MaRa fearing elections defeat at Badulla appoints 2 more deputy Ministers like fish Mudalali distributing fish to vendors

(Lanka-e-News- 22.Aug.2014, 8.30PM) Medamulana MaRa who is gripped with the fear psychosis that he is going to lose at the forthcoming provincial council elections in the Badulla district has hurriedly appointed two Tamil MPs , P. Digambaran and Prabha Ganeshan as deputy Ministers . They were sworn in yesterday noon before MaRa . 

Since of late rumors were afloat that Digambaran was going to somersault back to the opposition .It is no secret that Digambaran and Prabha Ganeshan were two most opportunistic politicos who displayed signs of rabies , and therefore scratching all over with an uncontrollable shameless itch at the disgraceful places like rabid dogs, but unlike the latter running away from water, they on the other hand were thirsting for promotions . It is noteworthy these two politicos contested as opposition candidates, but after being elected pole vaulted most shamelessly and sordidly to MaRa’s camp.

Now, MaRa who has a better idea about rabies of his politicos, having been himself one such politico has therefore the cure too – giving them promotions in utter disregard of the interests of the people and country . Digambaran has been appointed as Deputy Minister of social integration while Prabha Ganeshan as deputy Minister of telecommunication and information technology .

Medamulana MaRa ‘s eagerness to promote these two political scoundrels and win elections at any cost has outrun his sureness so much so that he had forgotten decorum and official dress code that usually should be followed by a President of a country when such Ministerial appointments are being given: MaRa had appeared in a casual shirt (with a checked design) and distributed the portfolios resembling a Fish Mudalali of the Kollupitiya fish market distributing fish to vendors after collecting payment .

At least the fish vendors think of their customers when their Mudalali distributes fish , and ensure they are not rotten, but , these somersaulting opportunistic political scoundrels are worse , they don’t care even if it is excreta that is being handed over to them as portfolios by their ‘Mudalali,’ as long as in it them are contained filthy pelf , power and position contributing to their self seeking political opportunism even at the expense of the people and country.

It is a universal truth that haste makes waste. It is very unfortunate that MaRa had not even had the time to think let alone act following the wisdom spelled out in this maxim because of his inordinate obsession with power and overriding selfish ambitions.

Why does Gota visit Ceylon Steel Corporation twice a week?

 Friday, 22 August 2014 

Defence ministry secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, despite his busy workload, pays at least two visits a week to the CHICO, Ceylon Steel Corporation at Oruwala, and this has become quite puzzling for its employees. Some of them wonder as to whether he is paying the visits to personally ensure that personnel of Rakna Lanka security service, owned by him, do their security job at the Corporation properly.

Nandana Lokuwithana, who lives in Dubai, is the owner of the Corporation, and is a very close friend of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. Therefore, the defence secretary is paying the visits in order to assist his friend, say executive officers of the institution. However, its director board says something entirely different – that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has bought the Corporation to the name of Nandana Lokuwithana.

Another place the defence ministry secretary frequently visits amidst his busy schedule is Lanka Hospitals Corporation (formerly Apollo Hospital). He has indirectly admitted that he owns a majority share of the hospital. With regard to Ceylon Steel Corporation too, he will soon admit that it is owned by him. Patriotic Sri Lankans should be proud of the progress achieved by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who was only a computer data entry operator in the US 10 years ago.

Recently, Nandana Lokuwithana bought Dubai Marriot Hotel for 300 million US dollars. On the day of the signing of the purchasing agreement, he was flanked by former Sri Lankan ambassador in the US Jaliya Wickramasuriya, who is presently the defence ministry consultant on procurements, after Canada rejected his appointment as the Sri Lankan ambassador due to his being accused of defrauding Rs. 45 million while in the diplomatic service.

Thirty Sri Lankan journalists were taken to Dubai on a tour of the Marriot Hotel bought by Lokuwithana. Last weekend national newspapers carried pages of descriptions about the hotel and its owner. He has generously spent money from his own pocket but owned by some other person for the visiting journalists to go shopping, in addition to the other facilities they were provided, say the journalists who made the tour.

