Appoint permanent UNHRC panel - Wigneswaran to Navi Pillay

[ Tuesday, 03 September 2013, 07:53.09 AM GMT +05:30 ]

TNA Northern Provincial Council chief ministerial candidate and the former supreme court judge C.V.Wigneswaran urge UN Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay to appoint permanent UNHRC panel to monitor human rights situation of SriLanka.

During the meeting with Navi Pilly he said due to pressures government step forward to benefit Tamil nationals. Due to continue pressure from India at present government decided to hold election in the Northern Province. It’s necessary to appoint permanent UNHRC panel to monitor activities of Lankan government. At present we face major challenges such as land accusation and militarization in the Northern Province. In the parliament Sambanthan has brief on land accusation. Due to militarization people face hardships to carry out their day today activities and also people are helpless to inform about their problems. Police never take legal action against issues related with military personals. People are forced to lodge complaint in Sinhala language and police fail to take legal action on these complaints. Recently police questioned parliamentarian speak about the investigations carried out against the woman. Colombo occupies 5,000 acres of Tamil land in Trincomalee [TamilNet, Monday, 02 September 2013, 23:14 GMT] Following a recent Gazette notification by Colombo's Minister of ‘Land and Land Development’, a large area of 4,857 acres of lands are being acquired ‘for use of the government’. The area consists of private and public lands located in 8 villages. Most of the lands being seized by the occupying SL State are private lands belonging to Tamils. Several centuries old historic Aathi Koanesvaram koayil is situated at Koayiladi in Thampalakaamam village.  Lands located in Tamil villages Thampalakaamam Pattu, Puthuk-kudiyiruppu, Potkea'ni, Paddi-meadu, Koayiladi, Kugnchan-thidal, Naayamaar-thidal, Naduppa'ran-thidal, and Mu'l'liyadith-thidal have been acquired according to gazette notification.  Thampalakaamam Divisional Secretary has issued instruction to his officials to make arrangements to physically acquire those lands.  The entire land have been surveyed on the direction of the SL Surveyor General into 199 lots as per survey plan number TR/T.M.P./103 dated 19/12/2012.