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CONTENTS
The Displaced People - No End To Their Suffering. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.
News Review. . . . . . . ༤, ༤ , ༤ ཟ , • • 5 LTTE Leader Seeks Support From Tamil Nadu People. . . . . . . 8
On Progressing to Peace Through War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Change in International Perception - Illusion of
External Intervention. . . . . . . . . . 11
The Exodus from Jaffna
- Part 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Capture of Jaffna - What Next?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Proxy War Against India. . . . . . . 27
Classified. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
in Some countries ассотрanied by a of an unaccounta leaders found the year which sough in South Africa, Pé Conflicts have bee have Come to ar beginning of hope
Sadly this has r ravaged for years and expectation government at the the government a hope and expecte parties in April 19: of Tamil people, p to evacuate fron
While on the C celebrating the ' Successful 'conq performed a "histo them living in are thereby deprive th
But the reality, been forced to liv camps in the Va. Conditions of the reflected in image end of 1995 did uShered in the Ne as refugees expe.
During the pas gone abroad firstl Settled hone for Sri Lankan Tamil educational, ecol suggest they are to return to their
Following the government and Kumaratunga go 150 thousand pe island, particularl of fighting, there 1 of the Northeast t almost the entire forced to seek fre
it must be self. in a state of tota Survive as a Cc numerically deple Seventeen millio hundreds of tho matter of just tw ability to retain it
The historic q decide for and it seek and grasp practical and ac/ Continuation of eventually they
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

he Historic Question
If the world where there have been protracted armed conflicts rocities of the worst kind and leading to death and destruction le number of lives and properties, people and their political ourage and strength of character to charta course in the past to bring an end to their long suffering. This has been the case estine and Northern Ireland. Not that all the problems of these resolved finally, but at least the carnage and the atrocities end, and the political processes have offered them a new to live in peace and dignity.
Dit been the Case in Sri Lanka which also has been rocked and by violent ethnic conflict. The year 1995 began with much hope with the continuation of the peace process initiated by the end of 1994, the talks and the Cessation of hostilities between ld the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in January 1995. All tion were dashed with the resumption of fighting between the 5 and the year ended in tragedy for the hundreds of thousands articularly for those from the Jaffna peninsula, who were forced heir homes and flee into the Vanni region.
ne hand, the Sri Lankan military and the government were apture of Jaffna' and raising the lion flag to symbolise a test, the LTTE on the other hand proclaimed that it had ric duty' on behalf of the people by evacuating them to prevent as under occupation by the advancing Sri Lankan army and e government of a political victory' it was seeking.
or an estimated 300,000 displaced people is that they have 2 in conditions of unimaginable suffering in makeshift refugee damaradchi, Thenmaradchi and the Vanni areas. The living members of a whole community turned refugees overnight s of photographs are truly heart-rending. For these people, the not offer any Christmas cheer and the advent of 1996 that w Year did not bring them anything but the tragedy of surviving riencing a pitiable present and facing an uncertain future.
several years of conflict, an estimated 300,000 Tamils have y to seek refuge and gradually to find almost a permanent and hemselves and their children. The members of the expatriate Zommunity living in various countries have been building social, Omic and other infrastructures of their own which seem to n these countries forgood, for all time and most probably never homeland. esumption of fighting in June 1990 between the Premadasa the LTTE and until the Cessation of hostilities between the 'ernment and the LT TE in January 1995, an estimated 100 to ople had left the Northeast to seek safety in the south of the to Colombo and adjoining areas. After the April 95 resumption as been a further movement of a substantial number of people the south. Now following the latest military offensive in Jaffna, Jeople in the captured areas' have been uprooted and they are sh havens and pastures in the jungle infested Vanni areas.
avident that today the Tamil community of Sri Lanka finds itself I dismemberment raising the question as to how long it can mmunity retaining its distinct identity as a people. For a ting community of two-and-a-half million in a total population of , the unending departure, for whatever reason, of so many Sands of its members from their historical habitats within a lve to thirteen years ought to have an adverse impact on its
vitality and identity as a people in their own birth place.
estion that faces those who have got the power and ability to the name of the Tamil people is whether they are prepared to he opportunities that are presented and to come to terms with evable solutions at a given historical conjuncture, or permit the he dismemberment and dispersal of the Tamil people until frn out to be a community in diaspora.

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The Displaced People - N
To Their Suffering
by Rita Sebastian
WAVUNIYA - "We are not refugees. We are travellers'. M. Karthigesu a young businessman is affronted at being described as a refugee. He pulls out his meal coupon and points to the word "Refugee' marked on it. Three meals have been ticked off. He had arrived at the transit camp at Veppankulam only a day earlier.
But Karthigesu's dilemma is that he doesn't know when he will be able to entrain for Colombo. It could take anything from 3 to five days, possibly more, if the police report does not come
in time or his friends or relations don't
come to pick him up. .
Saraswathy Nadarajah, 65, is suffering from post-operative complications. She needs urgent medical treatment. She is also waiting impatiently like Karthigesu to get 'clearance' from the security authorities to travel to Colombo.
For those already displaced from the northern peninsula the road to the southern mainland is long and hard. When they arrive at Nochimoddai on the northwestern Vavuniya border they have already walked a 4 kilometre stretch, the no-man's land between the defence lines of the two warring sides, the government forces and the Tigers.
At this first point of entry they are minutely checked. Then on to the Thandikulam checkpoint, 2 kilometres away, for further checking before being released into a large open area adjoining the checkpoint, where they are photographed and special passes issued. They are then taken to the first transit camp at Veppamukalam, a few kilometres away on the Mannar Road.
The Paddy stores turned into a transit camp is swarming with people. Men, women and children. Some have already been there a few days, others newly arrived clutching onto their baggage have still to be assigned accommodation. Basic amenities at the camps leave much to be desired and you can sense the anger and frustration of people who feel that they are being penalised for no fault of their ΟWη.
The Rs. 25 per person a day for meals at the transit camp has now been increased to Rs. 45 and according to officials the quality of the food has improved.
But the quality of the food is not what irks these civilians transiting to
the southern mainlal ity reasons' adduce stay in the camps. C Veppamukalam the second transit camp niya railway statior that about 250 pe( daily after a final ch checked again in th official, rather flippa
"Security' today c everything and our release from these virtual prisons are "l in Colombo' says a
revolting against t communal living.
"It is no different O. is we poor civilians paid the price in th he says more in sorr
Several complaint tical formations in C unnecessary delays camps and the incon ple are put to, see some impression or For some kind of str now online. Accordi officials a scheme h to give priority to th for medical treatm abroad for employ. vants travelling in
Tamil
Fresh demands tha from time to time fr parties for the resolu al question, could on ate Sinhala opinion r bute positively to th says a senior Tamil
reacting to the 3 ne ex-militant groups h initial 4-point formu political settlement.
The 4 Tamil grou People's Revolutio Front (EPRLF), the beration Organisat People's Liberation Tamil Eelam (PLOT Revolutionary Orga dents (EROS).
And their new de government commit state, that the un envisaged under thi age be changed to a states, and anybod

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lo End
hd. It is "the securfor their forced Dnce cleared from y are taken to a near the Vavu1. It is from here ple are released eck. “They can be he train' adds an ntly.
'overs just about voice for a quick camps, which are hardly heard back teacher, his mind he indignities of
in the other side. It who have always
e 12-year conflict
ow than in anger.
s from Tamil poliSolombo about the
at these transit veniences the peoms to have made h the authorities. eamline process is ing to government as been drawn up e ill, coming south ent, people going ment, public ser
connection with
their work, permanent residents returning to the south, and the many old people who are coming south for the first time to join their families.
The tragedy, says an official, is that people trying to flee to the south from the intolerable hardships that have been heaped on them through displacement are often put off by the callous treatment meted out to them at the transit camps. “they are looking for relief but the delays and the inconveniences have even made some people return to the north’ says an official overseeing one of these camps.
While 1000 people come into the south through the army checkpoints daily, sometimes just as many people cross the army lines into LTTE held territory.
Yogarani in her late 30s, and a mother of 4 who fled northern Jaffna in the wake of operation Riviresa has now relocated herself in Mankulam. She crossed over to Vavuniya for the day to buy cooking utensils for the new home she has built for herself and her 4 children after selling 4 sovereigns of gold. Her husband is a refugee in Switzerland.
Meenambal Arumugam was returning north after 3 months in Colombo where she had gone for eye surgery. Tears streaming down her face the middleaged widow anguishes over the fate of the 6 children she left behind in Jaffna. "Where will I find them?' she wails as willing hands help her with her luggage. For people like Meenambal and Karthigesu, the end to their suffering is nowhere in sight.
Parties Add Demands
t keep surfacing om Tamil political tion of the nationlly harden moderather than contrie political debate, politician. He was w demands that 4 ave added to their a for a negotiated
ps are the Eelam nary Liberation Tamil Eelam Liion (TELO), the
Organisation of E) and the Eelam nisation of Stu
mands are that the sitself to a secular on of regions as devolution packunion of Regional y resident in Sri
Lanka for more than 10 years be granted citizenship.
Their 4-point formula was a unified politico-administrative entity for the northeast province; Substantial devolution of power to the unit; Institutional arrangements within the larger framework of the north eastern province for the Muslims ensuring their cultural identity and security, and provision made for the Sinhalese living in the northeast, to enjoy the same rights enjoyed by minorities living in the rest of the country.
Except for PLOTE, the other 3 groups have no representation in parliament having lost their seats in the last election.
The notable absentees in the Tamil grouping are Minister S. Thondaman, President of the Ceylon Workers Congress, the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP).
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Talks with Conditions ?: Even as preparations for the continuation of the offensive against the Tigers are being made, President Chandrika Kumaratunga in a recent speech did not rule out talks with the LTTE. However, she spelt out three conditions for any such talks : complete cessation of hostilities, a symbolic laying down of weapons and a timeframe to be set for political discussions on a package for resolution of the conflict.
On the other hand, for his part the leader of the LTTE, Velupillai Pirabhakaran has also offered to resume talks with the government. His pre-conditions for such talks are that the army should withdraw from recently captured areas in Jaffna and such talks should be under the auspices of foreign mediation.
Any talks between the parties at the present time is a non-starter because of the pre-conditions set by both leaders, an analyst in Colombo said. The President’s request for the LTTE to lay down arms will never be accepted by the LTTE. On the other hand, it must be noted that Tigers themselves rejected when the President offered such foreign mediation during the time both parties were talking before the breakdown of the peace process, the analyst said.
The War: In the northern front, in the past weeks there have been few military encounters between government forces and the LTTE although the military has been accused of shelling and bombing certain areas in the Vadamaradchi and Thenmararadchi in the Jaffna peninsula.
The army is said to be engaged in clearing operations and consolidating their positions in areas they gained control following operation Riviresa. However the troops engaged in this exercise are being compelled to confront the problem of thousands of mines and booby traps that litter the newly captured areas. Mangoes ripen on the trees but no one dares go and pluck them for fear of stepping on or touching mines and booby traps placed by the Tigers, an army spokesman is reported to have said. “They use everything possible, in every combination. Bombs have been disguised as cooking utensils or stuffed in toys, anything likely to attract attention and be touched,' he said.
“The Tigers do a lot of improvisation, You trample a mine and suddenly the house behind which you are taking cover comes down and you’re in the open. You open the door of one empty house, and suddenly you find ten houses in the vicinity come down reducing them to rubble. The Tigers use new techniques all the time. Some of their mines and IEDs (Im
provised Explosive D across in the past are even if you lift some or throw a switch. O a bomb designed to one entered the room a very sensitive sounc army engineer is quc
Even as governmei ing to consolidating 1
reported that the Ti themselves and engag intensified recruitmer thousands of people d aca S.
The editorial of Tamil newspaper n.
Kilinochchi, recently
fought many great b has not been weaken victory which the go Jaffna is not really a has got its foot into Ja to make a great effor Some analysts re fested areas of the V gers are digging in a than the streets of Ja hit-and-run guerilla they are noted. Retire General Dennis Pere in Colombo, “The los great psychological They can go on for s gle so long as they h them to operate from be more to their liki jungle would not be In the east, all repo has been an increase tacks by the LTTE up ernment installations December the Tige stroyed electricity pc putting several area without electricity. ( gers ambushed a ro the military at Batticaloa district ki wounding 30 others alties themselves. T 60 LTTE men were ter is described as ex ary, a group ofTiger truck-loads of food, lentils, coconuts an( in the Batticaloa a gunpoint a convoy c stuff, forced the dr items into tractors ( taking the truck ba 3 January a large cadres of LTTE att post at Pankulam, \ city of Trincomale was killed and 12
 

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rices) we've come esigned to explode ng or close a door C. We Caic acOSS plode when someIt was triggered by sensing device,” an :d as saying. forces are attempteir new gains, it is ers are regrouping :d in a campaign of among the tens of placed to the Vanni
Eelanatham', the w published from aid, “The LTTE has attles before and it 2d or defeated. The vernment claims in victory. The army ffna, but it will have to save that foot.” gard the jungle inanni where the Tire more favourable ffna to the mode of warfare for which :d army chief Major ra told newspapers s of Jaffna town is a blow to the Tigers. ome time in the junave supply lines. For jungle bases would ng Detection in the that easy.” its indicate that there in the number of atbn the army and govFor instance, on 18
's attacked and de- .
wer lines in the east into darkness and In 23 December Tite-clearing patrol of hanthiveli in the ling 33 soldiers and suffering many casue army’s claim that killed in the encounggerated. On 2 Janugot away with seven cluding wheat flour, sugar. At Santhiveli ea, they stopped at lorries carrying fooders to load the food
which they escaped eries with them. On
intingent of women
:ked an airforce outst of the eastern port n which one airman hers were wounded.
The LTTE in a statement said that 4 airforce personnel were killed and more than 10 were injured in the attack and two buildings were destroyed. The Tigers also carried away significant quantities of weapons including several submachine guns, mortars and over 20,000 rounds of ammunition. In another ambush on an army patrol on 5 January at Meeyankulam junction in Batticaloa, the LTTE killed 8 soldiers and wounded 7 others.
As Tiger attacks kept increasing in the east, counter-insurgency operations by the security forces have been intensified. Disruption of movement of transportand traffic into and out of the Batticaloa town and cordon and house-to-house search operations in the area have become frequent. There have been reports of many persons being taken into custody and being held in unacknowledged detention and even of
disappearances.
A military spokesman stated that the security forces were planning major offensives in the east to destroy LTTE positions which have been set up following the pull-out of large number of troops to augment the Jaffna offensive. “Our army intelligence indicates that more than 1000 Tigers have come from the north to jangle bases in Vakarai in the east. The LTTE is planning to destabilise the east, especially Batticaloa, in a major way,” he said.
Plight of Refugees: The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said on 19 December that it would be delivering aid to 250,000 people who had been evacuated from Jaffna to the Vanni region. “We’ll have up to four convoys a week of up to 10 eight-ton trucks, They'll be carrying kitchen equipment, clothes and blankets. For the next two months, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will take the job of transporting all nonfood relief items to the Vanni region, where most of the displaced have fled, a spokesman for the agency said. There was enough food for locals and refugees, although clean water and medicine were hard to come by, the spokesman added.
The European Union has granted about 200 million US dollars in aid to Sri Lanka for assistance to be provided to the displaced people. The aid provided through the EU Humanitarian Office is to help meet the needs for basic items such as food, shelter, plastic sheeting, water tanks, medicine and medical supplies for the civilians affected by the war.
The displaced people, both in the Thenmaradchi and Vadamaradchi areas and the Vanni are reported to be undergoing tremendous hardship as a result of an acute shortage of liquid cash in all the government and private banks which have been operating in the Jaffna district many of which are now relocated in the Vanni mainland. People with accounts in these banks are unable to withdraw any money and without any money they are unable
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vival. The main reason for this shortage of cash is that the relocated branches of the banks have not been supplied with cash from their Colombo head offices. Meanwhile, money lenders are reportedly making a killing by charging up to 40 per cent commission to cash cheques. Reportedly the Joint Operations Command of the Sri Lankan Army has put a stop to the transfer of money from Colombo to the relocated banks as they operate in Tigercontrolled areas.
In the meantime, it was reported that the government had decided to stop all payment of salaries to state employees and pensions to retired employees who have left Jaffna and are presently living in LTTE-controlled areas. If the displaced employees and pensioners returned to Jaffna, then they would be paid, according to an official. This move reflected the government's determination to get the displaced people to return to their homes in Jaffna, he said. The government appeared to be eager to win the hearts and minds of the Tamils and wants the displaced families to return to Jaffna where a major rebuilding operation is under way. Masons, carpenters, cement and roofing tiles and materials have been shipped to the peninsula. The government is accusing the LTTE of preventing the displaced people from returning to their homes.
Some Tamil politicians have protested against the government's decision to withhold payments to the displaced state employees and pensioners. “The government cannot hold back payments. The people have been displaced through no fault of their own.” Joseph Pararajasingham, Member of Parliament for Batticaloa belonging to the moderate Tamil United Liberation Front said. “We are holding the 347 million rupees (Us $ 8 million) that should have been paid on 19 December until further instructions, an official in Colombo said. However, on 27 December, the government directed that Government Agents in the north to pay the December salaaries of all sssstaaate employees. Under the directive state"employees and pensioners in the Jaffna peninsula, including those who had been displaced as a result of operaation Riviresa would be paid their dues by cheque from the Government Agent's office presently functioning in Chavakachcheri.
There have been reports of pressure upon the LTTE leaders from many displaced people now forced to live in the Vanni to travel either to Vavuniya or further south to Colombo. Without travel permits issued by the Tigers, no one can move and there have been severe restriction on the issue of such permits particularly for those between the ages of 12 and 40. However from 21 December, the LTTE relaxed some restrictions and began issuing travel passes charging Rs.1000 from those who leave the Vanni for trading purposes and Rs.200 from those travelling to seek medical treatment.
In spite of the tren which they are subje ally thousands of Tar ernment controlled southbound.
The displaced Tami would be able to ret the Deputy Defence ) Ratwatte claimed. “ necessary conditions that by destroying the leader shortly,” a re. newspaper said refl view that the war agai continue unabated.
The LTTE in a state ary issued from its L that the Sri Lankan g transfer doctors and 1 LTTE controlled TI Vadamaratchi. There i of doctors in the hospit and Thenmaratchi to who arrive in the hos dreds to get treatment by Sri Lankan militar air force plane bombs. dreds of other Tamils : pitals for treatments The Sri Lankan gove ing to cause more su patients by making pla the little remaining di staff out from t Thenmaratchi and Vac areas in Sri Lanka. T also purposely impost plying medicines and 1 to these hospitals. Th design under supplie The government ha, stopped supplying cert essential drugs to thes last few months. The taken by the Sri Lank the hospitals in the No. political observers as Government to aggra on the Tamil people li trolled areas, in the h turn against the LTTE
Civilians as Human versity Teachers for Hu has accused the Speci operating in eastern civilians as human sh tle with the Tigers.
On 5 December a LTTE cadres mounte STF base in the Battic 29 commandos dead. ted losing 28 of their
The UTHR(J), bas accounts, has accused more than 100 civiliar public buses, vans and deered to rush reinforc under seige by the Tige mandos crouched in during the attack, firir attacking Tigers while

