Welcome to UTHRJ; Report 6

THE POLITICS OF DESTRUCTION & THE HUMAN TRADGEY

REPORT NO.6

ISSUED:4TH FEBRUARY 1991

PREFACE AND A GENERAL APPEAL

The High Cost of Anarchy:

CHAPTER - 1

The Role of International Organisations and Expatriates:

Some Practical Issues
1.1 Rationale for an International Initiative:
1.2 Human Rights Organisations and Sri Lanka:
1.3 An Appeal to the Expatriates:
1.4 Is Peace Possible?
CHAPTER - 2
2.1 Liberation or Degradation? - The People's Experience:
2.2 Reading the Past:
2.3 In Defence of What?
2.4 The Fate of Truth in an Orwellian World:
2.5 Role of the Tamil Intelligentsia:
2.6 Dissent in Jaffna:
2.7 Influence of Government Policy & Southern Reactions:
2.8 The Government and the Tigers - A note on attitudes
to politics:
2.9 Indian Links:
2.10 Why did the Tamil Intellectuals Fail?
CHAPTER - 3
3.1 Early Signs:
3.2 Chavakacheri:
3.3 Mannar, 21st - 28th October:
3.4 Jaffna, 30th October:
3.5 General Reactions & Future Prospects:
CHAPTER - 4
4.1: OPERATION SANTA CLAUS,MANNAR - October 21-November 8th.
4.2 Feeding the Fishes:
4.3 Headless bodies in the East:
4.4 Massacres in the Amparai District:
4.5 An experience in Eravur during and after the Massacre - August-September 1990:
4.6 Recent Developments in the Batticaloa District:
4.7 Jaffna
4.7.1 Jaffna Report (December 1990):
4.7.2 Aerial Bombing in Jaffna:
4.7.3 Detainees in Vadamaratchi:
4.7.4 Public executions and the killings of the detainees:
4.7.5 The Army in Fetters:
4.7.6 Injured Women and Children:
4.7.7 The gathering of Martyrs' Families:
4.7.8 The Hungry Woman:
4.7.9 Incident at Kayts:
4.7.10 Dissent within the LTTE:
4.7.11 Normality in Jaffna:
4.7.12 The Killing of Assembly of God men, September 1987:
4.8 Aftermath of the Mankulam attack:
4.9 Calling off the Ceasefire:
4.10 The ICRC taken to task:
CHPTER 5
The "Liberation" of the University of Jaffna
5.1 November 1989 - November 1990:
5.2 November 1990 - An exercise in Autonomy:
CHAPTER - 6
The southern Dimension
Human Rights.
The Press
The Universities:
APPENDIX 1
I.A. Welcomes cease-fire, urges regional self-government
GUARANTEES
MONITORING
APPENDIX 2
The war in the North-East
NOTE