office and a parcel containing sugar and tea Air Lanka on the mat A selection from Sri Lankan was delivered ... 'The deceased was cracking , without comment. jokes and pleasing the others. He kept the 's national carrier, Air Lanka, has Readers are requested to form their muzzle of the gun at his neck and demons- come under heavy fire from the country's own conclusions. trated to his mother how a person could shoot defence boss - General Sepala Attygalle - himself. He pulled the trigger with his leg. for the non-payment of their share of Katu- There was a explosion and the deceased fell nayake Airport's electricity bill. The former Political Astrology ! dead at the foot of his mother. Witness said Army chief who presently heads the Airport deceased had' forgotten that the gun was and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd., in his "A War will take place on January 8, loaded and cocked. annual report for the limited liability company 1986, in the house of parliamentary affairs. ( - 23/12/85) has stated that electricity bills to the tune This planetary war is between Mercury, the of Rs. 16.2 million rendered to Air Lanka, planet of communication and mass media vs. Ltd. and Air Lanka Catering Services Itd. have mysterious Neptune. The winner is Neptune Appeal for Red Cross not been paid ... Airport and Aviation Services the planet of "worry". It builds up fear from (Sri Lanka) Ltd. which was formed in March neighbours. Cordial relations between rulers Citizens' Committee has requested 1983 has reported a nett loss of Rs. 35 million of neighbouring countries turn into dreadful President Jayawardene to permit a team of for the year ending March 31. 1985 ... situations. This could also be a period of observers from the International Red Cross (The - 1 /l /86) stress adversely affecting the rule of law. to stay in the country not only as observers Resolutions of condemnation of rulers may but also to provide relief to the refugees. In Polls Speculation be discussed as internal dissensions grow. its memorandum signed by its Secfetary, Rac~alstress will adversely affect countfy's Attorney-at-law Mr. R. Balasubramaniam, the Political observers were positive yesterday peace. A politico may play a peculiar political Committee continued that Jaffna had now that Government would hold an election oka role this week. In this instance it suggests a become an area of refugees not being properly referendum within the next six monthc) great set-back for a trade union. It also creates looked after and non-government organisa- According to many observes, the likeliest fresh problems in the plantation and agricul- tions were compelled to go to their rescue, decision is a referendum at which the govern- - tural sector. Mercury's defeat may hit the looking after them whether they were in ment might put its own propbsals trading floors again. Expect a sharp drop in houses or camps. and those of the other political parties for the prices of tea, rubber and coconut ... Saturn (The Island - 4/1/86) the solution of the ethnic problems so that and Moon join on January 7 in the house of the people could decide. Asked by SUN, an royals and build up a very crucial and critical official of the Election Commissioner's Dept. week for a top leader ... Death of a famed Mrs. B's contention said it was ready for anything - Presidential person will also be in the news ..." election, a General Election. Development The main reason for the troubles in the North Council Elections or a Referendum. The WEEKEND SUN -.January 5.1986 - From is the fraud known as the Referendum which electoral lists of 1985 could be made available the astrological page run by Dr. Kingsley was held to postpone the general elections by next month (The Sun - 4/1/86) Goonetilleke and Professor Kheiro. .... by six years, Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike the leader of the SLFP said at her first public Horseracing again meeting after the restoration of her civic rights, 5-Star Theft I held in Gam~aha.Mr. A. Amirthalinaam who Horseracing - the "Royal game" and the won 14 seats at the Geberal ~lectionsin Left with only the clothes on his back, sport of "kings and beggars': - is likely to 1977 and became the Leader of the Opposition Jordanian tv1.tvl.Abu Dayyah will take back make a legitimate re-appearance in Sri Lanka in Parliament, has been rejected by the people with him bitter memories of a New Year's shortly. THE! government. yeekend learns. in the north. Continuing further, Mrs. Bandara- Day in a &star hotel in . Mr.Dayyah, has signified its apwva! and the Ceylon Turf naike pointed out that in the 1982 Referendum, the General Manager of an Omani recruitmev- Club is planning to bllild a rececourse at the symbol "Lamp" received only 25,000 votes agency had his caSh and valuables worLy Talduwa, 30 miles from Colombo The re- in Jaffna while the Opposition symbol the Rs.l44,250 stolen while he slept. Today the) introduction of horseracing IS expected to "Pot" received 250,000 votes in the area. man who came to recruit 343 Lankans for substantiallv boost aovernment- revenue ... She said people in the South as well as people jobs in West Asia is disillusioned and is having in the North and East g.ave the vote to the second thoughts about hiring Sri Lankans. ... (Weekend - 5/1/86). "Ppt" calling for a General Election... (The Sun - 4/1/86) Home Guard hero !. (The Island - 6/1/86) Fate of lndian boat A young Home Guard who was armed with a Jaffna High Court has no jurisdiction to gun died when he tried to show his mother Job in Interpol hold ayinquiry into the application for payment how a person could shoot himself This-was of compensation or value for any production disclosed at an inquest held into the death of Senior D.I.G. R. Sunderalingam now on a lost or damaged. State Counsel b1r.lyathurai W. Gamini Ratnayake (18) of Etabendlv~ewa police assignment with the German C.I.D. Gnanathasan made the above submission (Trincomalee district) by the Inquirer into (Bundes Kriminalant) has been selected for bofore the Jaffna High Court Judge b1r.TAnanda Sudden Deaths. Gomarankadawala, Mr. U.B. a