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endous hardship to ited, there are liternils waiting in govVavuniya to travel
people from Jaffna urn by April 1996, Winister Anuruddha We will create the and atmosphere for
terrorists and their bort in a Colombo :cting his hardline nst the Tigers would
ment dated 15 Januondon office stated overnment plans to nedical staff out of henmaratchi and s an acute shortage als of Vadamaratchi treat the patients pitals in their hunfor injuries caused y shell attacks and There are also hunattending these hosfor other illnesses. rnment is attemptffering to all these ins to transfer even octors and medical he hospitals in lamaratchi to other he government has :d a delay in supmedical equipments he hospitals are by d with medicines. s also completely ain urgently needed e hospitals for the e drastic measures an government on th, is seen by many an attempt by the vate the sufferings ving in LTTE conope,the people may
i Shield : The Uniman Rights(Jaffna) il Task Force(STF) Sri Lanka of using ields during a bat
arge contingent of l an attack on the loa area which left The Tigers admit1Շ1. :d on eye witness the STF of forcing s to remain aboard cars they comman:ments to the camp rs. The police comthe aisle of a bus g their guns at the the civilians were
inside. At least 30 civilians were killed in the encounter. “The majority of the civilians who were killed died because they were used as human shields, the UTHRQ) report said.
Arms Influx : Fighter jets, helicopter gunships and gunboats have begun pouring into Sri Lanka as the country's armed forces prepare for fresh offensives against the Tamil Tigers, military officials and analysts, according to a Reuter report from Colombo datelined 12 January.
The military, which received a massive additional injection of funds this year, is also going for high-technology equipment such as remote-controlled aircraft for battlefield surveillance and laser target designators, they said.
“We’re nowhere near the end of the war, probably at the beginning of Eelam War
4,” said defence analyst Air Marshal
Harry Goonetileke, a former air force chief. He was referring to an apparent new, high-intensity phase in the 12-year war between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government forces.
The rebels raised the technological intensity of the war last April when they used missiles to shoot down two air force Avro transport planes after withdrawing from peace talks and unilaterally resuming hostilities. Previous phases of the war were marked by similar escalations in the intensity of fighting after unsuccessful ceasefires.
This month the air force acquired three Kfir fighters from Israel. Three more are on the way as are more Mi-17 transport and Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters from the former Soviet Union. China, Sri Lanka's main arms supplier, has delivered an anti-submarine vessel to meet the threat from underwater suicide bombers, along With a landing craft and two gunboats, navy officials said.
The transport problem for the forces is so acute that the air force has hired five An-24 transport planes flown by Kazakh pilots from a private airline to maintain the air bridge to Jaffna. The air force has lost half its fleet of big transport planes in rebel attacks and accidents since last April as the Tigers stepped up attacks on military supply lines. The rebels formidable Sea Tiger naval wing has also seriously weakened the navy, sinking two supply ships, two Shanghai-class gunboats and two Israeli-built Dvora attack craft. The navy has replaced its losses and ordered more Dvoras from Israel and gunboats from China,
Deputy Finance and Justice Minister
G.L.Peiris recently said that the Peiris has blamed the steep rise in defence spending, which will rise to 38 billion rupees in 1996 from 24 billion rupees originally estimated for 1995, on the intensified war effort.
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lated news was lifted on 19 December. Initially, the censorship, covering both local and foreign media was imposed on 21 September last year. However, following protests and fearing adverse international reaction, the government lifted the censorship on foreign correspondents operating from Colombo on 25 September, but retained its application to the local media which it accused of acting irresponsibly at a time when the troops were fighting the Tigers in the north.
However, the ban on the travel of both local and foreign correspondents to the war-torn north continues.
Privatisation of Tea Estates : Despite protests from several sectors, the Sri Lankan government has decided to go ahead with its programme for the privatisation of the country's tea and rubber plantations, according to official sources in Colombo.
The programme has come under fire from both trade unions and business community, though for different reasons. The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, in a letter to the Ministry of Plantation Industries, has highlighted many flaws in the privatisation procedure, especially the lack of transparency.
The trade unions of the Ceylon Workers Congress and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, two partners in the Peoples Alliance government, have also objected to it and even threatened to stage a strike.
The Ceylon Workers Congress leader, Cabinet Minister S.Thonda-man, has said that they were not against the principle of privatisation but the salary structure for the workers under the programme.
The Public Enterprise Reform Commission which is in charge of implementing the programme has insisted that it would go ahead as proposed.
Electrode Test for Muralitharan : Sri Lanka have called up a Hong Kong based professor and his electrical wizardry to decide once and for all whether off-spinner Muttiah Murali- tharan throws or bowls.
Former Sri Lankan umpire Ajith Perera said that electrodes will be attached to the bowler’s elbow to transmit three -dimensional pictures of the arm angle during delivery. “Then we can resolve the matter scientifically’ said Perera, who lobbied to clear Sri Lanka’s name on a charge of ball tampering during the first test against Australia in Perth.
Dr Ravi Goonetilleke, a Sri Lankan professor based in HongKong, would be able to download the pictures into a portable computer and state categorically whether there is any straightening of the arm at the moment of release, which is illegal in cricket. But some cricket board officials have said the medical test is redundant. They claim that although Australian umpire Darrell Hair no-balled Muralitharan seven times during the sec
: Test at Melbour does not throw every all.
Four days after throwing for the sec on tour, the 23-yearomitted for the Wo game against Austral Tuesday. What comp that he was called switching to bowling sidered physically in leg break.
The ICC, cricket urged Muralitharan and Sri Lankan Boa dent Ana Punchihew nal ruling from the I or otherwise on M ahead of next month dia, Pakistan and Sr
Boycotting “Para The World Tamil sation (Ulahath T Kalaham) operatin Canada has in a le Tamils in Canada: ' Tamil Eelam residen ognise and identify race ".
In its preamble tl the "activities of S helping the Sinhala or indirectly. Some for income benefit th ernment and the l which provides ind former. The things t existence and busing to Sri Lanka and Ir some do for their su) to our enemies. The go to the sacred mo hands and to selfish cause of these para The leaflet sets ou of the Tamil libera lows:
* Indian newspa should not be imp Tamil shop nor sh the Tamils;
* Indian films sh in Tamil cinema a rented by any shop video tapes and CI No programmes sh turing Indian artis' * Tamil and En magazines from Virakesari, Thina Times, should not Tamil business ou * Tamil film son cast over Tamil co operating in Car songs should be br bulletins of the Li be broadcast as in * All the Tam which give wrong

1.ne -1
, it showed that he ball, if he throws at
ing no-balled for nd time in a match d Muralitharan was ld Series one-day at Melbourne on unded the issue was or chucking after eg breaks. It is conpossible to throw a
ruling body, have change his action d of Control presihas requested a fi'C on the legitimacy ralitharan’s action 's World Cup in In
Lanka.
sites:
Resurgence Organilamilar Eluchchik g from Toronto in flet made a call to Let us the people of tawake Let us recthe parasites in our
he leaflet states that ome in Canada are government directly of the deeds we do Le Sinhala racist govindian government lirect support to the hat some do for their sses provide income dia. The things that vival provide money money which should vement goes to other gangs of traders besites."
the duty at this stage tion struggle as fol
pers and magazines rted or sold by any uld they be read by
puld not be screened ld videos be sold or keeper. Indian audio s should not be sold. uld be organised fea:S. رlish newspapers and olombo including mu rasu and Sunday 2 imported or sold by etS.
should not be broadmunity radio stations da. Only liberation adcast. Only the news 2ration Tigers should
S. journals in Canada nformation about the
situation in our motherland should change their ways. Only items in Ulhath Thamilar (World Tamils) Kalaththil (In the Battlefield), Eelamurasu (The Drums of Eelam), Eelanatham (The Song of Eelam), Viduthalaippuli (Liberation Tiger) and news bulletins released by the Liberation Tigers should be published. Any newspaper that does not follow this code should not be sold here.
* The Tamil Rehabilitation Organi sation(TRO) which assists our people who are undergoing suffering as refugees has now started a food catering service in Canada. In order to support this noble venture, the local Tamil catering entrepreneurs should temporarily suspend their trade.
* Products from the Marketing Department and the private sector in Sri Lanka such as maliban biscuits, pickets and tinned fish should not be imported or sold in Tamil trade outlets here.
* Tamil travel agents should not sell tickets for Air Lanka.
* In order to assist Tamil Liberation, all Tamil business organisations here should buy and sell only Palmar canned foods, vegetables and sea-food imported and distributed by Kaan Imports who support the movement. Such products should not be purchased from other organisations.
* In order to prevent the fattening of selfish traders, low-price people's shops that support national liberation should be opened.
* This is the compulsion of time borne by crisis. All should come forward to carry it out as the command of time. This is not a banning order. It is a kind plea. It will not be long before the people understand the deceitful survivalism of those who ignore this plea and boycott them.
Knowledgeable sources in Toronto confirm that this call has been made by people associated with the World Tamil Movement which is associated with the LTTE which publish a Tamil weekly titled "Ulahath Thamilar' the views of which are almost entirely pro-LTTE.
To begin with, the primary target of this exercise would appear to be the popular Tamil weekly in Canada, "MANJARI" edited by D.B.S.Jayaraj who is a reputed journalist both in English and Tamil and English. He and his wife have reportedly been subjected to threats, intimidation and filthy abuse over the telephone. It may be recalled that he has a victim of previous physical attacks too. Since the publication and wide distribution of this leaflet, many shops in Canada would appear to have stopped selling MANJARI and many Tamil business advertisers to the journal have dropped out. Nevertheless, the weekly has published the leaflet in full while also publishing an advertisement from the Canadian police announcing that it is an offence under their law to prevent or obstruct any lawful business activity of selling or buying.

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LTTE Leader Seeks St From Tamil Nadu Pe
Velupillai Pirabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has, in a statement dated 28 December '95 addressed to the political leaders and people of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, said that Tamil Nadu should continue to voice for our plight and express support to our legitimate causes'.
The following are excerpts from the LTTE leader's statement:
"On behalf of our people, I wish to express my affection and gratitude to the people and leaders of Tamil Nadu for voicing passionately for the Tamils of Eelam who are struggling for their liberation against the genocidal oppression of the Sinhala regime.
The waves of sympathy that sweep across Tamil Nadu whenever the Eelam Tamils are repressed has always been a deterrent to our ruthless enemy and a great source of hope and relief to our aggrieved people. It also impresses upon the world that the Eelam Tamils are not alone without support. Even though several forces have been making deliberate efforts to pollute the minds of the Tamils of Tamil Nadu with ill-conceived notions about our national struggle and about the Liberation Tigers who lead that struggle, we are encouraged and emboldened to note that there is growing upsurgence in Tamil Nadu demanding justice for our people on the basis of ethnic affinity and humanism.
For a long time even before the birth of the LTTE, the Tamil Nation has been bleeding. For a long time, our nation has been facing genocide. In this lengthy history, extending over four decades, our language, our culture, our education, our economic existence - all the essential elements that form the very basis of our national life - have been subjected to systematic destruction. The monster of Sinhala racism has been usurping our motherland. The Sinhala armed forces have occupied our historical cities and towns. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to vacate their own lands and reduced to destitution. In this tragic history tainted with blood, forty thousand Tamils have been exterminated. The current war is a continuation and monstrous expansion of this cruel genocidal history'.
“. . . The Sinhala state has been making desperate efforts to characte
rise the mode of a based on the str determination as a f and "Separatism'. Th notions are being pr the Indian people an ternational communit propaganda is aimed truth and discrediting struggle. We are ne nor "Separatists', or Armed Culture'. We noble cause. We are f our people from rac We are compelled t against the armed vi taken a genocidal fol with a complex con situation in which we with our lives for the fervently hope that th Nadu and India will critical situation'.
"... The hope and people that the Sinh offer an alternative an Independent stat tered. The Sinhala I pared to recognise th stituted traditional la Tamils lived for centu land of the Tamils. It tion of this crucial Tamils have been cl time. Tamil political incidents of abrogat agreements on this b
“Chandrika goverr a historical achievem destroying the geogr. integrity of the Tam disrupting the nati Tamils. Having cheat the slogans of 'Wal “Liberating the Tan has occupied our his The central theme package is aimed a geographical structu homeland.
From the time of Chandrika's period, s racist states have a military policies ins approach to resolve t. drika's approach is u the world under the she has ingeniously executing a genocida the Tamils.
"Our talks with ended in fiasco. Cl refused to create col

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upport ople
irmed resistance 'uggle of selform of “terrorism” nese ill-conceived opagated among ld among the inty. This malicious at distorting the g the mode of our lither "Terrorists' propagators of are fighting for a ighting to protect ial annihilation. o take up arms olence which has cm. We are faced flictual historical have to struggle right to live. We he people of Tamil understand our
2xpectation of our ala nation might to the demand of te are now shatnation is not pree historically conands in which the uries as the homeis for the resoluissue that the heated for a long history is full of ion of pacts and basic issue.
ment has scored lent in the task of aphical unity and hil homeland and onal life of the ed the world with for Peace' and nils”, her regime torical homeland. of her proposed t re-defining the ure of the Tamil
Bandaranaike to
uccessive Sinhala:
lopted repressive tead of peaceful he conflict. Chanhique. Misguiding
slogan of peace,
planned and is strategy against
Chandrika have handrika regime nditions of peace
and normalcy by relaxing military and
economic pressure on the Tamils. Her
government was reluctant to enter
into a permanent cease-fire with international supervision. Instead, under
the guise of a fragile cessation of hostilities, the government has been
strengthening its military machine. It
refused to open up a land route to the people by relaxing the siege of Jaffna. It gave primacy to the hegemonic interests of the military rather than to create an environment of peace.
"The government did not give any importance to the peace talks with the LTTE. It delegated bureaucrats to the peace negotiations. High ranking political leaders did not participate. The government did not reveal its package of proposals during the peace talks with the LTTE.
"Chandrika government failed to take seriously our proposition that we were prepared to consider a political framework that recognises the Tamil homeland with full form of autonomy to the Tamils. We expressed our goodwill by releasing prisoners of war. Yet, Chandrika government was not prepared even to settle the minor day to day problems of our people. We felt that the government was not sincerely interested in resolving the ethnic conflict by negotiating with the LTTE. We were also convinced that Chandrika regime was not prepared to offer any substantial political framework that would satisfy the political aspirations of the Tamils. Under these circumstances, when the talks prolonged meaninglessly we issued deadlines. But the government did not take our warnings seriously. The talks collapsed. Having created conditions for the breakdown of talks the government blamed the LTTE. It carried out a false propaganda campaign internationally that the LTTE was against the peace approach. In truth, it was Chandrika's government which was opposed to peace.
“Claiming that the Tamil people are the citizens of the country, Chandrika’s regime has embarked on a massive military onslaught on the Tamils. Having assembled a formidable force in a single battle front, it has occupied the historic city of Jaffna and has raised the Sinhalese national flag over our soil. The Sinhala nation is celebrating this tragic event soaked by the tears of five hundred thousand displaced Tamils, Celebrations are taking place in Colombo as if the Tamil nation was defeated at war. We do not believe that the Sinhalese chauvinists who have deeply hurt the national sentiments of the Tamils in such a manner would offer justice to the Tamils.
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ححهكصصص 15 JANUARY 199b
On Progressing to F
Through War
by S. Sivasegaram, London
The electoral success of the People's Alliance and the resounding victory of Chandrika Bandaran aike Kumaratunga at the presidential election on the basis of her promise to find a peaceful solution to this problem which has dogged the country for decades gave hope to the nationalities of Sri Lanka who wanted peace. No leader of the Sinhala nationality had in recent decades received support comparable with that received by CBK at the presidential election from the minority nationalities. So the expectations were high as far as the Thamils were concerned. There were other expectations too about the restoration of democracy and trade union rights, dismantling the dictatorial presidential system, and reviving an antiimperialist agenda. The actions of the PA government since CBK took power were disappointing to those who expected it to undo the damage inflicted by the UNP on Sri Lanka. But many were forgiving and argued that CBK was the victim of circumstances and that, even if she was not serious or sincere about anything else, she was earnest about finding a just and peaceful solution to the national question and therefore deserved all the support that one could give her. There were some who did not fail to express their fears. Arguments about the
events of the pas seem to have com opposing camps, ol in CBK's good ir other in the abilit force the governm negotiated settlem
One major w camps appears to ability of a single i about a solution. . who have put thi refuse to take into ity of Sinhala cha class interests tha They seem to assu that stood in the plementing her pledges will somel just and peaceful ethnic question, a are, by choice, obli of the vast majorit. now living in Col cynical attitude O. and its armed fo NGOs and their a to the refugees oft Yaalppaanam. I d to protest at the gi sion not to pay the inside LTTE-con Human rights are political and the beauty, is in the e perceives it. The its share those wil
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The Tamil nation, which has been conducting a heroic freedom struggle for such a long time, will not be frustrated by a setback in a single battle. Our people are fiercely determined though they have faced the enormous suffering arising from death, destruction, displacement and destitution. We are united and determined by the passion for freedom. We are confident that the setbacks of today will turn out to be the victories of tomorrow. We are firmly convinced that our land which bleeds today will become a free land one day.
Though our enemy has been adopting devious methods to alienate us from the outside world, from the world Tamil community and from Tamil Nadu where our deep roots are embedded, the support and sympathy generating from Tamil Nadu have given us
moral inspiration í
"We are deeply recent incident in has taken his lifeb an extreme form c darity. While we his passion for fre ments of ethnic llo" acts of self-sacrifi and therefore havi
"The Sinhala ra determined to col the genocidal war these circumsta. should continue tc and express supp cause. This is wha Eelam fervently E ple of Tamil Nadu Yours sincerely, (V. Pirabakaran), Leader, Liberation Tigers

