{"id":66619,"date":"2012-12-27T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=66619"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:46:20","slug":"wikileaks-us-on-lttes-invocation-of-the-eritrea-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-us-on-lttes-invocation-of-the-eritrea-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks: US On LTTE\u2019s Invocation Of The \u2018Eritrea\u2019 Mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe popular perception of the Sri Lankan government as anti-Tamil is reinforced by the apparently random manner in which the army lobs artillery shells into Jaffna. The\u00a0Reuters\u00a0correspondent recounted two such incidents which occurred during the week he has in Jaffna. In one case a shell landed in a crowded fish market, killing two civilians and wounded seventeen. Two days before, a woman and her two children were injured when a round fell on their house while they were sleeping. \u2018I can\u2019t understand why they do this,\u2019 the Reuters man said, \u2018because the LTTE\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0even have camps in the areas being shelled.\u2019\u201d<\/strong> the<\/strong> US Embassy Colombo<\/a><\/span> informed Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Leaked US diplomatic cable, dated June 17, 1994, updated the Secretary of State regarding the LTTE\u2019s civil administration structure. The\u00a0Colombo Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0found the related leaked cable from the\u00a0WikiLeaks<\/a>\u00a0database. The cable subject was \u201cLife Under The LTTE\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Embassy wrote; \u201cLTTE<\/a><\/span> Spokesman Anton Balasingham<\/a><\/span> told the visiting journalists that the Tigers\u2019 see newly-independent Eritrea<\/a><\/span> as the model for their own independence struggle. By setting up civil administration in areas under their control and working towards economic self-sufficiency, the Tigers hope to achieve de facto<\/em> sovereignty. When the Reuters correspondent pointed out to him that the central government was still running schools, staffing hospitals and distributing food in the north, Balasingham reportedly said shrugged and said \u2018We can\u2019t do that, so we let the government to do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Placing a comment the US embassy wrote; \u201cThe LTTE frequent invocation of the \u2018Eritrea\u2019 mantra conveniently leaves out the fact that Eritrea achieved its independence because the central government in Addis Ababa collapsed; the Sri Lankan government is unlikely to follow suit. Nonetheless, the burgeoning Tiger civil administration indicates that the LTTE is steadily working to make \u2018Tamil Eelam\u2019 is a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the cable below for further details;<\/p>\n