senior posting at the Police division of Coomarrswamy during an inquiry into an Gunasekera. Mother of the deceased P. Interpol headquarters in France. Mr. Sundera- application by a crew of an lndian trawler for Dingirimenike (36),in evidence said deceased lingam was among several overseas applicants the payment of compensation for the loss of was her second child. On the day of the for this prestigious post. He is the first Sri the trawler while in the custody of the court. incident he left home at about 8 p.m. along Lankan and only the second Asian Police Attorney-at-law R.Balasubramaniam appeared with K. Dharmadasa. They went to a guard Officer to join the cadre of this internatlonal on behalf of the applicant Ganesan. Police point near their house. A little while later pollce organisation which was established in Constable Suppiah Parameswara of the Jaffna witness along with her elder daughter went 1913 and is manned by 50 hand-picked police Police in his evidence stated that during the towards the guard point hearing the approach officers drawn from 134 member countries. year 1984 he was attached to Kayts Police of a vehicle. It was a jeep from the A.G.A.'s (The Sun - 1 /l /86) Station. 'The lndian fishing trawler RN Ill

Sri Lanka Situation Report Jan.l5,198 was handed over to Kayts Police on a directive naikepura model village, the Prime blinister worst is over. But I could be wrong", was his by the Jaffna High Court on 25/11 /84. The said that although the former Prime Minister reply to questions raised as to prevailing mood, Kayts Police Station was closed and on could not lay an egg she might at least cluck at the briefing to diplomats and international 25/12/84, Inspector of Police Gnanapiragasam when she saw the new houses ...( The Sun - agencies, held at the Defence Ministry head- who was in charge, was killed. He was aware 7/1/86) quarters. The Minister pointed out that his that the said Indian fishing trawler was a optimism was based on information covering production in the case - F g.... Fisheries U.S. Tea tests the terrorists campaign plans and situation Inspector. Kayts, S.Velupillai in his report reports... (The lsland - 7/1/86) had said the upper portion of the trawler was The U.S Food and Drug Administration burned and the lower part was submerged in has moved to detain Sri Lanka's Tea imports No night work water. Further Inquiry was put off (The lsland for special testing following terrorist threats - 31 /l 2/85) to contaminate that nation's tea with cyanide, The minor employees and counter clerks of the Jaffna Post Office have unanimously states a report datelined Weshington in protested to the Chief Post Master that they Home Guard guns yesterday's issue of the "Wall Street Journal". I cannot risk their lives by doing night work The report says that Sri Lanka provides about I (The lsland 7/1/86) b1r.A.E. de Alwis. A.S.P., bladawachchiya 10 per cent of US tea imports or about 21 - said yesterday that 18 shot guns in the million pounds of black tea annually ... (The possession of certain Home Guards in blada- lsland - 9/1/86) wachchiya area have been withdrawn on Pak horse for Hindu rite account of their alleged mi~c.onduct. The Bridge blown up No blood will be shed at the "horse sacrifice" A.S.P. further said that it has been decided now into the 13th day of a 48day Hindu \to further withdraw, 12 other guns from the Tamil terrorists have blasted the Irrakka- ritual performed at the Kathiresan temple in .. -<.HomeGuards in the Punewa area too .... In kandy bridge for the second time in order to Bambalapitiya. The "Aswameda Yagna" as the meantime Police have taken into custody prevent secur'ity forces moving into Kumburu- . the ritual is termed, raised a few eyebrows a gang who attempted to rob a vehicle in the piddy .... The establishment of an Army camp among the Hindu intelligentia, both in Colombo same area and found a Home Guard and an at lrrakkakandy had irked the terrorists in and India, when news of its revival from the ex-Special Police officer among them. Two the Kumburupiddy area ... At least 90 per Puranic era was broken late last year. "But other Home Guards are already in police cent of the buildings at Nilaveli including we have been entirely misunderstood", a custody in connection with an attempted tourist hotels have been found to be damaged spokesman of the Ministry of Hindu Religious robbery (The lsland - 31 /l2/85) by terrorists and very few people were seen using the main road. Nilaveli area which was and Cultural Affairs said yesterday. "No bldod one time busy with vehicular traffic has now will be shed ... the horse to whom we are 1 Helicopter crash become almost a ghost town. (The lsland - making offerings now, symbolises Lord Vishnu. 9/1/86) We will release him on the 48th day of the The court martial proceedings against Pilot ritual, and he will be cared for, thereafter by Officer C.R.Gurusinghe were recently fixed a Hindu temple", the spokesman said ..... for January 28 by Judge Advocate Mervyn Chinese visit The spokesman for the Ministry said the white Samarakoon. Pilot Officer Gurusinghe is being horse had been purchased at a cost of charged for negligence leading to the crash Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People's Rs.13,000/- from Pakistan... ( - of a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter in the Batticaloa Republic'of China and the man who is master- 9/1/86) lagoon on blay 27,1984, leading to the death minding an ambitious modernisation prog- of Squadron Leader R.P.Attapattu and Leading ramme in the world's most populous country, Aircraftsman H.bl.S.Chandradasa .... (The Sun will pay a 3-day official visit to Sri Lanka from Brain Drain - 6/1/86) March 13... The visit is a reciprocation of President Jayawardene's 5day visit to China Nearly 150 academic staffers from four of g*~. Tea & Cyanide in May 1984... (The Sun - 8/1/86) the country's universities have gone abroad for post-graduate work, and not returned . ' Leading tea exporters were putting their allegedly violating their bonds and agreements, stocks through thorough checks after assuring Jail for