eaCe
several months mainly from two 2 putting its faith entions and the of the LTTE to nt to agree to a ent. akness of both e the faith in the dividual to bring As a result, those ir faith im CBK, account the realuvinism and the t she represents. ne that the forces way of her imother important low let her find a solution to the nd some of them vious to the plight y of Thamil people ombo and to the the government rces towards the ppeal for support he war to capture o not expect them overnments decipensions to those trolled territory. !, after all, highly ir violation, like ye of the one that LTTE also has for to cannot imagine
nd determination.
addened to note a richi where a youth self-immolation as f expression of soliay our respects to dom and his sentie we feel that such e are unnecessary
to be avoided.
ist state is firmly tinue to carry out in Tamil Eelam. In ces, Tamil Nadu voice for our plight t to our legitimate the people of Tamil pect from the peo
f'Tamil Eelam.
the LTTE and its leader V. Pirabaakaran ever making a mistake. If anything goes wrong, they always have someone else to blame. The lack of a critical approach among the supporters of the LTTE, especially those living abroad, has hurt the Thamil liberation struggle much more than attacks by those hostile to the LTTE.
The purpose of this article is to remind ourselves of some important bits of the history of national oppression against the Thamil people and the struggle for liberation. Much blame is laid at the doorstep of the LTTE for its reluctance to trust CBK's intentions. If CBK's integrity is sufficient guarantee of her ability to deliver the peace package, then it makes one wonder whether SWRD Bandaranaike and Dudley Senamanayake went back on their pledges because their integrity was any less than that of CBK. Nothing could be further from the truth. CBK faces the same kind of resistance to any reasonable solution to the ethnic question that SWRDB and Dudley S faced, but of a more vicious character. There is also a powerful military machine which has been trained to see the Thamil nation as its enemy and a police force which sees a Tiger in every Thamil seen in Colombo. The kind of anti-Thamil sentiment whipped up under the Dharmishta era of J.R. Jayawardene is again raising its head after a brief setback some months ago. What is in question is not CBK's intention or integrity but her ability to deliver the goods.
Some of the defenders of the government's latest march towards peace do not hesitate to label those who fail to criticise the LTTE for its distrust of the PA government and, more importantly, of CBK as Thamil nationalists or LTTE supporters. R. Hoole in a recent communication to Counterpoint (September 1995) even went to the extent of accusing the Viirakeisari and Sarinihar (a Thamil fortnightly published by the MIRJE) of taking a pro-LTTE stance. Such sentiments do not fail to show up, perhaps not surprisingly, in the statements of the so-called UTHR(J) which seems to be well informed about even the smallest violation of human rights by the LTTE but rather ignorant about what the Thamils in Colombo are facing. Ram Manikkalingam in his communications to the Frontline (a fortnightly belonging to the Hindu
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newspaper establishment of Madras and noted for its hostility towards the LTTE and its remarkable sympathy for the late Gamini Dis
sanayake, despite its facade of sym
pathy towards Marxism) in December '95, of which one has been reproduced in the Tamil Times (December '95), talks of "Tiger intransigence' and places his hopes on CBK's ability to juggle the military and the peaceniks'. Raavaya, a Sinhala journal well known for its defence of the rights of the Thamil people in the past, has reportedly commented that the conquest of Yaalppaanam was a good thing. CBK herself has expressed surprise why any Thamil should feel unhappy about the army conquering Yaalppaanam, since it was part of Sri Lanka. After all, it was an event to be celebrated quietly without hurting Thamils, physically.
There are some who argue that CBK is the last chance for peace and blame the LTTE for all what has gone wrong with what they saw as the peace process. They also go allong with the government in portraying the LTTE as the ultimate evil, opposed to democracy and human rights. It is also convenient for them to portray the LTTE and the Sinhala Buddhist extremists as the two opposite poles so that the PA government appears as the fair median. They ignore the history of the Thamil national question and see the LTTE in isolation from the events of the past decades and, more importantly, ignore the fact that it is not the bark of the Sinhala Buddhist extremists that the Thamil people had to confront so far but the bite of the armed forces of a government which represents only the Sinhala nation.
Sinhala chauvinism has never been in the interests of the Sinhala masses and has been used for opportunistic reasons by the Sinhala elite to further their class interests. It is also remarkable that the spokespersons for Thamil nationalism in its embryonic stages were members of the Thamil elite class who could hardly communicate properly in Thamil and were more concerned about the status of English in Sri Lanka than that of their own language. It was a sequence of events including the break-up of the Ceylon National Congress, the citizenship act, the language bill, standardisation, the string of amendments to the constitution of the country and,
of course, the ant
of '58, '77 and '83
emergence of Th
and, not an isolate Despite my own d Sri Lanka, I canno tion in the near fu Thamil people wi belong to the san Sinhalese. The onl Sri Lanka seems to more nations enti into a union on the Self-determination precondition for su and for some myst advocates of the P (which has yet ta although it is alr seem to shy away
and some even goir signing joint dec nounce it as an ob the plea 'For a nev by a group of inti duced in TT July responsible for th Thamil nationalism denied equality to t and not only refu. their traditional ho systematically tri ethnic composition contiguity.
The LTTE is,
wrongly, accused O cratic and guilty of rights by its vario will be useful for us records of the gov Lanka when it cam threats to their e. and the 1980s. The JVP in the 80s, w; oppression in the LTTE's rivals, ma pend on handouts f government, have of the democracy a in the past, and we not forgotten the i Indian peace keep first hand experien to criticism from EPRLF during an sion in London in 19 is that the leading groups never had a cive to democracy a deficiency was inh TULF (and the Fed mischief of Indira ( ment and subseque Gandhi's in pitting against the other so them to further it Asian power politics ble for rivalries deel hostility. In this

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-Thamil violence which led to the Lmil nationalism incident or two. sire for a united t foresee a situaure in which the l feel that they e nation as the 7 lasting unity of be that of two or ring voluntarily basis of equality. is an inevitable h a unity to last, rious reason, the A peace package be unwrapped eady Xmas '95) from that notion g to the extent of arations to desolete notion (see v social contract’ ellectuals, repro95). If anyone is e emergence of l, it is those who he Thamil people sed to recognise meland but also ed to alter its
and territorial
not altogether f being undemoviolating human us opponents. It to remember the ernments of Sri e to dealing with tistence in 1971 LTTE, like the as responding to way it could. ny of whom derom the Colombo had poor records ld human rights have, hopefully, nfamous days of ng'. I have had 2e of intolerance a leader of the informal discus90. What is true 'hamil liberation structure condund a part of this erited from the eral Party). The andhi's governtly that of Rajiv One movement that it could use ends in South is also responsiening into bitter 'ontext, it was
hardly surprising that many leaders became tools in the hands of the governments of India or Sri Lanka and most of the leading liberation movements became party to the . genocidal wars against the Thamil people. What was unfortunate about the conflict between movements was that not only key figures in rival movements were seen as the enemy but even cadres at the lowest level who could have been won over. To single out the LTTE for criticism is to cover up the misdeeds of its rivals and the cynicism of successive governments of Sri Lanka. It should also be noted here that intimidation was not something that the TULF and FP always condemned. Academics who appealed to the Thamil people to vote for V. Ponnambalam who contested S.J.V. Chelvanayakam at KKS in 1974 were sent threatening letters, and the response of the TULF to the killing of Alfred Duraiappa was, at best, muted. In fact, I remember reading in the memoirs of A. Amirthalingam his expresion of anger at the killing of his colleagues Aalaalasuntharam and Tharmalingam by militants while sparing the lives of certain invididuals whom he considered to be traitors.
Those who attack the LTTE for breaking the truce on 19.04.95 fail to criticise the PA government for the flippant way in which it approached the peace process. The failure of the government to include a senior figure in any one of its four delegations to the north was hardly convincing in the context of a history of torn-up pacts and broken promises. The PA government appeared to be more interested in public relations exercises than in taking concrete steps towards a just solution. The wisdom of the LTTE in bringing the cease-fire to an end can be a subject of endless debate, but equally disputable is the wisdom of CBK in making very unstatesmanly utterances in India during her subsequent visit to India. One may also be reminded here of the FP's folly of its "anti-Sri' campaign of 1958 which not only strengthened the hands of the opponents of the BandaranaikeChelvanayakam pact but also provided an excuse for the Sinhala chauvinists to unleash violence against the Thamil people in the same year. One can blame the FP for their lack of wisdom, but that is not a valid defence of the abrogation of the B-C pact or the violence of 1958.
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Change in International Per
- Illusion of External Interv
by Dr. S. Narapalasingham
On behalf of the Tamils affected by the civil war in North-East Sri Lanka, a few Tamil notables have appealed directly to the Secretary General of the United Nations hoping that he will be able to cause some external intervention to help the suffering people. The telegram sent to him by the DK leader in Tamil Nadu sought his intervention to stop the 'army atrocities'. Besides, the expatriate Lankan Tamils in the USA and Canada staged a massive demonstration in New York, where the UN headquarters is located. Similar demonstrations were also held in London and other cities. The main message that was conveyed through these demonstrations was that the Tamils were the helpless victims of brutal aggression by Sri Lanka's military. These made headline news in the various Tamil tabloids and also raised emotions among the fellow Tamils. The foreign print and electronic media by and large ignored these protests. On the contrary, the opinions expressed through the editorials were to say the least unsympathetic to the LTTE for the "terrorism' unleashed since April '95 aimed at achieving its declared goal of an independent sovereign state in Sri Lanka's North-East region. The LTTE supporters and sympathisers in Western countries have been announcing through slogans, letters to newspapers and other means that this organization is the sole representative of the Tamils. The implication of this posture to the present change in the attitude of foreign governments to the Tamil problem will become evident in the ensuing discussion.
International Response
The following excerpt from the editorial of Britain's Daily Telegraph published the day after the raising of the Sri Lankan flag over Jaffna gives an illustration of what the outside world expects the LTTE to do viz. return to the negotiating table:
"Having tried the carrot of peace talks on devolution, from which the Tigers walked out in April, President Kumaratunga has now wielded the stick of a successful attack on the stronghold of a singularly vi
cious movement. TI than 100 people a bus station in 198 sinations of Rajiv
an prime minister Premadasa, the S dent in 1991 and are some of the m murderous path. Kumaratunga will military pressure
are persuaded to r
tiating table, while restraining the m from turning on t tion. In maintain balance, she deser all governments terrorism as a scou world.'
In 1987 when army captured V. uproar it created resulting in the ment’s interventio further military at na must be compan what restricted re the 12-hour genera on November 30 the ruling party leader Karunanit there were no sl LTTE or its leadel for a separate T dramatic change the Indians inclu there to the LTT simation of Prim Gandh still conti Lankan Tamils 1 status there as mere visitors. L deny responsibil: sination but wha the perception ( though the verdi yet to be pronou ances, thejudicia ates in some cou premise that th until proven inn
Militarism and Methods
The late Tami vanayakam wo) unity between til lims in the Nort Muslims were t)

MTIMEST
:eption 2ntiOn
e killing of more Colombo's main , and the assasandhi, the Indiand Ranasinghe i Lankan presi393 respectively, estones along its
President nave to maintain until the Tigers turn to the negoat the same time jority Sinhalese he Tamil populang this difficult "es the support of which recognise rge of the modern
the Sri Lankan adamaratchi, the in Tamil Nadu Indian Governn that prevented dvances into Jaff'ed with the somesponse seen from ul strike organized by the DMK (not in Tamil Nadu) hi. Significantly, gans hailing the as well as calling amil Eelam. The In the attitude of ding the Tamils E after the assasMinister, Rajiv nues to haunt all gardless of their ither refugees or "TE continues to y for the assasmatters here is the world even t of the court has ced. In such instsystem that opertries based on the suspect is guilty ent is applicable.
Coercive
eader S.J.V. Cheled hard to forge
Tamils and MusEast. The way the ated by the LTTE
in the North and in the Est resulting in the forced evacuation from Jaffna and the massacre of some in the eastern province undid all the work done to unite the Tamil-speaking people. The LTTE spokesman has apologised for their mistake with regard to the forced evacuation of Muslims from Jaffna, but whatever trust that existed before between the Tamils and Muslims cannot be that easily restored in this simple way. The reduction in the size of the minority Tamil community caused by the elimination of Tamils considered "traitors' and those disobeying their orders as well as the large number already left the North-East appears to be of no concern, in the belief that the fighting power alone is sufficient to achieve the political goal. It is relevant to mention that to many foreigners the size of the Tamil population in the North-East is crucial to justify the demand for an autonomous Tamil state.
The LTTE's fighting strength proven earlier on several occasions, has in its wake given rise to overconfidence and disregard for international opinion. This attitude also got reinforced after the Indian army withdrew in 1990 and other Tamil groups were either eliminated by force or marginalised through various intimidatory acts. The perception among the Tamils that the LTTE was their true protector against the army 'atrocities also enhanced its self-confidence. All SL governments by their acts of commission and omission that affected the daily lives of Tamil civilians have given credence to this perception. Its cadres are believed by the people to have valiantly sacrificed their lives solely for protecting and eventually liberating them from Sinhala domination. LTTE's recent actions, including the forcible evacuation of the civilians in Jaffna to the mainland under its control just before the Sri Lankan army entered the city must be seen in this light, for at all times and at any cost it cannot afford to allow this perception to change. The outcome of the present tug of War between the Government wanting the displaced people to return to their homes in Jaffna and the LTTE forcing them to stay put in the Vanni, where they are establishing the new base to continue the war against the 'occupying forces will decide how long the Tamils in the North-East will suffer without even basic ameni
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ties and how many more Tamils and Sinhalese will get killed and maimed. The two tools that have proved effective to the LTTE in keeping the Tamil people physically with them are coercion and propaganda. The latter has also proved effective to mobilise support among the expatriate Tamils but ineffective even to maintain the sympathy of the international community which the Tamils had earlier. The indifference of the LTTE to world opinion, particularly with regard to the manner the proclaimed "liberation war' has been conducted, using school children as combatants and throwing away "opportunities' for reaching a negotiated settlement of the conflict has led in turn to the present apathy of the international community to the plight of the Tamil people.
World opinion
The violation of human rights by the LTTE have been documented by Amnesty International and the Tamil Human rights group of university teachers and it is naive to assume that foreign governments are unaware of them. The massacre of Sinhalese civilians including women and children in border villages in the North-East region by the LTTE cadres, as a strategic move to weaken the army's attack on Jaffna received wide condemnation from all foreign governments including those that wield power in the UN Security Council. Some may still not want to admit the facts that have contributed to the present tragic plight of the Tamils, which has made them refugees in their homeregion. But the governments of the powerful countries have the means to come to their own conclusions from the information gathered by them and from independent sources.
The factors that have contributed to the change in the attitude of foreign governments to the Tamil problem which has got linked with the actions of the LTTE, the organization proclaimed by many as the sole representative of the Tamil people include, in the main, rightly or wrongly their perception of the LTTE as "a terrorist and antidemocratic group, having no respect for human rights and believing firmly in the use of force as the only means to achieve the political goal'.
No Tamil can deny that both democracy and non-violent methods of
protests have fail Tamil problem. No that the willingnes, an government to extensively to the the result of the But it should not even medicines kn tive in curing ail excess can be fatal. The world, parti events of August present governmen a clear mandate to peacefully, regarde the SL Governmen finding a political ethnic conflict and 1 LTTE as obstructiv settlement. Foreig when reporting on flict in Sri Lanka, tion at the end oft the underlying rea war is the discrini lty Tamils by Sinhalese. Tamils : aware of the gap thi approved policies cl Tamil grievances a cies in implement ance, Tamils stillar various Governmei only in the Sinhale most foreigners a these difficulties fa people and in any e not be considered for continuing the tion proposals put present Governmer this perspective by as adequate to eli cause of the "Tamil
President Kum ership has been p governments, inc pean Parliament. experienced politic the Ceylon Worke seems to understa gy and tactics, pa to her concern for the Tamil commu tion to safeguard Dec. 95, p11). He given high priori the battle-scarred ing the main hosp roads and buildir the power supply stand even after tion Riviresa on D a negotiated settle conflict has given eyes of the world. LTTE to return to offering amnesty

