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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