Showing posts with label Eezham. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Sri Lanka: Civil administration becomes Sinhalese in the country of Eezham Tamils

Civil administration becomes Sinhalese in the country of Eezham Tamils[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 July 2011, 06:45 GMT]
140 Sinhala Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) officers who have come initially for a ?training? programme to Jaffna on Monday are eventually expected to be appointed to Sinhalicise the civil service of the country of Eezham Tamils. By not recruiting Tamils and Muslims to the civil service for many years now, Colombo has schemed a situation so that only the Sinhalese could be appointed to key administrative positions even in the north and east. The process that has started in the east has now come to Vanni and Jaffna. While artfully delaying urgently needed action for the national question by reducing it into an endless debate on war crimes that has no reference to genocide, the powers that abet state in Sri Lanka commit more crimes of a permanent nature in allowing Colombo on its structural genocide and extermination of Tamil nation, political circles in Jaffna said.

SLAS in JaffnaSLAS in JaffnaA section of 140 Sinhala SLAS officers brought to Jaffna on MondayAmong the 86 SLAS officers recruited last year there was not even one Tamil or Muslim. The pattern prevailed in the recruitments for several years. Thus, now there are only a few old Tamil civil servants remain in the service of Colombo. SL government refuses to promote non-SLAS Tamil officers into SLAS.

Colombo now plans to create ?vacancies? in the north and east and is going to appoint the Sinhala officers, informed sources say. The civil administration of Ki?linochchi district in Vanni is going to be predominantly Sinhalicised immediately, they say.

The colonial governor of Sri Lanka for the north, Maj. Gen. Chandrasri repeatedly says that the presence of SLAS officers in the districts should reflect the percentage of ethnicities in the island. Accordingly, he wants the majority of the civil servants in the north to be Sinhalese.

In a well-planned way the Sinhalicisation of civil service has already been implemented in the Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts.

The Jaffna municipality and Mannaar district office also now have Sinhala SLAS officers.

Meanwhile, the 140 Sinhala SLAS officers who came to Jaffna on Monday were welcomed by the colonial governor Maj. Gen. Chandrasri, the commander of the occupying SL Army in Jaffna, Maj. Gen. Hathurusinghe and by other district officials.

The 140 Sinhala officers under ?training? will be functioning in all the divisions of the district for one month. However, there were hints that they may be made permanent in the positions.

Hinting at the possibility, commander of the genocidal Army, Hathurusinghe said that they should serve like some of their Sinhala predecessors who served in Jaffna decades back.

Colombo?s courage to behave like colonizers and to commit explicit genocide in intensified ways in the war and its aftermath, is not its own. It comes mainly from the stand of New Delhi and Washington that guarantees the unity of the country, not recognizes the genocide and not recognizes the historical nation of Eezham Tamils in the island and its right to self-determination, but sets paradigms such as reconciliation and home-grown solution, a politician in Jaffna said.

By its every action Colombo ridicules and abuses the paradigms ?reconciliation and home-grown solution?, because it is sure of the guarantee given to its genocidal unity whatever it commits on Tamils and is also aware of why the guarantee is given, the Jaffna politician said.

In its competitive eagerness to ?integrate? the island, New Delhi is not prepared to recognize even the war crimes, but it is clear that Colombo makes even the ?starting point? of India, the 13th Amendment, as meaningless by calculated acts such as the Sinhalicisation of civil service in the north and east, the Jaffna politician further said, bitterly adding that the Indian civil service of the East India Company tradition may now start giving training to Sinhala SLAS officers, like the training Indian Army is giving to the genocidal Army of Sri Lanka.

 

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Eezham Tamil coastal areas intensively encroached by Sri Lanka

Eezham Tamil coastal areas intensively encroached by Sri Lanka[TamilNet, Friday, 01 July 2011, 05:34 GMT]
Occupying genocidal Sri Lanka opens up the coastal areas of Eezham Tamils for intensive �invasion� of Sinhala fishermen and �tourism� fat cats of the south. The latest target is the eastern coast of Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna districts as well as the islands off Jaffna, news sources from Jaffna said. While thousands of Sinhala fishermen, officially permitted by Colombo, encroach the eastern coast of the northern province to deprive local fishermen, the islands off Jaffna are encroached in the guise of tourism. A large block of prime land at Chaaddi in the Kayts Island, which earlier had the memorials of the LTTE fighters who laid down their lives for the independence of Tamils, is now claimed by John Keells, a Sinhala hotel corporate based in Colombo.

Thousands of Sinhala fishermen have now occupied the eastern coast of the Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna districts from Kokku�laay to Vadamaraadchi East. The local fishermen in these stretches are losing their economic opportunities and livelihood almost completely.

�Permits� issued by genocidal Sri Lanka�s defence ministry and fisheries department systematically facilitate the �invasion� of the Sinhala fishermen.

The Mullaiththeevu coast is also turning into a �tourist� place for the fishermen of the south.

Meanwhile, the islands off Jaffna in the Palk Bay are targeted for Sinhala colonisation in various ways ranging from military camps and Buddhist �pilgrimage� to tourism catered by hotel groups in the south.

Large plots of private and public lands in the islands off Jaffna are now either taken over or encroached by some business firms of Sinhalese in the south.

The coastal strip at Chaaddi in the Kayts Island has white sand dunes stretching to a long distance. Chaaddi in Tamil means the land left to lie fallow. The cultivation lands and settlement at this place were abandoned long back due to creeping sand dunes.