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d to solve the can it be denied Of the Sri Lankfevolve powers Tamil region is amil militancy. 2 forgotten that wn to be effechents taken in
ularly after the 1994 when the , was elected on olve the problem id the moves of t as positive in solution to the he actions of the 2 to a negotiated news agencies the ethnic connvariably, menheir reports that son for the civil nation of ninorthe majority in Sri Lanka are at exists between aimed to redress nd their deficienation. For inste obliged to fill in ht forms printed se language. But tre unaware of ced by the Tamil vent these would as valid reasons war. The devoluforward by the it, are seen from the outside world minate the root problem'.
aratunga's leadraised by foreign uding the EuroThondaman, the ian and leader of rs Congress, who hd LTTE's ideolod glowing tribute he sensitivities of nity and dedicathe Tamils (T.T. government has y to rehabilitate Jaffna by repairtal and damaged gs and restoring Her consistent ne end of Opera2ember 5 to reach ment of the ethnic credibility in the he has urged the he peace process, nd safety to the
cadres. Herpeace and humanitarian efforts as seen by the international community have given a totally new complexion to her government's image abroad with the result that many governments are convinced of her sincerity and are willing to help in various ways.
POWerS Of the UN
It is necessary to clear the apparent misperception with regard to the powers of the UN Secretary General and the world body itself, particularly under the existing world order. This is important since some Tamils appear to be disappointed that the international community has now ignored their cry for help. In this regard, attention is drawn to the fundamental rule under which the UN (applicable to any other international body like the British Commonwealth) can operate. It cannot intervene in the internal affairs of its member states, unless a request is made by the concerned government (assuming that a recognized constitutional government exists) and this in turn has the approval of the Security Council. Here too not one of the five permanent members of the Council should object by exercising the veto power. The Secretary General can, however, make diplomatic efforts and persuade the parties in conflict to settle it peacefully. He may recommend to the Security Council a course of action which he thinks desirable to prevent a major human tragedy occurring in a country but it is the Council that decides whether to take action accordingly or otherwise or none at all. For instance, his recommendation to set up a preventive peacekeeping force in order to avoid the repeat of the Rwandan tragedy occurring in Burundi, where about a million people are reported to have died in a month in the civil war between Tutsis and Hutus has been turned down so far by the Security Council. He has full authority in implementing the decisions of the Security Council and even here certain constraints can prevent the implementation. For example the Security Council resolution 242 which required Israel to withdraw from the territories occupied during the 1967 war with the Arabs was not implemented.
Even foreign international agencies such as UNHCR providing humanitarian aid can operate within a sovereign state only with the
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consent of its constitutional government. The government of Rwanda on December 11 ordered 38 aid agencies to leave the country within a week. They could only appeal to the government to reconsider its decision. The refugee problem in Africa caused by civil wars in various countries is straining the available resources and the capacity of the aid agencies and the Londonbased Africa Rights Group has accused the international community of forgetting the crisis there. There are over 2 million Rwandan refugees alone sheltering in other African states. Donor fatigue sets in when the problem becomes permanent; a fact useful for Sri Lankans to bear in mind.
The resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly are not obligatory and merely convey the majority opinions of the international community. During the past few years, the UN Assembly has passed by overwhelming majority the resolution imploring the United States to lift the embargo on Cuba. But it still remains in effect. The UN organization wanted the people of Kashmir to determine their sovereign status through a plebiscite. This was never conducted. The point here is that while the UN serves as a forum to debate issues affecting or likely to affect adversely international relations, world peace, security of member states, stability of regions, economic conditions of regions etc., and raise awareness of the dangers of terrorism, drug trafficking etc., it is the powerful countries in the Security Council that can cause the UN to
act decisively or to delegate other
bodies like the NATO to act in order to achieve its agreed goals. In this regard, the role of the U.S. and her allies in the post cold war era cannot be overemphasised as borne out by the present arrangement to implement the Dayton peace agreement entered by all the warring groups in Bosnia.
The governments of donor countries with their economic power and diplomatic and military muscle, notably the United States, are in a position to influence world opinion and judge the conduct of aid recipient governments, like Sri Lanka, in terms of their actual observance of the principles governing democracy, human rights, freedom of expression, and the codes of conduct enshrined in internationally accepted conventions and in the UN
charter. On all present governn stands in the eye al community as the previous gov ethnic conflict tu war. The psyche has evolved as a neglect, assaults, feelings of insecu regimes is some easy for foreigne However, it is foo to be prejudiced & and ignore the s different govern believe will solve problem amicably ing the long-term concerned parties President Kum terview when ask bility of external the conflict in Sr "At the moment f not on the cards. community has il to the peace initia ment and our a through'. (T.T. D the Sri Lankan G ing to invite som
ment, agency or
mediate, there is contemplating thi not be pressurise government or in gional body to mediation. There from the observa this paper. Under tion, the LTTE n external mediati point in having a one party. As llom able to maintair Tamils in the Nort mentation of any has not been forma leadership will b lasting peace will as before. The mai likely to continue way of reaching
ment, short of an entity in the No) LTTE can exercis is the requirement democratic mainst violence (and by weapons) and rely the people given
timidation and fea
What next?
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these criteria, the ent of Sri Lanka of the internationmarkedly civil than rnments, since the rned into a bloody of the people that result of prolonged discrimination and ity under previous thing that is not rs to feel likewise. ish to expect them s some Tamils are incere efforts of a ment, which they the long-standing 7 without sacrificinterests of all the
aratunga in an ined about the possimediation to settle i Lanka answered: oreign mediation is The international mmense confidence tive of the Governbility to carry it ec. '95, p7). Unless overnment is willhe foreign governeven dignitary to no point in even s possibility. It will ed by any foreign ternational or reagree to external :asons are obvious tions presented in the existing situaust also agree to on. There is no dialogue with only g as the LTTE is a hold on the h-East, the implepeace plan that illy accepted by its e sabotaged and remain as elusive n difficulty that is to stand in the a political settleutonomous Tamil th-East in which 2 absolute power, for it to enter the eam by giving up implication the on the support of reely without inr of reprisals.
be the question the minds of the ing President ords, “at the mo
ment only a miracle can free the Tamils in the North-East from the misery they have been driven into in the course of what has been believed as the struggle for liberation from Sinhala domination. One can only hope that the Tamil population at large recognize the importance of world opinon in conflict resolution and the continuation of the war in defiance of world opinion is to seek a life similar to that described by George Orwell in Animal Farm'. All over the world the trend is clear. Democratically elected governments that have the clout to influence events and the resolution of conflicts elsewhere detest authoritarianism and terrorism. They will support the governments committed to democracy and peace. There are no powerful authoritarian regimes now after the end of the cold war to frustrate this effort. Those who are conscious of this global ideal, which is likely to prevail in the next millennium will not even dream of direct intervention in Lanka's conflict by any responsible foreign government or international agency for the sole purpose of ensuring a particular group retains absolute power without the consent of the concerned people obtained through a free and fair election. To ignore this reality is to swim against a powerful current that is strong enough to carry even the most skilled swimmer into the sea. At the moment, the future for the Tamils seems bleak given the determination of the LTTE to capture absolute power in the NorthEast by continuing its violent method. Metaphorically, having clung on to the Tiger's tail for long, the people may be reluctant to release it for fear of being mauled. The longer the war continues the more difficult it will be for both parties to seek a political solution with or without external mediation. An intransigent attitude rejecting the option of a negotiated settlement of the conflict is suicidal for the entire Tamil community.
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ALthough on occasion the TULF has joined hands with the ex-militants, more often than not it has distanced
Vg itself from them.
EPDP of course has its own agenda with its 9 seats in parliament and makes no bones about publicly denouncing the LTTE. Their sights are of course set on what they believe is the emergence of a new Tamil leadership in which they will play a crucial role.

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THE EXODUS FROMJAFF
October/November 1995
The following is the text of the Special Report No. 6 dated 6 D. University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna):
"However, the greatest death and destruction, loss and grief, dislocation and relocation, are associated with the man made disasters that have occurred through warfare. The slaying of man by man in either direct combat or through sophisticated weaponry bring cruel mutilating injuries and sudden untimely violent deaths. Such deaths bring little opportunity for the healing process of physicians or the healing rituals of grief And, of course, warfare destroys the house and habitants, the livelihoods and even lives of many non-combatants......Mankinds capacity to create psychic trauma through war, to create horrifying forms of warfare, has increased exponentially."
- Prof. Raphael from Australia in “When Disaster Strikes.”
Introduction
When the government forces launched their drive towards Jaffna at the beginning of October, the people were once more caught between the callousness of the Government and the LTTE to whom the civilians mattered little. The Government, while using the rhetoric of “liberating the Tamils from the clutches of the LTTE, had little tangible conception of the welfare of the Tamil people. It had supposedly air-dropped leaflets which never reached them, asking people to seek shelter in schools and places of worship. People were also advised to keep away from the LTTE. All this was too vague. By the seemingly random manner in which the government forces were bombing and shelling, these instructions made no practical sense to the people. At times even schools and places of worship were hit. Against the backdrop of heavy shelling and aerial bombing, most of the people decided not to take a risk and sought refuge mostly around Jaffna town. In their experience, there was nothing liberating in the Government’s actions.
On the other hand, the LTTE, apart from making the claim that it would fight to the last man to prevent Jaffna from falling, took no responsibility for the civilian population that it claimed to represent. An observation about recent LTTE practice is that they did not, unlike in the mid-80s, use their own cadre as sentries to monitor enemy movements. In the past these young sentries used to be the first casualties in any offensive action. Then several militant groups operated in competition. The posting of sentries in those days also served the public relations function of giving the civilians a picture that they were living behind a border under the protection of the militants. This early warning role in recent times has been played, instead, by civilians who were not conscious of their role. In the event of firing noises now, LTTE forces rushing into an area would ask civilians for information on enemy movements. Once the army had signifi
cantly expanded its used mobile limited come a war without civilians had this ne Certain aspects of had however begur government forces eration this July. Hea the majority of the those who had remai ernment troops fart the previous phases propaganda had led troops had withdra Word got around tha been friendly orat le evidently annoying t of those who had 1 been questioned or i the LTTE allegedly ing informers to the The LTTE thoug moulded the people to view them as libe obedient to them. could live under go manage their affairs the LTTE's ideologi in October, the LTTE forced the civilians ernment troops adva heavy bombing anc minds of the people advance in October earlier. Many peop. behind in their area happened again in army from near pl and ran away. The kind at that time w The foregoing in nently in recent dis Hospital doctors on to take concerning 4 members of the L the hospital in 198 column came near. nade and fired sho eral casualties, the the hospital and esc and medical staff quent Indian army died from indiscrin dian Army causin toll of 800 - 500 of taking Jaffna in This time becau Jaffna ahead of th army, the death to 100, more than a bombing well out comparatively lo little to any initia Government. Th November, to giv be about 30 from 300, very conser

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mber 1995 by the
imeter in Jaffna and perations, it had beorders in which the
role. he LTTE's thinking to surface since the bortive military opy shelling had caused pulation to flee. But ed behind found gov;tter behaved than in f the war and LTTE them to expect. The yn by 19th July and army behaviour had st tolerable. This was the LTTE. A number emained behind had therwise harassed by inder suspicion of begovernment forces. it it had successfully or six years and more ators and be slavishly Che notion that they vernment control and struck at the roots of cal edifice. This time, encouraged and even to vacate as the govunced. Apart from the | shelling, also in the was the Indian Army's 1987, exactly 8 years e had then remained s. The LTTE then, as 1990, provoked the ices of civilian refuge worst incident of this is in Jaffna Hospital. >ident featured promiussions among Jaffna the decisions they had he hospital. Just about TE cadre had been in when the Indian army aving thrown one gres which claimed sevfour had run through ped. About 70 patients ied during the subsection. (Many civilians nate action by the Ina total civilian death or the entire operation 987) : the civilians had left advancing Sri Lankan for October was about lf of it owing to aerial le fighting Zones. The death toll owed very ve on the part of the civilian death toll for ough estimates, would mbing and shelling and ively, from causes di
rectly related to the forced exodus resulting in disease and debility. Most deaths taking place outside hospitals are unaccounted.)
On 26th October air force bombing claimed the lives of 10 refugees from Urumpirai camping at the edge of Jaffna's city limits in Ariyalai East. On the 28th began the decisive battle for Neervely, 6 miles up the Pt. Pedro Road from Jaffna. The battle was intense because, according to civilians, an LTTE counter-attack happened to have coincided with the army advance. Shelling by the army on the 29th morning fell at the edge of Jaffna's northern city limits. On that day about 42 civilians died because of aerial bombing in civilian areas outside town, far from the
combat zone. A further 4 died because of
shelling. Two shells fell in Gurunagar, inside city limits and facing the lagoon to the south. Although people were terrified by the noise, the city remained fairly safe. In the first phase, by the 5th of October, the government forces had brought Puttur under control. The LTTE launched a counter-thrust similar to that of 14th July 1995 in Allaveddy. This time's counter offensive by the LTTE ended in catastrophe with the latter losing more than 150 seasoned cadre. From what emerged from top ranking LTTE leaders, they had accepted the likelihood of losing Jaffna. A decision had been taken that if the army persisted in its advance the LTTE would vacate and revert to guerilla warfare centred about the Vanni (Wanni) jungles. Yet for civilian consumption the rhetoric of fighting the final battle' and pushing the army out of Jaffna was kept up!
We may remark at this point some reasons for the army's calling off the July advance. A common belief in the South attributes as the main reason the LTTE's thrust on 14th July which resulted in 50-100 army casualties. This did perhaps give the army the feeling that it had moved too far too fast. But based on information available to knowledgeable persons in Jaffna, the LTTE itself did not consider the 14th July thrust resulting in about 60 LTTE casualties a success. The army appears to have devised a drill by which an intruding party is trapped. LTTE sources consider this to have happened on 14th July. They also believed that the army had been unaware of having trapped the intruders due to a breakdown in communication at the centre, allowing most of the intruders to escape. The LTTE was not so lucky in October when they tried the same thing at Punnalai Kadduwan and lost about 150 fighters. >
The LTTE seems to have believed that the main reason for the army's calling off the July operation was the civilians’ fleeing (mostly because of heavy shelling) the area where the Government hoped to set up its civil administration. The way LTTE analysts read the Government's plans for the October advance following the initial moves, was that on reaching Kopay, the army would bring Chemmani (Navatkuli) bridge under their control. There was also speculation that another party would come from Pooneryn by sea and both together

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would block the Chemmani and railway bridges. This would have prevented the civilian population from moving out of Valikamam.
But this did not happen. Confusion in Government thinking made the lot of civilians far worse. There seemed to be no unity between the Government and the army, or within the army itself, on whether they wanted the civilians to stay or go. The Government for its part talked of restoring civil administration and accelerating reconstruction, but gave no clear instructions to the people. As barbaric (and barbarous) a means off communication as it was, when the army shelled certain areas, the people took it as a message to go. The army was happier when the civilians left as it made their work easier. When civilians inadvertent got 'caught', by the army, they were encouraged to flee.
By 30th October 200,000 or so refugees in the Valikamam division (the western sector of Jaffna peninsula including the city, separated from the rest of the peninsula, i.e. Thenmaratchi and Vadamaratchi, by two lagoons) had moved into Jaffna and other centres (Jaffna University, Jaffna College in Vaddukoddai and Uduvil Girls' School, among others). The refugees felt that by using available institutional connections and international NGOs to communicate with the authorities in Colombo, their security could be adequately looked after. They were determined to stay put and move into their homes once the army took control. In all, together with the population in Jaffna and suburbs,about 350,000 people were involved.
But following the LTTE announcement on 30th October and intimidation during the subsequent days, by 16th November the City of Jaffna for the first time in its 600 year history was almost empty. The trauma was extremely painful both mentally and physically. Why did the “Liberators’ do this?
It would often be mistaken to look for rational or justifiable reasons for a particular action of the LTTE's. In terms of its totalitarian aims, it has acquired an instinct for what developments are favourable and what are not. As an institution it has learnt through years of experience. It is quite capable of taking a precipitate decision with little or no forward planning, and then manoeuvring the developments to its advantage.
To begin with, having decided to quit Jaffna and revert to guerilla tactics, as in October 1987, it made no rational sense for the LTTE to turn the City of Jaffna into a final battle zone and bring enormous suffering and loss to the civilian population. For its brand of politics it is useful to turn Jaffna into a stage for the enactment of "martyrdom and a city supposedly destroyed by the enemy. The drama would be relished by Tamil nationalists abroad, irrespective of the cost to cadre and people.
If one were to look for reasons for the exodus order in the utterances of LTTE leaders and in past developments, it is perhaps not so much the imminent possibility of the Government's controlling the
area and setting up a that othered the LTTE by the LTTE after the of 1987 precipitating was rattled by the noti with the rival Tamil bled by force and terrc *traitors' in LTTE par the North-East Admini hands of the EPRLF scurrying into talks w the 'Sinhalese Goverr This time round, Tha: the LTTE's political v at Jaffna Hospital, ha emotion when he said the EPDP run the civ Jaffna'. Also notable tempt on the EPDP lea in Colombo in early C
The loss of Jaffna LTTE had lost cons sources and infrastru to maintain a sizeable continuing emphasis c some hint as to why ti build up a large refugi Vanni. It is partly an tute what it lost in J much more primitive
If we have not beer ourselves so far after all these years, we as now before it is too l nity. Our document based on the experien
The Exodus: Varying and Perceptions
On the evening of: loudspeakers announ "No one must take lightly. We are doing bravely with a demo tack us from several di respond likewise. Sin resist every inch again racism, you people Thenmaratchi and Val night.” LTTE men thi to house and ordered They were told, “Jaff become a battle Zone. Chemmani bridge at . not out by then, you and face the consequg Kandy Road was bloc people trying to leave decided not to leave to discuss plans with that owing to the pre the journey took him
There had evidently tions of the civilian received prior notice C made an early exit property. On the 30t different places were Some were told that t (Navatkuli Bridge) w twelve mid-night. In told that the army wi area to a rain of she fired into the area, W tified by the people

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n of sharing power roups it had disain 1986 (i.e., with ince). In late 1988, itration being in the had sent the LTTE th the arch-enemy, ment” in Colombo. nilchelvan, chief of ing, in his address d displayed strong “We will never let il administration in is the reckless atler Devanandas life ictober. lso meant that the derable public resture that helped it standing army. The n recruitment gives e LTTE is trying to ce population in the attempt to reconstiaffna, albeit under conditions.
moved to question what has happened Tamils should do so te for our commution, as always, is ces of the victims.
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30th October, LTTE ced in Jaffna town: his announcement battle intensely and nic force. It will atrections. We too will ce we are going to st a state drunk with must evacuate for iamarachi this same in went from house people to evacuate. na town would soon We are blowing up 4.00 a.m. If you are will have to remain nces.” By 6.30 p.m. ted by panic stricken on foot. A man who und went 300 yards another family said ss of the multitude, two hours.
been privileged secbopulation who had f the exodus and had with their moveable evening people in told different things. le Chemmani Bridge ould be blown up at Uduvil people were uld soon subject the ls. Four shells were nich were later idens LTTE shells. Peo
ple in Jaffna town were told that an army attack from Mandathivu is imminent.
Chemmani Bridge was never blown up as threatened. On the morning of that same day, the LTTE had made a proclamation of War-time Exigency' through loudspeakers. It was that night, after the exodus order, that the people found out what it meant.
Those in Jaffna who switched on to the LTTE's radio bulletin that night were astonished to discover that no reference was made to the exodus that had been ordered. In the days that followed, while doing everything to force civilians to leave Jaffna, the LTTE went on denying that it had ordered people to do so.
There had been a steady exodus of people from Jaffna fleeing the fighting and the bombing and shelling, owing to the fact that the Government had failed in its duty to give confidence to the civilians that tangible measures for their safety had been taken. What is worse, it was denying or greatly underplaying civilian casualties and suffering behind a mask of censorship. By its reprimand (and subsequent suspension) of the Government Agent of Jaffna, the Government was behaving as though it was treachery to talk about such matters - an ironical position for a Government that had staked much on openness, democracy, political accommodation and human rights.
On 3rd November the Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali issued the following statement: “Reports of the massive displacement of the civilian population in northern Sri Lanka are a source of deep concern to the Secretary General. It is evident that humanitarian assistance on a significant scale will be essential to minimise sufferling.
In the days that followed scores of foreign journalists came to this country to follow up the story. The Government too panicked as it came to be revealed that owing to excusable delays as well as some obstruction from the government and military machinery, there had been a significant shortfall in the food rations sent to civilians in Jaffna. It thus continued to prevent foreign journalists from going to the North. In addition to rebuffing the U.N. concern, the government (Ministry of Defence) also blocked relief workers, including doctors, from going into the refugee area. It appeared that the government wanted to hide the developing disaster from the rest of the world. Foreign journalists had therefore to be content talking to civilians coming from the North. Most civilians were afraid to talk. Nevertheless, the international media soon came to blame the LTTE for engineering a forced exodus, and thus pushing to extremes a humanitarian crisis already resulting from the military advance.
The truth however could not be denied where the people were concerned. The LTTE offered an oblique rationalisation in an appeal for recruitment issued on 8th November and published in the press in Killinochchi (i.e. Eelanadu) the following day. It read:
“In a single night along a narrow road
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brimming with water on either side, more than 5 lakhs of people made their exodus from Jaffna carrying only a few urgent requirements. This saga is truly one that causes unbelievable amazement. It was undertaken to escape a genocidal military onslaught. The soul of the nation was melted by the flow of this oceanic waves of humanity. There were expectant women, infants, mothers, the elderly, the sick and injured fighters. Despite the crush they came, sitting, standing, falling and crawlIng.
“However, through this agonising exodus, our people have given our struggle a miraculous political victory. They have revealed to the world the truth that our people cannot live, and do not wish to live, under Sinhalese military rule. Thus have they displayed their immense patriotic opposition to the Government. The Tigers salute the people for their racial pride...”
The only true claim here concerned the description of the suffering the people were subject to. This was made clear at the end of the same statement that was in effect an admission:
“Given this prospect of bombing, shelling and genocide of those who fall among Sinhalese forces, warring against Sinhalese forces with a large number of people in Valikamam was dangerous. It would then be as though we gave the enemy the excuse for genocide. Therefore considering the safety of the people and not to have any impediment that would deter us from hitting back at the enemy effectively, it became inevitable for us to order the people to move emphasis ours) to safer areas...We performed this historic duty with a sense of responsibility.”
But to audiences abroad, LTTE propaganda continued to maintain that the exodus was an act of volition on the part of the people. An LTTE front organisation, the International Federation of Tamils issued from a London suburb a statement attributed to the University of Jaffna and allegedly signed by two departmental heads of the Medical Faculty, a professor of Tamil and two others. The statement dated 17th November said:
“We from the University, left Jaffna on 30th October 1995 with hardly anything in our hands. Such was the shelling and the panic caused by the approaching army. The continuing monsoonal weather is also against us. We are without proper food, psychologically traumatised...Having striven for many years for the educational advancement of our people) today we have left everything to be one with the people. We had walked and cycled many miles in pouring rain on that memorable night of 30th October 1995...’
The story, however, as related by the people is something chilling, as we shall see. It also shows that the ordinary people kept up a sense of justice, decency and good sense despite years of fascist control. To the rulers and their elite partners the people never mattered. Sufering was constantly inflicted on them for military, political or propaganda advantage.
Prelude to the Ex
As the army advar fled, several old peopl were left behind. Du of 9th October, after 1 control of the Puttur a fired, which fell on th pital, housing several left behind. Nine inma eral people in Jaffna as having fired the sh the incident as a puni those who remained b{ Others opined that t meant to fall on neal considered a strong pc A few days earlier s shown army officers ist Mission and the charge had made an it to the effect: “We trus give us peace.” For sc denied the allegation shells, but later, acco tacitly accepted that it eral of these who had and later came into LT ject to some harsh qu dent along with the e gested an increasingly against those wanting trolled territory, despite ity to offer acceptable had been in the makin the LTTE began projec power and started coi ment of people. Thos who were displaced v took control in August fused permission by thi the Islands. With all th had about an essential Army, most of them, c rity, would have prefe their homes to being r since lived in and aro
There were other cc prompted the civilians expulsion order of 3 dread. Three months ( July, the LTTE had e spectacular military fai in Manal Aru ("Weli O hundred very young L fensive were mown dc mediately blamed the About two weeks befo exodus order, 29 or so executed in the Vanni LTTE's first reversese A school principal wɛ ecuted. All were claim of the SL Army. In th man who was execute claimed that the man’s that he sometimes dr scolded the LTTE. T plated remaining behi these executions as ar
It was mentioned ea took serious note ol counter-attack in Punt ing to a radical chang was little military acti thereafter. On 17th

