INDIAN JOURNALS INVESTIGATED RAJIV GANDHI MURDER MYSTERY ........ TRUTH MUST BE ESTABLISHED : 2009

HIDDEN MASTERMINDS WITHIN CONGRESS:

RAJIV GANDHI MURDER MYSTERY

The spokesperson of the Congress party in charge of Tamilnadu affairs had sought Srilanka to hand over LTTE supremo Mr.Velupillai Prabakaran which is the top story in Deccan Chronicle on 4^th January 2009.So the cat is out of the bag. All these days the United Progressive Alliance government headed by Mr.Manmohan Singh had been pretending to be heeding to the unanimous resolution passed by the Tamilnadu assembly to stop the genocidal war and also making false promises to depute the Minister of External Affairs Mr.Pranab Mukherjee to advice Srilankan government to halt the war. Its real motive is revenge, and nothing else. It wants millions of Tamils to be annihilated to avenge the death of a Former Indian Prime Minister. It has neither humanitarian concern to intervene to stop the genocide nor it has geo-political interests to uphold Indian interests in the region. China which has no access to Indian Ocean, has got that access with the help of Srilanka by firmly entrenching its foot in Hampanthotta harbor it builds in Southern tip of Srilanka to watch the sea routes of the Indian Ocean. Actually by building harbors for Mynmar, Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan, China had encircled India. China has foothold in Bay of Bengal, thanks to the red carpet welcome of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Srilanka had tied its fate to Chinese designs by offering on platter Hampanthotta to have total control of the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean. Maldives and Pakistan had provided a foothold for China in Arabian Sea. China arms the Srilankan government in its genocidal war. India too strangely is an accomplice of China and Pakistan in the war theatre of the killing fields of Tamil Eelam. The hatred towards LTTE had even blinded India about the harm it inflicts on its own geo-political interests.

 The Rajiv Gandhi murder mystery needs to be solved, if at all for present government or any future government in India to come out of a phobia and to arrive at a balanced mind. It is high time to recall that in the aftermath of Mrs.Indira Gandhi’s murder by misguided Sikhs, Congress leaders and cadres went on for teaching Sikhs a lesson, and that ended the lives of few thousand Sikhs. The needle of suspicion pointed out leading Congress leaders as responsible for those killings. Sikhs did not demand that Congress party as an organization is guilty of those revenge killings. Neither the Congress condemned Sikhs as criminal race as it treats Tamils in Eelam. Congress in fact has its government headed by a Sikh. The reasonable logic that is applied with regard to Sikhs goes on missing eaten by some sudden invasion of hate virus in the minds of the Congressmen that looses its mental equilibrium on handling Tamil affairs. Hence a national debate on Mr.Rajiv Gandhi’s murder becomes necessary. It is not a new wine but in fact an old wine served in new bottle. Yes, the national debate of past is brought out again.

OUTLOOK, India’s News magazine in its 24^th November 1997 issue has the wrapper story titled : THE MISSING FILES, on crucial files concerning the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have either been lost or suppressed. Outlook investigated that mystery. In the lengthy story within the magazine the title is :THE DEADLY DUO.

It would be historically important to tell who the Deadly Duo are ? They are not in LTTE, the banned organization but they belong to the Congress, which had not been banned nor initiated action even posthumously on the key beneficiary of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. We reproduce the Outlook story here, as it appeared. We urge the world community to carefully read in between the lines the role of the real murderers of Rajiv Gandhi. We urge for the awakening of the conscience among the Congressmen, and if that hate virus infected Congress brains have to be formatted before installing the Anti-Tamil virus programme, let it be done. The curse India casts on all Tamils as criminal race and need to be done to death by genocidal Sinhalese army, is a historical blunder. The Nazi Hitler was taught a befitting lesson by USA,USSR,GB and other democratic forces of the world, but the Neo-Nazi Hitler Rajapakhshe thrives on the support of extreme opposite poles in geo-politics, namely India and Pakistan, India and China. Also the man who invaded Iraq in search of Chemical weapons, which were not found till date, but only shoes are found at the fag end of his time, Mr.George Bush is forcing India to repeat his Iraqi mistake in Srilanka, at least in the limited context of blaming LTTE and TAMILS for Rajiv Gandhi murder, to use it as reason to turn blind eye to genocide.

N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary, Dravida Peravai.

OUT LOOK STORY :

THE DEADLY DUO

Crucial evidence linking Chandraswami to the Rajiv case went missing from Rao’s PMO, OUTLOOK investigates.

·        File No:8-1-WR/JSS/90/Vol III – containing notings of bureaucrats regarding security arrangements for Rajiv Gandhi from November 1989 was lost from the Prime Ministers Office in 1991. Later, it was doctored and re-constructed by the Narasimha Rao Government before it was submitted to Jain Commission.

·        File No: 1/12014/5/91-IAS/DIII reported missing since 1995.It pertained to the terms of reference of the Verma and Jain Commissions of Inquiry.

·        File containing intercepted messages from foreign intelligence agencies, said to be addressed to Chandraswami and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy, destroyed by senior officials in the PMO.

·        File on IB’s assessment of the role played by Zail Singh and Chandraswami in 1987 to topple Rajiv Gandhi missing.

·        File with records of official briefings by intelligence agencies on the assassination to Rao’s Home Minister S.B.Chavan missing. The former Minister confirms he was briefed orally.

·        The April 20, 1991 wireless intercept with the leading question, should Rajiv be killed in Delhi or Madras missing

·        File relating to the Rao governments attempt to wind up the Jain commission is still withheld from the panel.