nurse University Grants Commission soufces dis- buyers that reports of Sri Lanka's tea being closed. These include 55 from the Colombo contaminated with Cyanlde or Arsenic were A Tamil nurse attached to the Batticaloa University, 51 from the Peradeniya University. merely a terrorist canard. In one leading hospital was yesterday sentenced to four 25 from the Jaffna University and 14 from export house, as in many others, more than weeks'simple imprisonment by Colombo High the Sri Jayawardenepura University.... (Sunday 30,000 samples were being tested Court Judge K.Vignarajah when she pleaded Observer - 5/1/86) gullty to a charge under the Prevention of ... Some exporters in the United States. Britain, Terrorism Act. The accused, Seethadevi and Australia have suspended Lankan tea Ravindrarajah was charged with withholding Anura also opposed imports and advised agents to check the stocks between September 1 arld September 30, thoroughly ...... (The Sun - 9/1/86) 1984, information from Police. She had known In a wide-ranging speech before the govern- the two men, Michael Ramachandran and ment parliamentary group, President Jayawar- Rasiah Arulnathan who had attacked the dene yesterday reiterated government's 1 L'FowlCage housesw Kaluwanchikudy Police on September 22, opposition to any North-East link..... The 1984... (The Sun - 9/1/86) President said that under the Bandaranaike- Prime Minister R.Premadasa yesterday Chelvanayakam Pact there was provision for dismissed accusations by SLFP leader Sirima the merger of Northern and Eastern Provinces. Bandaranaike that the houses built under "Could be wrong" It was on this Issue that they organized the the Village Reawakening Project resembles march to Kandy Mr.Anura Bandaranaike "fowl cages" and asked her to come and see National Security Minister Lalith Athulath- had stated now that he was also against the the houses built at Bandaranaikepura. Speak- mudali sa~dyesterday that every effort is being amalgamation of North and East.... (Daily News ing at the ceremonial opening of the Bandara- made to solve the ethnic crisis. "I feel the - 8/1/86)

kri Lanka Situation Report Jan.15, 1986 and Human Rights Violations 8 Ceasefire Violations I Events from Nov 4th - Nov 23rd were carried in Issue No 2 of the Situation Report. I mudali observes his 49th birthday today by National Security Minister spokesman in NOVEMBER 24 ' I leading Blood Donation campaign in aid of Colombo says that six out of ten Tamils I injured soldiers. abducted by a gang in retaliation for the kid-, "Show of strengthW,byarmed forces in napping of the Buddhist monk have been. civvies, in Jaffna. Panic in city areas as men "Unidentified gunmen" in clwies round up released. "Four are still being held", said in armoured cars emerge out of old Dutch about 15 Tamils in Pullumalai village in Batti- the spokesman. (Daily News). Fort camp In 3 directions. Sounds of gunfire caloa district, including officiating Brahmin In Colombo, 72-year old millionaire club. and bombs send people scampering for safety. priest at Hindu temple and hold them as owner Sellaiyah Mudalali (J.M.S. Fernando): At Bankshall Street, 19-year old Jayanthini ransom for return of Buddhist monk kidnapped gunned down "Chicago style" at Reclamation and another woman injured by gunshots. in Amparai district yesterday. Road. Pettah, by a man in another vehicle Pedestrians assaulted. Cyclists drop their running parallel to the businessman's chauf- vehicles and run for cover. About 45 bicjlcles For the second time in 10 days, feurdriven car in broad daylight. damagd beyond repair, run over by armoured G.A. Logeswaran's: house; robbed by,armagj cars Youth militants help people in the busy youths. Among articles taken away were~a. Govt. forces let loose terror in 3 villages in bazaar area to get away to safety. Colombo generator and a photo of the G.A. who was theEhst - Mandur, Vellaweli, and Kaluwanchi- kudi in the course of an intensive search and 1 "Sun" reporting the incident on believed to be away in Colombo at that time. ' the 25th says that "Terrorists mounted an destroy operation of Tamil militant,bases, with$' 11 attack on the Dutch Fort at Jaffna" and "the Four Sinhala traders travelling in lorry from three or four helicopters giving air cover.'- army repulsed the attack" Colombo laden with produce killed by unknown Repeated gunfire, bomb burSts and clouds of smokecause exodus of population to Peria- Govt. sources in Colombo say that "about persons at Morawewa in Polonnaruwa district. kallaru and other neighbouring villages. 25 terrorists launched an attack on Wellaveli pollce station in Batticaloa district" around 1 Colombo report says four bodies with gun- Jaffna report says the Singha Regiment of a.m. Some damage to the station, but no shot wounds discovered in jungle close to the is to replace some of the casualities. Exchange of fire went on for an an irrigation canal in the Medura Oya settle- army units stationed In Jaffna hitherto. hour, they say. mep scheme. Tamil youth V.M. Ranjan (26) employed as Culvert between Kaluwanchikudy and Kal- a mechanic, who was carrying a bag of tools munai in Batticaloa district damaged by Tamil Urban Council calls upon and walking along the Jaffna Post Office road. militants and is impassable for traffic. all Tamils who fled the district after locking shot dead on suspicion by army sentry from up their shops and houses to prove in writing the ramparts of old Dutch fort. ( . f NOVEMBER 25 I their title to the~rproperty before December jaffna). 