R 171229Z JUN 94\r\nFM AMEMBASSY COLOMBO\r\nTO SECSTATE WASHDC 0056\r\nINFO AMCONSUL MADRAS\r\nAMEMBASSY PARIS\r\nAMEMBASSY NEW DELHI\r\nAMEMBASSY LONDON\r\nAMEMBASSY KATHMANDU\r\nAMEMBASSY DHAKA\r\nAMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD\r\nAMCONSUL KARACHI\r\nUSCINCPAC HONOLULU HI<\/pre>\n
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 COLOMBO 003119 \r\n\r\nLIMITED OFFICIAL USE \r\n\r\nCINCPAC FOR FPA \/ LONDON FOR N. JOHNSON\r\nKARACHI FOR LAWTON \/ PARIS FOR ALLEGRONE \r\n\r\nE.O. 12356:N\/A\r\nTAGS: PINS<\/a> PHUM<\/a> PTER<\/a> KPRP<\/a> CE<\/a>\r\nSUBJECT:  LIFE UNDER THE LTTE \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>1.  SUMMARY.  RECENT TRAVELERS TO JAFFNA REPORT THAT\r\nTHE LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM (LTTE) CONTINUE\r\nTO SET UP CIVIL ADMINISTRATION IN AREAS UNDER THEIR\r\nCONTROL.  A TIGER POLICE FORCE HAS REPLACED THE\r\nREGULAR LTTE CADRES ON THE STREETS OF JAFFNA, TIGER\r\nCOURTS ARE DISPENSING JUSTICE THROUGHOUT THE\r\nPENINSULA, AND A \"BANK OF TAMIL EELAM\" HAS BEGUN\r\nFUNCTIONING UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF A FORMER STATE\r\nBANK OFFICIAL.  THE TIGERS ARE ALSO EMPHASIZING\r\nECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY BY ATTEMPTING TO PRODUCE\r\nSUBSTITUTES FOR ITEMS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S \"BANNED\"\r\nLIST.  ON THE MILITARY FRONT, THE LTTE IS PREPARING\r\nFOR A POSSIBLE ARMY ASSAULT ON JAFFNA AND HAS\r\nTHREATENED TO DISRUPT THE UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL AND\r\nPARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE.\r\nEND SUMMARY. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>2.  THE FOLLOWING REPORT IS BASED ON CONVERSATIONS\r\nWITH RECENT TRAVELLERS TO THE LTTE-CONTROLLED JAFFNA\r\nPENINSULA, INCLUDING THE COLOMBO-BASED BBC AND\r\nREUTERS CORRESPONDENTS AND THE JAFFNA-BASED BISHOP\r\nOF THE CHURCH OF SOUTH INDIA. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>3.  RECENT TRAVELLERS TO JAFFNA WERE STRUCK BY THE\r\nDEGREE TO WHICH THE LTTE HAS SET UP ITS OWN CIVIL\r\nADMINISTRATION IN NORTHERN SRI LANKA.  GONE ARE THE\r\nTRUCKLOADS OF HEAVILY-ARMED TIGERS WHO PATROLLED THE\r\nSTREETS OF JAFFNA AS RECENTLY AS 1992.  THE\r\nGUERRILLA FIGHTERS HAVE NOW BEEN REPLACED BY\r\nBLUE-UNIFORMED \"TAMIL EELAM POLICE.\"  THE\r\nLIGHTLY-ARMED POLICE DIRECT TRAFFIC (MOSTLY\r\nBICYCLES), RECORD STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC AND\r\nINVESTIGATE CRIMES \"JUST LIKE IN COLOMBO,\" ACCORDING\r\nTO THE REUTERS CORRESPONDENT.  THE INSPECTOR GENERAL\r\nWHO HEADS THE FORCE IS A FORMER CONSTABLE IN THE SRI\r\nLANKAN POLICE. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>4.  THE POLICE ARE BACKSTOPPED BY THE LTTE \"JUSTICE\r\nDIVISION,\" WHICH RUNS FOUR DISTRICT COURTS AND ONE\r\nAPPELLATE COURT.  LTTE \"JUDGES\"--ALL FORMER\r\nGUERRILLAS--HEAR CASES AND HAND DOWN JUDGMENTS FROM\r\nTHE BENCH.  ACCORDING TO THE BBC CORRESPONDENT,\r\nTHESE JUDGES RECEIVE SIX MONTHS OF LEGAL TRAINING IN\r\nAN LTTE \"LAW COLLEGE\" BEFORE TAKING OVER THEIR\r\nDUTIES.  