These journalists have inquired from a sculptor who was making a statue at a secret location at this hotel as to who the statue was depicting. The only reply they got was that it was in tribute to a Tamil man who still lives in Sri Lanka.

Insufficient water at Yala wildlife 

By Risidra Mendis-August 22, 2014 

Environmentalists complain that Wildlife officials are not providing enough water, during the drought season, for the animals at the Yala National Park.
Despite the water bowsers and two motors operated by solar power, to pump water to the dried up water holes at the National Park, animals can still be seen travelling long distances in search of water.
While Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC) Director General H.D.Ratnayake says the solar powered motors, costing around one million rupees each, provides enough water for the animals at the Yala National Park, Zoologist Dilan Peiris says dried up water holes can be seen inside the park.
 

"According to wildlife management, animals should not be given food and water during the drought season. In Wildlife Management there is something called 'Survival of the fittest' which means that during the drought season the weak, sick and old animals will die and the strong ones will remain to carry forward the next generation of healthy animals," Ratnayake explained. He added, despite this belief of the 'Survival of the Fittest' the DWLC provides water for the animals at the National Park.
 

"The solar powered motors pump water through pipes that are four inches wide. The pumped water is sent about two to three kilometres inside the park to fill up the dried up water holes. Water is pumped from the Menik Ganga. The drought season is from August to September and water is provided by the DWLC during this time. However, the DWLC cannot provide as much water as the rains would give the animals," Ratnayake said.
 

Meanwhile, Peiris said three water holes are filled up by the DWLC, but that since they are filled only a few times a day, the water is not sufficient for the animals. "DWLC officials should check on the water holes regularly and fill them up when they are dry. Some of the water holes in the park are full of mud. DWLC officials need to dig these holes and remove the mud before they are filled with water during the drought season," Peiris said.

Organization Is The Weapon Of The Oppressed

Ferguson, Mobilization, and Organizing the Resistance!

| by Ajamu Nangwaya

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

( August 22, 2014, Missouri, Sri Lanka Guardian) The rebellion in Ferguson, Missouri, against the killing of unarmed Afrikan American teenager Michael Brown has inspired me to reflect on the question of the organizing model versus mobilizing or mobilization model in the struggle for Afrikan liberation in North America as well as the broader humanistic fight for liberation from various forms of oppression. Organizing the oppressed for emancipation is the preferred approach to engaging them in the fight for their liberation as opposed to merely mobilizing them.

Organization is the Weapon of the Oppressed by Thavam

Syrian civil war death toll rises to more than 191,300, according to UN

Human rights office says figure includes additional killings from earlier periods as well as deaths since last report in July 2013

A Syrian man cries as he sits oamong the rubble of a building following a reported barrel-bomb attack by Assad forces in Aleppo earlier this month Photograph: Baraa Al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images

Friday 22 August 2014

The death toll from Syria's civil war has risen to more than 191,300 people, the United Nations has said.

The figures for March 2011 to April 2014 are the first to issued by the UN's human rights office since July 2013, when it documented more than 100,000 killed.

The UN's top human rights official, Navi Pillay, who oversees the Geneva-based office, said the figures are so much higher because they include additional killings from earlier periods, as well as deaths since the last report. The exact figure of confirmed deaths is 191,369, Pillay said.

"As the report explains, tragically it is probably an underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first three years of this murderous conflict," she said.

Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, criticised what she described as the world's "paralysis" over the fighting in Syria, which "has dropped off the international radar" in the face of so many other armed conflicts.

In January, her office said it had stopped updating the death toll, blaming a lack of access in Syria and its inability to verify source material. It was unclear why it has released new figures now.

The UN also would not endorse anyone else's count, including the widely quoted figures from the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has closely counted the deaths since Syria's crisis began in March 2011. On Thursday, the observatory said the number of deaths has reached 180,000.

All the Queen's Men

Why can't British intelligence prevent men like James Foley's killer from fighting in Iraq -- or coming home?

