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king News: TNA protests against ‘new Sinhala majority settlements’
[Tuesday, 18 October 2011 15:10] Featured, NewsPTI | Oct 17, 2011, 10.23PM IS
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party TNA today staged a protest in northern Vavunya town to highlight alleged new Sinhala majority settlements being pushed by the government in the country’s northern and eastern regions.
The sit-in protest was also to bring to focus other land related issues concerning the Tamil minority community in the two areas.
The TNA alleged that the government was creating new Sinhala majority settlements in the northern and eastern regions against wishes of the Tamil community.
However, the government has denied the allegations. MK Shivajilingam, a former MP and a senior TNA member said that the protest held between 7 am to 4 pm in the northern town of Vavunya was meant to highlight land issues concerning the Tamil minority in the northern and eastern areas.
The TNA also said the new settlements are unreasonable and the war displaced civilians need to be resettled in their original lands.
The government has started a key process of direct talks with the TNA since January to find a solution to the political aspirations of the minority ethnic community after the end of a three-decade civil war in May 2009.
The former LTTE-proxy party has been demanding quick resolution of the problems facing the Tamil minority community, their resettlement and expeditious settlement of legal process against the former members of the LTTE.
The LTTE waged a bloody three-decade civil war for a separate state for the Tamils of Sri Lanka, alleging discrimination against the minority community at the hands of the majority Sinhalas.
The Lankan military crushed the rebels and ended the ethnic conflict that killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people.
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Ish (Sri Lanka)
9 hrs ago (10:53 AM)
Sri Lankan citizens can live anywhere in the country, There aren’t areas called "Tamil Areas" in Sri Lanka. TNA is spreading racism to gain some votes!
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Pillai (NZ)
10 hrs ago (09:36 AM)
“If Tamils can live in predominantly Sinhalese areas why cannot Sinhalese live in predominantly Tamil areas?” This is a condescending statement. Every square meter of land and house owned by Tamils were bought by them. Tamils never objected to Sinhalese buying land anywhere in SL. What the Tamils oppose is forced eviction of Tamils and land colonised under the patronage of GoSL. The colonists are awarded resettlement grants and protected by SL Police and Army. Any protests are ruthlessly suppressed. By the way the SL Army and Police are almost 100% Sinhalese. During the last couple of years GoSL is behaving like an occupying force. Tamils are evicted and the land decreed High Security Zones by the local army commander. Hotels are built and handed over to be run by SL Army – no questions regarding profits. The evictees are left in the lurch and suicides are common. Why do such evictions occur only in Tamil areas?
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Appuhamy (Sri Lanka) replies to Pillai
7 hrs ago (01:17 PM)
Hey Pillai, you better leave New Zealand and give your house to the Maori people, for your living in their land. Your comfortably living in NZ, in a country which evicted the indigenous people from their land, and now your coming to pontificate.
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Ravi (Sri Lanka)
12 hrs ago (07:31 AM)
FYI Colombo population (2001) Sinhalese 270,932 – 42 percent, Tamils 199,429 – 31 percent, Muslims 163,167 – 25 percent and others 13,572 – two percent, Total 647,100 – 100 percent. Even if the 31% has increased since then, the sinhalese don’t hold protests against it. And I am a sinhalese, and it does not matter if there are so many tamils in Colombo. For me, we are all Sri Lankans, entitled to live any where we chose in Sri Lanka. The TNA is a racist party, and that is where the problems lies and has been the mouth piece of the LTTE terrorists. The TNA better get used to the fact that as much as the Tamils live in Colombo, the Sinhalese are entitled to live not only in Vauvniya but in Jaffna as well. If the TNA actions leads to incite Tamils against the Sinhalese and vice versa which in turns leads to War, then that is their seeking.
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S.Karthik (Vietnam) replies to Ravi
6 hrs ago (01:38 PM)
You Know ,your colombo is running by tamil business people strategy ,you are living their shadhows
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Gokul (Australia) replies to Ravi
11 hrs ago (09:29 AM)
True, all Sri Lankans have a right to move anywhere in the country. Just as Tamils have moved to Colombo for reasons of war or work. But when this is sponsored by the state, it’s a different story. I don’t think people were paid money or given land or had any other government assistance to move to Colombo. In the case of state sponsored migration, you would expect the government to take input from the local population. Particularly when the land being allocated to new settlers may already belong to others or if there are other people who should be settled there first (ie: refugees from the area).
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Appuhamy (Sri Lanka) replies to Gokul
7 hrs ago (12:35 PM)
You better leave Australia and give your house to the Aborigines. Your definitely occupying a land which your not entitled to possess, for your residing on a land which formerly belonged to the Aborigines.
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Gokul (Australia) replies to Appuhamy
6 hrs ago (02:03 PM)
I didn’t come here with the first English settlers who took over the land, I came two centuries later. So your point doesn’t make any sense. Having said that, I strongly support compensation to the various Aborigines groups for the injustices they’ve faced for decades (the stolen generation etc..). I’m happy for my tax dollars to go to that, and so are increasing numbers of Australians.
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Ron (Brisbane)
13 hrs ago (06:42 AM)
Sri Lanka is ONE COUNTRY and it’s citizens can go and settle down anywhere they wish to. There are no Sinhala areas and Tamil areas. In fact, the LTTE chased away all Muslims and Sinhalese who were living in the North and the East of the country. 40% of Colombo is Tamil, mostly those who fled the LTTE and the war. If Tamils can live ANYWHERE in Sri Lanka, why not anybody else? Is there a prohibition on North Indians living in Tamil Nadu or vice versa?
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Yo (London)
16 hrs ago (03:58 AM)
It is shame that UN is watching massacre of the innocent people and now they are being displaced from there home.
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Ne Rt (Delhi)
20 hrs ago (11:58 PM)
It is difficult trust Sinhalese .. They killed innocent Hindus without any reason ..
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kamal (colombo) replies to Ne Rt
19 hrs ago (01:12 AM)
When & where? The problem is between sinhalese and tamils. not about religion.
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tharanga (london)
21 hrs ago (11:28 PM)
these sinhalese were chased away from north by LTTE many years ago. What about Tamils settled in Colombo, wattala, wellawatta? over 150,000 tamils. what about over one million tamil estate labourers in the central province. Did sinhalese protest about it. Also what TNA have to say about old buddhist tempples, sinhalese stone scripts all over north and east of country. The truth is during last few month archelogical department (together with france and england universities) found hundreds of remains of old buddhist temples in the north of sri lanka. cant find more than twenty five tamil hindu temples in north and east which are more than 100 years old. please accept that if it was not for the portugeese, dutch and english, the whole island is 100% sinhalese. like it was from 600 B.C to 1550 A.D.
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Pillai (NZ) replies to tharanga
8 hrs ago (12:08 PM)
Tharanga is charlatanistic. French and/or British Universities are not involved in any archaeological work in SL – not even any of the Libyan Universities. No one has found “hundreds of old Buddhist Temples in the north of SL”. Historians agree that pre1550 AD island (now called SL) consisted of distinct Tamil and Sinhala kingdoms – only chauvinists think otherwise. Chauvinists are almost always quite illiterate.
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