`ஓயாத அலை`!

INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka's Genocidal War - '95 to '01

Witness to the historic exodus and military occupation of Jaffna

an eye witness account written by Rev.Dr.S.J.Emmanuel in January 1996 The night of Monday October 30 , l995 was a black night in the entire history of the age-old city of Jaffna. Never has history witnessed

such an exodus of fear and panic stricken people screaming and squeezing themselves out of the narrow roads and lanes of Jaffna. The nearly half a million population in and around the town was literally

on the roads in pouring rain inching its way out of the densely populated town into the sparsely populated and ill -equipped suburban villages of Chavakachcheri, Kodikaman and Palai. It was for everyone a flight for survival.......

The Paris - educated lady knew only too well how densely populated the Jaffna town was. She knew of the ways of displacements which had made Jaffna already a congested town. She knew that it was a town made into a dark prison without the facilities of electricity, transport, communications, etc.

She knew the desperate situation of a congested town population eating the bare minimum and languishing on the borders of death and destruction. She also knew the anguish and agony of the increasing number of orphans and widows as a consequent of the twelve years of war.

But all those were drowned in her love for power, loyalty to the chauvinistic ideals of her race and above all by her rage against the de fact leadership in Jaffna........