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 1991.11

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CONTENTS
The SAARC fiasco. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.
Offensive Continues amidst talk of talkS.. 5 ISSN 026 Sri Lanka should learn from ANNUAL SU eastern Europe - Kittu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 UKhndia/Sri Lank
Australia. . . . . . Press sealed in bid to suppress dissent. .. 6 Canada. . . . . . . All other countries, LTTE losing ground. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Published News Round-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..9 TAಖ್ಖ ላሙ SUTTON, SURRE Views expressed by contributors are not necessarily UNITED KI
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The reported recent peace moves by intermediaries between the Sri Lankan government and LT TE would not appear to have made any progress. As the media continues to report about talks about talks, the military thrust by government forces in the north and east of the country have taken a more aggressive pace.
Cabinet Minister and President of the Ceylon Workers Congress Mr. S. Thondaman commenced his peace efforts some months ago and despatched a reasonably detailed document to the LTTE leaders in Jaffna seeking their response. But what has happened ever since, according to reports, is an exchange of letters which reflect little progress.
The London-based Quakers Peace lnternational have been shuttling between London, Colombo and Jaffna, and now Geneva too where LTTE leader Sathasivam Krishnakumar (Kittu) is presently residing. Despite their years of peace moves and thousands of miles of shuttling to and from by the ever optimistic Quaker delegates, nothing seems to have happened to make any movement towards peace.
As for the warring parties, even as they constantly proclaim their preparedness to negotiate, self. contradictory assertions and reassertions of entrenched positions are being made aimed at their respective constituencies. Such public posturings have not helped the efforts of the peacemakers.
In the meantime, the military thrust by government forces assuming greater and greater intensity has gathered pace and momentum of its own Creating an atmosphere not conducive to any moves for peace. As stories of the advance of government forces deep into LTTE-held territory particularly in the north and about other military successes are daily reported in the mass media, a climate of opinion is already in the making that entertains the expectation of a military outcome to the conflict. Again, the concerted and continuing campaign by the UNP rebel group led by ex-cabinet ministers Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayake against President Premadasa on the question of the
 

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alleged supply of large quantities of sophisticated Weapons and communication equipment to the LTTE to fight the IPKF and other Tamil groups has Compelled President Premadasa to defend himself before his own southern constituency by adopting a . more aggressive posture and giving almost total autonomy to the armed forces to continue with their relentless military operations against the LTTE.
Despite the claim that the military operations are directed at the Tigers and not against the people, the fact is that it is the civilian population of the north and east that is at the receiving end. If the recent publicised reports of military successes about the capture of large chunks of territory including the islands off the coast of Jaffna hitherto under Tiger control are true, it would seem that the siege of Jaffna has begun in earnest. Already there are reports that several outlying areas particularly the Coastal belt have been devastated by sustained shelling from naval gunboats and aerial bombard
ment.
An alienated and antagonised India and its people who, going by past experience, would have had a decisive say in any attempt at a military Solution to he conflict in Sri Lanka, and the international
otal war and the harrowing and devastating prospects that it offers to a beleaguered people with a lisplay of total silence and unconcern. History will lot pardon those who, by their acts of commission and omission, have wantonly dissipated the vast mount of goodwill, solidarity and support that xisted in recent years for the Tamil cause and rought about a situation in which the Tamil people tre more or less isolated today.
The Sri Lankan government and its armed forces tand condemned for its determination to prosecute his war with absolute lack of Concern for the normous suffering of the people. It must be the fish of all those who have the interest of the people t heart that the government and the LTTE recogise their respective responsibilities to the people to top this ongoing war and seek a negotiated 2ttlernent.
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The SAARC Fias
Colombo - The last minute cancella
tion of the Sixth Heads of State Sum
mit scheduled to have been held on 7-8
November in Colombo has been de
scribed variously as a national humiliation, national tragedy and the gravest personal public insult ever suffered by President Premadasa. What was expected to be a moralebooster for a politically beleaguered President who has just emerged from an attempt to impeach him by a group of his own party men turned out to be a monumental debacle.
The official reason given for the cancellation of the Summit by President M.A. Gayoom of Maldives, the current Chairman of SAARC who was already in Colombo, was that he had come to the conclusion that it could not be held because of the "inability of the King of Bhutan to attend the Summit due to domestic preoccupations'. According to the strict interpretation of SAARC's charter, the attendance of all the Heads of State of the member countries - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives - is required to hold a Summit. However the fifth Summit was held in Male last year with only six of the seven Heads of State attending, and the seventh - Sri Lankan President Premadasa - being represented by Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga. India did not seem to mind a breach of the SAARC Charter then, but this time India objected to the holding of the Summit in breach of the Charter's provisions
The Sri Lankan mainstream media, particularly the state-controlled newspapers have charged India of sabotaging the Summit suggesting that had India been flexible, it would have gone ahead.
The press lamented that the vast amount of money spent and the months of preparation that went into the organisation for the Summit had been in vain. One of the weaknesses identified in President Premadasa by his political opponents is that he spares no effort or money in connection with the pomp and pageantry that accompany every function he presides over. An angry editor of the "The Sunday Times' commented: "Never before in Sri Lanka's history has so much been done by so many for an event that was not to be. Preparations which began one year ago, got into full gear in recent weeks. City beggars and vendors were picked up and packed off to Hambantota. Streets were renovated and decorated. Policemen and propagandists were given new uniforms. So full and complete were the arrangements that a dormant by-law of the
Municipality wa householders on our wash their seven days'.
Despite the S President Prema efforts to go to clever and shre he is, was made the cancelled se into a mini-sum state. The Prim ladesh and Pakis of Maldives turn ombo into bi-la gave President tunity to talk on the public rece guests, Premada issues in the di which the Fore Council of Minis preparation for til WS.
However veh High Commissio Foreign Office in charge, the fact adopted by India cellation of the Sı believe that the Lanka in relation Summits and th ridden Indo-Sri L buted to the India Summit was due in 1987, but the ment refused to h was the venue fo 1989, but Presic personally respol host on the grou! be held in Colom troops (IPKF) v Again when the f
in Male last year
sa, although the compulsions, stay his Prime Ministe There were oth the former India jiv Gandhi signe Agreement in Ju President Juniu Premadasa, who at the time, boy and made public Again, the IPKF August 1987 at then President, madasa assume he publicly called drawal without f matter through channels, and th unseemly diplom the two countri view, the Indian Colombo express

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s revived to get even
summit routes to colparapet walls within
Lummit’s cancellation, dasa did not allow his
waste entirely. The vd political strategist vident by his turning ven-member Summit mit of four heads of e Ministers of Bangtan and the President ed their visits to Colteral exercises, and Premadasa an opporregional concerns. At otion to the visiting sa voiced some of the *aft declaration over ign Secretaries and ters had laboured in he Summit that never
2mently the Indian n in Colombo or the Delhi may deny the , is that the stance resulted in the canLummit. But observers past behaviour of Sri n to previous SAARC a continuing frictionanka relations contrian stand. The SAARC to be held in Colombo Sri Lankan governost it. Again Colombo r the Summit in late lent Premadasa was hsible for refusing to nds that it would not bo so long as foreign vere in Sri Lanka. ifth Summit was held
• President Premadare were no domestic 'ed away having sent 1r to stand in for him.
her reasons too. When n Prime Minister Rad the Indo-Sri Lanka ly 1987 with the then s Jayawardene, Mr.
was Prime Minister rcotted the ceremony
display of his stand. came to Sri Lanka in the invitation of the but after Mr. Preoffice as President, for the IPKF's withirst having raised the the usual diplomatic is led to a period of atic wrangle between s. In a recent interHigh Commissioner in ed disappointment at
Sri Lanka's failure to honour the IPKF soldiers for their role in defending Sri Lanka's unity. "Over 1200 Indian soldiers sacrificed their lives to uphold the unity and integrity of Sri Lanka and we are sad that they were not honoured, he said. New Delhi also considers President Premadasa's decision to lease land in Sri Lanka to set up a Voice of America station as a direct and unilateral violation of the provisions of the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. The premature release after Premadasa assumed office of the naval rating who assaulted former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, during a guard of honour in Colombo in the course of the ceremonies associated with the India-Sri Lanka Agreement, has also not gone unnoticed by Delhi.
Besides the unhappiness expressed in some Indian newspapers about the alleged lack of cooperation by the Sri Lankan security forces in investigating and establishing the identity of certain named persons reported to have been involved in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the recent revelations by the leaders of the UNP rebel group that President Premadasa was responsible for directing the supply of vast quantities of sophisticated weapons to the LTTE to fight the IPKF when it was in Sri Lanka have certainly displeased New Delhi. Reliable sources indicate that New Delhi is also irritated by the reported secret con
tacts through intermediaries between
President Premadasa and the LTTE so soon after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi for which India is holding the LTTE responsible. On top of all this came the recent expulsion of the All
India Radio Correspondent Karuppas
wamy and the refusal of the Sri Lankan government to accede to the Indian government's request to at least postpone his date of enforced departure until after the conclusion of the SAARC summit.
However much India stands accused of being responsible for the cancellation of the SAARC Summit, Sri Lanka's opposition parties have rejected suggestions that New Delhi sabotaged it. A joint opposition statement blamed President Premadasa for the debacle. Describing the cancellation as “the most serious diplomatic failure of the Premadasa government' and "the most serious setback for Sri Lanka in the international sphere', the statement said, “We do not share the view that India sabotaged the Summit. Even if one were to accept that, there should be attempts to remedy the situation and improve relations, and added "We believe that Sri Lanka had to suffer the humiliation of a last-minute cancellation due to the absence of a coherent, intelligent and consistent foreign
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Offensive continue amidst talk of talks
With the capture of Pooneryn and Sangupiddy to the south of the Jaffna district and the offshore islands includ
ing the Mahadeva Causeway (Pannai .
causeway) that links the offshore islands with the Jaffna peninsula in recent military operations and with the control already over the areas around Kankesanthurai, Palaly and Karainagar, military officers claim that the LTTE is hemmed in within the Jaffna peninsula by government forces. After the takeover of the offshore islands, the Navy has set up four new bases in Eluvaitivu, Analaitivu and Punkudutivu and additional naval reinforcements have been sent to strengthen the Nainativu, Kayts and Karainagar bases. Forces have advanced to Arali south of Vaddukoddai as heavy shelling devastated Moolai and adjoining areas. The navy has also established an operational base on the Pooneryn coast after the army and navy in a joint operation secured a beach-head on the coast and ultimately seized control of the Sangupiddy ferry which was the only remaining link between the peninsula and the mainland. Government forces are reported to have also gained control of an arc of territory from northern Karaitivu to Vettilaikerni five miles east of Elephant Pass.
The military thrust was accompanied by heavy shelling and aerial bombardment throughout the Jaffna peninsula resulting in substantial damage and casualties. Vadamaratchi, Point Pedro, Kottadi and other coastal areas have been badly hit by incessant shelling from naval gunboats and bombing from attack aircraft.
As the military offensive intensified, the suffering of the civilian population has escalated. Most of the people from offshore islands and coastal areas have fled their homes and taken refuge in the interior areas of the peninsula. With the severance of the passenger link between the peninsula and mainland, not only movement of people has been made impossible, but also there is an acute shortage of food and other essential commodities within Jaffna pushing the people to near starvation,
The army has made radio announcements calling upon the people to use the Elephant Pass, but the Tigers have not permitted this on the ground that the approaches to the Pass have been heavily mined by them and that the removal of these mines is not possible at present because most of the cadres which were employed to mine these areas have been killed in the battle for the Elephant Pass. A full scale propaganda war is also under way with the
army's Palaly radio st people of Jaffna that surrounded and that enter the town at an
(Tigers claim that the
the army's advance people to stay calm an in by the army’s pro while Jaffna's beleagu been called upon to p. fence duties. Coastal work brigades are bein school children are bei give blood at hospitals Meanwhile, Air For Terrence Gunawarden ers that civilians in ) asked to move into sa security forces decided Tigers within the peni if the LTTE compels main in their defence the LTTE who will fi civilian-shield once advancing towards Jal He also claimed that til V. Prabhakaran was the peninsula and he allowed to escape this
In an attempt to dive of the army from the the LTTE cadres have trate and attack man eastern province wh claimed they had rege earlier encounters. The reported to have penet parts of Polonnaruwa North Central Provinci ger ambush attacks in and Amparai district
Sr. from
GENEVA -- The Sri ment should take a changing political sce Europe and the So realise that unitary not have any relevar with national minori top runger Sathasiv mar, alias "Kittu' in h since his expulsion frc We met Kittu, who to the use of an artifici where he is awaiting 2 Swiss government on political asylum.
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ation telling the hey are already he troops would
time while the
have stemmed und urging the not to be taken aganda. Meanred people have erform civil de7atch units and g organised and g summoned to
ce Commander, e tokd newspapaffna would be fer areas if the to take on the nsula. “However civilians to relines, it will be re through the troops start fina”, he added. he LTTE leader trapped within would not be ime. ert the attention northern front, begun to peney areas in the ich the army lined control in Tigers are also rated into some which is in the e. Following Tithe Batticaloa s, government
forces have launched widespread rounding-up operations called "Boomerang' and "Dragnet'. Hundreds of people have been rounded up in Paduwankarai, Varunathivu, Kannankadu and Kalladi where buildings have also been damaged as a consequence of aerial attacks by the Air Force.
Meanwhile the government is reported to be taking action to restore civil administration in the Vavuniya district and a special delegation comprising Minister of Industries and Scientific Affairs Ranil Wickremasinghe and Minister of Rehabilitation and Welfare P. Dayaratne visited Vavuniya on 28 October. A special task force consisting of the secretariats of all ministries is to be set up at the Vavuniya Kachcheri to expedite the process of civil administration being restored.
A meeting was held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo to launch the work of the special task force at which the Governor of the North Central Province, government agents and officials of various ministries were present. The task force was called upon to ensure that the administrative. machinery was restored and functioned smoothly so that priority attention could be given to the resettlement, of displaced persons and the resumption of normal economic activities and to the restoration of essential services, provision of housing, reopening of schools, medical institutions retail outlets etc. It was also decided that the state sector employees who could not or had not reported for work so far should resume work by 18 November and that the Commissioner of Examinations would hold a special examination for those GCE (O/L) students in the northern province in December this year. i
ianka should learn eastern Europe' : Kittu
- Rita Sebastian -
Lanka governlard look at the nario in easterm riet Union and constitutions do ce for countries ies, says LTTE am Krishnakus first interview m the U.K.
is still adjusting al leg, in Geneva ruling from the his request for
tation order by ht "I committed d I can't underittu slipped out
of the country before the order was enforced.
The meeting with Kittu was arranged by an intermediary and Kittu arrived, punctual to the minute, in a taxi from outside Geneva with two young "friends' and laughed off rumours that the Swiss government; had provided him armed protection. “Why do I need protection here when there is no threat?" . . . . Although physically distanced from the rest of the LTTE leadership, mentally he is of the same mind as them, that any negotiations with the Sri Lanka government will have to be without conditions.
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The government must realise that there can be no military solution. Weapons are our protective mechanism. They are not just AK 47s' says Kittu.
The LTTE position has over the past several months hardened and they dismiss the provincial councils system as inadequate and not meeting the aspirations of the Tamil people.
We are looking at different models but our basic demand is for an independent sovereign state that can probably be accommodated in a union where both states enjoy equal status' says Kittu, dismissing the suggestion that the Tamils are an ethnic minority. According to him they are a national community and therefore qualify fo nation status.
Commenting on India's mediatory role in the Sri Lankan national question Kittu feels that India mishandled' the issue when she could have easily helped to resolve it. w
Like the rest of the LTTE leadership Kittu does not think that tightened naval surveillance of the Palk Straits or the crackdown on their cadres in Tamil Nadu will lead to a shrinking of their arms supplies. We will manage somehow he says confidently and points out that their liberation struggle does not depend on weapons. It is the morale of our people that is important and that is why I say that all the
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‘eSS Sealed in bid Suppress dissent
by the authorities in a renewed attempt to on of dissent or views e government. Using is to seal and shut ma press, the harassvaya” editor by the sion of an All India ent and the confiscapress imported by the anisation “Sarvodaya” on of this trend. ber, the Navagama Ratmalana near ColSinhala newspaper 'd by the Movement Justice and Equality ted was raided and police. Two workers , the time were taken epolice - one of them he residence of the s, Kelly Senanayake, 2n remained at that tfall. Thereafter the 2es were taken to the ld kept there overwas ordered to report ation the following 2 was questioned and ded in regard to the by him as a printer. as obviously linked to particular issue of printed at the time is about the motion to nt Premadasa. The lay-out artist by the his linkage. g of 4 October, police io be attached to the police station again vagama press, took at was being printed placed seals on both k doors of the press. men were placed on front of the premis, the printers were ing a booklet titled Sim Saha Premadasa King Joe Sim and dasa). The booklet the abduction and "d de Zoysa and the appearance of Laksh
Kelly Senanayake upreme Court chalng of the press allegdamental rights to
freedom of speech and expression and his freedom to engage in an occupation guaranteed by the Constitution (Article 14(1)(a) and (9)) had been infringed by executive action.
While the court proceedings were pending, on 10 October observers in the vicinity of the press reported that the seals placed on the front door of the press had been torn off and the padlocks removed although the police guards remained in place. On the following day, it was observed that the seals and padlocks on the back door also had been removed. On the same day it was found that the entire press had been ransacked and all the machinery had been wantonly damaged even while the police were supposed to guard the place.
The court case has been postponed for February 1992 and in the meantime the press is immobilised.
The Ravaya Case
Ravaya, an outspoken main-stream Sinhalese language political weekly recently published 43 names of the ruling United National Party MPs, including six ministers and the Speaker, who had signed the impeachment motion. On 20 October, Victor Ivan, the editor of the paper was taken in by the police for questioning by the Criminal Investigations Department on the report that appeared in the paper. The police subjected him to hours of interrogation to find out as to how and from whom he had obtained the list of signatories to the motion of impeachment.
This is not the first time Ravaya and its editor were targeted for special treatment. On 17 August officials from the Criminal Investigations Department had arrived at the paper's office without prior notice and in spite of protests proceeded to search and scrutinise all the files and took away some of them without producing a search warrant for the purpose. The editor Victor Ivan was summoned to the CID the following day and after questioning a statement was recorded.
Prior to the police raid, Ravaya had published a series of feature articles exposing incidents of malpractice and fraud in state and private institutions and had named some well known public figures as being involved.

