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Independence Celebrated at Rehabilitation Centres

by admin on Feb.08, 2010, under Sri Lanka

Sinhala, Muslim student intake to Jaffna University to increase

(Colombo Lankapuvath February 08) Steps have been taken by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to increase the percentage of Sinhala and Muslim students to the University of Jaffna. Earlier the intake of students for the North and East universities were minimized due to the conflict that prevailed in the areas. However the overall intake of students will not increase but priority will be given to Sinhala and Muslim students this year.

According to the Chairman of the UGC Prof Gamini Samaranayake, the intake of students to universities will depend on the number of applications, vacancies and disciplines preferred by the applicants. He also said that the UGC expects about 1900 vacancies at the University of Jaffna.

TNA won’t heed Nimal’s call

Political sources told The Island yesterday that the government would not expect the TNA to subscribe to a unitary state at the expense of its project to promote self-rule in the Northern and Eastern Provinces. Sources said there was no likelihood of the UPFA ever accepting the TNA in its fold unless it publicly denounced separatism. The National Freedom Front (NFF) and the Jathika Hela Urumaya, too, oppose the TNA being accommodated on the UPFA list. Sources speculated that some of the TNA MPs may contest districts in the North and East at the parliamentary elections on the UPFA ticket, even without a coming together of the UPFAand the TNA…….  http://www.island.lk/2010/02/08/news6.html

Independence Celebrated at Rehabilitation Centres

Two of the Rehabilitation Centres in Vavuniya for former LTTE combatants celebrated Independence Day in their own fashion on February 4th. At Poorthottam, where there are a couple of hundred of former child soldiers, there was a flag hoisting ceremony, which included the release of a dove, and speeches in both Tamil and Sinhala.

This was followed by a well rehearsed drill display. The highlight was a display with national flags, including the building up of pyramids by the girls and boys respectively to display the standards aloft. The announcements were by a former broadcaster for the Voice of the Tigers, who had been released, but who had returned to work with the rehabilitation authorities and his former friends.

This was followed by tea, with sweetmeats made by the youngsters, who were also being trained in cooking, and also basic food processing.

In Pompaimadhu, one of the Centres for girls, the formal ceremonies were followed by volleyball matches, in which a female army contingent also participated. There was also a team of Beauty Culturists.

Following lunch, the girls put on a concert, with singing and dancing. This was interspersed with prize awards, for the girls as well as the army ladies who looked after them


1 Comment for this entry

  • Karuppen
    February 10th, 2010 on 11:47 am

    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, 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.

 

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