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A few years later, when the Chelvanayakams landlord, a fellow Colombo Tamil and a relative, attempted to evict them from the premises that had been home to the Father of the Tamil Nation , Vassa had phoned me. I was out of the country and my wife had suggested that he get in touch with my friend, Gamini Jayasinghe, who was even then, over twenty years ago, eminent in that field. When I got back here, Vassa expressed his appreciation of Gamini as a lawyer and as a man, and remarked that he was fortunate to have had him appear for his mother.

Our people join the army to Kill and get killed. So we are not worried about our people dieing.

But then..sadly and tragically what happened to that big talker..when an opportunity really came (don't know what kind of job) he just vanished and still continuing with his sermon during normal working hours full time! The

A note to Prabhakaran: Stop Claymore Mine Attacks
The News of the Tragic death of Rev. Fr. M. X. Karunaratnam comes to me as a great shock. This is not a death that anyone can rejoice at. His demise is a great loss to the country and to the people of the Vanni in particular. I have known Rev. Karunaratnam for a long time. He was a very good social worker and Human Rights Activist. I convey my deepest sympathies to all his kith and kin and Members of his congregation and also to all those who benefited by his services and to those who are now deprived of his service.

It is easy for you to honour him as usual, with your 'Mamanithan' title and your duty ends there. What action do you propose to take to prevent the recurrence of incidents of this nature in the future? The TNA Members of Parliament are there only to satisfy you and they think that with issuing a statement strongly condemning these killings, their duty is over. They do not realise that your cadres too, with their deep penetration units, make similar attacks in areas that are out of bounds for them, and take away valuable lives in many instances large numbers of innocent civilians. What did your cadres do to Members of Parliament like T. Maheswaran and D. M. Dassanayake, both of whom had done their best for the Tamil Minority. It is by penetrating deep into the South, more than 300 Km from Kilinochchi, that your cadres had taken the life of another gentlemen politician who is very fluent in all three languages, much respected by the people and the clergy of all faiths in Sri Lanka, although a Catholic by birth and above all had all the qualities and qualifications to occupy even the Prime Ministerial Chair with perhaps only one disqualification that he belonged to a minority community which is not a disqualification anywhere in the world including Sri Lanka.

Please accept my advice as a remedy to this problem, which may one day end up with somebody taking away your life or even that of your dear ones. The landmines, claymore mines and such other objects do not differentiate between a man and a woman, a Sinhalese and a Tamil, a Muslim and a Buddhist, the guilty one and the innocent etc. So please decide once and for all to stop targeting people by these means. You are fighting a War with a Government. While engaged in war you can t complain foolishly like our TNA Members, who should condemn all killings without trying to please one side. If you stop targeting individuals the Government Forces too should stop forthwith. It cannot have any other option.

When I complained recently against Arial bombing in the night, I presume it has stopped in spite of the fact, that you yourself did it at Katunayake and Anuradhapura in the night. According to the statistics released to the press, I observed that bodies of large numbers of your cadres are dispatched to Kilinochchi everyday through the ICRC. A similar number of bodies of Sinhalese youths are reaching the South everyday. At this rate all youths whether Sinhalese, Tamils or Muslims will be sacrificed at the battle front with hardly any youth left.

Even at this late hour, I appeal to you to give up your demand for Separation and declare a Ceasefire, if necessary, unilaterally and go for talks with the Government not as the Sole Representatives of the Tamil People but as a Party to the War and also as one of the parties to the ethnic conflict.

Thanking you,
V. Anandasangaree,
President TULF.

Dead bodies captured by tigers was displayed in Killy to make the Killy people to have more confidence on tigers.

This will encourage many to feel tigers will win the war and they will be free.