolerant, full of condemnations and persecutions. At the same time, chauvinism acts as nostalgia and attempts to incorporate modernism into it.
Witness Rohana Wijeweera, whose JVP switched over from the revolutionary myth of Che Guevera in the 1970s to the militant myth of King Vijebahu of Ruhuna (who rooted out the Cholas of Polannaruwa in the 13th Century) in the late 1980s. Witness, as an evidence of militarism, however comical it looks, the challenge of 83– year-old J.R. Jayewardene to Wijeweera for a hand-to-hand combat at the Galle Face Green. Or his enthusiasm for Prabhakaran's pistol after the signing of the July 1987 agreement, and fixing a prize for his head after the start of the war between the LTTE and the Indian troops. It has been decided that chauvinist machoism is the only answer possible. And this is the simplistic version of graduation of Lankan history from the traditional to the modern.
From the two analytic axes of death and utopia, I would like to move onto travel, something already been touched upon by the travel to be made if Lanka is to be considered a zone. Travel existed and exists as a move away from institutions in the figure of the wanderer, who is in search for the mad other propelled and constrained by his shadow, if I may be allowed to take recourse to Friedrich Nietzsche. Tradition both Tamil and Sinhala, shrewdly attempted to incorporate this as pilgrimage to be undertaken by every settled person. A pilgrimage sought to physically move the believer across and along with other bodies thereby offering a neutralisation of sorts, both of the wanderer and of himself/herself. Recall, for instance, the Kataragama pilgrimage that every Tamil had to undertake.
In the modern world, the figure of the foreign and inland tourist replaced the enigma of the pilgrim. The first tourist to Lanka should have been Marco Polo himself, since he is quoted in every travel and survival kit on Lanka: “The finest island in the world as one approaches from the Andamans'. The figure of the tourist, who devoured the multifarious landscapes of the island, got institutionalised in the 20th Century, but it was preceded by the manufacture of these landscapes via the plantation by another kind of traveller: the plantation worker forced in from Tamil Nadu, the pilgrim quietly lost out in that it became a ritual without structural possibilities, as tea and tourism became the mainstay of foreign exchange
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in post-independent Lanka.
In the late 1960s, another kind of traveller got consolidated as an institution. I am referring to the Tamil professional who pursued his higher studies in the West, got settled there, but would remain securely bound to the genealogy of state and kinship structures. This kind of traveller, too, had a colonial origin, but its diversification into something other than the legal and educational fields would come only much later. It is sufficient to point out that this traveller intersects with his counterpart from the West who made it to see the East in the 1960s and later.
In the narrative of Eelam, for instance, death or murder is sought to be justified as travel to utopia of homeland. Homeland is as much a possibility, as the militant or rebel puts himself onto the risk of death or murder. The foreign traveller, who went for greener pastures earlier, is now the forced-out-exile perpetually producing the guilt and resentment necessary to sustain the myth of the guerrilla or militant. For the militant himself death appears as the moment his genealogical past catches up with the nom de guerre assumed by him. That is, man meeting his double in the Borgesian sense. This is true, I may be allowed to say for dissenters, betrayers and suppressors within the militants. In Tamil history, this problem has been treated as the question of assuming several titular roles. In recent
Tamil history, I find it as the granting
of titles to a person after his martyrdom at the hands of the enemy: second lieutenant, captain, major etc.
In a sense, the history of militantism is as much a history of rivalry between the militant themselves, both within and without. But this history has a mute past which is not that usually discussed. I am referring to the flow of youths since 1972 to the militant groups, after all avenues towards testing one's instinct for competition and rivalry were closed by the Standardization rules of the Lankan government. More tham that real decision-making rested with the youths, leading to the exclusion of other people, it is rivalry and role-modelling after the archetypall Tiger which has ensured the history of desertion, betrayal and suppression. To blame, for instance the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Indian intelligence organisation, which fuelled this rivalry with the flow of arms and infrastructure, for the existence of rivalry itself, would be futile. And exclusion of the various strands of people necessarily leads to perpetual war, the impossibility of a struggle, and the manipulation of the people for status quo, whether the issue involved is caste oppression or that of women or that of the fleeing refugees.
Politically the g ipulation has come ing experience oft cratic struggles an in the period 1956 concept of democra Lanka has to be period.
To start with, di several other Thir operated as elite the fact that mode the island through and granting of t Independence arriv gle. The well-kno ment of plantatio. ensured the contin the elites, with the cracy operating in t club. The club, t open, operates by e to understand go plomacy in a sense disturbances of ple for the manipulabl ism. In the course translated as partic masses in the vi Lanka Freedom Pa All this is too discussed here. Y attempted here iss current narratives ourselves a new un self in the light of v to know about pow guage, whether it modern or an uncor of the two, leadin understand that nc all encompassing.
In this context, I the Thucydidean at thors, including Dr retell the current documentarist delus stood that the nar journalist like Moh committed he may be avoided. Yet, Dr of the trauma of wo
· Indian soldiers betr
tivity of an anatom grim face of someon tyrdom.