Do these files/messages and other sensitive information-categorised as untraceable , missing, destroyed or cannot be revealed due to security reasons- hold the key to the mystery that shrouds Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination ? The Jain Commission thinks so. The AICC[ All India Congress Committee] has been pressing for these files and documents. And intelligence officials admit in private that vital evidence seems to have been suppressed to ensure that the largest conspiracy behind the May 21, 1991 assassination does not come to light .

It is these missing files, documents and intercepts that have kept alive the basic question – Who killed Rajiv Gandhi ? Who participated, plotted or silently abetted in the act? Right through his 5 year term, Narasimha Rao fuelled the intrigue by losing, misplacing, reconstructing, denying the existence and even allegedly destroying key files. His government did everything it could do to place stumbling blocks and even allegedly tried to wind up the Jain Commission inquiring into the conspiracy.

After interviewing serving and retired IB ,RAW, CBI and Home Ministry officials Outlook has learned that the Rao’s government’s extreme reluctance to part with crucial files and wireless intercepts seems to have been aimed at protecting god-man Chandraswami, whose links with international arms traders is an open secret. Whenever the trial led to him, every effort was made by the government not to cooperate with the Jain Commission. Accordingly, the file on Chandraswami’s links with the LTTE prior to the assassination was never made available to the commission. Says AICC appointed lawyer R.N.Mittal, closely associated with the Jain Commission’s proceedings “ At every stage, we have been denied documents. Our investigations have been like a personal effort against all odds.”

Political circles are well aware of the reason why Chandraswami was being protected. The god-man has close links with Rao-the two have been friends for 25 years. It’s common knowledge that the tantrik was treated as a VIP when Rao was Prime Minister and had special access to Rao’s official residence, 7, Race Course Road.

Reliable sources say, when the Commission, in face of resistance from the Government, insisted that it be provided with certain documents, Rao ordered a sorting operation. A top Cabinet Secretariat official was asked to divide the documents into three categories :innocuous ones which could be passed on to the commission ,documents on which privilege could be claimed before handing them over, and highly sensitive intelligence reports, wireless intercepts and other documents which could not be given to the commission at any cost.

The crucial third category, says sources, contained wireless intercepts of messages between foreign intelligence agencies to Chandraswami and Subramaniam Swamy. They were passed on by the RAW to the Cabinet Secretariat. A RAW official confirmed to the Jain Commission that the transcripts had indeed been passed on by the intelligence agency.

What did some of these missing files have ? Intelligence sources say one file contained intercepted messages as well as details of the movements of Subramaniam swamy and Chandra swami on assassination day. It also contains a crucial intercept from Jaffna to LTTE operatives saying that funds have been provided for carrying out the assassination. It refers to god-man having made the payment.

Interestingly the fact that the Rao government had actually doctored a file came to light when Vinod Pande , who was the Cabinet Secretary in V.P.Singh’s government, deposed before the Jain Commission that file No.8-1-WR/JSS/90/Vol III in which he had made notings on Rajiv Gandhi’s security – had been tampered with. “ The file which has been placed in my hands does not contain an official copy of my note dated January 30,1990.The first few paras of the draft are not mine.” Pande told the commission.

Hard pressed, the Rao government had to give an explanation. It told the commission that the file had been missing since 1991.It had been sent to the PMO on July 27, 1991 and had since disappeared. P.Chidambaram, the Minister in charge of the assassination investigation and the probes, told the commission that despite “ going over a toothcomb” in the PMO, Home Ministry as well as Prime Minister’s residence, the file had not been located and therefore had to be reconstructed. Strangely, it took the government 4 years time to own it up that it had submitted a file which was not the original.

Clearly, had the Jain Commission not demanded these files and documents,  it would have been given a free run by Rao to continue with its slow, meandering enquiry. Indeed , with the Special Investigation Team of the CBI restricted to inquiring into the actual killing and the larger conspiracy left to the Jain Commission, nothing much was expected to emerge. But it was Jain’s insistence that the commission be given access to the suppressed files that made Rao panic and provoked the subsequent cover-up operation.

Details available with Outlook suggest there were enough intercepts with Indian intelligence agencies that a hit on Rajiv was imminent. On April 20,1991 RAW intercepted a message from Jaffna with the leading question, should Rajiv be killed in Delhi or Madras ? Four days before Rajiv was killed, the same intelligence agency intercepted what is regarded as the LTTE’s final okay to its team led by Sivarasan or the one-eyed Jack. The message came in an eight line Tamil doggerel identifying the place and timing of the assault. The message was conveyed to the IB head quarters in Delhi, but unfortunately for Rajiv, it was a week end and the doggerel was decoded much after the damage was done.

But there had been enough warnings that there was a larger plot to kill Rajiv. Yasser Arafat , chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization had warned Rajiv of an international plot to assassinate him. He had conveyed this information to then Prime Minister Chandrasekar. But no follow up investigation was ever carried out.

According to PLO spokesperson contacted by Outlook, Arafat had concrete information about the plot. His source “people in Lebanon and Europe “ Arafat, through his Ambassador in Delhi, Khalid El Sheikh told me that LTTE and Sikh organizations are planning to kill Rajiv Gandhi during his election campaign on May. Sheikh had met Rajiv on March 13, 1991. A week later he called on the Congress President with a letter from Arafat. And a fortnight before the assassination, he called on Rajiv yet again.

Arafat provided details of the conspiracy to Chandrasekar when he attended Rajiv’s funeral. The Indian Ambassador to one of the North African countries was asked to contact Arafat. Then Foreign Secretary Muchkund Dubey, was also sent to see Arafat separately. In this June 1991 meeting Arafat confirmed the international conspiracy. Dubey and the Ambassador then filed a report on their meetings with the PLO Chairman. But again, no action was taken on this lead. When asked about the files by Justice Jain, Rao feigned ignorance. “I don’t remember about it. The matter was not brought to my notice.”