31. It is feared many of these premises have Five State-owned jeeps returning to Amparai been broken into and occupied illegally by Jaffna). carrying participants at opening of new Maha unauthorised Sinhala squatters. Army men in uniform enter a house at Dhar- Oya hydroelectric scheme hijacked by 25- mapuram in dlstrict and take into strong armed group at Arantalawa on the Colombo report says Govt. will soon go custody a mother and daughter, Mrs. Arasam- 32nd milepost on the Maha Oya-Arnparai road. ahead with a phased programme of holding mah Murugesu (55) and M. Kugajini (20). Some occupants of the vehicles abducted, elections in the north and east, particularly They also take away a lorry driver Selvam of including pro-govt. politicalmonk - Ven. Hate- Trincomalee and Padiruppu. Murasumoddai and the lorry cleaner along kumbura Dhammaratna, the Viharadhipathi with the lorry. of the Mangala Oya temple in Amparai dis- Refugees from Trincomalee, Vavuniya. Batti- trict. NOVEMBER 27 I .,:,,::< i " . .' '' :;'. I caloa and Mullaitivu, including women and $?r:, ... Tamil Press photographer S. Sivaraj robbed A 30-strong pro-govt;;armed gang stop Batti- children in large numbers go on a 20-mile ~f cash Rs. 260/- and gold ring valued at caloa-bound.bus at Poonanai, order five Tamil protest march at Jaffna, carrying placards Rs. 2.500/- on his way to the Captain'sGardens passengers.out, and gun four of them down and shoutlng slogans condemning the govt. Hindu temple at Maradana. Colombo, by two on the spot. The :fifth.Tamil, Milton Rajah of men who threw chillie powder on his face. Kotahena, Colombo. escapes with injuries. NOVEMBER 28 Posters at Vavuniya and Kilinochchi in the Thebuswith the rest ofthe passenger; allowed I name of Liberation Tigers claiming execution toproceed. It was believed to be a retaliation 24 Tamils killed in the Mandur area In yes- of death sentence of lnparajah (Reagan), to the killing of 4 Sinhala traders in Polonna- terday's army terror. 21 Tamils in the Trinco- 1 leader of a militant group (EPRLF) that was ruwa district yesterday. One of the four Tamils malee dlstrlct and 9 in Mutur also killed making responsible for the murder of their supporter, killed was identified as Kamalalingam of Batti- a total of 54 Tamils killed In two days in the the elderly owner of Uthaya Mills, and his caloa. Later inthe day. Kamalalingam's father Pastern province. Many of those killed in son. Others in the group responsible for the Ponniah, another son Karunailingam (25); Mandur reported to have d~edin the course killing had been released with a warnlng, say a relative Kanesamoorthy (41 ) and a Muslim of strafing by helicopters. Those killed include the posters. Tamil friend lsmail who had set out in van several women and children Several houses, tractors, lorries and other vehicles also set Second refugee centre opened at Atchuvely, driven by Ponniah to collect the body of on fire along with household goods. (Vira- Jaffna, to accommodate more Tamil refugees Kamalalingam at Polonnaruwa hospital were kesari. Colombo, and EelamuraSu, Jaffna). fleeing Trincomalee district. themselves attacked by armed.gang at Vaka- neri. Ponniah wzkkilled, and'Karbnailingam Govt. sources in Colombo say that 41 "terror- 1 NOVEMBER 26 1 andKanesamoorthy later admitted'to Batticaloa ists" were killed In the East (referring to the hospital with serious injuries, lsmail escaped same ~ncidents)in their "clashes with security National Security Minister Lalith Athulath- with minor injuries. ( & Eelamurasu). forces" (Daily News).

Sri Lanka Situation Report Jan.15, 198$ Colombo Magistrate's Court Production Colombo, including hand grenades with LTTE orders; to come into effect from the 4th. Room at Hulftsdorp robbed, fol: third time markings. Army fire at group of youths at Arasady within six months. Items robbed include Australian woman tourist robbed by masked Road, Batticaloa. Although no one was killed, money, gold, and even heroin, all estimated men, waving home-made pistols near Yala one youth was reported tO have swallowed to be worth a few million rupees. (The Island, Wild Life Park in south-east Sri Lanka and cyanide and died. Colombo). relieved of cash and property worth Rs.29,000/- Four youths in an earlier incident reported according to a complaint made bv her to Police. National Security Minister states in Parlia- to have tried to force their way into the ment that severa!Sinhalese who are members NOVEMBER 30 Batticaloa jail, but had fled when prison officers of two groups - the Samaja Janath Vijaya- fired shots in the air. paraya (SJV) and the Janatha Vimukthi Pera- MuslimTamil youth Jainudeen and another Case against Uma Maheswaran and 11 muna Nava Pravanathanaya (JVP NP), a Tamil youth K.Thiyagarajah, both from Batti- others in connection with the Kilinochchi breakaway group of the JVP, both believed caloa, who were in afmy custody at Army People's Bank robbery taken up before to be having links with PLOTE, have been headquarters in Colombo.shot dead. Govt. Colombo High Court Judge H.W. Senanayake arrested. claims they were killed by army sentries when Soldier on foot patrol in isolated area in and put off for April 21, 1986. they made a bid to escape. Mutur shot at and seriously injured by "two . Four militants reported to have fired at a terrorists who came on push cycles" states 23-year old Tamil youth Appakuddy Thiaga- helicopter between Kuchchaveli and Pulmod- govt. report. lingam from Thiruvaiayur in dai. Helicopter believed to have been Train service between Colombo and Jaffna who was on the Colombo-bound train along damaged. to operate as normal from today. with his mother, sister and brother, intending Tamil youth who flew in from Singapore to go abroad, taken away by army personnel DECEMBER 3 'arrested at Colombo airport for smuggling on the train, to Elephant Pass army camp ' 18 walkie talkies inside a TV set (The Island). (Eelamurasu). , Five soldiers and a civllian driver killed 12 Tamil youths travelling in a bus from and three others seriously injured when their NOVEMBER 29 I Kalmunai to Jaffna taken into custody by jeep ran into a landmine ambush between armed forces at Batticaloa bus stop. Dehiwatte and Kantalai in Trincornalee district. \ Mand~rvillage goes into mourning as 14 All railway stations instructed not to accept Victims were Sergeant Heenbanda, Corporal bodies of Tamils shot dead by strafing heli- any rail parcels to north. Vesudeva. Lance Corporal Ekanayake, Private copters are fished out from the waters of Pelipane, Private Subarathne and driver Kurumanvel~lagoon and the relatives bury DECEMBER 1 Jinadasa. Three injured soldiers flown to the dead Two others believed killed in the I I Colombo. Shops, offices close, and panic in