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ced and the people and many animals ing the early hours le army was in firm ea, some shells were Puttur mission hosif the old who were es were killed. Sevdentified the LTTE ells and interpreted hment meted out to hind SL Army lines. he shells had been by Puttur junction, int of the SL Army. ate television had isiting the Methodmedical officer in nocuous Statement E God and God will me time the LTTE hat it had fired the rding to witnesses, had done so. Sevtalked to the army TE areas were subestioning. The incivents of July, sughardening attitude o live in army con: the LTTE's inabil: alternatives. This g from 1990 when :ting itself as a state trolling the movee from the Islands when the SL Army 1990 had been ree LTTE to return to le reservations they ly alien Sri Lankan lespite their insecurred going back to fugees. They have und Jaffna. insiderations which to treat the LTTE's Oth October with arlier at the end of xperienced its first ure in recent times ra”). More than two "TE cadre on an ofwn. The LTTE imailure on traitors’. e the October 30th illeged traitors were area following the arlier in the month. s among those exed to be informers : case of an elderly , his close relatives only fault had been nk too much and ose who contemld army lines took other warning. lier that the LTTE the failure of its alaikadduwan leadof strategy. There ity for a few days Dctober the army
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launched “Operation Riveresa (sunshine) and resumed its advance towards Jaffna. Soon after the fall of Neerveli, the LTTE began shifting its personnel, stores, equipment and documents out of Jaffna. This further confirms that the LTTE had already decided to quit Jaffna if the army persisted in its advance. At this point, however, the possibility that the LTTE may ask the entire population to quit Jaffna was not taken seriously. The City of Jaffna, unlike Moolai or Puttur, was crucial to civilian life in the area. Where else could these hundreds of thousands of people be provided with schools, a university, banks, shelter, a regional hospital and administrative infrastructure?
As the LTTE began shifting its possessions, there was alarm. The camps with refugees from the Islands and Valikamam North also began to be shifted out to Thenmaratchi and Killinochchi. The dominant question in the minds of people was, “What is to become of us?” On the one hand the LTTE was evasive. Had it told the people of its intentions, there could have been an orderly exodus. The LTTE instead repeated that it would fight to keep the army out, and, even more emphatically, pressed the people to make their contributions to the LTTE's National Defense Fund. In 1990 the LTTE had launched its liberation tax to which each family had to contribute Rs 10,000 or 2 sovereigns of gold. Even the destitute had to pay this once and for all, which was explained as buying shares in the future state of Eelam. It took more than two years of pressure, harassment and even selective detention to force even those without money to borrow and pay up.
The second collection was started after the army's July operation. This time the existing refugees were exempt. But others were charged varying amounts. Some businessmen were charged several lakhs. Those with family members abroad were taxed according to the number and country, irrespective of access to their money, for example, about Rs. 45,000 for a son in Switzerland. Since those living in Jaffna were increasingly poorer and the sums higher, the collection was very slow. The increased harshness of collection methods used left even LTTE supporters disturbed. Four or five persons are known to have died of heart attacks during negotiations for the amounts to be paid. There were several scenes such as of a lady with a child falling on her knees and pleading. Amounts which could not be found were demanded with a note of menace. While the army moved nearer, collection meetings were frequently organised where some direct objections were raised: “You are going to take our money and run away”. This was strongly denied, and the people were urged to somehow find the money.
In spite of all this emphasis on collection and squeezing out the last cent as it were, as a sacred duty the people owed the LTTE, the LTTE acknowledged no reciprocal obligation. The shortfall in government food supplies to the Jaffna peninsula was being voiced abroad as an example of the Government's genocidal intentions. In

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the meantime the LTTE, in view of its monopoly over purchase and distribution, had some stocks of rice in Killinochchi. When it came to feeding the people, it fell to the Government Agent of Jaffna to request money from the Government in Colombo for funds to purchase rice from the LTTE for distribution in Jaffna. The LTTE did little to hide the fact that the GA had to function as its stooge.
After bombing or shelling several refugees left Jaffna for Thenmaratchi, but most refugees and residents stayed put. In the city the LTTE made announcements reminding people about the National Defence Fund, saying further that collection offices would be open. By this time a large number of people had gathered in churches, temples, schools and particularly within the ICRC protected Jaffna hospital ΖΟΥΕ, -
The City of Jaffna: After 30th October's Exodus Announcement
Apart from the residents, the city was one of refugees. Every public building or institution was occupied by refugees. The management had once more opened Nallur Kandasamy Kovil premises to the refugees as it had in 1987. The church authorities in Jaffna and Vaddukkoddai had given information about refugees in their institutions to leaders or representatives in Colombo, to be conveyed to the presidential secretariat. The presence of the ICRC was also considerably reassuring.
The Commercial Bank opposite the hospital for example had exhausted its stocks of cash giving one and a half months' advance to its employees and making the balance available to the hospital. Moreover about 60 persons connected with the bank stocked provisions for the month and lived on the premises.
Likewise others chose safe places to stay and made arrangements compatible with their security and private obligations. Many for example went daily to their homes in places outside the conflict zone such as Manipay and Uduvil to feed their animals or tend their gardens. The common understanding was that once the SL Army took over, they would return to their homes. It was in many ways the most sensible decision under the circumstances. It was also implicit in all these arrangements that the people expected nothing positive from the LTTE. While the Government and its forces were totally alien to them, there was some hope that they could be pressurised to show some consideration towards civilian safety. They had also learnt some lessons on survival from past military onslaughts.
These preparations were no doubt objectionable to the LTTE. For six years and more the LTTE had cleansed the society of individuals who showed the least signs of independence and had done everything to control their thoughts and actions. These preparations showed that the people had a collective mind of their own, a sense of wanting to preserve something, a way of life or a civilisation, that went beyond their individual interests and lifespan. Moreo
ver faced with a crisis two hostile forces nei countable to them, ar leaders they could ti actions showed an so-called sole legitir could not stomach. It judgement on the LT ership found itself obl if only to postpone th On the 30th Octob anonymous, yet high rifying, order for the be no doubt about v message. But also sig mediate gut reaction nouncement of the al minent approach whi on past experience.
The LTTE announ people 4 hours to lea panic that the people take with them. Sucl ing of the people that 1 birth and educational erty deeds, but took gi with them their LT cards and receipts of tional Defence Fun Chemimani Roads wi with people that mc possible. It was more Some seeing the state felt demoralised and Had they got on to the been able to move r backwards.
The quarter mille f to Nayanmarkadu alor Several children eith in the crush and seve attempted the journey way or died of exhal timonies are difficult ample, according to V died in the crush nea who they were or fro. not known. Likewise behind and sitting all down apparently lifel mon scenes. For da travelling along the testified to foul sme ting carcasses and h
In Vaddukkoddai, of refugees were a LTTE exploded sor College library to pe They were asked to People left on bullo on foot. At Uduvil C was exploded in the flow of humanity c and more.
A family of stror waited two days in intending to stay of helpful to the LTTE cadre, Two days af given, other unkn threatened them. Th who did not leave be considered traito Sri Lankan Army, accordingly. This, execution. The fam

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nd caught between cr of which was acwith no individual it, their instinctive dependence their te representatives” was also a powerful E. The LTTE leaded to do something, day of reckoning. r evening came the organised and terxodus. There could ho was behind the ificant was the imof panic to the anny's supposedly imin evoked fear based
tment had given the 'e. So great was the id not know what to was the conditionmey often forgottheir xertificates and propat care to take along TE supplied family payment to its Nad. The Kandy and :re so much packed vement was hardly over raining heavily. of people on the road ecided to turn back. road they would have either forwards nor
rom Muthiraisanthai he took about 4 hours. er died or were lost ral of the elderly who just gave up on the Istion. Individual testo come by. For exitnesses two children Nayanmarkadu. But n where they came is with weary elders left ong the road or lying ess. These were comys thereafter people route of the exodus Ils coming from rot
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where a large number Jaffna College, the e grenades near the suade people to quit. leave by 7.30 p.m. k carts, bicycles and rls' School a grenade school grounds. The ntinued for two days
LTTE sympathisers Jaffna nursing home They had been very particularly to injured r the order was first wn cadre came and y were told that those fore 4.00 a.m. would and informers to the d would be punished f carried out, meant y set off on foot. The
roads were still crowded.
Once out of the town limits, in Chem mani, two miles of the road ran through paddy fields and an abandoned saltern on either side of the road, filled with rain water. The LTTE ordered the people to leave the road and walk through the flood water so as to leave the road free for LTTE vehicles. People continued their journey walking through water with their bags on their heads and children on their shoulders. The water was in places knee deep and sometimes neck deep.
Despite years of imposed subservience, at times the people ran out of patience. In several places, the people refused to obey the LTTE police and get off the road into the water. If one civilian started a fight with the LTTE police, the others joined in spontaneously with little thought of the consequences. Once a policeman fell on the ground and the crowd walked over him. Other policemen then rushed in to drag their fallen comrade from under the feet of the moving crowd. On another occasion a police-woman was bodily thrown into the flood. The short journey to Chavakacheri took 20 hours.
An 11 year old who came with a group from north of Navaly described his experience: “I travelled in a bullock-cart. My father walked through the flood. We occasionally fought with policemen. They hammered us and we hammered them back. Once they fired above our heads and someone was injured.”
There had been much talk among the people of drowning. One group is said to have stepped into a hole hidden by rain water. Some are said to have drowned while walking through the lagoon because of the bursting crowd at Chemmani (Navatkuli) Bridge. Putting together various accounts, at least 11 people died during the exodus on the night of 30th October, of whom 3 were children and others mostly elderly. During that period the air force aimed bombs at Chemmani Bridge in which two civilians were killed.
Having arrived in Chavakacheri at the height of the rainy season, people had to contend with the near absence of food or shelter. Some who had arrived before the forced exodus considered themselves lucky sharing houses with as many as 70 people. Butfirewood was scarce and fires were extremely difficult to light. Newer arrivals had to pay Rs.10 or more for a thatched coconut leaf in a very unsatisfactory effort to keep away the rain. Some of them were young mothers carrying infants. Others found standing room under the eaves of houses, with two feet between the outer wall and the rain falling over the edge of the roof. While attending to a call of nature, the neighbour was asked to keep the place like keeping a seat in a crowded train. It was so difficult to find drinking water that people held their umbrellas in the rain and drank the water flowing over its edges.
Throughout the early weeks of this ordeal, as a number of witnesses testified, the LTTE offered no help at all with either relief or organisation. They only provided a free boat service for those wanting to

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cross Jaffna lagoon into the Vanni. LTTE vehicles went up and down the Chavakacheri -Jaffna road, passing drenched women holding on to infants and children under trees, but offering no help.
At Chavakacheri queues for a cup of plain-tea were about two hours long, while queues for bread, continually baked at a few bakeries, were about 5 hours long. A person was allowed only a pound loaf. The scarcity of food was such that a senior member of a family had to get up about 3.00 A.M. after sleeping late and join a bread queue 2 miles long. Later tokens were issued where a person would first queue up for a token in the morning, and later spend 2 hours in a bread queue. Matters were made worse by the non-availability of cash. The banks too were not functioning. Most people were thus in very desperate straits.
There was a good deal of suppressed anger among the people over what had been inflicted on them. It often burst out in a spontaneous unorganised manner. In one of those long bread queues in Chavakacheri one man blew up: “We are being treated as slaves. If this is their behaviour now, how would it be when we get Eelam?” Unlike in other times this was not greeted by others in fearful silence or with words of caution. But others joined in with the kind of sarcasm for which Jaffna is renowned. One shouted back, “Only those with knowledge must speak. Others must shut up.” Another said, "Shut up or these fellows will land you one on the forehead.” Someone else added, “Watch it, they would stuff a frog down your throat.” As this exchange was going on, the police arrived and ordered the first speaker to get into their vehicle. The man was vocal in his refusal. Finally he was dragged inside and the vehicle drove away.
During the course of these events, LTTE cadre needing medical care were removed from Jaffna. They, together with other patients from Jaffna hospital and others newly needing medical care, had all to be accommodated in the much smaller Chavakacheri Base hospital. The beds were reserved for LTTE patients and others had to take the floor. Two senior LTTE men were heard sharing a joke: “Give two months and the people would forget all this’.
Developments in Jaffna
Even after the first phase of the exodus there were a large number of people in Jaffna who were determined to remain. An important consideration for them was the presence of the ICRC and the Jaffna hospital safety zone it controlled. In order to break this, the LTTE's strategy was to first apply pressure on the medical staff to move Jaffna hospital. And, when the news of the exodus order reached Jaffna hospital, pandemonium broke loose. The surgical team had a heavy schedule and was operating late. When they heard about the order, they walked out and sat down in the lounge, paralysed by shock. The LTTE had spread the word that the SL army was coming into the city from Mandativu, and that all the
doctors had fled. A li tients, medical staff ar. tors had fled the hosp ing crowds choking K cases, the patients ther tives pulled out cathe nected to the body at (Some of them w Chavakacheri hospital, happened to the rest guesswork.) In the int Jaffna, one patient di as the nurses had fled. at Jaffna hospital and continued to remain a Nearly all LTTE injul the LTTE medical tea In the next few days tinued in the hospital, LTTE men came the individual doctors for exodus order on the 3 out that the loudspeake not claimed that it wal Thamilchelvan, the l
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hospital doctors abou was clear that he was els. At one level, the was very reassuring – t hospital for some mor the position that the I the ICRC zone and the ing it. They would n the closure of Jaffna other level, there were ing that they would di One was his referenc the rival Tamil group administration in Jaffi other was a strongly s would never let go of eration from under meant that no family prospective recruits) v live outside the contri also said that if either Zone agreement, whicl notice, there would b the outside world the doctors interpreted T as giving in effect 72. closure of Jaffna hos ticipated event had be air. The doctors raise gued back. He was tol revert back to gueril day you hope to com place, and then the hc essary. Is it not theref preserve this hospita interview Thamilche ing and seemed to b tive. Finally, he told the ICRC tells you.” The doctors were r that they had Thamilchelvan had ICRC. The following ture was reversed, w the ICRC was consid they would have to f a few concerned doc ICRC. From what 1 peared that Thamilch the ICRC that everyo

