SL military steps up militarisation of Batticaloa, new camp at Tsunami settlement
[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 March 2013, 07:59 GMT]The occupying Sri Lanka Army is constructing a new army camp in Ma'nmunai-North DS division of Batticaloa district, at a site where Tsunami affected people are settled. The residents of the Tsunami Housing Scheme area of Ma'nmunai North, threatened by the construction of the new military base, questioned the motive behind the establishment of a new camp, while a camp is already situated at Paalameen-madu, just one km close to the site. An SL police station, at Kokkuvil, is also in the close proximity. The sheer extensiveness and intensity of SL militarization and Sinhalicisation of the predominantly Tamil district in the East, are not even taken up for any discussion by the so-called international community that ‘hailed’ the ‘liberation’ of the East by genocidal Sri Lanka in 2007, Batticaloa Tamil activists said.
People affected by 2004 Tsunami are resettled at Naavaldi, Thiruch-chenthoor, Kalladi and Swiss-kiraamam, divided into four zones.
Despite the construction of the housing scheme and the settlement of the people, the resettled people still lack basic amenities and they encounter untold hardships in sustaining their livelihood.
In such a situation, the attempts by the occupying Sinhala military to establish a new camp inside their settlement will cause numerous inconveniences, the people complain.
In the meantime, many SL military camps and police stations that were established in the district using the houses and properties of the public, during and prior to the war, are still in operation and not returned to the owners.
While the attention on SL militarisation remains focused in North, voices against SL militarisation in the East are effectively suppressed by the paramilitary, news sources in the East commented.
Thursday , 28 March 2013
The multiplying opposes against Sri Lanka in Tamil Nadu to eradicate and to generate a change in the stance of Tamil Nadu concerning Sri Lanka, the senior minsters in the ruling sectors, will take measures very soon was said by Secretary to the Democratic Front and National Languages and Social Integration Minister Vasudeva Nanayakara.
Meanwhile intellectuals have expressed opinions that the Pothu Bala Sena movement's branch office launched by the state hierarchy and supporting them which directly against the Muslim in this country cannot be accepted.
A conference chaired by Minister Vasudeva Nanayakara at the National Languages and Social Integration Ministry to keep an end to the groups creating controversies between the ethnic groups, the Sinhala Tamil and Muslim was held.
Senior minister, Democratic Leftist front leader Vasudeva Nanayakara, Lanka Samasamajee party leader Prof.Tissa Vitharana, Communist party leader D.U.Gunasekara religious dignitaries, intellectuals and many attended this conference.
Groups and movements operating in the country cannot be prohibited. However group’s activities in the manner of originating racism in the country cannot be accepted. Hence on the objective of keeping an end to this, we decided to discuss at the conference and the resolution taken would be submitted by us at the cabinet.
Meanwhile the media organization heads of this country would be elucidated about the current situation in the country, and in the manner of educating the people of this country, a massive conference is proposed by us to hold after the end of Tamil and Sinhala New Year.
Movements operating in the country cannot be prohibited however if groups operates in the manner of creating discrimination between ethnics, we will take action against them. The oppose activities carried out against Sri Lanka in Tamil Nadu, we are scrutinizing to take sufficient measures was said by Minister Vasudeva.
Thursday , 28 March 2013
