about to leave their flat to see the doctor.
and Stuart Jones from New Scotland Yard. After she identified herselt. two main clother policemen wanted to interAt this stage Bala VICW 1ICL. ashether Rajesh had com asked the CUILL mitted any offence. They said 'no, but since she had organised a picket outside the Ceylon Tea Centre last Saturday, we want to have a friendly chat.
Rajesh WaS worried that her husband may get in volved an worse with the po asked the children to the doctor and sue waltee perine to Tine ou what the men from Scotland Yard wanted. They said the come to find out whethe Rajesh was going to organis mOrC DICKCIS tne mend assess had to apocate When Rajesh told them that they she had thought abou further pickets they began to ask a series of LeSLIOT -aDOU Nirmala Nithiyananthan she was concerned about Nir Nithiyananthan is a well known Tamil writer an a oramaust wio was arreste by the Sri Lankan Government along with her husband number Catholic Priests and Students. Sne 1s now being new in an Arm There are no female amidst soldiers For friends. To date sue nas not been charcee wit any offence and she is being held the Prevention of Terrorism Ac which permits the Sri Lanka tam any person, without trial, for a period of 18 months There has been a wave of mass protests agains discriminate arrests by the Sr ON 20 JANUARY, at or about 4.45pm Rajesh, her husband Bala and their three children were As they opened the door, two strange men approached and asked who Sister Rajesh was and then identified themselves as George Wild becoming more and mor repressive. That is why Rajesh a number of Ceylones and British women organised a picker ourside une ceylon Tea Centre in Piccadily Circus on 15 January.
that Nirmala she felt that she should protest detendeals LORE WITHOUT police wanted to know much The friendly chat turn nterrog: does she time to write when she is doing a full time job and has to look after children?
Who is this man who has beer out of India recentl supported the pickett Who came o ere. ere In the meantime Bala went to the doctor and explained to receptionis that something had one up and n - could no keep - th 21 0 returned home as quickly as he could. This took him about 20 minutes and the cops were still at it Bala accused them of collecting information for the Sri Fourth International in Britain.
Brown MP on building a mass Labour Party, and an interview with Britain's best political cartoonist Steve Bell.
surface 2 a piper ana. Brain nor PO Box 50 London N/ 2XP Lankan government outne denied it and left soon after number (230 1212 Extension 5029). Un the same day polic have visited several other addresses of Ceylonese activists.
Although the police denied that they supplied in formation to the Sri Lankar government this is difficult to believe because a number students had been arrested b the Sri Lankan police on ar rival trom Britain, and the nave nad up to date mug snots of persons they had arrested.
The Sri Lankan government does have resources Iran operation in Britain. Also th SLILL spethe Scotland Yard is t viously maintaining file this Ceylonese country and most likely pro Vous normanon to mer government. so this raises mold the into tax pare of which are HONCY DC USCO LO SUDDOrE THO acLIvIlIes in Sri bankar government Lanka? should British police maintain on peopl who are pro testing human righ violations in Sri Lanka? And what guarantee is miere m: these files contain accurate in formation?
Latest issue includes Ernest Mandel on the world monetary situation, John Ross on the legends of King Arthur, Oliver MacDonald on Poland, Ron Harry Wicks on the birth of British Trotskyism Socialist Challenge 2 February 1983
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