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Sarvodaya Press
A printing press imported by the Sarvodaya at a cost of approximately eleven million rupees has recently been confiscated by the authorities. The press imported from Netherlands had arrived in the Colombo port at the beginning of the year and Sarovdaya had paid the customs duty of Rs. 3.5 million on 12 April and when it wanted to remove it from the Colombo port, the removal was prevented on "orders from the top'.
After months of procrastination by the Customs authorities, when the Sarvodaya leader Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne made public that the printing press was being unreasonably withheld, the order for the confiscation of it was announced on the alleged reason that the import value had been understated. Even if there is any truth in the allegation, it is significant that in this case the Customs department have not followed their usual practice of placing what they prescribe as the true value of the imported item and levy a duty accordingly, and on payment release it to the importer.
It is not without significance that Sarvodaya and its leader have been subjected to a concerted and inspired campaign of vilification by the statecontrolled press, mainly by the Lake House Group of newspapers. The authorities would appear to have suspected that the press imported by Sarvodaya was going to be used for printing a newspaper, and it is probable that the order to confiscate the printing press was an attempt to prevent the publication of a new paper.
An angry Dr. Ariyaratne said that this was 'a classic example of gross violation of fundamental rights . . . and even if we had wanted to print a newspaper the government should have welcomed it as we are exercising a fundamental right'. Sarvodaya is expected to challenge the confiscation order in the courts.
Expulsion of Indian Journalist
Last month the government ordered the expulsion of the All India Radio correspondent in Colombo, Mr. A. Karuppaswamy. This followed a broadcast on 15 October by the All India Radio based on a report filed by its Colombo correspondent that the Speaker of Sri Lanka's parliament, Mr. M.H. Mohamed had resigned from his post. It turned out that Mr. Karuppaswamy had been misled by a usually
.
“reliable source'. On discovering that
he had filed an erroneous report, he prompty filed another report denying the reported Speaker's resignation thus correcting the earlier one. His second report also was broadcast by the All India Radio.
However, on t government, offic tion department a Emigration depa Mr. Karuppaswal the government ol Neither the interv High Commission protests by the dents' Association able to secure his voked.
In a press stat Correspondents" A shock and dismay the Indian journa wamy committed a which he admittec rected as soon as i him. Journalists, beings are not inf: be expected of then their mistakes p Karuppaswamy di reporting is met punishmentt jourr sion will not be ab.
Some see the d against the India direct threat to ot pondents in Colom
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he direction of the als of the Informand Immigration and rtment questioned my following which dered his expulsion. ention by the Indian in Colombo nor the Foreign Corresponof Sri Lanka was expulsion order re
ement, the Foreign ssociation expressed at the expulsion of list. "Mr Karuppasun error in reporting l and promptly cort was pointed out to like other human allible, What should n is that they correct romptly. This Mr. d. If each error in with such severe alism as a profesle to survive'.
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I saw Elba, is the Iributed to Napoleon milar vein, the leadon Tigers of Tamil Prabakaran, may as ay, "Able was I ere I s.
isive military victorugust with the Sri eaking the siege the n around its (the the Elephant Pass, forces have not only camps of the milies of Mullaitivu disbut also captured Amparai district in st week of October. ack the LTTE when y detachment camp
town.
ty forces went on to f Mandaitivu, Kayts if the Jaffna penindays later, in a blow to the LTTE, d the Dutch-built the LTTE, which it ed as "the symbol of enslavement of the operations for the u and Amparai disrce had played a bombing the LTTE
positions and also a rice warehouse in the Jaffna peninsula, it was a joint operation of the Army, the Air Force and the Navy that saw a number of islets around the Jaffna peninsula fall like ninepins.
These reverses have not only exposed the weakness of the LTTE in positional, conventional warfare but signalled that the Tigers' fighting capabilities are at a low ebb now. The aura of invincibility the LTTE had built around itself has been removed. The defeats make the LTTE's claims that its newly-acquired anti-aircraft guns can take care of aircraft flying up to a height of 1,500 metres and that the soldiers in the Elephant Pass camp have become 'sitting ducks', ring hollow.
In between these offensives, the LTTE switched back to its hit-and-run attacks, blowing up an armoured person nel carrier in Trincomalee, ambushing army patrols twice in Amparai and blowing up a naval vessel off the Kayts island, killing scores of soldiers.
Why is it that the LTTE has lost out everywhere now - in the North, the East and the Jaffna peninsula itself? With its arms, communication and smuggling network in Tamil Nadu taken apart by the State police in the aftermath of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, and the consequent loss of Tamil Nadu as a rear-base for its activities, the LTTE is a severely hobbled force and is fighting with its back to the wall. It is not able to smuggle across the Palk Strait arms, ammunition and fuel; nor is it able to bring across to Tamil Nadu injured militants for treatment.
More important, the restraint the Government of India would have exercised on the Sri Lankan Government, cautioning the latter about going for all-out offensives, is absent now.
The internal changes reportedly effected in the LTTE by Prabakaran have also had their impact. There are reports that the LTTE's deputy leader, Mahatiya, has been replaced as commander of the Vani region by Balraj after the debacle at Elephant Pass. What lends credence to this speculation is that the high-profile Mahatiya has not been visible since August. Sri Lankan Tamil sources claim his men have been inactive during these offensives.
The LTTE suffered setbacks in Mullaitivu because the Army had studied its weaknesses during the junglebashing the LTTE had received from the Indian Peace-Keeping Force at Alampil, Nethikaikulam, Kumulamunai, Udaiyarkattu and so on in 1988 and 1989. At that time the Army had allowed the supply lines to reach the
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NEWS ROUND-UP
O MEDICINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF), the French-based international medical aid organisation, is to sign an agreement with Sri Lanka shortly to enable MSF to continue medical relief work in north-east Sri Lanka. Discussions between the government and MSF on all key issues including security of Non-Governmental Organisations working in the north-east are said to have been completed. The proposed agreement is described as an extension of the earlier one signed in 1986. The recent talks between the government and MSF are said to have paved the way for better relations between the two sides which had been strained following the aerial attack on a MSF vehicle and its personnel on 3 May this year. O AT LEAST 14 soldiers were killed in an LTTE ambush attack between Welikanda and Wadaminau in the Polonnaruwa district on 27 October. Four soldiers and a Lieutenant were also injured when a platoon of 53 soldiers came under attack in which an estimated 150 LTTE cadres, including women cadres, are reported to have taken part. The Tigers also got away with all the T81 weapons of the 14 dead soldiers. Army sources claimed that at least 13 LTTE cadres were killed in the encounter.
O THE NOCHCHIYAMOOTA main road connecting Vavuniya town from Vavuniya north after several months of blockade by government forces was opened for passenger transport on 17 October. However the movement of lorries and bicycles through this sevenmile stretch in the Kandy-Jaffna main road continues to remain banned. Before the lifting of the blockade civilians had to use pathways through dense jungles to get to Vavuniya town. However a checkpoint has been setup at Nochchiyamootai which is manned by PLOTE cadres.
O THE TAMIL NADU Congress(I) leader, Mr. Vazapadi Ramamurthy has reiterated the need to ban the LTTE as a means of preventing its activities and those of its support groups in India. He told reporters that he had submitted a report to Prime Minister Narasimha Rao making out a case for banning the LTTE. Calling for what he described as stringent action against the LTTE and its support groups under the National Security Act, he added that the Tigers continued to get their supplies from Tamil Nadu and some groups sought to hold pro-LTTE meetings in Madras, Vellore and Madurai. Mr. Ramamurthy's call to ban the LTTE came in the wake of a recent attempt by a group callingitself the Revolutionary Liberation Force to convene a pro-LTTE public meeting in his home district of
Dharmapuri. The pol meeting taking place over 300 persons.
O FOUR SOLDIERS guards on mobile p Arippu road in Trin led in an ambush
cadres on 29 Octobel seized the weapons of and homeguards be scene of the attack.
O THE HINDU, the daily, reported tha arrest of Theodore alleged LTTE suppo hand grenade, a tra VHF set which were persons P. Ravicha Ramesh alias Suchi also arrested at Dindi and have been rem custody until Novem who hailed from Ara Arcot-Ambedkar dist in Dindigul togethel Ramesh. At the tim they had allegedly establish a full-fledge link to Jaffna from Dindgul-Anna dist Ramesh had received camps in Jaffna for t the time of their arre seized from their p biscuits, Rs. 31,234 in 29 cartridges, a kn capsules. A Reuterre October from Mad Ramakrishnan, hea police, said that Rav key member of the Liberation Army (TN allegedly being train the LTTE and with police had come to kn existence. The report LTTE had given 600,000 rupees (230( cruit and train India) fare, so that at an op they could lead a rev the LTTE in Tamil N
O BY AN AGREEM tween Germany and
October, the German pledged a grant aid o for the Poverty Allev me (Janasaviya) and for the rehabilitation fugees using the se Further grants totall lion were pledged fo projects in agricult training, hydrograph velopment, coast const total assistance pledg for 1991 and 1993 is a 1,165.6 million in gra Preuss, head of the Ge said that future devi ance to Sri Lanka wou adherence to five cor respect for human rigi