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ge number of pa| a few junior docal to join the millndy Road. In many selves or their relaers and tubes cond left the hospital. ere admitted to days later, but what of the patients is insive Care Unit at d of cardiac arrest But the senior staff core of the others ld work as a team. 2d were cleared by
. asuncertainty coneveral high-ranking e. When asked by clarification of the 0th, it was pointed announcement had the LTTE's. eader of the LTTE's 2d a meeting of the E 3rd November. It talking at two levdiplomatic level, he he LTTE needed the days. He reiterated TTE would respect agreement concernever, he said, force hospital. But, at the undertones suggesto the very opposite. e to never allowing EPDP to run a civil na cited earlier. Antated aim that “they their younger gen:heir wings. This with children (i.e would be allowed to ol of the LTTE. He side broke the ICRC required 72 hours e no safe access to eafter. Some of the hamilchelvan's talk hours notice for the pital, since this anan very much in the d questions and ard, “You are going to a warfare. But one e back and run this spital would be necbre better for you to ?” Throughout the van remained smill> patient and attenhem, “Do whatever
lieved. They thought won their case. lso been to see the day, the whole picnen they heard that iring pulling out and low. The same day, ors went to see the ley gathered it aplvan had persuaded e in Jaffna was leav
ing, so that there would be no reason for the ICRC to remain. One of the doctors asked the ICRC poignantly, “There are a hundred thousand people left in Jaffna. Are
you going to leave them all and go away?”
The ICRC representative responded with some alarm, “One hundred thousand"? Or, do you mean one thousand?” The doctor replied, “One hundred thousand is correct.” He explained the locations of the refugees in Valikamam, including those out of town, and said that nearly all of them intended staying. It was from this conversation that the doctors concluded that Thamilchelvan had persuaded the ICRC that all the people were quitting.
The ICRC representative then explained that from what he had been told, the LTTE intended to mine all the access routes to their zone, in which event they would all be trapped. He then said sadly, “I might personally like to remain. But the head office in Geneva would probably order us to move.” The doctors were crestfallen.
From the following day the ICRC prepared for the eventuality of moving out. The doctors were consulted about their preferences and lists were made of those who would work in Chavakacheri and Pt. Pedro. The Jaffna hospital zone had been patrolled by the ICRC and any LTTE cadre carrying arms within this Zone was scolded and asked to move out. But after the LTTE had ordered the exodus, armed cadre were often seen in the safety zone. The ICRC told the doctors to be ready to move out on foot at short notice, adding to the alarm among civilians.
On 1st November the hospital had several hundred patients and staff. This number kept declining as even some serious patients quit. The talk got around the hospital that the LTTE was placing its cannon on the Zonal boundary to fire at the army across the lagoon at Mandaitivu. Firing noises were also regularly heard within the hospital zone. The LTTE had ordered the shops in Jaffna to close. Although those in Jaffna had provisions, they had to cycle to Thenmaratchi for fruits and vegetables. The LTTE's attitude towards the civilians too was becoming openly intimidatory. A large number of refugees were at John Bosco school next to the ICRC at the Temple Road-Rakka Roadjunction. The LTTE fired what are believed to have been fake shells at this camp. Shells were also fired near Ariyakulam and Pathirakali Amman temple, but no casualties were reported. The LTTE claimed that the shells were fired by the SL Army. But from the sound the people were certain that it was the LTTE. Near Kanthasamy Kovil some refugees wee beaten by masked men. Sometimes masked persons went into private premises, pulled out knives, helped themselves to young coconuts and behaved in an intimidatory manner. About 2nd November the last of the refugees were forced out of the Medical Faculty of the University of Jaffna.
Last Scenes
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so in the expectation that the SL Army would move in quickly. But this did not happen and things were comparatively quiet for a few days in early November.
These developments led to dissension among the civilians. Some felt it was better to leave soon while they could remove some of their moveable property, rather than wait for the last minute and lose everything if the LTTE chased them out. Once more the exodus picked up. Persons who had left Jaffna were prevented from returning by police sentries manning Navatkuli. Those coming to collect their things were given a day-pass until 4.00 p.m. Overstaying was an offence. The road to Chavakacheri was regularly crowded with people removing their things. Some doctors visiting the bank observed, “The big guys have created an atmosphere of panic, The people are now moving”.
LTTE cadre now sought out houses where the owners were still in occupation and set about targeting them for intimidation. Sometimes gun positions were mounted close by or rockets were fired. Those walking the roads were sometimes deliberately given a fright when a mortar shell landed close enough. A house was sometimes surrounded and the inmates asked to come out. They were told, “The army is coming to Jaffna because of Tamil traitors. We have received information that there is a traitor in this house. We will conduct a full search. Why would people want to remain in Jaffna when the army takes over, unless they are traitors?” Sometimes the householder had the presence of mind to throw back at the LTTE its pretence of legality, by insisting that the house could not be searched unless they came with a warrant from Thamilchelvan. Such efforts were of no avail. Search meant that contents of bags were spilt out and even women’s items gone through one by one.
During early November there were periods of little discernible activity on the side of the Government forces. They were strangely silent. This was not what the LTTE wanted since it wanted the civilians to leave. The LTTE could be heard repeatedly firing into army controlled territory in a bid to provoke them, but with no response.
By 11th November harassment and sounds of LTTE firing inside town as well as noise from the intensity of fighting outside town reached a point where most remaining residents left their homes and went to schools and churches. During the early hours of 12th November the LTTE made a final bid to drive away the remaining civilians from town. About 2.00 a.m. the LTTE broke down the gates of Chudikuli Girls’ College and barged in noisily. The refugees were ordered to assemble. Militant cadre barged into class rooms and dragged out sleeping refugees with no respect for age or sex. An infirm lady who was semi-blind was grabbed by the wrist and pulled off her bed, while her daughter screamed in protest.
Once assembled, following the usual harangue, the refugees were asked, “Those who want to remain when the SL Army comes in, raise your hands and give your
names and address protested. After sur persed to other chu to bring lorries to tr ing. (From the time 1 ing its things, it ha lorries belonging Co-operative Societ accepted the LTTE with resignation. On to go. We have little resistance appears to the Ceylon Pentecc reported that in a m an electrical engine down and dragged b thereby causing bru pastor of the Kandy have been hit on the a fracture or a bad sp swelling.
The principal of C lege was a cautious | confrontation with th her reservations. The the school at 2.00 a. She told them, “I at open and am going.
A number of clerg assembled in a chui them to leave and th LTTE shot dead tw church and warned th this may become th other places, those w shots fired into the resulting in pebbles f them.
Among those mos who had built themse rule and had develo in its continuance. All ble burst and their wo was true of some of professionals, prof manufacturers. They intensely as they had For all their flattery, cated plainly that the ing. Some even said Army was better thar A doctor had na Welikade prison mas He had lived in Jaff of a leading private b LTTE had been read He had a number of home. In asking him ence to him, the LTT The doctor indignantl his wife and daught bicycles and moved c As the first two v wore on, the LTTE things in the houses ( valuable - furnitur household items an boys worked like te houses in about two nothing to the organi documents and photo generations, were lef for the wind, the rai
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s.” No one spoke or ise the refugees disches. The LTTE was nsport those remaine LTTE started movi commandeered all to Multi-Purpose s.) Some clergymen move to shift them said, “They want us choice.” Some strong have been put up by stal Mission. It was clee, a leading elder, ar, had been pushed f his feet into a lorry, ses to his body. The Road church is said to shoulder resulting in ain that caused much
hundikuli Girls” Colady who had avoided e LTTE, but had kept LTTE breaking into n, was the last straw. n leaving everything Do what you like.” y were among those ch. The LTTE asked e clergy refused. The to dogs outside the ose in the church that eir fate too. In some ho refused to go had ground by their feet, lying up and injuring
t bitter were persons lves up under LTTE ped a vested interest of a sudden the bubrld had emptied. This the church leaders, essors, traders and cursed the LTTE as boosted it in the past. the LTTE now indiy counted for noththat the Sri Lankan
the LTTE. rowly escaped the sacre in July 1983. la, was the manager oys’ college, and the ly accessible to him. animals and birds at to quit, out of deferE offered him a car. turned it down. He, r mounted on three ut of Jaffna. seeks of November got about removing f what they regarded , electrical items, roofing. Teams of mites to gobble up hours. What meant ation, namely books, graphs collected over abandoned in heaps and the termites. lent belonging to the cluding microscopes pparatus were carted
away to Palai and dumped in an open field which has been christened “The Open University. The Jaffna Hospital equipment and much of its asbestos roofing was also removed. Its supply of fuel and drugs too was carried away. The scene at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jaffna in Thinnevely about 12th November, left memories even more painful because of contrasting impressions. The Faculty had been completely ransacked and turned into a fortress and a nerve-centre for the final defence of Thinnevely. There were trenches across the roads in the locality to serve as tank traps. Sandbags were evident everywhere. Narrow trenches led to the boundary wall to accommodate defensive positions made up of stacked sandbags. There were also gun positions all over,
These first impressions took the minds of the visitors through the long and laborious years through which the institution was built by dedicated souls, some of whom are, thankfully, at rest. Those long hours of committee meetings, consultations with architects and contractors, trips abroad for recruitment and canvassing of staff and materials, hassles with the Government for funds and permission to import equipment - all this was to disappear in the twinkling of an eye, in a brief and futile military encounter. In other countries at war, armies kept away from monuments to the heritage of the people, and even as the enemy advanced, dedicated people remained in those institutions to protect them. Here in the name of liberation, the heritage of the people and of future generations was being sacrificed for transient military use.
The second impression was in sharp contrast to the first. The place was full of young LTTE cadre - boys about 16 or 17. Several of them were playing badminton. Others were cleaning themselves after a day’s work, applying soap and bathing in leisurely fashion. The war seemed far away from these young boys. Did they realise that at this time the next day a number of them would be corpses or would be lying in hospital with their limbs blown off? How did they become caught up in this monstrous fate?
The experience was most painful for those with dependents who could not be moved. From many parts of Valikamam there were reports of elders heard screaming as those younger left them in their homes and joined the exodus. Several of those about to quit Jaffna on 13th November looked up their animals for what was probably to be the last time. Although the fighting and sounds of shelling were heavy, the SLArmy was careful not to shell Jaffna town. Cows about to calve and gazing helplessly had to be left to fend for themselves. Some forced to leave behind their dogs, walked miles to leathem in familiar surroundings. On that day the sound of shelling could be heard loudest in the northern precincts of Jaffna, Buildings were vibrating as though there was a giant earthquake. The dogs left behind were transfixed by fear or were running aimlessly only to find that one place was no better than the other,

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In most parts of Jaffna and surroundings there was an unbearable stench coming from animals starved to death and rotting on the roads. Those dogs that were alive, filled the air with their constant howling for their masters (themselves wailing) and because of the stench of death.
Society had become apathetic about very young children being tricked or dragooned into serving the LTTE leadership. Those close to the children cried in their homes. But otherwise there was little noise. Bishops, professors and religious gurus had talked and behaved as though this was the normal order of things. It was all sanitised. Yet, the terrified howls of creatures being deserted, against the continuous blasting
of artillery shells, w wrenched the heart a recurring pain. The e) mind the lines of Wil
A dog starv'd Predicts A Horse mis Calls to Heave Each outcry A fibre from t
To those receding f cries of agony seem curses to be borne by
The last evacuees Passing Jaffna's desert
FLAGS OVERJAFFNA: 05/12/95
by Prof. Kopan Mahadeva Today, I saw a few flags in single-file fluttering in the
Wind
Flags over Jaffna, the severed face of the Pearly island; Flags of a power faithwise foreign to the folks of Jaffna, Fluttering in the faltering winds of the Indian Ocean.
1 saw the flags flying, I saw them fluttering. I saw them
On the SCreen. I did.
They reflected a ferocious red, with faintly grinning
yellow line in parts,
And stood a lion in the centre of each, baring teeth and
brandishing a sword.
They were flags belonging to the State's armoury of my
old Pearly island,
The Pearly Island where I was born, grew up and left
behind my youth.
It is a State which has so far failed to treat all its varied
Citizens alike,
The State dominated manipulatively by the people of a
linguistic mass,
The State dominated unduly by distorted followers of a
glorious faith,
Oppressing the other so-called races of the other
language and faiths,
in a so-called democracy, hoodwinking the entire
World with words.
We are a multi-lingual, multi-cultural, multi-religious,
plural Society,
TAMIL CONCERN
Tamil Concern' is a new group organised by concerned Tamil Citizens in the U.K. Its aim is to meet the much-felt need for an organisation that will get things done, not simply by raising money but by organising and coordinating self-help and mutual asistance among both Tamils in Sri Lanka and Tamils displaced to other countries in the world.
Short Term Objectives
In the short term our aim must be to provide all possible aid to cope with the massive humanitarian disaster taking place in Sri Lanka. Over half a million refugees are displaced into camps in the worst calamity of its kind since Rwanda. There is no im
mediate end in sig nor is it foreseeal military operations what will be left infrastructure whe
Long Term
Our aim is also
Tamils displaced t and other countrie these are in despe displaced countryr many still face pe tion, fear, uncerta ness. Our aim is to sary assistance to Tamils in the U.K tries to improve th assistance and
projects under pre and Training Clu Bureau, Business

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as something that d pierced it with a perience recalled to iam Blake:
it his Masters Gate he ruin of the State. as 'd upon the Road for Human blood. of the hunted Hare le Brain does tear.
om the scene, these 'd to translate into the Tigers.
boarded the lorries. :d suburbs, and then
the last habitations marked by fences, coconut trees and a broad stretch of Kandy Road, the travellers emerged into open space, the flooded fields of Ariyalai East on either side. Beneath the lowering sky, the road stretched out towards the Bo-tree junction, one and a half miles away, and beyond it over the dull blue waters of the lagoon and then the tree-lined horizon marking Navatkuli. It was a scene of desolation where the hands that channelled the waters and tended the fields were all fled. Only the winter birds whose yearly peregrinations had pre-dated mankind’s labours were there. The evacuees spontaneously broke down crying. -
(Continued in next issue)
Their present leader says. We accept that racial oppression was practised
By all past governments and administrations and
political rulers, true,
Their leader says. We will now treat the minorities
equally, just like us,
Their leader says, but after crushing their armed struggle and its leader'.
But, will she ever be fair? Where do we go from here?. What do we do? Will she be just to the people of Northern Eelam and its nerve-head Jafna? Will she dismantle her powers of a dictatorial president, as she promised? Will she reform the Pearly island's ill constitution? Will She? Will She? Will the people of my ancestral nation and other ethnic groups survive? lf our struggle was based on genuine grievance against misrule, as it was, lf it is true that we live today in a civilised 20th Century World, as we do, lf teachings of the faiths practised in the Pearly island are adhered to, if its leader is really a leader worth her above-said words, and if she's true, if losing of battles are for finally winning the big wars of justice and peace, Then, let those flags fly for some days till Jaffna's flag
is soon hoisted instead.
it for their plight, ble how long the will continue or if our homeland's n they finish.
Objectives
io better the lot of the U.K., Europe s. Though none of rate straits as our men in Sri Lanka, verty, discriminanty and hopelessprovide the necesenable our fellow ... and other couneir lot, by mutual self-help. Among paration are a Job , Careers Advice
Start-Up Advice
Unit, an Information Network using both the Internet and other media
Our aim is to facilitate the creation of a mutually supportive community which can prosper abroad and therefore be able to assist less fortunate people in the Tamil community both in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. History teaches us that refugee groups who stick together and assist each other prosper where divided groups may remain in poverty. The example of the Ugandan Asians is a positive one. In the harsh world of 1990s Europe, it is more than ever necessary for our people to assist each other.
We urge our fellow Tamils who are willing to give time and advice to write to: Tamil Concern, 54A Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 7PD; R. Ganeshalingam, Croydon.

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Capture of Jaffna - Who
by D.Sivaram, Colombo
How will the Chnadrika government handle the problem in the Northeast of the island politically and militarily in 1996
Let us examine the military situation first. Following the fall of the Jaffna town and the whole of the Valligamam division of the peninsula coming under government control - albeit with negligible number of civilians living there - the government is saddled with the cumbersome and expensive task of maintaining a very large and unprecedented number of troops in the peninsula. This will undoubtedly be one of the central concerns of the military hierarchy in the months to come.
When the government launched the Jaffna operation in July 1995, it did not have a supply system which was adequate to meet the challenge of maintaining all its required forces in Jaffna. In fact after the LTTE shot down Sri Lankan airforce planes over the northern skies, the supply situation in the Elephant Pass camp and the Pooneryn camp was quite precarious. It was so bad that some analysts in Colombo were worried that the LTTE could make use of the situation to completely cut off through a limited operation the sea access to both camps and then prevent with the aid of its anti-aircraft units any supply by air from reaching the troops inside the two bases.
The fear was to some extent justified and substantiated by the claim made by the LTTE it its official publication, 'Viduthalai Pulikal that they were in a position to soon cut off the army in Jaffna from all its sources of supply from the south and thereby make Jaffna the Dhien Bhein Phu of the Sri Lankan military.
Furthermore, the actions by the Tigers since the beginning of Eelam War III made it amply clear that they were going for the jugular as it were by stepping up and concentrating their attacks on the Navy's operations in the eastern maritime zone, which remains the vital and indispensable sea-link to the government's positions in the north. These Tiger attacks resulted in the loss of several Navy vessels.
It is apparent now that the Tigers underestimated the government’s capacity to keep its bases in the north well supplied and to transport the large number of additional troops and military hardware required for the Jaffna offensive, despite the substantial pressure the Tigers brought to bear on the military's sea supplies through the eastern maritime Zone.
The government in this context either gambled in undertaking the massive operation in Jaffna in the full knowledge of the LTTE's intention to cut off supplies, or it had reliable intelligence the LTTE did not possess the capacity to critically cripple the military’s supply system to the North. Compared to the many military op
erations undertake north, the recently c. sive must be regarc cess. However, the confronted with the consolidating its log theatre of operations the matter, then it ca for long in view oft supply lines to its su during and before of The Tigers claim ti navy vessels on 2 O “on 17.10.95 special Tigers infiltrated the and destroyed three to cut off supplies to Although the LTTE
taking these two ope
ously pay off at that gainsaying the fact t logistical scenario is 1 the government.
The government's be stated as : there a in Jaffna than what a past attempted to di mense needs of thes plied only air or sea, tial for this was not manner, enhanced by the commencement ( last year, howeverth the military in the a War III have been u. fore there is a very disequilibrium in the The military stra seem to be generally mount this problem. opening a land suppl sula. Such a route wol it is established, trem the cost of keeping th supplied; it would a the transfer of men ernment positions in recalled that, during talks between the g LTTE, the Tigers ref ernment proposal to c Elephant Pass on the in that base could o lorries passing throl objective the army h road between Vavuni under its control aga Incidentally, some tary strategists sugge the Colombo press have pickets at very each other all the w Jaffna on the trunk expand on this rathe ous proposal apart fr luminating manifesta cern in the Sri Lank

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n previously in the mpleted Jaffna offened as a relative sucgovernment is today ask of expanding and istics in the northern If it had gambled in nnot count on its luck he damage done to its ply lines to the north peration Riviresa. latthey destroyed two ctober 1995 and that units of the Black Sea Trincomalee harbour navy vessels in order operation Riviresa’. s objective in underrations did not obvijuncture, there is no hat the post Riviresa lot a pleasant one for
present problem can re vastly more troops ny government in the ploy there, the ime troops can be supthe military's potent, in any significant the government since of hostilities in April e losses sustained by ir and sea in Eelam nprecedented; theresensitive military north today.
tegists in Colombo greed on how to surThey have argued for y route to the peninld, from the moment 2ndously bring down e troops in the north lso greatly facilitate und material to govhe north. (It may be he currency of peace overnment and the ised to accept a govpen the road through round that the troops fload supplies from gh) To achieve this s to bring the trunk 'a and Elephant Pass
. naive amateur milied sometime ago in at the army should short distances from y from Vavuniya to oad One need not foolish and dangerm seeing it as an ilon of a central conn military establish
ment, though pathetically and deplorably refracted by the zealous armchair strategist’s attempt to understand the science of Clausewitz.
The army obviously hopes to establish large camps at strategic points along this trunk road first and then ensure movement by guarding large convoys on particular days by deploying foot patrols, pickets etc., on the stretches of roads between the camps. Though such convoys could be exposed to attack from time to time, it seems to be the belief in some quarters that over time the situation can be brought under control because the LTTE would find it difficult to disperse its precious manpower by frequently engaging in ambush all along the trunk road rather than concentrating their military resources on the mainstay or very basis of the supply convoys - the camps.
If this line of thinking were to be accepted ultimately, then the army will set about establishing large brigade-size bases at Omanthai, Puliyankulam junction (which also controls access to Mullaitivu through Nedunkerny), Kanakarayankulam, Kokkavil or Murukandy, Kilinochchi including the vital Paranthan junction in addition to battalion-size camps between bases.
Now the manpower required by the army to undertake this task with some measure of confidence is great. At least six brigades have to be raised for this purpose. It has become quite apparent that recruitment to the army on a voluntary basis has reached its level and cannot be expected at all to substantially increase overnight in the Sinhala areas to meet the current need occasioned by a logistics crisis faced by the army in the aftermath of operation Riviresa. That is why the government is seriously considering the question of national conscription. It seems to be quite worried by the reality that the gains made in the Jaffna operation can be sustained only if the aforementioned disequilibrium is corrected by opening a land route to the north.The cost of task is no doubt the issue which troubles Colombo at this juncture when the political pressure in the south and within the cabinet is inevitably building up strongly in favour of national conscription. It appears that the proponents of the scheme believe that the cost involved will be a temporary one in that a large number of troops could be demobilised in a year or two during which period the Tigers, according to them, would be pushed into a manageable hit and run mode in the peninsula due to the army's ability to keep the land supply route open - which in turn would naturally diminish the LTTE's ability to substantially threaten the control of the Vavuniya-Jaffna trunk road from the jungles of the Vanni. However, the long term social and political implications this can have seems to be uppermost in the minds of key players in the Chandrika regime. It remains to be seen how her government is going to handle this quandary.

