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CONTE
1. My Trade Union days - Th
Strike, 1947. Dismissed reinstated six years later b
2. As a Journalist - The Editc 1951-53. Mao tse tung in Pe 1952.
3. As an Author - "Three Mo
Soviet Union'. Arrested in Soviet Union - 1953.
Indo-Ceylon Federation Mo
I address the U.N. — 5th Oc
As Convenor, Tamil Co-ord
I meet with the Indian Pri R. Venkataraman and P.V.
8. The Pongal Declaration
Provisional Government.
9. Deported from India - Nove
10. Meeting with the Pope - Ro
11. With Harold McMillan and
12. Mr. Speaker, Tamil Nac
Thamizhkudimagan pres releasing one of my books -
INTRODl
Two things are certain in life. One is death, the othe
Human relationship is a delicate affair. I would with a view to improve its quality for the future edit
When an invitation is extended to visit a garden heap in the corner. se
There are many who look at different aspects of rather like the story of the blind men trying to
the trunk and said an elephant was like this, an they all had their particular contradictory views that it was all of these.
No one knows for certain what life is all about. Int should be so many religions? - it simply baffles educationist and my teacher at Jaffna College very that he did not know. This was in 1937. He also add
The relevancy of these will become apparent as we g
This book is an unusual one - even uniquel
it is unique in the sense that it is mostly a reproduct the time I plunged into trade union and political won
 

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he G.C.S.U. and the General in 1950 by the UNP and y the SLFP
or, People's Voice - Weekly - 2king and Stalin in Moscow -
nths in New China and the Colombo on return from the
vement.
tober 1978.
inating Committee (TCC).
time Minister Indira Gandhi,
Narasimha Rao - 1980.
– UDI and T.E. Interim
ember 1982.
me - 1983.
Prince Charles - 1985.
du State Assembly, Thiru
ides over the function - 1990.
UCTION
er criticism.
therefore welcome helpful criticism of this work ions.
of roses one doesn't rush to examine the dung
the Tamil crisis and give their solution. This is identify the shape of an elephant. One touched other touched the legs, still another the tail and
of what an elephant was. But the truth was
;erpretations - there have been many. Why there me. Handy Perinpanayagam, a highly respected frankly replied to my question at a "religious' class ed, "greater minds have failed to answer'.
go through the pages.
ion of Press reports about my public activities from k about half-a-century ago.

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It was in 1944 that I took part in a major political n
At the inaugural meeting of the All-Ceylon Tamil C Wellawatta, I went up to the platform and called upo and also urged the audience (most of them Tamil p formation of a purely Tamil organisation but inst include all the minorities in Ceylon. It was reported reporter was Donovan Moldrich. Years later he beca
At this time, I was already an active trade unionist Union, functioning as its Branch Secretary in the Au one of the important Branches.
Our activities grew in strength and support.
Almost 90% of the Government clerks in the Genera 5,000.
In 1947 it was a very large figure. If you add th Departments of the Government in the pre-Indepen could bring down any Government if there was a ge
That was precisely what was planned in 1947, not ( other employees such as in the Railways, Survey De
It was for better pay and conditions of service. Also f the Government in a reasonable and legitimate man
But the Government of D.S. Senanayake and J.R. Jay came the confrontation.
Huge marches and rallies were planned and held. By 1 the Harbour and Postal Services also became restive
Senanayake and Jayawardena panicked.
They ordered the Police to stop all processions and m
But the leftist leaders who led the strike would not b
We defied the ban. Then the Police struck. They open (from Vaddukoddai) died instantly. Another clerk, Pe them and marching together. Somehow the bullets m dragged and put behind the Police side as we approac was to get the vital oil workers also to join the strike charge ordered the shooting down of the strikers. His
Although the 1947 General Strike was crushed, Senal behind the strike as an argument as to why the Brit danger of revolution and the country going communi
I am giving the Press reports as they appeared. It does said. For example, certain people without realising th the 1982 Pongal Declaration (UDI) opined that it was
The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi knew deportation from India when her Government realisec Government of Tamil Eelam in Madras would touch Tamil Nadu with uncertain consequences to her Gov
On 28 January 1980, I had met her in New Delhi with to her to help the Tamils.
I also met R. Venkataraman, then Defence Minister, Affairs and Sanjay Gandhi.

teeting in Colombo.
ngress held at the Saiva Mangayar Kalagam Hall, n G.G. Ponnambalam, the Chairman of the meeting ublic servants like myself) not to proceed with the 2ad to form an All-Island Minorities Congress to in the next day's issue of the Times of Ceylon. The me the Editor-in-Chief.
in the G.C.S.U. - the Government Clerical Service ditor-General's Department, where I worked. It was
l Clerical Service became members. That was over
he number of clerks and other employees in the dence Ceylon, it was indeed a crucial number that neral strike.
only the clerks in the General Clerical Service but partment etc., also joined in the strike.
or trade union rights - such as the right to criticise
e.
awardene was determined to crush the strike. Then
this time other sectors of general workers such as in . They too joined.
Larches.
e silenced.
Led fire and shot at the strikers. Clerk Kandasamy rcy Nanayakara was seriously injured. I was with issed me. I did not run away. Dr. N.M. Perera was hed the Kolonnawa Oil Installation. Our intention . It was then that the Superintendent of Police in
name was Musafer.
hayake and Jayawardene used the rebellious spirit ish should transfer power. Otherwise there was a st
not of course mean that I agreed with all that was e full implications and the potential significance of
a jokel
better. She personally ordered my immediate | that the preliminary move to set up a Provisional he sympathetic chords of the millions of Tamils in
•rnment.
in a few days of her return to power, and appealed
P.V. Narasimha Rao, then Minister for External

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Briefly, I would like to mention the following matter
In 1965, I contested the Kankesanturai Parliament United Front. Mr. S.J.V. Chelvanayagam won.
I practised as a Barrister for 10 years in Ceylon until first as Resident Magistrate and then on promot Magistrate (District Judge). I was in Zambia for 6 y
In November 1982, I met and discussed Tamil aff colleagues Subramaniam for one whole day in Madr
Indo-Tamil Eelam Confederation
The main thrust in my political work for a long tim Eelam should come into a closer political link-up/U sovereignty based association basis.
This kind of process is the one that is taking place rig Eventually to lead to the United States of Europe.
The idea of our link-up with India is nothing new.
Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan the acknowledgedar of this century had himself proposed the merger of Ta India so as to form a Greater Tamil Nadu.
Ramanathan's lead in this direction was followed b renowned savant and acknowledged authority on In Indian and Ceylonese cultural renaissance.
Dr. Sarvepallai Gopal (a Fellow of St. Anthony's Biography' - (1989 edin.) in his prelude, has this to s
'Ananda Coomaraswamy, born of English and Sri La reclaimed by the haunting persistence of the past anc the only service possible to render to the cause of I hearers free; it was they alone who could establish t
In another context, Ananda Coomaraswamy declare
"The more I know of Ceylon, the more inseparable fro Ceylon and India are not at present under one admir In Asia all roads lead to India.
Dr. Colvin R. de Silva and Dr. N.M. Perera (Minist Indian Sub-Continent called the Bolshevik-Leninist
The Press reports here tell the rest of the story.
55 Warren Road, LONDON SW19
There are about 100,000 Tamils in the UK. This is Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Mauritius etc Hindu (Saiva) temples have been established in Lon
It has not been possible to arrange the content: of events. This is regretted

Sir
ary seat as the official candidate of the CP-LSSP
1971. I then joined the Judicial Service in Zambia, on continued to work there as Senior Resident
3S.
irs with Tiger leader Prabakaran and one of his as at the home of Thiru P. Nedumaran.
e has been that both Sinhala Sri Lanka and Tamil nion with India, either on a federal, confederal, or
ht now among the European Community countries.
hd undisputed All-Ceylon leader during the first half lmil areas of Ceylon with the Tamil areas of South
(MANIKAK KANGAI by RAJAM KRISHNAN, Paari Puthakap Pannai, Madras 5.) (First edin. — June *86).
y his close kinsman, Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy, dian and Sinhala Art and one of the creators of the
College, Oxford) in his book "Radhakrishnan, a ay:-
nka Tamil parents and trained in Britain in geology, was devoted himself to the service of ideas which for him was ndian freedom. It was the work of artists to make their he status of a nation.'
d:-
m India does it appear and indeed Iregret sometimes that histration. Ceylonis in the truest sense a part of India . . .
ers) even founded one political party for the whole Party of India (with a Ceylon unit).
8 August 1992 K. VAIKUNTHAVASAN
s only a guess. They come from Sri Lanka, India, . I reside here from 1977. After my arrival, 4 don. Their pictures are found in the book.
s, photos etc., in the proper chronological order

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SIR PONNAMBALAMRAMANATHAN
- LAM.A., LLB (Lond), F.R.A.S., P.T.I.I., Bar-at-Law
| = F-ce, Highgate Murugan Temple – at is Saba pathipillai Hall
| GANDEEPAN VAIKUNTHAWASAN)
 
 
 

SJ V CHEL VANAYAGAM
London MuraSU
OCTOBER 1983
DR RAJASUNDARAM
Dr. Rajasundaram, FounderSecretary of GANDHIYAM, was brutally beaten to death, along with 57 other Tamil Eelam Compatriots on 27 July 83 in the high-security Welikada Prison of Colombo.
David Selbourne, in his report on the violence in Sri Lanka, said this: "But of all the crimes of July, the most wicked single event - though it is invidious to particularise in such a sea of murder - must be the killing of Dr. Rajasundaram, the Secretary of the Gandhiyam Movement.

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AVI NATION December 15, 1
BOOK QEVEWS
S.A. DAWD
A Tamil Eelam Voice in the U.N.O. (1989) and ஐ.நாவில் என் முதல் முழக்கம் (1990) By Krishna Vaikunthavasan
5.10.78 is a red letter day in the history of Tamil Eelam struggle for freedom. On this day Krishna Vaikunthavasan raised the voice of Tamil Eelam in the highest forum in the world, the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Now after eleven long years Vaikunthavasan takes us behind the scenes in two booklets he has released in Madras.
A Tamil Voice in the U.N.O. a booklet in English of 29 pages opens with a brilliant summary of the Tamil Eelam freedom struggle by S. Sivanayagam, formerly editor of Saturday Review and now editor of Tamil Nation. It is indeed a jewel in the crown of
this booklet and sets the U.N.O. incident in perfect perspective.
The rest of the book is a factual record of the historic COnference : reviews in world press and Vaikunthavasan's efforts to bring the Tamil Eelam freedom struggle to the notice of the
_భలో
EELA VENTHAN a prominent Tamil activist (Tamil Nadu)
world in meetings in European and Asian capitals.
In ஐ.நாவில் என் முதல்
didn' in Tamil, 128 pages, Vaikunthavasan takes a wider view including auto
bio-graphical details indicate that the U.N.O. episode was long in the making. Appropriately the story starts in the class rooms and playing fields of Jaffna College under the watchful eyes of Handy Perinpanayagam, doyen of socialist thought and action in Jaffna. Then it moves to a visit to South India at the age of 20 to meet political and intellectual stalwarts; back to Ceylon, Trade Union struggle and editorship of "Peoples Voice', then to legal studies and enrollment as advocate and trips to China and Russia: work in Zambia and retirement in Britain and the U.N.O. incident.
Details of his brush with Indian Security sleuths and the cat and mouse moves is indeed
THA Tamis Londo out by in Lor case f = a( plank
1977
writte Vaiku
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

990
S. A. David, B.Arch, Dipl.T.P., A.R.I.B.A., A.R.T.P.,
Chartered Architect and Town Planner, President, Gandhiyam, Sri Lanka.
as thrilling as the U.N.O. action.
Reference to Omar Kha
yaam, Barathy, and Navalar gives a glimpse of Vaikunthavasan's wider interests.
On page 91, Vaikunthavasan makes passing reference to his proposal in 1980 for a Tamil Eelam Government in exile sabotaged by TULF. If this proposal had been accepted and implemented much of the bloodshed and tears in Tamil Eelam could have been averted.
At the back of the books is a powerful portrait sketch of the father by the son Gandeepan
HINDU, Tuesday, December 30, 1980
Short Review
MIL EELAM: Published by Eelam Association, 53, Ashen Grove, n SW 19: This brochure brought the Tamil Coordination Committee ldon purports to bring out the or a Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka emand which for Ined the main of the TULF when it fought the elections in the Island. A letter by Mrs. Gandhi to Mr. Krishna hthawasan, convenor of the TCC ne of the leading exponents of ause, in August 1979 (included book) says, "the Janata Governis going out of the way to be y, with the present government Lanka. I doubt if they will wish e up the issue of the sufferin Tamils in Sri Lanka'. Mrs. Gandhi hen out of power and nothin cant has happened in this rega
last nearly one year since she ed the Prime Ministership once There can be no two opinions
about settling the problem of the stateless Indians (Tamils) in that country as has been forcefully brought out in this book which also outlines, the efforts to win world sympathy for a Tamil State in Sri Lanka. Mr. Waikunthavasan, in fact, hit newspa in 1978 he daringly entered the U.N. General Assembly and took charge of the podium for a brief while to make a speech on the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka even as the Foreign Minister of the country was being called by the President to address the Assembly. The chapter relating to this makes very interesting reading besides, of course, conveying the strong feelings of Mr. Vaikunthavasan and others of this line of thinking on this issue, though it is another matter whether what they ရွီးရှိ "fighting" for is justified and practicaloe.
A chip off the old block. Gan deepan is causing ripples in the Art World in London and moving in Royal circles.
Now that Vaikunthavasan has whetted the appetite of his readers he is duty bound to write a full length book recording for posterity his experiences stretching over half a century at centre stage in Trade Union action and Tamil Eelam Political diplomacy in Sri Lanka.
Moderately priced at £ 1.75, S 3 or Rs. 10/- and £ 4.95 or Rs. 15.00 the two booklets are essential reading in the history of Tamil Eelam freedom struggle.
r headlines, when
M. Pattabihiram.

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EXTRACT FROM:
THE FALL AND RISE OF THE
TAMIIL, NATI
EVENTS LEADING TO THE TAMIL WAR OF INDEPENDENC
AND RESUMPTION OF EELAMSOVEREIGNTY
V. Navaratnam (Member of Parliament 1963-1970)
GCSU
As in the case of the country's political movi first quarter of the century when the Tamil leader palam Arunachalam founded the Ceylon Nation organized and spearheaded the national movem stitutional reforms and paved the way for dependence of Ceylon, so it was with the CGSU in and Forties' when it was the young Tamil clerical : laboured to make it the powerful public service it came to be. The untiring and ceaseless efforts of like K. C. Nithiyanantha, K. Vaikunthavasan, A. R. and many others built up the GCSU as an inf powerful trade union arm of the LSSP. T. B. Ilangar, of the very few Singhalese clerks who worked with travelled to all parts of the country and organized ches in almost every Government office. They w belief that the benefits of organized trade unioni all public servants and the Union would fight whe to protect the rights of all without considerations or creed. As a matter of fact, they had no reason they were organiziņg to foresee anything othe from the Union or the LSSP leaders who were th
Again like the country's national freedom in which the Ceylon National Congress ousted Arun other Tamils and came under a pan-Singhales which saw to it that Tamils were kept out of the freedom and independence, so also the GCSU wa by a pan-Singhalese leadership and transforn organization which served the interests of Singh only. The Government dismissed M. C. Nallatham thavasan, Asirvatham and Ilangaratne for their activities. It was a Tamil organizer of the GCSU, by name, wisho sacrificed his life for the cause O he was shot dead by the Police while leading alongside the LSSP leader N. M. Perera in pri D. S. Senanayake Government's increase of the an issue which affected the entire population ir race. Whereas Ilangaratne became a Minister it Bandaranaike's Government subsequently and N sated with a substantial sum of money as dam dismissal, his two Tamil colleagues in the dismi, thavasan and Asirvatham, went into the wilder a penny.
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ement in the Sir Ponnam|al Congress, lent for COneventual inthe Thirties servants who
trade union Tamil clerks . Asirvatham luential and atne was one h them. They , GCSU bran"orked in the SIn a CCrue tO 2n necessary of race, caste at the time rwise either eir mentors.
hovement in achalam and 2 leadership 2 benefits of staken over ned into an alese clerks by, Vaikuntrade union Kandasamy
f the GCSU: a procession otest against price of rice, espective of in S. W. R. D. Vas Compenages for the ssal, Vaikunless without
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V. NAVARATNAMI
சர் பொன்னம்பலம் அருணாசலனார் 卫&53一及924 இலங்கையில் தமிழ்ச் சங்கம் நிறுவியவர்
SIR PON NAMEBALAM AIR UNIACHALAM

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CEYLON OBSERVER
Four men wil
for the G.C.S.
(By a Sunday “Observer'
FOUR men well known in the sphere of public servic
polls on Saturday, June 25 for election to the
thousand member strong
Government Clerical Serv
THE CHOICE WILL BE MADE BY ABOUT SEVEN HUN SENTING GCSU BRANCHES AIL OVER. THE ISLAND. ASSIE
CONFERENCE IN COLOMBO.
Three of them are former Presidents of the Union. One Was a General Secretary.
Mr. K. C. NYTHIANANTHA, the best known name in public Service trade unionism, is staging a come back to the forefront of the leadership again after a Self imposed exile of six years.
Mr. Nythianantha Was President of the GCSU and of the All-Island Conference of Public Service Trade Unions from 1950
K. C. Nythianantha
to 1954. In 1954 he was dismiSSed from the public service for criticising the government's Budget proposals. Six months later he was reinstated in serV1Ce.
D. A. C. Senaratine
Today he is the Head of the Treasury's Finance Branch. He was promoted to the public service's Executive Grade I
in 1951 and has been overlooked for promotion to the Special Grade for the last ಸ್ಥಿಳೀ years. He is 44 years OC,
Mr. T. B. DISSANAYAKE (34) has held the post of President for the last two years. From thfe inception of his career he has been attached to the Audit Office, Colombo. He has been a long time member of the Council of Management before being elected President.
Mr. Dissanayake has played a prominent part in the agitation against the amendment to the Public Security Act and ^ - the GCSU in the March 3 stifike.
 
 
 
 

SUNDAY EDITION JUNE 12, 1960
fight
it out
U. leadership
reporter) e trade unionism face the leadership of the seven ice Union.
NDRED DELEGATES REPREEMBLED AT AN ANNUAL
Hie una 3 been awarded a COlombo Plan Scholarship in rade Unionism and is due to leave for the United Kingdom this year.
T. B. Dissanayake
MR. D. A. C. SENARATNE (49) was President of the GCSU in 1955 and unsuccessfully contested the post in 1956, 1957, and 1959. He is the Chief Clerk of the District Ceurt, Kegalle.
Suspended
He took to trade unlon WÖrk in 1952 as an office-bearer of the GCSU's Ratnapura, Branch. The following year he was elected to the Council of Management.
During his presidentship , in 1955 he was suspended from
the post by the Council of Management for an incorrect. interpretation of the Union's constitution. He has studied trade unionism on a government scholarship in the United Kingdom. MR. K. WAKUNTHAWASAN (40) is a Barrister-at-Law and was the editor and proprietor of a weekly newspaper called the "Peoples Voice” in 1951-53 when he was out of the public service after his dismissal for publishing an article in the Union magazine, Red Tape of which he was the Editor.
A book While awaiting the results of his appeal against dismissal he visited China and Russia and wrote a book on his return about
those two countries.
K. vaikunthavasan
Later in 1955 he went to the United Kingdom and qualified as a Barrister-at-Law. He was reinstated in service in 1956 and now works in the Fisheries Department. He was elected General Secretary of the GCSU in 1949 and he organised the first All-Island Conference of Trade Unions and vas joint secretary of the Conference in 1950.

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CEYLON DALY MIRROR
HIS GOVT
1947 St.
VYHE echoes of the 1947 Publi strike were heard in the Treas day.
It asked heads of all government whether those public servants who were compulsorily retired for participating in t paid whatever was due to them betwe the government in April 1956 decided them and the actual date of their re-inst
In the Throne Speech of 1956, following the late Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandara nalke, it was statkad th: all goveral inent officers who had been penalised a
sive regulations of previous governments would be r of a new. Finkar' a Regulation No. 267.
Among those whose names were considered and by this were Mr. T. B. Ilangaratne, Mr. M. C. Na Gladstone Anlerasekera, Mr. A. B. A. C. Weerasekera watham, Mr. K. Waikunthavasan and Mr. S. M. Silva.
THE CEYLON DALYNEWS
3-12-1956
G.C.S.U. welcomes
@ Vaikunthavasan
"The Government Clerical Seria vice Union on Saturday welcomed back into its fold Mr. K. Vaikunthavasan, its former General Secretary who was dismissed for trade union activities in August, 1950, and re-employed in government service last week.
Mr. R. Wandebona, the GCSU President at a council meeting at the Union headquarters, extended a hearty welcome to Mr.
Vaikunthavasan who was present on special invitation.
The president said that the GCSU would continue to fight for complete and unconditional reinstatement as the Union was concerned more with the principle underlying the question whether
trade unlon ( ಕ್ಲಬ್ಭನ್ತಿ। for a y carried out Union on its b
Mr. Vaikunth a unique occa happy he was c member. He til and Conferen vants and othe they had done dismissed trad struggle for th
TIMES O
Union r
old
(By a 'Daily The Goverr vice Union has up the case O. thavasam and rights for h of dismissal f. 26.11.1956.
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 15th, 1964
| pROMISED RELIEE n
rike echo
C Servants' sury yester
departments dismissed or he strike were en the period
teQ re-instate atenent.
election at the cases of nder the repres2ViéWed im terms
WAC boen efter llat hamby, Mr. . Mİ?”, A. 553, Asifr=
,
officials should be ctivities legitimateon Orders of the ehalf. lavasan said it was Sion and he was Ince again a GCSU
hanked the All Isce of Foublic Serr Unions for all för hinn and other 2 unionists in the eir reinstatement.
F CEYLON
26-11-56
aises an
SSLe
News' reporter)
nent Clerical Sera once again taken Mr. K. Vaikunasked for pension m for the period om 4. 8.1950 to
A. R. Asirwatham
In a letter to the FinanCe Minister, Dr. N. M. Perera, the President of the G.C.S.U. Mr. T. B. Dissanayake states that Mr. Waikunthavasam W2s formerly General Secretary of the Union and he was one of those victimised by the U.N. P. Government, and dismissed from service on 4.8.50 for his trade union activities.
On the basis of a policy declson by the Government of the late Mr. S. W. R. D Bandaranaike he was re-instated. On 26.11.56 and placed on a salary point which he would have reached on his salary scale had he not been dismissed.
The question of pension rights for the period he was under dismissal was not settled at the time of his re-instatement although the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury at that time undertook to consider, this favourably. This nn 3 : ri' still hermain : 11 Ι1settled although res): esentations have hegn nade On Several occaston5 , y Mai". Vaikuntilhavasam ,
乾 &

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YODAI HENG is next to PHILIPGUNAWARDENE
亚 洲 及
IOH PEPEH IIIĩ.
the PEACE
A CONFEREN
Dear Mr. & Mrs. Vaikunthawasan:
It has been more than twenty days: enjoyed your short stay in the Sovie celebration of the great October R Soviet people and their magnificen make you wonder with mouth wide you to see all these with your own
I enclose some pictures which were Hongchow. As you can see, the tech like to keep them as souvenirs.
Long live the friendship and soli China
 

{ 大 平,洋 區 域。和 平。會 議 [ CTOPOHHIIROB AIIIPA CTPAE A3III Il TIIXOTO OREAHA
CONFERENCE OF THE ASIAN AND PACIFIC REGIONS CIA POR LA PAZ DS. Los PAISES DE ASIA Y DEL PACIFico
Nov. 2.list, i952
since you left Peking. I think you must have t Union a great deal. I can imagine that the evolution, the grand parade of the heroic t construction work for communism would open. It must be really a great pleasure for eyes.
taken on our trip to Tientsin, Shanghai and
nique is not so good, but, I think you would
larity between the peoples of Ceylon and
Long live peace!
Sincerely Yours,
Yo Dai Heng
*雳-

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Mr K. VAIKUNTHAVASAN
(CE N DALYNEWS - 1953 -1 TA'YA ویم... کس سے * DITOR o
Mr. Vaikunthavasan Was indicted last year in the District Court of Colombo with criminal defamation arising Out of a statement, published in the :ople's Voice' on May 30,
WARRANT ISSUE)
On October 6, 1952, when the case was called. Mr. Waikunthavasan Was absent, and was reported to be not in the Island thereupon a Warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr. Vaikuntha Vasan.
It appears that On Tuesday when Mr. Vaikunthava,San returned to the Island he was arrested by the Police at Ratmalana Airport.
He was produced yesterdav before Mr. Sansoni in Chambers. Mr. S. Naldesan , , instructed bov' Mr. T. Duraisingham appeared fon* 1m.
The trial was fixed for July 17 and 20.
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- NRS. 10,000 ' ? ' '
魯勢 - - 6 9 69 کرو۔. 鷺 ° Mlu“. K. VaikunthaWa,San, edi- Eř22:32:22rig or of a paper known as "People's Voice,' was produced yesterday morning by Sub-Inspector G. W, : ۲۹ مردم Selliah before Mr. M. C. - San- so . ܘ sOni, Additional District Judge, : ം് Colombo, who allowed him bail سم سے" in R.S. 10,000. :
C.J.T. THAMO" a prominent Ta
 
 
 
 
 
 

MR & MRS VAIKUNTHAVASAN at the World Peace Conference in Vienna - 1952
EDITOR OF JOURNAL AT “PEACE TALKS Warrant Issued in
Libel Case
Α WARRANT was issued against the editor of the ,People's Voice,' Mr. K. Vaikunthavasam " في whose trial was fixed for yesterday for alleged libel againS , the Auditor-General, Mr. Allen Smith.
When the case was ralled before Mr. L. W. de Silva. Addition
al District Judge, Colombo. Mr. Vaikunthavasam was absent and A ནི་ WaS not even representec by
.議 Counsel ( لاايق ఛీ .
AT PEKING
Mr. H. A. Wijemanne, Crown Counsel, who appeared with Mr. N. T. D. Kanakaratne, Crown Counsel. for the prosecution, stated that accused was reporte to have gone to China, to attend a World"Peace’ Conference at, Peking. The accused had been served with notice about the date of trial. In the lower Court, he had been Warned to appear. .
Mr. Wijemanne mover that, a warrant be issued against him not to be executed in China, but when accused arrives in the lisland
Judge: Have you any informatilon when this conference will be over.
Mr. Wijemanne told Court that tnere was no information whatSOever when this Conference Would be over.
CASE FOR TRIAL
The Judge issued a Warrant returnable on November and fixed the case for trial 醬 the Same day.
In this case Mr. Vaikunthavasain is charged with having on May 30, 1953. published in the "People's Voice' a alleged libel
agairst Mr. Allen Smith, the Auditor-General
鸚*°。
HARAMlilactivist - (London)

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THE IN DIEP EN DEN T NIE W S WEEKLY
Editor K. VAIKUNTHAVASAN
VOI.
REOIS'TERKED AT TII E G, l’,0. As A NEWSPAR
I. No. 1).
Doriday, 19th Januar
OFFICE: - - 275/1, 1st Div., Colombo 10.
15ct EDITORIAL
N Ceylon, whore the cntirety of the influential English p r e s s stands almost four-square behind a ruling party that is conservative in outlook, reactionary in policy and undemocratic in action, the need for an independent English paper, be it even a weekly, that will neither slavishly dit to the siats of the Government nor mechani (; ally ccho the slogans of its opponents, has been a need long felt, much discussed and often tackled but with little lasting result.
That we, in our turn, have come forward to meet this need means no act of financial bravado or fit of political indignaltion on our part, is borne out by the gathering momentum of a threemonth campaign which, as we go to print, claims its strength not from a
few thousand-rupee donations but from thou
sands of people who have contributed only their subscriptions to m a ke
possible the emergence of their voice on a national scale.
O URS
Assured, thi this inexhaust lar" source of stability and port, we shall same source foi confident in that truth is w and life is wh
8ᎲᎱᏣ.
Nor need w Semting this mev resort to easy s and sensation lines, for life i plex to be po shibboleths a gripping in int. any journalisti tion can make
Then, for vie too, we shall no our work with conceived notio) Government c right and its no wrong, lo we to take suc row, firm-set things, we shall feited-and rig any claim to cal the paper of t Hence, we shall cach ovent, cach cach policy on in the larger ( the country people.
 