Politically, this me North within the Sc able to come to gri ending up repressing ally and otherwis whether it is the ar the Bofors scandal ans, or what is good of development, or read and view to those of you in th aware of the exist within the North in people and minoritie my responsibility to and, in that, erasen
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nesis of this manout of the frustrathe futility of demod mass campaigns -81. But the very xy in the context of elaborated in this
amocracy just as in d World countries, democracy, despite rnism had entered universal suffrage rade union rights. ed without a strugwn disenfranchisen Tamils in 1948, ued domination of etiquette of demohe peer group like a hough official and xclusion. It claimed vernance and didistilled from the bian affairs, except e issue of chauvinof time, this got cipation by Sinhala tories of the Sri rty in the 1950s.
well known to be et what I have patialization of the on Lanka, giving derstanding of the vhat we have come ver, body and lanis traditional or nfortable synthesis g to exclusions. I ) narrative can be
would like to cite tempt by four auThiranagama, to history without ions. They undertrative used by a an Ram, however have been, should Rajini's treatment men assaulted by ays the cold objecist, as well as the e waiting for mar
ans that there is a outh, which is unps with itself but ; the South culture. This is true ticulation of what means to us Indifor us, in the guise what we should keep abreast'. As North are well ence of a South form of excluded s of all hues, it is state this truth lyself out.
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violence and open warfare involving Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority - and radical factions within both - the Sinhalesedominated government has been trying to crush the Tamil Tigers.
While the offensive has had little apparent success in breaking the guerrillas' power in the region, it has left at least 4,000 dead and up to a million refugees.
The guerrillas, who started the latest round of fighting, have been implicated in machine-gun massacres of unarmed noncombatants and mass executions of policemen captured at remote outposts.
The government has been accused of killing dozens of people by dropping gasoline and rubber-filled "barrell bombs' on civilian areas. Fabricated from oil drums and detonated with dynamite, the barrel bombs explode with horrific effect, spraying burning rubber that sticks to skin.
Government officials say that the tiny Sri Lankan Air Force is under orders to bomb only guerrilla targets, but that some noncombatant casualties are inevitable.
No instructions had been given to carry out indiscriminate bombing, said the Sri Lankan defense minister, Ranjan Wijeratne. "We have asked pilots to be careful and go only for identified targets'.
"We are at war, remember that, he added. "We are not playing marbles. There may have been one or two accidental cases.”
Sri Lankan officials say they are trying to root out and smash the Tamil Tigers, a tightly disciplined guerrilla force that from 1987 to 1989 fought off more than 70,000 Indian Army troops brought in to impose peace on the island.
The thousands of disappearances in Batticaloa and other Tamil regions suggest that in trying to destroy the guerrillas, the government may be following the same strategy it used against the Maoist People's Liberation Front, which bid for power in the south in 1988 and 1989.
By unleashing paramilitary death squads in areas controlled by the front, executing an estimated 20,000 young Sinhalese suspects and burning their bodies by the roadsides to frighten sympathizers, the government crushed the front within two years.
'What we face now is the attitude that we can get rid of the Tigers by killing everthing that might possibly be a Tiger or making them disappear, said the Reverend Harry Miller, a Jesuit priest from New Orleans, who has worked in Batticaloa since Sri Lanka won independence in 1948.
(International Herald Tribune 19.2.91)

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O ALT. COLONEL of the Sri Lankan army is facing an inquiry before a four-member military tribunal for his failure to report for duty in 'operational area in North-East Sri Lanka. At the time the war broke out between government forces and the LTTE in June last year the Lt. Colonel was stationed in Anuradhapura, and when ordered by his superiors to report for duty in the North-East, he had failed to do so. OSPECIALTASK FORCE commandos waited in ambush in a nearby house and shot dead the Karathivu (eastern Sri Lanka) area leader of the LTTE, Indran, on 20 February when he visited the house of his girlfriend who apparently had returned from Colombo. إلى أمر O TWO SOLDIERS including an officer were seriously injured after treading on anti-personnel mines in two separate incidents at Chenkalady in eastern Sri Lanka om 24 February. On the same day apoliceman belonging to the STF was killed and an Inspector and a Sub-Inspector wounded when Tigers attacked the STF team conducting search operations in Rafuskulam area in Thirukoil in the east, OTHESRI LANKANNAVY seized six fibreglass dinghies in two separate incidents on 25 February with at least 22 persons, Three of the six vessels were going from the direction of south India when naval craft intercepted them north of Point Pedro in northern Jaffna and took into custody twelve Sri Lankan Tamils. Three hundred gallons of lubricating oil and six hundred gallons of diesel were also recovered. In the second incident, the navy intercepted and seized three more fibreglass dinghies going towards India from Sri Lanka. Nine Sri Lankan Tamils and an Indian ಗ್ಧರಾnd were taken into custody along with a quantity of քold. O POLICE SOURCES revealed on 27 February that 18 persons allegedly belonging to the outlawed JWPDJW were rounded-up at a hideout deep in the jungles in the Danigiriya area near Siyambalanduwa. Three firearms were also captured during the raid.