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Proxy War Against India Arms Airdrop Discovered by A
by T.N.Gopalan
An unidentified aircraft dropped a heap of sophisticated arms and ammunition, including AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers and anti-tank grenades in Purulia in West Bengal in north-east India around midnight on 17 December, and then flew quietly, unnoticed and unharmed to Phuket, a notorious international arms smuggling centre in Thailand - virtually opening a new chapter in the proxy war on India, already racked by internal rebellions of varying kinds.
The reverberations of the mysterious arms airdrop will be heard for a very long time to come, raising questions of not just the air-space security but that of the country at large.
The airdrop would have gone unnoticed and the consignees, whoever they might have been, quietly collected the cache of lethal weapons and vanished into the night but for a small accident early that after
OO.
A five-year-old girl of a village in the area had been run over by a vehicle, provoking around one thousand villages to squat on the roads protesting right into the night.
"At around 11 pm, an aircraft flying at low altitude on a course from the northeast to the southwest passed us overhead, followed by the sound of loud thumps," Priyanka's uncle was quoted in the press saying, "It was perhaps because we were there that night that none of those for whom the arms were meant dared to pick them up..."
Only the next morning the residents of Khatanga, Bardhi, Pokro Maramu and Kanodih villages in that belt of Purulia district discovered the booty lying in heaps. Some of them helped themselves to the fancy fire-arms and the news inevitably spread like wild-fire.
Ultimately, after a week-long search, the police were able to recover about 300 AK-47 and AK-56 rifles, 200 anti-tank and hand grenades, about a dozen automatic 9mm pistols, a dozen rocket launchers, 14,000 live cartridges meant for powerful self-loading rifles and many other unspecified fire-arms. The value of the recovered arms alone in the international market is said to be in the region of Rs.15 crores and they are good enough to launch a miniwar," revealed a spokesman of the West Bengal police.
A fortnight after the incident, the investigating authorities were still groping in the dark on who despatched the deadly consignment and for whom, whether it was some mix-up which led to the air drop at Purulia, how to seal off the Indian skies from such daring gun-runners and so on.
Exactly five days on the midnight of 2 thorities claimed to h through of sorts wi Russian-made AN-2 bay when it was on stani city of Karachi the five-member cres edly from Latvia, it weapons had been dı of confusion instead Bangladesh where th ligence (ISI) agency edly operating traini sions into eastern In dron of all kinds of
Intriguingly the ai dia from Phuket tw two-hour technical h for Karachi but was bay as by that time ea up a furore, putting ing agencies on red i The halt at Madras speculations whethe off-loaded there som timate use by the Ll conclusive has been
While the halt at M AN-26 crew had no a Director General of mandatory, has raise tions on the laxity i Air Traffic Control, t seventh man in the the five-member cre ain who had reporte chase of the plane by Carol Air Services a Kim Peter Davy, a financier who is saic in the dark at Bomb ache.
He is said to be the operation and his es barrassed the agencie confession of the cre some time in Karach were returning ther sorties has made ita the real conspirators apprehended, and D way out. But a mas ing the assistance of not yielded any divi Apart from the vi thoroughly screening scheduled flights er space - since such a corruption, delays a ine commercial flig co-ordination betw such as the defence, DGCA is causing a

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later the authorities, 2 December, the auive achieved a breakh the 'capture' of a S aircraft near Bomits way to the PakiOn interrogation of , all of them reportwas learnt that the opped at Purulia out of a location inside e Inter Service Intelof Pakistan is reportng centres for incurdia, a seething caulethnic strife, rcraft returned to In) days later, made a alt at Madras and left intercepted at Bomrlier sortie had kicked the various monitoralert,
has also give rise to r the plane had also e lethal cargo for ulTE, though nothing established so far. Madras, for which the uthorisation from the Civil Aviation as is d inconvenient quesn the functioning of he whereabouts of the aircraft - apart from w, there was a Britily arranged the purhe Hong Kong-based ld had been nabbed - New Zealander and a to have slipped out ay, are another head
kingpin in the entire cape has further ems concerned. With the w that they had spent i before the mission, and planning more l the more important are traced, even if not avy could provide a ive manhunt includthe Interpol has also lends so far. tual impossibility of each and every nonering the Indian airmove could result in d disruption of genuts - the total lack of en various agencies intelligence ATC and lot of disquiet to the
government.
According to some reports nearly three weeks earlier some foreign intelligence agencies, believed to be from the UK, had tipped off the defence establishment on a possible such arms-dropping mission, but there was no follow-up.
Another matter of concern is whatever happened to the arms not yet recovered, it is strongly believed that not all of them taken over by the villagers have been turned into the police. How much of them landed in the hands of the mafia is indeed a matter of speculation.
One report said that even as the police were thoroughly combing the Purulia forests, the Bihar-based mafia was beating them to the arms. Their men too had descended in large numbers in the area and were offering better prices than the paltry reward announced by the government and villagers themselves were seeking out the mafia-agents in order to both get a better price and also escape harassment by the police. For the almost perennially lawless Bihar and strife-torn North-East, the arms dropping could not have come at a worse time. Incidentally Purulia is situated at the crucial tri-junction of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam,
Ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union and large scale demobilisation of the Soviet Army and consequent laxity of governmental control and accountability, apart from the poor pay-packets of even senior officers, a dangerous situation has developed wherein those with access to arms and ammunition are easy preys of the merchants of death.
Noted commentator Harish Khare points out that the presence of a large number of Kashmiris, Punjabis and Tamils in Moscow is an important factor in the flourishing arms trade centring around the erstwhile Soviet Union, such ethnic immigrants are used by various insurgent groups to procure arms. "Weak governments, corrupt regimes, compromised generals and surfeit of guns provide the perfect ambience for arms dealers to strike. gold."
Nageswary Brammanandha
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The PA government claims that its war is against “LITTE terrorism” and not against the Thamil people, but whenever civil targets were hit it has like previous governments tried to cover things up by blaming the LTTE. The credibility of many pro-PA peace-and-human-rightswallahs collapsed under the burden of their muted responses to these atrocities while the government was making political capital out of alleged LTTE attacks on Sinhalese villagers.
Political commentators from India have at best been patronising. Many of them like to believe that the Indian government was really doing Sri Lanka and the Thamil people a favour by trying to impose its will on the various parties to the dispute in the way it did. The opportunism of the major political parties of Thamilnaadu was transparent right from the beginning and the Hindi-Hindi elite establishment in power at the centre consistently misled the liberation movements about its intentions regarding an independent Thamil Eelam. Very few commentators from India have displayed sufficient courage to criticise the Indian estab
lishment's meddling in the affairs of
its neighbours. Their lack of vision is no worse than that of the political acrobats of Thamilnaadu who were pushed into organising a bandh by the wave of public anger preceding the fall of Yaalppaanam (or was it the conquest of Yaapaapatuna).
The way in which one interprets the events in Sri Lanka are to a great extent conditioned by the way one perceives the national question. Those who do not recognise the struggle of the Thamil people as one for national liberation, which does not necessarily mean secession, see only terrorism. Those who recognise the struggle as something more than that to assert one's ethnic identity, as a struggle for survival as a nation with its identity and dignity intact, find that there is no choice but to acknowledge the reality that the LTTE is the only credible force at the moment that is fighting for that cause and defending the Thamil people against the genocidal war waged by the armed forces.
Some think that anyone who supports the liberation struggle should not criticise the LTTE and even go to extremes to silence voices of dissent. The activities of such individuals have in fact harmed the LTTE and the liberation struggle by antagonis
ing people who potential allies. T. aged the view th: was round the cor LTTE leadership them, had been f about setting a underestimated t national liberat. oppressor with con strength and pow the fall of Yaalppa shock to them. Ma the IPA governmer their glee at the paanam, but they Recent history ha beration struggles there is justice. T] East Timor have ( the Indonesian agg it is two decades sir occupied by the al Indochinese nati French, the Japan until they were libe of Kashmir are way gle against the mi army. No struggle victory has been ( beration has been ( setback for the LT the LTTE as well ment. The strugg will need to be tra popular struggle a against an oppress and succeed if the ernment and the a tinue with the po military solution. T tion of the strugg over those who ar. the struggle for fre a review of the pa fication of serious good sign that Ant has recently ack driving Muslims north was a serio1 The PA governm ary conquest of Y achieved little mol the military might price it has paid in ties is still unknow has strengthened militarists since the tiations with the LT remain shut for th ture. Its attempts submission the Tha have voted with already started to b only hope that CE government will re that the Thamil n their headquarters not represent the T.

ould have been ney even encourat Thamil Eelam ner, although the in fairness to ar more cautious ime limit. They he struggle for om against an siderable military erful allies, and anam was a true uny supporters of ut did not conceal fall of Yaalpare short-sighted. s shown that lido not cease until he people of tiny ontinued to defy Fressors although ce theirland was med forces. The ons defied the ese and the US rated. The people ging ajust strugght of the Indian has been easy, no cheap and no liJuick. The recent TE is a lesson for as the governle for liberation unsformed into a nd a people's war sor for it to last Sri Lankan govrmed forces conlicy of finding a The democratisagle and winning e not opposed to edom will require st and the rectimistakes. It is a on Balasingham nowledged that away from the us mistake. Lent by its militaalppaanam has re than proving of the army. The terms of casual/n. Politically, it the hand of the o doors for negoCTE are likely to e foreseeable futo starve into amil people who their feet have lackfire. One can BK and the PA alise before long hercenaries with in Colombo canhamil people and
that the failure to bring the war to
an early negotiated end will lead to a prolonged struggle with little prospect of preventing secession.
The people of the North-East have suffered more than a decade of war. A large section of the population has been made homeless and deprived of its livelihood, and already too many lives have been lost. The people want peace and deserve it, not the kind associated with concentration camps but one with dignity. It is easy to claim that a solution can be imposed without involving the LTTE and all will be well after that, and there is no shortage of sycophants to applaud it. CBK has only a few real friends, who are still trying to persuade her to apply the brakes on the militarist approach and seek a negotiated solution. One can only hope that they will be heard amid the cacophony of antiLTTE slogan mongering, and hopefully before she travels too far along the road to disaster. The war that CBK and the IPA government have to fight is not really with the LTTE but against the forces of Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism and militarism. It is not easy to tame chauvinism and a military machinery that has been let loose. They have their own logic of self-destruction and the destruction of those who ride on them.

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Mrs. Thangaratnam Muthucumarasamy, 88, relict of Mr. Sinniah Muthucumarasamy ISurveyor of Mather's Lane, Manipay South, and Mother of Balendran (Deceased, Bank of Ceylon), Dr. Seethadevi Mahadeva (Erdington), Mahendran (Manchester), Theivendran (Colombo), and Rajendran (Manipay) peacefully ebbed away in bed at home around 20th December, and was duly cremated as per Hin
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Professor Karthikesu Sathasivampillai, Retired Senior Agricultural Economist, Asst. Director, Department of Agriculture, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; beloved husband of Selvaluxmy (Singapore); loving father of Sivanjali Yoganathan (Singapore) and Sivachelvam (UK); father-in-law of Dr. Yoganathan, brother of Arasapillai, Dr. Somasegarampillai, late Sivapathasuntharam, Mrs. Selva na ya g i and Mrs. Sivaneswary brotherin-law of Dr. Kanthapakiyam, Thilagawathy, late Sinnathurai and Kulanayagam, grandfather of Suthahar, Sureka and Suhanya passed away peacefully on 14. 12.95 in Singapore and funeral was held in Singapore on 17th December. - 66 Farrer Road, 03-06 Spanish Village, Singapore 1026. Tel: 4677358/ 21 Maitland Court, London W2 3PA. Tel 0171 7O64501.
Miss Siva ka mas u nt har i Thambyahpillai, born 28th July 1974, beloved daughter of the late Dr. Thambyahpillai and Mrs. Thambyahpillai of Bickley, Kent and dearest sister of Shiyamalanayagi passed away On 10th November 1995. - 59 Cloisters Avenue, Bickley, Kent BR28AN. Tel 01814672369
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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aramasamy Baheerathan (Alias Vinn valzan), Born: 17.09.78. Martyrdom: 14.11.95, beloved son of Mr. Paramasamy and Mrs. Thilagawathy Paramasamy brother of Paskaran (London), Mrs. Bawani Vetharaniyam, Parameswaran, Thilageswaran (all of Tamil Ealam) attained martyrdom during the battle between LT TE and Sri Lankaf) forces at Kondavil on 14.11.95 at 4.30 p.m. Funeral took place On 16. í 1.95 in Tamil Ealam. Message from P. Baskaran, 245 Chase Road, London N14. Tel: O 181 882 3882/ O956 590692.
3 e at rice Sug i t h a malar Samuel, 86, retired teacher, lied on November 14, 1995, at he Bethel Health Center. She was the wife of the late Isaac William Samuel, and had lived tt 200 Franklin St. Ext, Danигу.
Mrs. Samuel was born in Sri anka on December 17, 1908, "aughter of Gilbert and Fire Vi um POr na T balan? lark. She was educated in Sri anka, graduating from College Jere with a degree in music. fter teaching music in Sri anka, she immigrated to the nited States in 1981 and ught in the Danbury schools r a short time. She was an 2complished violinist and anist.
Mrs. Samuel was a member of St. James Episcopal Church and the Danbury Senior Citizens.
Mrs. Samuel was survived by four of her beloved children: Dr. Raji Satchi and husband Dr. M. Satchi, with whom Mrs. Samuel lived in Danbury, CT. Three sons, Bala Samuel and wife, Kamala Sunderampillai, of Ontario, Canada, Jaya Samuel and wife, Premina Emerson, also of Ontario, Viji Samuel and wife, Jennifer Pathinathan, of Melbourne, Australia, and the wife of the late Raju Samuel, Mary Benjamin of Danbury, Ο Τ.
Mrs. Samuel also took great pleasure in her 12 grandchildren, great granddaughter, and several nieces and nephews.
She will be greatly missed by all.
Sithamparapillai Chelliah Thambiah (79), Retired Overseer and High Priest of Veerapathira Pathirakali Ambal Kowil, Sangarathai, Vaddukoddai: beloved husband of Thigalmathy, retired principal; loving brother of Annamma and Sithamparapillai; loving father of Sivasunthari (Jafna), Thirunesan (UK), late Sukumaran Snr., Kalyani (Colombo), Indradevi (UK), late Sukumaran Jnr., father-in-law of Ganesathasan (Jaffna), Malar (UK), Kumaresan (Colombo), Alagesan (UK); loving grandfather of Sutharshani (Jaffna), Priya tharshani (Switzerland), Sumadine (UK), Sharmilla, Ramesh (Colombo), Jenny and Rex (UK) passed away on 19.11.95 in Thavali, Vaddu-East, Vaddukoddai, Jaffna. Sadly missed by wife, son, daughters, sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, relatives and friends.
The members of the family thank all relatives and friends who sent messages of sympathy and consoled us at this time of great sorrow. - 15 Mark Close, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3G). Tel 0101 813 973O.