у, 1951
E L VES
erefore, of ible popu
financial moral sup
go to the Our in CWS, the belief here life is ere people
e, in prevs, have to hibboleths all headS to O COmtrayed in nd more rest than 3 imaginait.
ws. III ere, t approach the pren that the an do no opponents Ir, W e r e lu a marfocus on have forhtly too| Orsolves he people. examine issue and its merits ontext of and it s.
To KANDASAMY Martyr to the Cause of his Public Service Colleagues and the People
of Lanka
ξε စို့ဖို့ ရှိ ¥3:5m፵፰oምû
WE DEDICATE TIIIS FIRST ISSUE OF
PEOPLE'S WOICE WHICH WILL
CARRY FORWARD THE STRUGGLE
And that our columns may mot depart from this principle and be c 0 m e stuffed and stuffy with parochial and sectarian nows and views, we call upon our readers to express the monsoonal force
of public opinion a n d make the paper their own
in a more real and lasting SC)SC.
Nor shall we confine ourselves to dealing with developments in the political arena, but s h a ll attempt to cover, as far as is possible, all important and p r o g r e s si v e achievements of the day
in the fields of art and science.
To sum up, we shall Voice the demand, desCribe the struggle and, W her e necessary and where possible, guide the upsurge of the people of Lanka for an independent, democratic, peaceful and happy existence in a world of freedom, equality, friendship and progress,

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'T TT E T N ]) TEIP E N D E N IT. N ), W. S. W.E. I p:OPLE'S WOICE Dalilor : K. VAIKUÜNTHAVASAN
VOI. l No. 7. | 1018T111:t AT TIII G.P.O.
- - As A NCWBPAPER
lolRI DAY, 2n
EX-MINISTER WILL
NOT
'' Minorities Given A Place Outside
EXAL jisti Suntheralingam who holds such strong views, on the
the national flag and who has giyen expression to it in his cl fashion, is reported to havo" come to tho decision not to sit is of likepresentatives uñder thic new flag if tlic roconnendations of th
naike Flag Committee are accepted.
When, as a rosult of his to appear to the masses as absence from tho llouso, hi8 Kymbolising thio domination seat will be declared vacant, ho of some Ceylonese by othor hopos to ro-contest, it and fight Ceylonese." it on tho ise of the national flug. Sonator S. Nailosan, tho only mombor of the lflag Conni Lto who liel not appond hi K Mignaturo tio tilho committeo's roport, explains in his dissent: "As the lion Flag has been used as al distinctive slag anyono eople. In one of his letters. '" tho design that hun
醬 Princ Minister, ho says: been agreod to by tho rcst of “Tho Union Jack is now tokon th0, committeo cilinnot bo blato symboliso " donimation " or ni (bd, if ho tlhinkh t, la ni t, tlho all Coylonoso. The S in h a minoritics are given a placo Kodiya might well bo made outside tho Lion Flag",
Mr. Suntheralingam is opposed to the idea of the national slag being decided by a mnjority voto. Fse believes that any slag should be represen - tative of all sections of the
12th D
My Dear Prime M
I continue to ını 1 in lbor of lotto'rs in regard to the c Ceylon Flag. I ablo that early and somo decision implemente d appointed date
1948,
MAHARAJ, SIR ! WE HA
 

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( March 1051
Office: 275/1, 1st Div., Colombo 10.
15 cts,
SIT UNDER NEW FLAG
question of 1aracteristic n the House \e Bandar
ocombor, 1947
inister, ocoivo a largo and mo88 agos estion of the b sooms dosirtopalbo takon roached and bofore the 4th Fobruary
I need hardly add that the question is one of sentiment
which, with or without roason,
affect the feelings of pooples,
The unpleasant sight of the Lion Flag flying half-mast with the Union Jack at top-mast to
which the Mombor for Kuruno
gala referrod in Parliament n0edes to bo ayoidod, I woAuldl ಙ್ಗಕ್ಕೆ that tho procoduro fol
diwed by India and o ti hi a'r
countries in the past may be followed in evolving a flag that will ovoko in all a truo CoylonGສe patriotism.
Sgd. C. SUNTIL ERALINGAM,
将 娜 枋
/E STRIPOP)ED THEMI

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PEOPLES VOCE
REGISTERE) ATTE O.P.O,
WOL. 2. No. 9.
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AS A NRWSPAPFR
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KRISHNAN ON RUSSIA
A visitor for Ceylon to India who attempts to study the present political situation is immediately struck by the almost similar set-up in both the contries.
Tho lndian National Congress is not second to tho U.N. P. Yoi and I know what and what things we associate with the U.N. l. The Congress is the Indian U.N. I.- only on a much bigger scale, Just as Mr. Sernanayake's Govt. throws dust into the prople's eyes here, Pandit Nehru's Govt, does tho sano thing in India. Tho difference- whero as tho Pandit indulges in fine phrases and
vaguo generalisationo ovir do
D.S. is blunt, 'actually-as-a matter-of-fact'.
The anti-Congress feeling in India is no less widespread than the anti. U.N.P. feeling in Coylon. And just as the anti-U. N. P. for c e s are not united in Ceylon, the antiCongresa forces aro not united in India. Ilenco t'ho successes of the Congress in tho present elections.
During the course of my two-weeks visit to India I interviowed a number of political leaders, trade unionists, journalists, autbor, Penco Movomont loaders and comunumon picople from various walks of life. M st of them were definitely for at least, some sort of uns derstanding anong tho various where ver
opposition
Olectoral alliunco was not possiblo.
A good number of them doplored tho attitudo of the Socialist Party for refusing to conne to an eloctoral understanding with all the other opposition parties.
They all condemned Mr. Jai Prakash Naráin's statement
KAR
India
that tho people should vote for the Congress if the contest was between a Congressman and a Communist.
The only person who did not condom n this statement of tho Socialist laier was Mr. S.C.C. Anthonipillai, President of the Madras Labour Union and a prominent member of the Bolshevik Leninist Party of India (BLP) which, Mr. Anthonipillai told mo, bin 8 now complevely merged with tho Indian Socialist Party. When I asked fr. Pillai what he thought of tr. Narnin's statement, Mr. Plui haid tlint tho stateument was tho porsional opinion of Mr. Narain anul til at thc Socia
Sir P. RAMANATHAN's biographer (2 vols) M VYTHIILINGAM BA. (Formerly Principal Hindu College, Chavakacheri) Also a supporter of political link-up with India
 

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OFFIOB: 275/1, Maradana Rd., l'
- Phone: 88 15cts
富
People's Voice Anniversary. Number
We are glad to announce that a special numbers of the People's Voice would be published on Saturday 19th January to mark the first anniversary of the paper.
The first issue was published on 19th January 1951.
Me
Mr. Krishnan:
Admiration for Russia
ANJA ON CHINA
Today
list Party was not responsible for it. To the question why no efforts were made by the Socialists to come to an agree" ment with the Communista, Mr. Authonipillai said that the Communists are not for tho abolition of capitalism. How Dr. Ambedkar's Sohedulos Caste Federation with whom the Socialists havo como to an agree tuent standa for the abolition of Oapitalism, only Dr. A unbedkar’s Annerioan friondo and the Socialists oban know. Incidentally it would be interesting to note that it is to
by K. Vaikunthavasan
help this Mr. Anthonipillai in iais olection that Dr. N. M. Perera and Mr. Robort Gunawardene are 0xpeoted to go to Madras.
The other Socialist Party 131 PI lender whon I met in Madras was Mr. Hector Abeywardene, joint Secrotary of the Madras Socialist Party,
Comedians N. S. Krishnan &
Friendship with China.
in liturgia itself in tiliks in India. They were thcre for nearly two months and saw many spects of Russian life.
Mr. R. K. Karanjia, BiLinz ditor, whom I interviewed in Bombay on his oxperience in
T. A. Mathurn im who un I intorviowcd on their experionces in Russia confirmed tho published accounts of their speeches on roturn to India. Krishnan said there was no poverty, no unemploy mont. Elo found the sulleat personal - frcelom in Russia. The minimum salary for Any per Bon in Ru Baia is Ras, 600. Russians produco alnost nll tho thing they need
China more or less repoated tho , good thiugs that Krišli nån said about Russia. Mr. Karanjia said that it is not the Communist Party alone that is running the present Chinese Govt. There are as many, as six par
tios which are in the Govt. He omphasised that firm friendship with China was the greatest need of India today.

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PEOPLES VOCE
EDITORIAL
OUR FIRST YEAR
With this issue, People's Voice' comp first year and begins its second.
Though conscious of our shortcomings, confident that we can claim to have just existence.
When we began publication, the Press English language was a monopoly of the U.N were able to break through that rigid monop provide a forum through which the news of position could be made known.
"The treachery and crimes of the U.N.' hither to had bcc suppressed by the dail. were brought to light by us. We answered t less charges that the U.N.P. and the Panth threw against the Opposition.
We hive continitously campaigned for t of the left movement and the unity of all Op. forces to the greatest cxtent possible.
We thank'our readers, subscribers, conti advertisers and those who have generousl donations to our P. W. Fund. Their at and encouragement have been invaluable.
In the coming year, we shall cndeavour vide a brighter and hetter paper which will r contribution to the defeat of the U.N.P.
We ask our readers to help us to do so rolling nyre subscribers, getting new reade donating generously towards our Fighting Fu
It is no en sy mattcr to kcerp such a ours going. We have neither big capital noi advertising to back us. Our biggest capital 畿 of the peopic whom we serve. We a 伴 uit 'ilh a t the v will help us to fight for them
K greet
The the C the ge In con the ne to me should withot
papers
 
 

letes its
we feel ified our
3 in the F.P. We oly and the Op
., which y Press, hic baseam Press
hic unity position
ibutors, ly given ssistance
to promake its
by eners and nd.
paper as heavy
is the
, ᎢᎾ ᎤᏅᏂl
s
19 JANUARY 1952
N. S. KRISHNAN'S MESSAGE
alaivanar Nagaichuvai Arasu N. S. Krishnan s us as follows on the occasion of our Anniversary:
Greek Tragedies moulded haracter of the Public and neral Will of the People. aparison, we have only wspapers. Were it left to decide whether we
have a 'Government it Newspapers' or "Newswithout a Govern
ment'-I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
I wish that "People's Voice must bo the “Chosen Guardian of Freedom” tho “Strong sword-arm of Justice' and the "Bright Sunbeam of Truth'.

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PECOPLES VOC
THE LANGARATNES GREET P. V.
". . .
r T.B, ILANGAFATNE
Mrs ILANGARATNE
In a joint in essa je, Mr. T. B. Ila i ja ratne, it, President of the (1 (!. S. U. (i lirs. Ila jarat ne, 21 ( ) li) pret s as follovs: -
“Please accopt our hcarty & in valuablo contribution sincete greetings on you first wards bringing all progre: anniversary celebrations. Know- forces togethor to defeat r, ing as we do the handlicBp3 . with which you aro places, yottir otion Will not fail to behar fi valiant fight against re. It is with the greatest since action, nepotism and corruption and hopo that wo wish in political and administrative many happy returns of circles is most admirable. Your day."
25 APRIL 1952
PEOPLE'S CANDIDATES
(19) - K. VAIKU
We refrain from commentin on the candidature of People' Candidate No. 19 for obviou reasons. However we reproduc here under extracts from speech delivered by Mr. Tam at a langaratne, delivere in Jaffna last Sunday in suppor of the candidature of Mı
“I have come here tn sup port the candidature of M Vaikunthavasan. I am sur most of you know him just, a I do. But I can claim to knov his life a little more than you Very seldom do we come acros
r. K. Vaikunthavasan.
 
 
 

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THE CEYLON OBSERVER
WEDNESDAY MARCH20, 1957
“ná
?†ù0ሃ‛ ", ! , MRs. MARESWAR WAIKUNTHAVASAN gave a veena recital at the reception held in tos honour of the Chinese Trade
Union delegation by the 3S Wy Ceylon-China Friendship Assoይህ0 – clation at the Red Cross ruit. Society hall on Wednesday, it. 13th March. Mrs. Theja }rity Goonewardene presided. 醬 (Photograph by: P. KUMAR)
NTHAWASAN - Jaffna
people in Ceylon who do public service at such coᎦᎿ ,
As you are aware Mr.
Edit or of "People's Voice" which is the only paper in the English language to expose the reaction and corruption in the U. N. P. Government. The People’s VoicA consistently fights on for the rights of the public 3 servants. The People's
Voice fights for the needs of the common unan. The People's Voice fight a for Socialism. The People's Voice fights for democracy. And Mr. Waikunthavasan is the Editor of People's Voice.
Mr. Waikunthavasan has nade great sacrifices. His political and personal integrity is above question. In the name of everything just I call upon you to vote for Mr. Vaikunthavasan. In thA name of future generations I call upon you to vote for Mr. Waikunthavasan. And in the name of martyr Kans dasamy I ask you to vote for Mr. Vaikunthavasan.

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PEOPLES VOCE
25 APRIL 1952
Mr. Justice Nagaingam
Dissenting Judgment
Contempt Case
FINE of Rs. 250, in default six weeks rigorous imprisonment, was imposed on Mr. K. Vaikunthavasan, Editor, Printer, Publisher of 'Peoplo's Voice' by Mr. Justice Nagalingam whro delivered the order of the Court on Wednesday, lUth inst.
Mr. Vaikunthavasan appeared before a Divisional bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Mr Justice Nagalingam, Mr. Justice Basnayake, and Mr. Justice Gunasekera on a rule issued against him at the instance of the Attorney-General to show cause as to why he should not be punished for contempt of Court.
Mr. Waikunthavasan, it was submitted, published in tho issue of April 20, 1951, an article entitled “Threat to murder Leftist leader–Hakmana Police run riot,' the printing and publishing of which article was calculated to prejudico the fair hearing of a Matara Magistrate's Court case before the Supreme Court.
Mr. Justice Nagalingam, in the course of his dissenting judgment, expressed the opinion that the rule should be made absolute and no further punishment be inflicted.
But Mr. Justice Basnayake, with whose judgment Mr. Justice Guinesekera concurred, stated in the course of his judgement that a fino of Rs. 250/- should be imposed.
:

11 MAY 1951 The Immortal Memory of
R. JAYAWARDENE!
}ICKY J is now O. K.,
He's Ceylon's Finance Minister
flies to London and Washington
t, of course, there's nothing sinister!
r Sterling balances are gone, d now we face starvation, r Dicky buys, at thrice the price, e Flour to feed the nation
w Dicky he's a fine fellow
swanks in Ward Place end, in complexion slightly yellow,
's still the poor man's friend!
Finance, Dicky knows so little ld of Buddhism still less It for finance Dicky cares a tittle, ld Buddhism, you guess
the Aussies charge three times for flour ld freight jumps by a quarter xtiles rise from hour to hour ld the peasant goes back to barter
trol's up four times its price hardly more than ten years
ld gas, whoope is up a rupee
for Dicky's Lanka, three cheers
le travellers weep and the busmen reap
Millionaire Dicky's Lanka !
foreigners, Sirs, were such a curse,
tting under a punkahl
ut Dicky knows the game is up hd the Hoax of the Six Year Plan lst a childish trick of the Family clique or a second five year span!

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"Admirable intro
---Prof
Prof. J. D. Bernal, F. R. S, one of the world famous scientists, in his foreword to the book, “Thrcc Months in New China and Soviet Union” by K.
Vaikunthavasan
сот тепds introduction to the subject.
it as an abmirable
The following is his foreword:
The writer of this hook has ben a vory sortutavo por son. Ho has seen in three months more than most people in the world, including myself, havo seen in thier whole lives. To see China, and the 8oviet Union, to tako port in tvo peace congresses, all at n decilive period in world history. was certainly n great experience. But tho valuo of tho
•xporience deponds on the quality of undorstanding and purpose of those to who in it oor CS.
Mr. Waikunthavasan has seen more cloarly and conveyod better the moaning of what ho hås oen than many more experionoed travellers. He knows that it was not for bin alone or for the delegation from Ceylen that the journey was undertakon but for tho wholo people of Ceylon who should
Roc and exprricnce with them And tho lessons are clear eno ugh. First and foremost, thos visits and the oongresses them selves bave demonstrated tha the pooples of China and thi Soviet Union desiro nothing moru ardently than poace it which they can do vote thon. Helves to tho building up o. their countries and tho tran8 formation of nature and huma nity to give an unlimitedly better life for all.
The second losson for wbiol Mr. Vaikunthavasan ha gath orod invaluablo informatiot and first-hand impressions, i. tho capacity of the peoples to achiove this. Experienco ha shown that any people, howev er poor and oppressed, once they have shaken off the yoke of imperialism, politically, cco. nomically and in ideas, can with their own efforts build
(THREE
montibus
in Now China and Soviot Union'
'An Excellent B
HARINDRANATH CHATTOPADHYAY,
The following is the review of th Mr. Ha indi anath Chattopadhyaya, the fa poet and member of the Indian Parliame
points both of venont across
is an cxcellent littlo book comprising a great doal of in for muation with regard to two of tho most outstanding and significant countrics of today. It is na if tho author is out to tako us with him on his swift tour revealing to us an itiuornry of some of the urgent and striking
countries, onc already gone b of mere ex pel other which is
forming exper waxing achie style of this bc what of that c. hans its own v

duction"
Bernal FRS
for themselves such a civilisa tion. That losson is worth ten Colombo Plans.
The last losson which Mr. Waikunthavasan drew, from his experienco in Georgia, and which has a particular referenoe to Ceylon, is that a small country can, in alliance with other socialist countrios, prese. rvo and develop its own oharactoristio lifo and Oulture and mako its own special contribution to a common civilisation. I was particularly struck with the doscriptions of the tea plantations in Georgia and the lifo of the colloctivo farmers. . I remombor vividly the contrast botwoen the beauty and luxury of the planters' bungalows and tho baro misary nf the tea pickets' linos in tho hills of Coylon. I thought of what coulid bo in that most lov oly oountry if its great rosources could be used by its people for its people. I am sure that day is not too far away, but beforo it comes it bohoves those who caro for their country to study the lossons that can be learnod from the experiences of othors, and for that this book offers an admirable introduotion.
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22 MAY 1953
Welcome in Ceylon as well as in India
Prof: Iliren Mukherjee, acting Leader of the Oppositions in the Indian Parliament reviews the book thus:
ʻI havo road witlı tn uclu interest Mr. K. Vaikunb avasan's book on "Throo months in Now Chinn & the Soviot Union.” He writes simply, without
frills, and with much effect.
As a Ceylon dologate, Mr. Waikunthavasan attonded tho poaco conforences at Poking and Viennn; his skotch of their procond; :; gH i not tho least valuat; vart of the book. Ilis doecription of Soviet (loorgin and of the life of collective farmers in pl. 1 n A tio;) there is among this hist, thing
1,tኮ :ኔ
in th book. I in stre it will receive a wide vict) no in A.------tri-wi-fifty--
ureി, മാ ർ احمدملسوسلو
مرہ ہلامہ نگارش
"kסס
A M.P.
e book by mous Indian
ht:
placo and achiothese two vast of which has eyond tho stago imontation, the foverishly transiments into vvor vements. Tho ook urges someof a diary-which alue-it enables
tho roador to run from pago to pago, , assimilating details of tho travøl, as woll as gotting a sort of kaloidoscopio bird's oyo viow - shifting rapidly from one pattern to anothor, not in accidontal but wellformulatod arrangomont.
This little book might woll sorvo as a guido for the roader who may be anxious to got to know tho impressions of a dclogato from Coylon who has had tho uniquo and raro opportunity of visiting in one sweep, tho two great countries which aro dostined more and more to load human thought and life towards new, everwidening horizons.'

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With MARY ROWE and SRITHARAN fr Boston, June 1982
The Ceylon delegation being received at the Peking Railway Station - 1952
 
 

PEOPLES VOCE
22 May 1953
Ceylon Diplomat's
Tribute to China
The following egtract from the book "Three months New China di Soviet Union ” dealing with the cylon diplomal, Mr. Susantha de Fonseka, issarid have engaged the attention of the Prime
inster who scrutinise elease,
Next morning at the airport
I was thrilled at the very icndly conversation that wną bing on betwpon tho Coylon overnment IEnvoy Extraordiary and Plenipotontiary to urma, Susantha de Fonseka, nd the Chinese Ambassador at angoon. I was greatly impreedby the charming personaty of the Chinese Ambasador
the book before ordering its
who is, I think, only about thirty years old, if not youngor.
Of courao, I knew that tho Coylon lenvoy was going with us to China to participate in tho rice talks. lad indeed when he came and occur pied the seat in the plane just ဖြိုးဝှိ* to mine, for I Weloomυ ed the opportunity to talk to him about Burma, China and abovo all, rice. He was for mor• ly g Speaker of the Ceylon State Council. At that time I had met him in my capacity as a trado union official of the Govorument Clerical Sorvion Union, o laughod i hoartily when I told him that wo oursolvos woro on our way to China as delegates from Coylon in connection with tho peaco mission which was closely connocted with luis own rioo.-We taalkod ou a number , of things ranging from China to rico but especially on Chinese rice. lfo was confident of the final successful outcomo of tho rico talks in Peking, although ho 100 mod to anticipate still opposition from corta iu quartors, bati ninong tho politicians and in the ranks of the top oivil servants, Ho paid glowing tri butos the Chinose people who, within a shert period of three years, had been able to trana form tlhoir ontire socikl y Riten and coenomy and wore in a position to export surplus rice in largo quantities.

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NEVWV
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AIMV RU SPAN
A WEEKLY لمثلثات
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same period as
France Press K. Vaikunthavas Ceylon English-l per People's Voi his return to Cey the Soviet Union
12, Kalashny Pereulok, Arbat, Moscow, U.S.S
No. 4 A P R IL
THREE MONT AND THE SO
By K. Vaikunt, foreword by Pr. F.R.S. 160 pp.
trations. Rs. 2
The author of
Ceylon Governme ly ten years and secretary of the ment Clerical He attended Pacific Peace Con as a delegate anc gate to the Cong. for Peace held in ber, 1952. Betwe ings Mr. Waikunt days in the Sovie is an account of congresses and China and the S
Wated by Jayarat Bhatt at the New Age Printing Press, 190
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APUBLISHED SSIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, ISHI, POLISH, CZECH, RUMANIAN AND SWEDISH LANGUAGE EDITIONS
DRD E NT S
pril 1953
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report: Tamil an, editor of the language newspace, is arrested on lon fron a visit to
We
S.R. Editor: V. BERN
HIS IN CHINA VET UNION
havasan. With a of J. D. Bernal. plus 24 pp. illus
this book was a nt clerk for nearwas for two years Ceyion GovernService Union. the Asian and ference in Peking l was also a de'e- ‘ess of the Peoples Vienna in Decenten the two meethavasan spent 35 t Union. This book both the peace extended tours of Soviet Union.
B, Khetwadi Main Road, Bombay 4, and published by him for People Khetwadi Mata Road. Baby 4.

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IMES OF ClayLON
Editor"
arrested at airport
MR. K. WAKUNTHAWASAN, Editor of the “People's Voice,' was arrestad at Ratmalana Airport yesterday when he returned to Ceylon by Air India plane after visiting China and Soviet Russia.
The arrest was on a warrant issued by the District Court of C. i ombo,
As Mr. Waikuntha Vasan Was walking to the terminal after the plane touched down at 4.05 p.m. Sub-Inspector George Selliah of the C.I.D. arrested him and took his passport,
Saw Stalin
From the airport he was taken to the Mt. Lavinia police station where he was kept in custody. M V He was produced in chambers this morning before Mr. M. C. Sansoni, Additional District Judge, Colombo, and released on cera tified bail in Rs. 10,000 and trial was fix- ed for July Mr. K. Vai- 17th, and 20th, kunhavasam, Mr. Waikins thavasan is charged with crimie nal defamation arising out of a
statement published in the
"People's Voice," in May 30th.
On October 6th, 1952, when the case was called, Mr. Walkuntavasan was not present in court and was reported to have left Ceylon. A warrant was issued for his arrest.
Mr. S. Nadesan, instructed by Mr T. Duraising im, appeat 3i for Mr. Vaikunthavasan.
Wii'e in custody, Mr. Weil: ;havasam told a "Times of Ceylor” reportar that he saw Stalin, Molotov, Malenkov and the other Soviet leaders on Nova ember 7uh during the parade in tie Red Square to mark the 35th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revoitution.
In China. Mr. Waikunthavasan met Mao Tse-Tung, Chou En-Lai and other Chinese Conununist Eader S.
In Vienna, Mr Vaikunthavasam was one of the Ceylon delegates at a Communiso-sr ns. Sed conferno or social secur:ty.
FRIDAY, J
MAR THIE
Vaikunth
ADE. Unionist
vasan claim: With this colum this week relatil tics in the GCS ferences to him tendentious and He adds in his "Daily News": your paper of (20. 6.60) . I hav candidature for sident,GCSU, I to publish this SOOn as possible
How incorrect ind gested that an
was trying unthavasan Ou for the Office of week-end's G. C conference, Mr. san has now wit didature. There would like to
why.
It is also very str "Forward", th Party's official j 3, came to reco "among those co post cf Presiden the veteran trac public service'. named the veter:
a0 mention of candidates for t. Ot even Mr. who in his book in China and So lished by the Maradana, was With praise for t Soviet way of lif book commenting Gunewardena's Viet Union Mr. says "I recaxed t I wrote in People ng the United F eached between wardena's) party lon Communist as the fulfilment man's desire. I c pressing our det Widen and deve front already ac powerful mass
The same book car from Mr. Vaiku take this opport and greet Stalin humble tributes making contribu the progress and mankind, Marx. and Stalin are t Of the new wor wards, which hur ing with hope a
There is more in
the eye. Perhaps WaSan will te nual conference,
 
 

ON DALY NEWS
UNE 24, 1960.
XISTS CALL
TUNE...
ATVASAF
K. Waikuntha
s in connection n's Comments 器 to "left poli" that the rewere 'incorrect mischievous"
letter to tine "As reported in
he same date
E. ceylon DALYNEws
contradiction as
eed! Scribe suiginterested left : to force Vaiof the election President at this X.S. U. annual Vaikunthava« hdrawn his canare many who now precisely
ange how the e Communist Ournal, of June 'd the fact that intesting for the t this time is le uniOhist of the The 'Forward' in but there was the other three he same post, Vaikunthavasan "Three months viet Union” pub People's Press, bubbling over he Chinese and 'e. In the same g on Mr. Philip visit to the SoVaikunthavasan he leader which S Voice acclaim'ront Agreement his (Mr. Guneand the CeyParty, in 195i, of the common :Oncluded by exermination to Op the united hieved into a
movement". "ries this tribute nthavasan : “I
unity to salute | and pay my
for his epochtions towards happiness of Engels, Lénin he four makers d civilisation tonanity is marchind confidence". this than meets Mr. Waikuntinals after the an
24. 1.66 Nehru quits CP -and tells why
(By a "Daily News' reporter)
A leading member of the Ceylon Communist Party (Moscow Wing), Mr. C. Motilal Nehru, has resigned from the Party. Nearly 3000 supporters of the Party in three electorates in the Northern Province-ankesaraturai, Udupididy and Point Pedro-have sever all connections and affiliations with the CP (Moscow Wing).
Last week another prominent member of tle Communist Party, Mr. K. Waikunthavasam, resigned his membership in protest at the party's communal line.
Mr. Nehru contested the Point Pedro seat at the last general election as a candidate of the Communist Party, , while Mr. Waikunthavasan contested the Kankesantural seat on the same ticket,
Mr. Nehru told the "Daily News': "People in the North believed that the left parties would support any satisfactory solution to this 1exed problem of language, But the recent actions of the left parties clearly indicate that they have completely aligned themselves with the communal line adopted by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
"The LSSP and the CP to gether obtained over twenty thousand votes in Northern Province electorates at the last elections. But they have shown no regard to the Tamils nor concern for any of the problems of the minorities. In these circumstances it is not possible for any member of the minority communities to remain in the Communist Party or any other
Marxist Party', he said.