O A22-YEAR OLD woman was caught in the crossfire and killed on 28 February in an armed clash between cadres of the LTTE and PLOTE at Thandikulam in Wavuniya. OFIVE SOLDIERS including a junior officer attached to the 22 Brigade of the Gajaba Regiment of the Sri Lankan army were killed and two more were injured in an LTTE ambush on 27 February at Palampatarru in the Trincomalee district, O THE LTTE is reportedly engaged in raising a 15,000 strong "Tamil National Army' in North-East Sri Lanka and recruitment and training had already begun. Young persons, many in their early teens, are being recruited both on a voluntary basis and by conscription. O THREE SECURITY personnel were killed and two more were injured when Tigers ambushed a military patrol on the Pulukumawa-Mangala Oya road in Amparai on 7 March. Defence Secretary Cyril Ranatunga at a press briefing said that an LTTE boat was attacked and destroyed by the navy killing 6LTTE men. A LTTE Inember who survived the attack was captured. O AN ESTIMATED 6000 Sri Lankans including a large number of women face deportation from Taiwan, They had reportedly entered the country through illegal means after paying large sums of money to job agencies in Colombo. The workers, most of them unskilled hands, are reportedly paid handsomely in Taiwan with monthly wages averaging from Rs.50,000 to Rs.90,000. The bulk of the workers are from the North-Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, Mr. G.M. Prenachandra said that these workers had requested the
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government to intervene on their behalf, but as Sri Lanka had no diplomatic relations with Taiwan, Sri Lanka could do very little. However, the Minister promised to make representations to his counterpart in that country.
O FIERCE FIGHTING resumed between cadres of the LTTE and PLOTE on 9 March at Thandikulam in Vavuniya when the LTTE attacked PLOTE positions. At least two members of PLOTE were killed and two more were injured in the attack.
O THE EELAVAR DEMOCRATIC FRONT (EDF), the political wing of the Tamil militant group EROS, has thanked the President for releasing fifteen of its members, including Karan, identified as the EROS military commander two days after they were taken into custody in the wake of the assassination of the State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne. Denying any connection with the assassination, the EDF press release stated that it had given up the armed struggle and entered the democratic process since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement of July 1987. “We continued to function by these guidelines even when we were threatened and attacked by several armed groups. We never turned away from searching for a viable solution for the problems of the Tamil speaking people through peaceful means. We call upon all those who connected us to the recent bomb blast or any other violent activities to understand our policies and principles in the context of the present situation'. O GOVERNMENT FORCES began intensified military operations throughout North-East commencing 1 March. SLAF ground attack aircraft struck at alleged LTTE jungle bases in Mullaitivu district while army units launched operations in Mannar and Batticaloa districts.
As a prelude to these operations, the government had ordered thousands of refugees and other civilians in the Madhu church area to move out. The local population in several areas in the eastern province had also been asked to move out to make way for the planned military operations. Civilian settlements and refugee camps situated allegedly close to LTTE strongholds had also been asked to vacate.
In the Mullaitivu district, SLAF's Sia Marchetti bombers carried out bombing raids and helicopter gunships carried out strafing against several alleged LTTE bases in the jungles of the interior.
Bombing raids were continued in the Jaffna peninsula. O SINCE THE OUTBREAK of war in June 1990, persons belonging to the low income groups living in the Jaffna and adjoining districts have not been issued dry rations or food stamps to which they are entitled. Normally free food stamps are issued to those persons whose family income is less than Rs.700 per month. Each member of such a family is entitled to free food stamps valued at Rs.30 per month.
O ANURA BANDARANAIKE, MP and National Organiser of the SLFP, addressing a rally of party delegates in the Kandy district said that a broad-based anti-UNP front should be formed to defeat the UNP at future elections. Political parties representing the Tamil and Muslim minority communities should be in such a front. The party should not only win the goodwill of the Tamil plantation workers, but also should be prepared to enter into an agreement with S. Thondaman if he was willing to do so. O FIVE PERSONS reported to be area leaders of the LTTE were killed in a Special Task Force operation in Wembadikulam in Potuvil during the first week of March. The victims have been identified as Master, Kennedy, Lloyd, Domminic and Sinnavan. O ALTHOUGH the University of Jaffna has been reopened, attendance by lecturers and students is reported to be below expectations. University teachers and students belonging to

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the Muslim community have not been attending the University due to fear after Muslims were forcibly evacuated from the north and facilities have been provided for them to attend other universities in the south. . . .
O B. SIRISENA COORAY, Minister of Housing and Construction, has been appointed General Secretary of the ruling United National Party following the assassination of Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne. Mr. Wijeratne was appointed General Secretary of the UNP after the murder by the JVP of his predecessor Mr. Harsha Abeywardene. O OF THE SEVERAL hundred policemen captured by the LTTE as the "war' between the Tigers and government forces broke out, it is reported that 43 are still alive. According to the ICRC in Sri Lanka, their representatives had visited these policemen detained by the LTTE at an undisclosed location.
