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Subject: 1992 Olu-Pihille Andhakaran Award
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Olu-Pihille Andhakaran Award - HELL FOREVER- WINNER AND CONTRIBUTIONS


     HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION INTERNATIONAL
	      Third Annual
	 Olu-pihile Andhakaran Award - HELL FOREVER
		 1992


  The Human Life Protection International  Announces its
  annual Olu-Pihille Andhakaran  award for the most 
  gruesome, heinous crime. This is dedicated to
  Olu-Pihille Andhakaran Alias Vellupillai Prabhakaran
  who has relentlessly pursued killing of Tamils, Moslems,
  Sinhalese, Japanese, Sheiks, Gujaratis, ... to promote
  racial harmony. 
	
 The award carries with it a guranteed eternity in
 hell ( if one exists), with Olu-Pihille Andhakaran
 him self.
  
 The First Annual Olu-Pihille Andhakaran  Award
 is here by presented to the criminals responsible
 for the following crime.  Majority of the past awards in
 this series have been awarded for killing tamil-speaking
 innocent civilians in the name of liberating tamils.


Subject:      News October 16

   RTw  10/16 0950  SRI LANKAN VILLAGERS HAD NO CHANCE AGAINST REBELS

       By Minoli de Soysa
       PALLIYAGODELLA, Sri Lanka, Oct 16, Reuter - Moslem residents
   of Palliyagodella in north central Sri Lanka did not stand a
   chance when hundreds of Tamil rebels stormed their village early
   on Thursday morning.
       The rebels, including many women, were armed with automatic
   weapons and bombs and easily overpowered the 25 policemen and 10
   soldiers guarding the village.
       Their three-hour rampage in the area left 162 civilians,
   including 25 children and 19 women, as well as 11 policemen and
   eight soldiers shot and hacked to death, according to Red Cross
   officials.
       In Colombo, military sources said 164 people were killed in
   simultaneous raids on four villages.
       Another 90 lie wounded in the nearby Polonnaruwa hospital,
   some seriously. Doctors have been operating non-stop since the
   first casualties were brought in on Thursday.
       It was the biggest single attack since 1983 when the
   Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are mostly Hindus,
   intensified their offensive for their own homeland in the north
   and east.
       The military says the rebels attack mainly Buddhist Sinhalese
   and Moslem civilians to drive them away from the area.
       "My wife, two children and I were sleeping when someone
   started shouting that the Tigers had come. We ran to the mosque.
   Later on, there was an annoucement on the mosque loudspeaker
   saying they had gone away and to come out. When we did, they shot
   at us," said Maroof Mohamed.
       "We managed to escape and hid until the army came," he added.
       Mariamma lies on her hospital bed, too weak to brush the flies
   away from her blood-stained bandages. She cannot stop weeping as
   she tells how armed men surrounded the village, shooting and
   chopping sleeping men and women.
       "Some of us ran to the mosque but later when we came out they
   were still there and shot us again," she said, adding that she and
   her four children managed to hide under some straw until help
   came.
       At about 6.30 a.m., a helicopter and two planes flew in and
   the rebels fled, residents said.
       Doctors said several people bled to death on the way to the
   hospital which is more than one hour away from Palliyagodella.
       The village of 300 families was also attacked in September
   last year when 26 people were killed. It is close to the jungles
   of the Trincomalee district from where the Tigers operate.
       "The terrorists were able to go around killing people for two
   hours before anyone came," said local council member Shahul Ansar.
       "The action taken by the government to protect the village has
   been very poor. We have asked for more soldiers several times," he
   said. "Unless we are protected, we won't be able to live in
   Polonnaruwa anymore."
    REUTER MDS MVB GD




   UPn  10/16 0926  SRILANKA-TAMIL

      COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (UPI) -- The Sri Lanka government Friday
   appointed a retired naval officer to investigate a Tamil
   separatist guerrilla attack that left 180 villagers dead Thursday.
      The attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
   occurred in a cluster of four mainly Muslim villages 135 miles
   north of Colombo.
      A communique from the Secretary of Defense, Gen. Cyril
   Ranatunga, said Adm. Asoka Silva, a retired naval commander, had
   been appointed to report on the attack.
      His brief was to report on the circumstances leading up to the
   attack, the number of people killed and whether adequate security
   had been provided.
      The communique said the incident occured about 4:45 a.m.
   Thursday in the villages of Agbopura, Ahamedpura and
   Palliyagodella in the western bank of Mahaweli in the Polonnaruwa
   district.
      The death toll in the massacre rose to 180 today as police and
   security forces stepped up their searches for more victims.
      Meanwhile, at Andankulam in the northwestern Mannar district,
   separatist guerrillas killed five soldiers, a senior military
   official said Friday.
      The incident occurred Thursday when guerrillas attacked the
   forward defense lines, he said.