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VODKA
AND
DANCING WAT
From Our Political Correspondent
VEN some of the U.N.P. stalwarts would snack their lips reading of the fun and frolics enjoyed by a set of Ceylonese admirers of Stalinism at a farewell party given them in Moscow:
"A farewell party, which started at about 10 p.m. on December 7 went on till 4 a.m. Our friends and hosts who had been looking after Uus so
well were all there-Zuziri, Zakharov, Chernov, "Terechenko. . . .
"Vodka was flowing that night. After the dinner there was dancing in which the waitresses also joined. Dancing continued till 4 in the morning. As we had to be at the Moscow airport by about 6, we thanked the waitresses for their love and kindness and said goodbye to them...." The above passage is found in
a propaganda booklet prepared by Mr. K. Vaikunthavasan "who once edited a newsheet labelled "People's Voice” which was denounced by the N.L.S.S.P. joure nal as a Stalinist paper. Mr. Waikunthavasan was one of the delegates to the Asian and Pacific Peace Conference held by the Communists at Peking in October, 1952, The author mena tions the delegation: Rev. Narawila, Dhannaratana, S. D. Bane daranalike (Sri Lanka Freedorn Party), N. Sanmugathasan (Oommunist Party), D. P. R. Guana. Wardene and C, kked Wage (V.I.S.S.P.), Edmund Sannarakkody and Dr. Hector Fernando
(N.L.S.S.P.), H. G. S. Ratnaweera (Corrainst Party) and Mr. and Mrs. Vaikunthavasan. From Peking some of thern noved on to Moscow where they had the vodka and dancing farewell party.
It is interesting to note that this propaganda document is
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TRESSES
dedicated to "Those forces that brought about the recent CeylonChina Trade Agreement."
At the Moscow farewell party the former Father of Trotskyism in Ceylon had done a neat job praging Stalinism, Eiere is what Mr. Vaikunthavasan writes glowingly:
"Philip made a most spirited speech. No one, I think, who had visited the Soviet Union could have made a more convincing speech. He paid handsome tributes to the Covernment for the remarkable manner in which it had improved the conditions of the ordinary workers. He enumerated his experiences and expressed his firm conviction that the Soviet people were against War; that they were pagalognately working for world peace, Referring to conditions in Oeykoz, he said that the progressive forees were gaining ground and declared that before long Ceylon
would have a Peoples Govern
merat.”
Good old Trotsky must have been turning in hig grave All this while,
In Cornunist China too the Ceylonese delegates had been sumptuously wine and died. At one of these bargets presided over by Mao Tse-tung himself, Mr. Vaikuathavasan has almost had an emotiota) ersis:
"After some time managed. to leave any place and go near Chairman Mao. I looked at his face and felt greatly inspired and overjoyed. Chou En-lai came up to each table and proposed a toast. When he passed ine, Ratnaweera and I followed hlm from table to table, listening to his toasts and drinking. It looked as if we were covering him . . . ." Well, with vodka and dancing waitresses who would not like to go to Moscow?
HASAN & S D BANDARANAIKE MP, Moscow, 1952

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TIMES OF CEYLON 1956
THE RETURN OF THE SACKED MEN
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there ne resumed duties today. Trade Unions.
On the occasion of the unveiling of LORD MacMILLAN'Sportrait by PRINCE CHARLES MacMILLAN himself was present (1985)
 
 
 
 
 

Personal invitations to Mr & Mrs VAIKUNTHAVASAN for the Moscow Celebrations
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THE CEYLON DALY NEWS 17.9.67
o Point of view
Is Krishna Men
right-wing comn
M W. K. KRISHNA VLMENON's otherwise, brildiant and scintillating speeches made at Colombo the past few days have left a number of us confused on one very important Thatter.
His answers to specific questions have made us only more confounded.
The halo, built round him as the indomitable fighter (with London as his Heada quarters) for Indian Independence, from within the enemy camp, itself, the subtle display of his encyclopaedic knowledge and experience ined through years of his telectual domination at the United. Nations General Assembly debates, have made some of us gullible enough to accept uncritically the arguments he puts forward.
" When public issues are involved, no one should withhold criticism on the ground that it might cause embarass
ment to certain persons.
His answer
To my specific question at the end of his address on Problems of Asia today", delivered by Mr. Menon at the meeting of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Association, held at the Co-operative Federation Hall, Kollupitiya on Septemher 10 as to why the USSR did not go to the aid of the Arabs when they were attacked by Israel this year, he answered that Russia wanted to avoid a Third World War.
He went further and picked up the legal position that there was no commitment or treaty of any kind obliging Russia to help the Arabs.
Soviet declaration
Even if there were no legal Commitments under International Law, how about Russia claiming to be an Asian Çountry, standing for AfroAsian Solidarity, and still not helping members of AfroAsia? But the fact is that the Soviet Union on 25.5.67 i.e. ten days before the Israel aggression against the Arabs. declared that any attack on the Arab World would meet with Soviet rebuff. But when the aggression did come Russia did nothing. And Mr. Merion iustifies it
Nonsense
No one requires to be reis minded of the horrors of an Atomic War. But in the course of his speech om September 10; Mr. Menon unduly exaggerated the dangers and frightened the audience how within minutes of the Atom Bomb being dropped by the
Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nearly half the population in these two Japanese cities were wiped out in the last world war. But sutrey Mr. Menon knows that the casualties were so high because the Japanese had no defence plans against atonic attack as it was the first time. It is nonsense to say that there is no defence against A" Bombs. The Chinese Scientists have found defence devices to reduce destruction.
If the numbers of the dead in this atomic bombing were to frighten us, then what about the millions of lives destroyed by Hitler and Musoini in the same world war before the first Atom Bomb was used
As against the numbers who perished in wars, if a count is taken of the numbers who undergo slow death due to starvation. malnutrition, lack of adequate health facilities in capitalist countries. then indeed the figure of the
dead would be immensely
more.
Clean bombs
The only difference is
whereas in an atomic war thousands die simultaneously,
at other tines many more
thousands die, but at inter
was.
In the atomic armaments
race, when Russia announced that she too had improved her atomic bomb. an American leader is reported to have commented. But or Bombs are clean ones' Khrushchev retorted. "What does it matter whether you are killed by a clean bomb or one which is Minot so clean?'.
Likewise what does it matter whether you are killed by starvation or by an Atom
Bomb? Millions in India and other countries are dying of starvation and famine. especially, in parts of Bihar in India, where. for several months, districts much bigget than Ceylon, have been officially declared as famine
area.S.
There will be no peace in the Middle East until Pales time is liberated and handed back in Toto to the Palestine Arabs. the rightful owners of that country.
By

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K. Waikunthavasan
On a nunist?
1968
HE CEYON DALYNEWS
Point of view
Caste war in Jaffna
N the present "war" against the caste system still persisting in North Ceylon, the questior is not who are behind the struggle for Social Justice but who are opposed to it, And why they are opposing it, except in name.
The simple truth is that no Tamil leader will dare to justify the continuance of the monstrous caste discrimination still prevailing among the Jaffna. Tamils.
On the other hand, the Tamil party leaders. afraid of the "high caste' Tamiis to whom they largely owe their present position, merelv paid lip-service to the removal of social disability.
But realising that mere lip
glon never approved of cast
discrimination.
With the coming into forca of the Forevention " of Socia Disabilities Act, public opini on forced a few Hindu Tem, ples in Jaffna to be openec to all Hindus. The hope that others too would follow this lead did not materialise anc now we find that this caste discrimiration has resulted ir “Open War“.
By K. Waikunthavasan
service and soft Words will not Solve the age old problem, the first Bandaranalike Government Went into action and placed the Prevention of Social Disabilities Act, in the statute Book in 1957.
Prosecutions for open violatons of the Act were dala S'ed for ten long years. It was only this year that the first prosecutions were is launched.
Offence
In the Point Pedro Magistrate's Courts, two “Braha. min" priests were charged with the offence of previne ting a person belonging to the oPallao caste, “from entering and worshipping at the Selva Sannathy Te pa at Trood - nuannar, in Jaffra, ard, thus impose a specia disability and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 2 read with Section 3 (b) of the Preventon of So 瑞pisabilities Act No. 2 of
The accused were convicted and fined Rs. 100/- in default One month's rigorous imprisomment.
It is tragic that the easte system should persist in this age among the Tamil people whose true culture and relin
In the wake of the reform maienent in India, led b the Indian National Congress and Mahathma Gandhi, the Jaffna Youth Congress led bv Mr. Handv Perinyama3a "o"?!m, tre iate Mo... gaoa svin-- deram. M.P. ard oficers launched an agitation in Jaffna around the 1930 for the rem? Val of the case svrstem.
Since the efforts by the Youth Congress, the present struggle in Jaffna is the first time that a determined and bold struggle is taking place by those oppressed people for elementary human rights. does not help the cause to sidesack the issue by stating that came interested political ::: behind it. Naturally
ose who stand for Social ಸ್ಧಿ!? will lend then Sup
o
Depressed
Instead of alleging that the so-called depressed class people , are being misled by the communists, the simple and obvious course for all decent and right-thinking people is to ensure that all the temples and tea, boutiques, are, opened peacefully before it is too late.

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SERVI NEW
U ALA LUMPUR, Tues
- Mr. K. Waikuntha, vasan, 54, gave up hi. 10-year-cld law practic in Sri Lanka in 197 and accepted an ap pointment as a Senio Resident Magistrate Zambia, “so I could gal. new experience and Se a new part of the worl that is dev slopin rapidly."
He accepted the appoint ment by the Judicia: :: Service Commission (
MR, VAIKUNTHAWASAN Zambia, for three year
INDIA WEEKLY 20 Feb 1987
India Abroad
UK urged to adopt 'more liberal policy' on Lanka Tamils
At a largely attended public meeting held last Saturday at St Augustine's Church Hall, Tooting, a strong plea was made to the British Government to adopt “a more liberal policy' with regard to the problems of the Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka. Mr S D Balarajah presided.
The meeting was held under the auspices of the South London Tamil Welfare Group. Prominent personalities attended, Afro-Asian Soli including Mr Martin Ennals of the Inter- Kaunda on his national Alert and of the International Emergency Committee on Sri Lanka, Mr Martin Barber, Director of the British Refugee Council, and Mrs Mary Dines, civil rights campaigner.
Mr Ennals, who is a former Secretary General of Amnesty International, visited Sri Lanka recently to study the Tamil residents' problems there at first hand.
He told the meeting that India held the key in the solution of the problem of Tamils in Sri Lanka. renewed determination of th Mr Barber strongly criticised the British Government to liquidate th Government for adopting a policy of unleashing more and more n bureaucratic delays as one way of discou- 8 them. raging 'immigrants' from the Indian sub- The meeting appeals t continent. Government to bring adequal The meeting adopted the following reso- the Sri Lanka Government lution, moved by Mr Krishna Vaikunthav- to minimising the Severe. S asan: 'This public meeting appeals to the hardships endured by the British Government to respond effectively Tamils as a result of the inhu to the urgent plea made by the United adopted by the Sri Lankanal Nations High commissioner for Refugees as a stoppage of fuel, food a for help in solving the Tamils' problems call suppleis to the Tamil are: by adopting a more liberal and humane Another resolution called policy. People are forced to flee countries ish immigration. authorities such as Sri Lanka where the ethnic crisis Sri Lankan Tamils held in de has now taken new dimensions with the in London for several month
 
 

The Malay Mail, Tuesday, August 12, 1975
NG ZAMBA A EXPERIENCE
population of four-anda-half million people.
5, and renswed it last year for another three
s years. Zambia has 80 magiMr. Waikunthavasan said strates and 11 judges 1 he has not had a mo- and is developing very r ಕ್ಲಬ್ಗಟ್ಟಿ since 器 rapidly.
ay he made up his Mr. Vaikunthawasan said mind to go to Africa. Mಣ್ಣ the Lord ё He is here for the Con- Denning, Master of d mCnwealth magistrates Rolls, of England, 露 conference which start- Africa, is no longer a ed yesterday. sleeping giant. It has
awakened and will play a very significant role in world affairs.
He said Zambia, which got its independence in
He is a magistrate in s Kasama, the Capital of al the biggest province of f Zambia. --Northern PrO'S vince-which has a
1964 appointed its first Zambian Chief Justice recently
8
darity - The Author and other Heads οι Departments welcoming President visit to KASAMA, the capital of the Northern Province in ZAMBA
SUNDAY TIMES, COLOMBC
300 Ceylonese 11.5.75 families in Zambia
THERE are over 300 families from Sri Lanka in Zambia and most of them are employed as teachers, doctors, accountants engineers, stenographers etc. according to Mr. K. Vaikunthavasan, a former General Secretary of the Government Clerical Service Union who is now a District Judge in Zambia.
e Sri Lankan te Tamils by nilitary power
the British te pressure on with a view ufferings and
Sri Lankan
an neaSures uthorities such nd even medias' upon the Britto release the ention centres
S.
will represent Zambia at
He told "The Sunday Times' that as Zambia was 16 times the size of Sri Lanka and the Ceylonese were scattered all over the country, it was difficult to know exactly how many Ceylonese were in the country. The estimate of 300 families was a conservative estimate.
Mr. Vaikunthavasan said 7ambia's climate was among the best in the world-a plateau 3 000 to 9,000 feet above sea level,
Mr. Waikunthavasan who is now on leave in the country, the fourth Commonwealth Magis
trates Conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from August 10-18. His choice had been approved by the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Lusaka.
At the third Commonwealth Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, Mr. Waikunthavasan was the only delegate from Zambia. Mr. Stanley B. Goonewardene, Magistrate, Hormagama, was the only delegate from Sri Lanka . It is under stood that more delegates from Sri Lanka will attend the Kuala Lumpur Conference where 33 countrieg will participate.

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LONDON
TIMES
EMINENT BRITISH SUPPORT FROM 1
Tamils of Sri Lanka
Fron Sir John Foster, QC, and others Sir, Few know that a fifth of the people of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) has gradually, over twenty years, been deprived of political rights and now faces the relegation to second-class status of its language. The Tamils of Ceylon have inhabited the north of that island for over two thousand years and always, till the British came, have formed a separate community, separately governed.
Now, on February 4, a Resolution is being put in the Sri Lanka Assembly calling for a separate state for the Tamils. It has the support of a wide range of Tamil opinion, including many of the most moderate and responsible Tamil spokes
e These people fear that their attempt to recover what they regard as their historic right may be used as an excuse for physical attacks and mass arrests. They have suffered violence and repression on several occasions since Sri Lanka gained independence.
We do not presu Government of Sri L. ness. But we can a they will gain the world if they handle in the spirit of some wealth countries t faced by demands such as Canada a Kingdom,
If, on the other represslo is use Tamils, we hope th person who has rel Lanka, including o and the business c make their disappro sibly by a trade boyc
We, the undersign ourselves into a express British in Tamils of Sri Lan hope that the Gove state will fulfil the who think best of th Yours faithfully, JOHN FOSTER, DAVID ASTOR, ROBERT BIRLEY, G. MICHAEL SCOTT 2 Hare Court, Temple, EC4. January 1976
Dear Mr.
May
of Friend
generous
Tamils of
by all co
I wi
a copy of
to the Qu
toge
appeal lie
YOUl
With
E. Vaikur
PO Box l3
Kitwe,
Zambia.

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OCTOBER 1983
London Murasu
o?6 REV. MICHAEL SCOTT
ine to tell the anka their busissure them that respect of the these demands other Commonhat have been for devolution, nd the United
hand, violent i against the at every British ations with Sri ur Government ommunity, will
yal known, pos- Rev. Michael Scott, popularly ဖါး”have formed known as “Reverend’ by the Eelam committee to Tamils passed away on 14th Septerest in the tember '83 peacefully. A great friend နှီmရှိ် ဂျီး’မျိုးမှို of Tamil Eelam, his life was spent '#''§ mostly on the side of the Oppressed. el He fought for the Indigenous South Africans, Namibians and the Eelam Tamilians.
- S. Maharasingham (Tamil Action Committee UK)
O CAVEN DISH AVENUE,
LONDON, N w 8 9 JD.
l4th June, l976
Vaikunthavasan,
on behalf of the London Committee ls of the Tamils, thank you for your
donation to the fund to defend the
i Sri Lanka. Your support is appreciated »ncerned. -
.ll certainly ask Sir John Foster for
the Petition he prepared and presented een in 1963, and will forward this to ther with additional copies of the
etter
best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
thavasan, Esq. , À s 35, Awal دا

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Indo-Ceylon Federation
Dear Mr. Waikuntha Vasan,
Thank you for you r l etter en on the Indo-Ceylon federation ide
the Si S With Mi chael SC Ott. We fe
be more Suitable to try to launch an opportunity to di scuss it with Tamils abroad and, best of all, W community at home. Without some a degree of support, it is diffic be presented in terms of its poli you have been thinki ng of these m
Ca re to di S C u SS them further with
Willing to go into them with you.
You wi l l appreci a te that it our major newspapers to publish l to some important recent event an With some representative position Indo-Ceylon federation idea gets the letter columns of our newspap think that it would be possible t been accepted by a substantial bo the Tami l s of both communi ti e S , a I realise that all this may seem woul d b e un real i s t i c to sugge s t t wil li ng to ventil ate such an i de a some s upp ort in the fi el d.

9 CAVENDISH AVENUE,
LONDON, NW 8 9 J D.
17th February, 1978
cl o si ng your big statement a . I have been discussi ng this e il you may a gree that it wou l d this i de a after you ha ve ha d va rious other of your fellow ith Some of the leaders of your discussion and the obtai ni ng of
ult to see how the idea could
ti cal signi fi cance . No doubt atters yourself. If you would
Mi chael Scott , he would be very
is also very difficult to get e tters, unless they a re atta che d d preferably are signed by people
I am not sayi ng that if your going you will not be a ble to use erS to di ScuSS it. But I don't
o a Chieve th i s un til the i de a had
dy of op i ni om , preferably a mong St nd perhaps had some Indian support. a long way off, but I think it hat newspapers here would be
um til i t had be en Shown to ha ve

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If you recall , the one po i n
a b l e to get Some news pa per i mter concerned the fact of your own p others like you. I don't think
with professional trai ni ng are h work i n Engl i s h - s pea ki ng countri language can no longer be used f I am trying to get a former coll you on this subject and hope to
I am sorry not to be able t.
of a dvance of your maj o r i de a .
THE TIMES (LONDON)
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1977
Race conflict in Ceylon
From Sir John Foster, OC, and other's Sir, A tragedy is taking place in Sri Lanka: the political conflict following on the recent election is turning into a racial massacre. It is estimated by reliable sources that between 250 and 300 Tamil citizens have lost their lives and over 40,000 have been made homeless. Limitation on travel is making it hard for correspondents in Sri Lanka to let the world know what is happening.
The Tamils are a community of over two million who flourished under the British, but have suffered discrimination since. They have now lost confidence in their treatment by the Sinhalese majority and are calling for a restoration of their separate mational status, which they had for many centuries before the British came. At the last elections, the Tamil party advocating a separate state gained overwhelming majorities in all Tamil districts. This, no doubt, triggered off the murders, which are said to have been committed either by police acting without orders or with the connivance of the police
At a time when the West is awake to the evils of racialism, the racial persecution of the Tamils and denial of their human rights should not pass without protest. The British have a special obligation to protest, as these cultivated people were put at the mercy of their neighbours less than thirty years ago by the British government. They need our atten) - tion and support. Yours faithfully, JOHN FOSTER, DAVID ASTOR, ROBERT BIRLEY, LOUIS BLOM-COOPER,
AMES FAWCFTT, DINGLE FOOT, MICHAEL SCOTT, 2 Hare Cort, Temple, FC 4.
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t om w h i C h I thought I shoul d b e est i n your story at this time
ers Onal S i tua ti on and those of
i t i s gen era il ly known that Tami l s a v i ng to il e a ve Ceyl on to il ook for eS, Simply because their own or official business at home.
eague at The 0bs er ver to conta ct
a chi e we thi S .
o be more encouragi ng on the pace
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DAVID ASTOR
PONDECHERRY, 1980.

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Held at Headq on Thursday, 5 Oct
President:
-Address by His Excellency Mr. Sp
-Address by His Excellency Mr.
Surinam
-General debate (9) (continued)
“Speech by Krishna (Tamil Eelam Statement by Mr. Hameed (Sri L.
NDAAEROAD
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UNITED NATIONS, (Reuter)- A member of the Tamil ethnic minority in Sri Lanka seized the General Assembly rostrum October 5 and tried to denounce that nation's government just as its Foreign Minister was about to address the 150-nation body.
But the microphone was cut off after he had uttered only a few Sentences and he was led away by Security guards.
The interloper identified himself to start led delegates only as 'Krishna' and said he came from the 'two-and-a-half million strong Tamil llam nation lying between india and Sri Lanka.”
in U.N. Protest
““The Sri L ment is con genocide,' microphone point.
Earlier, he nations, minc Tamil llam ca tations to this where are wet to speak for c
Sri Lanka F Hameed, taki began his spee to thank the tried to steal thereby create
After the in ed, a U.N. him as ..K. said he was former judge ing law in Lo:
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he declared. His went dead at that
said: ' If oppressed rity nations, such as annot make represensupreme body, then o go? Please allow me
ne minute.' oreign Minister Shaul.* ng the incident lightly, "ch by saying: "I wish brevious speaker who my opportunity and a little sensation.'
terloper was questionspokesman identified Vaikunthauasam and
a Sri Lanka-born who was now practismdon.
to have eluded any dentity before enterbly hall by mingling of delegates.
Once inside, he took a seat at the side of the chamber used by diplomats and their guests and hurried to the podium when the Sri Lanka Foreign Minister was called to deliver his address.
The U.N. spokesman said he would be 'escorted out of the building and told not to come back.'
Waikunthauasam told reporters he had come to the U.S. to attend the annual convention of the American Bar Association in New York in August and had stayed on to publicize the Tamil cause.
He said he wanted a separate Tamil state on his island which might then be affiliated to India 'where the Tamils have many more rights.'
He rejected the Sinhala name Sri Lanka, he said, as part of a move to make the island into a 'Sinhala theocratic state.'
After the interview, which took place in the public entrance to the U.N., security guards hurried him away.

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RUTER REPORT OF THE INCIDENT
United Nation
0268/. ZCZC NYB 344 UU L.JP YA l250: Assembly-Tamil :
United Nations, Oct. 5, Reuter- A member seized the General Assembly rostrum today and just as its foreign minister was about to add
But the microphone was cut off afer he h led away by security guards.
The interloper identified himself to sta he came from the "Two-and-a-half-million stro and Sri Lanka . "
"The Sri Lanka Sinhala government is con His microphone went dead at that point.
0268/L ZCZC NYB 180 UÜ UP YAS 1258:Assembly-Tamil 2 United Nations:
Sri Lanka foreign minister Shaul Hameed, speech by saying: "I wish to thank the previo and thereby create a little sensation.
It was the second unusual incident at th
On September 26 Soviet foreign minister the U. N. body and was as sisted out of the ha
After resting for about an hour in the a finish his speech, complaining that the light very hot."
O3 i ZCZC NYB 187 UU LJP Y. 1333: Assembly-Tamil 3 United Nations NYA 18 After the interloper was questioned, a U Waikunthavasam and said he was a Sri Lanka-bo in London.
His London address was not available.
He was said to have eluded any check om hall by mingling with a group of delegates.
Once inside, he took a seat at the side guests and hurreid to the podium when the Sri deliver his address.
The U.N. spokesman said he would be "esc come back."
Earlier this week, Mr. Waikunthavasam to
attend the annual convention of the American stayed on to publicise the Tamil cause.
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of the Tamil ethnic minority in Sri Lanka tried to denounce that nation's government ress the 150-nation body.
ad uttered only a few sentences and he was
rtled delegates only as "Krishna" and said ng Tamil Ilam Nation lying between India
tinuing a policy of genocide," he declared.
NOR
taking the incident lightly, began his us speaker who tried to steal my opportunity
e assembly rostrum so far this session.
Andrei Gromyko became ill while addressing ll by aides.
ssembly president's office, he returned to s in the gold and blue chamber were 'very,
AS NOR. O
.N. spokesman identified him as K. rn former judge who was now practising law
his identity before entering the assembly
of the chamber used by diplomats and their
Lanka foreign minister was called tr
brted out of the building and told not to
.d a reporter he had come to the U.S. to Bar Association in N.Y. in August and had

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After “Eelam” intru
BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, Oct. 6: Tight security measures were brought into force at the UN Headquarters here today following an attempt by a Sri Lankan to interrupt Foreign Minister Mr. A. C. S. Hameed when he rose to address the General Assembly.
Credentials of a delegates are now being closely examined before they are permitted to enter.
Thursday's episode where a man, later identified as K. Vaikunthavasan, walked upto the podium and began to rea a statement denouncing the Government, has created a secur rity poser for UN authorities.
SMUGGLED FMSELF N
The intruder who smuggled himself into the CN lobbies started delegates when he rushed to the podium in the General Assembly. This came when Mr. Hrheed was callied upo by the President of the General Assembly to speak.
Hardly had the intruder read a few sentences from the statement, when UN officials switched off the public address systern. Security guards escorted him out.
An earlier report from Reuter states: A member of the Tamil ethnic minority in Sri Lanka seized the Generai ASsembly rostrum yesterday and tried to denounce that ration's
With Mr & Mrs AMRTHALINGAM 3. - New York, October 1978
 
 
 

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Government just as its Foreign Minister was about to address the 150-nation body. xʻ° :' .. t
But the microphone was cut off after he had uttered only a few sentences and he was led away by security guards.
The interloper identified himself to startled delegates only as “Krishna' and said he came from the “two-and-a-half million strong Tamil Eelam nation lying between India and Sri Lanka.”
"The Sri Lanka Sinhala sovernment is continuing a picy of genocide,' he declared. His microphone went dead at that point.
Earlier, he said: "If oppressed nations, minority nations, such as Tamil Eelam cannot make representations i to this supreme body then where are we to go? Please allow me to speak for one minute."
AMEEO TAKES T L GRTLY
Sri Lanka Foreign Minister A. C. S. Hameed, taking the incident lightly, began his speech by saying: "I wish to thank the previous speaker who tried to steal mv opportunity and thereby create a little sensation.' .
It was the second unusual incident at the Assembly rostrum so far this session.
On September 26 Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko became ill while addressing the UN body and was assisted out of the hall by aides.
After resting for about an hour in the Assembly Presiden's effice, he returned to finish his speech complaining that the lights in the gold and blue chamber were "very, very hot".
After the interioper was questioned, a UN spokesman identified him as . K. Vaikunthavasam and said he was a Sri i.anka-born former judge who was now practising Law in London.
His London address was not available. He was said to have eluded any check tin his identity be fore enticring the Assembly Hall by minglirg with a group of relegates,
Once inside he took a seat at the side of the Chamber used by diplomats and their guests and hurried to the Podium when the Sri Lanka Foreign Minister was called to deliver his address. The UN spokesman said he would be 'escorted out of the building and told not to come back."
Earlier this week, Mr. Vaikunthavasam told a reporter he had come to the US to attend the annual convention of the Amcrlean Bar Association in New York in August and had stayed on to publicise the Tamil cause.
The Chicago-based Bar Association confirmed that he had been a registered participant.
In a later interview, Mr. Vaikunthavasan, who has been living in the College lood area of London, said he was a Judge in Zambia from 1971 to 1976.
tle said he wanted a separate Tamil state on his island which might then be ailiated to India "where the Tamils have many more rights."
He rejected tha Sinhala name Sri Lanka, he said, as part of a novel to make the island into a "Sirihala theocratic state'.
Alter the rarview, which took place in the public entrance t") thc UN, Security guards again hurried him away.

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CEYLON DALYNEWS
7.1O.
Rostrum “thief' marched out of UN Assembly
PC-Relater UNITED NATIONS, Friday. A member of the Tamil etilnic mintirity in Sri Lanka seized the General Assembly Rostrun yeaterday and tried to denounce that nation's Goverriment just as its Foreign Minister was about to o address the 150-nation body.
But the microphone was clé off after he had uttered only a few sentences hind he was led away by security guards.
The it,terloper identified hime self to startled delegates only as 'Krishna' aid Said he came from the "two-and-a-half milion strong. Tanil Eelam na • tion lying between India and Sri Lanka.”
“The Sri Lanka Sinhala. Government, is continuing A policy of genocide," he declared. His microphone went dead At that point.
Earlies, he said: “If opprese ed nations, minority nations ruch Rs Tamil Eelam teannot
make representations to this supreme body, then where are we to go's Please allow me to speak for one minute.'
Sri Lanka Foreign Ministe A. C. S. Hameed, taking the incident lightly, began his speech by saying: "I wish to thank the previous speaker who tried to steal my opportunity and thereby treate a little sens sation."
It was the second unusual incident at the Assembly ros trum so far this session.
On September 26 Soviet Fors eign Mir.ister Andrei Gromyko became ill while addressing the U.N. body and was assiss ted out of the hall by aides,
After resting for about an hour in the Assembly President's office, he returned to finish his speech, complaining that the lights in the gold and blue chamber were, very very hot."
IMPOSTER 0N ROSI
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CO NA - The speaker was the Foreign Minister from Sri Lanka. At least the thought he was - until, rather undiplomatically, he started accusing i, ... of "mass genocide." It dawned upon someone that a mistake had been made. The microphones were quickly cut off. The security men moved in.
The stocky, balding man was not Foreign
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Minigter A.C.S. Hanneed inpoa' at s: f an inposter, who looked enough like Hale t ဝှိ e ܘܶܐ med the podium at the Prey
eral As- said w by yesterday. tried
the unidentified in- portur truder rambled on, two create U.N. security men tdon
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A U.N. spokesman identified him as J. K. Waikunthavasam and sald he was a Sri Lankaborn former judge who was now practising law in London
His London address was mot available.
He was said to have eluded any check on his identity be. fore entering the Assembly hall by mingling with a group of delegates.
Once, inside, he took a sea at the side of the chamber used by Diplomats and their guests and hurried to the podium when the Sri Lanka Foreign Minister was called to deliver his address.
The U.N. spokesman said he would ba escorted out of the building and told not to come back."
Earlier this week, Mr. Wai kunthavasam told a reporter he had come to the U.S. to attend the annual convention
APORE, 6.10.1978
RUM |BLY
re ፯ሒታሄየ፻፪§: d stepped up. wish to thank the ua speaker,” he ith a smile, “who to steal my opity an thereby a little sensa
whole episode about two ninutes : long enough to rare snile to the a 1 y som bir e er. - T - UPI.
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of the American Bar Association in New York but had stayed or to publicise the Tamil cause.
The Chicago-based Bar A - sociation confirmed that he had beer a registered participant.
In a later interview Mr. Walkunthavasan who appeared to be in his 50's said he was a judge in Zambia, from l97 to 1976.
He said he wanted a separate Tani State on his island which might then be affiliated to India "where the Tamils have many more rights."
He rejected the Sinhala name Sri Lanka, he said, as part of a move to make the island into a "Sinhala, theocratic state."
After the interview, which took place in the puolic entrance to the U.N. securit" guards again hurried him away.