Meanwhile the Report of William Carry, who headed a US Senate Sub-Committee to probe into the BCCI bank scam, confirms that the bank had accounts of arms dealers Adnan Khashoggi and Ernie Miller. Both are known disciples of Chandraswam. Crucially, the Carry report also notes that $ 84 million was transferred to the LTTE from their accounts. Carry says the money was used for the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. Senate investigations also revealed that Mossad, CIA and LTTE had accounts in the BCCI.

Interestingly in a statement before the Commission R.Velusamy, then President of Tamilnadu Janata Party contended that Subramanian swamy had checked into Trident Hotel in Madras while Chandrswami was lodged at Sindoor Hotels owned by Apollo Hospitals on May 21, the day Rajiv was assassinated. Both left for Bangalore by car through Sriperumbudur before reaching Delhi on a special flight.

He told Outlook: “ May I also state that Dr.Swamy went via Sriperumbudur and stopped at the venue of the meeting, ostensibly to look at the role of Maragatham Chandrasekar, Congress candidate in the Parliamentary polls, for whom Rajiv went to campaign in Sriperumbudur- in selecting the site. I declare that Swamy told me about the role played by one JP Builders in persuading Maragatham Chandrasekar in selecting the site for Rajiv’s meeting.”

Veluswamy claims he called Swamy’s residence in Delhi at 10.45 AM on May 21 and Swamy’s wife told him that he was indeed in Madras. Recalls Veluswamy, “ My efforts to reach him proved futile. According to senior party colleagues , Dr.Swamy had an hour long meeting with S.C.Chandrahasan, a Srilankan Tamil ideologue , at Hotel Trident before he vacated the room and proceeded to meet Chandraswamy at Hotel Sindoori owned by Chandraswami’s disciple Dr.Pratap Reddy. While I could confirm that a room was booked for Dr.Swamy on May 21^st at Trident, I could not get any details about Chandraswami’s stay. Sindoori never maintains any documents to show Chandraswami’s visits and he stays there as a personal guest of Pratap Reddy.”

Swamy has been denying that he was in Madras on May 21. But his Tamilnadu unit Chief has given details of his itinerary. Stated Veluswamy before the Jain Commission. “ Dr.Swamy admits arriving at Madras on 19.5.1991.He admits travelling with me by my car and he admits that we had a halt at Kanchipuram and that I was his translator. He admits that I was with him at Salem at 8.30 PM in the evening on 20.5.1991 and I am his translator in the Salem Town meeting. He admits that he was to return to Madras on May 22 and then fly to Madurai via Trichy and that I was to join him at Trichy. He is however silent on where he stayed in Madras on the morning of May 21 and how long he stayed there. But in the next paragraph of the affidavit , Swamy does a volte face.”On 21.5.1991, I was not in Madras at all or in Bangalore or indeed in South India but I was in Delhi”

He continues “ The issue is, while Swamy contends he gave a statement to the Delhi PTI on May 21, he is very vague about his time of arrival at Delhi. The facts are very clear from even available documents. He was with me well past midnight on the 20^th, which is actually the wee hours of the 21^st. It takes 6 hours to reach Madras by road. If he had reached Delhi by any morning flight, there would be any number of records to show the flight and its time of departure. I have already given proof that a room was booked in Dr.Swamy’s name in Trident.”

It’s is significant that there were several attempts to keep the conspiracy angle out of the ambit of a probe into the assassination. When the Chandra sekar regime, in which Swamy was Law Minister, appointed the Verma Commission of inquiry, its scope was limited to investigating security lapses.

The more closely one examines the Rajiv assassination case, the curiouser it becomes. For instance the most significant evidence with the SIT linking the LTTE to the assassination are photographs clicked by Haribabu, the photographer who also died in the blast. The first pictures released by the SIT to the media showed three women-Kokila, a 15year old who went to recite a Hindi poem to Rajiv, her mother and Dhanu, later identified as human bomb. It was only after the DMK organ Murasoli reproduced with a caption “ where is the missing man ?’’ – that the SIT reproduced the full frame. The missing man turned out to be Sivarasan. No explanations were offered as to why the SIT masked part of the frame.

Even more intriguing is the role played by SIT, DIG Srikumar, who had gone to London to collect additional information on the witnesses as well as the background of some of the accussed. He not only failed to make any progress, but also had his briefcase snatched. The case contained vital information about LTTE’s arms procurement and delivery routes, their points-men in Europe and their nexus with global arms dealers.

When the SIT arrested key witness Mirasdar Shanmugam on July 17- 1991, it chanced upon messages and transcripts of some coded messages. Shanmugam, according to the charge-sheet received Sivarasan and his killer squad on the TN coast on May 1-1991.The coded messages not only spoke about the assassination, but also about the high level people connected with the plot. Shanmugam escaped from SIT custody and hung himself from a tree under mysterious circumstances. K.Mohandass, a former DGP of Tamilnadu, says Shanmugam’s case was clear murder and the CBI had done a clumsy cover up job. “ Shanmugam was wearing a white dhothi when he was taken for interrogation. How come when his body was found, he was wearing a lungi ?” he asks.

The circumstances leading to the suicide of the main accused Sivarasan or one-eyed Jack-for whom a high pitched manhunt had been launched across Tamilnadu and Karnataka on the outskirts of Bangalore are equally mysterious. While the other accused Shobha, and Sivarasan both reportedly consumed cyanide ,in classic LTTE manner, Sivarasan also seemed to have shot himself. But according to state intelligence sources, Sivarasan knew too much and there is a possibility that the bullet wounds were not self inflicted. The case gets curiouser –Sivarasan’s body was immediately cremated, while Shobha’s was preserved as an exhibit.

