It was there that I penned “The agony and the ecstasy of a pogrom: southern Lanka, July 1983” – a literary essay rather than a social science document, one that amounted to a personal statement of protest and anguish. The relative isolation of my quarters in Charlottesville suited that mood.
When I flew from Katunayake to Charlottesville inVirginia for the second stage of my leave on a semester fellowship, it was in a particular mood that I sat in the planes and reflected upon that horrible occasion. Much later, when on study leave in Lanka in 1991, I picked up testimonies and tales about specific incidents of killing and threat during those dark days in Colombo, including one relating to the killing of Arumanaiyagam, a former young colleague. The anti-Tamil pogrom of July 1983 in the southern reaches of Sri Lanka stirred me to the bone: generating anger and depression in alternate moods as I ruminated from a distance in Australia in the mid-1980s. It is alleged that at least 500 of this lot were “hardcore LTTE.” Continue reading → Several commentators with some familiarity with the IDP camps have indicated that these detention centres were like the proverbial colander and that a significant number – estimates vary widely from 1,000 to 10,000 - slipped out of the IDP camps in mid-2009 and found their way abroad. In parenthesis let me add that grapevine information from Tamil sources indicate that in April-May 2009 quite a few Tigers seem to have successfully merged themselves with the population that was deemed civilian and placed in the IDP camps in Menik Farm and elsewhere. Muralidhar Reddy stresses that “once bracketed in the category of a combatant, irrespective of the degree of their involvement in the war, there was no mechanism for those detained to prove their innocence.” ĭistribution of Certificates-–Pic by BCGR There were others who had been arrested elsewhere in the island (that is beyond the battlefields), often on flimsy evidence, in the years 2006-09. Whatever the death toll during the last stages of Eelam War IV in 2009 the official government data in that year acknowledged that 11,696 (9078 male and 2024 female) of those who survived had identified themselves or been identified as members of the LTTE - whether combatants or active functionaries. Michael Roberts, courtesy of Groundviews, where it was presented on 28 October 2011, and where some blog comments will be found Thevihan, Gobi and Appan Continue reading → This metal detector had been stolen from an NGO involved in demining operations in the east of Vavuniya. Investigations further revealed that they were to use this metal detector to find arms and explosives dumped by the LTTE.
The house he was hiding in was searched and an F-3 type metal detector was found. The suspect was hiding in a house in Kilinochchi and when the team went to arrest him, he opened fire on the team and an officer was injured. Following investigations conducted by law enforcement officers, they trailed a known ex-LTTE cadre by the name of Gobi who had escaped the Vavuniya Welfare Centre after the end of the conflict.
Two suspects involved in LTTE propaganda activity was taken into custody while distributing posters in Jaffna in March 2014. From Udeshi Amarasinghe: at “Modus Operandi: Tamil Diaspora and LTTE Organisations” ….
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