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Delegates who understand Russian suspected something was etmiss with Sovict Foreign lwinister Andrei A. Grothyko when tie begai slurring a word or two sherity before he keeted over at the rostruny. Whatever it was that aied tit vceferen Bolshevik not explained. Soviet medical staff worked over him in the General Assen by president's office behind ihe podium, declined help from J.N. doctors. Miracle of modern medical Science, Gromyko returned to the rostrurin in strong voice to complete his address, He bli med the hot lights in the Assembly hail for his indisposition,
Apparently, these are needed for color TV. Under. Secretary-General William B. Buffum ordered the lights turned down a bit after the Gromyko incident. There have been other complaints from delegates. Former Soviet Am. bassador Yakov A. Walik often wore dark glasses because the bright lights bothered him.
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Mr Krishna Vaikunthavasan is well known in Ceylon as one o Trade Unionism among the public servants. As the Gene Government Clerical Service Union (GCSU) he played a si victories won by the marxist parties in the early years of Indep
This publication, coming from the pen of a person with this serve as an eye-opener to anyone who may yet be dreaming of the Sinhalese. Mr Vaikunthavasan has very succinctly brought determination for the Eelam Tamil Nation and the meed liberation from the Sinhala neo-colonialists.
The pressing need of the hour is publicity among the nations Tamil cause. Mr Vaikunthavasan placed Tamil Eelam on th when he took the podium of the UN General Assembly Minister of Sri Lanka. The Tamil Nation owes a debt Vaikunthavasan for that master stroke and for continuing propagating the Tamil demand through this publication. It is u his ability, courage, and untiring efforts for the achievement
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NA COMMUNITY
$1.00 per copy OCTOBER 9, 1978
Impassioned 2 minute appeal.
Ace UP fotog Joel tandau got great pictures of Gronnyk leaning heaviiy on security men who dashed to his aid when he suddenly turned ashen and grabbed the desk for support. Both Time and Newsweek printed Landau's pix.
That of her General Assembly incident, of the phoney 'foreign minister' of Sri Lanka, more amusing, How the London barrister Krishna . Vaikurthayasam ever inenaged to reach the rostrum to deliver his impassioned two-minute appeal in behalf of Sri Lanka's Tamil rn inority stilt a mystery. As soon as President ndalecio Liveano realized Vaikunhayasam was not the real foreign minister, Sahul Hameed, a swich was thrown cutting off the imposter's microphore and guards husted him out of the hal. Flameed treated the incident with typical good humor, saying: 'I wish to thank the previous speaker who tried io.sieil my opportunity and theruby create a little sensation.'
WORD to the book,
Tamil Eelam Nation
and U.N. O.
if the fore-runners of ral Secretary of the gnificant role in the bendence after 1948.
background, should
living in unity with
out the case for selffor Tamil national
of the world for the e map of the world
before the Foreign Mr Amirthalingam of gratitude to Mr
to play his part in p to the nation to use INIMINIIIHIIIHIII||||||IIII
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THE INDEPENDENT
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Did Krishna Vaikunthavasan the Ceyl Assembly by being the first - ever uninvi the speakers podium have an accredited :
Those who held office at the United Nations like Sir Senerat Gunawardene, Sri Lank
a's U. N. Ambassador from
1955 - 58 and who helmed the Human Rights Commission among other U. N, assignments, maintain that security arragements are so tight that sneaking past the security
cordon is near impossible without help from other delegates.
'I know the workings of the U.N. office very well because of my close association with the U. N.' said Sir Senerath, “I am almost positive Vaikunthavasan could not have got into the dele
gate's seats without any help.
U. N. attendance averages nearly 750 delegates at each session. This is worked out on the basis of five delegates to each of the 150 member nations. So that Vaikunthavasan who was earlier a judge in Zambia, representing that country at two Commonwealth Magistrates Conferences in Nairobi in August, 1973 and again in Kuala Lumpur in August, 1975, had contacts in all the African countries as Well as outside.
ACCOMPLCE Speculation points to the accomplice being from the Afro-Arab bloc which along
with Asia di Vaikunthav Marxist. W plice was b admit that spectacular the same p a hijacking, espoused.
It is poi 32 years of (its first mu 1946) no ra like the I.R. A. or even the Ba: an guerilla such a darir sing world a ional proble "Vaikunt political con achieved m Tamil cause
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onese who created history at the United Nation ted, gate-crashing non - delegate to speak from foreign delegate as an accomplice.?
ominates the U.N. "asan was also a hoever his accomoth friend and foe Vaikunthavasan's U.N. raid had ublicity impact as whatever cause it
inted out that in U-N. existence Peting was in Jan. dical organization P. L. O., or the the Red Guard or der-Meinhoff urbs had attempted ng means of focusattention on a nat
havasan," said a mentator, has uch more för the by way of internicity in his three on the U. N. mic. n tie. T. U. L. F. done." He. was " newspapermen
intries represented
Understandably
iews would also 3d
BLAZE e of global pubthe Tamils that asan's UN outburst has embarrassed anka Government y. The President informed of the
incident by a telephone call, followed by a telexed report from Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, the ever-smiling Mr. A. C. S. Hameed. Since then Acting Foreign Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been in touch with Sri Lanka's U.N. office in New York for follow-up action.
The immediate impact of this incident on Sri Lanka is that it is being construed as bad publicity for the Free Trade Zone, the king-pin in this Government'sdevelopment scheme. Government is worried that this will put the clock back on the work now being done.
Apart from the FTZ, the attitude of the World Bank and other donor countries could suffer from the outburst at the UN.
But apart from being embarrassed and angry, what can the Sri Lanka Government do about the cluse of all this trouble - Krishna Vaikunthavasan? They will
find it difficult to have him
extradited from USA - if he is still there-or from Britain, where he resides.
Legal e3gles here say that Vaikunthavasan has not violated any known law. In any case, they argue that the Government will not risk any more publicity on the Vaikunthavasan issue,

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DAWIDASTOR-deSCrib Editor Of the
Hon. DAWID ASTOR, Editor of the
Dear Mr. Va San ,
Thank you very much for le speech that you delivered at t press did not report it at the it would be extremely unlikely to publish it at this late date
I am sorry to say that the purely political books of this
as news or not at all.
I am, however, sending a
Institute of International Aff
hope that it will be made avail. affairs as this. As you probal much frequented by journalists
is by no means just an academic
All best wishes,
C (
K. Vaikuntha Vasan, Esq , 55 Warren Road,
Colliers Wood,
London, SW19 2HY.

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THE INDEPENDENT October 13th 1978
WAKUNS. THE WOLATLE
Who is this Krishna Vaikunthavasan the man who created history at the U.N.
... i. 3 years of age, baspectacled, fair and stocky, he was born and educated in Jaffna. Like most Jaffna Tamils of that generation he sailed into the Government Clerical Service, ruffling the usual serenity of that service with his trade union activi“ies.
Says veteran Trade Unionist and present Chairman pf the Palmyrah Corporation, K. C. Nythianantha “Vaikuns, was a very ebullient and lovable fellow. But we never knew where wa stood with him. He was volatile though great fighter. He was General Secretary of the G. C. S.U. (1947-5)) when I was President.'
Nythi recalls how “Vaikuns' recaived his first baptism of fire in trade union politics. He had moved a resoluion which threatened to cleave union unity. Afer macing a fighting speech he withdrew the resolution and was promptly rewarded with a drizzle of eggs by those he
ieserted. EDTOR
“He was a born head-line maker," states Nythi, recollecting how when Vaikuns was Editor of the Red Tape, the G. C. S. U. organ, he was charge-sheeted for publishing an anti-Government article. D:fending himself at the enuiry, ha den2d authorship. Ha was acquitted but promptly admitted he was the author. For this transgression, he was sacked in 1956.
From 1951-53 Vaikuns edited the only Weekly of that time'“People's Voice". Joining the Marxist forces h2 travelled, accompanied by his wife to China and Russia as delegate to the Asian and Pacific Peace Conference in Peking in 1952 a ni th World Peace Conference in Vienna also in 1952.
Vaikuns then turned lawyer in 196), practising as an advocate in Sri Lanka for 10 years till 1971. He took a dip in politics contesting the KKS seat in 1965 as the U. L. F. candidate.
From the Sri Lanka Bar, he took a leap to the Zambian Bench as Senior Rasident Magistrate. He was quite a well-known figure in Zimbia till he criticized the appointment of a Zambian to a high Judicial post.
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's President would have none of it and so out went Vaikuns from Zambia to the Bitish Bar.
Heré he plunged into Tinil politics, being elected a member of the Standing Committee of Tamils. He advocated an Indo-Ceylon Federation, authoring a book, "The way out for the Tamil speaking People-IndoCeylon Federation,

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THE TRIBUNE
CHANDIGARH, PUNJAB October 7, 1978
Lanka Tamilian seizes U.N. Assembly podium
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6 ( PT”. I . ) -- There" was a minor sensatorn in the UC : N , General Assembly vesterday when a Sri Tảnka Tanilan took charge of the podium briefly to denounce the policy of the Sri Tank Govo e rrin er: t tovvardis the T1ʼa yhnil populatifon as “ʻge:no«ʼ*cia!ʼ.
The public address sv stem was prom "stly switched off bv U.N. officia s va re-: fine yo realised that in of sider has seved the poi Yn instead of the A1 in i Ster for Frog Affairs. Mr Harrid, who was to have been the next speakor
Tha Sri „nka Tamilian Who gave his ame as Krishna insisted that the Assembly should inear the representative of “this is pressed. minority nation of "İTamil Eelam.”
"If Yve cannot make representar tion is re in this Assembly where are we to go," he said. "Flense a low me to speak for ( « y r rn im t i te. T!he S r`) Lar,lka Gov - crnment is continuing the polic v cryf i gen ocsid fe . . . "". He was cut off at this point and U. N. guards Whisked in im out of the hal.

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Krishna Vaikunthavasa in is am unlikely con Iman I. For many years he has practised law in London and before that he was a district judge in Zambia. But for a coupe of minutes, the 55-year-old Sri Lanka familian fo o ed the tuited Nations Circral Assembly in promoting his cause-an independcnt'anni nation rived out of Sri lanka.
It was nearing noon and delegates from the 50 countries in the Assembly had sat stoically through an hour-long speech by the Picident of Cyprus ani another by the Prime Minister of Surinam.
Now if only the Freign Minister of S i lauk: w, vici get over with his diress, the delegates would be able to adjourn for unch.
There is a ritual in thc making of speeches in the General Assembly. Everybody generally kin, ws what everybody e'se is g(x)ng t ) say in a particular day--if they care to real thc clva ince copies of speechcs that arc always availabic. Unless the spcaker comes from a part of the world which is circ}tly making ihcadlines, meist of thc delegates do not even bother to turn thçir earphi. Inies un.
Tammi enn? Now when was that country admitted to tinc ! mited Nation? Thc Asscombly President's face Rsumed a quizzical look; a murmer spread 1hrough the ranks of the delegates,
“My name is Krishna and I come from the two-and-a- half milion strong natic in of Tani : Eelam lying betwcem Sri ianka and India The Sri Inka Covernment is continuing a policy of genocide...'
MicroPHoNE off
At this point a frantic officia threw a switch turning (off the microphone. If this was the Sri Lanka. Furcign Minister, he had certain'y lost his mind.
ut even as succurity nmcn hurried to the rost um frem
distant corners of the (Seneral
Assembly hat, Vaikuntha
vasan continud:
**Wchavc cxcrcised our right co self-determination to liv: as a scparate nation There is evcry danger of thc sanni problem threatening the peace in the Indian region. The problem in Sri lanka wil develop to be as scrious as thic Palestinian and the Cyprus problems unless you, the worii - ieaders intervicine and help in its solution now.'
THE CANBSRRA TIMES, SATURDAY, CCTOBER 7, 178 - 5
UN pretender
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ocide.
The man, identified as Sri Lanka born Mr Krishna Vaikunthavasan, had managed to sit among delegates, UN sources
said.
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Waikunthavasan even sat in the delegates' section in the daily Assembly sessions. “Tù my mind. I told myseif, 'I am a delegate-a delegate for Tamil Eelam,” he said. Tamil Eclin is the Tamil state he wants to see created in the traditional Tamil northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka.
He wouldn't confirm it, but very reliable sources close to the Indian delegation revealed that Vaikunthavasan gained entry to the delegatics' section with a little help from some Indian delegates he had befriended during his J., N, sojourn. of course they were mot aware of what he was planning to do.
People like Amirthalingam who haye fought all their lives for a separate Tamil state, with perhaps some federal ties to the Sinhala regions, are no longer able to resist the Tamilyouth's sali for complete independence. Thero is violence in the air, though Arattalingam discourages it ani hopes to achieve independence for his people by peaceful means through negotiations, but time is running out.
In his mind, Vaikunthavasan had no qualms about what he was planning to do He represented his people aid if the world would not give them an opportunity to preliant their case, he would predent it anyway,
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The Lanka Guardian in its October 15, 1978 issue, cornting on Mr. Vaikunthavasan's daring seizure of the rostrum he United Nations General Assembly said that it was Course the most spectacular exercise in a Concerted Camir by Tamil expatriates to internationalise the Tamil

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INDO-CEYLON
Introduction
In the situation we find ourselves today, the only way o outside assistance.
And if we do not get this in time, there is a real dar In the unequal combat against the majority Governme are bound to face a worse disaster than what took pla Repeated appeals to the world conscience are alone n much talk about non-interference in the internal affairs ( among the super-powers with their own groupings, no fo come to our help unless on two conditions:- Firstly wen result in some advantage to the Nation that offers st advantageous.
While realising that we must have outside assistance harden the Ceylon Government's determination to wip realistic. Whether we openly ask for it or not, it is well knc Mr. S.J.V. Chelvanayagam and Mr. A. Amirthalingam was Chief Minister of TAMIL NADU State. The Ceylc complained about these meetings to Mrs. Indira Gan complaints interalia for the dismissal of the Chief Mini If Andaman Islands 1500 miles away could be part of door step should firstly ask for help from the Indian Gov to join the Indian Federation, in a South Asian set up. This strategy will also make the Sinhala Government to Tamil leaders before what they might fear themselves b We cannot any more remain as a subject people; we ha will to become free; though peace is our ideal, the defence of the people of Eelam.
SJVCHELVANAYAGAM WITH Indian Prime Ministe
 

FEDERATION
there is a regional grouping of the countries rdering on the Indian Ocean on either side of ilia-Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, Irma, Malaya, Siam, Java etc.-present day nority problems will dissapear-"
Jawaharlal Nehru, 536, in his book "The Discovery of India" 1969 n., Asia Publishing House, Bombay).
ut for the Tamil speaking people of Ceylon is to get
ger that we might be wiped out as a Nation. nt, unless we adopta superior political strategy, we xe in Biafra. ot enough. In the present world, when there is so of a country, and when there is increasing rivalry reign power will be prepared to take the risk and to nust ask for such help openly and secondly it must Ich help. In other words it should be mutually
but if we do not openly ask for it thinking it would e us out, this attitude to say the least is not being wn that we have been in touch with Indian leaders. went to Madras and saw Mr. Karunanithi when he n Prime Minister at the time Mrs. Bandaranaike dhi then Prime Minister who in turn used these ister of Madras.
Indian territory, Tamil Eelam which is just on the ernment and at the same time say we are prepared
see the urgent need for it to come to terms with the becoming a minority in a larger set up.
lve the attributes of an independent nation, and the of our rights continues to be the supreme objective
rJAVVAHARLAL NEHRU-COLOMEO 1960
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Ceylon Daily News 10-6-78 (Saturday)
Desai against Federation Cry - "T Londo
Mr. Moraji Desai, Prime Minister of India told a the PM's opinion about a growing movement ther encourage them. They should not do this. They ar
He denied the spokesman's allegation of a gradu Sri Lanka Government is doing this, he said.
These questions were asked during a Press Con
Ceylon Daily Mirror 9-6-78
No Federation with India - London,
Indian Prime Minister Mr. Moraji Desai, on the ev visit to the U.K. when questioned by a spokesma opinion about a growing movement there by Tal encourage them. They should not do this. They ar
He denied the spokesman's allegations of a gradu Sri Lanka Government is doing this', he said.
'Sun' - Friday, 9 June 78
No Federation with La
First
Indian Prime Minister Mr. Moraji Desai yesterday c Tamils in Sri Lanka to press for federation with In
According to a Reuter report the Indian Premier Prime Minister's opinion about a growing moveme had come from a spokesman for the Tamils living
"I don't encourage them. They should not do this.T the spokesman. He denied the spokesman's allegat
"I don't believe the Sri Lanka Government is doi Mr. Desai was speaking to correspondents shortl
(The same news item appeared in all the Sinhalan Hindu and Hindustan Times).
 

hey are Ceylonians - Not Tamilians' in June 8
spokesman for Tamils living in Sri Lanka who asked by Tamils to press for Federation with India: "I don't e Ceylonians and not Tamilians.
Lal genocide' of Tamils in Sri Lanka. I don't believe the
ference Mr. Desai held before he left for New York.
Desai tells Sri Lanka Tamilis Thursday
fe of his departure for New York after a 2 day official n for Tamils living in Sri Lanka, who asked the PM's mils to press for Federation with India said: "I don't e Ceylonians and not Tamilians'.
al genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka-'I don't believe the
nka Tamilis says Desai
page
;laimed that India was not encouraging a move by the dia. is reported to have said this in reply to a query on the nt in Sri Lanka for federation with India. The query
in Sri Lanka.
They are Ceylonians and not Tamilians'Mr. Desaitold ions of a 'gradual genocide' of Tamils in Sri Lanka. ng this' he added.
y before his departure to New York.
2wspapers, Tamil and also in Indian papers including

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Heroisna has been dieserved in Mata from a time beyond memory - acts of bravery and noble quality, hazardous and larger than life. It has crept even into poetry as a heroic Couplet.
The derogatory sense of herois is heroics - highsounding talk, acts of bravado and inconsiderate actions to attract attentio a which come in different forms, shapes and proportions - the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes, the hijack of Sheik Yamani of Saudi A rabia, the ha fassment of the world by the Fatah of Yasser Arafat, the persistent, destructive tenacity of the I.R.A. te remain ia the memory of people, the rescue of the sraelis fron under the insane heel of Amin ... and so many such. Are these acts "heroics" or “heroismo
A mid the rampages of violence and cruelty. ha rassment , deprivation and even genocide - as has been witnessed by the Thamil victims of the massacres within the past 25 years in Ceykon, now called Sri Lanka, when a gent le truth is sounded and set in motion - it may not be seen, but it can be made to reverberate only if the audience can be made to listen.
Such a truth about a perennial crime was thrust into the focus of the United Nations Organisation for two minutes of the world's time.
Mr Krishna Vaikunthavasan, a barristerat-law, now practising in England. after hav
ing served as magisf rata ia 7ga ahisa aad
having represented significant lega institutions at internationa conferences, dared to trespass upon the UN premises and processes - and he dared to say a smal but most significant piece of truth.
On October 5, 1978. after following the accepted procedure with in the Assemble — bow ing to Vir Inde-se la cio I, iv, eano, the President of the WSsembly - Vr Vaikunt havo asam delivo ered the follow ing address:
*Mr President. leaders of the world, if oppressed ininority
nations, such as Thamil Eelam, cannot make representations to this supreme body. then where are we to go
"My name is Krishma and I come from a 2 i 2 milion strong nation οί Thami Eelam lying between Sri Lanka and India.
“Th e Sri Lanka govern ment is continuing a policy of genocide aimed at the destruction of the Thani nation.
"We have exercised our right of self-determination ; to liv e as a separat e nation.
"There is every danger of the Thamil problem threatening the peace of the Indian region.
"The problem in Sri Lanka will develop to he as serious as the Palestinian and Cyprus problems uniess
 

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ou, the world leaders, tervene, and help in s solution now. We ppeal to you for such elp.
"Thank you. I apoioise for speaking withut permission."
DIGNITY
The UN guards u sted Mr Vaikunawasan aw ay as the
ppointed Foreign linister for Sri Lanka pproached the )StrLn.
The magnitude of his act of gent le herom, at this point of istory, is reflected in he quiet, non-violent ignity and skill that irted legalities hich Mr Waikunthaasan would well have
oW.
The delegates repreenting Sri Lanka had stened at the World
issembly to what his uuntry had ignored at ome - the operatives eing: the nation of hani Feiam, the raditional territory of he Thamil-speaking eople for over 2.50 ears, the genocide hrough regular masacres of these Thamil eople, the right of elf-determination ecognis ed as a basic actor in nationhood, ind the factual concept if the nation of Thamil Eelam lying between ri Lanka and India. .
The world has heard his voice. Has the pridi istened? After
such forceful representation, through intrusion. at the World Assembly of Nations, must a people enter into heroics and probable retaliatory violence to achieve the basic right of self-determination
The voice represents a people in pain - always in mental anguish, often in the vortex of physical persecution, without re
course to any recognised authority to interov en e
The thousands of berea ved are silent in their grief he cause noone who hears will eith er do or can do anything against this stifting, systematic and strategically-regular bru ta1ity by this neo-coloniad tyranny composed of a Sinhalese majority govern
ne.
APPEAL
In the name of justice to mankind, appeal for support in this right of the Thamit people of Eelan to determine their future as an independent country. In the final analysis:
"Do not ask for whom the bei tolis;
it tos for thee.” -
Or GNAN T. PERINPANAYAGAM, Baterihellor,

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MORNING STAR saturday June 23 1979
"End repressic
A demand for an immediate halt to the arbitary arrests of young Tamils was taken by these demonstrators to the Sri Lankan High Commission in London yesterday.
The protest was organised by a co-ordinating committee of bodies representing members of the ಙ್ಗion strong minority in the Indian Ocean SafG
A letter handed in for the President of Sri Lanka said his government appeared to be “embarked on a collision course against international opinion.'
The Tamil United Liberation Front's President Mr. Sivasitham declaration from the Governor of the Commonwealth of Mass President Mr. Sivasithamparam, Governor Edward J. King, M Massachusetts, Mr. Sritharan (Organiser and Secretary of Ee
 
 

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on of Tamils'
It said that inhuman acts of torture and imprisonment without trial, against which the Tamils had campaigned for many years, were continuing, despite an international outcry.
The human rights movement Carte (Campaign Against Repression in Tamil Eelam) in another letter, called for the release of all Tamil prisoners, an end to tortures of suspects and prisoners, and the withdrawal of Sinhalese armed forces from the Tamil areas.
Carte recently described the Tamils as “a nation under military siege.'
| kaass - ty S, A. Eeèè* param seen here receiving the copy of the Tamil Eelam achusetts in Boston. From left to right: Mr. Sripathi, TULF arie Elizabeth Howe (Deputy leader of Commonwealth of lam Tamil Association of America).
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The un-BUDDHA behaviour c
147 taken into custody
Photos are those of 27 year old Kanagaratnam Visvajothiratna law Saravanamuthu Selvaratnam.
Both were arrested at their home around 1 a.m. on 14 July 1 found in the morning by the side of the Allaipiddy Road, Jaffr
It could be seen that they had been tortured beyond human
The Government declared an Emergency to be operative il Emergency is still on.
According to the latest authoritative information received on custody since the date of the declaration of the Emergency and
The 60 million strong Tamil People throughout the World c. Police. The Tamils deplore the Un-Buddha behaviour of the JA Anmin?
Published and issued by Eelam Tamils Association 53, Ashen Grove, Win Warren Road, Colliers Wood, London SW 19 2HY.
 
 
 
 

È OF TAMILYouTs
of the Sri Lanka Government
18 reported missing
am alias Inpam of Navaly South and his 29 year old brother-in
979 by a Police party who had gone in a car. The bodies were a.
endurance. n the Jaffna area (North Ceylon) on 12 July 1979 and this
4 August as many as la 7 Tamil youths have been taken into
their fate is in the hands of the Sinhala Police and Army. ondemn this barbarous act of the Sri Lanka Sinhala Army and YAWARDENE Government Is JAYAWARDENE replacing
bledon London SW 198BL for Tamil Co-ordinating Committee (TCC). SS
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Desa MS VaikunthavaBean
I have just received y August and aan horrified to si
The Janata Party Gover its way to be friendly with of Sri Lanka doubt if th
the issue the sufferings of At the nonent all attention I shall see if it is possibl to the notice of the public
Mr K. Vanthavasan Conveno:
anil Coordinating Comitte 55 Warrea Road ollers Nood ONOON, SW19 2H
Mlished and issued by Eelaa Tamils Association S3. Ashen Grove, Wint Varrua Road, Colliers Wood, London SW19 2HY.

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26St 12 Willingdon Crescent New Delhi-10011, India
August 27, 1979
Our letter of the 22nd
ee the en Closures
ninent is going out of the present Government ey will wish to take up the Tamills in Sri Lanka.
13 On Our elleCit10n but e to bring this issue in some other way
Yours sincerely
Indra Gandhi
ledon Loodon SW 19 BBL for Tamil Co-ordinating Coaminae (TCC), $3.

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Price 75 Cts.
Registered as a Newspaper at G. P. O.
VOL. 1
OCTOBE
Mrs. Indira G. JANATA
very clo
Mrs indira Gandhi, now leading op staker, states that the ruling Jauata F not theefoe help solve the Tamili pr
She ay so in a letter to Mr. K. nating Comittee U. K. Mr Waikuntha ab uut a peaceful Solution between t in Sri Lanka and the ll Million Sith
This is the full text of Mrs. Indira Gandhi's reply to Mr.
U
Vaikunthawasan's letter Mr. Vaikuntil
pel'ed into
'Dear Mr. Vaikunthwasn, November,
· pirated ' tb I have just received your the speakers letter of August 22 and b m hori- U, N Assem fied to see the enclosures. The Minister A, Janata Party Government is was due to s
going out of its way to be friendly with the present Government of Sri Lanka I doubt if they will wish to take up the issue of the sufferings
ced to startle that the St ment is conti genocide . .
of the Tamills in Sri Lanka. In his lett Gandhi, Wall At the minment all atten“lon The Tamil is on our el c ion but I shall Committee see if it is posible to bring this thousands of issue to the notice of the pub- Tamil Orga lic in some other way. Yours makes this sincerely, (sgd) INLDIRA birg abc ut GANDH between the
 

(Editor, R. L. MICHAEL)
R 4h 1979 No. 117
andhi savs
A U.N.P.
S6e
inion polls in India in the coming Premier arty is very close" with the UNP and will
vblem"
Valkunthavaan Convenor Tamil Co-ordivasan nad earlier written to her 'to bring he three milion Tamil speaking people
alla majunity'o
N.
havasan was prothe headlines. in 1978 wa hen he e microhene on podium f the bly when Foreign . C. S. Hameed pOak and announld U. N., members i anka Goverainuing a policy of
er to Mrs. Indra unthavasan wrote,
Co - ordinating which represents Tamil and several inizations abroad appeal to you to a pe 3 ceful solution hree million Tamil
speab ing preorle in Sri Lanta and the 11 million Sinhalamajority. Our Committee acts as the link with 1he T. U. L. F.,
at home and functions as it spokesman abroad We are gratefu to you fo having granted an opportinity and met with the Leader of the T U. L. F.,
Mr. A. Amir balingam during the course of his recent visit to India. We are only too conscious of the fact that you are fully aware of the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka......... leaflet issued in this connection is enclosed. Once again we hall be very grateful if yon will please use your inflience and power to bring about a just and peaceful settlement.

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Taniemes advokat Krishna V
Gi Java Maria et hjem i Norge မျိုးမျိုး
(Foto: 0i
un tilhører en Undertryket og stautsligós minoritet
- Dersom Java Maria blir utvist fra Sri Lanka igjen. Og om hun fikk slippe i for forfølgelse. Noen fremtid ville hun ilk
Det er Krishna Vaikuntha Va- ------* sar som sier dette til Bergens BERGENS TIDENDE ONSDAG
Tidende. Vasan er advokat i 1 ---- London og leder for de under
trykte tamilenes koordinasjonskomité, en organisasjon som representerer, og arbeider for, tamiller over hele landet.
 