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ice prevented the by rounding up
and four homeatrol duty along comalee were kilattack by LTTE . The Tigers also the dead soldiers fore leaving the
Indian English ut following the Charles (29), an ter, along with a nsreceiver and a seized, two other indran (22) and ndran (29) were gul on 23 October handed in police ber 19. Theodore kkonam in north rict was staying with Ravi and e of their arrest, been planning to d communication Kodaikanal in rict. Ravi and training in LTTE wo years, and at est the police also ossession 6 gold cash, a revolver, ife and cyanide port datelined 29 ras quoting J. .d of the state ichandran was a
Tamil National NLA) which was 2d and armed by his arrest the ow of the TNLA's added that the
Ravichandran )0 Dollars) to ren Tamils in warportune moment olt in support of adu'.
ENT signed beSri Lanka on 25 government has f Dm. 15 million riation Program
Dm. 10 million of internal rervices of NGOs. ing Dm. 22 milIr GTZ Assisted ure, vocational ly, regional deervation etc. The red by Germany pproximately Rs. nt aid. Dr. Wolf 'rman delegation elopment assistild depend on the hditions namely, hts, involvement
of the population in political decision making processes, guarantee of legal security, creation of a market oriented economic system and the development orientation of government activities.
O THE WADUGODAPTIYA Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate certain allegations contained in Victor Ostrovsky's book "By Way of Deception - the Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer, handed over its report to President Premadasa on 29 October. The Commission was appointed in September 1990 to inquire into whether (a) any Sri Lankan terrorists were trained by the Mossad, (b) any member of the security forces were trained by Mossad, (c) any member of the security forces went to Israel for making military purchases, (d) two Israeli academics were engaged to prepare a false feasibility report on the Mahaweli project, (e) Mossad secured the award of a part of a contract to an Israeli Construction Company, (f) Mossad trained Sri Lankan officers to deliberately mislead the World Bank, (g) Mossad utilised the funds obtained from the World Bank to pay for arms purchased by Sri Lanka from Israel, and (h) if any Sri Lankan informed the authors that the funds were being used to purchase equipment for the Sri Lankan army. Except in the case of item (c) in respect of which the Commission finds that four high-ranking officers from the army, navy and airforce visited Israel on 30 June 1985 and returned on 8 July 1985, all other findings of the Commission are in the negative. Presidential Adviser Bradman Weerakoon speaking to journalists said that the Commission had recommended the establishment of a National Defence Agency to collect information relating to antiSri Lankan activities.
O THE BASIC TRAVE allowance granted to resident Sri Lankans travelling to countries other than those in the South Asian region has been raised with effect from November 1 to US $2,500 per year from the previous US $1,500 for a three year period. As a further concession to those who travel abroad the Central Bank has also decided to permit resident Sri Lankans leaving the country to declare foreign currency only if it amounted to more than US $2,500 or equivalent in other designated currencies.
O A DELEGATION comprising repre
sentatives of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress, Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF), Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) met with a six member delegation of the Sri Lanka Freedom
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Party (SLFP) headed by the acting Leader of the Opposition Anura Bandaranaike on 31 October to discuss ways and means to resolve the ethnic crisis. The Tamil delegation called upon the SLFP to refrain from using the ethnic issue to gain political advantage. Discussions also centred around the 43 member parliamentary select committee appointed to evolve a negotiated political solution to the ethnic problem. The two delegations agreed to continue the process of discussions after the return of the SLFP leader Mrs. S.B. Bandaranaike to the island.
O THE SRI LANKAN ARMY COMMANDER, Lt. General Hamilton Wanasinghe who retires in the middle of November is to be appointed as the General Officer Commanding a revitalised Joint Operations Command which, according to defence sources, is expected to adopt a more aggressive strategy in the war against the LTTE. The JOC Headquarters has now been shifted to the Army Headquarters complex. The move became inevitable following LTTE's suicide vehicle bomb attack upon the JOC Headquarters situated on Flower Road, Colombo 7, in June this year in which 25 persons were killed and the building badly damaged. The present army Chief of Staff, Major General Cecil Waidyaratne is expected to be appointed Commander of the 77,000 strong Sri Lankan army. Rear Admiral Clancy Fernando assumed duties as the Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy in place of Vice-Admiral H. Ananda Silva who relinquished his duties on 31 October.
O A SECOND MOTON of NoConfidence on Mr. M.H. Mohamed, the Speaker of the Sri Lankan parliament signed on behalf of four opposition parties was submitted to the Secretary General of Parliament on 31 October. The signatories are Mrs. S. Bandaranaike and Mr. Anura Bandaranaike of the SLFP, Mr. Athauda Seneviratne and Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara on behalf of the United Socialist Alliance, Mr. Dinesh Gunawardene on behalf of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and Mr. Raja Kuganeswaran and K. Navaratnam on behalf of the EPRLF. The motion alleges that the Speaker acted in violation of Standing Orders on October 23.
O OVER A THOUSAND Muslim refugees demonstrated in Puttalam in Sri Lanka on 3 November against the LTTE which had driven them out from their homes in the northern areas of Jaffna and Mannar and for confiscating their properties. The protesters had congregated in the Puttalam town to mark the anniversary of their exOdus. The demonstrators had come from some 87 refugee camps scattered
in the Puttalum d are about 45,000 re
O SRI LANKA’S S als Corporation is port essential drugs the severe shortage als throughout th who attended govel major cities inclu provincial and ru) been undergoing se to frequent shortag them cannot afford from private chemi prices. O THE SRI LANK quire three more C. the middle of Novi boats are described ern and more po already in possess They are armed wit The navy's present includes three sur ships, four landing Attack Crafts and locally built patrol
O ONE SOLDIER a cadres are reported when troops overra the Thoppigala ar. Batticaloa district
Government troops artillery, helicopter bombers entered th from several diri sources claimed th bunkers, stores, t furniture and bicyc.
'RAJIV'S WILL BE P SayS Ind
Mr. P.V. Narasimha ter, today said tha for the killing of Minister, Rajiv C tracked down wher brought to book. A the Governments ( Nadu would be u would like to reite sponsible for this h tainly be punished. After paying hon dhi along with the Minister, Ms. Sriperumbudur w Prime Minister wa May 21, Mr. Naras Congress(I) Gover according to the g Rajiv Gandhi and assurances contail manifesto were imp
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istrict where there efugees. tate Pharmaceuticto immediately imfrom India to meet of drugs in hospite island. Patients nment hospitals in ling Colombo and ral hospitals have vere hardship due es of drugs. Most of to purchase drugs sts due to the high
A NAWY would achinese gunboats by ember. These gun
as the most modwerful than those ion of the Navy. h heavier weapons. fleet of naval craft seillance command crafts, fifteen Fast
both foreign and poatS.
nd about ten LTTE to have been killed in a Tiger camp in ea in the eastern
on 7 November.
backed by heavy gunships and Y12 e Thoppigal jungle ections. Military at several strong raining facilities, les were destroyed
and a quantity of claymore mines and telecommunication sets were recovered by the forces.
O MORE THAN 85 percent of the health institutions in Sri Lanka have been completely paralysed and the rest have been badly affected as a result of a strike by members of the society of Registered and Assistant Medical Officers (SRAMO). The strike is in protest against the failure of the Ministry of Health to consider the demands submitted several years ago by the SRAMO. The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) which oppose several of the demands of the SRAMO instructed its members to cover the duties of RMOs and AMOs.
O TWENTY-TWO major trade unions in Sri Lanka have urged the Sri Lankan government to withdraw the proposed Media Commission Bill and strengthen the freedom of the press and amend the present Press Council Law to provide for a code of ethics for journalists. They have suggested that the press should have full freedom of expression and that the TV network should be released from state control. On the contrary the Media Commission Bill was intended to impose total state control of the press, limiting freedom of expression and if enacted into law would prevent publication of news without fear of prosecution. The unions also have expressed their concern about the possibility that trade union publications will also come under the hammer of the Media Commission.
KILLERS UNISHED ian P.M.
MADRAS, Oct. 25.
a Rao, Prime Minist those responsible the former Prime andhi, would be ever they were and ill the resources of of India and Tamil tilised for this. "I rate that those reeinous act will cer
Image to Rajiv GanTamil Nadu Chief Jaya la litha, at there the former as assassinated om simha Rao said the nment would act guidance given by see that all the ned in the party lemented.
strengthened jiv Gandhi was a
co-architect of the Congress(I) AIADMK alliance. “We respect this alliance. We shall maintain and strengthen this alliance in the years to come. We would like to assure the people of Tamil Nadu as well as its Chief Minister that we will honour every word given to the people here by Rajiv Gandhi.
On his first visit to Tamil Nadu since becoming the Prime Minister, Mr. Rao was participating in a function where he received the Ekta Kalasa' containing water from more than 30 holy rivers brought by 80 padayatris who commenced their journey from Amethi on August 20.
Paying poignant tributes to the memory of Rajiv Gandhi, Ms. Jayalalitha, who presided over the function, asked every citizen to take a pledge that they would never allow balkanisation of the country at any cost. The conspiracy to kill the former Prime Minister was hatched by some traitorous foreign elements in collaboration with some evil forces in Tamil Nadu. It was the duty of the people to see that those responsible for such killing should be rooted out lock, stock and barrel from political and public life.
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The "Constitutional CC The External Factc
Mervyn de Silva
The constitutional "coup" has collapsed. The drama may be over, the final curtain likely to come down on a court-room rather than parliamentary scene. But the 'crisis' may stay with us.
Meanwhile the UNP, taken by total surprise and greatly shaken, will never again affect the cocky complacency into which it had so nicely settled. A rudely awakened public is no longer a silent spectator. The media has regained something of its combative vigour.
A dis-united United National Party is always a nett gain to its main rival, the SLFP but will the rewards be immediate and substantial, or midterm and modest?
My chief concern however is the external factor or factors, the external involvements and implications. The press too. I don't suppose the aim of the external players was to oust the government. It was to 'soften up the regime, to make it less powerful, more accountable to parliament. An independent parliamentary "cautious', UNP but hostile to the Presidency, wouid have done nicely. Both a numbers and checks-and-balances game. It didn't work out that way. The selfopinionated diplomatic fine-tuning chaps didn't write the final score!
Regarding the external or the internal/external, what do we see? (I) The least politicised minority is now an activist - more self-conscious and assertive actor - the Muslims. with the Tamils, they hold the traditional balance. Include Mr. Thondaman's CWC, independent player, and that's it. Mr. Thondaman was also the main adviserconfidential agent of Delhi for a quarter century. This time he was left out. Either the game in Delhi is run by a new set, or a new set of rules, or the game was not organised by the real bosses, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and his group. Was part at least of the game an effort to weaken or embarrass Mr. Rao?
The two most important external players of course are INDIA and the U.S., the world's largest and the world's most powerful democracies.
In both countries, the Big Chief is in serious trouble chiefly because of the democratic context in which they are compelled to operate.
(1) President Bush, on the eve of a second-term campaign, is on an unprecedented collision course with the mighty Jewish Lobby in the US and ISRAEL. The Jewish Lobby operates
within and outside th times within the adm (2) Mr. Narasimha greater trouble thau madasa. “Factional g. nowledged de fact Chakravarty, India's editor. He adds: “TI Palace, the Marath. these are part of the ( ary today, at least in lobbying and backbit veritable minefield til has to steer to ma ership”.
When democratic trouble, mavericks, and the covert agencie own. One of their ments is the media, sions, to create con wrong signals to incre tingly or unwittingly the journalist and fo dent, the diplomat a man are co-opted.
Like the Tamils, t munity is now an ide To meet a challenge p Arab/Islam, the Mu sponded, and Sri Lank orientation became n (Pakistan westward Asian, a possibility tha in Delhi may not hav nor the Jewish Lobby,
In the north-and-eas been ravaged by one fiercest ethnic insur past decade or more most parts of the Sinl in the vice-like grip of revolt that was brut 1989. And yet in late islandwide elections Parliamentary and I have a 'coup'. Not an a common 3rd world constitutional coupi. visions of the 1978 J DENA constitution, conspiratorial parliam game, to oust an electe leader of the party th elections, and has gov for 30 of the 44 years general election. An hatched before May 2. personalities involved, time. And the polic though the plot eviden a "police state'.
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ported, it is said, by 35-45 UNP'ers, to be 'entertained' by the Speaker. But the main aim was "parliamentary democracy', an end to centralised Presidential power, concentration of authority in the Executive Presidency, the vital change between the 1977 post-independent Westminster model, and the 1978 so-called "Gaullist experiment.
Since the main banner unfurled after the impeachment motion was "Democracy', it was hardly surprising to see the UNP “dissidents' making a conscious effort to identify their exercise with the world-wide phenomenon of popular rebellion and a triumphant democratic upsurge - not merely in 'socialist Europe and the Soviet Union but in many parts of the Third World, including South Asia.
The sub-continent has had only two sturdy democracies, India and Sri Lanka, though this island has had prolonged emergencies which have led to the effective erosion of democracy, sometimes temporary.
The other South Asian regimes have seen various forms of regimentation and authoritarian control, chiefly under the military in the two largest Muslim states (Pakistan and Bangladesh) and under monarchies, (Nepal, notably).
As the world's most populous democracy, India, certainy under Nehru, believed that the spread of democracy on the sub-continent was not just a virtue but an asset. Later, when the Cold War contest intensified to the point where the actual independence and sovereignty of the 'new' States were threatened, Nehru placed great value on non-alignment too. It would be easier for India to get on well with non-aligned - democracies - that belief was a cornerstone of India's regional policy. The objective was an accommodating, tension-free security environment in uvhich India could re-build itself to realise his vision of the glory and the naturally endowed greatness' of India. With the army quickly emerging as the effective ruler of Pakistan, and Pakistan establishing links, formal and non-formal, with USdominated military alliances, Nehru emphasised non-alignment even more than democracy, though he did give his blessings to democratic oppositional movements in the region, but such encouragement never crossed the line to become direct military intervention, covert action or coercive diplomacy, or a "mix' of all three. On account of its military strength, and its close cooperation with the US, and soon, China, Pakistan was always a special case.
"No Indian version of the Monroe Doctrine has functioned in South Asia' observes Surjit Mansingh in India's
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Search for Power, and another scholar Raju Thomas notes that "Indian defense policy has usually been characterised by flexibility and ambivalence' (Indian Security Policy), quoted by Devin Hagerty in Asian Survey. But Prof. Bhabani Sen Gupta argues that the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka did spawn an Indian doctrine of regional security.
There are two basic considerations to be borne in mind when understanding india's regional interests and how these are pursued. First, security must be studied in the broadest terms. An active democracy in a neighbouring country is welcome in Delhi... but not if that democratic regime follows a foreign policy which is "hostile' to India e.g. the JR government, a sharp break with the Bandaranaike past. Secondly, a neighbour, however friendly, ceases to be a friend if its defence policies (even arms supplies and training) are linked to another country or countries, regional or extra-regional e.g. Pakistan, China or U.S. Thirdly, a neighbour whose internal policies have a disruptive effect on India (e.g. Tamil problem in Sri Lanka.)
All three were factors when JR assumed office and Indira Gandhi was running India, after the defeat of JR's friend Moraji Desai.
By the referendum of 1982, JRJ had shrewdly pre-empted Delhi, denying Mrs. Gandhi the policy option of subverting JR’s ‘constitutional dictatorship’ in the hope of Mrs. Bandaranaike's return. The only options left were covert action and coercive diplomacy i.e. training and arming the Tamil separatist-guerrillas and using the reasonable argument of "spill-over effects (Tamilnadu) to legitimise coercive diplomacy - the instant arrival of Narasinha Rao, External Affairs Minister, in Colombo to be followed by the pressures of the Parthasarthy diplomatic exercise the first phase.
The advent of the Rajiv regime showed a softening of the Indian attitude, with the LTTE recognised as a dangerous 'actor'. Thus, the reply to the LTTE in the form of other Indiabacked military groups, especially the EPRLF. Along with that, the JRJ government was gradually adopting a new posture, influenced by (a) failure of the military option. Vadamaarachi, identified with Lalith Athulathmudali, the National Security Minister and (b) economic-diplomatic pressure within the Cabinet, identified with Finance Minister, Ronnie de Mel (IMF-World Bank-donors) and Mahaveli Minister (the pro-Indian) peacenik, Gamini Dissanayake, and (c) mounting Indian pressure plus friendly persuasion (Dixit, N. Ram etc).
Nepal, the onl comparable in a wi following a precar ter-balance i.e., re the US as count Delhi's reaction, ( mic squeeze chol locked Nepal and pro-Indian opposit. up' King Birendra tional pro-democr swept the streets advent of the Prer coincided with th Delhi – two mir V.P. Singh and C. second hobbling : support until Rajiv for a general electi
Regime Persistent dema drawal of the IPK Premadasa gove LTTE were receiv pressed irritation, Congress and Fore ment in Delhi. Gil clared 'good neighb Prime Minister W. the IPKF's pull-o terms. It is during that India's relatio improved markedly
Indian
With the immin Chandra Sekhar gc gress needed to cra policy — how to dea sa regime in the return. To a Delhi only practical rea critical weakening government, not an tic means (the pro uvere not a good sig armed forces. The was the preferre more. First, ther Sinhala Buddhist thinking on the "Accord' and any s devolution essay Apart from that, regime-change thir strumentalities, uve
Any intelligent and there are hea however have no which may comp herently narrow li choices. In recent increasingly come man Rights shar come in fact a NGOs, the donor members of the A and Commonweal history of the iss Richard de Zoysa Gladstone. The ic

