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Issue No. 103, August-September, 1983 ~ Australasian ~ No 103 August/September 1983 30 cents Save the Tamils from JR's Genocide! • • I I In rl a a August 7 - In the following article whole, herded into concentration reprinted from the 29 July Workers camps and shipped by boat to the Vanguard, we write: "The bloody North. The holocaust has now shifted oppression of the Tamil minority in Sri to the upland plantations, where re­ Lanka is on the verge of turning into portedly around a thousand of the genocidal terror." Events have now stateless "Indian" Tamil plantation passed beyond this critical turning workers have already been killed and point. The UNP government of JR countless more again shipped to the .Tayewardene has unleashed a holo­ North where Jayewardene hopes to caust against the Tamils of Sri Lanka, squeeze the survivors of his holocaust turning the entire island into a hellish into a South African-like bantustan. inferno. An ABC correspondent who Around the globe the capitalist managed to get a line out of Colombo press has portrayed the carnage in reported on 28 July that in the capital Lanka as an "outbreak of racial alone "the number of deaths could strife", a "backlash against the Tamil be as high as two, three or even separatist movement". This is a grisly four hundred": lie. The genocide of the Tamil people "I was told that Tamils in the shops or is the work of JR Jayewardene, carried houses during the riots were given the out not only by government-incited choice of burning to death inside or mobs of Sinhalese racists, but directly coming out and being axed to death. by the army and police. In all ways Most I'm told chose to burn to death Jayewardene has become the Pinochet inside." or ~ti tanfa; choosing ,this moment to That was one week ago. Since then finally consolidate his naked dictator­ the death toll has multiplied. Trincom­ ship. The already bankrupt Lankan alee, the scene of repeated rampaging economy has now been devastated, Burned-out Tamll-owned truck, Colombo. by JR's navy, is a smoking· ruin. bringing even greater misery to the Scant reports from the sealed-off island's toiling masses who for years Vimukthi Peramuna and the Nawa Sovietism, reportedly barricading the Tamil-populated Northern Province have suffered under the savage Sama Samaja Party. Hundreds of East German Embassy in Colombo, tell of the firebombing from govern­ dictates of the International Monetary leftists have been imprisoned. To even expelIing en masse Soviet and Eastern ment helicopters of Jaffna, where Fund. Jayewardene has now extended advocate Tamil Eelam - the form­ bloc diplomatic staff (Australian, it is said some three to five thousand, his reign of terror to the left-wing ation of a separate Tamil state - is to August 2) and outrageously accusing mainly Tamil youth, have been parties of the Sinhala working class, become an outlaw, stripped of all civic the USSR of orchestrating the mass murdered. There are now one hundred banning not only the bourgeois rights and risking imprisonment murder and plunder which his bona­ thousand homeless in Colombo, Tamil United Liberation Front, the and even death. partist regime has executed. Major while today's Australian cites two main parliamentary opposition party, At the same time Jayewardene bourgeois newspapers internationally hundred thousand in the island as a but the Communist Party, the Janatha has launched an orgy of anti- continued on page six Protest Demonstrations Organised • Stop Javewardene's ~~F· "1• "There is going on in Ceylon at the Tamil People I JR's Troops out of the strated in New York City. In London pogroms: burning down houses, moment a lot of murder and rape, North and East - No US Base at the Spartacist League/Britain has hacking to death entire families as in burning of houses all over the island Trincomaleel For the Right of Self­ taken part in demonstrations of Kuthul Uthu and stopping buses in of Ceylon, where the government in Determination for the Tamil Peoplel" thousands of Tamils and on 29 July order to murder passengers .... Latest reports are that in Colombo power is using its army to commit and "Full Citizenship Rights for Tamil held a well-attended public meeting, racist thugs led by Buddhist priests genocide on the Tamil people", said a Plantation Workers I" drawing the participation of many and backed by JR's army have looted spokesman for the Tamil Association The Melbourne action was part of Tamils. and burned all the shops and in­ of Victoria to demonstrators outside a campaign of protest launched by the A Spartacist League statement dustries belonging to Tamils." the Ceylon Tea Centre in Melbourne international Spartacist tendency: in handed out at the Melbourne protest A Spartacist spokesman emphasised on 27 July. With only a day's notice Paris on 29 July, 400 mainly Tamil vividly