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uikumtha Vasane i Bergens
Krishna Vaikuntha Watamillenes sak for FNs rsamling -- uten lov. wind Christensen),
Java Maria Nainar er India-tamil, og er stats juridiske rettigheter noe sted i verden. Det er kɛ henne noen i Norge? (Foto: Jan M. Lillebø).
Norge, er det ikke sikkert hun får inn, ville hun etter all sannsynlighe ikke få i noem tilfeller.
3. OKTOBER 1979
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LONDON MURASUKRISHNA VAIKUNTHAVASAN's EUROPEA
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Krishna Wail ing Cormittee (U) of the World in of Propaganda an gle - this time
lt LE MONDE o REC
oLe Mondeo restigious news report of the pr
ing is the text
ENGLISH TRANSAT
Sri Lanka has be Mr. Vaikunthavasan speaking at tinued persecuti
the Frankfurt meeting ration of a Stat
stated Mr.Krishn the Tamil Co-ordinating Committee representing th Tuesday, 13 November (1979) during the Press Confe to Correspondents of the leading Newspapers in Fr the State of Emergency has given unbridled licen torture and kill Tamil youths". According to him humanly tortured and their bodies flung on the pu tody since the Emergency in July and a large numb Mr. Waikunsthavasan met Mr. Maurice Courdault -Mont, (Asia Section) and enlightened him of the Constit Director, OFPRA (Department dealing with Refugees ressed a meeting of over 5OO Tamils in Paris, dur
IN FRANKFURT: Mr. Vaikunthavasan attended and appealed for 1OOth birthday Trotsky Commemoration meeting held Libyan Iranian and German representatives also t OO delegates representing every strata of German speech said: "COMRADES AND FRIENDS
• • • • • • • • • •Is it not ap; cally in the nature of a workers' congress the s Tamil workers are forced to exist in Sri Lanka? i half a million workers continuing to be stateless Sri Lanka nor citizens of India from where their plantations about 1.OO years ago. The beneficiari are not interested to champion their cause Is it the foreign exchange for Sri Lanka by nis tea plu join hands with the other sections of the Tamil c tion and for our very survival as a nation - - - - - -
His speech was reproduced in the socialist p kunthavasan also addressed Tamils of Frankfur Co-ordinating Committee of which Mr. Waikunthava of the Eelam Tamil Cause.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

PROPAGANDA TOUR FOR TAMIL EELAM CAUSE: "o:"*"o
unthavasanthe Convenor of the Tamil Co-ordinat: .), who last year addressed the Foreign Ministers he U.N.General Assembly Spearheaded another wave | Campaign for the Tamil Eelam Liberation strugin Paris and in Frankfurt.
)GNISES TAMIL EELAM STRUGGLE
;he French daily and world's most renowned and
aper (Certified Circulation 584,959) Published a }ss interview given by Mr. Vaikunthavasan. Followand English Translation of the "Le Monde" report
Sri-Lanka
- o LA COMM U NA U TT ft TAV MOULE DU SIRI-LANKA EST VICTIME DE « PERSÉCUTIONS » depuis l'instauration de l'état d'urgence le 12 juillet dernier, a déclaré, mardi 13 novembre, à Paris, au cours d'une conférence de presse M. Krishna Vaikunthavasan, ಟ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ! du 密醬器ရိနိဂ် a s dination tamoul du - a ION: "The Tamil Community Oi | en for long the victim of con- lagocietro
w Y uivre, d'arrêter, de torturer et on especially since the decla 数鲇* jeunesဦ:''ဖူး၌ 0. th| a-t-il affirmé. Selon lui, deux e of Emergency on 12 July last's a Vaikunthavasan, Convener of || avoir été torturés en pleine rue,
e Tamils living abroad, ΟΥ ፵ኒ፰፻፹፰፻፹ኳ፵፱፻ያ፥ግመ; rence which he held in Paris grand nombre a disparu. ance. He further declared ce to the Police and the Army to hunt down, arrest,
two youths were killed after having been in - blic highway. 17 youths have been taken into cuser of them has Since disappeared." agne, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs utional lapses of Sri Lanka. He also met Mr.Clemot and those seeking political asylum). He also adding a film show by the JFI Cine club.
support for the Tamil Eelam liberation, at the in Frankfurt, Germany on November 1st. The P.L.O., bok part and addressed the Meeting, where nearly society participated. Mr. Waikunthavasan in his
bropriate that I underline at this, which is basiavery conditions in which more than half a million l which other country in the wide world you find
for over 30 years? they are neither citizens of orefathers were brought to work in the Ceylon tea ls of the British planter who took thern to Ceylon not a fact that it is the Tamil worker who earns king? the Tamil workers and peasants will have to mmunity in the present struggle for Tamil Libera
up to f
ess- " Arbeiter Presse " of 23rd November. Mr.Wai , and of Monchengladbach while in Germany. The Tamil san is the Convenor is dedicated to the propagation

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TIMES OF ZAMBIA, Thursday, August 23, 1979
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Eттык |
Why persecute
one group of
people only
ON July 12, 1979, a MP Visvaothy Ratnam Inban and his brothor-in-law, a Mr Selvaratnam, were taken from their beds by Sri Lanka armed forces hn Jaffna, after effecting entry into their homes by force.
not seen ave after arrest. Later, their bodies were discovered horribly mutilated- under a bridge.
There were definite of brutal torture e death. They had been skin
adopted by the worst dictato
la regnes. The father of Mr. Inbam,
and murdered by custodians nf the law
We, Tamils of Sri Lanka, fought side by side with the present government for independence, and although 30 years have passed, our people still remain second class citizens and are victims of countless atrocities come mitted by the present govಅಣ್ಣ lice began a di
ро A is turbance tin Jaffna which spread throughout the island and resulted in Laurer ಇಣಾ Tamas.
he police and firmy were responsible for many of these crimes. The Red Cross, War on Want, Oxfam and other relief organisations were prevented from helping the 45,000 refugees anong our people because Sri
denied that the Tams had suffered such disasters.
In 1958, we, Tamils had been brutally attacked and killed by the hundreds. After the 1977 disturbances, nearly 400 Tamils disappeared without trace. These 400 do mot include the known dead.
The police and army have
on the
Tamil youths are denied higher education and jobs. Many hinocent youngsters t arrested from time to
e.
The Sri Lanka president must immediately order his armed forces to desist from attacking, harashing, arresting without cause, torturing and murdering familia youths.
K.VAIKUNTHAVASAN Converner, Tann Co-Ordination Committee, London.

Recognise PLO petition
Calla3.
Tamil leader backs
SUPPORT continues to build 3 up for the News. Line campaign demanding that the British government recognise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
The campaign was backed yesterday by K. Vaikunthavasan, convenor of the Tamil Coordinating Committee in E. Britain.
He said: "The PLO already has observer status at the bönited Nations and throughout the world it is increasingly being recognised as the mouthpiece of the Palestinian people.
"It is the duty of every government, including the British government, to grant it formal recognition because it is already de facto the spokesman, the representative of the Palestinian people.
"After the Peoples Republic : of China came into being in 1949 it took several decades for it to be admitted to the United Nations as well as to be recognised throughout the world.
: "Let there be no such delay formal recognition of the
Adrian Hawke, branch secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association in Aberdare, South Wales, fully supported the call for recognition. He said:
"As your statement says, there can be no peace in the 牌 Middle East without the Palestinians and no Palestine without the PLO.
"The British goversat's role is particulary eri They backed Israel who won't stop short of launching a nutlear attack against the Arab revolution.
Many countries have recognised the PLO but behind ther E support I think many of them still hold the middle ground, for instance the leaders of the
Soviet Union.
3. "The PLO need recognition 3. and more than moral support.'
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CALL ON INDI PUZZLES DIPL(
(By Our Diplomatic Correspondent) DIPLOMATIC quarters are puzzled as to the circumstances that led the Indian Premier, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, to receive Mr. K. Vaikunthavasan, convenor of the London based Tamil Co-ordinating Committee in Delhi last month and receive from him a memorandum highly critical of the policies of the Government of Sri Lanka.
Mrs. Gandhi received the memorandum trom Mr. Walkunthavasan on January 20 this year some days after her spectacular return to
ower.
Diplomatic sources believe that Mirs. Gandhi would no have had the prior intimation
Of the contents of the memorandum or the actual pur
pose of Mr. Vaikunthavasan's c. On her, he sorces CO
tend that the Indian Premier would not hav8 been a willing party to an act of impropriety since Mr. Valkunthavasam represents secessionist forces in Sri Lanka. He has been openly advocating the separatist cause of Tamil extremists and propagating it in several capitals of the world.
With this background, Mrs. Gandhi's gessure might give encouragement to the seper ratist forces in this country. findia and Sri Lanka have age old friendship based on the dedicated principle of Panchaseela - non-interfer ence of the internal affairs of each other,
Obviously the serious Implications of her meeting and receiving a memorandum from Mr. Vaikunthavasan critical of the Government and pol
 

's visit
AN PM OMATS
eles of Sri Lanka have been kept away from her.
Y, Vaikunthavaan han mada capital of this unfor
tunate situation and has pub lished his meeting with Mrah Gandhi with photographs and the
contentas of the memoro
with Indian Prime Minister, MRS INDIBA GHANDI, 28 January 1980
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randum all over the world.
Diplomatis sources Are Bo
tam that had Mr. Gandhi
been apprised of the actual
purpose of Mr. Waikunthap vasans vis to Now Delh
she would not havO Tecelv08 him.
Further, Mr. Vaikunthavao asan would havO 8gAt8-CTAshed into her residence in the glow of her victory and pro sented the memorandum in
the same manner as he did a the United Nation.

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In memory
The passing away of K.C. Nythianantha has removed a key figure from the Tamil community, at a time when his services were most needed to help in the achievement of the obiective of the Tamils.
In the 1930's, in colonial Ceylon, especially in it's capital Colombo, for a Government employee to attend office in the national costume of Verti and flowing banyan was obviously designed to assert our national tradition and pride and not concerned whether the white masters and bureaucrats would be ruffled. This is what K.C. Nythianantha did; that he continued wearing this dress throughout his life is symbolic of the
mans quiet determithation in pursuit of K. C. Nytt his ultimate goal of national liberation, it's first manifest steps being on seeming- the veter ly small matters as one's dress. tradle uni
In the wake of India's independence in 1947, the momentum for neighbouring died on 1
Ceylon's freedom was stepped up by the first-ever general strike by tens of thousands of Government employees, of all ranks, joined by numerically still more private sector employees. Nythianantha played a pivotal role in the conduct of this strike, which, is remembered by all.
Although the strike was brutally crushed (with the police shooting indiscrimately at strikers, resulting in serious injuries to several and the death of Kandasamy), the colonial masters thought the best way to act in the situation was to come to a deal with the Sinhala majority and accordingly power was transferred to them on the 4th February 1948. The plot had been hatched to destroy the Tamils as a nation.
It is relevant to remember that if not for Nythianantha and his band of dedicated colleagues in the Public Service Trade Union Movement, neither Kueneman nor Ilangalaratne would have become political personages in 1947/8 as a result of their election as MP's.
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SHANDY PERINBANAYAGAM
'Nythi" - legend in his lifetime
hanantha,
3. onist,
2 July 1980.
At London meeting with Mr. S.C. CHANDRAHASAN Dr. THAYAPARAN, Dr. K. ARUMUGAM (S.C.O.T.) July 82 - London Wimbledon Centre

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NTERNATIONAL EDTON
to "internationalise' the long
standing grievances of the 1.5 million Tamils. Their basic grievance is that they are secondclass citizens, and victims of discrimination in education, employment, and budgetary allocations for development.
Last May. Tamil professionals living in Boston succeeded in persuading the Massachusetts Assembly to pass a unanimous resolution condemning the "oppresSon of the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka. Massachusetts Governor Edward King wrote to the then President Carter requesting his intervention in the matter as a human rights issue, and the Assembly took the step of declaring May 21 Tamil Eelam’ day.
Violence: An even more dramatic. if somewhat unorthodox, demonstration was the performance of K.Vaikunthavasan, the London-based coordinator of Tamil propaganda activities. He stole into the United Nations building and took the rostrum a minute before Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Shaul Hameed was invited to speak, and made world news by announcing himself as the delegate from Eelam', a country between India and Sri Lanka.
-MERVYN DE SILVA in Colombo
INDA TODAY. FEBRUARY 1-3. # 981
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Sunda BY
TAMIL STATE
CONVENTION
The Rhodesia-style UDI call was originally made in London in October 1980 at a convention at which the members of the opposition Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) were present.
f The TCC has been in existence for a few years and its live-wire is a one-time Sri Lankan trade unionist K. Vaikunthayasan.
The Madurai conference was decided at a meeting in London over by the Editor of the
ndon Murusu (London Voice). It was not a "conference” as such but merely an attempt for a get-together of like-minded people.
TULF AGA NST UD
The TULF has this month openly criticised the UD, made originally in October, 1980 in London. They, though some of their lawyers appear in Madras, even for those charged for smuggling gelignite, do not want to have any truck with the TCC or EROS.
It appears that the TULF is slowly, but surely, weaning from the various Tamil organisations from found the world.
As far as the UDI call was made some TULF members have been present at the London meeting. The vote in favour would have been unanimous except for one solitary vote-that óf opposition leader, Arnirthalingan’s son who, voted against it.
This Is reported to be ret reason for Mr. Waikathavasan to accuse Mr. Amirthalingan and the TULF of boycotting UDI for personal reasinns
TULF
Possibly the to themselves eadership wa all, wasn't it? kunthuvasam of the interi vand A. Amirt Yeader of the Parliament in their territor
At Madurai. SOne mêmbers asked delegate from around t World Tani E rence to have the UDI annou ing a state in
Mr. Amirt invited for this attended it in : a hostel where fifty had asseml
Most of the spoken for til but Mr. Amirth to have spoken posed it.
The friction Amirthalingan kunthavasan w ning to prove. the reasons for M. G. Ramacha: clashed verball Amirthalingam research cond that period is cause Mr. Waik given a pamphl UD which Mr. thought was a document
During the si dom, Mr. Amil earnt to have
thavasan, once
vate residence
what the TULF With this ba TULF was prol to receive a le ember 14, 1981

, December 20, 1981
SWAN N-EXIL
says "ille'
y sensed a threat
in this. Their s in dispute after
Imagine K. Vaias the president state of Eelam halingam only the
opposition of a ot even within
1e CC and
of EROS had ; who had come he wott for the Research Colfea discussion on ncement of havexile for Tamils.
halingam was
meeting and he small room in around forty to olled.
delegates had he Declaration, alingam is said
last, had op
betweeen Mr. and Mr. Vaias only beginIn fact one of Chief Minister, hdran, to have y with Mr. at the main erence during said to be be. Inthavasan had et to him on Ramachandran m officia T'U FF
in Lonallingam S met Mr. Vaikuagain atlasis priand reliterated
position was ckground, the ably surprised tter dated Nova fron ofton
signed Vaikunthavasam of the regarding the definite declaration on Tamil Thai Pongal Day (January 14) for a State in exile.
By letter dated 26th November, 1981, Mr. Amirthalingam 器 with the President of the MP M. Sivasithamparam, replied to Mr. Vaikunthavasam that the TULF was against this move. They wrote back asking the TCC not to put the Tamils in Sri Lanka in a worse plight than they already are R.
Foreign Minister, A.C.S. Hameed, flew almost unannounced to the United Kingdom on Wednesday night and it's anybody's guess that it's regarding UDI.
One major factor against a State in Exile for the Tamils at present is that it is highly unlikely that any nation in the world would recognise it. They do not have any "natural allies' and even their foreign policy is unknown.
The Poles during the war, the Algerians soon after the war and Pol Pot of Kampuchea established Government's in exile. But they had the recognition of many countries. The Tamil UDI of London would be even more helpless than the former Rhodesian UDI for at least Rhodesians (now Zimbabwe) had a definite territory called their own.
Expatriate Tamils in the United States and even in England would surely not run the risk of seeking Soviet block support for the fear of being called Soviet agents in those anti-Soviet countries nor are there any of them in the Soviet Union or its block countries itself.
Sri Lanka has very good relations with all countries. And a state in Exile which is not recognised will have no status in international affairs.
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COLOMBO-2012, 198 SEPARATISTS
URGE THE UN TO SEND IN TROOPS TO LANKA
By JENNIFER HENRICUS
Sri Lanka's diplomatic missions abroad and the intelligence parties have made available to Government details of moves by groups of expatriate Tamils to un lateravy declare the establishment of “Eelam”.
These reports have revealed that the separatis activists abroad, who are planning the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in Janúary have embarked on publicising a demand for a Kampuchean style “Government in Exile” for Eelam.
According to these reports one of the main leaders of the campaign is Krishna Vaikunthavasan, a Londonbased lawyer who created a major furore at the United General Assembly a few years ago when he tried to "hijack' the rostrum at the time when Lanka's. Foreign Minister A. C. S. Hameed was due to address the Assembly.
Vaikunthavasan who calls himself the Convenor of the Tamil Co-ordinating Committee (TCC) with an office in Collers Road, London, has already publicised a draft resolution for the formation of the so-called "Interim Provisional Government of Tamil Eelam” which he says will be known as the "London Resolution'... the reports have revealed.
According to the draft the scheduled (late of the UDI is the Thai Pongal Festival on January 14, 1982.
The reports on the Resolution have also revealed that endorsements for the propaganda of the "Government in Exile" is being, supported by certain Indians. The draft resolution of the TCC names a high ranking member of the Indian Lok Sabha as a supporter.
The TCC in its resolution also urges the United Nations to take steps to ensure peaceful transfer of power from the Sri Lanka Government to the new Government in Exile” of Eelam. It also stresses that the Security Council of the UN has power to intervene and send UN troeps to restore law and ordet.
According to the reports reaching. Government, the TCC hardly hides its admiration of the Indian freedom fighter, Subas Chandra Bose who proclaimed the formation of a Provisional Government of Free India in Singapore in 1943. A group of fanatics styling themselves as "members of an organisation called Azad Ind Sena” who stormed the Trade Mission in Bombay last month, too admitted to following Bose.
According to observers, what has irked most Lankans. ಜ್ಷd ls the new move by the TCC to extort fif
e.
Diri the tu ieve discussion last week bet the. ## ånd the Government, Mr. Åးနိချိဒံinးမှိ”ိုနိမ္ပိ ဗူမျိုးငုd E. party from moves to make a UDI for the
Gelan S3TS.
M. VAKUNAV
 
 

With SIR MUTHTHIAH CHETTIAR, December 1980 Madras University
THE WORLD THAMIL EELAM CONVENTION
Nanuet, New York July 3rd & 4th, 1982
MVY ASAN. Mir PNEDUMARAN presided

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1982.
Britain
No. 1362.
南
By "SUN" Diplomatic Correspondent
Diplomatic initiatives by the Government have put a damper to plans by expatriate groups abroad to unilaterally declare a state of Eelam.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “SUN” learns, has briefed the governments of the countries where the expatriate group's activities
are concentrated.
These diplomatic initiatives were particularly
COncen
trated on Britain where a Tamil co-ordinating committee proposed to declare a government in exile in London on
January 14-Thai Pongal Day.
Guinasena Mawatha, Colombo , P. O. Bok 257, 23834.
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DESTINED TO
FALL
The so-called Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) planned for Thai Pongal was a flop. The wrath of the heavens in the form of a Snow storm descended on the self proclaimed saviours of the Tamil people who whilst shedding crocodile tears in London for the suppusedly discriminated against Tamils were nevertheless willing to sacrifice their brothers and sisters to a blood bath in Lanka.
We are glad that the TULF (the authoritative representatives of the Jaffna. Tamils did condemn this crazy operation in no uncertain terms. The TULF being a responsible party was quick to realise the futility and the insanity of such a declaration.
That the London exer. cise was a flop and we hope also a good lesson not only to the expatriate rabble bent on smearing the good name of their own notherland and to the few youthful dissenters here in Lanka.
The people of Jaffna
know that there is no need for a UDI. Besides the original UDI of the
Smith regime in Rhodesia was moved against a colonial power - Britain. Not against the Zimbabwians. Indeed the Tanils know it was a ludicrous thing to do and that there was no sense in having a government in exile for an ethnic minority of Sri Lanka.
 

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UN Registered as a Newspaper in Sri Lanka.
lam move
“There is no question of supportany kind of recogition or acknowledgement', British High Commissioner Sir John Nicholas told "SUN" yesterday. The activities of the Tamil co-ordinating committee are subject to the laws of United Kingdom, he said.
Although a so-called Tamil co-ordinating committee has said in London that a unilateral declaration of independence would take place on January 14, the committee appears to have run into problems on how to set about it.
Krishna Vaikunthavasan who claims to be a convenor of the committee told “SUN” in a telephone interview from London it has not yet been decided how the UDI would take place. Asked whether the committee had decided to postpone the move, he said “the original date (January 14) ಖ್ಖರಃ. We have not yet decided how it has to be worked out'.
He declined to comment, when asked whether th British authorities had made any contact with the so-call committee in regard to their activities.
"SUN" reliably learns that the British authorities are checking on the credentials of several persons believed to be associated with the committee, Taip is ascertain whether they are legally entitled to remain ia Kritain.
Meanwhile the Tamil United Liberations Bront has written to the TCC setting out its position in regard to UDI move, TULF President M. Sivasithamparam sari yesterday.
The TULF recently issued a statement itself from the reported move of the London-based. Tam co-ordinating committee to unilaterally declare an indeper dent state of Eelam.
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Sri Lankan
expatriates move fails
COLOMBO), Jen, 5. A move by some groups of Sri Lankan expatriates in Europe and the United States to set up a governmentin exile for the Tamil minority has failed, the Sri Lankan Foreign Office revealed here on Monday.
it said the Sri Lankan Government had rnade representations to the authorities in Britain where the conveners of the group calling for a Tarmi "Eelam" had their headquarters.
The rhain group of ~"; triates, describng itself as the Tamit Coordinating Committee" in a "London resolution" had called for the setting up of a government-in-exile following a " ; - declaration of i to be issued on January 4.
Sources said the British Government was checking on the conveners' credentials in order to see whether they were legally entitled to reside in Britain,
The Opposition "Tamil United Liberation Frost' had earlier condemned the expatriates' move saying it would jeopardise the talks between Tamil representatives and the Sri Lankan Government.
Meanwhiko, the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has ordered the strengthening of police forces in North and East Lanka, -UNDPA

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Public (Foreign
Letter No.10147/82-2
From
R. Kirubhakaran, I.A.S., Joint Secretary to Government, Fort St.George, Madras-9
To
Thiru Krishna Vaikunthavasan.
Sir,
Sub:— Foreigners — Thiru Kı Sri Lanka National — .
Ref— Govt. of India, Ministr Telex No.25022/107/82
Reproduced below is an order issued b Foreigners Act, 1946 (Central Act 31 of forthwith: (The Government of India orde
“It has been decided that it is nec public of India to make an order 1946 (31 of 1946) in respect of Mr national holder of Passport No. ( London. Accordingly, in exercise section read with paragraph 3 of th the Central Government hereby made to leave India today itself”.
2). Accordingly you are directed to leav
 

ers-II) Department
Dated 5th November 1982
ishna Waikunthavasan - Deportation orders issued.
y of Home Affairs, /F.VIII dated 5.11.1982.
by the Govt. of India under Section 3 of the 1946) requiring that you should leave India er reads:)
:essary in the interests of the general under Section 3 of the Foreigners Act . Krishna Vaikunthavasan, Sri Lanka GO-108036 dated 27.5.1982 issued at of the powers conferred by the said he Foreigners (Exemption Order 1957), orders that the said person should be
India today itself.
Yours faithfully,
محصصص سمہ گستسامح سے) سلسں سستہ Cހ

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11.11.82
Minor demo at Madras Airp India deports Vaikuntavasar
By Ranil Weerasinghe
Eelam activist Krishna Valkuntavasam, a Lankan residing in London, who was taken into custody by the Madras Police on Saturday was deported from india the same day.
This deportation came in the wake of a telex message to the Madras authorities from the Indian government that the 61-year-old harrister be immediately sent out of the country in the interest of the general public of India.
SUN earns that the swift action by the Indian authorities had come following intelligence reports that Vaikuntavasam was hoping to arnounce the formation of an in
terim provisional government in Madras.
This move by the Indian
government is said to have resulted in the cancellation of a meeting which had been organ nised by B. Nedumanan, leader
of the Kamraj Congrus for later in the day. Vaikuntavasam vho up his Sri Lankan pas arrest by the Madras claiming that he did long to the country w, ever provided with emergency passport to him to enter England.
In view of the fac “Eelam” is not recogn ternationally, the na entered in the passpo “Sri Larikan.
Immediately prior departure a few person staged a demonstratio1 side tha MAn for A & Airnor
Lanka's Deputy high missioner in Madras, Samarasinghe told "SU on Saturday he had bel formed that the national Waikuntavasam he deported. Later, issued an emergency to the London based who had been deporte same day.
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NDAN EXPRESS
Sri Lankan detained in City, to be deported
By Our Staff Reporter
A Sri Lankan national, Krishna Vaikunda Vasan (61), was detained by the City police on Saturday. for deportation.
The Sri Lankan was staying in the City as guest of Mr. Nedumaran, TNKC leader, for the past one week. He was detained following a telex massage from the Union Government seeking his deportation from India immediately in the interest of general public of India.
Mr. Vaikunda a Vasan surprised the police when he took out his Sri Lankan passport and tore it up saying that he did not belong to that country.
The deportee, presently living in London, is a retired judge of Zambia, and is working for the cause - of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
It was Krishna Vaikunda Vasan who barged into the UN Assembly two years ago while it was in session, seized a mike and appealed to delegates to support the cause of "Tam team”.
NDAN EXPRESS
7.1182
Vaikuntavasan Surprised
Krishna Wakuntavasan, Tamil Eelam keader, on Sunday night exಙ್ಗsed surprise at his deportatOn.
Before boarding aircraft bound for Bombay, he told UNI: "I have done nothing to emarrass the Government of India. I am being bundled out of the country without even being served with a show-cause notice".
He said he had come to India on a visa issued by the Indian High Commission in London and valid for three months.
Mr. Vaikuntavasan was escort
ed by an intelligence oficial on the flight, g

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CEYLONDALYNEWS
25.4.83
(T. Sabarahnam reροτέας τοπα New Delhi)
-Rao speaks out
Indiam Foreign Minister Narasimha Rao yesterday said
About the terrorist
movement in Jaffna, he said: "India's policy
on the agitation in Sri Lanka for a separate Tamil state is weli known, We have consistently maintained that this is an internal problem for Sri Lanka, to resolve. My Government scrupulously abdes by this position,
"May I point out that we arrested the terrorists who were involved in a shoot-out in Madras last year and they are currently being tried under ndan law. We also requested a prominent Tamil activist, Vaikunthavasan, to leave India when we learnt that he was trying to set up a vaft† self-styled by the Cit governet-in-exile.' for depo Express" ha The Sri the City : maran, TN) orie Yveek following a the Union ltis deporta diately in
 

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rs up Sri Lanka passport
dia deports
elam lead
ΘΥ
ikuntawasan
nkan national, Krishna asan (61) was detained y Police con Saturday,
tation, the "Indian s reported.
Lankan was staying in
is guest of Mr.NeduKC leader, for the past . He was detained telex message from
Government seeking tion from India immethe interests of general
public of India.
Mr. Vaikunta Visan suðriptised the Pice when he took out his Sri Larkan passpcrt and tore it up saying that he did not belong to that country.
ihe deportee, prescity tivi, ir London, is a retired Judge of Zambia and is working for the cause of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
It was Krishna Vaikunts Vasan who barged into the UN Asserny two years ago whi: it was in Season, seized a mike and aigeaied to delegtes te support the cause of "Tamil Eelam”,

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he only regional English pape
Saturday ReWeW November 13, 1982,
What caused Waikunthavasa
deportation?
Did a false alarm that London Barrister Krishna Vaikunthavasan was getting ready for the setting up of an Interim Provisional Government of Thamil Eelam in Tamil Nadu cause his deportation from India last Saturday?
This is the speculation in Tamil Nadu political circles who say that the Indian Government now in the process of grappling with the separatist Akali agitation in the Punjab did not want to risk any publicity concerning a separatist agitation in a neighbouring country to befoul the political atmosphere in India, particularly when the Indian Government's negotiations with the Akali leaders had reached a critical and delicate stage.
Mr. Krishna VaikunthaVasan who was in Tamil Nadu as the guest of the Tamil Nadu Kamaraj Congress Leadef Mr. P. Nedumaran surprised the Police when he took out his Sri Lanka passport and tore it up saying that he did not belong to that country.
It will be that Mr. Va sponsored a the World Tl Convention h York last Ju setting up of Provisional G Thamil Eelam. tion was hc passed at the but referred tc tion Council set up with of the TULF Amirthalingam
Meanwhile paper circular don by the Co-ordinating recently a bli the setting up sional Gove outlined.
The working inter alia :
“The Free a provisional in exile first in then in the UK Second World was recognised lies. Subhas C

in
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remembered ikunthawasan resolution at namil Eelam eld in New ly for the an Interim overnment of This resolu) WeVer nOt Convention o the Liberawhich was the blessings F Leader A.
l.
in a working ised in LonTamil Eelam
Committee ue-print for of a Provirnment Was
paper states
French had Government Algeria and K during the War which by the Alhandra Bose
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had a provisional Indian National Government during the Japanese occupation which was recognised by Japan and other Axis Powers. Even during peace time Jawaharlal Nehru presided over an interim Government in India which is a form of provisional government pending the transfer of political power by Britain to the people of India. Even today there is a provisional Government in Wales in the United Kingdom which is recognised by only the people of Wales and those organisations which are in sympathy with the Welsh claim for separate nationhood. Thus provisional governments exist under varying political situations and in various forms. . . .
IN MADRAS, BOSTON
OR PARIS
“At present, a number of provisional Governments function in different parts of the world such as the Iranian Government in exile in France headed by Bani Sadr, its former President, the Kalistan Government (Punjab) in Canada, the Welsh Government in Wales.
“The PLO is likely to form its Government in exile in the near future.
“The Thamil Government naturally has to be formed in Thamil Eelam. If this is not possible in the immediate future, then the next place would be India (Madras) or Boston or Paris....'