It becomes clear from this sequence of events that most of the key players in actual plotting and execution of the killing have died under mysterious circumstances. And with the main accused LTTE chief Prabakaran still ensconced in LTTE strongholds in northern Lanka, the SIT has none of the crucial players in the case in custody.

Adding to this mess is the cover up orchestrated  by Rao’s regime. Rao’s persistent amnesia before the Jain Commission on the question of taking action on the Verma panel’s observation on official lapses makes interesting reading. “I would not be able to say off hand what all happened in connection with the steps taken for the implementation of the action taken report. The job was entrusted to a group of Ministers, I expected them to do the needful. I do not remember whether there was any timeframe for the group of ministers. As per reports, there was a stalemate. So the matter came up before the cabinet. What decision the cabinet took, it is a matter of record. I do not remember .”

Interestingly, a PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court by a little known lawyer, Mustaq Ahamed, demanding the scrapping of the Jain Commission. After this was turned down, the central government approached the Supreme Court  with a Special Leave Petition. When questioned about this by the commission, Rao said “ The PIL initiated in the Delhi High Court did not come to my knowledge. The question must have been looked into by P.Chidambaram and therefore SLP’s were filed. If Chidambaram wanted to consult me, he could have, but Chidambaram did not consult me. “ However it is well known that P.Chidambaram who was made Minister in charge of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination probe, was acting on Rao’s instructions. Ahmed’s PIL, according to political circles, also had the blessings of the then Prime Minister.

An important missing link is the file containing records of the official briefings to the then Home Minister S.B.Chavan, when he talked about the involvement of CIA in the assassination. Not surprisingly Chavan’s stand on the subject was in complete variance with what Rao had to say. Said Chavan in his affidavit before the Jain Commission :The LTTE was just an instrument in the hands of some foreign powers.” Then reacting to the charge made by former Congress Minister K.K.Tiwari, who has been meticulously following the Jain Commission’s proceedings, Chavan said “ The general impression which K.K.Tiwari gave is not altogether wrong because there are forces who are trying to create destabilizing conditions.”

In the ongoing snafu, the Ministry of External Affairs chose to deny the Home Minister’s statement that the Americans were involved in the killing. Chavan told the commission : “ It is correct that the very day the American Ambassador in India met the Indian Prime Minister, the foreign minister, foreign secretary and the spokesperson of MEA held a press conference and contradicted the statement regarding the involvement of a super power. It is abnormal that a spokesperson of the MEA held the press conference contradicting my statement.” Then again “ I am still of the view that some foreign power is involved. It is not the job of LTTE. The general impression is that some other powers may be involved.”

Whether the LTTE acted on its own or whether there was an international conspiracy is still a grey area- Justice Jain had not been able to make any definite conclusions about this aspect. But the manner in which Rao sought to hold back information from the Jain Commission, coupled with the shoddy investigation indicates there was a concerted attempt to protect key players. Evidence is absent, but join up the blank spaces and a pattern emerges.

Courtesy :

OUTLOOK magazine dated 24^th November 1997.

CONCLUDING THE STORY : BUT LET YOUR CONSCIENCE AWAKEN

Those who read the OUTLOOK’s investigative story published a decade ago must be baffled at the outburst of the spokesperson of Congress party Mr.Veerappa Moily asking Srilanka to hand over LTTE leader Prabakaran, if caught.

Why is it Congress wants Prabakaran ? Is it to unearth the mystery behind Rajiv’s murder ? The role of Chandraswami and Narasimha Rao dubbed as deadly duo by OUTLOOK has not come to the minds of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance Madam Sonia Gandhi. The then Indian Home Minister S.B.Chavan’s statement before Jain Commission pointing accusing fingers at foreign powers did not awaken Madam Sonia Gandhi’s conscience. Mrs.Priyanka Gandhi visited Vellore prison to know the truth. Recent report in Junior Vikatan states that Bengaluru Ranganath asserts that the killing squad was blessed in a pooja by Chandraswami. Yet none from Congress party wants to unearth the truth, to find out if any black sheep existed in its ranks. It is understandable that the black sheep of those days want to bury truth. The fate of mysterious dead caught for the crime is to bury evidences. Now the demand to fix Prabakaran is also to put the blame on his shoulders and crucify him. There is no real attempt to find truth even under the Government remote controlled by Rajiv’s widow. It would be left to western authors to investigate and write books on the Rajiv Gandhi murder mystery .

Even if some LTTE cadres are involved, in what way it is morally correct to blame one organization of a crime. 

The same OUTLOOK before one general election brought out a list of 72 Parliament Members involved in crimes, cutting across party divide.

Is it justifiable to ban those political parties that had nourished criminals. Organizations banned for the murder of the Father of the Nation, are freed from bondage, and such bans are only for limited periods. Lifelong Tamils have to be enslaved, no organization should exist to give protection to Tamils, and this sadistic resolve of the Government headed by Manmohan Singh and the political party that props him, is a curse for a noble land like India. In every metropolis, be it Mumbai or Chennai, kangaroo courts exist, instant justice is delivered not by the law of the land but by the unlawful mafia, not even underground but openly paraded by all political parties shielding that party interests. This is legal but for Tamils facing genocide if brave youth sacrifice their lives, those martyrs have to be exterminated. 

After Negroes attained liberation from slavery, right before our eyes Tamils of Eelam are forced to become slaves. If even that could be forgotten, how about Tamils of Colombo, who are not separatist but subscribe to one nation concept,are asked to register, as reported by Deccan Chronicle dated 5^th January 2009. Mr.R.Bhagwan Singh, the descendent of the illustrious Raja Desingh who ruled Gingee writes with tears the woes of Tamils under Rajapakshe’s regime, in its own capital.

