Abandoned Tamil schools acquired by occupying SL military

[TamilNet, Thursday, 18 August 2011, 17:09 GMT]


Sri Lanka military occupying the country of Eezham Tamils acquires abandoned Tamil schools for converting them into military camps. Occupying military officers are busy in recent days in collecting particulars of the abandoned schools in the Vanni districts as well as in the Vadamaraadchi, Thenmaraadchi and the islands divisions of the Jaffna district. The occupying military has ordered the northern directorate of education to submit particulars of all abandoned schools to facilitate military’s increasing demand for infrastructure facilities. Using the abandoned schools, 30 new military camps are planned in the Jaffna peninsula alone. Occupying military has a particular programme to first intensely militarise and Sinhalicise the islands off the Jaffna peninsula. It makes no secret about it to the Tamils remaining in the islands


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21 Tamil schools are not functioning in the islands off the Jaffna peninsula alone.

Occupying military has reportedly revealed to the EPDP’s paramilitary cadres that since the islands are sparsely populated, the SL Army is planning to bring its families and other Sinhalese to the islands.

The occupying Army has a particular Sinhalicisation programme for the islands since they are the closest to the coast of Tamil Nadu and are militarily important to both New Delhi and Colombo to keep Tamil Nadu under check.

A large number of schools are abandoned in the Vanni districts. They are already functioning as camps for the occupying military and its intelligence units.

Delayed resettlement, demining and refusal to appoint enough teachers are some of the reasons why the schools are abandoned.

Rather than taking efforts to reactivate the schools, genocidal Colombo is keen in converting them into permanent military camps.

The northern province education ministry has made a formal protest to Colombo’s ministry of defence to stop the process of the military acquiring the abandoned schools.

A pioneer institution of traditional education, Arya Dravida Bhasha Abhivritti Sangam, which was conducting Tamil Pundit courses for nearly a century in Jaffna city, was recently taken over by the occupying military to conduct cadet courses for the school children of Jaffna.


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‘Grease Devil’ attacks aim at frightening resettlement in Vanni

[TamilNet, Thursday, 18 August 2011, 12:59 GMT]


While attacks especially on Tamil women carried out by unidentified men in camouflage called ‘Grease Devils’ terrorise Tamil civilians in the East and the hill country, such attacks particularly aim at crippling resettlement in the Vanni districts. On Wednesday evening, three men emerging from the thickets in black dress and grease on their face chased three women of Ki’linochchi 8th milepost engaged in removing landmines. Following similar incidents and attacks on women in Vanni, people resettling in their houses and lands that are dispersed as typical to the settlement pattern of Vanni are now forced to gather into clusters. Occupying SL military’s officials now ‘advice’ resettled people in Vanni to live in clusters to avoid terrorising attacks


Attacks on resettled Tamil women were also reported from Mu’ri-ka’ndi in Ki’linochchi district. Mu’rika’ndi is a place where the occupying SL Army is building a cantonement.


On Wednesday, people living in the settlements of 8th milepost, Ma’niyan-ku’lam, Paarathipuram, Vannearik-ku’lam and Akkaraayan-ku’lam came out of their resettled houses and spent the night by staying together.

A few days ago, an official of the occupying genocidal Army warned the people of Vannearik-ku’lam in Ki’linochchi against terror attacks and ‘advised’ them not to stay in their houses in the night times if their houses are in the interior. He told them to spend their nights together in the houses near the main road.


Even in day times people are afraid to stay in their houses in the dispersed lands.

In the surroundings of the Aanai-vi’lunthaan village in Ki’linochchi, people resettled near forests are now told to come back and occupy school buildings.


The occupying Army’s presence has increased in the forests.


‘Grease Devil’ attacks are reported from the districts of Mannaar and Vavuniyaa too.

Opposition parties accuse that Colombo government is behind the terror attacks.

Occupying Army and its intelligence units are deployed to engage in the attacks to thwart resettlement of Eezham Tamils, to grab land and to design the settlement patterns according to the wishes of the occupying Army and those who grab lands, people in Vanni say.

Meanwhile, many officials of the occupying Sri Lanka Army in Vanni have large tracts of lands transferred to their names, news sources said. Some of them have acquired lands to the size of hundreds of acres the sources said.