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other neighbour, y to Sri Lanka, was ous policy of counying on China and :rweight to India. ajiv) was an econoing off the landblitical pressure via on groups to 'soften through an agitacy campaign that f Kathmandu. The ladasa government political crisis in ority governments andra Sekhar, the long on Congress Gandhi was ready
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nds for the withF and talks by the rnment with the 2d with poorly supif not anger, by the gn Policy establishren his publicly deour' policy priority, P. Singh negotiated ut . . . . on Indian Mr. Singh's tenure ns with Nepal also
7.
Options ent collapse of the vernment, the Conlft a new Sri Lanka with the Premadacontext of a Rajiv i policy-planner the listic choice uvas a of the Sri Lankan ouster by democrajincial council polls n) nor a move by the SLFP, under Indira, l option. Not any 2 uvas the SLFP’s constituency-bound Indo-Sri Lanka erious quasi-federal was simply not on. he possibilities of a ough democratic in're slim. South Block-wallah, ps out there, would ted an advantage ensate for the inmits on operational imes, Sri Lanka has within range of Hup-shooters, and bearget gradually of agencies, and some D Group, European th. This is the brief le from the ghastly murder to l'affaire ea is to punish the
regime, teach it a lesson, rather than to overthrouy it.
The government after all is working well within the IMF-World Bank framework (the more important test) and has held and won too many elections to qualify reasonably for the hard option of have-ho, C.I.A.-style earlier. If in the business of punishing the regime, some constitutional-political changes can also be introduced (such as opening up the centralised system, encouraging freer discussion and debate, in the media for example) so much the better.
US Policy,
The minority Congress government is overwhelmed by a rare conjuncture of crises, political, economic and security. Thus the agonies of the IMFimposed adjustment, popular protest over various issues, armed violence and burgeoning insurgencies, the serious threat in Kashmir and the confrontation with Pakistan, caste and class conflicts, the collapse of the IndoSoviet relationship and search for a new foreign policy - defence framework. All this affords the bureaucracy together with not-so overt agencies, a much larger freedom to make policy. But can India play the old-style regional hegemonic role at the risk of alienating the single superpower? Although small, Sri Lanka will also prove an interesting test of the new emerging Indo-US relationship - itself a test of how the sole superpower will relate to major regional powers, the division of responsibility and influence in the context of regional conflict and conflict-resolution. (Even the large collective, the E.C., has not been too successful in the experiment in Yugoslavia).
The notoriously outsize Sri Lankan ego sometimes accommodates the flattering thought that if the lights in the White House burn late or Messrs Baker and Scowcroft are holed up in the basement, their labours are somehow connected to some ruckus in Sri Lanka. The only useful corrective to such idle vanities is to give a schoolroom globe a fast spin and try to spot Sri Lanka as it turns.
Right now, in any case, the only crisis that concentrates the minds of President Bush, Mr. Baker and their top aides is the Arab-Israeli issue, where the superhawk, General Arik Sharon has created more problems for Mr. Bush by organising overflights to Iraq that have angered Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, all important to the success of the Baker mission. Prime Minister Shamir is determined to sabotage the Bush initiative one way or the other. He may even dissolve Parliament.

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Jewish Lobby
Shamir is not the only enemy that Mr. Bush faces. The enemy within is more powerful. The Jewish Lobby could damage his campaign for a second term, the dream of every President.
One of the leading lights of the Jewish Lobby is Congressman Stephen Solarz, chairman of the Congress Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. In his book They Dare to Speak Out, Paul Findley, who was a US Congressman for 22 years, says: Stephen J. Solarz, a hard-working Congressman who represents a heavily Jewish district in Brooklyn (New York) prides himself on accomplishing many good things for ISRAEL. Since his first election in 1974, Solarz established a reputation as an "intelligent eager beaver', widely travelled, aggressive and totally committed to Israel's interests. In committee, he seems always bursting with the next question before the witness responds to his first...'
I have had two brief conversations with Mr. Solarz and about his brilliance and combative vigour, especially on any matter connected with Israel, there could be little doubt. The last trip he did to Colombo was to try to persuade President Premadasa to change his mind on closing the Israeli interests section. He failed.
A few years back, he tried to get Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to agree to raising Indian-Israeli relations now very low-level, to Embassy status or at least Consul-General in Delhi. He did not succeed. One of those actively canvassing support for the same cause was Dr. Subramanium Swamy, leader of the Samajawadi Party, and the man who told India Abroad paper in Washington that it was he who used his Harvard contact (he is visiting professor) to get David Kimche, the Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, to channel Israeli assistance to the LTTE, including expertise in landmines, as we now know from Viktor Ostrovski and Jane's Defence Weekly. It was Dr. Swamy's party that organised a demonstration at the Sri Lankan High Commission office in Delhi the other day. It was Dr. Swamy who introduced US LTTE fund-raisers to Bnai Brith the powerful Jewish body.
The Jewish lobby consists not only of top US politicians but eminent academics powerful businessmen and fund-raisers and US officials including ranking diplomats.
Mr. Gamini Dissanayake, who was not educated at Oxford or Harvard, may not know Dr. Subrannanium Swamy since he has no connections as far as I know with Cambridge where the former Mahaveli Minister follows a post-graduate course.
Rogue O If the real obje change (i.e. a non the sole beneficiar Mrs. Bandaranaike allies, all generally an policy but aggr People forget that shut down the Isra and made the first dent JR's announc Interests Section” ol L.G. As against M statements in and and the statement Bandaranaike, La and Haleem Isha Minister to match ber and pro-Israe. National Security Athulathmudali nc ter Gamini Dissana a key figure in In tions and a "fellow with Mr. Anura Ba lhi for the funeral (Mr. Rajiv Gandhi very well. If Mr. excellent credentia Athulathmudali ha with ISRAEL.
It is sections of chiefly Madras-b laboured hard to cre tensions, not Prime the Foreign Minist on the LTTE and Ra SAARC. The only leader Dr. Subrama attempts were soon age had been done v Madras-Delhi-Colon any foreign corres journalist can easi same may hold g London of course.
That is why I thi LEAGUE and PLC both greatly encou) BUSH-BAKER Mic cy, decided to give a besieged Colombo r states, Pakistan all most important in t up with the Arab L.
At least one influe has raised the iss autonomy is exercis an agencies when th ment is weak, far to in politics, or is cle: administration.
These are question and doggedly purs media, now excited tions of the Senate Gates is the Presid CIA chief. The num erations, clandestine permission or the kn ments and elected staggering indeed ideals spread acros;

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ctive was regime-UNP option) then y would have been , the SLFP and its supportive of Indiessively anti-Israel. Mrs. Bandaranaike eli legation in 1960 statement on Presiement to open 'an n July 1 1984 to the rs. Bandaranaike’s out of Parliament, s of Messrs Anura kshman Jayakody k, the only UNP them both in numli vehemence was Minister Lalith pt Mahaveli Minisyake. He was later Ido-Lanka negotiatraveller so to say, undaranaike to Deof an Indian leader ) who both knew
Dissanayake, has als in Delhi, Mr. is had close links
the Indian press, ased, that have late Delhi-Colombo Minister Rao nor er nor top officials jiv murder, and on exception is party niam Swamy. Both de-fused but damia a neat Colombombo circuit which pondent or senior ly recognise. The ood for Colombo
nk that the ARAB )'s Yassar Arafat, raged by the bold idle-East diplomahelping hand to a 2gime. The Islamic nd Iran, the two his region, teamed eague.
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over the revelaGates inquiry Mr. ent's nominee for hber of 'rogue" opwork without the owledge of governrepresentatives, is . As democratic s the world, it is
possible that democracy and even inter-state understanding and cooperation are being subverted by men and agencies not answerable to the people.
With the superpower struggle over and the US-funded insurgencies in Afghanistan irrelevant, the US sees South Asia and the Indo-Pak conflict in a different light. As Pran Chopra notes that is clear from the paper on National Security Strategy' that President Bush presented to Congress recently. Spelling out this strategy in much greater detail, the senior US official in charge of the foreign policy/ defence planning for the region, Richard Haas who works in the White House, emphasises the need for discussing regional and global security issues with India. The US visit of Indian Army Chief and the reciprocal Pentagon gesture prompted the Hindu to note editorially:
Though the Pressler Amendment intended to disqualify Pakistan's eligibility for US military and economic aid, and the backing India is getting from Mr. Stephen Solarz, do not indicate a change in US perceptions, not many in India could still seriously believe that the US would yet begin to discard an ally in the sub-continent, and make matters easier for India'.
Solarz has attacked Pakistan on another issue. On Oct. 3 Solarz warned Pakistan that relations could "freeze' if Pakistan carried out a sentence passed by a Rawalpindi court on two Muslim Americans.
Domestic Problems
Democracies are more prone to internal differences and conflicts than . one-party states. At least the differences are more visible. Minority regimes in large democracies like India find it difficult to conceal such tension, including the contest for leadership. Is Rao all that secure? Are younger, more ambitious men advancing their own interests? Are the bureaucracy and agencies, such as the Foreign Office and RAW, totally loyal to him or in total agreement with him? Is ambition, whether at the highest levels of the party of officialdom, a factor that decides policy, including foreign policy? The SRI LANKA issue of course is never exclusively foreign. At least it concerns TAMILNADU. The Indian Establishment is running scared about the long leap of the "Tiger".
After all, there is now a separatistterrorist movement styled "Liberation Tigers of Khalistan'. Chief Minister Jayalalitha jumps like a terrified pussy cat when Prabhakaran's name is mentioned. Delhi's defence analysts talk of the 'exposed southern flank” of India - the enemy here is not Pakistan or China but the LTTE.
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Amnesty
Human Ri in North
4 HUMAN RIGHTS AND ARMED CONFLICT
In situations of armed conflict fundamental human rights cannot be ignored. "Disappearances' and the deliberate killing of prisoners or other defenceless individuals cannot be justified in any circumstances. International human rights law makes clear that certain fundamental rights - in particular the right to life and the right not to be subjected to torture - must be upheld by governments at all times and in all circumstances. Killings by members of the armed opposition can never provide justification for government forces to deliberately kill defenceless people. Nor can they justify the enforced 'disappearance' or torture of prisoners in the custody of government forces.
In situations of armed conflict, fundamental human rights must be protected with extra vigilance. Under Article 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the Government of Sri Lanka acceded in 1980, there can be no derogations from the duty to uphold the right to life and the right to freedom from torture in any circumstances, even "in time of public emergency which threatens the life of the nation'. Article 6 of the ICCPR asserts the right to life, a right which the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee' has said 'should not be interpreted narrowly'. The UN Human Rights Committee, has described the protection against arbitrary deprivation of life in Article 6 as being 'of paramount importance'. It has stressed the need for governments to "take measures not only to prevent and punish deprivation of life by criminal acts, but also to prevent arbitrary killing by their own security forces.'
For these principles to be upheld, force may of course be used by government forces - so long as it is necessary and regulated, and is proportionate to the demands of the situation. The killing as a direct consequence of engagement between parties to an armed conflict may be necessary and does not in and of itself constitute a human rights violation. Similarly, Amnesty International does not address in a general way the issue of military tactics, and nor does it raise as a human rights violation deaths caused accidentally through cross-fire. The killings which Amnesty International raises with governments are those which appear to be deliberate killings of defenceless people, whether they are civilians or combatants incapacitated by injuries or who have surrendered and offer no resistance. Such killings are often committed in reprisal attacks on particular localities several hours or days after murders by the armed opposition, for example, or committed after people have been taken prisoner.
Similar principles, prohibiting the killing of defenceless people and torture, are found in international humanitarian law dealing with armed conflict. Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 stipulates that each party to a conflict which is not of an international character must apply the following minimum standards:
"(1) Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely. . . .'
With respect to these categories of people, Common Article 3 prohibits:
“(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b) taking of hostages;
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
(d) the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.
 
