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SRI LANKA: No Lessons Learnt From `Black July` of 1983
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XFactor
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 24 Jul 2008 08:40:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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On request on India.????!?!?!
Possible. But it was always on the cards. |
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UNP claims, Govt. denies
UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella claimed in parliament today that the Government Security Council had decided last night to suspend air and ground attacks on LTTE locations with immediate effect. However Minister Sarath Amunugama vehemently denied the claim.
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MahaDev
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24 Jul 2008 08:48:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thats true. MahaDev even had to prove his masculinity yesterday...lol
Yes Hajara,
In that case you are lucky!
No one ask you a medical report or verification report to prove your gender and age! Ha....Ha....Ha... |
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Haha...even sarath fonseka seems to be listening to india....so sad
LTTE seems to b better in politically tackle SLG.
Now what????
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Background of July 1983 - Reasons why 3000 Tamils were killed without any provocation in a week
2nd June 1983
MP Amirthalingam
I was again in Trincomalee on 2 June 1983 when organized Sinhala fishermen attacked Tamil fishermen. I was able to feel the mounting tension since morning. People were gathered in small groups intensely discussing the developments of the previous day. I overheard remarks like 'breaking of heads' and 'teaching the Tamils a lesson'. These two phrases had gained wide currency during those days, the first attributed to Lalith Athulathmudali and the second to the the very top man.
Over sixteen Tamil civilians killed. About forty people in hospital seriously injured by cutting and shooting. One hundred and fifty Tamil houses burnt. Nearly a thousand people dehoused and in refugee camps - not one Sinhalese. Services conduct search in Tamil areas terrorizing people and this followed immediately by thugs attacking the Tamil people and setting fire to the houses.
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UNIVERSITY TEACHERS HUMAN RIGHTS (UTHR) REPORT
http://www.uthr.org/SpecialReports/spreport26.htm#_Toc173926129
From March 1983, the Government moved to dismantle by violence settlements in Trincomalee District of Tamils, most of them of Hill Country origin, who in the South had been victims of the 1977 communal violence. A week before the July 1983 violence Mahveli Minister Gamini Dissanaike told the GAs of the North and East that there would soon be special legislation for them to evict persons with no right of settlement in their areas. On the eve of the violence Hill Country Tamils who were in refugee camps after fresh violence in Trincomalee were woken up in the night, and under the direction of the Navy, loaded into buses and transported to the Hill Country (p.81, 82).
Again, about three days before the 1983 violence, Minister Lalith Athulathmudali (who was to earn a dubious reputation as National Security Minister) said in Parliament, In those days it used to be said that there was a Tamil majority in the North. But now it is different. The time has come that the majority of Tamils live among the Sinhalese . Towards the end of 1984 he was more explicit. He spoke of the Governments intention of settling 200 000 Sinhalese, mainly ex-convicts and fisher folk, among Tamils in the North-East (pp.60, 323).
That the inspiration behind these intended Sinhalese settlements in the North-East was the Israeli government s policy of Jewish settlements on the West Bank is strongly suggested by the presence of an Israeli team in Sri Lanka from 14th July 1983 to 6th August 1983 and subsequent developments. This was just when the Government was articulating its first steps in this direction. Israel had no diplomatic relations with Sri Lanka. Following on discussions held with the visiting Israeli officials in July/ August 1983, a more long-term arrangement was finalized later in 1983 with US help. (p.321)
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Captain ahap
hei guy you from down south right...i know u...u were 17 when you were bending/giving to that white guy is it??????
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UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella claimed in parliament today that the Government Security Council had decided last night to suspend air and ground attacks on LTTE locations with immediate effect. However Minister Sarath Amunugama vehemently denied the claim.
I know Lakshman Kiriella (family friend), and the guy likes to stir! He's just after media attention! I don't agree with anything he says politically!
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Why is it that none of the Tamils in lnp talk about the Sinhalese who saved them,and only talks about the mob which looted...?
is this because it is this that which the ltte wants them to say to the outside world...? |
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Violent incidents in Jaffna, 24th July 1983
''Sri Lanka army personnel are on a rampage in Jaffna province, raiding each and every house and shooting down (Tamil) youths...Reports put the casualties of the rampage at over 300...'' (Deccan Herald, 27 July 1983)
'Leading members of the Tamil community in Jaffna have told the Guardian that in one incident, troops killed number of students waiting at a bus stop. They allege that the students, aged between 18 and 20 had been lined up separately and fired upon... Shortly afterwards troops drove through a village...shooting at random at passers by. It was claimed that troops were then ordered back to barracks. But soldiers in civilian clothes were out in jeeps and raided a number of houses, shooting inhabitants...Lawyers in Jaffna claimed that ...the town's magistrate was ordered by the Ministry of Defence in Colombo not to hold a planned inquest...Asked yesterday, why no inquests had been held, President Jayawardene said: 'I did'nt know until a couple of days ago. It is too late now'.' (The Guardian, 8 August 1983)
''These accounts follow details of alleged army massacres in the northern peninsula of Jaffna - including the murder of six school boys at a bus stop - reported by the Guardian on Monday. They raise questions about the responsibility of senior security force officers and members of the Government... Last weekend, President Jayawardene was questioned during a recorded interview about the evidence gathered in Jaffna by the Guardian. He claimed that the army withheld information about the massacres from him for nearly two weeks... But the (Tamil) leader of the opposition... who was in Mannar, has claimed that he telephoned the President the day after the massacres took place, Monday July 25, to inform him. He said, '''We will look into it and do what is necessary to stop it, '' (the Tamil leader) reported.'' Rt.Rev.Dr.B.Deogupillai, Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna and other prominent figures in Jaffna are believed to have made similar representations to the Presidential office the same day. The President says that no inquests were held because he was informed too late.'' (The Guardian, 13 August 1983)
''Tamil civilians are reported to have been selected at random and killed in cold blood. The victims included 8 people who were shot dead after being taken out of a bus at Manpay and an 88 year old retired teacher and his son in law who were killed in their house in Thirunelvely, Jaffna. News of the killings reached AI very soon afterwards and on 26 July it sent a telex message to Sri Lanka's President J.R.Jayawardene, urging him to take immediate steps to prevent further such killings by the armed forces. It also called upon the government to establish an independent investigation into reports of killings in Manipay, Thirunelvely, Pandetherupu, Kondavil and Chankanai and to bring to justice those responsible.'' (Amnesty International Newsletter, September 1983)
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