REPORT 12

A SOVEREIGN WILL

TO

SELF-DESTRUCT

-The Continuing Saga Of Dislocation & Disintegration

Issued : 15th November 1993

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

PREFACE                                                                                                                        

CHAPTER 1 : RECCENT DEVELOPMENTS- A MISCELLANY                             

     1.1         Airforce bombing in Murunkan                               

                  and the real targets in Jaffna                                   

     1.2         How the Battle for Jaffna Lagoon                                                                    

                  was Lost                                                                                                   

     1.2.1      Jaffna Lagoon: The Massacre                                                                     

                  of 29th July & the Continuing                                                                     

                  Tragi-Comedy                                                                                           

     1.2.2      The LTTE and the Jaffna Lagoon                                                               

     1.2.3      The battle of 25th August 1993                                                                  

     1.3         LTTE politics and the Tamil Nation:                                                           

               One party, seven nations                                                                               

     1.4.     Mannar District  recent Developments                                                           

     1.4.1  Mannar:The disappearances of 4th July 1993.                                               

     1.5      Recruitment for the Sri Lankan Army                                                            

     1.6      Incident at Nochimoddai sentry point,                                                           

               Vavuniya : 31-9-93:                                                                                      

     1.7      The LTTE's Volunteer Force -                                                                      

                The Mahaveli Regiment                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                   

CHAPTER2: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOVEREIGNTY                                                                                                                                                                              

     2.1      The state of sovereignty                                                                                

     2.2      Running with the hare and                                                                                  

               hunting with the hounds                                                                                 

     2.3      The absence of structures and                                                                       

               the political consequences of                                                                         

               enforced refuge in the jungle                                                                          

     2.4      Some Issues of Press Coverage                                                                    

                                                                                                                                        

CHAPTER3: REFUGEEES AND RELATED MATTERS                                           

                                                                                                                                        

     3.1     Developments on Tamil Refugees                                                                  

     3.1.1   The UNHCR & the Tamil refuges abroad                                                     

     3.1.2   The feasibility of returning                                                                              

               Tamil refugees to the South                                                                           

     3.1.3   Organisational Guarantees                                                                             

               for Returning Refugees                                                                                  

     3.1.3.1The capacity of the Democratic                                                                    

               Forces to face the onslaught of                                                                      

               Sinhalese Chauvinist Ideology.                                                                      

                                                                                                                                        

     3.1.3.2 Dangers arising from the                                                                                   

               uncertain political and                                                                                         

               military situation                                                                                                 

     3.1.3.3 Is the government serious about                                                                   

               maintaining Tamil refugees                                                                             

               in Colombo?                                                                                                 

     3.1.4   Refugees in the North-East                                                                           

                                                                                                                                        

     3.2.     Situation Report on Vavunia &                                                                      

               Refugees in Vavunia & Kalpitiya                                                                   

     3.2.1   Vavunia:The Thorns of Normality                                                                  

                                   

     3.2.1.1         The general situation    

     3.2.1.2         The land question         

     3.2.2   Refugees from Cheddikulam 

     3.2.3   Kalpitiya:Muslim & Sinhalese Refugees         

     3.2.3.1         The Refugees Relief and           

               Rehabilitation Association (R.R & R.A)         

     3.2.3.2         Sinhalese Refugees at Sinhapura           

     3.2.3.3         Living conditions          

     3.2.4   Developments Concerning Vavuniya 

               District Refugees in Madhu   

     3.3      Negombo:Sinhalese Refugees from   

               the Mullaitivu District-Betweenthe Devil

                & the Deep Blue Sea           

     3.3.1   Introduction  

     3.3.2   Sinhalese in Kokkilai & Nayaru        

     3.3.2.1         Before December 1984           

     3.3.2.2         1st December 1984     

     3.3.2.3         December 1984 - 16th August 1993    

     3.3.3   Tamil friends from Mullaitivu 

     3.3.4   The State and the refugees    

     3.3.5   Relations with the army-a darker side

     3.3.6   Disturbing developments in Negombo           

                                   

CHAPTER 4 : A SELECTION OF EXPERIENCES IN THE            

               TRINCOMALEE DISTRICT FROM THE MID 80S.         

                                   

     4.1      Thiriyai         

     4.2      Kuchaveli     

     4.3      Drowned en route to India:   

     4.4      Nilaveli         

     4.4.1   Kuchaveli refugees-many recently     

               returned from India   

     4.4.2   Problems of resettlement       

     4.5      Kadatkaraichenai, Chenaiyoor                      

               Sambur&Kattaiparichchan(near Muthur)                   

     4.6      Muthur         

     4.7      Thampalakamam      

     4.8      Alankeni&Ichchantivu(adjecent toKinniya)    

                                   

CHAPTER 5 : TRINCOMALEE: LOOKING BENEATH

               THE SURFACE                              

     5.1      A triumph of ordinary people

     5.2      Signs of disquiet        

     5.3      The assimilation of terror       

     5.4      Administrative irregularities    

               and corruption          

     5.5      Corruption and the Refugees 

     5.6      Resettlement or Colonisation             

               of Sinhalese?

     5.7      The cabinet decision on land in          

               Trincomalee  

     5.8      Whither the Tamils?  

     5.9      Recent Developments           

                                   

CHAPTER 6 : TRINCOMALEE & THE SWORD OF CAIN           

     6.1      B.Vijayanathan         

     6.2      Sivalingam Guhendiran          

     6.3      Dr. Gnanasekaran     

     6.4      Ganeshalingam          

     6.5      George Thambirajah, & Dikka          

     6.6      Early 1990: The Uppuveli incident     

     6.7      Sakuntala-Wife of George Thambirajah         

     6.8      Uthayarani    

                                   

CHAPTER 7 : ANBU ILLAM-TRINCOMALEE     

                                   

APPENDIX  

 

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