 
 

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5 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S POSITION ON ABUSES COMMITTED BY NON-GOVERNMENTAL GROUPS
Amnesty International's work is based on international human rights law, which is addressed to governments. Amnesty International urges governments to uphold their international obligations to protect human rights. The organization does not generally address non-governmental groups in this manner. It does, however, as a matter of principle, consistently condemn the torture and killing of prisoners by non-governmental groups. Furthermore, when such a group takes control of territory such that the population has no access to government channels for redress, Amnesty International does address that group and hold it responsible for the abuses it has committed. Amnesty International has, for example, several times called upon the LTTE to halt its practices of holding prisoners in incommunicado detention, of killing and torturing prisoners, and of killing defenceless people, including prisoners and civilians.
6 HUMAN RIGHTS VOLATIONS BY GOVERNMENT FORCES AND ALLIED GROUPS
Those cited as responsible for committing human rights violations on the government side include members of the military, the police and the Special Task Force (STF, a police commando unit). In some areas of the east, members of unidentified groups who wear plain clothes and use unmarked vehicles have also been cited. These people seem to operate in much the same manner as the plainclothes 'death squads' linked to government forces which were a feature of the recent counter-insurgency drive against the JVP in the south.
Other forces opposed to the LTTE have also been cited as responsible for committing abuses. The government has assisted the creation of armed groups within the civilian populations, such as the Muslim home guards, and has also mobilised the armed cadres of anti-LTTE militant Tamil groups to assist in its campaign against the LTTE. Sometimes members of these groups appear to be used as proxies for the regular security forces, committing abuses which the security forces ignore, and for which members of the security forces cannot be held directly responsible.
The armed cadres of several Tamil groups opposed to the LTTE are deployed in different areas under army control. Members of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) work with the army in Kayts, and also identify and hand over LTTE suspects to the security forces in Colombo, where they have been delegated official responsibilities in certain refugee camps. Members of the People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) operate in Vavuniya; in Batticaloa, members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) are deployed. The following number of these cadres have been armed by the army, according to the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence: 112 TELO, 146 PLOTE and approximately the same number of EPDP cadres. Amnesty International was told by the authorities that they are operating under direct military command.
Muslim home guards were provided with arms by the government in August 1990, after the LTTE had killed hundreds of Muslims in the east, including 103 worshippers in two mosques at Kattankudy, Batticaloa District on 3 August 1990. In Moneragala District, village defence units were set up among Sinhala villagers in April 1991 after attacks by the LTTE in which about 40 people were reportedly killed, including women and children. The government policy of arming civilian groups in the east appears to have contributed to an intensification of violence in the area; tensions between and within communities have been exacerbated. The number of (mainly Sinhalese) home guards along the borders with the Northeastern Province is 23,000. They are said to function under control of the local police and to be provided with weapons during the night only. In June 1991, the Secretary of the Minister of Defence put the number of Muslims armed at approximately 2,000. He said that they have been provided with arms by the army and technically should not be considered home guards, although they perform similar functions.

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The arming of civilian groups by the government appears to repeat the practice which occurred in the south during the campaign against the JVP, when the government distributed weapons for self-defence to home guards and to politicians for their bodyguards. In response to a recommendation made in the report of the Presidential Commission on Youth that the state should take 'decisive action' to halt the activities of "paramilitary organizations and shadowy vigilante groups' in the south, the government has attempted to recall the many weapons it had issued to politicians. This effort has met with only partial success. In the northeast, however, the government has continued to distribute weapons to home guards after attacks on civilians by the LTTE, and new 'death squads' have appeared in the east, believed to be drawn from or associated with the security forces, which pursue the same tactics as those which operated against the JVP in the south. Some press reports have indicated that home guards who abuse their positions would be disciplined by the military commander of their area, but Amnesty International is not aware of the procedures employed, or whether any disciplinary cases have been followed through. All that seems to happen in cases of such abuse is that the weapons are taken from the particular home guard involved.
6.1 The relationship between home guards and the security
forces
Muslims collaborating with the security forces are reported to have provided lists of Tamil people for the security forces to target as terrorist suspects, including several Tamil government employees and other educated Tamil people. Local rivalries are believed to have found expression in the creation of these lists, and potential leaders within the Tamil community are reported to have been targeted. For example, a local human rights organization has reported that many of the approximately 37 Tamil people extrajudicially executed in Akkaraipattu soon after government forces moved in June 1990 were government employees. In Karaitivu, the same organization reported that about 26 educated Tamil people were targeted, and put into a room where all but three were killed. Amnesty International does not know the names of these victims.
The following extract from a report by a local human rights organization illustrates both the attitude of the security forces to prisoners, and the relationship between the security forces and sections of the Muslim community in the east:
“When the STF came into a town in the east in mid June, most of the people fled elsewhere, though the public servants largely remained. A very senior public servant was pulled out of his office by the STF. An STF man asked his officer . . . whether to finish him off there itself. The officer replied, "He is a big man, it is not nice to finish him here.' The public servant waited in the grounds with his captors for the arrival of a South African Buffel armoured car, which was to take him to his execution. In the meantime a Muslim mob arrived and heaped accusations against him, to the effect that he was a terrorist. The OIC Officer in Charge asked them to take him and finish him off. Some Muslims came with wooden poles in order to beat him to death. A Muslim teacher well disposed towards him saved him by telling the mob: "The STF took him. It is their business to finish him off. Why do you want to take on the Muslims the blame for finishing this man?" The mob had second thoughts and went away.
"Shortly afterwards the Buffel arrived. Just then a jeep arrived with an STF officer having the rank of Assistant Superintendent (ASP), who inquired who the intended victim was.... The ASP then promptly took him away, left him in a church with some biscuits and aerated water, and thus saved his life."
Muslim home guards are also reported to have detained Tamil people themselves, and then handed them over to the police. Four teachers from Veeramunai - Thirunavukkarasu, Ravi, Rasan and Illankeswaran - were trying to reach Thirukkovil by van to join their families. The four were refugees, staying in Kallaru and Thurainilavanai. They were stopped by Muslim home guards on or about 15 September 1990 and handed to the police. When inquiries were made about their wherabouts, an official indicated that two of the four were alleged to belong to the LTTE and that further inquiries would be useless. Such a response is usually understood to mean that the people concerned have been killed.
Another person reported to have 'disappeared' after being detained by Muslim home guards and handed to the police is Kalanithy, a refugee from Pottuvil who was staying at Thirukkovil. Kalanithy returned to Pottuvil on 5 October 1990 to collect money which was owed to him. On the way, he was taken by two home guards and put into a police jeep parked in a lane. Inquiries about his whereabouts were made with the STF, but no information was forthcoming. An STF officer is reported to have said that the police in Pottuvil had killed 160 Tamils, but he did not specify whether Kalanithy was among them.

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5.2 "Disappearances' and extrajudicial executions
Over 3,000 Tamil people are reported to have "disappeared' in the ustody of government forces in the east since June 1990. Most of the case material collected by Amnesty International relates to the second half of 1990. That such serious abuses have continued well into 1991 is confirmed, however, by recent reports in the Sri Lankan and the international press as well as from other sources. The number of 'disappearances' and extrajudicial executions reported since the beginning of 1991 amounts to several hundred.
Disappearances' and extrajudicial executions have been reported in large number from several districts in the east since government orces moved in. By October 1990, some 3,000 Tamil people were !stimated to have been killed or to have 'disappeared' in Amparai District alone during the previous four months. Many of these people were believed to have been victims of extrajudicial execution. In Batticaloa town, over 1,500 people were reported as "disappeared' between June and December 1990 to the local Peace Committee. Similarly, large numbers of "disappearances and extrajudicial execuions have also been reported from Trincomalee. Amnesty Internaional has also collected reports of extrajudicial executions and disappearances” in Vavuniya, Mannar and Kayts.
Victims of extrajudicial execution have reportedly been shot, bayonetted, stabbed, hacked or beaten to death. Some were said by witnesses to have been burnt alive. Many people were apparently letained or killed because they had contact with the members of the LTTE, sometimes of the most minimal kind during the period the
TTE controlled the area.
Prisoners taken by the security forces have not been the only rictims of extrajudicial execution. Reports indicate that such killings have been committed in various contexts. Refugees have been killed n refugee camps; individuals have been killed in their homes; tillages have been attacked in reprisal for attacks committed by the TTE in the area; passengers have been taken from buses and killed. Such attacks have not always been committed by members of the security forces themselves: home guards have been cited as responsible in several instances. Even when not directly involved themselves, n some cases there is evidence indicating the acquiescence or -ollaboration of the security forces in such attacks by other parties.
On 17 February 1991, for example, after 45 soldiers from the Vijayabahu regiment had been killed by the LTTE in an ambush at &ondaichchi, near Mannar, army personnel from the same regiment were reported to have killed four Tamil schoolteachers who were ravelling from Mannar. Their bodies were found dumped in a well at Vankalai.
Again, on 30 March 1991, after the LTTE had opened fire on a olice patrol at Iruthayapuram, Batticaloa, killing one policeman, leven bodies were reportedly found on the roadside. Some of the ictims had apparently been hacked to death, but at least one had a |unshot wound. According to a report in Virakesari, Colombo, of 2 April 1991, several people who passed the place where the police fficer had been killed were detained by the police. The report says hat the bodies, which were recovered by members of the InternationCommittee of the Red Cross (ICRC), were those of people who had een detained. Most were reported to be young men from the ruthayapuram area. Amnesty International does not know their ames. One survivor among them was reportedly taken to hospital y the ICRC. Seven bodies were later handed to their relatives after ost mortems had been held. Virakesari reported on 11 April 1991 hat 60 officers from Iruthayapuram police station had been ransferred to Amparai.
'The Human Rights Committee is the body set up under the ICCPR to monitor implementation of the covenant's provisions. See General comment 6(16) of the Human Rights Committee. The Government of Sri Lanka ratified the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 in 1959. In February 1988 the LTTE informed the United Nations and the international Committee of the Red Cross that it would abide by the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and the Optional Protocols and II.
See Sri Lanka: Extrajudicial Executions, "Disappearances' and forture, 1987-1990, (Al Index: ASA 37/21/90), September 1990, for the 2vidence Amnesty international provided linking these plainclothes irmed groups in the south to the security forces. Report of the Presidential Commission on Youth, Sessional Paper No. , March 1990. Extract from The War and its Consequences in the Amparai District, Iniversity Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), Special Report No. 3, 16
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New Measures
by Sanjay Suri
LONDON - A new asylum bill published by the Home Office in Britain sets tough new controls over asylum seekers. The bill was introduced in Parliament on Nov. 1.
More than 60,000 asylum claims have been pending over the last two years. Home Secretary Kenneth Baker has announced that he would increase staff dealing with these cases from 120 to 550 to clear the backlog.
About 300 staff have already been recruited, Baker said in an accompanying statement. Most cases will now be cleared within 90 days of application, Baker said.
Among the applicants whose cases have piled up in a backlog are an
estimated 3,000 Indians, mostly from Punjab.
300 Detentio
Baker has also orde ment of another 300 to house suspect app.
The bill seeks to simplify decision-ma cases.' The Home Of measures would 's guards for genuine re the scope for other asylum process.'
The bill provides f appeal before remov cants refused asylum be heard by speci appointed for the pun Chancellor. In all 26 are being appointed t But the bill says th be brought without special adjudicator, appeal from the refus An appeal can be m law' to the Court of A Sessions, from a final the Immigration Ap spokeswoman at til Office is reported as could be invoked by had doubts, for exal legal procedures had
But “leave to brin required from the Tr Tribunal refuses leave of Appeal or the Cour
HOSTAGE AT HOM REFUGEE ABROA
by Jayan Deivendra
Professor Branko Horvath of Croatia, a bitter critic of the Serbian and Croatian regimes, reacting to the European
Community's economic pressure on Yugoslavia, said that the people in the West do not understand the mentality of East Europeans. The West including Britain which has shown considerable anxiety over events in Croatia appear also not to understand such problems elsewhere.
If Britain, which failed the Tamils when independence was granted to Sri Lanka, had taken a similar stand against the Colombo government, the country's ethnic problem may have been solved by now and there would have been no need for the Tamils to seek refuge in Britain.
Tamils, like most people, prefer to live in their own homeland and not as refugees elsewhere. Let Britain demand from the Government of Sri Lanka that the rights of the Sri Lankan Tamils be placed on par with that of the Sinhalese instead of allowing disreputable British tabloids to misrepre
sent the Tamil probler mischievous intent as serve the interests of now threatened with at the next General E A poll among Tami the UK will certainly numbers of them will their rights are guar are allowed to live w pride in their homela Tamil refugees any in the UK alone - c. minimal number and ly not economic refug them are a burden c their own country th and the entire comm under circumstances o lack of amenities. The Colombo's continued the forces it has spaw eCe.
The Mail published letter in its issue of 7 N ing another one a fe both illustrated with the Tory by-election baurgh. This kind o

