Contents

Foreword - By Dr. Brian Seneviratne

Authors' Preface

Second Preface

Volume 1

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

1 Missed Opportunities and the Loss of Democracy

1.1 The disfranchisement of

Indian Tamils: 1948-49

1.2 The Left

1.3 The Tamils

2 Some Milestones in the Development of Tamil Political Consciousness.

2.1 The Youth Congress

2.2 The F.P. and the T.U.L.F.

2.3 The Years 1977-1981

3 August 1981 To July 1983

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Through the eyes of the

Saturday Review

4 The July 1983 Violence Against Tamils

5 The Growth of the Tamil Militancy

5.1 Post 1983

5.2 The Militants in Politics.

5.3 The Changing Character of the Militants.

5.4 The Rise of the L.T.T.E.

5.5 Difference among the Militants

5.6 The Eastern Question

6 1987:The Bubble Bursts

6.1 Retreat to Jaffna

6.2 The Navaratne Episode

6.3 The closing of Jaffna Hospital

7 Operation Liberation

7.1 Was there an Alternative?

7.2 Operation Liberation Commences.

7.3 Some aspects of Operation Liberation.

7.4 Sinhalese and Tamils during

Operation Liberation

8 June-July: India Enters

8.1 The Airdrop and the L.T.T.E.'s Dilemma.

8.2 The Accord, Colonisation and Human Rights

8.3 The End of a Long Road to Nowhere

9 Post Accord:The Indian Summer.

9.1 The Arrival of the I.P.K.F.

9.2 The Fast

9.3 Towards Confrontation

9.4 The End of an Era

9.5 A Digression on the Forces of History

Volume 2

Reports and Analysis

1 October Days

1.1 Background to the Breakdown of the Accord

1.2 The Night of Shame

2 India's Role - An Overview.

2.1 Expectations about India's Role

2.2 India and the Militants

2.3 Scenes from the October 1987 War.

2.4 Encounters with Indians during the War

2.5 A Personal Assessment

3 The War of October 1987

(India's Disarming Operation)

3.1 Pirambady - The Turning Point

3.2 Urelu

3.3 Urumpirai

3.4 Uduvil, Maruthanamadam

3.5 Nallur

3.6 Ariyalai

3.7 Kokuvil

3.8 Chundikuli-Jaffna

3.9 Jaffna Hospital

3.10 The Mysterious Killing

3.11 Navaly

3.12 A Detainee's Experience

3.13 Frido

3.14 What it Means to Fall Sick during Curfew

4 The Psychological Aspects of the Indian Military Action

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Stress

4.3 Anxiety

4.4 Grief Reactions

4.5 Reactive Depression

4.6 Psychosomatic Disorders

4.7 Personality Disorders

4.8 Torture

4.9 Rape

4.10 Psychosis

4.11 Childhood Disorders

5 No More Tears Sister -The Experiences of Women

5.1 Introduction

5.2 A Village in Central Jaffna: A Woman's Story

5.3 The Case of the Disappeared

5.4 Rape and Molestation

5.5 Detainees

5.6 Tamil Women and the National

Liberation Struggle.

5.7 Women's Organisation

5.8 Women and Arms

6 India's Dilemma

6.1 Introduction

6.2                 A Survey of the Background to the

6.3                  

1Mother India: Illusion or Reality

2 India's Thrust Abroad

3 The Colonial Past and Economy

4 Post Colonial Sri Lanka

5 Sinhalese and Tamil Nationalism

6 Indo-Sri Lanka Relations

8 1983 - A Turning Point

9 The R.A.W. and Tamil Militants

10 Indian Training and the Tamil Struggle

11 Consensus: A Facade

12 Negotiation: Anathema

13 Operation Liberation

14 The Peace Accord

15 The Left: A Viable Alternative ?

6.3 The New Phase:Post October 1987

1 The October War

2 Terror: The Peacekeeper's Tool of Control

3 The Messiah's and the People

4 The L.T.T.E. :India's Prodigal son

5 Vortex of Violence: India's Catch 22

6 The Peace Accord and Sinhalese

Chauvinism

6.4 A Note on Economic Factors in the

Regional Crisis

7 A Perspective on Non-Violence

7.1 The Vanishing Prospects for Peace

7.2 The Forgotten Spiritual Heritage

7.3 Nonviolence

7.4 Brutalisation versus Reconciliation

8 Epilogue

8.1 Jaffna

8.2 The South

8.3 The Press

8.4 India

8.5 Some Final Thoughts

1 People's Life and an Alternative

2 Towards Reconciliation

9 Postscript

9.1. A Reflection on Events: Mid-1989

9.2 An Addendum - February 1990

Appendix I. The Situation in Early 1990:An Impressionistic View

I.1 January 1990:A Time of Ironies

I.2 The Tamil National Army

I.3 The other Militant Groups

I.4 India and its Peace Keeping Force

Appendix II. The Cyanide Drama that brought Referee Rajiv into the Ring

Appendix III. Dr.Rajani Thiranagama: Her Contribution to the University Teachers for Human Rights

Appendix IV. Laying Aside Illusions

Appendix V. A List of Frequently Used Acronyms

Appendix VI. Some Useful Maps

1 Map of Ceylon

2 Map of Jaffna Town

3 Map of Chundikuli

4 Map of Jaffna University

5 Map of Kokuvil Hindu College

Index

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