same incident, Rasakuddy and Mekaraiah, One Police constable killed and several the area as continuous firing is heard. but bodies not recovered No inquests or injured when Tamll militants attack a jeep Ceylon Workers' Congress decides to abstain post-mortems held. Batticaloa Citizens Com-. with -hand grenades at Kaluwanchikudy. In from work in the plantations in the mornings mittee members Rev. Fr. Chandra Fernando. another incident at Akkaraipattu, two jeeps and hold prayers from Thai Pongal Day till Sam Tambimuttu and S. Mahendran visit in which Police Commandos were on their Tam~lNew Year Day. Mandur and listen to the woes of the public. way to Thirukovil, run into a road mine. Army men in civils arrive at Pallai in buses They are told all those killed were poor hut- Govt. report says jeeps were damaged, but and passenger vans, and suddenly swoop on dwellers who were going on their legitimate no casualties. Following these incidents, all youths in the area and in the vehicles. occupation by boats. Citizens Committee tension builds up at Kaluwanchikudy, Kallaru One youth killed, another ycuth Karunanithi Secretary Prins Casinader sends urgent and Padiruppu areas. Clash reported between (22)admitted to Jaffna hospital with gunshct telegram to Monitoring Comm~tteeto visit Police Commandos and militants at Thampattai. wounds and 40 others arrested. (Eelamurasu, Mandur and hear the people's representations Army reinforcements rushed from Komari army Jaffna). (Vlrakesari). camp. One soldier who suffered injuries dies i later in hospital. (Virakesari, Eelamurasu and - Of the Tamils killed i%Trincomalee district Sun) , by govt. forces on the 27th, there was hardly DECEMBER 4 any of them who could be called "terrorists" Bodies of 4 Tamil youths, Ashok, Bala, Niyaz I according to the personal data supplied to and Ivan, believed to be members of a militant Unofficial Colombo reports say that Mr. the Trincomalee C~tizens'Committee by the group and shot dead by army men in a house Thondarnan the plantation Tamils leader figured villagers. Nine killed were from Kadalkarai- at Thiruvaiyaru in Kilinochchi reported missing prominently in today's Cabinet meeting. chenai, another nine from Chenaiyur. two from Kilinochchi hospital morgue. President Jayawardene holds exclusive talks from Kaddaiparichchan and one from Sampur. About ten armed youths rob cash box in with him at the end of the Cabinet meeting. Among those killed were 65-year old Sitham- Colombo-bound Yaldevi after ordering engine Foot patrols by armed forces now camped parapillai Sinnathurai, GC-year old Kathlramalai driver to stop at Mukamalai off Kodikamam. at Dollar and kent Farms, in the surrcunding Thangarasa, and 60-year old Marisalin. (Vira- Intercity express also robbed of cash col- areas, bring new tensions. Several young kesari) lection at Thachchanthoppu. boys who had run in fear into jungles found Daring night hold-up at Valaichchenai Paper to be missing. Mills premises on 28th night reported. An Continuous reports of Jaffna-bound lorries armed gang about 25-strong threaten staff at being robbed on the way by armed gangs gunpoint, lock them up in rooms and get Point Pedro Citizens' Committee protests near Poonavai. away with official vehicles and goods worth to President Jayawardene against stoppage Train that left Talaimannar for Anuradhapura over Rs. 15 lakhs. Jeeps, motor cycles, a TV of aid to Vavuniya refugees in Jaffna. robbed by four armed ycuths at madhu Road. set, camera, were among items robbed. Following repeated robberies of railway Cash Rs. 45,000/- belonging to Railway taken Also in the East. Tamil militants hijack petrol ash, govt. intrcduces new system for purchase away. bowser at Chenkalady. of rail tickets. Jaffna city commuters to In Colcmbo, Addditional Defence Secretary, Govt. dlsplays arms captured from Tamil purchase their tickets at the Durayappa Dr. Wickrema Weerasooriya tells a news militant camps at a Press conference .in Stadium, and others to pay through money conference that the report by Amnesty Inter- - i Lanka Situation Report Jan.15, 1986 nat~cnal'F~le on Torture publ~shedIn October Tamil refugees from Chettikulam in Mannar Monitoring Committee in respect of the report 1985 was false He sa~dhe contacted the district who fled army violence and lived in on the Ccmmittee's visit to Jaffna from the lccal representatwe of AI, MS Anne Ranas~nghe refugee camps at Kilinochchi and Jaffna now 4th to 6th cf this month, says Jaffna Tamil and several others who denled they had forced to beg and live as vagrants because daily Eelamurasu quoting reliable sources. anyth~ngto do w~ththe report (Sun) of the stoppage of all govt. assistance. A dissentient report might be submitted by Velaichchenai Paper Mills Factory robbed scme of the members, the report says. j, DECEMBER 5 for the fifth time within recent weeks. Army convoy consisting of armoured cars 1 10 army officers trained in Israel in anti- and soldiers on foot emerge from Dutch Fort Army men in Navatkuli army camp in Jaffna guerrilla warfare arrive in Colombo. and move towards Palaly along the Palaly go cut on foot patrol in the area, stop and Govt. has granted approval for the 4day Road in the rkrning, and retbrn in the evening examine passing vehicles. Approaching the goodwill visit of 2 Chinese Warships to Sri by same route. Despite some early tension, grain warehouses 200 yards away, some hand Lanka, from December 18 to December 21, no incidents and no panic on the part of the bombs were alleged to have been thrown at Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Tyronne public. them, provoking them to open fire indiscrimi- Fernando says in Parliament. 19 Tamil youths arrested at Karadian Aru nately. Warehouse employees run away to . Farm in Batticaloa district. Govt. claims capture safety and scme ycuths in the vicinity were Monitoring Committee members visit Weli- of 3 landmines, motor cycles and military arrested. (Eelamurasu). kade jail in Colombo and spend four hours talking to detainees suspected of terrorism. uniform. 