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ed the establishetention centers cants.
'accelerate and king in asylum ce says the new rengthen safeugees but reduce to misuse the
r a new right of al for all appliThe appeals will al adjudicators pose by the Lord new adjudicators handle appeals. it "no appeal may the leave of a and there is no al of leave.' ade "on a point of ppeal or Court of determination of peal Tribunal. A he Immigration saying that this applicants who mple, that strict been followed. g the appeal is ibunal or, if the , from the Court t of Session."
"Ensure a Quick Hearing' The bill sets out strict time limits to 'ensure a quick hearing for those who are detained or whose cases are clearly unfounded.' With this the government will acquire new powers to cut short the stay of someone already in the UK who claims, and is refused asylum.
About a quarter of refugee seekers have in the past been given asylum in Britain. The Home Office says more than half are given Exceptional Leave to Remain (ELR) for 12 months in the first instance. But it says “the high rate of use also reflects the difficulty of enforcing departure within the current system.' Now an asylum-seeker who is already in the UK on some other visa can have his period of stay under that visa cut short if he is refused asylum.
The new bill also provides that where a decision has been taken to deport a person whose leave has been so curtailed, the Seretary of State may order his detention pending deportation.
The Government will get powers under the bill to fingerprint asylum applicants "to stop the growing number who claim asylum in more than one name.' The applicant will have to attend for fingerprinting. If he does not, the bill empowers an immigration officer or constable to arrest such a person without warrant.
(Courtesy, India Abroad).
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n and use it with
racist fodder to the Tory party political oblivion lection.
Sri Lankans in show that large opt to return if anteed and they ith dignity and d.
where - not just 1nstitute a very hey are certain2es. Very few of n any state. In y are hostages unity struggles terror and total y are victims of aggression and ned in consequ
a mischievous ovember followw days earlier, hotographs like eaflet at Langjournalism is
crude, utterly cheap, obscene and indeed most sickening. Both The Mail and the writer of the letter, Mr. Robinson appear to have forgotten the contribution Sri Lankans made during the last World War at the peril of Japanese invasion with two British bases on their soil, one of them being the Southeast Asia Command Headquarters in Trincomalee in the Tamil homeland.
Recently, when a little girl was savagely mauled by a 'pet' terror dog, it was a Sri Lankan Tamil doctor who saved her life with his unique professional skill and his personal warmth and concern. The likes of him serve in many parts of this country with total dedication.
The Mail naturally reflects the desperation of the Tory government which evidently believes that Britain should only be a Tory governed state. On 31 October 1991, no other newspaper thought it fit to give any prominence to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on the case of five Tamils. The Mail alone screamed in banner headline: TAMIL BAN - BUT STILL THEY STAY. The Mail's editor should have surely known that the Tamils constitute a very small number of immigrants in this country but are among the most vulnerable
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Continued from page 17
In the Langbaurgh by-election campaign, it appears there has been a racist undertone in the Tory campaign. It would be recalled in the 1964 General Election, the Tory candidate won a very safe Labour seat by resorting to an "undisguised racist campaign'.
Certainly Tory government proposals in the recent Queen's Speech, the last one before the General Election, have already been described as naked, blatant incitement against the nonwhites of this country. It would be seen that whenever certain measures are sought to control the flood of illegal immigrants' or "bogus refugees there is one stark racist idea canvassed and that is, as described by one weekly, 'some people are less desirable here than others, some people are not desirable here at all'.
A campaigning weekly described the Tories supported by their press as "presenting themselves as the natural party of the back street racist and the envious bigot. They are deliberately stirring up feelings against immigrants - not those who may want to come in to Britain now, but those who have been here for decades and their offspring, in the hope that it will boost their vote and help them win the 1992 general election'.
The Tory leaflet in the Langbaurgh by-election carried a picture of the Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Dr. Ashok Kumar with a slogan ". . . don't ask the men who scare . . .'
However, despite all these efforts, it goes to the credit of the British public that Dr. Ashok Kumar was elected from a Tory-held seat. The Tories should not also forget that in Smethwick too, the electors, when the next election came around, threw out the member who fought on a racist platform.
In respect of Sri Lanka, the Colombo government is seeking an aid of US$ 1,000 from the Aid Group Sessions scheduled to be held in Paris in February next year. But right at this very moment Tamils in their homeland in Sri Lanka have been surrounded by the government forces and thousands
Continued from page 13
Was Prime Minister Narasimha Rao misquoted' (innocently? deliberately?) on the Rajiv assassination? How was it that the Hindu correspondent in Delhi (too shy suddenly to have his name in print) promoted the story that the Prime Minister would NOT attend the SAARC summit. Those who know all about the veteran G.K. Reddy's 'special relationship' with South Block and how skilfully he handled it would have been taken aback by this clumsy exercise.
(Courtesy of Lanka Guardian.)
of them have been their homes and se to facilitate the homesteads.
The Tigers have own around their sules, should any ( but they do not ex masse to commit s The Tamils hav with dignity. Ther any race if it hastl to face any circu Government of Gr from aid agencies placed against C rights of the Tamil
The Sri Lankan sought asylum in economic refugees tages in their own able to escape terra
Let not Britain f unfortunate that th has not thought it cause of a commu number of profes
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Mr. Rao commer Government for ha acres of land for memorial for Rajiv where he was assa a fitting memoria could gather, searc some peace of m mould their lives former Prime Mir would remind the Gandhi loved his
The Prime Min dhi was a “yuga p pion of communal of brotherhood. F people of the cou hope for a better f liest and closest c ers of the world.
Mr Rao thanke contributing Rs. the AIADMK for those rendered h quake in Uttar P
Ms. Jayalalitha heartrending wa who wanted to forces from the St see a good gove was not alive to S explosive device dhi was of a forei it was assemble ators made the hang their heads of the State nov such culprits an room for such horrendous acts

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a solution of their ecks, cyanide capthem be captured bect the Tamils en icide.
to live - and live is always hope for e guts and courage nstances. Let the at Britain demand that sanctions be blombo until the
are enshrined.
Tamils who have the West are not They were hoscountry who were r. ail the Tamils. It is e Tory government fit to champion the nity from which a sionals serve this
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country. Furthermore, it is important that whatever Tiger actions that have been critically viewed be seen only in the larger context of the desperately critical circumstances in which the Tamils find themselves in their own homeland.
Prime Minister John Major, in the case of the Kurds insisted that they be "given the minimum protection of air cover, backed by a visible will to use it, until they are no longer threatened by the terror machine of Saddam Hussein.' (Daily Telegraph 21.10.91).
Sri Lankan Tamils too face a similar situation and the Colombo forces are poised for a genocide now. Let Britain tell Colombo to halt its devious and dastardly plans immediately and canvass the world community to ensure that sense and sanity returns to Sri Lanka and the Tamils be allowed to live with pride and dignity in their own homeland.
This will, at least to some extent, remove Britain's undue anxiety about "bogus asylum seekers' at least from Sri Lanka.
age 10
hded the Tamil Nadu aving acquired 12-19 erecting a national Gandhi at the place ssinated. It would be il where the people h their souls and get ind and also try to in the mould of the lister. The memorial people of how Rajiv 2ountry. ster said Rajiv Ganurusha” and a chamharmony and spirit e led the oppressed ntry and gave them uture. He had friendontacts with all lead
i Ms. Jayalalitha for 2 lakhs on behalf of providing succour to meless by the earth‘adesh.
said that what was that Rajiv Gandhi oot out all the evil il of Tamil Nadu and nment in the State e it now. Though the nat killed Rajiv Gann origin the fact that
with local collaboreople of Tamil Nadu in shame. The people
realised the role of they would not give orces to carry out ny more.
She assured the Prime Minister that the alliance between her party and the Congress(I) would never be allowed to be snapped and the AIADMK Government would extend all support to the Centre in implementing the welfare measures for the benefit of the people.
GRENADE ATTACK ON REBEL-UNP MEETING
At least eleven civilians were wounded, one of them seriously, on 2 November when a grenade was thrown directly at the stage and into the crowd attending a public meeting held by the rebel UNP group led by former Ministers, Lalith Athulathmudali and Gamini Dissanayake at Pannala in the Kuliyapitiya area.
The rebel UNP group has been holding largely attended public meetings in various parts of Sri Lanka ever since the motion was submitted to impeach President Premadasa. Although the impeachment move failed, the rebels continue to hold meetings lambasting the President.
Those who were at the meeting identified the assailant as a driver of a local politician, but the police have said that they have yet to identify him. Former Labour Minister, G.M. Premachandra who resigned from the cabinet after signing the impeachment motion was addressing the crowd and all the rebel leaders were on the stage when the bomb attack occurred.
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ELECTIONS
A The by-elections to be held on 16 November for fifteen parliamentary seats in the Indian parliament and 58 assembly seats covering 25 States have assumed more than the usual significance as far as by-elections go. They will provide an opportunity to test the popularity of not only the six-month old minority Congress-I government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, but also the faction-ridden opposition parties, V.P. Singh's Janatha Dal, BJP and the Left Front.
The main electoral confrontation is centred in the Hindi-speaking heartland of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and to some extent in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. As the Janatha Dal is embroiled in internal squabbles and factional fighting and a growing challenge to V.P Singh’s leadership, the main battle seems to be between the ruling Congress and the Bharatiya Janatha Party. And in the Nandyal constituency in Andhra Pradesh Prime Minister Rao seems to be home and dry in winning the seat where once powerful regional Telegu Desam Party, Janatha Dal and the BJP have not even fielded candidates.
Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's categorical refusal to enter the election fray by contesting her late husband's Amethi constituency has removed the uncertainty over Narasimha Rao's leadership of the Congress and in fact the Premiership. The possibility of Sonia's
Rao's Landslide Win
As we go to press, it has been announced that the Indian Prime Minister, Narasinha Rao, has won in his Nandyal constituency in Andhra Pradesh with a stunning unprecedented majority of half a million votes.
entry into politics had in fact given rise to the perception that Mr. Rao was a stop-gap Prime Minister. Sonias decision may have genuinely disappointed many in the country and dashed the hopes of those in the party who sought to use her to advance their positions within the Congress, but it has helped to strengthen Narasimha Rao with more authority within the party and enable him to adopt a more assertive approach to the problems facing the country. Commentators believe that Sonia's decision to stay out does not mean an end to the role of the Gandhi family in lndian politics and they predict future roles at the appropriate time' for the still young Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
The Indira Gandhi Award for National
Integration posthumc jiv Gandhi was receiv dhi on 31 October a moving ceremony in
award which carries
Rs...100,000 (4.000) a given to the still gr Prime Minister Nara rare and perhaps first public function since untimely demise, Soni a sad turn of fate that after the mother sho upon her son so soon She announced that s the cash to the Rajiv
tion.
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ht The issue of the Ayodhya has been forefront by the BJP bine with inspired H gathered near the dis on October 31 in an a to commemorate las incidents when the po prevent the stormin which the Hindu claimed as the temp bygone era.
The Bharatiya Janat led last year's campai party in Uttar Prac disputed site of the B gue-Ram Janmabhoo is located and the Sta recent action in orden tion of four plots of lan vicinity of the mosque evoked sharp reaction: al parties. Although t ment claims that the public purposes and t ism", and the portion
land does not include ( mosque is situated, o that the real motive
hand over this land
Hindu Parishad (VHl construction of the Ra
In response to a mounted by various pa acquisition, a special Allahabad High Cou terim order allowing
ment to take possessio prohibited it from pu tures of a permanent land. In an apparemt any counter-action by ernment, the BJP's St ter assured New Delhi ment would maintain In low-key and sym protest, prominent le organisations in the c demonstration on 1 courted arrest before
 
