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These children, whose education we have helped, now The army did not dare enter theĬhildren against the army. Planning and coordinating was taking place. That was the hub of all this activity, where all the 1300 children attended the Mannar programme. Programmes were also held in Vavuniya and Was a programme in June 2003 at University of Jaffna attended by a large gathering The hate programme of Pongu Tamil continued. Up a case against the army to rally Tamil youth so that they would help create Eelam. Lanka army of destroying Tamil private property, raping, robbery and the forcible In these progammes the LTTE accused the Sri The Army protested but government said do not These programmes were held in governmentĬontrolled areas and were calculated to set the Tamil youth against the Racism under the guise of promoting Tamil culture. It was actually Eelam propaganda, sowing seeds of hatred, revenge and LTTE started programme called Pongu Tami inĢ002. Hostility and mistrust returnedĪnd the Tamil civilians pretended not to remember what we had done for them. Relations between the civilians and the army. Gave to the Tamil civilians, it was clear that their sympathies lay with theĪgreement was signed, in 2002 said Kamal. They always treated the elderly withĭue respect and care to the extent of donating their own meal to the hungry and medicine for the sick. So much so that that soldiersīegan to look forward to supporting the civilians and sought out opportunitiesĬivilians in many ways to improve their daily lives.Most soldier treated the Need to treat Tamil citizens with respect and care. We built awareness among the soldiers of the A new position of Civil Affairs officer wasĬreated and every major camp had such an officer. Kamal Gunaratne said that they also changed It was the army medics who attended to them and in an emergency, our ambulances Whenever a member of a poor family was sick or had met with an accident Part of our food quota to the poor villagers. We tried to bring these items fromĬolombo and supplied them through our canteen at reasonable price. There was a severe shortage of food items and theyĭepended on the army welfare canteens. Our priority was to win the hearts and minds We persuaded businesses to sponsor musical shows. At the New Year festival we gave civilians expensive gifts,ĭonated by civic society group and businesses. Properties such as hospitals, temples and schools. We conduced shramadana campaigns with joint participation of soldiersĪnd civilians to repair and renovate village infrastructure and public To the camps and we provided medicine from our own stocks. We conducted eyeĪnd leading opticians in the country. Obtained support and sponsor ship from successful business men in Colombo forīooks, uniforms, shoes bags etc and encouraged the school children to study. Besides supplying children with books,īags, uniforms, shoes, we also provided meals, especially during exams. Service rendered by the army to support and maintain primary and secondaryĮducation in the peninsula was immense. We gave special attention to school children. Wadamarachchi, we found LTTE stores filled with food items. But young children, who had never seen a soldier glanced at us The first day, an elderly man had come up, whispered “Congratulations” and Were now under government administration. Watching the massive influx we had a sense of great Seeing the civilians return was a happy sight for us, recalled Valikamam started to return to their original homes. Kamal GunaratneĬaptured Kilaly, (Jaffna) in 1996, tens of thousands of civilians who had left This became clear to the Sri Lanka army when they were in The venture is represented here by an experience suite decorated by artworks that incorporate and reconfigure original works of art purchased in Sri Lanka’s recent “peacetime” contemporary art boom.There is firm evidence to show that during the Eelam wars theĪnd anti-Sinhala. Reimagined here beyond national borders, New Eelam is an alternative proposal for how a new economic system could evolve, without friction, out of the present one-through the luxury of communalism rather than private property. It takes its point of departure from the unrealized possibilities of “Eelam,” the defeated Tamil Sri Lankan homeland that was wiped out in 2009 following a failed neo-Marxist struggle for self-governance. How might citizenship be reconceived in an age of technologically accelerated dislocation? New Eelam introduces a startup founded by the artist to develop a flexible, global housing subscription that is based on collective ownership.