• BY ALEX MASSIE-AUGUST 21, 2014

He is "Jailer John" to his prisoners but "Jihadi John" to London'stabloid newspapers, and right now, he might just be the most wanted man in the world. "He" is the jihadist seen beheading the captured American journalist James Foley in Syria. He is British. He is our problem. Worse still, he is not alone.
All the Queen's Men by Thavam

With thousands now dead, Ukraine refugees say aid is welcome but peace is better

People who have fled fighting in eastern Ukraine find temporary accommodations at a summer camp for children in the Stavropol region of southern Russia. (Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)

By Michael Birnbaum 




August 22 at 7:00 AM

SHCHASTYA, Ukraine – Zhanna Sologub doesn’t know if the rocket that struck the courtyard of her house this month was fired by pro-Russian rebels or Ukrainian government forces.

The first trucks in a Russian aid convoy crossed into eastern Ukraine on Friday after more than a week's delay amid suspicions the mission was being used as a cover for an invasion by Moscow. (AP)
With Thousands Now Dead, Ukraine Refugees Say Aid is Welcome but Peace is Better by Thavam

A Symptom of a Greater Sickness: How Ferguson’s Roots Run From Our Schools To The Supreme Court

Virally Suppressed – Muckraking For The Modern World

BY VIRALLY SUPPRESSED on AUGUST 18, 2014 • ( 1 )

There is nothing that I can say about the shooting of Michael Brown that hasn’t been said before by people whose experience affords them a perspective and an authenticity that I lack for the simple reason that I am white. No matter how deeply and ardently I want to empathize with the plight of black and latino and arab Americans who are racially profiled and harassed, I will always fail because I can never know what it’s like not to live with white privilege. 

A Symptom of a Greater Sickness How Ferguson’s Roots Run From Our Schools to the Supreme Court by Thavam

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908.

Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries.

The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo.

Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.

What the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. It's a shocking, astonishing story. In a way, it's a horrifying prelude in European history to the Holocaust.

Between 1870 and 1900 the Congo was pillaged - it was valuable as a source of rubber. King Leopold created his own colony in the Congo over which he ruled unchecked.

Peter Bate's film is a marvelously made reconstruction of those days - it features footage of Congolese villages and explains with actors exactly what happened.

It's really a memorable film - the painfulness of what is described is counterbalanced by the great skill in the storytelling.

Watch the full documentary now

Arun Jaitley stirs anger by making light of Delhi rape case

Finance and Defence Minister Arun Jaitley speaks during a news conference in Srinagar June 15, 2014.

NEW DELHI Fri Aug 22, 2014

(Reuters) - Finance Minister Arun Jaitley faced criticism on Friday for making light of the gang rape of a Delhi woman in 2012 and her subsequent death by saying it was a small incident that had cost India billions of dollars in tourism.

Jaitley, who is also defence minister and a key lieutenant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, denied he was trying to lessen the magnitude of the crime which shook the country and turned the spotlight on women's safety.

"I am sensitive to these issues myself, no question of trivialising any incident," he said after his comments sparked outrage including from the victim's mother, who said politicians had a tendency to forget.

Five men and a teenager lured the 23-year-old physiotherapist and a male friend into an unlicensed bus and repeatedly raped and tortured her. She later died of her injuries, provoking an outpouring of anger and soul-searching about the place of women in Indian society.

Four men have been sentenced to death while a fifth suspect committed suicide. The teenager was remanded to a judicial reform centre.

While laws relating to assault on women have since been toughened, the crime also exposed social attitudes in a country where the victim has often ended up being found responsible.

Jaitley, addressing a conference of state tourism ministers, said improving law and order was necessary to help bring visitors to India.

"One small incident of rape in Delhi advertised world over is enough to cost us billions of dollars in terms of global tourism," he said.

The assault and several similar attacks in Delhi and around the country have helped reinforce the image of India as unsafe for women visitors.

About 50 members of the youth wing of the main opposition Congress shouted slogans against Jaitley outside the office of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

The victim's mother said the government minister's remarks had hurt her greatly.

