Thursday , 07 March 2013
It is aware that the Mannar's ancient Ollanthar Fort will be taken over by military. An activity for the maintenance and the administration assignments of the said fort is processed to handover to the military was said by Vanni Region Commanding Chief General Boniface Perera.
After this fort get handed over to the military, in view of tourist attraction, a hotel would be constructed was said by him.
He further said, the military will renovate the Olanthan fort preventing from harming to the character of its ancients values.
Thursday , 07 March 2013
“We want our children and relatives. Immediately commence war crime unbiased investigation against Sri Lanka government was a claim including eleven demands consisting a supplication was forwarded to the membership countries of UN Human Rights Council including Sri lanka government.
Finding the missing persons by the families’ federation of north and east forwarded an entreaty through Vavuniya District Additional Government Agent.
The above appeal was handed over at the conclusion of protest rally conducted in Vavuniya by the relatives of missing persons yesterday.
The petition mentioned, since the initiative of ethnic conflict until now thousands of our beloved have been abducted by military, police, state intelligence personnel unit and armed masked men.
Forcibly dragged and taken while they were in homes by military, abductions in white vans while walking on roads, were the many kinds of ways, our relatives went missing.
At the final war, in front of our eyes our beloveds were separated from us and others got disappeared after surrendering to the forces.
One lack of persons and more got disappeared at the final war. We do not know about their whereabouts.
We have made many complaints to the police, human rights movements, volunteer organizations, International Red Cross Society and all the relevant movements.
We have visited the prisons and detention camps.
We have exhausted millions of rupees to the deceivers who were greedy for money that they would bring back our children ultimately we have lost our possessions.
We have lost our husbands and children and are facing a variety of torture and are subject to rape and sexual harassments.
We have lost our bread winner and are facing hardships for even for one meal.
We are doing laborer’s jobs to fulfill our children hunger.
We are with longing expectations expecting each day for our beloveds to return back, but days are moving without any use.
We the affected people together are submitting a variety of demands to the Sri Lanka government, international countries and to the countries attending the UN Human Rights Council sessions.
· Provide us to live in this country with the right to self-determination, making way for people to live with equal rights
· Government should find and handover our missing relatives. If they are detained, investigations should be expedited and released.
· Sri Lanka government should be pressurized by the world countries and UN Council.
· Military and intelligence forces observing daily with suspicion at us should get withdrawn.
· Should cease in arresting and harassing our children in the name of investigation after getting released from detention camps.
· Making no longer go missing, illegal arrests, detention must be stopped.
· Facilities for a general cemetery for the dead or facilities provided to erect memorial tombs remembering our demised beloveds.
· Relief granted to females bearing the responsibilities of families for their livelihoods.
· Western world should immediately commence the war crime impartial probe against Sri Lanka government.
· India and western world should affirm the safety, freedom and rights for us, we being the Tamil people. Finally we want back our children and our beloveds who have gone missing.
