Tamils resisting demographic genocide at North-East border, stricken by poverty
[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 May 2014, 23:10 GMT]The Sri Lankan State is accelerating Sinhala colonization with the aim of permanently wedging the demographic contiguity of the northern and eastern provinces at Kokkuth-thoduvaay, a strategic village situated in Mullaiththeevu district. “Nobody has listened to our repeated pleas for freeing our lands. We went from divisional offices to SL president placing our appeals. We have also done our maximum in mobilising against the demographic genocide,” says civic member K. Sivalokeswaran from Kokkuth-thoduvaay North. Now, the Eezham Tamils, who have resettled in the village are stricken by poverty, similar to what the world has witnessed in Somalia, he says. All the agricultural lands owned by Tamils have been appropriated. The residential areas where Tamils managed to resettle are also being appropriated by Colombo, he says.
Mr Sivalokeswaran is the only elected Tamil member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) at the civic body of Seru-nuwara of the Trincomalee district in the Eastern Province. He hails from Kokkuth-thoduvaay in the Northern Province. Sivlokeswaran narrated the situation Sinhala colonisation and demographic-genocide taking place at the strategic link. 