O SUSPECTED Muslim homeguards went on a rampage on February 20 at Eravur killing at least four Tamil civilians and seriously wounding about 25 others in the aftermath of an alleged attack by LTTE cadres in which two of their fellow homeguards were shot dead. The Tamil victims were passengers in a bus which was intercepted by the Muslim homeguards and the bus itself was set ablaze.
OFIFTEEN SOLDIERS were killed in a Tiger ambush on 23 February at Vaharai and on the same day another five Special Task Force personnel were killed by the Tigers in eastern Sri Lanka. -
O AN ESTIMATED 30,000 civilian Tamils from Batticaloa district who abandoned their homes fearing army attacks are still said to be living in the jungles undergoing severe hardships.
worLDBANK CALLs FOR DEFENCE CUT
World Bank pressure to prune down defence expenditure has caused a dispute between the Treasury and Ministry of State for Defence.
Informed sources say that the Treasury had refused to grant the Defence Ministry, Rs.8 billion which it wanted for defence expenditure for the current year.
The State Minister for Defence, General Ranjan Wijeratne who was reported to have been furious at this decision by the Treasury had threatened that he would terminate all military operations in the Northern and Eastern provinces unless the Treasury provided the money.
General Wijeratne who was known to be a tough-talking hardliner, had made his decision clear on the day before he was assassinated in a bomb explosion, informed sources said.
As a result of this, the Treasury had almost immediately promised the State Minister an allocation of Rs. 2 billion, the sources said.
They also revealed that the World Bank had told the government to cut down on defence expenditure as a precondition for the provision of more aid to revive the economy. As a result, the Treasury had been forced to cut down rapidly on defence expenditure triggering off a dispute between Defence and Treasury officials, they said.
Treasury officials are reported to have guaranteed the late State Minister for Defence just prior to his death that the Treasury would somehow meet the increasing demand for more defence expenditure.
The two billion rupees which the Treasury had agreed to release would be sufficient only for a short period, a defence official said.
"There is a stock of military cargo waiting at the Port.
"On the other hand apart from arms and ammunition, the government has to spend more than 300 rupees per day for each serviceman', he said.

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Reactions to Wijeratine's Murder
President R. Premadasa: Ranjan Wijeratne was brutally killed because he made a concerted and determined effort to save innocent Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims from the vicious clutches of terrorism. He was committed to the cause of safeguarding democracy and human freedom in the country. Wijeratne was a great son of the soil who sacrificed his life to ensure the protection and security of the people. He worked with a deep sense of duty and commitment. His name would be written in golden letters in the annals of our country as one who sacrificed his life by trying to protect the people and the country. If those responsible for the killing of Mr. Wijeratne thought they could by this act stop the struggle he fought, to preserve the territorial integrity, sovereignty and unitary status of the country, they were wrong and sadly mistaken. The fight would continue.
Indian PM: "I am deeply shocked to .
hear about the tragic demise of Minister Ranjan Wijeratne as a result of a terrorist bomb attack. My government strongly condemns this dastardly and senseless act of violence'. Cabinet Minister S. Thondaman: "The death of Ranjan Wijeratne is a great loss to the country. He had a rare personality and was very forthright in his dealings. From what I know of him, he is non-communal and a close friend of the Ceylon Workers Congress. I have lost a personal friend'. LTTE: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which was suspected by certain circles in Colombo of being responsible for the bomb attack denied any involvement. "The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam denies categorically any involvement in the attack on Ranjan Wijeratne and his bodyguards in Colombo on March 2'. In a later statement the Tigers said, "The LTTE acknowledges that he (Mr. Wijeratne) symbolised the Sri Lankan racist and oppressive system and was instrumental in the murder of thousands of innocent Tamil civilians and his demise is a sense of relief for the Tamil people'. SLFP: The leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Leader of the Opposition Mrs. S. Bandaranaike said that Ranjan Wijeratne was a tireless worker who served the country with dedication and a high sense of public duty. The SLFP was deeply shocked and distressed by his tragic death as a result of a bomb attack by hitherto unknown assassins. The fact that this dastardly attack took place in broad daylight in the heart of Colombo, the capital city, was a matter for alarm
and concern. “We 1 death and convey pathies to the mem their hour of sorro
Tami United Libel A press release fr The TULF Cent shocked and dism assassination of Mı Minister of Planta State Minister for jeratne approache perspective which opposite to that of responsibilities ( approach question tives of the state while we approach from the perspectiv and human right commanded our re ty, forthright man and dedication that on his responsibilit ble at all times eve to his political opp engage in petty in marred our politic would not tell us o and say another i disagreed, he state brutal murder is s our political histor leaders, S.W.R.D. jaya Kumaranatun am have become vic sinations at the pri Career.