EACH JUDGE ALSO HAS A \"LEGAL ADVISOR,\"\r\nGENERALLY A RETIRED GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY.  THE JUDGES\r\nTHEMSELVES TEND TO BE YOUNG, IN THEIR LATE 20'S OR\r\nEARLY 30'S.  THE ONE APPEALS COURT JUDGE IS A\r\nWOMAN.  THE BBC AND THE REUTERS CORRESPONDENTS\r\nAGREED THAT THE COURTS SEEMED TO BE HANDLING BOTH\r\nCIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES IN A STRAIGHTFORWARD LEGAL\r\nMANNER. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>5.  ON THEIR ARRIVAL IN JAFFNA, THE JOURNALISTS'\r\nBAGS WERE CHECKED BY LTTE CUSTOMS OFFICERS AND THEIR\r\nPAPERS WERE EXAMINED BY LTTE IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS.\r\nCHECKING WAS THOROUGH; IT TOOK THE OFFICIALS THREE\r\nHOURS TO CLEAR THE 150 PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED ON AN ICRC\r\nBOAT FROM TRINCOMALEE.  NO PASSENGERS WERE ALLOWED\r\nOUT OF THE CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION HALL UNTIL THEIR\r\nBONA FIDES WERE ESTABLISHED AND THEY HAD PAID ALL\r\nAPPLICABLE DUTIES ON THE GOODS THEY BROUGHT FROM THE\r\nSOUTH. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>6.  THE LTTE HAS RECENTLY OPENED BANKS IN JAFFNA AND\r\nOTHER NORTHERN TOWNS.  UNLIKE THE BRANCH OFFICES OF\r\nCOLOMBO BANKS, WHICH ONLY TAKE DEPOSITS, THE \"BANK\r\nOF TAMIL EELAM\" ALSO PROVIDES LOANS TO FARMERS AND\r\nSMALL BUSINESSMEN.  THE TIGERS HAVE MOUNTED A MAJOR\r\nPUBLICITY CAMPAIGN TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO PUT THEIR\r\nMONEY IN THE LTTE BANKS.  THE MAIN SELLING POINT IS\r\nTHAT THE NEW BANKS WILL RECYCLE MONEY INTO THE\r\nCOMMUNITY RATHER THAN (AS IS NOW THE CASE) TAKING IT\r\nOUT OF THE PENINSULA.  THE MANAGER OF THE BANK OF\r\nTAMIL EELAM IS A RETIRED BANK OF CEYLON OFFICIAL. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>7.  THE EXISTENCE OF THE LTTE-RUN \"TAMIL EELAM\r\nECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION\" (TEEDO) IS\r\nANOTHER SIGN THAT THE TIGERS ARE STRIVING FOR\r\nSELF-SUFFICIENCY.  TEEDO IS CHARGED WITH FINDING\r\nALTERNATIVE LOCAL SOURCES OF SUPPLY FOR \"BANNED\"\r\nITEMS EMBARGOED BY THE SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT.  IT\r\nHAS REPORTEDLY HELPED SET UP SMALL-SCALE\r\nMANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES TO PRODUCE AGRICULTURAL\r\nIMPLEMENTS, BOTTLED SOFT DRINKS AND OTHER\r\nHARD-TO-FIND ITEMS.  TEEDO ALSO OFFERS CASH\r\nINCENTIVES TO PEOPLE WHO COME UP WITH INNOVATIVE\r\nSOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ARISING FROM THE EMBARGO.  ONE\r\nSUCH AWARD RECENTLY WENT TO A MAN WHO PERFECTED A\r\nWAY OF USING \"BIO GAS\" TO RUN HIS TRACTOR. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>8.  ACCORDING TO THE TWO JOURNALISTS AS WELL AS THE\r\nBISHOP, ALL ITEMS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S \"BANNED LIST\"\r\nARE FREELY AVAILABLE IN JAFFNA, THOUGH OFTEN AT\r\nPRICES SEVERAL TIMES THOSE IN THE REST OF THE\r\nCOUNTRY.  \"PENLIGHT BATTERIES, CHOCOLATES, ANYTHING\r\nYOU CAN FIND IN COLOMBO YOU CAN FIND IN JAFFNA,\"\r\nSAID THE REUTERS CORRESPONDENT.  RETAILERS SIMPLY\r\nPASS THE EXTRA COST OF SMUGGLED ITEMS ON TO THE\r\nCONSUMER, WHILE THE LTTE ALSO EXACTS ITS CUT.  WITH\r\nTHE EXCEPTION OF GOLD MERCHANTS, ALL SHOPS AND\r\nBUSINESSES PAY THE TIGERS A TWO PERCENT TAX ON GROSS\r\nSALES.  GOLD MERCHANTS PAY 4 PERCENT. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>9.  ELECTRICITY, SHUT OFF BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT\r\nIN 1990, IS NOW SUPPLIED BY LTTE GENERATORS TO SOME\r\n15,000 COMMERCIAL SUBSCRIBERS.  RATES ARE SAID TO BE\r\nTWENTY TIMES THOSE IN COLOMBO:  100 RUPEES (USD\r\n2.00) A UNIT VERSUS 5 RUPEES A UNIT.  SOME SHOPS,\r\nHOTELS AND NEWSPAPERS HAVE THEIR OWN GENERATORS\r\nWHICH RUN ON A MIXTURE OF KEROSENE AND VEGETABLE\r\nOIL.  THE LTTE ALSO HAS ITS OWN 200-LINE FIELD\r\nTELEPHONE SYSTEM, ACCESS TO WHICH IS SO FAR LIMITED\r\nTO LTTE OFFICES AND OTHER KEY INSTALLATIONS. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>10.  LTTE SPOKESMAN ANTON BALASINGHAM TOLD THE\r\nVISITING JOURNALISTS THAT THE TIGERS' SEE\r\nNEWLY-INDEPENDENT ERITREA AS THE MODEL FOR THEIR OWN\r\nINDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE.  BY SETTING UP CIVIL\r\nADMINISTRATION IN AREAS UNDER THEIR CONTROL AND\r\nWORKING TOWARD ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY, THE TIGERS\r\nHOPE TO ACHIEVE DE FACTO SOVEREIGNTY.  WHEN THE\r\nREUTERS CORRESPONDENT POINTED OUT TO HIM THAT THE\r\nCENTRAL GOVERNMENT WAS STILL RUNNING SCHOOLS,\r\nSTAFFING HOSPITALS AND DISTRIBUTING FOOD IN THE\r\nNORTH, BALASINGHAM REPORTEDLY SHRUGGED AND SAID \"WE\r\nCAN'T DO THAT, SO WE LET THE GOVERNMENT DO IT.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>11.  ON THE MILITARY FRONT, THE TIGERS ARE PREPARING\r\nFOR A MAJOR ARMY ASSAULT ON JAFFNA.  TRAVELERS\r\nREPORT THAT THE LTTE IS DIGGING TRENCHES AND\r\nPREPARING DEFENSES THROUGHOUT THE PENINSULA.  THE\r\nLTTE ALSO REPORTEDLY REQUIRES EVERY FAMILY IN JAFFNA\r\nTO PROVIDE A NUMBER OF HOURS OF FREE LABOR EVERY\r\nMONTH.  EACH FAMILY HAS BEEN ISSUED A \"LABOR CARD\"\r\nTO BE STAMPED BY THE TIGERS UPON COMPLETION OF THE\r\nFAMILY'S REQUIRED CONTRIBUTION.  WHEN ASKED ABOUT\r\nTHE LULL IN FIGHTING SINCE LAST YEAR'S BATTLE AT\r\nPOONERYN, BALASINGHAM EXPLAINED THAT \"BOTH SIDES\"\r\nHAD SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES AND WERE IN THE PROCESS OF\r\nRECRUITING AND TRAINING NEW FIGHTERS.  WHEN THE\r\nBISHOP QUERIED BALASINGHAM ABOUT THE LTTE'S ABILITY\r\nTO WITHSTAND A FULL-SCALE ARMY ASSAULT ON JAFFNA,\r\nBALASINGHAM TOLD THE BISHOP NOT TO FORGET THAT \"WE\r\nSTILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO STRIKE COLOMBO.  OUR\r\nBOYS ARE THERE.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>12.  