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SriLanaUnites, Please Keep The Truth Naked
SriLanaUnites, Please Keep The Truth Naked
When Annilavan, Manager,, Mullaitivu Centre of SriLankaUnites, said that the Tamils
should have tried non-violence, and not violence, to get their rights, none of Danu,
Prashan or Vidya intervened to say that whenever the TTamils tried to use non-
violence they were met with severe violence from the government itself:
2. Tamil parliamentarians and Tamils sat in satyagraha day and night in front of
Jaffna District Secretariat for nearly two months(mid-February - mid-April 1961) and
one early morning in mid-April the Army was sent to crush the protest and all the
parliamentarians were taken to detention at Army cantonment in Panagoda for six
months along with some of their supporters. Some of the satyagrahis who
were attacked by the Army had to be admitted to the hospital. The North began to be
encircled with military camps to bring the Tamils to heel because N.Q.Dias, the
Prime Minister's Secretary, thought that there would be armed uprising in 25yrs'
time( https://groundviews.org/2014/09/17/review-of-neville-jayaweeras-jaffna-exorcising-
the-past-and-holding-the-vision/ )