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IN MEMORAM
In loving memory of Justice Tellippalai Wanam Rajaratnam, Retired Supreme Court Judge and Member of Parliament, Colombo on the Second anniversary of his passing away on 15th January 1994. "Two years have flown But the memories are almost
new
The tears will never Cease to flow You were so great, so kind and gentle father to us Appa death cannot separate
S For we love you for ever and ever'.
Sadly missed and dearly loved by his wife and children.
in loving memory of Sivagamasunthary Sitsapesan on the first anniversary of her passing away on 19th January 1995.
One year has passed Since the sad day When our dear wife, mother, grandmother Was called away lf our love could have saved you You never would have died lf our tears could bring you back You'd still be by our side.
Fondly remembered and sadly missed by her loving husband Sitsapesan; son Manoharan; daughter Savithri; sonin-law Varathan; daughter-inlaw Rebecca and grandchildren Holly, Daniel and Luxmhi - 6 Cambria Lodge, 2C Oakhill Road, London SW152GU.
Mr. Kandiah Kumaravelu - An Appreciation
Mr. Kumaravelu was a kinsman of my late father, Sarananamuttu. Both of thern hailed from the village of Chavakachcheri. After the death of my father, Mr. Kumaravelu on many an occasion played the role of a father to me until death struck him last north.
His spacious home at Hamers Avenue, Welawatte was an open house. It was a safe haven to many a visitor and relative who came from Chavakachcherior for that matter from any place whether it be day or night. In his own inimitable style he would roll out a mat for one and spread a quilt for another. His devoted wife would provide every visitor with a hot cup of tea or tasty
Jaffna meal. The nar slippers one would S his home bear amp boundless magné tremendous pride ir with his village and i senior Citizen, he was a source of inspirat many. Besides keep own generation, he the younger generati from the chess board and the players one S. evenings.
He led a simple li dhian principles and i of Swami Ramakrish away, the mighty ( benevOlent Shade má felled. While conveyi his dear wife and lo! the loss of a warn at made a special differ
May his soul rest it
"There is a link death Love and remembran
Mar
“CHAL 38 MELEO COLO
Hartley
Past Pup
Hartley College Pas (UK) had its A.G.M. á
 
 
 

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In fond memory of Mrs. Ganes wary Tharmalingam of Kondavil East on the third anniversary of her passing away on 21.193.
Sadly missed and fondly remembered by her loving husband Tharmalingam; children Brabalini, Bremji and Ranjit; son-in-law Dr. W.N. Linganandhan; daughter-in-law Dr. Vani Bremji and Shamini Ranjit; grandchildren Abirami, Sathya, Praneeta, Praseetha, Prashoban, Praveen and Anjana — 32 Anvil Way, North Springfield, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 5SZ.
e O245 466363.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
February 2 Pirathosan, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Feb. 4 Thai Poosam, Full Moon. Feb. 5 Feast of St. Agatha. Feb. 13 Feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
Feb. 15 Ekathasi. Feb. 16 PirathoSam. Feb 17 Maha Sivaraththiiri. Feb. 18 Annovasai. Feb. 21 Ash Wednesday.
Feb. 22 Chathurthi, Feast of St. Peter. Feb. 25 Karthigai, First Sunday in Lent. Mar. 30 1 1.00am Colombuthurai Yoga Swamigal Gurupoojah at Sree Ganapathy Temple, 123 Effra Road, London SW19. At Bhawan Centre, 4A Castletown Road, London W14 9HQ. Te: O171 381 3086/ 4608. Feb. 8 7.00pm India Republic Day Celebrations. Speeches, Cultural Programme. All WesCOne. Feb. 17 700pm Maha Shivaratri Celebrations. Poojah and Prasad. All welcome. Feb. 18 6.30pm Sarod by Anindya Banerjee from lndia. Feb. 22 7.00pm Thyagaraja Day Celebrations. Cultural Programme by Sivasakthi
Jesus Christ,
ly pairs of shoes and 2e at the entrance to »le testimony to his animity. He took identifying himself ts humble folk. As a s a tower of strength, ion and a guide to ng in touch with his endeared himself to on. This was evident s and carrom boards eesat his place in the
fe believing in Ganfollowed the teaching na. With his passing pak beneath whose any found refuge was ng my sympathies to Ved Ones, we mourn ld loving person who ence every day. n peace,
CarnOt SeV69f lce last forever.
ohari Ramanathan.
FONT URNE AVE, MEBO 4
College
is Meet
1 Pupils' Association and Annual Dinner at
Sivanesan and her students,
the leatherhead Leisure Centre, Leatherhead, Surrey on 4.11.95. The A.G.M. was chaired by the outgoing President Dr. K. Sivakumaran. The Secretary and Treasurer presented their annual reports. Some amendments to the Constitution were accepted and the office bearers for next year were elected. The association set aside £1600 towards college projects. Key members of the Executive Committee elected for 1996 were: Mr. R. Raveendralingam (President), Dr. V. Vasandakumar (Vice President), Mr. A.N. Sivarajah (Secretary), Mr. S. Balasingham (Treasurer).
The A.G.M. was followed by the annual dinner attended by around 150 guests. The Chief Guest for the evening was former teacher, Miss B. Navaratnasingam who was at Hartley between 1953 and 1971. Guest speakers included Prof. C. Suriyakumaran (Retired Director of the UNEP, Bangkok), Mr. S. Jeyasingam (Advocate of the Point Pedro Bar), Dr. J.C. Duraisingam (Retired Director of Sports, Sri-Lanka) and Mrs. Nirmala Rajkumar, (Wife of a Hartleyite). Toasts for the evening were proposed by the President Dr. K. Sivakumaran (for the Queen), Mr. V. Santhalingam (for the College), Dr. V. Vasandakumar (for the Guests), Mr. S. Mylvaganam (for the Association) and Mr. A. Puvaneswaran (for the Sports Teams). The proceedings ended with a vote of thanks by the outgoing Secretary Mr. P. Harrichandiran.

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Arangetram in Paris
Twelve year old Karthiga, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Sangarapillai Srikarthigeyan of Station Road, Jaffna and presently residing in Paris had her Bharata Natya Arangetram on 10th December 1995 at the Musee National Des Arts Theatre, Paris. She is a student of Smt Kausalya Tharmakulasingam. Kausalya is a product of the Fine Arts Academy of the University of Jaffna and presently teaches dance at ASCES Education Centre, Paris.
Young Karthiga started her performance with the Pushpanjali moving on to Alarippu and Jathiswaram in Vasantha Ragam, Nadesa Gowthuvam, Sabtham and Varnam in Anandabhairavi Ragam.
After the intermission it was the Keerthanam "Ennalum' in Mohana Ragam which was well received by the audience. Continuing with two more Pathams she concluded the programme with the Thilana in Kanada Ragam. In spite of the general strike that prevailed in the country, it was a house full show.
Karthiga was ably assisted by Smt Kausalya Tharmakulasingan - Nathuwangam, Smt Ambika Thamotheram - Vocal, Sri Ravi Dharmaraj — Mirdangam, Sri M. Thevaraja - Violin, Smt Kamala Pathmanathan - Flute and Smt Suthamathy Srisatikunam - Veena.
Swami Haridhos Giri (Guruji)
- The scantily clad saint with no formal education in music or literature, but who moved thousands of top carnatic musicians to tears by his golden voice and astonished learned Vedic Scholars with his clear diction and authentic style of discourses - disappeared from our eyes 16 months ago. But his grand Gnanananda Mission goes on.
He emphasised the oneness of all religions and that there is no place for hatred or bigotry. He used music as a vehicle to carry his message. In his Bajans we saw audience participation where he slowly built up a crescendo thereby creating a trance under which some members of the audience stood up and danced in ecstasy. As his greatest achievement and tribute
to his Master - (the Great Saint Swami Gnanananda) he started constructing a
huge Temple Comp Guest Houses, Old F Work has now bee Temple consecratior due to take place of 1996 in Thennangoc kins South of the Hy puram.
- V
Priyadarsini's
lt is gratifying to see til rans' in London enc performance by yo Sahadevan, at the Log ber 9th. This fifteen revealed her thoroug the content of every movement in the Cho composed by Guru P. in the opening Alarip, Jatis and the synchrol established the essent The Shabdam piece, traditional format Ramayana episodes Priya executed the piec the Meera Bhajan, the episode was taken to piece of choreograp! excelled. The Varnam, Dandayuthapani Pilai ample scope to exhib, and abhinaya variation The availability of at tra waS an adoded adv formance as every on tion. Sivasakthi's singi ence in Nattuvangam, less handling of the M caressing violin play Contributed to the fullr, The Veena accompany was hidden, as his om Could notice a bean Prakash relishing th sishya.
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- with Prayer Hall, ples home etc. The 'ompleted and the cumbabishekam) is riday 9th February - a Holy Village 30 ric City of Kanchi
mal Sockanathan.
Natya Debut
e Year of Arangetf with the polished ung Priyadarshini Jan Hall on Decemyear old student understanding of syllable and every eography, expertly akash Yadagudde. lu itself his vibrant ous steps of Priya al rapport.
though in the same employed the in sequence, and with perfection. In Warasimha Avatara highlight a clever " in which Priya with the hallmark of gave the dancer her stock of jatis
in-house' Orchesntage in this perwas in COOrdina, with her experilaChandar's faultdangam, and the f Chandru - all is of the Concert, ant of young Hari image was. One face of Guru success of his
k the fast tempo ance. We feel a dams woven in
could have balanced. Also Priya could
exercise Adhara Bedam to get the correct form of smile, as in natya format the recommended one is Kumizh Sirippu, as described in the Devaram of Appar Swamikal. Priya has a bright future,
- Sivapatha Sundaram.
Lakshmi Poet at 8
须
Little Lakshmi Srikantha Rajah has had an anthology of poems published at the tender age of eight.
Lakshmi, a pupil at Park House Middle School, Arthur Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 is the proud bard of "OUT and ABOUT" - Poems for young children. The book was ceremoniously released at her school on 9th December, 1995, at a function organised by the staff and PTA of the Park House Middle School.
The large number of audience present included Mr. Tony Colman, leader of the Merton Council, Miss Jenny Cairns, Director of Education, Merton (South West London) as Chief Guest and Councillor Patric Cunnane, a leading poet in the Borough. Mr. Richard King, the Head Teacher and Miss Jenny Cairns congratulated Lakshmi on her talents and hoped that her example will be an inspiration to Other children in Britain.
Poet and Councillor Patric Cunnane speaking in appreciation said for poetry, one has to have imagination and talent which Lakshmi certainly has. But poetry is also about using language to surprise and there are many surprises among these little poems. He particularly liked the poems Grandma's Garden and the Wind which has some lovely sound words - Whooshing, rattled, swished, softer, softer and recited this poem to the delight of the audience. He said poetry takes away from the TV and video and returns to us our authentic dreams and memories and advised young people to get involved in poetry.
AMiss Derby Lewis, Deputy Head of Garfield Primary School, Wimbledon and Mrs. Ananthanathan, retired Head Teacher and Educationist also spoke at the function.
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postage in the U.K.) is available from Merton Young Poets, 52 Kingsley Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 8HF. Tel: (O181) 543 2126.
Medical Institute of Tamils (M.I.O.T.) - An Appeal
This is a cal to al Tarni medical and allied professionals in the UK to join us, to unite behind us, to achieve the ultimate goal for the future of our community in Sri Lanka. As you may be aware, M.I.O.T. is an organisation of medical, dental and allied health care workers. We are not financially sound and we depend on the subscription of £20 per annum per member, and also on generous donations from colleagues and well wishers. We do not have a full time administrator at present. All office bearers serve on a voluntary basis. It is unfair by our colleagues to compare ourselves with other organisations such as the B.M.A. and O.D.A. We are not a trade union. However in spite of all the limitations we have so far contributed both financial and personal medical help to our people in the Northern and Eastern proVinces of Sri Lanka, and in the UK.
We would like to highlight a few of our contributions towards our people. Many more have been accomplished without publicity.
1. MOT established links with Jaffna Medical administration in 1989 to Coordinate the activities, to help with the supply of any shortage of essential medicines and Surgical equipment, also professionals from the UK to work while they went over on holiday, so as to ease the shortage in the hospitals and in the medical school staffing. A Health Resource Centre is now being organised, to help with the future health needs of the Tamil people in the north and east of Sri Lanka.
2. From 1989 to 1992, MIOT assisted in the preparation of the PLAB Examination for those Medical colleagues who came over to the UK. Others who came for higher professional training the right contacts with local medical colleagues were arranged. MIOT also addresses the health needs of recent expatriate Tamils in the UK:
3. MIOT hopes to set the scene for the future generations of Tamil doctors, advise on career pathways and help with postgraduate education.
4, In 1994 we hosted an International Conference with TIC and TRRO (California) on "The victims of war in Sri Lanka-A quest for Health Consensus' in London. This gave an opportunity for MIOT to be recognised and be heard by the rest of the world. Following this historic event, all papers presented at the conference by various health professionals were compiled and edited by our editorial board to produce the conference proceedings in a readable book. This is now available, and for sale at £20 per copy. The book is well received by Dr. Richard Smith editor of the BMJ and likely to be reviewed in the BMJ in the near future. Professor Southall from
the Child linternationa highly praised the mended that all health read it and possess information and disser This book is an impo landmark of our histor
5. No doubt you are
(1995), we had a Yout Created enthusiasm á the Tamil youths to le Our Culture, Civilisatio COrmrnOn ailrnentS th afflicted with, and touched on awarene, treatment. The young attended this Conferen enthusiasm and inter activities so that they oureforts towards hely Tamil youths in variou are keen to organise following the above youth conference is a ber 1996.
6. Recently, on the under enormous diffic a Conference at Guy'. the book On the 'Conf of 1994' and to addres the silent war against sor Southall, Dr. An Sivaraja, Professor Ch Dr. N. Sreeharan sp Conference, Professo) on a project involving to help in solving so problems of the displa the North and East of
7. The MOCentra ing on a document to United Nations. A r prepared, to be submi of Parliament of this C leaders of major politi to lobby them in ord redress for Our ill fate Tamil people. Britain towards the Tamils. MIOT representative Prime MiriSter R. HO and discussed the pre Tamils, requesting hin frient.
8. Finally this orga members a sense of ing. MIOT membershi and at present has n Its membership comy trum of people with s ing to different ideo convictions like any ot nisation. Like any con strengths and weakn ing to rise above politics. It is time for Health care workers t in this organisation. T ask ourselves what MIOT and thereby to munity. Membership Drive, mittee, Thamil Hot Road, Manor Park, L

anan J.H. a.
Advocacy Project, Ook, and reCOmare workers should а сору. Recording ination is essential. tant aspect in the
Iware that, last year
Conference, which na interest among rn and understand , tradition and the at our society is papers presented s, prevention and ær generation who 2e expressed great st to have further could participate in ing our community. S universities in UK
a "Youth Forum' vent. The Second ranged for Novem
3th December 1995, ulties, we organised Hospital to release erence Proceedings s the "Blockade' and the Tamils. ProfeSthony Zwi, Dr. N. andra Kanthan and oke. Following this Southall is working the United Nations, me of the medical ced Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
| Committee is workbe submitted to the memorandum being fted to the Members ountry, including the cal parties, we need er to get necessary d and tragic stricken
has a moral duty As the initial step, s met the former . Sir Edward Heath Sent Situation of the to raise it in parlia
nisation will give its identity and belongp has grown steadily 9arly 300 members. prises a wide specpecial skills, belongsogies and political her democratic orgamunity we have our sses. We are Strivpetty and personal our Tamil speaking develop ownership e time haS COme fo ve can contribute to a wider Tamil Con
IOT Central Comse, 720 Romford ondon E12 (6BT.
Festival of Cricket - 27.5.96 - Bank Holiday Monday
Sri Lankan Old Boys' Associations in the UK are organising the Eighth Annual seven-a-side Festival of Cricket on Spring Bank Holiday Monday on 27th May 1996 at Norman Park, Bromley. The main sponSors of the event are S. R. Gent International and its Chief Executive Mr. Michael Stakol who has been a tower of strength for the festival in recent years.
The 20 schools taking part are: Ananda, Colombo Hindu, Hartley, isaipathana, Jaffna Central, Jaffna Hindu. Kokuvil Hindu, Mahinda, Nalanda, Royal, St Anthony's, St. John's Jaffna, St. Joseph's, St. Patrick's St. Peter's, St. Sebastians, St. Thomas, Skanda Varodaya, Trinity and Zahira. This function has over the years been the best attended Sri Lankan event in the UK. This year the organisers are leaving no stone unturned to make it an even greater success. Children's Charity has been an important part of the festival to raise funds for worthy causes in Sri Lanka like the Children's Ward, Cancer Institute, Maharagama.
The high light of the day shall be the International Cricket match between the Sri Lankan Cavaliers drawn from the Sri Lanka's recently successful test team and the International Cavaliers who are Test Match players from other countries.
Norman Park which was also last year's venue of the festival is very extensive and the matches will be played on four grounds which have been specially prepared for the purpose. Around the grounds shall be several stalls providing plentiful Sri Lankan beer, strong and soft drinks and exotic Sri Lankan hot food. There shall be several trade stalls to enable patrons to buy Sri Lankan specialities and delicacies. A Hospitality Marquee located in a prime position to watch the cricket will be organised as in the past as a suitable ambience for those interested in enjoying the day in comfort with friends and colleagues with all meals and drinks Catered for in an excellent environment. The spacious Norman Park has excellent parking facilities for over 6000 Cars.
Entertainment for children has not been forgotten. There will be a Bouncing Castle and a fun fair too. The festival is a fine outing for the whole family to have a good day's enjoyment.
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NEWS LETTER
Weather: Winter set in quite early this year in November, and Continues with all round Snow that functions as a great insulator against noise and a perfect purifier of airl
Peace Petitions: Tamils here are sad and Worried about the latest developments back at home in Sri Lanka. There are meetings, discussions and other activities all over Toronto, the hub of Canada to work towards a cease fire and resumption of negotiations. Several prayer meetings have been held in Temples and Churches. Petitions signed by over 30,000 have been Sent to the House of Commons of Canada urging Canadian intervention to (a) bring an immediate cease fire (b) help negotiate a guaranteed just political settlement.
Donations for Relief are pouring into Temples, Churches and Relief Organisations to strife stricken areas in North Sri Lanka. The Hindu Society of Canada has already sent $50,000 through the ICRC and is planning to send $25,000 more this month. The TRO here has remitted $27,000 and is expecting to send a further $37,000. Many smaller organisations and Churches have despatched thousands of dollars through the ICRC.
Suresh's Detentio dent of the Tamil I who was detained Act Continues to be i fast by The World (Canada Branch) is Toronto. On 10th Jat hope to re-awaker Torontonians regarc Suresh without tria bership of a group C the Canadian Gover Government to spee bring him to trial. Thi slippery wicket as in a Palestinian Wahid l last month, even afte his trial. It is felt that th change the attitude O ernment towards lit worldwide.
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The centre inaugurated in September 1985, had as its nucleus Senior Tamils affected by the Sri Lankan anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983, who emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto. Besides being concerned with their health, recreation and social benefits, they were anxious to socialise and the Senior Tamils' Centre came into being to fulfil this need. The office bearers of this organisation have been working very hard to find the necessary funds to run the centre. They were able to get a government grant but this could be utilised only for equipment, Fund raising dinners were held to keep the centre going. Over the years the centre has grown and has over 850 members now, and the activities include conducting of cultural shows, picnics, tours and seminars. It runs a well presented quarterly journal which serves as the vehicle of Communication with its members and the general public at large. The centre has earned its reputation for advocacy and counselling.
Elected to Office: Mr. S. Tharmalingam, a former Principal of Teachers' Training College, Batticalloa and Past President of The Senior Tamils' Centre, Ontario and St. John's College Past Pupils' Association, Toronto has been elected a Member of the Board of the Scarborough Legal Service, Ontario,
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