LSSP: A stateme Batty Weerakoon
Lanka Sama Sama gretted and strong terrorist act of vic Mr. Wijeratine. W1 they might have jeratne and the pal the LSSP always fo who was will in courageously in a and do whatever he
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nourn his untimely
our deepest symbers of his family in wʼ.
ation Front (TULF): om the TULF said: al Committee was ayed at the cruel . Ranjan Wijeratine, tion Industries and
Defence. Mr. Wiproblems from a
was diametrically ours. His duties and ‘ompelled him to from the perspecand of its security, ed the same issues res of the individual s. He nonetheless spect for his honesner and the energy , he brought to bear ies. He was accessiin to the media and onents. He did not trigues which have cs for decades. He ne thing in private n public. When he d so publicly. . .His ad commentary on y. Too many of our Bandaranaike, Viga, A. Amirthaling:tims of cruel assasme of their political
nt issued by Mr.
on behalf of the ja Party deeply regly condemned the lence which killed hatever differences had with Mr. Wirty he represented, und him a Minister g to intervene
difficult situation could.
kumar Ponnamba
All Ceylon Tamil g Ranjan Wijeratne acted according to s conscience said: was an absolutely high principles. I f many instances epared to give into ace or religion. No 2 most superlative ce to this very fine
ama Samaja Party ement blamed the 2ouraging terrorist an atmosphere of anka. “The murder Wijeratne shows iy and terrorism in ntinue under the
e.
Army Commander ghe said: “He was
one of the finest Ministers we had. Everyone in the services loved him for his fine leadership. He was very forthright and looked after his subordinates well. He has been with us through the most difficult times of our country. I wonder whether anyone could provide the kind of leadership that Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne provided'. TELO: The Tamil militant group Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation said that the country had lost a dedicated son with rare courage of conviction coupled with an unforgettable sense of humour. He was a perfect gentleman, honest politician and true friend of the Tamil speaking people. Although a true nationalist, he was deadly opposed to racialism. Though aggressively outspoken and brutally blunt, Ranjan was yet amiable, affectionate, sympathetic and charming.
Liberal Party: The Liberal Party regrets and unreservedly condemns the brutal assassination on Saturday of Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne, Minister of Plantation Industry and State Minister for Defence and General Secretary of the United National Party. The appalling loss of life of service personnel and innocent civilians in this incident makes it all the more deplorable. Mr. Wijeratne was undoubtedly one of the most powerful and most able Ministers in the current Cabinet and his violent removal is thus a bitter blow to the Government. Although Mr.
Wijeratine's political outlook was very different from that of the Liberals, and although there were many occasions on which we strongly disagreed with his statements and actions, we fully acknowledge the debt this nation owes to him in helping to bring back something akin to political normalcy, without which there would have been no prospect for the survival of that little democratic political order which Liberals and so many other enlightened persons cherish. The conflict in the North and East against a violent totalitarian organisation in which Ranjan Wijeratne was recently engaged, like his successful struggle against a simi
lar movement in other parts of the country, was in the opinion of the Liberal Party no less than a necessity'.
Communist Party: "The Communist Party of Sri Lanka condemns the despicable assassination of the Minister of Plantation Industries and the State Minister for Defence, Ranjan Wijeratne. Even those who did not share his political views respected his outspokenness and dedication with which he worked for his objectives'.
PLOTE: D. Sitharthan, leader of the Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam said: “We strongly condemn the killing of Mr. Ranjan Wijeratne. He was a straightforward and non-racist politician. He was one among the few leaders who wanted to see this country beyond all sorts of communal barriers'.

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DRIVE AGAINSTT MILTANTS CONTI
MADRA.S. The drive against Tamil militants after the imposition of President's rule in the State should not be viewed or assessed merely in terms of the arrests, official sources contended.
The sources told The Hindu that 44 militants and their local accomplices had been arrested till now and this included 14 top Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam men, "The gist of the operation clean-up rests on the quality of the crackdown and not On the numbers. The effect of this drive can be seen in a drastic reduction of the
Encashing om
Jaffna fuel crunch
MADRAS, Feb 21. Smuggling of petrol and diesel from the coastal areas to Jaffna appears to be more rampant now than in the recent past.
Involved in this racket are not only Sri Lankan Tamil militants but als0 petrol pump owners, middlemen and fishermen anxious to make a fast buck taking advantage of the fuel crunch in Jaffna, according to information reaching here.
It is said petrol is being sold at Rs. 50 and diesel at Rs. 40 per litre in the coastal areas of Thanjavur, Pudukottai and Ramanathapuram by petroleum dealers to carriers, most of them locals. They clandestinely carry the fuel in cans in their boats after dusk and unload them onto militants' boats at mid-sea and earn hefty profits.
It is said, petrol pump owners in the Coastal areas (including some politicians operating in benami names) are minting money by diverting supplies to carriers in collusion with middle level officials.
As locals make a lot of money in this racket, they are unmindful of the risk of arrest and seizure.
There is many an unguarded point along the nearly 700 km long coastline enabling the smugglers to outwit the law enforcement machinery.