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March 6, 1982
We publish below the ful text of a Press Release issued by Krishna Vaikunthavasan, Convener Tamil Co-ordinafing Committee: Editor Saturday Review
55, Warren Road, Colliers Wood London SW 12HY9.
As the storm of controversy which preceded the Declaration of the Tamil Belam independence on Pongal Day (14th January) is moving away, it becomes necessary to review the whole matter in its true perspective. Also the question that naturally grips the mind of every politically conscious Tamil is What next?
As it is now well known, the Declaration was properly made with all solemnity in a very appropriate form, namely the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Again appropriately it is the Tamil patriots who took the initiative and made the hisoric Massachusetts Resolution and Declaration possible in 1979 who have now made the Independence Declaration, supported of course by many others from New York as from distant places.
Now to the question,- What next?
The Leadership of theTamil United Liberation Front (TULF) has still a crucial role to play. All types of attacks were made against the TCC and its Convenor in a desperarte effect to prevent them from making the Declaration in London. No one from the TCC ever said that the Declaration would be made in London. All along from the time we passed the resolution in August 1980, the only issue was the
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the Declaration ngal Day 1982. voaid have been e TULF made tion in Tamil ongal Day. But, p became frighttle girls and even cks to frighten by scare stories oodbath etc. as ocide plans could e than the mad in of the presti
public library X0 precious books ble manuscripts.
that the Declaration was to be made in New York and not in London, it is possible that the Sri Lanka Government would have sent its External Affairs Minister Mr. Hameed to see the US Authorities instead of his secret trip to London well before Pongal Day to meet Mrs. Thatcher, the British PM, in an effort to put a stop to the Declaration in London. The TULF Leadership also would have extended its smear campaign against the American Tamils.
rishna Vaikunthavasan
knew that the was not going to we did the next o make the Declhe World Forum N. If we had blic beforehand
We know all the time that Mr. Jayewardene's UNP Government continues to be against the very idea of independence for Tanails and obviously therefore against any step
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towards Tamil freedom. But what has intrigued us, is Mr. Amirthalingamʼs sh a m e f ul atitude, especiaily after the so-called 6 months “morato rium' no-Eelam talks with Mr. Jayewardene?
Some ask: Who gave the Authority to the TCC, in the first place, to decide on such matters as the said Independence Declaration?
We reply: Who gave the mandate to the TULF Leadership to come to anagreement with Mr. Jayewardene to stop talking about Eelam Independence for 6 months? What happens after this 6 months? General Elections? Tamil MPs to go to the ancient Kotte S in h a la Kingdom'
The truth is: Questions of authority are raised only when what is to be done is against the the interests of those who make the query, at the given time.
Now, when 1 addressed the General Assemely of the United Nations in New York s5-10-78) and raised for the first time the issue of Tamil Freedom (incidentally also the fate of such Nations as the Basques) no one in the world gave me any authority mandate. Indeed no one knewnot even my wife-that I was going to address the UN.
But because what I did at that time suited the thinking patterns of the TULF Leadership, vir. Amirthalingam praised me (in his foreword to the booklet-"The Tamil Eelam Nation and the UNO”);- Tamil Nation owes a debt of gratitude for that master stroke,” and Mr. Sivasithamparam on his return from Boston after his brave address to the Honourable em
Saturday
bers of the
State Assembly at a big public in London saic Vaikunthavasan the UN remin first words ut Armstrong as : foot on the M one step form Step for mank
That is how Leaders respon have nothing p these leaders. true that Mr. has been in p adult part of He keeps on he has been a 34 years. So,
It is not th years - it is nc time you have What counts is
Talking, rep for Tamil Eela to deceive the any more. B candidates get inst the UNP, mean that the and give you for whateveryo be realistic. At ctions, it is people voted f But the crucia against anti-Ta candidate who for Tamil Free rally preferred. the Tamil T mandate as ag hala UNP. Mr. can't therefore Tamils are mandate for. does.
The mandat the July 1977 tions to secure respect and ia the Tamils. In it was given it

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Massachusetts ! in vay 1979) : meeting held l:- “What Mr. has done at ds me of the tered by Neil soon as he set oon:- “This is an; but a giant ind”.
both the TULF ded then. I ersonal against After all, it is Amirthalingam olitics for the his life. True. repeating that ut it for over What? e number of ot the period of been at itthe Net Result.
eating, We are um is not going Tamil people ecause TULF elected as agait does not people endorse the mandate u do. We must the DDC elletrue that the or the TULF. 1 point is: As mil UNP, any says he stands dom is natuSo that is how ULF gets the ainst the SiimAmirthalingam boast that the giving him a everything he
e was given at General Elecfreedom, self degundnce fo; the context E meant only
one thing:- The attainment of a Sovereign, Independent and Socialist Eelam.
ln all earnestness, we ask Mr. Amirthalingam:- Please tell the Tamils (without verbiage), in point form:- What have you done for the last 43 years to achieve the goal' Any solid, positive step taken? True, when the Tamils are hit, killed, raped and otherwise injured and destroyed, some MPs run to New York, London ete. (even Taiwan), often on invitations from Tamils (Boston included); then address public meetings, hold discussions etc. But with what result
As we correctly anticipated the Pongal Declaration has generated so much of polie tical clout both in Ceylon and outside. A journalist of international standing, Mervyn. de Silva, sent a report to the BBC on the significant and, implications of the Declarition which was duly broadcast by the BBC in its THAMIL OSAI and many other languages on 12th January. The TIMES, London, had a news item on 16th January on our Declarations. s: . . . . .
The making of the Indep' endence Declaration in New York must now serve to jolt the TULF to summon the National Assembly of TAML EELAM. as they promised in 1977.
For nearly 400 years the Eclavi Tatni!s have been cinder foreign domination. Now that a great step towards our freedom has been taken on Pongal Day, Let us take stock of the developing situation both in Ceylon and outside and then proceed to the next stage.
Krishna Vaikunthavasan
Convener, TCG.
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TCC EXPLAINS
TAM11
UDI - WHAT NEXT? .
As the storm of controversy which preceded the Declaration of the Tamil Eelam independence on Pongal Day (14th January) is moving away, it becomes necessary to review the whole matter in its true perspective.
As it is now well known, the Declaration was properly made with all solemnity in a very appropriate forum, namely, the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Again appropriately it is the Tamil patriots who took the initiative and made the historic Massachusetts Resolution and Declaration possible 1, 1979 who have now made the Independence Delaration, supported of course by many others from New York as well as from distant places. Thillaiampalam Sri Kanthan deserves our continuing support for his grit, determination and exemplary courage in taking the lead by successfully carrying out the Declaration.
Now to the question, What Next? The Leadership of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) has still a crucia role to play. All types of attacks were made against the (TCC) and its Convener in a desperate effort to prevent them from making the Declaration in London. No one from the time we passed the resolution in from the TCC ever said that the Declaration would be made in London. All along from the time we passed the resolution in August 1980. Indeed we would have been Jubilant if the TULF made the Declaration in Tamil Eelam on the Pongal Day. But, the Leadership became frightened and even tried all tricks to frighten others also by scare stories of a new blood bath etc. As if Tamil genocide plans could become worse than the mad burning down of the prestigious Jaffna Public library with its 97,000 precious books and irreplaceable manuscripts.
When we knew that the Leadership was not going to do it, then we did the next best thing - to make the Declaration in the World Forum itself - the UN. If we had made it public beforehand that the Declaration was to be made in New York and not in London, it is possible that the Sri Lanka Government would have sent its External Affairs Minister Mr. Hamid to see the US Authorities instead of his secret trip to London well before Pongal Day to meet Mrs. Thatcher, the British PM, in an effort to put a stop to the Declaration in London. The TULF Leadership also would have extended its smear compaign against the American Tamils.
We know all the time that Mr. Jayawarden's UNP Government continues to be against the very idea of independence for Tamils and obviously therefore against any step towards Tamil freedom. But what
has intrigued us, is shameful attitude, so-called 6 months Eelam talks with Mr. Some ask: who gav TCC, in the first pl. such matters as th Declaration?
We reply:- Who gav TULF Leadership to with Mr. Jayaward about Eelam Indeper Then what happens : General Elections? ancient Kotte Singhal
In Our last issue, editorially commer certain reports in London based Tami mittee’s UDI move. no information abou and some others ha petition at the Uni
York.
Now, Mr. K. Va. capacity as Coпуето correspondent that officially met and a postpone the anno reported by us in ol
the only decision t
informal meeting of January 1982 was no regard to UDI in Lo Mr. Vaikunthavast press release with a given publicity, hesitation to acced stand by our report the TCC to postpon ment having confir our report with othe
The truth is: Ques raised only when w against the interests ( query, at the given ti Now, when I ad Assembly the U. York (5. 10. 78) an time the issue
(incidentally also the as the Basques), no me any authority/m But because what I the thinking patte Leadership, Mr. Am (in his Forword to Tamil Eelam Nat. "Tamil Nation owes that master stroke'. That is how the
ponded then. I ha against these leaders

By
Vaikunthavasan Invener, T.C.C. Mr. Amirthalingam's respecially after the “moratorium” noJayawardene?
the Authority to the 3Ce, to decide on e said Independence
e the mandate to the come to anagreement ene to stop talking idence for 6 months? after this 6 month's Tani MPs to the a Kingdom?
readers will recall, we ited and published connection with the l Co-ordinating ComAt that time, we had tt Mr. T. Sri Kanthan ving presented a UDI ited Nations in New
ikunthavasan, in his of TCC has told our the TCC never ecided to indefinitely uncement of UDI as ur last issue, and that hat was made at an the TCC held on 12 it to take any action in indon on 14. 1.82. an has since issued a request to us that it be While we have no e to his request, we about the decision by e the UDI announcened the correctness of r members of the TCC.
tions of authority are hat is to be done 1s of those who make the me. ldressed the General nited Nations in New di raised i for the first of Tamil Freedom fate of such Nations one in the world gave andate. did at that time suited erns of the TULF irthalingam praised me the booklet - 'The ioni and UNO”):- a debt of gratitude for
TULF Leader reslve nothing personal
February 1982
PETTON PRESENTED AT UN
A delegation from "Independent Tamil Eelam - 1982” led by Mr. T. Sri Kanthan visited the offices of the United Nations
on January 14, 1982 and presented a document entitled
DECLARATION OF NDEPENDENCE FOR THAMIL EELAM.”
The delegation comprised of T. Sri Kanthan, R. Shanmugalingam, D. Chanmugam, and T. Sritharan, all living in the United States.
The Original of the Declaration was read before the officials of the United Nations
and signed by the delegates in their presence.
The following is the text of the
acknowledgment of the Declaration and is signed by Pillar Downing and dated 14 January 1982:
"This afternoon, a delegation of "Independent Tamil Eelam 1982” composed of Mrs. R. Shanmugalingam, Thillaiampalam Srikanthan, Duraisamy Chanmugam and Thillaiampalam Sritharan of Sri Lanka, visited this office and presented a copy (attached) of a petition named "Declaration of Independence for Thamil Eelam.”
"The Original of this petition was at the Petitioner's request kept for the use of the Delegation presenting it. “. . .
"This office explained that the attached copy will be transmitted for information to the Division of Human Rights.'
The January 1982 issue of Tamil Times, reported the postponement of the UDI move by the London based Tamil Coordinating Committee. At that time, Tamil Times was not in possession of any
information about the presentation of the
petition on 14. 1. 82 by the American Tamil Delegation.
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Talking, repeating, "we are for Tamil Eelam” is not going to deceive the Tamil people any more. . Because TULF candidates get elected as against the UNP, does not mean that the people endorse and give you the mandate for whatever you do. We must be realistic. At the DDC elections, it is true that the people voted for the TULF. But the crucial point is: As against anti-Tamil UNP, any candidate who says he stands for Tamil freedom is naturally preferred. So that is how the Tamil TULF get the mandate as against the Singhala UNP.

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TAMIL TIMES JANUAR 1982 THE U.D.. MOVE
TULF DISSOCIATES
"No one can arrogate to himself the right to take any action fraught with serious consequences to the Tamil people in Ceylon', so declared the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) in a strongly worded statement made in connection with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Tamil Eelam move by the London based Tamil Co-ordinating Committee (TCC).
Following a unanimous decision of the Working Committee of the TULF to dissociate itself from the UDI move, Mr. M. Sivasithamparam, MP, President of the TULF and Mr. A. Amirthalingam, MP, Leader of the Opposition and Secretary General of the TULF issued a joint statement, the excerpts of which are as follows:
“We are fully convinced that this is ill-advised and will not advance the Tamil cause one wee bit.
'We informed them that the fate of the
Tamil nation had to be decided by the
people themselves, and that no one can arrogate to himself the right to take any action fraught with serious consequences to the Tamil people in Ceylon.
"Again when this matter was raised at a
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JANUARY 18 1982 :
Emergency ends in Sri Lanka
Colombo. -- The state of emergency declared in Sri
Lanka in August last year when 12 people died in communal riots was allowed to lapse at the weekend. The energency was extended ast nonth after reports that Tamils living in Britain and the United States intended to make a unilateral declaration of independence of a Tamil state of Eelam in Sri Lanka
and it was feared that this could cause un rest. The muves did not materialize.
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conference of ove 1981 at Madurai i. rejected any such requested them to 'When the Sec TULF met the m London in June, 1 that the TULF di proposed action decision to declare taken by the accredited repres
realisation of the action and not by of miles away insu their action and r what they did.
"If, in spite of and advice, anyo to indulge in an a no authority from the TULF has dissociation from behalf of the Tam TULF their mand which objective th a full sense of its 1
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rseas Tamils in January n India, we categorically adventurist action and drop this move. retary General of the embers of the TCC in 981, they were informed sociated itself from the on the principle that a independence had to be people through their entatives with a full
consequences of such a group living thousands lated from the effects of esponsible to no one for
those repeated warnings ne takes it upon himself ction, for which he has the people concerned,
to make public its
such a declaration on il Nation, who gave the ute to win their freedom, e TULF is pursuing with responsibility.'
avvath, Colobo 1257, 23884,
mber 21 1981 NMENT EXLE
on Tamils are out to create lea and the godetermined not It тapping. It is
to crackdoor of violent act. ay be launched
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by Tigers in Sri Lanka to concide yith this neup
Lofton offensive.
We commcmd, the TULF for its forthright condenction of both the London Tamils and the UDI. Tre TULF knows that this is a cgi?pgign planned to jeoprise thane and friend. diclogica aaay proceeding batseen itsclf and the iyong parti.
Te government has deeast to estand the State of &Sigistry ... the upcke of t:ă fiic: liblicised sinister iar of the Tamil Co
Estig Committee in ****: ve jar the Uniscarcieclaration of Indepadefice of a State of Eear of JuTuary 14.
he conceived crusade for a separatist state is nop old hat as far as the Tamils of Lanka are concerned. It is only a few misguided groups living abroad and out of time with the aspira. tions of their people that stil demand it.
The futiler ecercise to establish a 'government in ecile' which these political opportunists styling them. selves as "Tamil Co-ordi. nating Committee' are intent on is a fleeting dream induced perhaps by the cold and the hardships of the onsetting severe Win. ter de that part of the Soorld

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TAM L TIMES
JANUARY 1982
A WELCOME DECSON
We welcome the decision of the Tamil Co-ordinating Committee of London to postpone indefinitely their move to unilaterally declare independence and set up an interim government in exile of Tamil Eelam.
We believe that the Tamil people of Sri Lanka are entitled to their inalienable right of self-determination and this implies the creation of a separate state if they so desire. Whether and when and in what circumstances that right should be exercised is a matter for the Tamil people to decide through their accredited leadership, both inside and outside Parliament. What we are certain about, and we believe non-debatable is that any move in that direction should enjoy the support of the vast majority of the Tamil people living in Sri Lanka. No decision or formula, however well intentioned, should be superimposed on the people against their will. The expression of that will can only manifest through the political institutions they themselves have created and which are directly accountable to them.
Various views have been expressed about the UDI nove, some severely critical. We do believe that there are also sections of Tamils who consider that the move should have been proceeded with. However, taking into consideration the probable serious consequences that would have been inevitable if the move had been proceeded with, and taking into account the controversy that had been aroused as to the advisability and timeliness of the proposal at this juncture, we are of the view that the decision of the TCC to postpone was a wise one.
The very fact that a date for the declaration of unilateral independence was fixed and some groups did in fact take certain token steps on 14th January shou alert the authorities to their responsibility to resolve the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. If they do not, posterity will not forgive them for the inevitable consequences that are bound to follow by their inaction.
 

பேரறிஞர் அண்ணா 1909-1969 மறுமலர்ச்சித் தமிழை மலர வைத்தவர்
ANNA - First DMK Chief Minister Of Tannil Nadu
Mr. A. T. S. RATNASINGHAM
IShri Ganapathy Temple, Wimbledon
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1 O TAMIL TIMES APR
INTERNATIONALSATION Ol EELAM STRUGGLE: A REV|
by Sachi Sri Kantha University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
4. PURUCITY The last of the strategy, publicity, is still in its infancy, and this may be in part blue to lack of funds. One notable example of this strategy was made by Krishna Vaikunthavasan, when the United Nations General Assembly was in session, during Oct. 1978. On 5th October, 1978, the B.B.C. World News reported:- At the U.N. General Assembly, there has been a demonstration in support of thdij.amil minorify in Sri Lanka. Just as the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister was approaching the rostrum to speak, a mard rushed forward and said, he wanted to make an appeal on behalf of the Tamils, who he said were victims of genocide by the Sri Lanka government. At that point the microphone was cut off and the man was led away by a guard. The protestor was later identified as a former Sri Lankan judge, now living in London.
(Thamil Eelam in 1982; p.22) The official version of this incident, as reported by the "United Nations Official Bulletin', is as follows: "... That other General Assembly incident is of the 'foreign minister' of Sri Lanka. How the London Barrister, Krishna Vaikunthavasan, ever managed to reach the rostrum to deliver his impassioned twominute appeal on behalf of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is still a mystery. As soon as President Indialecio liveano realised Vaikunthavasan was not the real Foreign Minister, Sahul Hamid, a switch was thrown cutting off the imposter's microphone and guards hustled him out of the hall...'
(United National Official bulletin, Oct. 9, 1978; quoted in Thamil Eelam in 1982; p.23)
Reputed Sri Lanka journalist, Reggie Michael, writing in the "independent' of October 13, 1978 observed:- "Did Krishna Vaikunthavasan, the Ceylonese who created history at the United Nations Assembly by being the first ever, uninvited, gate-crashing, nondelegate to speak from the speaker's podium have an accredited foreign delegate as an accomplice?" 'Speculation points to the accomplice being from the Afro-Arab bloc, which along with Asia dominates the U.N. Vaikunthavasan was also a Marxist. Whoever his accomplice was, both friend and foe admit that Vaikunthavasan's spectacular U.N. raid had the same publicity impact as a hijacking, whatever cause it espoused. ۔” "It is pointed out that in 32 years of U.N. existence (its first meeting was in Jan. 1946) no radical organisation like the P.L.O. or the I.R.A. or the Red Guards, even the Baader-Meinhoff Urban guerrilas, had attempted such a daring means of focusing world attention on a national problem . . . This publicity stunt of Vaikunthavasan caused a panic among the Sri Lanka politicians, as evident from the Parliamentary proceedings of Oct.20th 1978 (hansard, vol.1, no.8, 20th Oct. 1978, cols. 762-763).

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PERIYAR E.V. RAMASAMY
சுவாமி ஞானப்பிரகாசர் 1875 947 தமிழ்ச் சொற்பிறப்பியல் அகராதியை
ஆக்கியவர்
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ILONI)ON MURA
Indo-Tamil Eeela Krishna Vaikunthavasan to enlist
Krishna Vaikunthavasan, the roving campaigner who rai issue at the United Nations General Assembly in October 197 for an “Indo-Tamil Eelam Confederation” move at the f tional Tamil Conference to be held in New York from June Mr. Vaikunthavasan is also proposing to reprint his book on tion with the title: INDO-TAMIL EEELAM CONFEDERAT
first published in March 1978.
Krishna Vaikunthavasan's proposed Indo-Tamil Eelam Confederation is to be based on a plan to set up an autonomous Tamil Eelam State having a confederated status with Indial Here are some excerpts from his earlier book:
In the long history of the Tamil speaking people of Ceylon, never before have they faced so critical and crucial a time as the present, That the Tamils of Ceylon constitute a separate Nation, divided from the Sinhalese Nation by territory, language, religion and culture is undisputed. They have lived in Ceylon from time immemorial and had their own Kingdom for several centuries in Jaffna till the Portuguese conquest in 1619. Afer the Dutch, the British ruled Ceylon from 1796 first from Madras and then from Colombo as the capital.
When the British in 1945 sent a Royal Commission under the Chairmanship of Lord Soulbury to examine and recommend proposals for constitutional reforms after a rule lasting a century and a half, both Tamils and Sinhalese demanded their complete freedom, Lord soulbury although he was able to understand and appreciate the magnitude of the problem of the
Tamil minority howev assurance given by the Ministers that the riigi Tamils wil be safegua
We must transform for Eelam as a move Ceylon and India in tion. This step of extrer step in line with the pi Government. This wil South Asia grouping i ladesh, Burma startin, Federation eventually Parliament. In this set, Sovereign Republic wi eration. These are som of the European Parli the USA, USSR hav : is TEa Feder
rgely on e, c could be Ε to
The economic, ea advantages to come to eration are enorous Indo-Ceylon merger n, tum on both sides of support will be vast in Tamil Nadu and Cey
Presenting Memo to VE
 
 

APRIL 1984
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90p NO
m Confederation support at the New York Conference
sed the Tamil Eelam , is to enlist support rthcoming Interna50th to July 2nd '84. Endo-Ceylon FederaON. The book was
r he was swayed by the
then Sinhalese Board of its and privileges of the rded. . . . . . .
and broaden the demand 'ment for the merger of he Indo-Ceylon Federane practicality is merely a esent trends for a World l be in the context of a ncluding Pakistan, Bangg with the Indo-Ceylon to lead to an Afro-Asian up, there will be a Sinhala E, right to join the Fedething similar on the lines ament. Great Powers like e Federating State Units. al State with Units based "ulture etc. This principle he new Federation.
ducational and scientific Eelam through this Fedand gigantic. Once the Novement gathers momenthe Palk šGRÉ the first to ಬೀಗ of Tamils both in
7.
What we must realise is that our demand whether for Eelam or Federation with India will be resisted bitterly by the vast majority of the Sinhalese. :#ž were to imagi inhalese οι Ε o Eelam will : the less than to the Federation. For it has been asserted by many Sinhalese that the demand for Eelam is only a prelude to the creation of a unified Tamil State. When they were not prepared to have a Federal State, not even District Councils, it is foolish to think that they will now agree to separation or Federation with India.
This idea of Ceylon federating with India is B ஃே Angarika Dharmapala w ago advocated that Ceylon should be unified with India.
If Andaman and NICOBAR islands which are about 1,500 miles away from the Indian coast and lie closer to Malaysia than to India could be part and parcel of the Indian SubContinent and territory, there is no reason wh E%ia not join in a Federal set up with India if we so desire. . . . . . . . .
Mr. Vaikunthavasan is a former Secretary-General of the public service Trade Union in Ceylon - the GCSU. He had worked in Zambia as Senior Resident Magistrate and Registrar of the High Court.
His book Indo-Tamil Eelam Confederation is to be published in the summer this year.
:NKATARAMAN, New Delhi, 1980

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Saturday Review
21st December 1985
LIVING WITH INDA
Editor SATURDAY REVIEW
The historic agreement between the UK and the Treland Governments regarding Ulster (Northern Ireland) is one that has to be welcomed by nations-in-the-making, so to say, such as Tamil Eelam whose population is nearly three times the Ulster population.
As this agreement subtly demonstrates, no country, however power, ful, can claim to be an independent and sovereign power in isolation from its immediate regional neighbourhood. Already on lines similar to today's Anglo-Irish summit, a number of other regions in the world have also been active towards what you could call solutions on joint sovereignty, sharing of powers, joint controls etc. A joint Confederation Government between Jordan and the Palestinian lands has been proposed as a solution to the Palestinian problem.
Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, is realistic enough to know that the old imperialistic approach will not even please President Reagan. Hence her early attempt at solutions.
Tamils and Sinhalese are only too conscious of the importance and the regional supremacy of India as a sub-super power in the
Asian Region. We Tamils have to accept it and live with it - but the best way to secure our independence and sovereignty is to join the Indian region's super-power in a confederal set-up. Sri Lankan Sinhalese will be wise if they too join the regional set-up.
Krishna Vaikunthavasan London

NEWILLIFE
Friday, 17 January 1986
Indo- Tamil link up?
Dear New Life
Three rccent events have a direct connection with the destiny of the people of Tamil Eelam. One is regional, the second local and the third historical.
The idea of federal or confederal Goverments coming into heing on a regional basis has now taken its first step in so far as the 7 South Asian countries are concerned. On the 8th December, the 7 South Asian countries including India and Sri Lanka formed the SAARC; the South Asian Association for Regional Coooperation. Speaking on the occasion, the Sri Lankan President Jayawardene is reported to have declared that the 6 countries of the region are prepared and willing to abide by whatever decisions India takes. In other words, India leads, the others follow. In this background, we Tamils must create the necessary momentum for the solu
tion of the Tamil Eelam .
crisis by openly declaring that we too are keen to join India in a political link up. To make this declaration, it is not essential that there should be in the first place a de-jure Tamil
Eelam National State.
The other event is the Anglo-Irish Agreement. For the first time in the history of international Agreements, a precedent has been created in that in foreign Government is legally permitted to have a say in the affairs of one's own Government.
Another event referred to is the commemoration of Arumuga Navalar Day recently in London. Navalar was the first Tamil freedom fighter. His contribution to the Tamil language is monumental. His greatest single legacy for us is his life's mission which looked upon the whole Tamil world as one Nadu, one single state.
The nation summitt, the Agreement between the British and Irish Governments and the great vision of Navalar - all these point only to one way (as far as Tamils are concerned) and that is we must take immediate steps towards IndoTamil Eelam link up. The first step is for all Tamil political leaders and activists to make public declaration in support.
Yours sincerely Krishna Vaikunthavasan
Tamil Co-ordinating Committee London SW19
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TAMIL TIMEs Letters To The Edito
ACROSS TH
Sir,
THREE recent events have a direct connection with the destiny of the people of Tamil Eelam. One is regional, the second local and the third historical.
The idea of federal or confederal Governments coming into being on a regional basis has now taken its first step insofar as the seven South Asian countries are concerned. On the 8th December, the seven South Asian countries including India and Sri Lanka formed the SAARC, the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation.
Speaking on the occasion, the Sri Lankan President, Mr. Jayawardene, is reported to have declared that the six other countries of the region are prepared and willing to abide by whatever decisions India takes. In other words, India leads, the others follow. In this background, we Tamils must create the necessary momentum for the solution of the Tamil Eelam crisis by openly declaring that we too are keen to join India in a political link-up. To make this declaration, it is not essential that there should be in the first place a Tamil Eelam Nation State.
The other event is the Anglo-Irish Agreement. For the first time in the history of international Agreements, a precedent has been created in that a foreign Government is legally permitted to have a say in the affairs of one's own Government. The Anglo-Irish Agreement provides a role for the Irish Government in the affairs of Northern Ireland. What is more, this Agreement is now registered with the United Nations, thus giving it sanctity and the force of international law. Tamils can profit from this precedent by persuading India to upgrade its continuing negotiations with the Sri Lankan Government, by eventually entering into an Indo-Sri Lankan agreement giving Delhi (and possibly Madras also) a role and a say in the affairs of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. Everyone knows to what extent both Delhi and

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Madras are already involved in our affairs. What is proposed here is merely to put them in some legal form. This is being advanced in the absence of any other viable solution to the crisis.
The other event referred to is the commemoration of Arumuga Navalar Day recently in London. Navalar was the first Tamil freedom fighter and, although born in Jaffna, he spent more years of his life in Tamil Nadu. Navalar School in Chidambaram is still flourishing, like the one he established in Jaffna. His contribution to the Tamil language is monumental. His greatest single legacy for us is his life's mission which looked upon the whole Tamil world as one Nadu, one single State.
The Seven Nation Summit, the Agreement between the British and Irish Governments, and the great vision of Navalar - all these point only one way (as far as Tamils are concerned) and that is we must take immediate steps towards an Indo-Tamil Eelam political link-up. The first step is for all Tamil political leaders and activists to make a public declaration in support.
K. Vaikunthavasan
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NEW LFS,
107th Navalar Day
Krishna Vaikunthava
St
N the wake of the liberation struggle that is being waged for the last several years by the Tamil patriots and militants in Sri Lanka for their separate Tamil homeland, a past hero came to life in one of their strongholds - Wimbledon.
At the Wimbledon Little Hall (otherwise known as the Tamil Hall) Tamils representing all walks of life and political views gathered together to pay their tribute to Arumuga Navalar and re-dedicate themselves for continued support to their present struggle - all in the name of their last.century hero.
On November 30, the
meeting began with prayers led by Saiva Neri Kavalar, Mr S Saba -
pathipillai, Mrs V Muttucumaraswamy and Mr VIR Ramanathan.
Among those who spoke were Mr K Navasothi and Selvi
Surulika Lokanathan.
Mrs Arunthathi Srikantharajahandherpupilsentertained the audience on Veena and with songs.
In my own speech, Isaid that what the Tamils should do now is give their full support to the Tamil militants.
Earlier a large size portrait of Arumuga Navalar painted by Gandeepan Vaikunthavasan was unveiled.
 