"When they needed votes, they would take my daughter's name and that such a big incident had happened. But once they got into power, they call it a small thing."

(Reporting by Sanjeev Miglani and Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by Nick Macfie)

Indians keep faith with Modi, best hope for economy - poll

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves as he leaves after the commissioning ceremony of warship, INS Kolkata at a naval base in Mumbai August 16, 2014.

NEW DELHI Fri Aug 22, 2014

(Reuters) - More than 70 percent of Indians are satisfied with the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since he took office nearly three months ago, an opinion poll showed, seeing in him the best hope to put the economy back on track.

The 'Mood of the Nation Poll' by India Today-Hansa Research stands out in contrast with the disappointment that top political economists, including those who advised the Modi campaign, have voiced over his failure to announce big bang reforms.

The poll of 12,430 people conducted across India found that support for Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party had increased since it won the biggest election mandate in three decades.

The vote share of the BJP and its allies would jump to 40 percent from 31 percent if a fresh election were held now, the survey showed, in a break from tradition in India's volatile politics where discontent with incumbent governments quickly sets in, especially when expectations are high.

After assuming power, Modi has repeatedly vowed to fire up the bureaucracy by cutting red tape and curbing corruption, as his government attempts to revive Asia's third-largest economy from its longest phase of sub-par growth in decades.

While some visible signs of recovery have emerged, Modi has not announced any sweeping market reforms, with critics saying he has scored high on oratory but low on delivery of his election campaign promises.

But 65 percent of those surveyed believed Modi will put the economy back on track in six months and that his party was the best bet for development.

"As the 100-day mark of the government draws near, the nation thinks that Narendra Modi is keeping his word, and would vote in a saffron-led government with even more lawmakers than it did during the May elections," Mail Today, a group newspaper, said on the findings of the survey.

LESS DIVISIVE

Modi has also turned out be a far less divisive figure than his political rivals had warned and hardline elements on the Hindu right had been firmly kept in check, according to the poll.

The BJP strongman has been dogged for years by allegations that he didn't do enough to protect minority Muslims when Hindu mobs went on a rampage in 2002 in Gujarat that he governed after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was set on fire.

Modi has denied the allegations and a Supreme Court-ordered investigation absolved him of any responsibility for the violence in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed.

Even among Muslims, Modi's standing had improved with only 9 percent seeing him as representing Hindu interests, down from 22 percent in January, the poll said.

It said the survey was carried out in 108 seats out of the 543 at stake in the Lok Sabha and that interviews were conducted face-to-face.

But polls in India have a mixed record with many often getting election results in the world's biggest democracy wrong. An exit poll for the May elections conducted by the same research organisation, Hansa, in collaboration with news channel NDTV, under-estimated the scale of the BJP victory.

(Reporting by Aditya Kalra; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

'Today is a miraculous day' says Ebola surviving doctor

THURSDAY 21 AUGUST 2014
Two US aid workers beat Ebola thanks to an experimental drug, giving renewed hope in the fight to contain the outbreak behind more than 1,400 deaths in Africa.

The recovery of Dr Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol was announced by the missionary group SIM USA, which jointly ran the project in Liberia where they had been working to tackle the Ebola outbreak before catching the disease themselves.

Dr Bradley told reporters: "I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life".

He and Ms Writebol returned to the US on 5 August and doctors say they will make a full recovery.

Both were treated with ZMapp, a drug that has only been used on a handful of patients in the current West African outbreak.

Read more: Deadly spread of ebola - clickable map

The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that 2,473 people had been infected and 1,350 have died since the outbreak was identified in south eastern Guinea in March.

Travel ban

No cases of the disease have so far been confirmed outside Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

On Thursday South Africa announced that due to fears of the spread of the virus it would ban all travellers from Guinea, Libera and Sierra Leone from entering the country, apart from its own nationals who will be screened more thoroughly.

Travellers from Nigeria, where the outbreak has been much smaller, will be allowed entry.