BALASINGHAM SAID THAT THE LTTE DID NOT ATTEMPT\r\nTO DISRUPT THE LOCAL ELECTIONS IN THE EASTERN\r\nPROVINCE BECAUSE THE POLLS WERE \"NOT IMPORTANT\" AND\r\nTHE COST OF DISRUPTING THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN HIGH,\r\nBOTH IN TERMS OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES AND LTTE\r\nRESOURCES.  HE WENT ON TO TELL THE REUTERS\r\nCORRESPONDENT THAT THE TIGERS WOULD NOT VIEW THE\r\nUPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL AND GENERAL ELECTIONS WITH\r\nSUCH EQUANIMITY.  \"OUR OFFICIAL POSITION,\" SAID\r\nBALASINGHAM, \"IS THAT WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE HOLDING\r\nOF ANY ELECTION IN THE NORTH AND EAST UNLESS AND\r\nUNTIL A POLITICAL SOLUTION IS WORKED OUT TO THE\r\nSATISFACTION OF OUR PEOPLE.\"  THE REUTERS\r\nCORRESPONDENT TOLD POLOFF THAT BALASINGHAM SAID OFF\r\nTHE RECORD THAT THE TIGERS WOULD WITHOUT QUESTION\r\nDISRUPT THE POLLS IN THE EAST. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>13.  ACCORDING TO THE JOURNALISTS' ADMITTEDLY\r\nUNSCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF THE JAFFNA CITIZENRY, SUPPORT\r\nFOR THE LTTE REMAINS FAIRLY STRONG.  THE REUTERS\r\nCORRESPONDENT ATTRIBUTED SOME OF THIS SUPPORT TO THE\r\nMILITANTS' LOW PUBLIC PROFILE AND THE GENERALLY\r\nFAVORABLE ATTITUDES TOWARD THE NEW CIVIL\r\nADMINISTRATION. \"PEOPLE ADMIRE THE DISCIPLINE OF\r\nTHE LTTE ADMINITRATIVE SERVICE AND APPRECIATE THE\r\nFACT THAT THE ARE NOT HARASSED,\" HE SAID.  THE BBC\r\nCORRESPONDENT SAID THAT THE GENERAL LEVEL OF SUPPORT\r\nFOR THE LTTE HAS \"MORE THAN I EXPECTED.\"  BOTH\r\nCORRESPONDENTS AGREED WITH THE BISHOP'S STATEMENT\r\nTHAT GIVEN A CHOICE BETWEEN THE ARMY AND THE LTTE,\r\nTHE MAJORITY OF JAFFNA RESIDENTS WOULD CHOOSE THE\r\nLATTER. \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>14.  THE POPULAR PERCEPTION OF THE SRI LANKAN\r\nGOVERNMENT AS ANTI-TAMIL IS REINFORCED BY THE\r\nAPPARENTLY RANDOM MANNER IN WHICH THE ARMY LOBS\r\nARTILLERY SHELLS INTO JAFFNA.  THE REUTERS\r\nCORRESPONDENT RECOUNTED TWO SUCH INCIDENTS WHICH\r\nOCCURRED DURING THE WEEK HE HAS IN JAFFNA.  IN ONE\r\nCASE A SHELL LANDED IN A CROWDED FISH MARKET,\r\nKILLING TWO CIVILIANS AND WOUNDING SEVENTEEN.  TWO\r\nDAYS BEFORE, A WOMAN AND HER TWO CHILDREN WERE\r\nINJURED WHEN A ROUND FELL ON THEIR HOUSE WHILE THEY\r\nWERE SLEEPING.  \"I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY DO\r\nTHIS,\" THE REUTERS MAN SAID, \"BECAUSE THE LTTE\r\nDOESN'T EVEN HAVE CAMPS IN THE AREAS BEING\r\nSHELLED.\" \r\n\r\n\u00b6<\/a>15.  COMMENT.  THE LTTE'S FREQUENT INVOCATION OF THE\r\n\"ERITREA\" MANTRA CONVENIENTLY LEAVES OUT THE FACT\r\nTHAT ERITREA ACHIEVED ITS INDEPENDENCE BECAUSE THE\r\nCENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN ADDIS ABABA COLLAPSED; THE SRI\r\nLANKAN GOVERNMENT IS UNLIKELY TO FOLLOW SUIT.\r\nNONETHELESS, THE BURGEONING TIGER CIVIL\r\nADMINISTRATION INDICATES THAT THE LTTE IS STEADILY\r\nWORKING TO MAKE \"TAMIL EELAM\" A FACT.  END COMMENT. \r\n\r\nMANN<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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