39 out of 49 who were arrested by army Jaffna-bound lorry from Colombo laden with personnel at Pallai on the 3rd released. DECEMBER 7 trading goods worth Rs. 5 lakhs robbe.d by Army men surround Neelachchikulam. I armed ycuths at Murikandy. Kunchikulam villages in in Monitoring Committee fly down to Jaffna Jaffna fishermen from who set search of Tamil guerrilla hide-outs. No and motor to Kilinochchi. Several residents out on a mechanised boat for deep-sea fishing independent reports of any arrests but Colombo who were eye witnesses to incidents involving assaulted by Navy personnel off Nedunthivu.' govt. report says a cache of arms and explo- the armed forces in Kilinochchi district volun- and boat itself was damaged. sives was captured. Govt. report also says a teer evidence. .,- local leader of a Tamil militant group Bahirathan 83 youths from Trincomalee district released 1 Armed youths in three vehicles break into was captured near Vavuniya railway station. frcm Boosa and sent to Trinco but prohibited China Bay Cement works factory, in Trinco- frcm leaving the district for the next three 16-year old youth Elirmaran of Mulliyalawalai malee, order Sinhala security staff into one months. discovered dead about 30 yards away frcm room, rob various items includng walkie-talkies, his home under mysterious circumstances. helmets and cash, after telling 'the security 5453 Tamil refugees in Mutur district deprived of all govt. assistance because they Two armed ycuths break into the home of men that they were not against the Sinhala refused to be moved into Trincomalee refugee Satkurunathan of Kokuv~lWest in Jaffna at people but were only fighting against the camps face starvation. 10 in the mcrning, threaten the lone woman government and its armed forces. occupant and get away with cash Rs. 28.000/- Five Tamil youths in a refugee camp in Daily News reports that "armed terrorists (Eelamurasu. Jaffna) Vattapalai in Mullaitivu taken away by army entered the Sri Lanka Sugar Corporation office in Hingurana in the Amparai district and 13,150 refugees in the Batticalca district, personnel after their eyes and mouths were removed 'l6 guns, 216 rounds of ammunition according to Social Service Officer of the tied up by the shirts they were wearing. and three motdr cycles. district. Trincomalee refugees in Jaffna refugee Govt. Rehabilitation Ministry sources in Kandiah Thiagarajah of Nedunkerny admitted centres informed that all govt. assistance will Colombo say that about 1.000 refugees from to hospital with grievous gun shot injuries be stopped by the 15th of this month. Trincomalee who' were temporarily accom- following army search in the district. Brief tensicn in Jaffna city in early hours mcdated in Batticaloa have returned to Trinco. 13-year old girl injured in police shooting of the mcrning after sounds of bomb blasts following sound of an explosion near the and gunfire in the Dutch Fort area, but no Batticalca police static%. casualties or damage reported. I DECEMBER 9 Govt. newspaper Daily News reports that Colombc report says that about 85 Tamil Tension and panic in Navatkuli in Jaffna. ten unnamed "terrorist suspects" were shot youths frcm Trincomalee. Uppuveli. Pulmoddai Army men in civils from the Navatkuli army dead at Seruwila when they tried to escape. and Kuchchaveli who were detained at the Bccsa detension camp for the past 6 months camp comb the area. One army unit approach- Dr. Wickremabahu Karunaratne, NSSP are likely to be released within the next few ing the railway station attacked by Tamil duputy leader produced before the Additional days. militants. Several army men believed injured. Magistrate. Colombo by Borella Police on a Near the Navatkuli junction one army man charge of distributing anti-gcvt. literature. Another Colombc report says Sinhala "Home injured, accidentally caught in the army fire. Guard ' R.P. Wijeratne of Kaddukulam in Unconfirmed reports say that three persons Trincornalee district was killed by Tamil militants were killed in the course of thearmy shooting. DECEMBER 6 on the 3rd of this month. I Several residents in Navatkuli area flee their Seven Tamil officials in the Administrative Four servicemen from the S~ILanka army. homes. Yal Devi to Colombo delayed by two sewice, including two G.A.s sewing in northern navy and police whc lost their limbs in action hours. districts are reported to have applied for long in the north and east return to Colombc after Armoured car collides against a parked being fitted with artificial limbs at the Tel leave on no-pay. for periods ranging from 6 lorry by the roadside near Elephant Pass months to twc years. Aviv hospital in Israel. They are Corporal Post Office, causing serious injuries to lorry M.D. Mithrananda. Sergeant H.K. Dayaratne driver who was sleepihg inside and damaging 86 families who were disr!aced frcmGuru- of the army commando unit. Lt. W.U.G.A. Perera nagar before the closing Lcwn of the army the lorry. Lorry driver N. Sathasivam (30)of of the navy and Susantha Hettiarachchi of Valvettiturai despatched to Jaffna hospital camp there and housed at Navatkuli Housing the Police Special Task Force. scheme get back to their original homes at by local residents with the help of army personnel. Gurunagar because of constant tensicn after DECEMBER 8 setting up of new army camp at Navatkuli. New army camp set up in Nagarkovil. (Eelamurasu). Conflict of opinion among members of Kudaththanai, in Vadamarachchy district in I Sri Lanka Situation Report Jan.15, 1986 . Around 6 in the morning, Paranthan on-.. 1 Oth, admitted to Jaffna hospital. of the morning. 