Colombo builds Sinhala cantonment in Maathakal

 

[TamilNet, Monday, 09 April 2012, 05:15 GMT]
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Genocidal Sri Lanka, which poses Thiruvadi-nilai area of Maathakal, the north-western tip of the Jaffna Peninsula as a ‘Sacred Zone’ of the Sinhala-Buddhists, is now engaged in constructing permanent quarters for the occupying Sri Lanka Navy in the lands of uprooted Tamils who are denied access to their land that had gone under SL military declared High Security Zone 20 years back, news sources in Jaffna said. The families of SL Navy personnel will be provided these quarters, establishing a permanent Sinhala military colony 200 meters from Thiruvadi-nilai in the close vicinity of the Buddhist Stupa erected in 2009. The way the structural genocide is escalating, especially after the Geneva resolution, has made many Eezham Tamils to lose faith in the intentions of the USA and India that have never done anything to check the post-war crimes of the Sri Lankan state. 

The state oppression has become heavier and Colombo is in a hurry to achieve irreversible results of structural genocide in recent weeks. 

The public anger more and more turns towards the failing powers, political observers in Jaffna said. 

Some of the permanent buildings of the Sinhala cantonment in Maathakal

Buddhist Stupa at Thiruvadinilai

Thiruvadinilai, Sangamitha statue

The construction of Sinhala cantonment at Maathakal has been going on for 8 months without the knowledge of the public. Last year, a new naval base was established in the area. 

This year, on 06th February, the SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa secretly inaugurated a controversial solar-panel and windmills farm in the lands appropriated from the uprooted Tamils of the coastal stretch between Thiruvadi-nilai and KKS, leasing the lands for 20 years to a Malaysian corporate of Chinese connections. 

The entire coastal stretch, between Punnaalai and Maathakal, is kept occupied by the Sri Lankan military for the establishment of the ‘Sacred Zone’. 

Thiruvadi-nilai Kengkaatheavi Cooperative Society of fishermen, has complained that the fishermen who were earlier fishing in the area using the local method of ‘ka'langkaddi’ fishing, are now barred from fishing in the waters close to the ‘Sacred Zone’. The families of the fishermen are now deprived of livelihood, the fishermen society further said. 

Permanent buildings being constructed along the coastal stretch for the occupying SL military forces. Tamil fishermen are barred from fishing in the seas along the coast and the entire stretch is separated by a fence from the land, stealing and sealing off the coast from the people of the Tamil country.                
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