 
 

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usly given to Ra'd by Sonia Gant a solemn and New Delhi. The a cash prize of ld a citation was eving Sonia by imha Rao. In a ever speech in a
her husband's a said that it was an award named ld be conferred after inception. he was donating Gandhi Founda
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Ram Temple at
brought to the
-VHP-RSS comindu extremists »uted temple site pparent attempt t year's violent lice took steps to g of a mosque demonstrators le of Ram of a
ha Party which gn is the ruling lesh where the abri Masjid mosmia in Ayodhya te government's ing the acquisid situated in the -temple complex
5 from all politie
he State governacquisition is for o promote tourof the acquired ne on which the servers believe is to eventually to the Vishwa ') to enable the m Temple. egal challenge ties against the Bench of the t made an inhe UP governof the land but tting up strucnature on the ttempt to avoid he central govte Chief Minishat his governhe status quo. olic gesture of ders of Muslim untry staged a October and he State Secre
tariat to express their resentment and protest against what they termed 'illegal and unconstitutional activities of the BJP government of Uttar Pradesh including the issuance of recent notifications acquiring stone por tion of the land of the Babri Masjid and the graveyard around the mosque'. The Muslim leaders appealed to all secular parties and individuals to announce their programme of action to resist and stop "the illegal activities of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad'.
When the issue came up for discussion at the National Integration Council in Delhi, the Prime Minister pleaded for a national consensus on the dispute which needed to be resolved speedily and amicably and that it was imperative on the part of all to show restraint. He added that the issue was tarnishing India's image abroad and the 141 member Council which comprised all national political parties, regional parties and distinguished persons from various disciplines and professions, was set up with the aim of upholding the unity, integrity and secular character of India.
TAML, NADU
The growing tensions between the Centre and Chief Minister Jayalalitha's government in the southern State of Tamil Nadu would appear to: have receded for the present following Prime Minister Narasimha Rao's first visit, after assuming office, to Madras recently. Rao's minority government at the Centre depends much on the continuing support of Tamil Nadu's regional party led by Jayalalitha, the AIADMK which inflicted a crushing defeat upon Karunanidhi's DMK and swept the parliamentary and state polls in June this year.
Among the many causes for the tension was the Centre's decision to refer the Cauvery water dispute between the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka State governments to the Supreme Court, deny the $200 million compensation requested by the State government in , replacement of the loss of revenue due to the introduction of partial prohibition and the continued refusal to allow the State government to import much needed palm oil from Malaysia. Jayalalitha was also upset by the Tamil Nadu. Congress's opposition to her government's decision to revive the Upper House in the State legislature which was abolished by the previous DMK administration in 1986. Jayalalitha also had recently called upon the Centre to abrogate the 1974 agreement between India and Sri Lanka which ceded control of the then disputed uninhabited little island of Kachchativu situated between the southern tip of India and Sri Lanka.
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ronage of Mr. A.T.S. ,
Coordinator of the W. Temple and Mrs. Ratna
A student of Srinati nan, an exponent of b eastern traditionS in mu mastered a number Ofir Shmi is the first Veena s this fine arts from the Temple under her tutela
Her repertoire at this performance included : and ever appreciated pi Ganapathim (Hamsadv Ranjani), Raguvamsa and Samajavara gaman artistes were Sri Muthuk jah, Sri Kandiah Sitham
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She wanted India to resume control of the island to protect the interests of Tamil Nadu fishermen who she alleged were being harassed by the Sri Lankan navy.
It would seem that Prime Minister Rao had explained that international agreements between governments could not be scrapped unilaterally and without substantial reasons. He also had agreed to Tamil Nadu government importing palm oil from Malaysia to get over the edible oil crisis in the state.
Participating in a function organised by the State government where he was honoured, Mr. Rao assured that the alliance forged between the Congress and AIADMK by the late Rajiv Gandhi would be valued and never allowed to snap and that every word given by Rajiv to the people of Tamil Nadu would be honoured. Commending the TN government for having acquired nearly 20 acres of land for erecting a national memorial for Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur where he was assassinated in June this year, he promised that those responsible for the heinous act would be punished.
DPLOMAT ABDUCTED
* Four Sikh militant organisations, in a letter signed by G.S. Budhsinghwala, the leader of the Kalistan Liberation Force, have jointly claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the Rumanian diplomat, Mr. Liviu Radu, in New Delhi on 9 October. In return for the diplomat's release, the kidnappers have demanded the release of three convicts, Harjinder Singh Jinda, Sukhvinder Singh Sikha and Nirmal Dev Singh Nimma all undergoing terms of imprisonment for the killing of former Army Chief, General A.S. Vaidya in August 1986. Jinda was also charged with the killing of Congress leader Lahit Maken and his wife, while Nimma was accused of the killing of Akali Dal leader H.S. Longowal. In letters with accompanying photographs showing the diplomat flanked by two armed men delivered to news agencies, the abductors threatened to cut their hostage into pieces' if their demand was not met by the government. The deadlines set by the abductors have been extended twice. Immediately after the abduction, it was speculated that the Rumanian diplomat was being used as a hostage to secure the release of two of the Sikh gunmen who are presently in custody of the Romanian police for the attemped murder of Mr. Julio Ribeiro, former unjab Director of Police and now ndia's Ambassador in Rumania. 'our foreign-based Sikh organisations . World Sikh Organisation in America,
Sikh Youth of Ame nisation and Internat Federation - have abductors to release diplomat unharmed.
The Rumanian gover approached the Pakis to help secure the plomat.
Meanwhile violent k to escalate in the Pu persons, including a six Sikh militants an were killed in the sev 18 October.
On 26 October Sil led Punjab Health Dr. Bachitar Singl Officer R.N. Goyal a ployees of the Health were returning after at a Gurdwara. In s they set fire to 31 bı nationalised and c across Punjab.
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får Terror struck the town of Rudhapur in two bombs exploded killing at least 55 pe over a 100 - one wen a performance of “Ramayana’ on Octo religious festival an detonated at a loca victims from the first brought.
The Director Genera Pradesh attributed t separatists and blam ter Services Intellig mastermind behind alleged that he had tion that the SI creating a religious Hindus and Sikhs. T large Sikh populatio whom migrated from during the partition. The Home Minister this outrage is par guided from outside provoke retaliation munal peace and Times of India' in o anti-Pakistani edito were “definite indicat bad is hellbent on s sion beyond Punja There is ruthless cla design - terrorism in land is expected to voke a backlash and a discord. It must be Pakistan that any m vivisection of India is ream. Rather than ad hoc way to provoca subversion, India mu sive’.
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rica, Core Orga.ional Sikh Youth appealed to the 2 the Rumanian
'nment has again stani government release of its di
illings continued njab. At least 17 local BJP leader, d police personnel en days preceding
kh separatists kilServices Director h, Chief Medical und five other emDepartment who paying obeisance eparate incidents, ranches of various ooperative banks
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2 peaceful foothill Uttar Pradesh as one after another ople and injuring t offin the thick of the Hindu epic ber 17 to mark a ld the other was ill hospital where t blast were being
of Police of Uttar he attack to Sikh hed Pakistan's Inence as being the the brutality. He definite informawas working on schism between he foothills have a n, the majority of Pakistan in 1947
Chavan said that t of a conspiracy our borders to and disturb com
harmony. The ne of its angriest rials said there ions that Islamapreading subverb and Kashmir. rity in their new the Hindi heart>reate panic, proadd to Hindu-Sikh demonstrated to aster plan for the ' an elusive pipedresponding in an tion and internal st take the offen
nued in Kashmir,
Kashmiri militants abducted yet another relative of the Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad. The victim om this occasion was Mr. B.A. Rather, an Engineer serving in Jammu who had reportedly gone to Sri Nagar to drop his sister-in-law. An amputated human thumb was thrown inside a news agency office in Sri Nagar with the abductors claiming that it belonged to Mr. Tassaduk Dev, another relative of the Minister who was kidnapped previously and held hostage. A militant group known as Laskar Adam kidnapped Bshir Araf, director of the All India Radio station at Leh, Ladakh, from his home on 2 November.
INDO-PAKSTAN RELATIONS
India and Pakistan agreed to continue a 'constructive dialogue' to lower tensions and accelerate the process of resolving all outstanding bilateral issues. An understanding to this effect was reached at the two-day foreign secretary-level talks that ended in Islamabad on October 31, in the course of which, among other things, the two countries agreed to discuss a bilateral agreement on banning, development, production, deployment and use of chemical weapons. During the talks between the Indian Foreign Secretary Muchkund Dubey and his Pakistani counterpart Shahryar, it was agreed to exchange and coordinate information regarding the two countries' nuclear installations and facilities before January 1992.
Further attempts at improving IndoPakistan relations were made when Prime Minister Rao and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif held discussions during the recently held Commonwealth Heads of State Conference at Harare in Zambia. The two leaders who met for an hour touched on all bilateral matters but would not appear to have dealt with the issue of Kashmir which has bedevilled inter-state relations since 1947. Both leaders agreed that they would sit across the table to sort out 'our differences and we do not need the assistance of any other country.'
SCANDALS
While a senior Islamic cleric, Senator Samu-ul-Haq, one of Pakistan's leading campaigners for the imposition of tough Islamic laws that advocate sewere penalties has found himself in the centre of rather embarrassing revelations following the arrest of a former dancing girl from Lahore, his political opponent, Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif is embroiled in another scandal.
Most of Pakistan's co-operatives owned by top politicians and feudal landlords helped powerful politicians with huge
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ETTER
FROM JAFFNA
President Premadasa's troubles with dissidents appear to have much to do with the current military operation in the North. With much information having surfaced about the links between President Premadasa and the LTTE, Premadasa has been impelled to show that he could be tough with the LTTE. The army has thus launched a new push boosted by recent purchases of heavy equipment.
At the initial stages at least some care has been exercised to minimise civilian casualties. Shelling lasted only a few hours and was directed mainly into unpopulated areas. Aerial bombing took place mainly in the Jaffna Fort and Koddadi areas. There were two aerial attacks in populated areas - Sittankerny and Massiapiddy - resulting in 5 civilians being killed. In Vadamaratchi, the Point Pedro jetty where most food supplies to Jaffna are unloaded was attacked. Much of the bombing and shelling appears to have been to confuse the Tigers about the direction of the army's main thrust.
The army ultimately landed at Sangupiddy jetty and in Puneryn. At Puneryn people were woken up from their beds and were treated fairly. No deaths occurred. In Vadamaratchi and Jaffna town people have been moving out inspite of the Tigers asking them to remain. The general expectation in Jaffna is that the army will have no difficulty in entering. So far there has been no major LTTE resistance. When this begins the conduct of the army, going by past experience, is also bound to deteriorate.
The army now in effective control of
the exits from Jaff going south to take its Elephant Pass ch being stopped by t people are taking ( travelling to Colomb boat bypassing Ele through Kompatti V of Elephant Pass fl rainy season. The ar stop this soon. Th further affect the su cine and other ess which are already supply.
These moves tog bombing of Point Pec be a signal that the a acquire greater contr of food and medicine will be strongly resis The result is evident
Within Jaffna its discontent with the LTTE is feeling nerv the public skepticis felt obliged to issue a it had an understa madasa. It is also I that a good deal of in being broadcast over EPDP in its regular
PUBLIC EXE
In the wake of r military operations i Lanka, public execut in the Jaffna penins widespread. Informa ceived about at leas tions.
The victim is usu public place in a jeep out prior warning. T shot following a brie identity of the victir unknown. The pale
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loans. This practice militates against the charter with which they were founded for these co-operative banks were set up to lend money to rural projects to promote grassroot development. The recent collapse of Pakistan's cooperative banking industry, wiping out deposits totalling about £470 million has caused serious political complications for Nawaz Sharif over the involvement of a family-owned company which received a loan of £8 million from the Co-operative bank. The loan was repaid only after this facility was discovered and Prime Minister Sharif was forced to order a judicial investigation following the stinging campaign headed by the leader of the Opposition, Ms. Benazir Bhutto.
The credibility of t ment has suffered st prominent support eyeing new political ly with the demand f the government to vestigation growing ger day by day. Amo jump the 'sinking South-Asian political of the government wing coalition partne Jamaat-e-Islami. Meanwhile, the list custom, Tahira the d also growing longer brutally frank. Inclue are names of a judge number of parliamen cians. Wonder whe ready to have some even literally
 
 

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na, wants people the route through eck point. This is he LTTE. Many considerable risks o by first taking a phant Pass and eli -an area south ooded during the my is expected to tis situation will pply of food, medientials in Jaffna
in acute short
gether with the rojetty appear to rmy would like to ol over the supply
into Jaffna. This ted by the LTTE.
alf there is much LTTE and the 'ous. So great was in that the LTTE public denial that anding with Preresenting the fact side information is the SLBC by the slot.
ECUTIONS
ecent Sri Lankan n the North of Sri ions by the LTTE sula have become tion has been rest 30 such execu
ally brought to a blindfolded, withhe victim is then 2f confession. The n remains mostly complexion of the
he Sharif governD much that some ers are already venues particularor the dismissal of safeguard the inlouder and stroning them, ready to
ship' in typical style is the leader 's religious right er, Qazi Hussain of
of the kind of ancing girl had, is and she has been ded in her register , a minister and a tarians and politither Pakistan is heads rolling -
victims suggests that they had been incarcerated for a long time. The sudden rise in executions is associated with public discontent and an increased tendency on their part to be open. Concern is also being expressed about a large number of persons detained recently.
These include ordinary people students and even women social workers. These recent detainees in general had no political connections, but had been involved in some form of social work, which brought them into contact with ordinary people. Others looking back on these often trace the detention to some casual remark made by the person taken in. Nothing has surfaced on what is being done to them. Information previously available about torture and the physically and mentally debilitating conditions under which detainees are held, arouse great concern. In several known cases those released have died within a year.
4th November 1991.
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LTTE in Mullaitivu but these are cut
OW.
The Sri Lankan armed forces” acquisition of long-range artillery pieces and reportedly even bomber-planes also from China have had their decisive impact.
On the policy' front also, Colombo has outwitted the LTTE. The peace proposals (emanating from Sri Lankan Minister S. Thondaman) and a threeday ceasefire were clever moves by a beleaguered Premadasa to get EROS’s support (which in the event he did not need) for the required majority in Parliament. The de facto ceasefire was fractured when the Army top brass insisted it should be allowed to wrest more advantage from the LTTE. Premadasa himself did not tell the Army to halt the offensives as he was not secure in the saddle.
The string of reverses the LTTE has suffered would have brought home to it the indispensability of Tamil Nadu as a rear-base if it were to survive as a viable fighting force and how Indian indifference can handicap it.
Knowledgeable Tamil sources, however, assert that the Army has not gained in a big way by destroying the LTTE camps in the jungles of Mullaitivu and Amparai for it cannot hold on to this jungle territory. The capture of the islands off the Jaffna peninsula also do not mean much because the LTTE had only a sparse presence there. Despite the capture of the Jaffna Fort, the Army's push into the Jaffna peninsula and the town itself will not be a cakewalk and it is here that the Tigers mettle will show, they say. (Courtesy of Frontline).