But Chaaddi is an important archaeological site. Artefacts ranging from protohistoric and early historic period to the times of medieval Chinese trade were found at this place. The place is also a major pilgrim centre for Muslims and Christians of Jaffna.

The LTTE had a cemetery for heroes at this place, which was destroyed by the SL Army in the 1990s, but it was rebuilt during the peace years. The occupying SL Navy once again razed down the memorials recently. This land and the heritage stretches are now claimed and occupied by John Keells, a Sinhalese-owned hotel corporate having business in the island and in The Maldives.

The local people are shocked to see the new signboards planted at this place, announcing the building of a star tourist hotel by the Sinhala hotel group.

In many other places in the peninsula, camps and bases for the occupying military are built over razed-down cemeteries of the LTTE heroes. At Chaaddi, John Keells is doing the job, local people commented.

Besides John Keelles, many other groups from the south have also encroached the heritage lands at Chaaddi. The local people have no sea front now.

Snatching away the power of the nation of Eezham Tamils to develop their land in the way they like is what called �development� and it is to this �development� the diaspora is asked to �creatively� collaborate by some in the West, said a social activist in Jaffna.

Meanwhile, The Netherlands embassy in Colombo that is funding the Army-Archaeology combination of Sri Lanka for the �tourism promotion� of the Dutch fort in Jaffna is said to have proposed to extend its archaeological courtesy to Chaaddi also. Informed sources say that container-loads of tulips have gone from The Netherlands to grace a family occasion of Mahinda Rajapaksa recently.

Chaaddi in Kayts is not the only example. Similar situation prevails in the Kaarainakar Island and in the other islands.

Kaarainakar associations and individuals in the diaspora provide aid to improve water resources and to reclaim saline areas as agricultural lands in the island whenever they could spare money after spending on temple extravaganzas. But the SL Navy in Kaarainakar is planting mangrove in the island to �improve the environment� for tourism or for the protection of its bases.

According to Sri Lanka Government Agent in Jaffna, Mrs. Imelda Sugumar, more than 350,000 �tourists� come to Jaffna peninsula each month.

Apart from those who come from the south to see the �subjugated� Jaffna, the number also includes the diaspora visitors.

Mrs. Sugumar said that the tourist hotels are needed for the visitors, but the coastal areas are getting polluted.

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Sri Lanka: Eezham Tamil political detainees face severe mental torture

Eezham Tamil political detainees face severe mental torture[TamilNet, Friday, 01 July 2011, 06:11 GMT]
Eezham Tamil political detainees kept in the prisons of Sri Lanka in the south as well as in the north without any cases filed against them for years are severely affected psychologically, medical sources examined them when they were brought to Jaffna teaching hospital said. Under unbearable mental stress some of the detainees attempted to escape this week, but they were re-arrested. One of them who attempted escape was swimming for a whole day to avoid detection and later he was re-arrested on information while hiding in an abandoned building.

Thousands of Eezham Tamil political detainees are kept for a very long time running into years in the custody of occupying Sri Lanka without cases filed in the courts.

Colombo is either still unable to find grounds to frame cases against them or it wants the detainees to suffer more time in the prison than what punishment a court could give them.

 



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Sri Lanka: Civil society groups in Karnataka meet to voice against Eezham Tamil genocide

Civil society groups in Karnataka meet to voice against Eezham Tamil genocide [TamilNet, Friday, 01 July 2011, 06:13 GMT]
Forum Against War Crimes and Genocide, comprising of several civil society organisations of Karnataka state in India convene a public meeting on Saturday evening at Student Christian Movement hall in the state�s capital Bangalore to voice against �War Crimes and Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka.� The meeting will screen the Channel 4 documentary �Sri Lanka�s Killing Fields.� Writer, Mr. G. Ramakrishna will deliver the keynote address and will launch the state chapter of the forum. Sometimes back, people in Hubli-Dharwad, the second largest city in Karnataka too held a demonstration in support of Eezham Tamils.

Karnataka State Committee of the Forum Against War Crimes and Genocide, People Democratic Front, Alternate Law Forum, Dalit Self Respect Movement, Pedestrian Pictures, Karnataka Students Organisation, Karnataka Jana Sakthi & Karnataka Vidhyarthi Vedike, Samatha Vedike (All India Progressive Women�s Association, New Socialist Alternative � Tamils Solidarity, National Coalition of Human Rights Organisation, All Karnataka Tamil Movements & Parties, are the joint organisers of the meeting.

Besides Mr. Ramakrishna, the other speakers are Human Rights Defender Mr. Nagragare Ramesh (Introduction), Bangalore University Professor, Paul Newman (Brief on Permanent People�s Tribunal and UN Advisory Panel Report), Professor Haragopal (�Sri Lankan Model� of State Oppression), journalist and writer Mr. Kumar Burudaikutti (Historic Struggle of Tamils in Sri Lanka), Mr. Venkatesan of Save Tamils Movement (�Genocide��Never Again), and Mr. Khalid Waseem (Kashmir and Eelam Nationality Struggle).

 



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Monday, June 27, 2011

Sexual violence against Eezham Tamils carried out with genocidal intentions

Sexual violence committed against Eezham Tamils by the occupying Sri Lanka Army in Vanni is on the increase in the recent months, reliable civil sources told TamilNet. Personnel in military vehicles and auto rickshaws parked under the trees away from the roadside in Ki’linochchi commit sexual violence to girls forcefully brought from the resettled villages and sometimes even to girls passing by on the road, by grabbing them into the vehicles. The wails of the victims are commonly heard, but [...]