   RTw  10/16 0136  TAMIL REBELS BUTCHER 164 PEOPLE IN WORST ATTACK

       By Feizal Samath

      COLOMBO, Oct 16, Reuter - Sri Lankan Tamil rebels butchered at
   least 164 people, most while they were sleeping, in the worst orgy
   of killing in their nine-year campaign for self-rule, officials
   said on Friday.
       Residents said the toll had already risen to 183 as more
   victims died in hospital.
       The rebels stormed a cluster of four mainly-Moslem villages in
   the north-central district of Polonnaruwa before dawn on Thursday
   and systematically hacked and shot their victims, they said.
       "On hearing the sounds, many of us ran into the mosque for
   safety, " said one survivor from Palliyagodella village, which
   suffered the heaviest casualties.
       "But the attackers, dressed in army-type uniforms, followed
   those into the mosque and killed them with hand grenades and
   automatic rifles," K.M. Mohideen said.
       At least 145 mainly Moslem civilians, 11 policemen and eight
   soldiers were killed in the attacks. Women and children, including
   many infants, were among the dead.
       Mohideen said the rebels surrounded his village and opened
   fire from all sides.
       "Villagers started running here and there. Tigers, mainly
   teenagers and including girls, fired at all those who were
   running," he told a reporter from the Island newspaper.
       The reporter described the scene at the village as a "ghastly
   sight with dead bodies scattered all over and surviving men, women
   and children weeping profusely over their dead."
       A military spokesman in Colombo said it was the biggest single
   attack since 1983 when the rebels stepped up their campaign for a
   separate state in the north and the east for minority Tamils.
       He said the death toll could increase. The Heath Ministry in
   Colombo said 120 injured were in hospital.
       About 150 members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the
   most powerful rebel group, attacked the villages near the border
   of Trincomalee district.
       Military officials said helicoptors and fighter planes killed
   at least 10 rebels as they retreated from the villages.
       "It was senseless murder, bloody butchery," said a local
   politician.
       Moslem leaders were outraged. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, a
   leading political party, denounced the attack and said it was
   reconsidering the support it was now giving to the government.
       Another Moslem leader, M.M. Zuhair, said Moslems were saddened
   by the inability of the government to trust them by giving them
   arms to protect themselves.
       The government has restricted the number of firearms given to
   Moslem civilian home guards, who protect their villages from rebel
   attack, because of past reprisal killings carried out by Moslem
   villagers after rebel raids.
       Some Moslem officials rushed to Polonnaruwa on Thursday to try
   to prevent any backlash.
       Asia Watch, a U.S.-based human rights group, called the attack
   a "blatant violation of humanitarian law." In a statement given to
   Reuters, the group condemned the massacre but urged Sri Lankan
   troops and Moslem groups not to respond in kind.
       Harry Gunatillake, a retired air force commander, said part of
   the reason for repeated rebel attacks on Moslem villages was a
   recent call by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress for a Moslem army
   battalion.
       "The Muslim Congress leader Mohamed Ashraff wants a Moslem
   battalion in the army and is reportedly seeking support from
   Middle East countries for this," said Gunatillake, now a
   commentator on defence matters.
       "This has antagonised the Tigers and they are going after
   Moslem civilians."
       The congress has denied seeking external support.
       Moslems comprise Sri Lanka's third largest community after the
   Sinhalese and the Tamils. A few Sinhalese lived at Agbopura, one
   of the four villages raided. The other two were Ahmedpura and
   Pamburuwa.
       The Tigers want Moslems and the Sinhalese living in the north
   and the east to support their demand for a separate state or to
   leave the area.
       More than 25,000 people have died in the rebel campaign since
   1983. This year, the army has lost 800 men, mostly in the east
   from rebel ambushes and landmines.
       The Tigers' biggest previous attack was in north-central
   Anuradhapura in May 1985 when they shot dead 150 Sinhalese
   Buddhists, some of them pilgrims praying at a temple.
       In other attacks, 140 Moslems were killed at Kattankudy in
   eastern Batticaloa district in August 1990 and one week later, 122
   Moslems were killed at Eravur in the same district.
    REUTER FS JXK MS


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