Information Bulletin No. 13

Frozen Minds & The Violence of Attrition,

15th June 1994

PREFACE      

CHAPTER 1   

TRENDS && ISSUES  

1.1 The UNPs’ Troubles         

1.2 The war     

1.3 The Airforce: Hitting Prabakaran from the Air         

1.4 Straands of Southern thought           

1.5 The Uma Prakash Affair    

1.6 The late Rohana Wijeweera’s family.          

1.7 Deveelopments in Trincomalee         

1.8 Some statistics on Refugees in the North-East.

CHAPTER 2   

REPORT OON THE DISTRICT OF AMPARAI          

2.2 Civiilian casualties    :Resettlement of Refugees        

2.3 Educcation: 

2.4 Problems specific to Tamils

2.5 REPOORTS

CHAPTER 3

REPORT OON THE DISTRICT OF BATTICALOA   

3.1 The main trends:    

3.2 Disaappearances     

3.3 The case of Zacky Nathaniel, Sinthathurai (Born 18th February 1969)        

3.4 Musllims in the Batticaloa District    

3.5 Arreest and Detention          

3.6 The Social Back Drop to the Shifting Military Balance in Batticaloa 

3.7 Repoorts: Military Operations in the Batticaloa District         

CHAPTER 4

 POSTSCRIIPT- APRIL 1994: 

4.1 Sociial Problems among Tamils linked to violence and deprivation:   

4.1.1 Diisappearance:   

4.1.2 Arrbitrary Arrest and Detention:   

Typical cases of arbitrary detention:      

4.1.3 Woomen: The Passive Reapers of a Bitter Harvest.           

4.1.4 Allcoholism         

4.2 The LTTE 

4.3 The Armed Forces

4.4 The Economy        

4.5 Locaal Elections in the Eastern Province       

4.6 The Whirlpool of Eastern Politics.  

CHAPTER 5

REPORT OON THE NORTH   

5.1 Jafffna Report         

Air attaack on civilians crossing Jaffna Lagoon   

Shell atttack on Jaffna Town: 15th March 1994 

June 11tth to 13th 1994:           

5.1.2 Heealth conditions in Jaffna           

5.1.3 Thhe Regime        

5.1.4 Exxpatriates, Australian visas and visas to Vavuniya          

5.2 Deveelopments in South Vanni         

5.3 Repoort on the District of Mannar    

5.3.2 Inncidents 

5.4  15th March 1994: Kudiraimalai: The massacre of Sinhalese fishermen.       

5.4.2 Immmediate causes of the incident: 

5.4.3 Thhe massacre & its aftermath.     

5.4.4  A week afterwards:       

CHAPTER 6

TIME’S WWASTING HOURS: TRENDS IN THE TAMIL STRUGGLE         

6.1 Prelliminary remarks           

6.2 The LTTE and the world    

6.3 The LTTE and the People  

6.4 The pains of godhead         

We shalll feed the hungry  

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