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Across. 1. Celestial deities including indra, Vishnu and Varuna (7) 7. Hindu goddess of speech (4) 11. The elixir of life, an aromatic plant juice used in vedic rituals (5) 12. Goddess who protects children and women in childbirth (7) 13. Pre-midday period (2) 14. A term of address used for royalty and ab. (2)
15. A lesser known cereal used in rural India (4) 尚 Popular hild station in North india
19. Shortly (4)
20. Cabbage (3) 21. Either the Salvation Army, South Africa or even South Australia (2) 22. Personified as one of Siva's wives, the daughter of Himalaya reaches the earth from the heavenly Milky Way (5) 24. After the manner of .... (3) 26. Behold (2) 28. TO-WITH LOVE, a great Sidney Poitier film (3) 29. Prefixed to "mara' Amerindian people of Lake Titicaca of Peru (4) 30. The Golden One, the kind and ಙ್ಗಧರಿಂಟs aspect of the great goddess 33. The king of birds and the mount of Vishnu (6) 36. An ancient British and Irish alphabet of 20 characters (5) 37. Unjust or corrupt practice (5) 38. Chemical symbol for plutonium (2) 39. Law officer of the state, ab. (2) 40. The people of this ancient Irish goddess had as their enemies undersea phantoms perhaps representing light and darkness respectively (4) 42. ld est, that is to say (2) 45. Skanda, the six-headed son of Siva also identified with the best
ಟ್ಗwn galactic cluster of the heavens
Down: 1. The titanic demons possessed of magical powers (6) 2. An elaborate event or even a swindle (2)
ಸ್ಟ್ರೀuly developed stage of a butterfly 4. A operation to make a
A necessary wild elephant a good worker (6) 5. In Hindu mythology the two benewolent horsemen, sons of Surya also ಕ್ಲಿಲ್ಲೆ to in Greek and Roman
ಸ್ಟ್ರೀteles to a female already named
7. Versus briefly (2) 8. Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (6)
9. Small court (2) 10. Father of Parvati of stupendous stature (8) 16. Such a computer uses physical variables such as length, weight and voltage to represent numbers (8) 17. The sacred dung-beetle of ancient Egypt (6) 18. Priestess loved by Zeus who became a heifer to escape the wrath of Hera in Greek mythology (2) 23. Greek giant (5) 25. Loaded or burdened (5) 27. Who or how in disarray (3) 30, Milkmaids of the pasture lands and lovers of the youthful Krishna (5) 褐 The much adored lover of Krishna
32. The naughty one (3) 34. Prefixed to the Egyptian sun-god “Ra’ he becomes the Lord of the Jungles and the Beasts and also a deity associated with death (3) 35. A customary practice (5) 41. Siva's consort (3)
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WHITHER DEMOCRACY
Please let me thank Mr. Sachi Sri Kantha for his polite expression of disagreement with my plea for democracy. His comments do, however, remind me of a parable related to the Mahabharatha.
Lord Krishna asked Yudhishtra and Dhuryodhana to tell him if there was anyone in the world that was absolutely good or absolutely evil. Yudhishtra responded that there was no one without good in him and Dhuryodhana that there was no one without evil in him. Each saw the world according to his way of looking at things.
The absence of democracy as one would perceive it, could to some mean that democracy should be rejected altogether and to some others that there is a need to struggle for it.
Nehru, despite his violation of the democratic principle on a few occasions, along with Russell and Shaw, was not one who rejected the democratic principle and the democratic goal.
Their criticism of d understood and pra the view that thi should be abandone and other Tamil lib about true democra them was practice (
I endorse the view style democracy doe world but disagree that the people whi Buddhism and Islan cy. They have not h to make a fair choice was rejected it was people who control t nations.
May I also ask c mard Wijedoru whe about his implicit cl madasa is the rep non-feudal, non-ang privileged people of der who was respo) ings of innocent und in the South and bo in the North.
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Fearing that the attackers might storm the stage, some of the people from the audience and the security personnel of the rebel leaders formed a large protective circle round the stage.
Mr. Premachandra who resumed his speech after the pandemonium had subsided said: "Bombs cannot frighten us, or the people who attend our meetings. Those who planted this bomb will realise today the determination of the people who want to end this corrupt and terrorist regime. The perpetrators of this crime are traitors of the people'.
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Mrs. Parasakthy Vettivelu, wife of the late Dr. S.A. Vetivelu, General Practitioner, Jaffna; mother of Dr. Gnaneswaran (Reading, U.K.), late Yogeswaran (Former M.P. for Jaffna), Dr. Maheswaran (Washington), Dr. Rajeswaran (U.K.), Mrs. Ginaneswari Ramanathan, Mrs. Kamaleswari Nadarajah (both of Colombo), Mrs. Sivakumari Thaya Paran and Dr. (Mrs.) Jega Jegapragasam (both of U.K.) passed away in Colombo on 4.11.91 after a long illness. - 3 Martingale Road, Billericay, ESSex CAM1 i SG. Tel: 0277 656765.
i 湾, IN MEMORAM
töwingy remembered on the 2nd Anniversary of
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Daniel Selvarajah Sanders, Ph.D., ACSW, Sept. 28, 1928 - Oct. 14, 1989
The First Annual Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Justice Lecture.
internationally known as a leader in efforts to achieve world peace, human rights and social justice. Daniel S. Sanders was Dean, Professor and Director for the Center for Study of international Social Welfare Policies and Services, University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign School of Social Work, USA from 1971-1986, Founder and First President inter-University Consortium for International Social Development, USA, from 1980-1989.
Former U.S. Attorney General of the United States, Ramsey Clark gave the inaugural Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture on March 12, 1991 at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. His talk was on "The United States Policy and the Persian Gulf. Ramsey Clark was Attorney-General under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1969. A long time peace activist, Clark last November (1990) organized the Coalition to stop U.S. intervention in the Middle East. With the late Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., Clark is the coauthor of "Crime in America, and "The Role of the Supreme Court.
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Viswalingam Shanm SPH of Valvettiturai
Born 31.7.21 D
Sadly missed and fo the 1st Anniversary of hi. loving wife Ratnaganthi; (Madras), Ratnakumar and Nandakumar (both mar and Uthayakumar Sivakumar and Sugirtha Sons-in-law Subashcha Ponnambalam (Switzerla (U.K.); daughters-in-law Atputhamalar (Madras Yogasarojini (both of Ge Streatham Common Nc 3HJ.
Master Kesavan
10th April 1973 - 7th
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Mrs. Silvaraithiniam Thair sed away on 22. 1 1.90. lh the first anniversary of he Sadly missed and font her children Pathmalosa Pushpalosany, Neelalos and Nirmalalosany, sonsDr. Kanagarasa, Dr. Tha narajah and Dr. Arumain in-law Ranjini grand Kumudhini, Umarani; Meera, Rajiv.-Dharma; Shanthamohan, Devaki; V Bhahirathi; and Nimalan,
 
 
 
 
 
 

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ily remembered on passing away by his hildren Anirthakala "VVT), Swarnakala f Madras), Premkuboth of Germany), ala (both of U.K); drabose (Canada), ld) and Gobiratnam Shandralaka (VVT), Yogamathi and many) - Flat 8, 21 th, London SW16
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Aster Kesavan, our anniversary of his c Circumstances.
ich darling and long Yn you bestowed on
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alingam who pasloving memory on passing away. y remembered by y, Dr. Sivendran, ny, Nethralosany -law Perampalam, birajah, Dr. Krishyagam, daughteridren Kalaivani, anthi, Anushya, santhi, Pamathi; nathi, Balakumar, a with.
Mr. Velupillai Alfred Thurairajah
Born: 23.8.1914 - Died. 19.11.1989 In loving memory of our father on the second anniversary of his passing away. Though the years may pass without you Memories of you never fade away Your love and kindness rendered to us Shall always be cherished and remembered by uS.
Sadly missed and fondly remembered by his wife Daisy Sebamany, children Indranee, Pathmaranee, Sounthararanee, Thevaranee, luxumy and Swarna, sons-in-law Mahendran, Zamir, Balasubramaniam, Noel and Indran and grandchildren Lakshi, Omer, Nasreen, Vasuki, Janaki and lndran — 1 B Vernon
in loving memory of Mr. K.S. Nathan Q.C. on the first anniversary of his passing away on 2O. 11.90.
Sadly missed by his wife Elizabeth and Children Mohan, Indarani and Anil.
Richard Jeyarajasingam Called to Glory: 27th November 1990.
One year to this day has passed without you, with every moment bringing a pang of hurt. All lustre vanished from our lives, and yet deep within our hearts, you are always there. With thoughts of Love, Joy and happiness you gave, and the firm belief, you are in the perfect place, away from pain, tears, want and Sorrows,
Justly yours. Fondly remembered and sadly missed Ranee
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Violin C Vocal
The Willesden Libra venue on 31.8.91 wh ising violinists, al Vidwan Kalai Varni Vidyalaya went on concert of choice Sel on their soothing S Janani and Jeya van Wetpill Bhairavi Gan varatnam and W accounted themsely plaudits and appre audience.
The violin concert v recital of great qualit man, an artiste of g pline of Carnatic mus ing included a sel required great skill a a knowledgeable au Srimathi Kalyanar, by Srimathi Kalaiv violin, Somasundara dangam, Muthu Siva Sithamparanathan O The chief guest producer of B.B.C. cert and the recital Natha Vidyalaya.
 
 

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Institute Hall was the onally fine mridhanga | 11 and 12 years old rs Jonathan and Jason pectively, of Kingsbury, was acclaimed for the lard of rhythmic dexteryoungsters expressed
of Carnatic music with and the quality of the *eived from their guru, araswamy. The vocal ing's performance was Sangita Vidwan Srimati h and Srinati Shanti panied by Dr. Lakshmi 9tha Ratnam Sri Bala Sri hevakumar Sathasivam mati Hamshananthi а).
Oncert &
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ry Centre Hall was the len six young and promstudents of Sangeetha Indrakumar of Natha stage and performed a actions of popular pieces trings. The youngsters i Atchuthan, Thuvaraka eswaran. Kalyani Chelfythili Sarvananth ar res well and won the Ciation of a discerning
(as followed by a vocal y by Srimathi Kalyanarareat repute in this disciic. Her evening's renderaction of pieces which nd expertise to render to dience.
aman was accompanied ni lindrakunnar On the m Desigar on the Mrirajah on the Kanjira and n the Morsing.
vas Mr. R. Mahadevan, Tamil Service. The Conwere presented by the
Udupiddy Welfare Association
The Udupiddy Welfare Association, a charity registered in the U.K. in 1988 has been holding several benefit performances and has remitted over £4000 for relief and rehabilitation in the Udupiddy area. They staged a cultural show at Rutland Boys' School Hall on 26.10.91. The Bharatha Natyam items were by Selvi Dharini Balatharan and Selvi Shammini Rajagopal. The excellent nattuvangam provided by Smt Ragini Rajagopal and the melodious singing by Smit Mathini Sriskandarajah inspired the dancers to provide a flawless performance. The picture below shows Dharini in a dance pose.
Thiru M. Yoheswaran delighted the audience with a vocal recital, which drew rounds of applause.
Kamini Kalidas’s Kuchipudi
UDIDANCEACADEMY of U.K. presented a programme of Kuchipudi dances by Kamini Kalidas and her students, at the Commonwealth institute, London W8 on 27. 7-91.
The programme consisted of ten items als of different themes and movements. Kamini featured in six of them, and the last one 'Krishna Leela Tarangini" was her best where she displayed her dexterity by dancing on the edges of a brass plate whilst balancing a pot of water on her head and lamps on her hand. This item drew continuous applause from the audience.
The vocalist Ambika Thanotheran rerdered the songs and jathis fluently and with much emotion and bhava. On the Mirudangam was Muthu Sivaraja who kept up the rhythm for the intricate footwork, accompanied by Kandiah Sithamparanathan on the morsing, Dr. Lakshmi Jayan's violin and Dr. Nimairaj's flute provided excellent accorn
paniment. Uma Rao.

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