 

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Friday, 12 December 1986
observed by Tamils
Arumuga Navalar 3 - First Tamil free
dom fighter against lmperialism
SRI LA SRI Aurumuga Navalar will always be remembered as a Tamil scholar of outstanding originality... a great reformer and above all as an intrepidfighter againstimi perialism which was in its incipient stages during his life time.
He lived for only 57 years (1822-1879) and although born, bred and educated in Jaffna, he prided himself that he was first and foremost a Tamilian, therefore his primary affinity and the sacrifice of his entire life was for the a Navalar: hero and scholar. Tamil people and their way of life - whether in Jafna, Chithamparam or Thiruchendur.
PIONEER
Long before Subramania Bharathiyar of Tamil Nadu, Arumuga Navalar from Yalpanam was widely recognised as a Tamil literary figure.
When he was only 27 years-old, Arumugam was already a highly respected sanyasin and welcomed to the holy pilgrimage and cultural centres. His discourses on Saiva Siththantham and Hindu hiosophy earned him the title of "Navalar' from the highly prestigious religious institution - the Thiruvavaduthurai Atheenamin South India.
As Tamils on this occasion of our paying homage and tribute to one of our greatest ancestors, ot us so live that we are ind position to honour Tamil treedom fighters like Sri La Sri Arumugam.
Krishna Vaikunthavasan addressing the Navalar Day meeting in London.

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Frid
7th Sanskrit (
SCHOLARS FRO
GATHER
A week long Confer- of India, ence on Sanskrit was con- katarama cluded on 29 August in 参够 the University City of On the Leiden in the Nether- 7th Worl lands. ference,
A total of 223 delegates asure ins from as many as 28 coun- felicitatio tries participated in this guished 7th World Conference. A participal large contingent of 50 scholars represented ''Proud a India. XA XI inheritan The earlier six confer- vehicle o ences were held first in ognises Delhi, then in Turin, legacy of Italy, Paris, Weimar in Linked, i East Germany, Varanasi some of (Benares) and Philadel- languages phia.
The 7th Conference ရှိ်နိါန်၊ programmes in Leiden cally, began with the plenary philosoph opening session on 24 по aspec August. from n
After speeches of wel- medicine come by the Rector of with in Leiden University and the диаge.. "
Mayor of the City, the keynote address was deli
vered by the president of Dr D, the International Associa- acknowle tion of Sanskrit Studies, authority Dr RN Dandekar. studies.
nearly 80 PRESIDENT's with aut MESSAGE penetrati Mr K. Srinivasan, the vey thro Indian Ambassador at the of the r Hague, during the course both as C of his speech, read out language; the following special mes- sing a
sage from the President

ay, 11 September 1987
World
oport by Krohna
ValkunhaVasan
Conference
OM 2E3 COUNTRES
N HOLLAND
Shri R Ven
occasion of the d Sanskrit ConI have great pleending my warm ns to its distin
organisers and ntS.
s India is of its ce of this great f culture, it recSanskrit as a the whole world. n its roots, with the major living of the world,
constitutes a luence, linguisticulturally and lically. There is t of human life nathematics to which is not dealt this ancient lan
andekar is an dged world on Sanskrit
Inspite of his years he gave, hority and with ng insight, a surughout the ages ole of Sanskrit, one of the oldest s and as possescontinuing and
TRIBUTE
Dr Dandekar paid tribute to the scholars of the Netherlands for their abiding work in Sanskrit. He quoted the English poet TS Eliot as having declared that India is truly great because she has already given something of the highest value to the world, namely, the message that without spiritual knowledge man is an incomplete thing.
Continuing, he also referred to Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy's affirmation that, for the understanding of Rg Veda, knowledge of Indian tradition however profound, is not sufficient; a wide study of the mystics of different parts of the world, from the point of view of a universal tradition, will bring about a greater appreciation of that Veda.
He concluded his inaugural address with a stanza by Adikavi Valmiki (modified for the occasion): " As long as mountains continue to stand and rivers continue to flow upon the surface of the earth, so long shall Sanskrit studies endure among the
people.”

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NEW LIFE Friday, 27 March 1987
Subramania Bharathi honoured in London
O Subraman
ia Bharati (left), the radical and freedom
fighter, and (right) Sushila Krishnamurti, who
selected and sang his songs.
Krishna Vaikunthavasan
In the wake of the unveiling of Subramania Bharati's statue in Delhi recently by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, it was appropriate that admirers of the Tamil poet and wellknown Indian freedom fighter should honour his memory in London.
On the occasion of the unveiling in Delhi, those present included the Vice President Venkataraman and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MG Ramachandran.
In London, Tara Arts Centre organised a concert of songs by Bharati specially selected by Sushila Krishnamurti and
sung by her. This event took place on the evening of March 14, at Tara’s Centre. SUPERB
The rendition by Sushila was a superb combination of verve embellished with a touch of histrionics, portraying in her two-hour performance Bharati's role in the freedom struggle. He used poetry, prose, oratory, and songs in his life-long campaign for political freedom.
Sushila's high quality was matched with distinction by Lakshmi Jayan (violin) Drachen Theaker (mridangam) and Sivarajah (kanjira). It was a very enjoyable and memorable concert.
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Editor: C.B.Pate Managing Editor: Anne Hoose Friday 24 July 19871987
'Sri Lankan Tamils should join India'
тниндмАм
Dear New Life
What is happening right now in Jaffna is that india is feeding the people there. Sri Lanka has allowed this.
This shows that lndia is getting more and more involved. Don't you think that this is the time for the Tamil leadership to say that the Siri aikan Tamils wish to juin lndia in an acceptable political association?
We already have some form of association with India on a regional basis, through the recently formed SAARU (South Asian Associatiun for Regional Cooperation).
The very first thing to be decided is: in principle do we wish to join the Indian Union?
Whether it is to be a federation or confederation or as an associate state, ctic, could be decided next, in consultation with the constitutional and other experts.
The reality of the situation in the Tamil arcas in Sri Lanka is that unless inmediate steps
are taken on the lines suggested above, the present genocidal and scorched-earth policy of the - Sri Lankan Government will result in more and more Tamils being tortured and killed, and still more fleeing and deserting their homes and lands. This will make it easier for the hoodlums to be brought in as perphament settlers.
This proposal for some form of federation with India is nothing new.
The world famous savant Dr Ananda Coomaraswamy argued that Ceylon being culturally, racially and linguistically an integral part of India and taking also into consideration its historical past, it would be logical and prudent for Ceylon to come into an Indo/Ceylon Union.
Much more recently, the Tamil leader Mr J V Chelvanayagann envisaged that Ceylon will join India not as one state but as two states - Sinhala Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam
(see Prof Wilson's article in the Tamil Times - February 1987).
Last week, hundreds of Tamils in their pro-India emotional demonstration in support of the food deliveries kissed the vehicles, shouted appeals "Save us, do not leave us' and declared that India should annex the Tamil areas (The Times - June 29, 87).
Yours faithfully, Krishna Vaikunthavasan London SW1

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The Life and Times of
introduction
They may derive even more succour from the story of Gandee, who made the portrait of me that appears at the beginning of this book (an extremely flattering one, my none too flattering friends insist). I first met Gandee in Malaysia in 1977, when he was thirteen years old, and accompanying his father Krishnan Vaikunthavasan - an ex-British Council student, then a magistrate in Zambia - to the Commonwealth Magistrates' Association Conference in Kuala Lumpur. Gandee had just taken up painting, and Krishnan asked me to try to persuade Lord Denning, who was attending the conference, to sit for a portrait by Gandee. In this I succeeded, but the portrait itself was not an unqualified success. Executed in a hurry, the paint was still wet when it was handed over to the Master of the Rolls at the Farewell Dinner, and Lord Denning's hands got smeared with it. Gandee had tried to put too much into the picture, and Joan, the subject's wife, commented: "I'm glad the artist managed to squeeze Tom's head in'. But Lord Denning accepted it graciously and said that it would hang on the wall of his flat in Lincoln's Inn, and it was then left to me to persuade a reluctant British Council representative to package and despatch this curious picture; reluctant because, as he put it: "I don't think this portrait would ever have been commissioned by our Fine Arts Department."
But a few years later Gandee was in London to pursue his artistic talent. When Harold MacMillan was approaching his ninetieth birthday a City Livery Company asked him if he would sit for a portrait to mark this great occasion. The former Prime Minister agreed, subject to two conditions:- the artist must be under thirty and must never have had a picture hung in a public exhibition. The Livery Company announced a competition, for which Gandee entered. What the Company thought were the hundred best entries were hung in a gallery in Piccadilly and it was Gandee's that was chosen by the selectors. In due course he was making visits to MacMillan's country home to complete the portrait, which I saw in Gandee's little garret in Paddington a week before the official presentation. This was made to
MacMillan and a memorable photograph appeared next day in "The Times' of Prince hili shaking hands with Gandee, the artist. 6
Now I was never a great admirer of Supermac as a politician. I thought that his slogan to the British people: "You've never had it so good', lacked correct syntax and savoured of materialism. Butler would, in my view at the time of Suez, have been a better choice by the Queen for Prime Minister. But Mac's two "conditions" made me take a different view of the man. We all know the extent to which the young can and do help the oldmore so perhaps in Eastern countries than in our "civilised' Western society - but how marvellous it is when a nonagenarian, without much longer to live, ensures that an unknown young artist achieves well-deserved fame. Old and Young can indeed help each other.
Mac was, after all, Super!

fam English Barrister
By Eric Crowther, O.B.E. West London Stipendiary Magistrate
with a foreword by Lord Havers
7 v. 88
ع علیہسمa علی تنصیبعہ بن محمدا :"A".
کسی مجم led lكا

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TAMILTOGETHE WAY OUT FOR
“You can't change what has happened but what you can do is to make the best of what you have got' - Bader in London, in 1982, some time before his death. (Bader was a British ace pilot during the 2nd World War.)
The Tamil Sage Valluvar exhorts: "On whatever subject, whichever person sees fit to comment, it is the path of wisdom to inquire about such matters as to who is trying to use whom and for what purpose and then come to a sober and meaningful conclusion.” We Tamils must constantly have these gems of thought in mind.
MOHENJO-DARO
The former Indian Foreign Secretary, Mr. A.P.Venkateswaran, speaking at the recent international Tamil Conference in London on "The Tamil National Struggle and the Indo-Sri Lankan Peace Accord" referred to the very ancient and pre-historic civilisation of Mohanjadaro and how the Tamil people are the proud inheritors of this most remarkable legacy in the human story.
He went on to say that such people deserve to live in this world with dignity and self-respect as a nation on equal footing with others. When he was talking of the Tamil people, it is obvious that he had in mind the 55 million Tamils in South India also where he himself was born.
According to the late Rev. Fr.S. Gnanapragasar, the well-known anthropologist, there was a time when the Dravidians(i.e. those who speak Tamil, Kanarese, Telugu, Malayakam etc.) occupied the whole of India and Ceylon which then formed part of the sub-continent. Fr.Gnanapragasar adds that, for the Tamil occupation of North India, unimpeachable evidence was brought to light by excavations in the Indus Valley and that there was no doubt now that before
By Krishna Va.
the advent of the A. some 2,000 years B were the undispute and Ceylon. After cut off from the n seismic disturbanc ural that the speech developed into a d
Father Heras of B ialised in the se Mohenjo Daro and had visited Ceylo signs of the old pu of Ceylon as pictu ing to the Indus Va are all pre-Budd according to him civilization of the II had spread down millenia before Ch
This Indo-Ceylon tinued unabated years of the 11th c the whole of Ceyl vince of the Chola Raja Chola 1.
Prof. S. Arasaratr specialising in Int recently said at a r that for several cer ly preceding the a tuguese colonist commercial and t between India and very close. India at ing to regain her e such Accords as th he added.
Some people sayth is dead. The questi so much as to whi Lankan Accord is
De-facto Polit
As a consequence fact is that over 10C are on our soil. W. atrocities committ and, even if by a

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RNESS AND THE OUR PEOPLE
kunthauasan
yans into Punjab, C, the Dravidians d masters of India Ceylon had been lainland by some e, it was only natof its inhabitants ialect of its own.
ambay, who specal inscriptions of Harappa and who n, indentified the inch-marked coins re-writing belonglley culture. These histic, and mark, , the marvellous indus Valley which to Ceylon three rist.
relationship conuntil, in the early entury, practically on became a proEmpire under Raja
am, a historian do-Ceylon affairs, meeting in London nturies immediatearrival of the Pors, the political, rade relationship Ceylon had been presentis only tryarlier position by e one of July 1987,
at the July Accord on before us is not ather the Indo-Sri alive or not.
ical Link-up:
of this Accord, the ),000 Indian troops e all condemn the ed by these troops miracle, they are
withdrawn suddenly, the fact remains that a de facto political link-up between India and Sri Lanka has become closer.
When even a country like Great Bri
tain has sacrificed a part of her
sovereignty as a result of the Anglo
Irish Agreement, don't you think that the path of wisdom for the people of TamilEelamis, especially in the long
term interests of strengthening our traditional friendship with the great people of India and in the immediate objective of putting an end to the
bloody war, to tell the Indian government and the Indian people that we are prepared to come into the Indian Union, in a confederal set-up or sovereignty-Association basis as in the case of the demand of Parti Quebecois in Canada? The 55 million people of Tamil Nadu appear to tolerate the Indian Constitution. So, why not we join them in the name of Tamil togetherness?
It is also relevant here to recall the words of the world renowned Kalayogi Dr.Ananda Coomaraswamy: "The more I know of Ceylon, the more inseparable from India does it appear and indeed I regret sometimes that Ceylon is not in the truest sense a part of India.... In Asia, all roads lead to India." Long before Ananda Coomraswamy, Arumuga Navalar, the first Tamil freedom fighter, although born in Jaffna, demonstrated with his life that he regarded the whole of Tamil Nadu as his own motherland. He spent many of his years in Chidambaram and the Navalar School there is still flourishing. His contribution to Tamil language is monumental. His greatest single legacy forus is his life's mission which looked upon the whole of Tamil Nadu and Tamil Eelam as one Nadu, one single state.
8 k is

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TAMIL voice INTERNATIONAL
PRABAHARAN, A
Sanka Nearly 1,500 delegates from 30 countries death, other figh and 2,000 observers listened to the com- He described
mon cliches about Hindu nity from well Prabaharan as known and recognised leaders at the The Tamil
World Hindu Conference concluded on e aS w March 28th, at Kathmandu. accept anything
The one outstanding spiritual Head who dependent Eela
received a spontaneous standing ovation solution. Meres was His Holiness JAGADGURU SRI JAYENIDRA SARASWATHI OF SRI KAN (THI KAMA KOT PEETAMI, when he addressed a mammoth session.
Earlier in the course of an exclusive interview on the crisis in SRI LANKA, JAGAD (GURU SANKARACHARYA praised the death-defying heroic fight of the Liberation Tigers as soulstirring. When one is not afraid to die, one becomes elevated to a higher mental and spiritual plane. Referring to the practice of the Tigers carrying the cyanide capsule, the JAGADGURU said that Once you win your battle against
TAML VOCE INTERNATIONAL
15 May 1989
TOO EARLY FOR INDO-AMIL EELAM PEACE TO BREAK OUT
Krishna Vaikunthavasan, london
War between nations has taken place throughout the human story. Inevitably the wars always ended in peace, after a time. In the current 18 months of Indo-Eelam war, is it not time that this bloody war ended? Both sides have kept on accusing each other of being unwilling to start the negotiating process. Even before that, there has to be ade facto ceasefire. So, where is the hitch?
What we all must realise is that this is an unnatural warunnatural in the sense that one does not fight oneself. India is not our enemy. It would be stupid if the Indian Government proceeds on the basis that the Eelam Tamils and the Tigers are their natural foes. Indians and we Tamils are natural allies, from time immemorial. There is no basic Conflict of interests. The Tiger leadership has said often that they never regard themselves as anti-Indian. The Indians say that their army went into Sri Lanka in order to protect the Tamils. What a great shame and tragedy that, as a result, thousands of Tamils have been killed, tortured and raped.
The Indo-Tamil Eelam war is not only unnatural, not merely counter-productive but also, it is self-destructive both for us "Eelamites' as well as for the Indian image.

15 April 1988
MAN OF DESTINY
racharya by K. Vaikunthavasan ts become trifles. ment between India and Sri Lanka he LTTE leader was not enough. The minds of both Governments should be turned to bring harmony and peace, concluded the Hindu Pope. The King of Nepal, King BIRENDRA, inaugurated the Conference.
a man of destiny. 're not likely to
less than an inm as a permanent igning of an agree
TAMIL VOICE INTERNATIONAL
15 March 1989
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF TAMAL EELAM?
Krishna Vaikunthavasan, Wimbledon Can the new generation of Tamil MPs elected at the recently held general elections in Sri Lanka take our struggle further to achieve the objective of an Independent State of Eelam? What is it that the MPs can hope to do, which the earlier Tamil representatives were unable to deliver?
The one immediate positive and feasible step that could be taken is to change the name of the North-East Province to that of TAMIL EELAM. The Indian and Sri Lankan Governments could be persuaded to agree to this. Just as Annadurai was instrumental in the changing of the name "Madras State' to that of Tamil Nadu', and thus give some emotional and symbolic satisfaction to the Tamil people there, so that our people in the traditional Tamil homelands also will feel elated.
if the Indian Constitution permitted a change, Sri Lanka too can allow it. Indeed, Sri Lanka itself was known as 'Ceylon' until recently. So, will the new MPs take the initiative without delay?

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Proud inheritors o
by Krishna Vaikunthavasan
THE former Indian Foreign Secretary, Mr A P Venkateswaran, spoke at the recent international Tamil conference in London on The Tamil National Struggle and the IndoSri Lankan Peace Accord”
He referred to the very ancient and prehistoric civilisation of doenjadaro and how dhe Tamil people are the proud inheritors of this most remarkable legacy in the human яory.
According to Rev. Father S. GnanapragaSar, the well known Dravidologist, there
The ancient site of Moenjadaro
was a time when the Dravidians (ie those who speak Tamil and its dialects such as Kanarese, Telugu and Malayalam) occupied the whole of India and Ceylon which then formed part of the subcontinent.
Father Gnanapragasar added that for the Tamil occupation of North India, unimpeachable evidence was recently brought to light by excavations in the Indus Valley.
There is no doubt now that before the advent of the Aryans into Punjab, some
2,000 years BC, the Dravidians were the undisputed masters of India and Ceylon.
After Ceylon had
been cut off mainland by mic disturbal only natura speech of it tants develo dialect of its Father F. Bombay, wh ised in the se tions of Mc and Harappa had visited identified the the old punc coins of C picture-writin ing to the Ind culture. The
pre-Buddhi mark, acco him, the r civilization ( Valley - w spread down three mille Christ.
This pr Indo-Ceylo ship. continu ted until in years of the tury practi whole of C came a prov Chola emp Raja Raja I. Prof S Al a hisotrians in Indo-Ceyl recently said ing in Londo Several cent
mediately p the arrival of tuguese colo political, e commercial : relationship India and C. been very cl at present
trying to re earlier positio accords as til
 
 

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f historic legacy
from the some seisnce, it was that the ts inhabiped into a
own. Heras of Io specialal inscrippenjadaro and who Ceylon, a signs on th-marked eylon as g belongus Valley se are al
istic, and brding to tarvellous of the linus hich häd to Ceylon nia before
Ocess of relationled unabathe early l1th Cen
cally the
eylon beince of the ire under
"asartmann, pecialising on affairs, at a teetin that for uries im
receding the Porhilists, the specially and trade
between ylon had pse. India
is only gain her on by such he one in
July 1987, he added.
Some people say that the July accord is dead.
The question before us is not so much as to whether the Indo/Sri Lankan Agreement is alive or not. When even a country like Great Britain has sacrificed a part of her sovereignty as a result of the Anglo-Irish
Agreement, don't you.
think that the path of widom for the people of Tamil Eelam is, especially in the long
term interests of strengthening our traditional friendship with the people of India and in the immediate objective of putting an end to the bloody war, to tell the Indian Goverrnment and the Indian people that we are prepared to come into the Indian Union. in a cofederal set up or Sovereignty
Association basis as in the case of the demand of Parti Quebec in Canada.
With my guide at the site of MOHEN-JADARO- April 1988

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A TAM VOICE U.N.O.
KRISHNAVAIK
 

L EELAM IN THE
UNTHAVASAN

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Text of speech made by K
to the 150
United Nations Ge on 5th Octo (The President of the Assemb
Mr President Leaders of the World
lf oppressed minority nations Such a tations to this Supreme body, then wh
My name is Krishna and I come fr Tamil Eelam lying between Srilanka a
The Sri Lanka Sinhala government aimed at the destruction of Our Tamil
We have exercised our right of sell Nation.
There is every danger of the Tamil p Indian Region.
The problem in Sri Lanka will develc and the Cyprus problems unless you, t in its Solution now.
We appeal to you for such help! T without permission.
LONG LWE TA

Irishna Waikunthavasan member
neral Assembly
ber, 1978 ly Mr. I Liveano, presided)
s Tamil Eelam cannot make represenhere are we to go?
pm the 2% million strong Nation of ind India.
is continuing a policy of genocide Nation.
'-determination to live as a separate
roblem threatening the peace of the
op to be as serious as the Palestinian he world leaders intervene and help
hank you. I apologise for speaking
IL EELAM!
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FROM LOGANATHAN, A FORM
Merchant Finance Limit
is now at l7, Alfred Pl I am writing this lett an International Confe
The two organisatio non-politicak and thei Whatever our individua as to whether or not t Tamil Eelam, there mus completely divorced fr socio-economic develop I head, aim to serve th role to play. Any con of Tamil Eelam will be
Whether Sri Lanka e a Pederal form of gove states within itself, the Tamil areas in Sri the survival of the Ta other communities livi Tamils, must carve out causing conflicts. My With any political org may be.
Having stated what my inability to enter political overtones.
With Kind Rega,
 
 

ER GENERAL MANAGER OF BANK OF CEYLON
lT, Alfred Place, Colombo 3. 2lll .. 79.
ter of 30. l079 and the enclosures. in Jaffna where the Head Office of both e and Development Limited and ed function. Our Colombo office, which ace, Colombo 3 is only a channel office. er from Colombo where I am addressing rence tomorrow
ns which I head are absolutely r concern with Socio-Economic problems.
feelings may be towards the question he Tamils should have a separate t be some organisations which are om politics in order to concerntrat e on ment. The two organisations which is purpose. Politicians have their own nection between us and the proponents
a "Kiss of Death" to us.
njoys a Unitary form of government or rnment or has separate independent the economic development of particularly
Lanka is a sine quo non not only for milis but also for the welfare of the ng in Sri Lanka. Each one of us,
our own course of action, without organisations do not wish to conflict anisations, what ever its complexion
I have stated above you will apprediate into any dialogue on subjects with
Yours Sincerely,
G|la
CLOGANATHA

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TAM L E ELAM - A NATIC
AN INTERNATIONAL TAMILEEL ON THE SSUES CONCERNED WITH THE STRUGGLE OF TH
Professor Baloc Challinnan,
international Farn Research CorrorD
Department of Elec Electronic Enginee Caornia State Un 6000 Street, Sacramento, CA 9 U.S.A.
4)ear Mr. Vai kunt hava We received y Tami l Ee] am Confeder well written and I paper. However , is i nc were chosen from the to us by April 30 accept your paper conference . However I hope you v the conference, I experience for all eminent people with the problems of Tam
A Brief Summary of the Paper
INDO-TAMIL, - CONFE
By Krishna V.
The following Authoritier And qu worldly-wise political activist that of TAMIL, EELAM 1 ies in sorne sort of p india, our great neighbour.
The over. Curntative thirtist of Frope also points towards such a sol
What is the se of Minere Rovereig are not to enjoy full democratic right

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DN WITHOUT A STATE
At RESEARCH CoNFERENCE E PEOPLE OF TAMBIL EELAM FOR SELF DETERMINATION
hondre,
Ecolarin псо, :rica and ring, versity
June 99 珀19,
sar rour paper entitled "Indosation". The concept was was impressed with your e the list of speakers
abstracts that were sent 1991, we are unable to for presentation at the
will be able to make it to t will be a rewarding of us as the speakers are
a very keen insight to ils of Eelam »
Kindest Regards
ܠ ܐ . به همیه جه مQم)
Dr. C. J. Balachandra
ETIAM DERATION
aikunthavasan
otations will convince any the future of a sovereign state oliitteral link-up and "urity" witi
the present-day political developments un/ ution •
nty per se, if the people involved tag and good relations with neighbours?