Indian ruling party will ignore the resolution of the Tamilnadu Assembly, just because it remains blind to truth in the Rajiv Gandhi’s murder. Indian ruling party still believes that George Bush will search and find chemical weapons in Iraq before he steps down this month and prove to the world that USA invaded Iraq on justifiable grounds. Like Bush, the Rao loyalists, Trojan horses within Congress, hope after hope that LTTE should be finished and its leader exterminated, so that posthumously Rao’s ghost or foreign hands in Rajiv Gandhi’s murder will remain unexposed before world history.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai             5.1.2009

DR.BRIAN SENEWIRATNE OF AUSTRALIA SOUGHT MY BOOKS ON TAMIL EELAM STRUGGLE :2011

Dr.Brian Senewiratne                                              31.01.2011

292, Pine Mount Road, Mount Gravett

Australia 4122

Respected Dr.Brian Senewiratne

In response to your email, I am mailing you few books and booklets.

My approach is two-pronged; the first is with regard to the Srilankan killings of Indian Tamil fishermen. The bartering away of Katcha Tivu is a Himalayan blunder. So when need arose to demarcate the Exclusive Economic Zone, I urged then Indian External Affairs Minister Hon’ble Jaswant Singh on 31.07.2000 to re-open Katcha Tivu issue with Srilankan Government when fresh boundaries had to be carved out for Exclusive Economic zone under International Law of Seas 1982. This appeal I published as booklet titled “Demarcate Exclusive Economic zone: Regain Katcha Tivu Islands and distributed to all Members of Indian Parliament. That booklet is enclosed.

Subsequent to this I have to send a lengthy file if I had to narrate all related activities, so I just enclose my letter to the High Commissioner of Human Rights under UN dated 30.06.2006. The clinching evidence on Tamil Genocide by Rajapakshe could be his killings of Indian Tamils; hence Karaikal Union Territory Struggle Group mailed appeals to President of USA Mr.Barack H.Obama and Secretary of State Ms.Hillary Clinton urging USA to declare Srilanka as Terrorist State. Letter and Tamil Sydney Com report enclosed.We wrote to the International Tribunal of the Law of Seas and that booklet is enclosed.

On Eelam Tamils issue I wrote to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on holding plebiscite on 9.09.2006, wherein three options a] state within Srilanka b] independent Tamil Eelam c] State under Indian Union be the issues people had to decide by voting was mentioned. Letter enclosed.

When Eelam War was at its peak, Srilankan Army encircling Tamil freedom fighters, I mooted the Tamil Eelam Government in Exile idea on 20^th May 2009, and later I developed this idea as Transnational State of Tamils. Immediately it appeared in Tamil Sydney com and blogs. These writings though may carry repetition, were written at emotion charged atmosphere. The book Tamils towards Transnation State is enclosed. It was e-published in www.scribd.com and till date 31.1.2011 read by 4036 people since 11^th October 2009, the date of its upload.

The print edition of Tamils Towards Trans-nation State is now available for purchase in E-Stores; the wrapper of that book is enclosed.

I wrote to all member nations of the Security Council and European Union on and that Appeal to Nations 25.05.2009 is enclosed,

Tamil Genocide under Neo-Nazism is a book e-mailed to all embassies of most of the nations, including mails to important countries. I wrote to UN Human Rights Commissioner on 21^st May 2009 and the reply came by 24^th June 2009 dated letter. Book and letter enclosed.

To the Public Prosecutor International Criminal Court of Justice we made a complaint against Mahinda Rajapakshe dated 20.05.2009, and that booklet enclosed.

An appeal to the Presidents/Prime Ministers of Nations of European Union to support Tamil Eelam Government in Exile was posted on 12.03.2010. Booklet enclosed.

I think this sequence of events over a decade will indicate the consistency of our approach, though from seventies I can supply documentary support. I hope these will be of someway useful for your efforts.

Thanks for your words of appreciation, which fellow Tamils were withholding under the cheeks.

With Regards

Yours fraternally

N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary Dravida Peravai.

 Update : After Dr.Brian Senewiratne sought I mailed my books, but he did not even acknowledge the receipt of my books, why I was confused, then re-read his email, wherein to introduce himself he had stated that he knew a Tall Leader, which made me understand that usual mischief from usual quarters only is the reason. 

EPICS BY POETS-- TRUE HISTORY BY HISTORIANS- FIGHT FOR JUSTICE BY TAMIL DIASPORA....will not wipe tears..

A POET IN KAMBARS POETIC METER WANTED TO WRITE AN EPIC :

ALL THESE CAN FORM THE STORY..... BUT HE DID NOT WRITE

102. Vavunikulam massacre 26-9-1996, 15-8-1997

Vavunikulam village is located in the Mullaithivu district. The village takes the name of the large water reservoir in the village. Displaced people from other districts like Jaffna and Kilinochchi were living there in temporary shelters experiencing great hardship.  On 26.09.1996, Sri Lankan Air Force bombed this village killing four civilians and wounding 12. In 1997, the Sri Lankan military was on a military operation from their Omanthai camp, codenamed “Jeyasikkuru”, to take over the A9 route. The bombing and shelling were hitting the civilians. Civilians had taken refuge in schools, churches and temples. On 15.08.1997 at 9.00am, the Vavunikulam villagers took refuge in a church in their village as the military went on an onslaught. Two bombs were dropped on this church by Sri Lankan Air Force Kfirs. 9 people were killed. 16 were seriously injured. One died in the hospital later. The Kfirs bombed the same place again at 1.00am. Eight people were injured. One of them died in the hospital later. In total 15 civilians were killed on that day and more than 20 were injured.

