The University Teachers for Human Rights -Jaffna - UTHR(J) - Reports, Special Reports, Bulletins & Briefings

The University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) (UTHR(J)) was formed in 1988 at the University of Jaffna, as part of the national organisation University Teachers for Human Rights. Its public activities as a constituent part of university life came to a standstill following the murder of Dr. Rajani Thiranagama,  a key founding member, on 21st September 1989. During the course of 1990 the others who identified  openly with the UTHR(J) were forced  to leave Jaffna. It continues to function as an organisation upholding the founding spirit of the UTHR(J) with it original aims:To challenge the external and internal terror engulfing the Tamil community as a whole through making the perpetrators accountable, and to create space for humanising the social & political spheres relating to the life of our community. The UTHR(J) is not at present functioning in the University of Jaffna in the manner it did in its early life for reasons well understood. The work of UTHR(J) receives support from the European Human Rights Foundation among others.

- Dr. Jeevan Hoole
 

• The Politics of Destruction and the Human Tragedy (UTHR(J) - Report No 6 - 4th February, 1991)
• THE CLASH OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE CONTINUING TRAGEDY IN THE BATTICALOA & AMPARAI DISTRICTS (UTHR(J) - Report No 7 - 8th May 1991)
• THE WAR - ONE YEAR ON (UTHR(J) - Report No 8 - 4 Nov 1991)
• THE TRAPPED PEOPLE AMONG PEACE MAKERS AND WAR MONGERS (UTHR(J) - Report No 9 - 18 February 1992 )
• War, Ideology and Politics ( UTHR(J) - Briefing No.1 - 1992 )
• RAYS OF HOPE AMIDST DEEPENING GLOOM (UTHR(J) - Report No 10 - 15th January 1993 )
• LAND, HUMAN RIGHTS & THE EASTERN PREDICAMENT (UTHR(J) - Report No 11 - 15th April 1993 )
• Children in the North-East War:1985 -1995 ( UTHR(J) - Briefing No.2 - 20th June 1995 )
• CIVILIANS & THE JAFFNA OFFENSIVE ( UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 9 - 8th November 1995 )
• THE EXODUS FROM JAFFNA ( UTHR(J) - Special Report No 6 - 6th December,1995)
• Civilians and the Armed Forces in the Batticaloa District (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 9 - Dec 1995 )
• Trincomalee District in February 1996: Focusing on the Killiveddy Massacre (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 10 - 2nd March 1996 )
• The Quest for Economic survival & Human Dignity: Batticaloa & Amparai Districts: June 1996 ( UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No.11 - 9th July 1996 )
• Jaffna: The Contest Between man & the Beast Within (UTHR(J) - Special Report 7 - 29th August 1996 )
• The Vanni: A People Crushed Between Cycles of Violence ( UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No.12 - 22nd October 1996 )
• An Appraisal of New Trends in Jaffna & Concern Over Detainees (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 13 - 27th December 1996 )
• TRINCOMALEE: STATE IDEOLOGY AND THE POLITICS OF FEAR ( UTHR(J) - Special Report No 8 - 7th March 1997 )
• JAFFNA: A VISION SKEWED ( UTHR(J) - Special Report No 9 - 7th June 1997 )
• The Vanni: Behind the war of words (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 15 - 4th November 1997 )
• Countdown in the Vanni - Looking Beyond the Tigers (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 17 - 27th May 1998 )
• THE DRIFT IN JAFFNA: THE URGENCY OF A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT & THE IMPORTANCE OF LARRY WIJERATNE'S LEGACY. (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 18 - 8th July 1998 )
• LIVING THROUGH JAFFNA'S SULTRY SUNSET (UTHR(J) - Special Report 10 - 09th April 1998 )
• A TAMIL HEROINE UNMOURNED & THE SOCIOLOGY OF OBFUSCATION (UTHR(J) - Special Report 11 - 15th September 1998 )
• Gaps in the Krishanthy Kumarasamy Case: Disappearances & Accountability (UTHR(J) - Special Report 12 - 28th April, 1999 )
• Crossing the bar into the twilight of silence - Lionair flight 602 from Jaffna (UTHR(J)- Information Bulletin No. 19, released in 1999 )
• The tragedy of Vanni civilians and total militarisation (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No. 20, released on May 19, 1999 )
• Issues Of Peace & The Primacy of the Political Thrust ( UTHR(J) - Briefing No.3 - 17th June 1999 )
• A DISTURBING DRIFT IN THE VANNI: THE LOST CIVILIAN DIMENSION (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No 21, released on 21st July 1999 )
• The Suicide Cult  (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No 22, released on 30 January 2000)
• THE SUN GOD's CHILIDREN & THE BIG LIE  (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No 23, released on 11 July, 2000)
• The Ordeal of Civilians in Thenmaratchy (UTHR(J) - Information Bulletin No 24, released on 07 September, 2000)