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I first quote a few paras from Committee's Quit India Resolution (1
'The President wae MalanaA Abu
This resolution appears in full
---"While the A.I.C.C must primaril and defence of India in this he opinion that the future peace, world demand R. World Federatior basis can the problems of the (se densure freedon of its constitue
Aggrassion and exploitation by of national minorities, the adv peoples, and the pooling of the *good of all. On the establish (; isarmament would be practicabl naviers and air forces would no Federal. Defence Force would ke aggression.
An independent India vould glac co-operate on an equal basis wi international problems.
Such a Federation should be op fundamental principles. ----- γ)
When the all - Rnvereign British Gover into an international Agreement, the Anr. Norther Ireland, it will trigly ceded part Government, namely the Irish Government, permitted to have a ray in the running ot of the U.K.
Once the European Union, the atommon force by 1912 or Ronn thereafter, a milewould have been reached with the United Fshape.
World's In
The truth is that the world ... if regional groupinr.s are growing up eve
The 7 South Arsian countries Inri Narral, Bhutinn and Mn dives hrve recent kney in n3 tin F SAARC (South Asian Assoc
In Africa we have the OA5 - Orga r. " icona rit' rotipi rifrzs are ir the nature
Toohey tvee 1 T k novrn Iri di ajn pri per - In cari ed the fo lowing news item: -

the famous All-India Congress }h2)。
KALAMI A2AD
in his book
India. Wnes Freedom. (Orient Longmans - page 268
(1988 edn.)
ly be concerned with the independence our of danger, the Committee is of
security and ordered progrees of the
of free nations, and ori no other nodern world be solved. Such a verlahadłka bnt nations, the prevention of
one nation of a riother, the protection rancement of all backward areas and world's 'theources for the Comron ent of such R World Federation, le in all countries, national arynies,
longer be necessary, and a World p the world peace and prevent
ly join such a World Federation and lth other nations in the solution of
en to all nations who agree with ite
nment headed by Thatcher entered o-Irish, some years Rgover , of its sovereigrity tota foreign
in that the Irish 'ere legally
affairs in Northern Ireland, a part
European currency etc. corne into stóne towards World Federgl Governy int States of Europe taking concrete
terdependence
|cre ARing inter-dependence meanto that rywhere.
A Pinkistąn, Bangla Desh, Sri Tanka, ly come together and former 'at is :iration for Regional coopex ation)
un is att inn for ffrican Unity. This ge
of potAr7 tial World Fedaeration Unités.
dirn Exprese, dated 28th December 9)

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Committee of Asian
Confederation of A
s7 A11 Asian Nations should con of unity on the lines of the Eul Asin interests in the region at promoted and protected
"This was suprested by Ms Yuan Chinese deepeation on a visit to I common interest, being hosted by t Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Expo The Chairman Mr RAMU DEORA welcome Confederation of Asian Nations and
for a n, ü, ve in the ti ”ection . "
2S 2 - 4c) The Hindu on the same date, published th
A.S.E.A
Another legional bloc, (Associatifyn of South-East A in 1967, consists of Indone Mai aysia and Sirgapore.
Federal Governme
Befor: Federation in 19 six separate colonies under New South Wall s, Victoria, Q Western Australia and TASMAN self-governing and responsib affairs with in their individ a federal system of constitu adopted. This was mainly ba Constitution of the United S
SHRINKING
The former Commonwealth Secretary in the course of his Keynote address on Federalism held at the Nigerian Ins LAGOS, on 1 O May 1976 said:-
"--- I discern in federalist th an the nation State a on to perceptions of our shri and not merely as the aggr
--- The principles of fede more relevant to our globa” passes from the realm of p international actuality. *

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Nations mooted Asian Nations:
e topgether to consider a system opean Cornity of Nations so that ld the world could be actively
Ping who is heading a ndia to study areas of he BASIC Chemicals rt Promotion Council (BCPCEPC). d the suggestion of a
offered all cooperation
e folloja
A.N.
the A.S.E. Ar y Ri a Natios) c.18 Petei ris, Philliúineşth4fénd;
nt in Australia
01, Australia corprised the British Crown - ueensland, South Australia, IIA which were largely le for the management of ual boundaries. Thus |tional Government was ised on the lines of the tates of America.
PLANET
r-General Mr Shridath S Ramphal at the International Conference stitute of International Affairs,
A concepts of wider application 2 - Coy &ets that have relevance
king planet as society in it relf egation of a divisible humanity.
ralism are constantly becoming l suciety as inter-dependence erception to the theatre of

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SOUTH ASIAN
General K SUNDARJ I writing (page 81) had this to say in the
"WE AN LOWER REGIO IF E OPT FOR A NU CONFEDERATION; GET AND SETTLE THE BOR
Once we decide in principl India, then the next stage will with New Delhi and Madras -- whe
r.
Sept 21, 1978
My dear Mr Waikunthawasan
Many thanks for your letter.
We have now decided to hold the
London, in the Summer of 1980. organisers. We should organise
of the School of Oriental and Af to collect funds fron the Tamils Conference. I understand from P Associations in London are willi printing and circulating notices from India and Sri Lanka. Alrea end. You are the best man kno
டாக்டர் தனிநாயக அடிகள்
95-1990
தேமதுரத் தமிழோசை உலகெலாம் பரப்பியவர்
 

CONFEDERATION
in the 'India Today" of 31-1-91
course of his article
t
NAL TENSIONS AND DEFENCE EXPENTURE, CI,EAR DETIERRENT; AIM FOR A SOUTH ASIAN
EAKISTAN TO FREEZE THE KASHMR PROBLM DER QUESTION WITH CHINA."
e to have a political link-up with he how best to proceed -- negotiations ther for a loose Confederation ----
Bishop's House Walalai Atchuvely Sri Lanka
5th Conference of Tamil Studies in Could you be one of the chief an ad hoc Committee with Dr John Marr rican Studies as Chairman, and try
abroad for the expenses of the rof Withyananthan that Tamil ng to help. Expenses will include , a few pre-paid tickets for scholars dy there may be some working for this w to organize.
/妾、

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TAMIL UNITED LIB
AN APPEAL TO EELA
Dear friends,
At this momentous stage of our freedom struggle, e Capitals of the world, must play his part. London-bas an important role in calling world's attention to the objective of freedom, to every instance of the flagran discrimination against the Tamils in every field of tremendous tasks undertaken by our compatriots in the multiplicity of organisations, the conflict of perso among our brothers. We have before us the lessons of our many virtues and our great abilities, we have faile learnt this lesson here at home; the tremendous force unity. This is the message we wish in all humility, to
A first step in the right direction has been taken by Organisation and Thamilar Viduthalai Peraney, co: collective action through the Tamil Coordinating individuals who share the ideal of Thamil Eelam and the TCC. We wish to assure all that the TCC shall fun possible, on the basis of consensus; if decisions have to and free discussion.
Our tasks are many and onerous; the path we have freedom is long; our resources are limited; let us not f useless inter-fighting; let us, on the other hand, clos like the TCC and forge ahead with our many tasks.

ERATION FRONT
238, Main Street, Jaffna, SRI LANKA, 14th August, 1979.
MITAMILS ABROAD.
very Eelam Tamil, he be in Eelam or he be in the ed Eelam Tamils have played and have yet to play justice of our cause, to the reasonableness of our it violation of human rights in Sri Lanka, to gross governmental activity. While we appreciate the London, we have, at times, been grieved to witness inalities, which often lead to fissiperous tendencies the past. We have seen how repeatedly, in spite of din our aim to win freedom for our people. We have that the TULF is today, is undoubtedly due to this
convey to our brothers abroad.
7 the Eelam Tamils Association, Eelam Liberation ming together to take joint decisions and to take Committee. We appeal to all organisations and who are ready to cooperate with the TULF to join ction in a democratic way, taking decisions, as far as be taken on the basis of a vote, it shall be after a full
to traverse before we reach our cherished goal of ritter our limited resources and waste our energy in e ranks, co-ordinate our actions in an organisation
We remain Yours fraternally,
(M. Sivasithamparam) PRESIDENT.
(A. Amirthalingum) SECRETARY-GENERAL

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The English Daily with the largest circul
VOL. 64 NO. 253
Envoy
TUESDAY, OCTOBER
chides
in UK for c.
Sl'i Lanka's High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, X1r. Noel W1 malaSena has told the Tamil Co-ordinating Committee of Sri Lanka Organisations in the UK that by its false propaganda and fund collection, it had contributed directly towards a campaign of terrorism waged by some Tamils in Sri Lanka, with a view to dise membering the country.
In a letter recently to the Convenor, Tamil Co-ordinating Committee, 55, Warren Road Colliers Wood, London, Mr. Wimalasena says: The representations of Sri Lankam Tamilis who have chosen to live abroad in affluent societies can only worsen any difficulties faced by their much less well-off fellow Tamils at, home.
This is the text of Mr. Wimala senas letter to the Converhof. Takahil Co-ordinating Committee;
"I am in receipt of a letter dated 10tin August from you, which you claim to have circula lated to all Diplomatic Missions here. and in which you make certain representations about
Sari Lankan Tamilis.
"In it, you appeal to foreign governments to help achiev peacefully a settlement of st called Sinhalese-Tamil differen ces. However, you have mot in formed them that, by false pro paganda abroad and fund Rol lection, your Committee a well have contributed directly towards a campaign of terro rism waged by some Tamils in Sri Lanka, with a view to dis membering the country.
“You profess concern at thi alleged murder of some Tami youths. However, you have no previously professed concern a the proven murder by som
Tamil youths of 15 Policeme and Several civilians (mostly themselves also Tamils), mor a the assassination of one an the attempted assassination o some other Tamil politician who had sought to work for : unified and unitary Sri Lanka
"You mention allegation
made by TULF leader Amirtha lingam about misconduct by th state's security forces. Howevel you have not mentioned tha the President's immediate res ponse was to assure Mr. Amir thalingam of the appointmen of a Parliamentary Select Com mittee inclusive of TULE" mem
My Dear Waikun ths,
YSLLSLLSSLL SLLLLLSSYSS SLLS SLLS SLLS LLSLS SLS SL
The High Commissioner has repliec Carry on the propaganda.
The select Committee inquiring ir
by Lalith. of IGP.
He must be a deliberg
LS S LLSYSLSLSLLSLSSSYSLS LS SLLLS SYLS SLSSSLLS SYSLLLL
TRRO is a marked body. . . . . . . . . .
In a hurry. .
With kind regards.
 

ntien in Sri Lanka. DALYNEWS
3, 1979.
Tamils anard
bels, to investigate and report on matters raised. The Select Committee may well find the allegations to have been unfounded. Hence, resorting to mischievous propaganda at this stage, as you have dolle by your circular letter, raight even
"The record of the President and Government of Sri Lanka. in working for the peaceful settlement of Tamil grievances is well enough known to informed
world opinion. I venture to believe that the most Constructive contribution which your coma mittee could make in the present circumstances would be to adhere to the facts of the matter, and to call on you fellow Tamils to co-operate with the Government. The misrepresen
prejudice the working of the Select Committee in winich the TULF, whom you purport to reу present, is also participating. It is to be hoped that it was not your intention to achieve this.
tations of Sri Lankan Tamils who have chosen to live abroad in affluent societies can only worsen any difficulties faced hy their much i less well-off
fellow Tamils at home.'
ASA
115 Rosmead Place Coornbo 7 7 November 79
to your ) etter. Turn the heat on.
to the killing ate choice. He
of Inpam is headed is a close friend
Yours sincerely,
f | || || هارمین - | } ~~ سمي
مصنفصام f

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BOOK REVIEW
A VOICE IN THE U.N.O - WMAL SOCKANATHAN
Twelve years ago on an October morning a solitary figu the World of Nations in New York. The figure was Mr. Law and a Retired District Judge. While the President the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister to the rostrum, Mr. Vai and was greeted by the President (who rarely knew the
Mr. Vaikunthavasan appeared before the microphone
it was too late for the U.N. Officials to realise their mista from the stage Mr. Vaikunthavasan continued with his p and warned the world leaders that the Sri Lankan proble the Cyprus problems unless the leaders intervened.
Well — with the intervention of 11 years and some mot prophecies come true. Sri Lanka once well known for i natural environment is shunned by tourists after it witn
The sensation created by Mr. Vaikunthavasan in 1978 political activist is described in detail in a small b Co-ordinating Committee under the title 'A Tamil Eelar
The Foreword for this booklet is written by an illustrious Jaffna based Saturday Review and subsequently Editc Tamil information & Research Unit (TIRU), Madras. Mr. needs no introduction to readers of English news journa yearS.
I have found it always a pleasure to read his inimitable si his cynical remarks very interesting and entertaining provoking. Mr. Sivanayagam's foreword to Mr. Vaikunth English proverb “Much water has flowed under the brid Kelani' (with its own floating corpses in recent times) Eelam in 1978 and now — is excellent.
As Mr. Sivanayagam has emphasised in his foreword unrecorded events of the past 15 years and write its o'
This Publication certainly contributes to this caus Vaikunthavasan has achieved much more for the Tan minute raid on the U.N. Microphone than the T.U.L.F.

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Wimala 8 Co
ORS
re climbed up the Rostrum of the Supreme institute of {rishna Vaikunthavasan (then aged 58) a Barrister at of the Assembly announced the next item and invited kunthavasan calmly rose and Walked up to the stage identity of the 2000 delegates from all over the world).
and addressed the World leaders.
ake and do the needful. Until they removed him bodily lea on behalf of the Tamils' right for self determination lm will develop to be as serious as the Palestinian and
nths later we find that many of Mr. Vaikunthavasan's ts hospitality, beautiful beaches and the paradise like essed the worst pogrom in its entire history.
who was not an imposter or a conman but a genuine ooklet recently published in Madras by the Tamil n Voice in the U.N.O.'.
s journalist Mr. Sivanayagam - Founder Editor of the r/Director of The Tamil information Centre, and later Sivanayagam a regular contributor to the Tamil Times ls coming out from India and Sri Lanka for the past 20
tyle of English writing, his comments very hardhitting – and his remarks often very stimulating and thought avasan's booklet is no exception. His adaptation of the ge' into "much water has flowed down the Ganga and between Mr. Vaikunthavasan's stirring blow for Tamil
our emerging Nation must put down in print all the wn history on its long path to freedom.
e. As one political commentator once observed
hil cause by way of international publicity in his three has So far done.'
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வைகுந்தவாசனின்
நூலுக்கு தூது சென் முத்தமிழ் காவலர !
பாராட்டு r
リ
எனினும் .
தங்களுக்ெ நாடு வே
ஈழநாட்டில் பிறந்து லண்ட னில் குடியேறியுள்ள ஓய்வு பெற்ற நீதிபதி வழக்கறிஞர் திரு. வைகுந்த வாசன் அவர் களால் எழுதப்பெற்ற ஐ.நா. சபையில் எனது முதல் முழக் கம்" என்ற நூல் என் பார் வைக்கு வந்தது படித்து மகிழ்ந்தேன். நூலாசிரியர் ஐக்கிய நாட்டு சபையில் முழக்கிய முதல் முழக்கத்தை தமிழ்நாடும் ஈழநாடும் மட்டுமன்றி உலக நாடுகள் அனைத்தும் நண்க றியும். என்றாலும் அம்முழக் கத்தை இத்தால் தண்கு விளக் கிக் காட்டுகிறது. ஒரு நாட்டில் பெரும்பான் மையான மக்கள், சிறுபான் மையான மக்களை மதிப்ப தில்லை. அவர்களின் தேவைகளையும் அறிவ தில்லை. æ-nssotossosrastó வழங்குவதில்லை. இந்த நிலையில் சிறுபான்மையான மக்கள் தங்களுக்குள்ள நியா யமான பிறப்பு உரிமைகளைக் கேட்பார்கள். எழுதுவார்கள். மேடையேறிப் பேசுவார்கள். V. MUT TU
கூட்டம் போட்டு தீர்மானம் : Auಧ್ವಿ செய்வார்கள். அரக்க்குத்
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ருசம் ஆனி 12-ம் திகதி இதழ் 12
o2 greaeo 1992
ADU PARIS
aurriřassir. FL-MF நீர்மானம் கிடைக்
வன்முறையில் விடுவார்கள். இத்
ஈழநாட்டு மக்கள் கன்று ஒரு தனி
ண்டும்; இன்றேல்
ாது என்ற வந்து உரிமைக பெற போராடிக் ரக்கிறார்கள். இச் ள இந்துால் விளக் ட்டுகிறது. தி பேசுகின்ற ஆறு க்களுக்கு உலகில் மூன்று நாடுகளும் நாட்டு சபையில் ஒரு நாற்காலிகள் பாழுது அதைவிட எண்ணிக்கைகள் தமிழ்பேசும் மக்க லகில் ஒரு நாடும் ஐக்கிய தாட்டு GOU0 (Դkծ *శ్రీడ தம்மை சிந்திக்கத்
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இலங்கை ஒரே நாடு. நீங்கள் இந்நாட்டு மக்கள் நீங்கள் எங் களோடு இருந்துதான் ஆக வேண்டும் என்று கூறிக்கொ ண்டே அச்சிறுபாண்மை மக் களை தரைப்படை, கடற் படை, விமானப்படை முத லியவைகளால் தாக்கி அழித் துக் கொண்டிருக்கும் கொடுமையை இலங்கையில் தான் பார்க்கமுடிகிறது. எல்லா வலிமைகளும் நிறைத் துள்ள ஒரு அரசோடு எவ்வித வலிமையும் ல்லாத ஒரு தனிமனிதன் பிரபாகரன் இர ண்டு ஆண்டுகளாகப் போராடிக் கொண்டிருக்கி றாள் என்ற செய்தி தம் உள் ளத்தைத் தொடுகிறது. திரு. பிரபாகரன் வற் பெறு aurrarnir " ? Cosntabasulamu. வானா ? என்பது வேறு செய்தி. அவள் அடையப் போவது வாழ்த்தா ? வசையா? என்பதும் வேறு செய்தி அவனது செயல்தல் லதா ? கெட்டதா ? என்பதில் மாறுபட்ட கருத்தும் இருக்க லாம். ஆனால் தந்தை செல் வாவின் வழிவந்த அவள் ஒரு மாவீரன் என்பதில் மாறுபட்ட கருத்து இருக்க முடியாது எனபதை ff லால் தன்கு அறியமுடிகிறது.
எள் தாடு தமிழ்தாடு எள் மொழி தமிழ்மொழி. ஆகவே நான்தமிழன் என்று கூறுகிற ஒவ்வொருவரும் இந்நூலை கட்டிாயம் படித்துத் தீரவேண்
ஆசிரியர் பாஸ்டர் திரு. வைகுத்த்வாசன் "அவர்கள் ன்னும் போன்ற நூல் 盟 எழுதி தமிழ் கூறும் உலகிற்கு வழங் உதவ வேண்டு மெனவும், தமிழ்மக்கள் அவற்றைப் படித்துப் பயனடைய வேண் டுமெனவும் Galativu i கொள்கிறேன். - கி.ஆ.பெ.விகவநாத ே

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LTழ்ப்பாணத்திலிருந்து மக்க ளின் ஏகோபித்த அபிமானத்தைப் பெற்றமக்கள் நாளிதழாக வெளிவந்து கொண்டிருந்த ‘ஈழநாடு’ பத்திரிகை யில்பணியாற்றிய காலத்தில் ஏற்பட்ட அனுபவங்கள் ஒவ்வொன்றும்
ப்வொருவிதம்
பதினைந்து ஆண்டு காலம் இரவுப்பொறுப்பாசிரியராகக் கடமை யாற்றியிருக்கிறேன். இப்போது நினைத்தாலும் கனவாக"இருக்கிறது!
நன்றாக இன்னமும் ஞாபகமாக இருக்கிறது. அந்தநாள்
5-10-1978 ஒரு வியாழக்கிழமை இரவுஒருமணி
வவனியாவுக்கு அப்பால், கொழும்பு, கண்டி கிழக்கு மாகாணம் போன்றபகுதிகளுக்குஅச்சானபத்திரி
பின்மறுநாளுக்கான உள்ளுர் பதிப்புக் குக் கிடைக்கும் புதிய செய்திகளைப் பிரசுரித்து பத்திரிகையை வெளியிடு வது இரவுப் பொறுப்பு ஆசிரியரான என்னுடையவேலை
அடுத்த நாள் வெள்ளிக்கிழமை வெள்ளியென்றால், வீடு முழுவதும் கூட்டிக் கழுவிப் பெருக்கி, நல்லூர் கந்தனிடம் சென்று திரும்பிய பின்னரே என் இல்லாள் துவாரகை யின் சமையல் தயாராகும் எனக்கும்
டிரிழ்இைடித்திரியை நேரத் துக்கு முடித்துவிட்டு வீடு திரும்புவது apsolubi
இரவு பன்னிரண்டு மணிக்கு
மெஷினில் அச்சான முதல் பிரதியே மெஷின் புரூவ் அந்தப் பிரதியைச் சரியிழை
பாதுகாப்புச் சபைக்
சபையில் பரபரப்பு! துண்டித்தனர்! ஒரு pólusuluh - Lurssit மேடைக்குப் பாய் அப்புறப்படுத்தினர். சொல்ல வேண்டிய விட்டார்!
சில நிமிட அல்லோலகல்லோல
 
 
 
 

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ழப்பிரகடனம்
ான்று இரவுப் அந்நபரை பாதுகாப்பு அலுவலர்கள் nasGurú"usu" u ற்றியபின் 8prderu து அச்சுயந்திரம் மீண்டும் கூடியதாகவும் செய்தி ந்த முதலாவது கூறியது. அடுத்து ஒருமணி நேரத்தில் ருந்தேன்! நள்ளி ஒலிபரப்பாகும் mS 64 ரியாகி விட்டது சேவையில் நியூயோர்க்கிலிருந்து வயை வானொலி பிபிஸி நிருடர் இச்செய்தி சம்பந்த ாது செய்தியின் மான மேலும் விபரங்களை நேரடியா பாகிக் கொண்டி க்த் தருவார் என்றும் வானொலி
சொன்னது.
மிழர் ஒருவர் ஐதா.சபையில் தமிழீழ பிரகடன திய அமர்க்களம் uonr? “ gahı Adan ayış MuserAgüsunau 1978 கொண்டிருந்தார் தற்போதுள்ளதுபோல வேகமாக"
துடன் சேர்ந்து தலையாட்டும் தமிழ் பிரமுகர்களுக்கு துரோகிகள் என்று t-L-956 9- ArrassunsTLD, தது. வீட்டுக்குப் Jaggressiv GaAsnavKariyuh a Juriř
என்ற எண்ணம்
ந்த காலமது ஐ.நா. சபையில் அங்கம்
சுள் அல்லது அவர்களது அமைச்சர் கள் மட்டுமே கலந்து கொள்வது வழமை ஒரு முறை பாலஸ்தீன விடுதலை இயக்கத் தலைவர் பசீர் அரபாத் ஐநா.சபையில் பேசுவதற்கு
து தெரியும் அதுவும் நீண்ட காலமாக மத்திய
மக்கள் அறிந்து பிரச்னையைளப்படித் தீர்க்கலாம் என்று உலக நாடுகளின் ப் பெற முடியும் என்று 30க்கு மேற்பட்ட நாடுகள் ஐ.நா.சபையில் நீண்ட காலமாக கோரிக்கை விடுத்ததின் எதிரொலியா
தலைவர் பேசுவதற்கு அனுமதி கிடைத்தது.
மட்டில் அதுவும் தமிழரை பொறுத்த தமிழர் விடு o e f w φ SG தமி f ஏகப்பிரதிநிதிகளாகயிருந்தகாலமது. இவர்களை ஐ.நா.சபையில் பேச

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அப்படியிருக்க ஐநா.சபையில் பரபர : ஏற்படுத்திய இந்த்த் தமிழன்
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"சாகிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் pransTu Lubbifassu Stop press செய்தேன். அச்சுக் கோப்பாளர்களின் போர்மனாக அன்றைய தினம் கடமையாற்றிய மறவன்புலோ பாலசிங்கத்தையும் ஆறுமுகசாமியை பும் அழைத்து முன்பக்கச் செய்தியில் மேற்கொள்ளப் பிருக்கும் செய்தி மாற்றம்பற்றிக்கூறினேன்.
அன்றைய தினம் ஐநா.சபை
யிருந்த உலக ந ஆச்சரியத்தில் மூ
கிருஷ்ணா வைகுந்தவாசன்
பிரதிநிதி தலைமை தாங்கிக்கொண்டி நகரில் நடந்த ருந்தார். அமெரிக்கா, рајит, மாநாடு ஒன்றில் firmTorriñv, for a draf, * 15o தற்காக சென்றிரு
கலந்துகொண்டிருந்தனர். சுமார் 2000 கொண்டிருந்தது. Curt Lurrfanaaurravitit Liguesö கலரியில் இருந்து இருந்தனர். காலை நிகழ்ச்சியில் நாட்கள் ےIEW சைப்பிரஸ் நாட்டுத் தலைவர் ஒரு ப்விதம் சில நா மணிநேரமும், சூரினம் நாட்டு பிரதம ఫ్లో நாடுகளி மந்திரி ஒரு மணிநேரமும் பேசியதால் இவருக்கு பழ இன்னுமொரு நாட்டுப் பிரதிநிதி களைப் பார்ப்பன மட்டுமே பேசுவதற்கு நேரம்ஒதுக்கப் நாட்டுத் தலை பட்டிருந்தது. அது இலங்கைப் மண்டபத்துக்குள் பிரதிநிதி வெளியுறவு அமைச்சர் தொடங்கினார். ஹமீட் இக்கூட்டத் தொடரில் கலந்து துணைச் செ கொண்டிருந்தார். இப்போது இலங் இந்தியரான சி. கைப் பிரதிநிதி பேசுவார்" என்று ஒரு தமிழர், ! ஒலிபெருக்கியில் அறிவிக்கப்பட்ட செயலாளராகயி தும், ஒருவர் சபையிலிருந்து எழுந்து போது அப்பதவி மேடைநோக்கிச் சென்றார். முறைப் w படி சகலருக்கும் வணக்கம் தெரிவித்த ரோஃ அந்தப் பிரமுகர் சிங்கள அரசாங்கம் தமிழ் மக்கள் மீது நடத்திக் கொண்டி பெற்றிருந்தவர்.அ ருக்கும் அட்டுழியங்கள் பற்றிப் பேசி வைகுத்தவாசன் ச யது மட்டுமல்ல தமிழீழ பிரகடனத் asonaldsall தைச் செய்து கொள்வதாகவும் நாயகம் அமிர்த் அறிவித்தார். சபையில் பேசை
சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கத்தின் பிரதி 6T
நிதி சிறிலங்கள அரசுக்கு எதிராகப்
 

வியிலிருந்து ஓய்வு ாடனில் வழக்கறி சய்து கொண்டிருந்த
ளுக்குத் தெரியப்படுத்தலாம் என்று கேட்டிருக்கிறார். இதற்கு நரசிம்மன், நாட்டின் தலைவர் அல்லது அந்நாட் டின் பிரதிநிதிகள் மட்டுமே தான் ஐநா சபையில்பேசஅனுமதி கிடைக் கும் - அமிர்தலிங்கம் பேசுவதற்கு அனுமதி கிடைப்பது கடினம் விரும்பி னால் உலக நாடுகள் يكن متلاكمعتقلالهاوي
மன் கூறிவிட்டாராம் அப்போது
மன்றத்தில் artis கட்சித் தலைவராகவிருத்தவர். அரசாங்கத் தின் எதிர்க் கட்சித் தலைவராக இருக் கும் ஒருவரை ஐநா.சபையில் பேச வைப்பதென்பது இப்போதைக்கு நடக்கக்கூடிய காரியமில்லைஎன்பதை உணர்ந்து கொண்ட வைகுத்தவாசன் தாமே அழையாவிருந்தாளியாக நுழை ந்து ஐநா.சபையில் இலங்கைத் தமிழ் மக்கள் சிங்கள அரசாங்கத்தால் அனுபவித்துவரும் தொல்லைகளை வெளிப்படுத்த விரும்பியதன் எதிரொலியே இந்தப் பேச்சு" என்று செய்தியின் பின்னணியில் பிபிஸி
இந்த விபரங்களையெல்லாம் மறுநாள் பத்திரிகையில், ஐ.நா.சபை யில் تصنيع பிரகடனம் கூட்டத்
காட்சிக்ளும் தமிழன்பர் வைகுந்தவாசனின் துணிச்
பிட்டிருந்ததாக வானொலிச் செய்தி
விடாது - உரிய முக்கியத்துவம் கொடுத்து பிரசுரித்தமைக்காக பிரதம ஆசிரியர் எண்னை மறுநாள் பாராட்டி Gamrifir,
து நடந்தது 14 ஆண் ன் ృత్తిళ్ల ఊర్ల
விபரங்களை அவரிடம் பெற்று தமிழன்’ வாசக நேயர்களுடன் பகிர் ந்துகொள்ளலாம்எனநம்புகிறேன்.

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In 1960 Mr. Vaikunthavasan was cal as an Advocate of the Supreme Court ( is also an Advocate of the Madras Hig
He contested without SuCCeSS the Ceylon Parliament in 1965 as the official but resigned from it following the Fron
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கோவை
மகேசனுக்கு அனுதாபம்
சுதந்திரன் ஆசிரியர் கோவை மகேசன் மறைவு என்னைக்கலங்க வைக்கிறது: தமிழுக்கும் தமிழின விடுதலைக்குமாக வாழ் காள் முழுவதும் பல எதிர்ப்புகளுக்கு மத்தியில் பாடுபட்ட கண்பர் அவர்.
கடைசியாக அவரை இரண்டு ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் Q s6är so auf ei பார்த்தேன். அப்போதே அவர் கோய்வாய்ப் பட்டிருந்தார்.
SATURDAY REVIEW garfurt சிவநாயகத்தைப்போல, கோவையும் தமது மனைவியுடன் யாழ்ப்பா னத்திலிருந்து தப் பரியோடி தமிழ்காட்டில் தஞ்சம் புகுந்தார்.
Gактереvuumrt LJesusтеu nБоkrunt மட்டுமல்ல ைேண்டகாலமாக தமிழ்ஈழ அரசியலில் என்போன்றவர்களின் விடுதலைத்திட்டங்களுக்கு பரிபூரண ஒத்துழைப்பு கல்கிய அரசியல்வாதி.
அவர் பிரிவால் தவிக்கும் அவரது மனையாளுக்கு எமது அநுதாபங்கள். அடுத்தமாதம் வெளிவரவிருக்கும் arang THE LIFE & TIMES OF A AM, ACVS என்ற நூலை அவருக்கு சமர்ப்பணம் செய்திருக்கிறேன்.
-கிருஷ்ணா வைகுந்தவாசன்

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ΗMITEMPLE

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My dear reader
Believe me when I say that if not for you, a book like this."
Any publication dealing with recent ev summary, sketchy and personalised for affected people, young and old. I feel sur
As early as in 1979, Mrs. Indira Gandhi o by the Tamil Coordinating Committee en killed by the Armed Forces of the Sri Lan deplored such killings and described ther 27.8.79:
"I have just received your letter dated 22
Obviously she was so moved by the tortur went on to indirectly blame the Moraji D by the Sri Lankan Government. (Both book).
The killings continue thousand times wo
Everyone realises the increasing role thi world affairs. Afghanistan, Cambodia, Yi
But why the killings in Sri Lanka an attention of the world body is a matter o
 
 

I would not have even thought of preparing
rents covering nearly 50 years, even in a m, is bound to create interest among the e that it would be useful as well.
in receipt of a letter sent to her at New Delhi closing pictures of Tamil youth tortured and
kan Government, promptly and immediately n as 'horrible'. She started her reply, dated
8.79. . .”
epicture that she called it horrible' and also esai Government for tolerating such actions her letter and the picture are found in the
rsel
e U.N. Security Council is called to play in ugoslavia, come immediately to the mind.
d Tamil Eelam do not attract the urgent f deep concern.
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This book is a dedication to Kovai Mahesan long time Editor, Suthanthiran) who passed lway in Madras on 4 July 1992.