described the escalating anti­ that "the genocide of the Tamils in over 60 protesters, overwhelmingly protesters joined a demonstration Tamil terror which has now become Sri Lanka is linked by many strings to a Tamil, answered the Spartacist initiated by the Ligue Trotskyste de a holocaust: war drive against the USSR" , in League's call for an emergency France; on the same day in Toronto "In the city of Trincomalee in the particular pointing to US imperialism's demonstration against JR Jayeward­ over 100 answered the call of the Tamil-populated Eastern Province, appetite to secure the strategically ene's slaughter of the Tamil people. Trotskyist League of Canada. On 28 600 to 700 Indian Tamil refugees were located harbour of Trincomalee for its Despite a heavy downpour protesters July in New York 100 protesters forcibly removed from the area in "counterrevolutionary designs to re­ vigorously chanted slogans one after picketed the Sri Lankan Mission to the truck loads, not to be seen again. conquer the workers states like the the other for over an hour, including: UN and the following day 200 Tamils Gangs of Sinhalese thugs and JR's "Smash JR's Genocide - Defend the from the American Northeast demon- murderous police are committing continued on page two For the Right of Tamil Eelam! R'"Jo:"t("tt"d t>, AU'Halla p",! l'uhli,atl<'n ~(' ~BFO~ll) including against the "Indian" Tamil Australian participation in such a UN a brutal oppressor of the national, Stop JR ••• plantation workers, driving these force. The white racist Australian ethnic and religious minorities of stateless workers from the island's imperialists send their troops only India. "No faith in Indira Ghandi­ continued from page one southern region, posed "de facto where their US masters allow it­ Remember the Mukti Bahini!" warned Soviet Union and Vietnam" . The partition and the creation of a as in Vietnam - or where they tell a Spartacist placard. For it must not speaker also noted that, along with bantustan in the north". them to, as in the Sinai where be forgotten that when Ghandi went "Yankee Dickie" Jayewardene, the For generations the "Indian" Australian troops served as border to war with Pakistan in 1972, using the "Australian Prime Minister [is] a key Tamils have toiled in slave-like con­ guards for Israel's genocidal invasion just Bengali struggle for self­ anti-Soviet ally in this region". The ditions producing tea, rubber and of Lebanon as part of the US anti­ determination as the pretext, the Hawke government, which reneged on coconut for the international market, Soviet "Rapid Deployment Force". Indian army established an iron hold its promise to resume token economic constituting both the mainstay of the The truth is that Labor Prime Minister on the East Bengalis, disarming and aid to the Socialist Republic of Viet­ repressing the guerrillaist Mukti nam, gives up to $12 million in finan­ Bahini which had thrown itself into the cial aid to the monstrous Sri Lankan arms of the Indian bourgeoisie. UNP regime. Demonstrators chanted: Surely the young Tamil liberation "Stop All Australian Aid to JR's fighters and leftist defenders of the Butchers!" and "From Pine Gap to Tamil people - Sinhala and Tamil Trincomalee - No US Bases!" and alike - would not fare differently. Spartacist placards included the These militants represent the only slogan: "Defence of Vietnam, USSR hope for a just future for Lanka's begins at Pine Gap, Diego Garcia, oppressed and toiling masses, for it Trincomalee! " is from amongst this layer that the Interestingly, the Melbourne protest cadres of the revolutionary party was reported in the press of the Social­ of the Lankan proletariat - Tamil ist Workers Party (SWP) , a social­ and Sinhala, women and men­ democratic group notorious for its as­ will emerge. sociation with the Ustasha-linked It is the international working class Croatian Movement for Statehood (see and its allies which must urgently act article page 8). The SWP is tied to save the Tamil people from via Ernest Mandel's fake-Trotskyist Jayewardene's "final solution". The "United Secretariat" to the Sri Lankan lives of 3 million men, women and Revolutionary Marxist Party, formerly children - the fate of an entire led by the Sinhala-chauvinist, CIA­ people! - depends on this. Aust­ tainted, trade-union bureaucrat Bala ralian workers and workers of the Tampoe. In keeping with the SWP's SL protest in defence of Tamils, Sydney Square, 23 July. world: don't let the "Fuhrer" of virulent anti-Trotskyism and chronic Sri Lanka destroy the Tamil people! dishonesty, the tiny Direct Action Australian wharfies: black all cargo report (August 2) censors any mention Sri Lankan capitalist economy and a Hawke is a Reagan man and JR to and from Sri Lanka! of the Spartacist League organisers, vital bond to the Indian subcontinent.
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