18 armoured cars escorting several lorries lntensive,&rny cordon and search at Batti- A time bomb goes off in the Intercity train loaded with heavy wooden posts, barbed wire caloa town from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Several that reached Colombo from Jaffna after all and implements, reported going past Kallundai persons taken away in army vehicles. the passengers had got off, completely road and Chonnappu Alaya junction towards damaging a compartment. Big bomb blast..in Jaffna opposite Multi- Mullichanthi. Sounds of gunfire heard for purpose cooperative stores on K.S.S. Road. Report from Thoppur in Mutur area alleg~ng several minutes continuously near Mulli- Some damage to adjoining buildings, including rape of four married Tamil women by members chanthi. A low-flying helicopter was seen an arrack tavern. Another bomb blast heard of Govt. forces in civils. The men had entered overseeing the entire army movement. Around around 41 o'clock in the morning, followed by four houses in the area, where the husbands l0in the mdrning, 8 of the 18 armoured cars gunfire from within Dutch fort army camp. had already been taken away for questioning were seen getting back to Thondamanaru and raped the wives, one of whom had army camp, by Way of Alayachchanthi, Mandan. Farmer working in his field at Uruthirapuram delivered a baby only three months ago. (Eelamurasu and Jaffna eye witness reports). shot dead and several others injured near the 6th culvert in the course of random firing The wives leave for Trincomalee to complain 25 fishing boat motors seized by Bank of to the Monltorlng Committee due to visit there by passing army convoy. 3 shops on the way Ceylon branch. Batticaloa and kept in their today. also set on fire. custody for non-payment of loans by individual Tharmalingam (38) a farmer of Alankerny fishermen, reported stolen on 8th night. Reuter reports from Colombo say that 3 of the 8 army men grievously injured in landmine along with another farmer killed by govt. forces. Five out of 9 Tamil youths arrested by armed blast at Paranthan 6n 10th succumb to injuries, Mothers' Front in Jaffna take out a silent forces at Kilinochchi yesterday while they at Colombo army hospital. protest march from Urumpirai to Kokuvil were returning after 'seeing a video film through Kondavil carrying placards deploring released. RelatiVes of the other 4 youths Two Tamil women allegedly shot at by armed clashes and rivalries between Tamil militant make complaint to Citizens' Committee. Home Guards admitted to Trincomalee hospital. ( groups. At Mutur, a father of seven, Gabriel, allegedly DECEMBER 10 pulled out of his house by armed Home ii I I Guards, put to death and his body wss burnt. DECEMBER 13 Around 5 30 pm., five armed youths enter I 1 Kankesanturai Cement factory premises, 8 Tamil youths from Kilinochchi detained Ceremonial cremation of 3 PLOT members compel a train driver to use an engine to pull at Dutch Fort army camp released. killed by a leading Tamil militant movement out two goods wagons out of the premises at , held at Kokuvil. The killed members and halt half a mile away between Kankesan- DECEMBER 12 were Kokuvil PLOT unit leader Ravimurthy, turai and Maviddapuram. All goods in the Jegatheeswaran of Kaithady and "Banda" of wagons, meant for use by the armed forces, Army firing in Jaffna city. Two elderly Ariya'lai. Armed PLOT members escort the unloaded into waiting lorries and driven away. persons - K. Thuraisamy (79),a Malayan procession. A series of bomb blasts throughout (. Jaffna daily). pensioner of Manipay and Krishnapillai (58) Jaffna precede the procession. No signs of 7 Tamil youths, including two Muslims of Beach Road Jaffna, both shot dead by the any army movements. Earlier, in the course released from Dutch Fort army camp. wayside near the main bus station Four of the panic caused by the bomb blasts, a I others - S. Mathialagan (17), an employee mother and daughter from Sankuvely get 10 Army men suffer grievous injuries when of Sai Stores and resident oflinnevelly, S. knocked by a speeding mini-van in Jaffna, the truck in which they were travelling was Zuba~r(18) from the Muslim Ward. K. Jaya- and the daughter Kamala (18) succumbs to blown up by a land mine near Paranthan weerasingam (23) of Clock Tower Road, and her injuries at Jaffna hospital. Chemicals factory. The truck was part of a Suppiah from Atchuvely were admitted to convoy of 6 vehicles going from Elephant Colombo Jaffna train services suspended hospltal with injuries. Mathialagan's condition Pass army camp towards Kilinochchi. Injured until further notice.' North-bound trains to was reported critical. The army men were soldiers rushed to Colombo by helicopters. go only up to Anuradhapura. stated to have gone to Perumal Kovil where One Tamil youth shot dead and his body a major robbery took place recently, to take Following a report that about 75 suspected removed by army men following gunfire by photographs of the temple. In the process armed militants in army uniform were sighted ; army patrol at Karadipdkky Junction at Kili- they were reported to have smashed up a at Horton Plains in Nuwara Eliya in the early nochchi. Incident occurred around 10 in the car and bicycle parked near the temple. hours of 12th December, an intensive security morning and the sudden patrolling in 8 vehicles Bomb blasts were thereafter heard in the search is launched in the Nuwara Eliya district. after a long spell take residents by surprise. v~cinityand other city areas, apparently set Helicopters also enlisted for help. Plantation After midday the convoy was seen going off by Tamil m~litantsto warn off the army. Tamils quarters also come under search. towards Uruthirapuram. Suddenly, army men begin fir~ngat people Two charred bodies discovered at Alankerny who were trying to flee from the area. Shops in Trincomalee district, bel~evedto be those DECEMBER 11 close, students sitting in the G.C E. exam, of Tharman, a dealer incurd, and his kinsman run away from exam halls and panic grips Somasundaram, who were both missing afier Army takes possession of several public the clty Govt statement from Colombo says armed forces attacked Alenkerny village on and private buildings opposite army camp in (Dally News) that "Marxist terrorists launched the 12th Kilinochchi with a view to expanding the army a furious attack on secur~tyforces", the At Anpuvalipuram, armed Home Guards camp. Officers and members of public now "security forces counter-attacked effectively" are alleged to have entered a house, attacked apprehensive of going near the area. Public and "two civilians were caught in the crossf~re the inmates and robbed cash, gold and a demand to shift the' Post Office too from the and later