Ganeshamoorthy’s account of the massacre is as follows,

“Around Friday 10 am in the morning, we heard a booming sound behind us. When we turned around we saw that there were two Kfirs in the air. Initially thought there were crows flying behind the Kfir, however a second later I realized they were actually bombs. I fell into a stream, by which time a bomb fell. People started screaming. As I ran towards the sound, I saw flesh scattered everywhere. It looked like a like a meat shop. The bomb fell on a small Refugee Camp at Vavunikulam Church. We informed ICRC and they came and took the injured to Mallavi hospital. In the evening they bombed Puthuvilamkulam. ICRC returned to take the injured. 5 or 6 people died. All the bodies were taken on a tractor belonging to Sundarlingam and burnt.14 people died and 23 people were injured. This bomb had dropped 200 meters from my house. Small people, old people, dogs all died. These people had been displaced and were already living in hardship when these bombs were dropped.” This was a planned attack. There were so many places that could have been hit – but they targeted the Refugee camps. This is the worst incident that has happened at Vavunikulam, Mullaitivu District.

103. Konavil bombing 27.09.1996

Konavil is situated in the Kilinochchi district. People of this village have displaced several times during the war. On 27.09.1996, Sri Lankan Kfir bombers dropped several bombs on the village. Three bombs fell on the junction where people had gathered. Three civilians died on the spot. Two more died later in the Akkarayan hospital.  Many were injured. Nagalingam Pakianathan says,” My uncle was killed on 27.09.1996 in the Sri Lankan bombing’s Vimaleswari says, “My father was killed as he was returning from the market on 27.09.1996 by Sri Lankan bombing. My grandfather who was seriously injured in the bombing also died”. Pakianathan Vasanthakumari says, “My father and a cousin was killed on 27.0.1996 in the Sri Lankan bombing”

104. Mullivaikal bombing 13.05.1997

Mullivaikal village is located in the Karaithurai Assistant  government Agent Division in the Mullaithivu district. The main economic activities of the village is farming and fishing. In the year of 1997 several displaced fishing families from Jaffna settled along the coastal belt of this village. On 13.05.1997 morning, Kfir bombers of the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed this village. Seven fishermen fishing from the shores were killed. Three road laborers repairing the roads were also killed in the bombing.

105. Mankulam shelling 08.06.1997

Mankulam is situated in the Mullaithivu district along the A-9

Highway. In 1997, large number of people displaced from Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Nedunkerni were living in Mankulam. On 08.06.1997, the military began shelling the Mankulam junction area in the early afternoon for 25 minutes. Seven displaced civilians were killed in this shelling. Many more were injured.

106. Thampalakamam massacre 01.02.1998

Thampalagamam is situated 12 Kms from the Trincomalee town. A Sri Lankan military camp is located in the village of Parathipuram in the Thampalakamam district. On 01.02.1998, in the early morning, the military shot and killed 8 from this village after ordering them to stand around their camp. Four of those killed were school children. In the mouth of one of those killed, Arumukam Segaran, the military has cut and stuck his penis.

107. Old Vaddakachchi bombing 26.03.1998

Old Vaddakachchi is an ancient village in the Kilinochchi district. The largest water reservoir in the region, the Iranaimadhu water reservoir, is in this village. The rice fields in this village are able to produce twice a year using the water from this reservoir. Old Vaddakachchi is presently called Periyakulam. Due its rich fields with abundance of water the people are prosperous.

In 1996, the Sri Lankan military began its “Sathjeya” operation to capture Kilinochchi. As the military advanced with shelling and bombing it destroyed people’s property and several civilians were killed.  On 26.03.1998, at 8.00 am Sri Lankan Air Force Kfir jets dropped a bomb in the Velikandan area and five bombs fell near the house of Arunasalam Velayutham. Two people working in front of Velayutham’s house, Velayutham’s daughter, who was inside the house and two more people working in the yard, and one person in the house in front were killed. In total 6 people were killed and five were wounded. Velayutham’s home and farm equipment were all destroyed in this bombing.

Arunasalam Vethanayagam says,

“My daughter Mankayatkarasi was killed in the Sri Lankan bombing on26.03.1998. My home was completely destroyed.”

Velayutham Paramswari says,” My son was killed on 26.03.1998 by the Sri Lankan military bombing”Selvaratnam Jeyaluxmi says, “My sister was killed on 26.03.1998 by the SriLankan military bombing”

108. Suthanthirapuram massacre 10.06.1998

On the day of the incident, Suthanthirapuram, which is along the coastline in the Mullaitivu district, came under SLAFs air attack and shelling attack from 9.15 am to 10.30 am. Because the attack was continuous, people were unable to find safe areas, 25 people were killed and more than 50 were injured. Several hundreds of thousands rupees worth properties were damaged. Hundreds of coconut trees on which people depended for livelihood and 10 houses were completely destroyed. Hundreds of houses were partially destroyed.

Ganashen Kasimalar’s account of the event is as follows:

“Around 9:30am whilst we were home, air bombing started. Our house was bombed too. We left our home and started running, but we did not know where to run to - everything was being bombed. We just ran in any direction. We got separated from our family in all the frenzy. I did not know where my mum, brother, sister…. anyone was. There was another plane flying in the air. We did not know what to do. We just kept going from one place to another in fear of our lives. We hid behind trees and buildings. We could not go back home – there was so much shelling. Most of the people here were all displaced. We moved very closely with a lot of the people. Good friends, neighbors and relations were killed. This was definitely a planned attack on people who were already displaced and living in hardship. We could not return home for 15 days. When we did come back, every thing was destroyed. All the coconut trees, gardens and buildings were destroyed. Our house was in an unlivable state.”