ஐ.நா விசாரணைகளை பலவீனப்படுத்த அரசாங்கம் முயற்சி – பாக்கியசோதி சரவணமுத்து:-

Global Tamil News

21 ஆகஸ்ட் 2014

ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் அமைப்பின் விசாரணை பலவீனப்படுத்த அரசாங்கம் முயற்சித்து வருவதாக மாற்றுக் கொள்கைகளுக்கான கேந்திர மத்திய நிலையத்தின் நிறைவேற்றுப் பணிப்பாளர் கலாநிதி பாக்கியசோதி சரவணமுத்து தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் மனித உரிமைப் பேரவையினால் இலங்கை யுத்தக் குற்றச் செயல்கள் தொடர்பில் விசாரணை நடத்தப்பட்டு வருகின்றது.

ஐக்கிய விசாரணைகள் குழுவிற்கு இலங்கைக்கு விஜயம் செய்ய வீசா மறுப்பதன் மூலம் ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ, விசாரணைகளை பலவீனப்படுத்த முயற்சிப்பதாக பாக்கியசோதி சரவணமுத்து சுட்டிக்காட்டியுள்ளார்.

விசாரணைகளை வெற்றிகரமாக முன்னெடுக்க முடியும் என அவர் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.

பெரும் எண்ணிக்கையிலான சாட்சியங்கள் நாட்டுக்கு வெளியே பெற்றுக்கொள்ளக் கூடிய சாத்தியங்கள் காணப்படுவதாக தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.

விசாரணைகளின் நம்பகத்தன்மை குறித்து கேள்வி எழுப்பும் நோக்கிலேயே இவ்வாறு விசாரணைக் குழுவினை நாட்டுக்குள் பிரவேசிக்க அனுமதிப்பதில்லை என அறிவித்துள்ளார்.

அனைவரும் பார்க்கவும் சிரிக்க 

வேண்டாம்

Post by Rishad Mohamed.

Satellite images show that the High Security Zone is not being used as intended

21/08/2014

Last year we ran a campaign around the Government of Sri Lanka's seizure of land belonging to Tamil families forced from their homes by the civil war. Over 7,000 acres of land - potentially up to $2 billion worth at current prices - was seized in the Northern and Eastern provinces using land acquisition notices which gave little justification for the seizures. The vast majority of this land, 6,381 acres of it, is contained within the Valikamam High Security Zone in the northern Jaffna peninsula.

Over 2,000 displaced people complained through the Sri Lankan courts but their cases are yet to be heard. They continue to be denied access to their land - indeed no one can enter the ring of checkpoints surrounding the zone without the army's permission. Meanwhile, research continued to cast doubt on the validity of the Sri Lankan Government's seizure. In particular, while the Government claims it needed the land for a "public purpose" all the evidence appeared to point to the land being put to commercial use. The Government openly touted a hotel they opened on the land, while local reports suggested that a yogurt factory had been built and that the abandoned cement factory was to be brought back into use. All of these ventures, built on judicially stolen land, were to be run by and for the army.

Questions were also asked as to what possible public purpose could require such a large amount of land. Even with the Sri Lankan Government's incredibly high level of militarisation in the north of the country it seemed inconceivable that they would need a base of this size. Many thousands of Tamil families were seemingly being kept from their homes just so the Sri Lankan Army could have a few extra thousand acres to play with.

It was for this reason that we asked the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of  Science to acquire and analyse high resolution satellite images of the Valikamam High Security Zone to determine precisely what use the land was being put to. You can access their report here and the map below summarises their main findings.

Stolen land

The analysis found that that the majority of the land does not seem to be used for public facilities, with much of it devoted to farming or commercial use. They generously estimated that 7.77 square kilometres (around 30% of the total 25.8 square kilometre site) was being put to "institutional use" and therefore could potentially have some sort of public purpose. The remaining area, covering 18 square kilometres and the former homes of thousands of displaced people, would thus appear to have simply been stolen for private gain.

