Growing protest over re-demarcation in East
By Chris Kamalendran-Sunday, January 20, 2013
The Public Administration Ministry has called for an urgent meeting with parliamentarians from the Eastern Province to resolve a fresh crisis over government plans to re-demarcate boundaries of Divisional Secretaries.
Public Administration Minister John Seneviratne said that, following complaints from political parties in the East, he had called for a meeting on Thursday to look into their grievances.
On Friday, former Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan’s �supporters protested in Batticaloa against moves to merge Tamil majority areas in Koralaipattu South and Koralai Pattu with Muslim majority Koralaipattu West.
Mr. Chandrakanthan is currently an advisor to President Mhainda Rajapaksa.�Arun Thambimuttu, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Chief Organiser for the Batticaloa District, said he had protested to the President against plans to merge Tamil majority areas with Muslim majority areas.
However, Muslim activists including those from the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress on Friday held a separate protest calling on the Government to go ahead with the re-demarcation of boundaries. The protest was held in Oddamavadi, south of Batticaloa.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) also has lodged a complaint with the Minister of Public Administration, under whose purview the De-limitation Committee works.�Similar issues have been reported from Trincomalee and Ampara.
Yesterday TNA leader R. Sampanthan met local council members of their party in Trincomalee to plan out moves to protest boundary changes. TNA politburo member K. Thurairethnasingham said his party was opposed to current re-demarcation proposals and would hand over its own proposals this month.
Charred body of a woman found.
Monday , 21 January 2013
A young woman's body was in a charred state was found yesterday morning at Mullaitheevu, Viswamadu locality.
The woman was identified as Tharmakula Singam Banusha aged 21 years a resident of Jaffna Sarvodaya road, Awarangal Puthur.
Many persons have seen the said woman roaming in this locality for some days is according to reports.
Public found her body in a decomposed state from the Palmyra trees garden located at Viswamadu, 12th lane.
Public informed the police and forces regarding the incident.
Mullaitheevu police processed investigations from the incident locality yesterday afternoon and had handed over the body for postmortem to the Kilinochchi base hospital.