In the recent crackdown on LTE militants, over 15,000 litres of petrol and diesel were seized in coastal Ramanthapuram and Thanjavur districts.
According to an official, the LTTE militants having till recently enjoyed uninhibited ways of smuggling, have now become desperate in the face of the relentless hunt by the police checkpost personnel deployed at strategic points along the coatal areas equipped with LMG and AK-47 rifles.
arrival of militan operations in Tam plained.
Drive to cгірple tive of the new dri" was to "cripple'th. was not immediat them out. During tl DMK regime, a m Inen had fled the were clear eventh
The sources sai communication ne had been busted W. very powerful sets the militants were cult to land ons even before they Nadu shore, vehi them at the appoil the communicatio established and wi ate. This backbo broken, they claim The drive was the State adminis liked to hold on to the arrests for a premature public further arrests at was thought. But Minister, Mr. P. C. own revelation foi to Come Out with least another di wanted by the pol to have gone into
DOCLTets SE raids and arrests 48 hours allowert documents have was a militant fo) passports in thr Many “hawala'o trE come to light allo thing of Rs. 1 lakh Iotably French F dullar8,
Though the st and the basic inve begun, some spec: registered already militants. They i the Telegraph Act for smuggling.
The sources ex well known that in an establishment not possess IIlany their personal ammunition dumo Only those Comin well armed to II ne
8988.
Asked about th the militants had sources said that i "front to operate,

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its and the LTTE il Nadu', they ex
: Indeed, the objecwe against Inilitants eir operations, if it aly possible to wipe he final weeks of the ajority of the LTTE State as the signals EI1,
that much of the twork of the LTTE ith the seizure of six Without these sets finding it very diffi. hore here, Earlier, touched the Tamil cles would wait for inted spot, thanks to Illetwork they had ere allowed to operne had now been Ied. still continuing and tration would hawe the information on few more days as ity would hamper nd investigation, it the former Union hidambaram, by his rced the authorities the information. At Zen militants are ice and are believed hiding. sized: During the conducted in hardly he State, interesting been seized. There r instance, who had e different names. Insactions hawe also ng with the unearin foreig Il Currency, ancs and Singapore
orious interrogation stigations have only ific cases have been against the arrested include cases under Explosives Act and
plained that it was militants operating in
in Tamil Nadu did weapons, except for safety. But many ps had been located. gby the boats were et any threat on the
e nature of collusioIl
with the locals, the In some cases it Was a while in others they
were used for snuggling and procuring operations. A few local citizens were also involved in the hawala transactions, it was. believed. Vigilance on coastline: They said the drive would continue and a strict vigil maintained on the coastline. Suspected places and individuals would be under observation. The sources did not Want to get into the "political question' of why this was not done earlier or how it was being conducted now. "Suffice it to say that we know where they are and what they are up to, They cannot escape our dragnet anymore. Our, instructions are to clean up the State as quickly as possible and get on with the elections. The fact that there has been no large-scale violence after the dismissal of the previous Government, as was feared, only indicates that the administration has done its job', they noted.
By and large, the sources said, there was encouraging response and cooperation from the people for the drive, Except those directly connected with the militants, the others were willing to pass on whatever information was available. Most of the arrests were Inade in places such as Wallajah, Wellore, Coimbatore, Tiruchi, Madurai and Madras.
Severial Sri Lankam Tarmilo militants belonging to various groups were rounded up in a fresh State-wide crackdown on them,
(The Hindu, 23,291).
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The marriage of Nanthakumar son of the late Mr. Kanapathipillai and Mrs. Kanapathipillai of Vaddukoddai East, now of 3380 Eglington Ave. East, Apt 912, Scarborough, Ontario M1J 3L6, Canada and Aananthagowri daughter of Mr. & Mrs. E. Kanthasamy (Thiraviyam) of Udupiddy now in UK will take place on 27th March 1991 at the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple, Scarborough, Canada - 27 Earlswood Avenue, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR77HX. Tel 081 683 1812.
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in loving memory of Mrs. Vemalaranee Kanagaratnam, retired teacher, St. Pauls, Milagiriya, Bambalapitiya, Sri Lanka, on the first anniversary of her passing away on 31.390.
Times may change, but Memories of you never fade. in our hearts you will always stay Loved and remembered everyday.
Remembered with love and affection by sons Sara, Brem and Dubsy, daughters-in-law Lalitha and Shyamala and grand children Janarthan, Mehala, Uthistran, Arani and Anuja - 19 Huxley Place, Palmers Green, London N135SU. Tel 081 886 5966.
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akshmi's Academy of (ASIA), presents the ademy in a Bharatha e with live Orchestra at Institute, Kensington W8. At time of going to Out.
na at Asian Chaplaincy, OfOf S/MVP 2HA. 9!.
itute of Tamil Culture liversary with a Cultural tha Natyam, Vocal & at Surbiton Assembly l, Surbiton, Surrey. For 3O2.
sear's Day. ent Tami Association w Year at Alperton High ey Avenue, Alperton,
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guage & Arts celebrates Tamil New Year at Catford School, Brownhill Road, (Entrance via Stainton Road), London SE6. Computer Tamil Fonts demonstration at 6.00pm and Variety Entertainment from 7.00pm.
