  INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA: Genocide '83
The features of the planners of the contingent plan
emerge from the nature of the plan... The features of the planners of the contingent plan emerge from the nature of the plan. - The planners were persons who had little regard for the opinion or the lives of the Tamil people.
- The planners were persons who were in a position to command considerable organisational resources.
- The planners were persons who were in a position to mobilise an existing strong arm net work at short notice.
- The planners were persons who were able to assure the goondas that no harm would befall them and that the army and the police would look the other way.
- The planners were persons who occupied positions of power which rendered such assurances credible.
- The planners were humans, if such they were, who were in a position to influence and direct the police and the army to look the other way and ensure that such directions were not countermanded.
- The planners were persons who were secure in the knowledge that they themselves would be safe after the event - that the thousands who implemented the plan would not and could not 'tell on them'.
- The planners were persons who were secure in the knowledge that there would be no investigation by the government - because the planners themselves were persons who were in a position to direct and influence government action.
Cabinet Minister S. Thondaman (who continued to serve in the Sri Lanka government) remarked in an interview in the Illustrated Weekly of India on 18 December 1983: ''We all know who these people are. I am not naming them right now... How can any action be taken against them? They are important people. They are part of this government, just as I am. Behind all this are our own people... We all know them.''
And Professor Wilson writing in 'Break up of Sri Lanka' quotes a letter written to him by George Immerwahr, a United Nations civil servant and a US citizen who had worked in Sri Lanka in the late 1950s. The letter dated 13 February 1985 said: " .. the most shattering report came from a friend who was a civil servant; he told me that he had helped plan the riots at the orders of his superiors. When I heard him say this, I was so shocked I told him I simply couldn't believe him, but he insisted he was telling the truth, and in fact he justified the Government's decision to stage the riots. When I heard this, I telephoned an official in our own State Department, and while he declined to discuss the matter, I got the impression that he already knew from our embassy in Colombo what I was telling him."
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