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SLA constructs Maximum HSZ in Jaffna

by admin on Feb.06, 2010, under Sri Lanka

SLA constructs Maximum HSZ in Jaffna

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has begun constructing an earthen dam in an area encompassing Kaangeasanthu’rai and Keerimalai in Valikaamam North as part of the new Maximum High Security Zone (MHSZ) Wednesday, sources in Jaffna said. 20 Village Officer (VO) divisions of the 27 VO divisions occupied as SLA High Security Zone (HSZ) in Valikaamam North are to be turned into the new MHSZ, the sources added.

Basil Rajapakse, the brother and Senior Advisor of President Mahinda Rajapakse, prior to the presidential election, had promised the residents evicted by SLA in Valikaamam North that they will be permitted to resettle in their houses, Minister Douglas Devananda too had made similar promises………..   http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_02_05_003.html

Tamil Journalists express concern on post election violence

North Sri Lanka Journalists Association (NSLJA) expresses is grave concern on increasing violence against media and opposition political activists in the election post period. We earnestly hope that normalcy will return to whole country and rule of law will prevail which is a necessary pre condition for long awaited peace and reconciliation.

North of Sri Lanka has witnessed peoples rights being violated for a long time, our media and journalists faced unprecedented repression during the last few years. We express solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the south of Sri Lanka, who are undergoing the same situation…………….. http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_02_05_004.html

11,000 suspected Tamil rebels in a legal limbo for months,  Nobody knows who is in these camps.

“The government has been keeping 11,000 people in a legal limbo for months,” HRW Asia director Brad Adams was quoted as saying. “It’s time to identify who presents a genuine security threat and to release the rest.” The HRW claim was backed by Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran, who said even agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross were not allowed to visit these centres.

“Nobody knows who is in these camps. When we met President Mahinda Rajapaksa last September, he agreed to our request to release the names of those in these centres. But nothing has happened so far,” the parliamentarian, whose party represents the interests of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority community, told IPS………… http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_02_05_005.html


2 Comments for this entry

  • Karuppen
    February 10th, 2010 on 7:23 pm

    In Srilanka what happened before and during the war on terrorism was a testimony to the disgrace of democratic principles. State violence under the capsule of genocide against an unarmed innocent Tamil minority ended in the death toll of more than 50,000. Needless to say about the abject treatment of the Tamils incarcerated in restricted camps in sub-human sanitary conditions. Has this human tragedy jostled the law of conscience of any democratic leaders around the world to demand counter measures either in the UN or in parliaments? Democratically strong countries like the US, Canada, UK, Australia, France, Ireland, have the accountability for a policy to coalesce into a tenable political solution to the plight of Srilankan Tamils rather than waiting for any first-move country to initiate the dialogue.

    In Srilanka today armed forces are none other than state-trained criminals to plunder public trust. These criminals plunder public and individual properties, kidnap innocent Tamils for ransom money, and murder them if they do not suit their purpose. Criminals dressed like Buddhist monks are loose in the society to agitate ordinary people against the Tamils. Today with the assistance of state armed forces Tamil worship places called temples are dismantled, Tamils in some remote places are forcibly subjected to serve the Singhalese criminals who occupy their land.

    A culture as old as the time is immemorial. That Tamil culture and religion are today deteriorating under the aggression of selected Singhalese racist politicians. This is not the single state aggression of Srilankan government. It is the tacit approval of a great democratic country Union of India. As long as the Union of India remains as the single nation India, any peace talks between the Tamil and Singhalese politicians are doomed to failure. India is the major stumbling block to any peace talks in Srilankan politics. Unless and until the Union of India is disintegrated into its independent provincialities, any small nation like Srilanka in the Indian Ocean will never have a social justice. The political implosion the Union of India is experiencing now has paved the way for independent states like Telengana and other nine states in her backyard. What India sows in other countries, is mercilessly rewarded to India in her own territory. This is the lesson the Mother Nature teaches the aggressor. Chinese strong support of Maoists in India will disintegrate the Union of India before long.

    The world now needs a new and strong UN Secretary General. Mr Ban- Ki-Moon should be sacked from his post giving room for a strong leader who shows administrative capability, political acumen, quick thinking trait, and a calibre of strong moral strength to translate democratic principles into codes of UN accountability in global politics.

    You need the guts to do anything socially and politically constructive to help the weak and innocent people around the world.

  • kavin robert
    February 8th, 2010 on 3:06 pm

    They gotta act, and relese them fast

    Kavin Robert

    London

 

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