Apr. 21 1.00pm SCOT Tamil New Year Lunch & Raffle at Lola Jones Hall, Tooting Leisure Centre, Greaves Place, off Garratt Lane, London SW17 ONE. For tickets Tel: O81 87O 9897.
Apr. 21 6.00pm Bharathidasan Centenary Celebrations - Carnatic Vocal Concert by Tanjore S. Kalyana Raman at Baden-Powell House, Queens Gate, London SW7. For tickets and information Tel: 081 9043937/509 1263. Apr. 27 7.00pm Bharatha Natyam Arangetram of Gayatri daughter of Mr. & Mrs. M.T. Manikkavasagan, 7 Manning Gdns, Kenton, Middx. at Logan Hall, 20 Bedford Square, London WC1 HOAL
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in Loving Memory of Our Belove
"Papa" AppLikLutty Subramaniam BOTT: 11.02.1905
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Mary Granamah Subramanlam was the daughter of late Robert Murugappar Sinnatharribly 'Wall known teachar & Tamil Pandil), Sisfer of alla Sabarafrar77, TYarbh Luraj, Guarana : Annapooranarsistar-ir-law of late Welsharrayaki, lafa Gnanasowndari, Kale Iпрагатва, & Mata Pоппigh.
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St. George's Cathedra, Southwark followed by Easter delicacies in Conference Hal & Cultura programme ir Artigo Hall. At Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 4A Castletown Road, London W14; 9H0, Tel: 071 381 303.646.08. Apr. 65.30por77 DisCOL"rse on "The Ramayana & its relevance today by Mathoor KrishTEITLt. Apr, 6 5.30pm Weena Arangetram of Sujithra & Subathra Ambikapathy, students of Snnt i Slwasakthy Silvanesan under hg disPinguished patronage of Sri Maharajapuram Santhanan. Apr. 76.30pm Carnatic Vocal concert by Sri Maharajapuram Santhanan. Apr. 205.30pm. A lecture on Ethics of World Religions with particular reference to Chris. arry Ely Father Michael Barnes.
Apr. 26 7.45pm Bharatha Natyam by. Uma BallasLibrarian.
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The FlipDiffLMOLIS AIČICOMide of fra audiar CG was reserved for the Ragar, Tararr and Pallari İrı, Faga Kalyan, the Faga Alaparla Was Scholarly and brought out as the beautiful sarrifications of the Raga. The Palawi had b9e7 Isaf fo ar . Ur Lusual but brīWagnf tala patter with the Laghu in Kharida Wadai and The Drutharis in Chafurasra Nadai by Karaikud Krishnamurfy who was presars and spoke a few encouraging words. The next three items, Kurjaran Sodara in ArTrusaWarshin, Karlsharkadam in Lafarngii ard MaffLTagar Wawiyile in Dash, which had been sa Lighf o har by her first gur Lu Jaffa Weargfrarf Jyer, were avocatively rendered, as MMMLMMT S LLCCCGL keMCCCeL LY C CCLLCLLLC nostalgia, The presentators of Purandarada. sa's Miryako ard the fwo Megra Bhajans Which followed Ware flawless, underscoring Siwasaki's ability to be af aase in many languages - a Tafter of fagrimasa pride for a Tanian! Amera ling hilara in Raga Behag Corposed by Lagu di Jayararları, Sivasaki concluded her concert with a Thiruppugazhir, Наga Bagé5wалі.
Dr. Lakshmi Jayar's Wolin accompariners was rotaworthy for her Tastery rendaring of Sharngary rd Hird Fgs ad he hari ayārthār) är by Prepercussio artistes — Balasri Rasiah on Ihg Mridangar7), Sirhar7pararasharm or the Moorsing ård Balla Skandar on the GhataII - was an enjoyable treat Radha Bha, hersal orie of Siyasaki's discpse5, por Ovided the fasTipo Lira a CICLOFTpaTirTETE.
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Ananthy, Convincing exponent of the neo-Kalakshetra style
The boom in Bharata Natyam continues with unabated vigour in india as well as among Indians abroad. An important component of the boom is the stream of student pilgrims visiting centres of dance-instruction like Kalakshetra and its Offshoots in Madras. Some of them just buy a label to stick on while others bring credit to the school and themselves. Ananthy is a fine example of the later. Daughter of an accomplished Carnatic musiCian S. Sridas, of Jaffna, a former senior Civil servant of Sri Lanka, she has recently polished and augmented her basic dancing repertoire with a substantial stint in Madras with Adyar Lakshmanan, a Kalakshetratrained maestro. And it all showed in the aplomb, balance, and grace, that marked her performance in the Ridgemont High School auditorium in Ottawa, Canada on March 2nd. The opening number, 'Mallari' which is now
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replacing the Alaripp grace and with standar Sabdam, (Adyar Laks and Tamilization of Swa shulu) brought out the abilities, Ananthy has l in projecting Sringara i it was the Varnan in
dancer and neo-Kalak real test. This Varnan Meethil" is highly ero pangs of separation union. Traditional Natt jaratnam or Kittappa
interpreting it but k tended towards a desic pretation. It is a sign that a Kalakshetra re Shmanan has struck at literal and metaphorica thy's presentation of neo-Kalakshetra style and her teacher, with padartha, Vakyartha ar
The padams that fic with suitable technique mostly romantic with Tarangam in Hindolam a's Krishna Leela Ta was the only non-Tarr performance. The Till Adyar Lakshmanan, di fast-tempo Tillanas, p footwork for a fitting fi two melodious musical and the Vina, a reminde cultural background.