109. Visuvamadhu shelling 25.11.1998

Visvamadhu village is situated in the Puthikkidiyiruppu Assistant Government Agent division in Mullaithivu district. Rice growing and coconut estates are the most common economic activity of the village.  The Visvamadu tank irrigates

the fields.On 25.11.1998, afternoon children were returning home from school. The Sri Lankan military began shelling from their Elephant camp towards Visvamadhu. One shell hit a child eating at his home and he was killed instantly. Another shell hit a child on the road and was killed instantly. Two more civilians were killed in this shelling and 10 civilians were injured.

110. Chundikulam bombing 02.12.1998

Chundikulam is coastal village located in the Kilinochchi district. One of its special features is the many bird sanctuaries.  Fishing is the main livelihood of the people. Sri Lankan Navy has continued to attack the coastal villages of the Northeast over a period of time. In a similar manner, the Chundikulam village also came under the Sri Lankan Navy attack. In 1995, following Sri Lankan military operations, coastal people in the eastern Jaffna region of Maruthankerni from the villages of Thalayadi, Aliyavalai and Uduththurai displaced to Chundikulam. The displaced people put up small huts and continued with their fishing activity in this area in order to survive. On 02.12.1998, Kfir bombers dropped 6 bombs in the Nallathanithoduvai refugee settlement. Seven people including children were killed on the spot.

111. Manthuvil bombing 15.09.1999

Manthuvil village is situated in the Mullaithivu district. Manthuvil junction is the commercial centre for the village. There are several shops, a market, a temple, a church and other public buildings in this location. On 15.09.1999, the junction was buzzing with people engaged in their daily activities. At 10.25 am, Sri Lankan Air Force Kfir bombers dropped two bombs at this junction. 12 civilians died on the spot. Injured people were taken to the Puthukkudiyiruppu hospital. 10 of the injured died the same day at the hospital. A further 40 people were seriously injured. Buildings, productive trees and livestock worth hundreds of thousands of rupees were destroyed by the bombing.

112. Palinagar bombing and shelling 03.09.1999

Suthanthirapuram village is situated in the Mullaithivu district. Although it was sparsely populated in the early days the population shot up in 1996 as refugees came in. On 10.06.1998, the Sri Lankan military stationed in Elephant Pass and Ampahamam camps carried out bombing and shelling into the civilian’s areas in Palinagar from 9.15am till 11.30am. Since the people were taken unawares, they could not seek safer places. 25 people died and 50 people were injured. Hundreds of thousands of rupees worth property was damaged.

Ravichandran’s account is as follows:

“Around 11 o clock a Kfir was seen in the air. We were at school at the time. As we left and were walking, the Kfir dropped the first bomb. SK, a boy working with my brother, was injured and taken to hospital where he died. When the second bomb was dropped, I was hiding in an out door bathing tub. Pratheep was also hiding there with me. He was injured in the stomach. He was taken to the hospital by tractor. He died there. 7 people were injured and 4 died.

This happened between 11 and 11:30am. As this was peak time, people were at the markets and at school. After the first bomb hit, parents and others rushed to the school to make sure that the children were ok. Then the second bomb was

dropped. 2 school children died. The SLA hit this place twice to ensure that people would definitely be killed. This had to have been a planned attack.”

113. Madhu church massacre 20.11.1999

Madhu church, Mannar, is a St. Mary’s Catholic Church and is popular among all ethnic communities in the area. During the 1990s following the SLAFs attacks several people from Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya were displaced to the church’s surroundings, as it was considered a safe refuge.  On 20thNovember 1999, the SLAFs were advancing through the forest towards the church and continually firing their weapons. As a result, people in the villages, such as Palamputti, also displaced to the surroundings of Madhu church. When the SLAFs arrived they forced all the civilians to go to the church. At 9.45 pm the SLAFs started shelling. Two of the shells fell on the banyan tree in front of the church. The third shell fell on the church. 31 people including children died. Nine more people died in the hospital. More than 60 were injured. Chandrasekumaran Amarasingam was in the Madhu Church when the shelling started. His account of the incident is as follows,

“I had been living in Thathinapuram Palamputti for a long time. On that day, the SLA told us to go to Madhu Church and they will look after us there. This message was conveyed to us through UNHCR. So we all went to the Temple. Once there we were told to go in and then go out again a few times. There were so many people at the temple. Finally the SLA made us all go into the Temple and then closed us in. The SLA came down Pandivirichan Road in armoured vehicles and tanks. On that road there was a vehicle that belonged to a poor man who had brought people from Karadian Aru to Madhu Temple. The SLA destroyed the vehicle completely. Once they arrived, they surrounded the Church. They killed and hit a few people. Inside they hit people. Around 9:45, we were listening to BBC on the radio; the first shell fell on the place where the sisters were sleeping. The other fell in front of the temple on the banyan tree. The next one fell on my temple. The fourth shell fell on my head. The roof frame fell down and instantly killed about twenty one people all around me and then there was silence. We all saw this shell come from the Divisional Secretariat.

We did not know what to do. Around 1.00 pm, I was taken in an SLA vehicle to the hospital. I regained consciousness after 25 days. My mother, and elder sister, uncles, cousins all died that day. The GS helped us to find out what happened to everyone. There were people from Vavuniya and some from Murungan who died. The rest were all from this area and were all from our family.

