War-affected people have no say in determining housing scheme run by ‘MNC-statecraft’
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 23:39 GMT]
The Colombo-based unitary Agent State, which has been successfully trading ‘Sinhala-only reconciliation-genocide’ with ‘geopolitics-driven consensus’ discourse in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, is now forcing the war-affected Eezham Tamils in the North and East to ‘choose or lose’ the pre-fabricated houses that are to be constructed in the name of war-affected people. The 65,000 ‘housing scheme’, with an inbuilt agenda of sophisticated colonisation scheme, is also a good case-study for the sections among Tamils, who are being taken for a ride, to learn how multiple interests of the external ‘stakeholders’ are jointly facilitating the Colombo-centric ‘Sri Lanka’. After the 2009 genocidal war, Tamils are now being given a lesson in how globalisation is ‘benefiting’ them, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.
The war-affected victims are being told to choose or lose the housing scheme through a printed form where they have to state yes or no.
The Colombo-based unitary Agent State, which has been successfully trading ‘Sinhala-only reconciliation-genocide’ with ‘geopolitics-driven consensus’ discourse in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, is now forcing the war-affected Eezham Tamils in the North and East to ‘choose or lose’ the pre-fabricated houses that are to be constructed in the name of war-affected people. The 65,000 ‘housing scheme’, with an inbuilt agenda of sophisticated colonisation scheme, is also a good case-study for the sections among Tamils, who are being taken for a ride, to learn how multiple interests of the external ‘stakeholders’ are jointly facilitating the Colombo-centric ‘Sri Lanka’. After the 2009 genocidal war, Tamils are now being given a lesson in how globalisation is ‘benefiting’ them, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.
The war-affected victims are being told to choose or lose the housing scheme through a printed form where they have to state yes or no.
Sample of a pre-fabricated house unit constructed in Jaffna
The provincial council representing
the interests of the people, health and environmental groups in the
North and East have not been consulted at all onto how this housing
scheme was to be designed and executed.
Under the prevailing Colombo-centric ‘one-way’ reconciliation paradigm, victims have to remain as victims of the ‘victim-centered approach’, which is determined by the geopolitics and exploited by the forces of globalisation and the stakeholders in the statecraft.
SL Minister of ‘Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs’ D.M. Swaminathan has already determined, prior to the show-cased tender process, a Indo-European multinational corporation (MNC) as the main contractor of installing 65,000 prefabricated houses in the North and East for war-affected families, according to reports appearing in the Colombo press.
The cost to construct each of these houses is estimated at 2.1 million rupees, which is high or at least twice the sum of the expenses being spent by an average family to construct a house using native infrastructure and local workforce.
There are also controversies regarding the quality of prefabricated fittings and how long these would last, when compared to the houses being constructed locally by the people themselves. People are complaining these prefabricated structures wouldn't last for more than 3 years.
Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister Justice C.V. Wigneswaran and health groups representing the interests of the people in the North and East have been critical of the expensive SL State and the MNC driven schemes.
In addition, there are also serious questions on how these houses are going to be distributed.
There are already indications that a large number of recipients are going to be illegal Sinhala settlers from SL President's Mahaweli scheme that targets to colonise Mullaiththeevu, Vavuniyaa, Trincomalee and the border villages of Batticaloa with Sinhala settlers from Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.
News articles appearing in the Colombo press say that an Indo-European Multi National Corporation, ArcelorMittal, was determined as the contractor on the instructions given by the leadership of the SL Government and the remote statecraft-controlling corporate forces outside the island. M.A. Sumanthiran is said to have incidentally revealed in August last year that it was a Europe-based company which was to construct these house and he was referring to D.M. Swaminathan, according to the Colombo press.
40% of the shares of the ArcelorMittal MNC are owned by the family of UK-based Lakshmi Mittal, who ranked 6th in the list of world billionaires in 2011. Although being based in UK, Mr Mittal, who hails from Rajasthan, India, doesn't hold British citizenship. Mittal is a member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council.
Under the prevailing Colombo-centric ‘one-way’ reconciliation paradigm, victims have to remain as victims of the ‘victim-centered approach’, which is determined by the geopolitics and exploited by the forces of globalisation and the stakeholders in the statecraft.
SL Minister of ‘Prison Reforms, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs’ D.M. Swaminathan has already determined, prior to the show-cased tender process, a Indo-European multinational corporation (MNC) as the main contractor of installing 65,000 prefabricated houses in the North and East for war-affected families, according to reports appearing in the Colombo press.
The cost to construct each of these houses is estimated at 2.1 million rupees, which is high or at least twice the sum of the expenses being spent by an average family to construct a house using native infrastructure and local workforce.
There are also controversies regarding the quality of prefabricated fittings and how long these would last, when compared to the houses being constructed locally by the people themselves. People are complaining these prefabricated structures wouldn't last for more than 3 years.
Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister Justice C.V. Wigneswaran and health groups representing the interests of the people in the North and East have been critical of the expensive SL State and the MNC driven schemes.
In addition, there are also serious questions on how these houses are going to be distributed.
There are already indications that a large number of recipients are going to be illegal Sinhala settlers from SL President's Mahaweli scheme that targets to colonise Mullaiththeevu, Vavuniyaa, Trincomalee and the border villages of Batticaloa with Sinhala settlers from Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa.
News articles appearing in the Colombo press say that an Indo-European Multi National Corporation, ArcelorMittal, was determined as the contractor on the instructions given by the leadership of the SL Government and the remote statecraft-controlling corporate forces outside the island. M.A. Sumanthiran is said to have incidentally revealed in August last year that it was a Europe-based company which was to construct these house and he was referring to D.M. Swaminathan, according to the Colombo press.
40% of the shares of the ArcelorMittal MNC are owned by the family of UK-based Lakshmi Mittal, who ranked 6th in the list of world billionaires in 2011. Although being based in UK, Mr Mittal, who hails from Rajasthan, India, doesn't hold British citizenship. Mittal is a member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council.
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