The proceeds of th Were earnarked for t Ottawa. The packed f audience's community's mitment. Ananthy anc reason to congratulate cultural achievement a tion.
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Kingsway High School dale was the venue O, Carnatic Vocal music a Saturday 16 March by kandarajah and Selv respectively.
Accompanied by a musicians - Dr. Laksh Somasundaram Desik Muthu Sivarajah (Gan and Sri Kandiah Sith ing), Mathini delighted excellent rendering c vocal music which is ir the Dravidian people.
She began her even, a Keerthanam in the and followed it with th popular 'Vinayagane' raga.
She continued her r and keerthanams in th da Bhairvai, Hindolan and finally gathered h audience to the heig Crescendo With an el Kambodhi in a manne the Commendations O. mal a specialist in this
 

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I' was executed with d Adavus, mostly. The thmanan's adaptation ti Tirunal’s ‘Sarasijakpolished interpretative earnt from her teacher a balanced way. But Bhairavi that put the shetra technique to a ‘Mohamana Enthan tic in describing the and the invitation for Vanars like S.K. Raface no problem in alakshetra austerity cated devotional interof the changing times 2resentative like Lakmiddle path between a i interpretation. Ananthe Varnan in the was a Credit to herself a proper balance of di Sancharis.
lowed were danced and grace. They were the exception of the
from Narayana Tirthranqini. In fact, that il composition in the ana in Mohanam by ferent from the usual rovided just enough nale. Sridas provided interludes On the flute r of the family's strong
e enjoyable evening he Hindu Temple of all was proof of the spirit and cultural comi Sridas have good
themselves On their nd its signal recogni
(or V. Subramaniam, ity, Ottawa, Canada.
Venothini wins Gold Medal & Challenge Trophy
9-year-old Miss Venothini Indra Kumar stole the limelight at the South Indian Dance Competition at the 'Festival of Brent 1991. She won the Gold Medal for solo events in her own age group of 7-11 years and was awarded 'Challenge Trophy' for the best dancer of the event.
Laurels are not new to Venothini. In September 1989, when she had her Bharata Natya Arangetram in Madras she was hailed by leading critics, including Dr. Balamurai Krishna as a 'child prodigy' and a genius'.
Venothini is the daughter of erstwhile Sri Lankan Writer-Broadcaster - Film Actor, Dr. indra Kumar and the well known danseuse - choreographer, Vijayambigai. Venothini had learnt her dancing entirely under her mother at Vijayanarthanalaya (Academy of Indian Arts). The Academy scored a 'double gold" when its only other entrant, Miss Aruntha Amirthalingam, another Sri Lankan, won the Gold Medal in the open age solo group.
t of Ragas and Rhythms
's Tylers Hall in Colina gem of a recital of nd Bharatanatyam on / Srimati Mathini SrisSharmini Rajagopal
in excellent team of mi Jayan (Violin), Sri ar (Mirudangam), Sri jira and Mirudangam) ambaranathan (MorS
her audience with an if traditional classical trinsic to the Culture of
ing's performance with
Nataikkurunchi raga e melodious and ever in the Hamsadhavani
2cital with elaborations e ragas Kamas, Anann, Kalyani and Sama er already spel-bound hts of a euphonious aboration in the raga r that would have Won f Srimati D.K. Pattan
raga.
The evening was further enhanced by a scintilating performance of Bharata Natyam by Sharmini Rajagopala virtuoso even before reaching teenage.
Beginning with a piece in the Nattai raga (Pushpanjali and Alarippu), Sharmini progresSed with rhythmic splendour, beauty and subtle movements into the entrancing world of heavenly beliefs and concepts with Jatiswaram (Kalyani), Varnam (Dhanyasi), Padam (Sindhubhairavi) and brought the evening to an appropriate close with a charmingly executed Snake Dance in the Punnaga Varali гада.
Mathini and Sharmini together made the evening a soothing magic of a festival of ragas, keerthanams and rhythms to which the accompanying artistes gave Splendid Support. Mathini also gave vocal accompaniment to Sharmini and the nattuvangam was performed by her mother Srimati Ragini Raјаgopal.
inclement weather did not hamper in any way this SCOT sponsored evening and enthusiasts of traditional Carnatic music Cane from many parts of London and outside.
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