REPORT NO.7

           THE CLASH OF IDEOLOGIES

AND

THE CONTINUING TRAGEDY IN THE BATTICALOA & AMPARAI DISTRICTS

Preface  

Chapter 1.   THE EAST:  AN  OVERVIEW    

     1.1   General Introduction     

     1.2   Inter ethnic relations   

     1.3   The consequences of the LTTE strategy   

     1.4   Waiting for the Unknown  

     1.5   The Intrinsic unity of the East    

Chapter 2.   Reports    

     2.1   Chenkaladi    

     2.2 Eravur    

     2.3   Kudiyiruppu    

     2.4   Batticaloa    

     2.5   Kattankudy    

     2.6   Kurukal Madam  

     2.7   Kaluwanchikudy

     2.8   (Periya) Kallar     

     2.9   Kalmunai 

     2.10 Karaithevu     

     2.11 Akkaraipattu   

     2.12 Thirukovil‑Thambiluvil   

     2.13 Vinayagapuram  

     2.14 Thandiyady     

Chapter 3.   Reports ‑ Personal  

     3.1   Saved by his dog    

     3.2   Shot by home guards

     3.3   Taken from the Eastern University    

     3.4   Hide and Seek in Batticaloa Prison

     3.5   Left for dead in Kallar  

Chapter 4.   The Refugee camp at the Eastern University

     ‑ Vantharumoolai    

     4.1   The beginnings

     4.2   From the records of Eastern University  

     4.3   How the people benefitted from the camp

     4.4   The LTTE and the camp    

     4.5   The disappearance of 159 inmates   

     4.6   The General arrives

     4.7   The last days  

     4.8   Refuge in the jungle     

     4.9   The significance of the closure of the

          Eastern University

     4.10 A postscript

Chapter 5.   The Armed Forces   

     5.1   The STF   

     5.2   The army 

Chapter 6.    The Social Fabric and Communal Relations

     6.1 Why did the LTTE turn on the Muslims

          6.1.1   Majority arrogance

          6.1.2   Yogi's speech

     6.2   A note on the origins of the Muslim

          communities in Ceylon   

     6.3   The character of leadership in the East

          6.3.1   The politics of cap turning:

                    Myth & reality

          6.3.2   Sitting on a powder keg

6.4  The land question in Tamil Muslim relations

6.4.1  The beginnings    

          6.4.2   The 1960's and after   

          6.4.3   A Tamil perception from Kalmunai

          6.4.4   Truth and fiction

6.5               Muslim perceptions 

Chapter 7.   The Eastern Borderlands 

     7.1   The Borderlands     

     7.2   Massacre of Sinhalese in Athimale‑

               Moneragala District

     7.3   Kantalai 

     7.4   The abduction of Pushparani Chelliah    

     7.5   Massacre at Niedella ‑ Moneragala District  

Chapter 8.   Colonisation ‑ Issues and Non‑Issues  

     8.1   Early motivations            

8.2  Tamil reactions     

     8.3   The flaw 

     8.4   The current war     

     8.5   The LTTE and Tamil interests  

Appendix 1 ‑ The human rights agreement in El Salvador

                              (Press summary)

Appendix 11 ‑ An appeal by the Council of Hindu

                              Organisations 

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