Figure 11 from the report. The High Security Zone with areas put to a potentially institutional use outlined in green

Commercial use

Other uses the land had been put to seemed to be commercial in nature with much of the land seemingly used for farming. In addition, there were indications of a number of new building developments being completed or underway:

• Around 2,150 new buildings were built across 6.5 square kilometres in the western portion of the zone up to and obscuring the zone's border. These buildings were seemingly small houses (with an average size of around 35-81 square meters) and don't seem to be part of a military base.
• New buildings associated with the Thalsevana holiday resort are visible, as are a number of developments around the site.
• Three other new developments, seemingly commercial (or at least non-institutional), are visible. They are pictured below. One appears to be associated with the redevelopment of the Keerimalai temple, while the other two - one in a quarry - are of unknown purpose.
• Many of the original houses in the High Security Zone have fallen into disrepair or been reclaimed by the vegetation. However, due to the significant number of new buildings being built in the western part of the zone, the total number of buildings has gone up from 3,200 to around 4,700 - the vast majority of them (76%) seemingly non-institutional in nature.

Three new seemingly commercial developments, the middle one appears to be associated with Keerimalai temple

Militarisation: but still no excuse for a base of this size

The evidence would also seem to suggest that the Sri Lankan army’s troops are far more geographically dispersed across the Northern Province than the Sri Lankan Government have been leading the wider world to believe. Contrary to the line that troops are increasingly being moved out of the civilian areas and consolidated into the HSZ, the images are consistent with evidence elsewhere that the army continues to have a pervasive presence in civilian life in the north.

Even if we take the government’s claim that there are only 13,200 soldiers in the Northern Province at face value - and civil society sources have pointed out that the figure is in reality probably far higher – the images appear to show that there is simply not the housing capacity within the HSZ to accommodate this number, thereby corroborating previous arguments that a base of this size cannot be justified.

Although 374 new institutional buildings have been constructed, 310 have been destroyed. And while most of the buildings built have been larger than the ones they have replaced, very few look like barracks or indeed residential buildings of any sort. With a total number of buildings in institutional areas of 1137 it appears the total residential capacity of the Valikamam High Security Zone as a military base is in the low thousands at most.

Even if we were to take the generous position of assuming that every structure within the High Security Zone is used to house soldiers there are only 4,700 buildings in total and most are small houses of between 30 and 80 square meters. It seems unlikely that the total residential capacity of the area is close to 10,000 - let alone in excess of it.

It would therefore appear that the Sri Lankan Army has at least several thousand troops, and in all probability tens of thousands of troops, deployed in the Northern Province but based outside of the HSZ. Indeed it would appear that much of the Sri Lankan Army’s military presence in the Northern Province is based outside of the HSZ. This would explain why the Sri Lankan Army has been simultaneously attempting to formalise its occupation of 18 other plots of land within the Northern Province.

This geographic spread suggests a desire for the Sri Lankan Army’s militarisation of the Northern Province to be visible to the local population, and not hidden away within the High Security Zone. It suggests that the Army is still keen to ensure that it's military are an obvious and active presence within the day to day life of Sri Lanka's northern Tamils across the Northern Province - a form of military occupation which, combined as it is with systemic human rights abuses, we believe constitutes an ongoing crime against humanity.

Take action

Because of the lack of information many more people may well not be aware that the Government is plotting to take their land. Many people who left Sri Lanka still own land there, and that too could well be seized by the Government without their knowledge. For this reason we have created this map, to share information about the land which is to be seized:

• If you own land in the north of Sri Lanka, or know anybody that does, please take a moment to look at this map and forward it on, the more people who are aware of what is taking place the better.
• If you think you might be affected by any of these land seizures, or if you have any more precise information about the location of the land, photographs of the land, or who might own it then please get in touch.
• More land notices are being issued all the time and we will update the map as we get them. If you know of any more land seizures please do get in touch and pass on the details. If you can send us a copy of the notice (in any language) so much the better.

Note: When using the map please be aware that the location of the items on the map are approximate in many instances. We have indicated if and how accurate we believe the location to be, but please use the land notice itself only to determine the true location of any piece of land.

The map can be accessed here, and is embedded below. Please share the link far and wide.

Click here to see AAAS' full report