succumbed to their ~njurles" video deck. Two of the inmates. Thurairasa area. PLOT group put up posters in Jaffna that Kamaleswary and Balachandran admitted to Hijacked train engine and goods wagons three of their men - Ravimurthy, Jegathees- Trincomalee hospital taken back to Kankesanturai Cehent factory waran and Banda, were killed by members Bribery Department Officers from Colombo premises by army personnel. of a Tamil militant movement at Ariyalai sent to Anuradhapura to investigate the killing New army camp opened at Pullumalai, yesterday. of a Police officer by another over thesharing bordering Batticaloa and Polonnaruwa districts. Three unidentified persons found killed at of the bribe. The bribe is believed to have S. Ramu (27) who received a bullet injury the scene of a loud bomb explosipn near the been taken from a Tamil lorry drive.r at a on the face in the course of army firing at rail track at Kankesanturai in the early hours -check point at Medawachchiya. ri Lanka Situation Report Jan.15, ,1986 -- v .' SITUATION REPORT t I i

Obituaries , &I E.K. SHmUGANAm- Ministry .December. '-1- - Harry, husband of Su- of F~nance.Kaduna. Nigeria, formerly Principal, PUUENAYEGUM - Rev. Ilex, late Vicar, ganthi. died under tragic circumstances in Kopay Christian College. Jaffna Central College St. Luke's Church. Reigate, Surrey, husband Australia: Funeral at Geelong, Australia 19th and Director. Ministry Of Education, husband of Doreen. Interment at Kanatte, Colombo, December. T. Kangadaran, Thunnalai North. of Selvaranee, father of Shanmugenth~ran 14th December. Flat 25,. Manormead. 56. .Karaveddy. [National Milk Board), Seiventhiran (U.K.), Tilford Road. Hindhead. Surrey GU 26 6 RA, MANImmMm- Nadarajah. 3nd Sivendran. Funeral 7th December U.K. retired D.R.O./Assistant Commissioner of Kaduna. Nigeria. Church Lane, Kopay. THILMRAJAH - Viswalingam (Retd. Probation and Child Care. Funeral Kokuvil A.D.R. RATNAwm- retired Depu- Commercial Supdt.. Railways), husband of 18th December. 81, K.K.S. Road, Kokuvil. :y Conservator of Forests and Managing Sivapakiam, father of Karnalarn, Saraswathie, GEORGE - Peter Joseph, retired Chief 3ircctor of Ninety-Nine Exporters Ltd., hus- Kulendran. Logendran (L1.K.). Maheswari Jailor of Prisons Department died in Trin- land of Thlraviamalar, father of Vijit (Accoun- (Canada). Mahendran (Saudi Arabia), Kuken- comalee on 1Gth December. Burial at Kanatte dran (Canada). Menakadevi (U.K.). Thavamany. ant). Ehan (U.S.A.), Yuhan, soin-in-law of Thira- Cemetery, Colombo on 19th December. ~ianayagamJPUM, Attorney-at-law, Chava- father-in-lawof late Amirthalingam, J.P.U.M.. tachcheri. Cremation 8th December. Kanatte. Mahalingam (State Bank of India), Damayanthi V. VE-mIPIw - (ex-Grind- :olombo. No.7, Quarry Road, Dehiwala. (U.K.). Ramanathan (Canada). Rita (Canada), lay's Bank. Colombo), husband-of Kamalam- bikai. Funeral 22nd December. 41. Seenivasa- IllEGAMATHAN - Pava lamalar, ex-staff. Dr. Gunasingham (U.K.), late Bremachandra- gam Road. Koddady. Jaffna. iindu Ladies College, Jaffna, wife of Jega- kumar. Funeral 13th December. Punnalakat- lathan. Staff. Sornaskanda College, Puttur, tuvan North. Palaly Road. Jaffna. MUDPRAGASAM - Robeit, formerly nother of Sutharsan (U.K.). Suganthy and RAJARATNAM - Queenie. Funeral 13th of the Bank of Ceylon, Manipay, husband of 3amathy, mother-in-law of Nimalan (Accoun- December, Kanatte. Colombo. Grace (Ranji), brother of Henry George Sam mt. Colombo land and kvelopment Co. S. SI'l'TAMPALAM - '~an~ara~i~~ai,(U.K.), ~hevaraniand Christobel. Funeral .td ) Cremation 9th December Chemmany former Commissioner, Inland Revenue, later 26th December. Suthumalai North. Manipay.' 3ur1alGrounds. 120, Arasady Road. Kanther- Tax Adviser. Ministry of Finance, husband of GUNASEI%AN - Edward, Chief Accoun- ladam. Jaffna. Soundari (nee Rasanayagam). father of tant.' C.F.T. Engineering. Browns Group, hLAGmTNAM - C.. Director and Dr. Radhi (Male). Dr. Maya (Rainford) A-Z husband of ~achel.Funeral 26th December :onsulatant Engineer. Samuel Sons & Co. Computers. and lndrajith (American Express Colombo. No.48, ~yrdPlace, Colombo 6. td.. Consultant Engineer. Ceylon Cement Bank), father-in-law of Stephen Rainford. KASIPILW - S;(J.E.D.B.),formerly of :'orporation. Chairman, Asbestos Industries brother of Kadirgamanathan (General Trea- --Labour Dept. and C.E..E.F. FuneraLJaffna fd.. retired Chief Technical Executive, Walker sury). died in Colombo 12th December. 27th December. 459, K.K.S. Road. Jaffna. ons & Co. Ltd.. husband of Nageswary, father cremated same day at Mallakarn. Jaffna. f Sri Balaskanda (U.K.). Rohini (U.S.A.). Mala SmcER- Sugirtharatnam Margaret, wife RAJPLMPLM9THAM- S., retired .District \ustralia), and Sri Rengan (Sambamurti & of the late Samuel Rajaratnam Spencer, Judge. Point Pedro. Cremated 23rd December 0.. father-in-law of Dr. Easwarakhanthan mother of Mani Rajasenan (Lecturer Technical gt Trincomalee. 2, Saratha Lane. Trincoma- J.S.A.), Rathe (U.K.), Saravanabhava (Aus- College. Kokuvil.), Ranji Thambirajati (Deputy lee. alia). Cremation Kanatte, Colombo llth Principal). Vembadi.Girls' High School). Deva- rajan (formerly of Bank of Ceylon, Colombo). PS)mUSm - Sivayogavally, widow ecember. 174/15. Alwis Avenue. Castle of the late V. Ponnusarny. Proctor S.C., Nuwara :reet, Colombo 8. Jebamany (Canada). ~havamany(Canada), Thiruranjitharn (Canada).Jeyasothy (Canada), Eliya, mother of the late Maheswaran (Attor- - S., retired WASUBRAMANEUM Swarnaratnam Reuban (U.K.). Burial 7th ney-at-law). Rajeswaran ('Berkeley. California), ?gional Manager. Paddy Marketing Board. December. Spencers. 66. Brown Road, Jaffna. Naguleswaran (Attorney-at-law), Sathsivam ~sbandof Vijalaxmy, retired teacher Rarna- (Kreston M.N.S. & Co.). Jayalakshmi. (New .than College, father of Shivane (Canada). - Kone. Proprietor of Indo- Zealand), and Yogalakshmi. Cremated in evagan (USA.), father-in-law of Ravisuthan Ceylon Cafe. Kollupitiya. Colombo. Cremation Colombo 26th December. 17/1. Frederica anada). Funeral at Kokuvii. Jaffna 10th in Madras 1 5th December Road. Colombo 6 ., ...... , Sri Lanka situation Report Jan.15, 19