Colombo schemes permanent occupation of two Tamil villages in Ampaa'rai
Sinhala officials attached to Sri Lanka's Department of Forest
Conservation, which comes under the SL Ministry of Environment and
Renewable Energy, have surveyed this weekend two traditional Tamil
villages in the Thirukkoayil DS division of Ampaa'rai district, in a
move to plant trees in the lands that belong to uprooted Eezham Tamils,
who have not been allowed to resettle in the villages of
Thangkavealaayuthapuram and Kagnchi-kudichchaa'ru, news sources in
Thirukkoayil told TamilNet Sunday. The Sinhala officials of the Eastern
Provincial Council also back the move, the sources further said.
Claiming that certain lands come under the purview of the central
government in Colombo and the remaining under the authority of the
provincial government, Sinhala officials from Colombo as well as those
in Ampaa'rai collaborate in the demographic genocide being committed on
the ancient Tamil villages, Tamil civil sources in Ampaa'rai said.
435
Tamil families from Thangkavealaauythapuram and 332 families from
Kangchi-kudichchaa'ru were displaced when the notorious SL Special Task
Force (STF) elite commandos and the SL military launched a genocidal
onslaught on the villages.
While the displaced Tamil families
seeking assistance to resettle in their own village are refused
humanitarian assistance and denied access to their properties and
livelihood, Sinhala villagers in the border areas are provided
humanitarian assistance on a regular basis, civil sources in Ampaa'rai
said.
Earlier, before the Norway-brokered Ceasefire Agreement in
2002, the Tamil families numbering around 1,000 from the villages of
Thangkavealaayuthapuram, Kangchi-kudichchaa'ru, Chaakamam and Alikampai
were living in four refugee camps in damaged cadjan huts for a decade,
but now, after the genocidal end of the so-called peace process, the
families have lost all hopes of resettlement in their ancient villages,
the civil sources further said.
The villages were defended by the LTTE before they were militarily captured by the Sri Lankan STF in 2007.
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