114. Bindunuwewa massacre

Bindunuwewa Rehabilitation Centre was one of three centers run with substantial overseas funding to rehabilitate LTTE suspects and surrenders. The government of Sri Lanka ran these centers. It was shown off as a model for the rehabilitation of former LTTE members thus accumulating a lot of merit points for the government. On Oct 25th in 2000 a mob of Sinhalese stormed the camp and massacred the inmates while 60 police officers stationed that night to protect the inmates stood by. 28 inmates died and another 14 were seriously injured.

 There were nine survivors. Two inquiries, one by the Sri Lankan Human rights Commission (SLHRC) and another Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCI) followed. A criminal proceeding also was initiated. In June 2005 the court proceedings were completed. No one was convicted for any offence.

The massacre as told by the survivors to Sri Lanka Human Rights Commissions (SLHRC)

On October 24, the detainees were raising some complaints they had with the Officer in Charge. Their complaints were that letters to and phone calls for them were not being passed onto them; and they were being detained for more than a year rather than the three-nine month period. There were some arguments and seeing that the detainees were agitated a policeman fired in the air. The situation calmed down and the detainees went to bed. Next morning when the detainees woke up they saw large crowds and a large number of policemen outside. The crowd started to attack the detainees and set fire to their residences. 28 Tamil detainees died and 14 were injured at the end of the carnage. Nineteen victims were identified and nine victims were not identified because their bodies were burned beyond recognition.

Interim Report by the SLHRC on November 1st 2000

This report by the SLHRC through its name suggests that there will be another report following it but there was no further report from SLHRC on this matter. Major points raised in this report are:

1. When the detainees who were being attacked tried to run for safety one of them was shot down by police officers. His body had three bullet wounds. One of the survivors lost two fingers as a result of the shooting by the police officers.

2. The 60 odd police officers at the scene failed to take any action to stop the carnage. Yet the SLHCR did not lay any criminal responsibility on the police officers rather they were found guilty for the minor offence of dereliction of duty.

3. There was substantial organizing and poster campaign against the inmates between the time the detainees protested and the time they were attacked by the mobs.

Report by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCI)

The report by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed in March 2001 handed its report to the President in early 2002. It was never made public. In any case it was not mandated to inquire and recommend any prosecution. Other papers written on the topic however, have published parts of the findings in this report. The Commission found clear evidence that a significant degree of organizing took place in the twelve to fourteen hours between the initial protest in the Camp and its violent destruction. The crowd outside initiated the violence as stones were thrown at the inmates. The inmates reacted to the provocations by exploding a gas cylinder within the camp. While this initially succeeded in frightening the crowd, its ultimate effect seems to have been to further inflame things, as the crowd soon thereafter stormed the camp as the police looked on. That there was an utter failure on the part of the police stationed around the camp is beyond dispute. The Commission report strongly criticized the two most senior police officers in the area – ASP Dayaratne and HQI Seneviratne for a series of failures. Even at the last moment, the inmates could have been evacuated from the camp.

The prosecution

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) carried out its own inquiry and indicted 41 suspects including 10 police officers. There were flaws in the prosecution at many levels. Some of which are:

1. Although both inquiries have strongly criticized that there were substantial prior organizations before the mob stormed the camp there was no attempt to investigate the “organized nature of the massacre”.

2. There was no attempt to lay charges for the criminal conduct of the police in allowing the massacre to continue while they stood by. Nor was the police shooting of the fleeing inmates investigated.

3. There was a systematic destruction of evidence. A bullet from the body of the detainee who was killed by police shooting was removed and was not available as evidence.

4. Though two higher-ranking officers were clearly identified in the inquiries they were never charged of any crime. All the police officers who were charged are middle and low ranking officers.

5. The charges that were brought on the suspects were for murder and attempted murder. The prosecution did not lay any lesser charges for which there would have been a greater possibility of conviction. Despite such blatant criminality the Sri Lankan justice system has allowed all the culprits to go free. This is also not the only time this has happened. Indeed, this failure of the Sri Lankan justice system to punish security persons for crimes against Tamil civilians has a very long history.

115. Mirusuvil massacre 19.12.2000

Mirusulvil village is a settlement created to encourage women into employment. This village is near the Muhamalai area in Jaffna peninsula. In the year 2000, as a result of military clashes throughout the Thenmaradchy area of Jaffna many people had displaced to the Vadamaradchi area. The people of Mirusuvil village had also displaced to Karaveddy in Vadamaradchi and were staying in the Navalar hall.

On 19.12.2000 9 people from Mirusuvil went to their village to collect essential items they needed for living. All 9 were arrested while they were collecting the things from their homes. The arrested people were blind folded and attacked by the military. One of those arrested managed to escape and return to Karaveddy to tell the fate of the others.Based on the information given by Ponnaiah Maheswaran, who managed to escape, and the soldier who was on duty at that time, Lance Corporal Ratnayake, in the presence of the Police Inspector, Upali Gunawardhana, Deputy Police Inspector, Nimal Srinath, district judge, Annalingam Premshankar, and Point Pedro District Medical Officer, Kathiravetpillai, a mass grave was dug up on 25.12.2000. The eight bodies were buried only 2 feet below the ground. The Tamil daily Veerakesari published from Colombo in a report quoted a hospital report on the inquest, “A body of a 21 year old man was recovered from the mass grave and was identified by Ponnaih Maheswaran and Lance Corporal Ratnayake. This body was wrapped in a red saree. Next the body of a male child was recovered. His skin was peeled and his body was pink. Throats of the bodies were cut with sharp knives and the arms and legs were chopped off.”

 TAMIL GENOCIDE CONTINUES ..... TILL 2009... AND THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 2018.... not covering these incidents above

 SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING.... BUT STILL TAMIL HISTORY MISSES MANY TRUTHS ABOUT TAMIL GENOCIDE