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புதன், 25 செப்டம்பர், 2013

UXO claims life of 30-year-old man in Jaffna, 2 boys wounded

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 23:48 GMT]
A 30-year-old man was killed and two 17-year-old boys were seriously wounded on Tuesday around 10:30 a.m., at former Forward Defence Line in Mukamaalai in Jaffna. Mr Suthaharan Atputharasa, who was driving the tractor, was killed on the spot. The tragic blast comes after the UN office for humanitarian de-mining coordination in Jaffna has been closed down and the remaining humanitarian agencies involved in de-mining are under pressure to wind up their activities before the end of this year. The occupying SL military, which is converting the former High Security Zones (HSZ) into Sinhala Military Zones (SMZ), is in control of the entire process of de-mining.

The tractor was thrown away in the blast caused by the unexploded ordnance, which is believed to be a pressure activated mine, news sources in Thenmaraadchi said.

The wounded boys were identified as 17-year-old Suthaharan Kuhanathan and Nirojan Thuraisingam from A’raththi-nakar in Allip-pazhai.

Four months ago, a Halo Trust worker lost his life in a landmine explosion while he was engaged in de-mining at Mukamaalai.

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வெள்ளி, 31 ஆகஸ்ட், 2012

Double standard in clearing UXOs endangers resettlement in Mullaiththeevu

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 August 2012, 23:03 GMT]
Leftover unexploded cluster munitions keep exploding every day in the suburbs of PTK, where the resettling people have embarked upon the dangerous exercise of clearing their lands. In a propaganda drive to close down the Menik Farm camp in Cheddiku'lam, Vavuniyaa, Sri Lanka military operated de-mining officers have given green signal for resettlement in selected suburbs of Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) of Mullaiththeevu district, while the lands appropriated by the occupying SL military for militarization and Sinhalicisation in the same area have been carefully de-mined with external aid. At least four cases of big explosions have been reported in Vanni and Jaffna this week with two people seriously injured.

On Monday, a resettling Tamil man was injured in a UXO explosion and admitted to Chavakachcheari hospital and later transferred to Jaffna hospital.

On Tuesday, a 28-year-old male, Thiyagaraja Yogaraja, was seriously wounded in both of his legs at Kanakaampikaik-ku'lam in Ki'linochchi district when a land mine exploded while he was clearing the land.

The occupying military of Colombo, engaged in erasing the traces of its genocidal onslaught on Eezham Tamils, has not allowed internationally renowned humanitarian agencies in the field of de-mining to engage in independent operations even after three years have elapsed since the end of Vanni war.

Meanwhile, there are also allegations that South African companies were deployed in removing the traces of genocide and bulldozing the areas where the occupying SL military carried out its genocidal slaughter in the final days of the war. Now, the occupying Sinhala military is engaged in earning money by systematically backing plunder and trade of vehicles and scrap-iron left in the villages, where resettlement is not allowed.

In the meantime, resettling people in the suburbs of PTK engage in the dangerous exercise of burning almost everything in their lands to make sure that cluster munitions and other unexploded ordinance remaining in the surface.

Former humanitarian workers, who were engaged in de-mining work during the ceasefire, blame that the SL military de-miners are not following the procedures for clearing the lands. They further accuse that the workers at UN agencies that engage in monitoring the final phase of clearance are also influenced by the Colombo regime to cooperate with its selective approach in clearing land mines.

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திங்கள், 4 ஜூன், 2012

Uprooted Tamils live with UXO threat, UN agencies silent on demographic ‘conquest’

[TamilNet, Thursday, 31 May 2012, 04:30 GMT]
Uprooted Eezham Tamils from the coastal villages of Mullaiththeevu district, denied resettlement in their own lands and forced to ‘resettle’ in Koampaavil resettlement-scheme, away from the radars of international media and human rights activists, have been abandoned without proper humanitarian assistance. Meanwhile, the families, clearing lands have been confronted with unexploded ordnance in the area that has been declared by UN agencies as clear of landmines. Last Sunday, 37-year-old Manoranjitham Asokkumar, a mother of three children, sustained serious injuries while clearing her plot of land. Local humanitarian workers, who gave photographs to TamilNet, alleged that the UN agencies had failed to even highlight the plight of the civilians who face the threat of landmines in the area, which the agencies have earlier verified as clear of landmines.

The latest victim who sustained serious injuries was identified as Manoranjitham Asokkumar, a mother of three, who was living at 4th division, near Arasadip-pi'l'laiyaar temple The hurried ‘resettlement’ was carried out by the Colombo government to showcase that it was closing down the barbed-wire camps of incarceration in Cheddiku'lam in Vavuniyaa.

Civilians who were uprooted from the key villages of Mu'l'livaaykkaal, Valaignar-madam, Puthumaaththa'lan and Puthukkudiyiruppu were given lands in Koampaavil and were forcefully ‘resettled’ against their wishes.

The Sri Lankan state through its military-run administration of civil affairs in Vanni has been depriving the uprooted Tamils from resettling along the coastal stretch of Mullaiththeevu.

Through military occupation, land grab, Sinhalcisation and Buddhicisation of the Tamil country, the coastal and strategic villages are being fully occupied by Colombo.

Like the Gazafication that has demographically changed the settlement patterns of the occupied Palestine, Colombo and the Sri Lankan forces are creating another Palestine in the country of Eezham Tamils while the global community is kept unaware of the protracted programme of structural genocide.

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செவ்வாய், 8 மே, 2012

Paduvaankarai people live with UXO threat

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 May 2012, 23:13 GMT]
Explosions take place frequently in resettled villages in Paduvaankarai region of Batticaloa district, declared by the occupying Sri Lanka Army as free of land-mines, civil sources in Batticaloa say. The latest victim is an under-age youth engaged in cattle grazing work. Explosions of unexploded ordnance in the region have seriously threatened the security and livelihood of poverty-stricken people who are subjected to structural genocide by the occupying Sri Lankan forces and its military-run civil administration.
15-year-old Arasaratnam Inbarajah was seriously injured in an explosion that took place at Yaanai-kaddiya-ve'li in Vellaave'li division of Batticaloa district while he was attempting to dig a pit.

Inbarajah, who suffered serious injuries to one of his hands, was immediately rushed to Ka'luvaagnchik-kudi Base Hospital. Later he was transferred to Batticaloa Teaching Hospital for further treatment, medical sources said.

People uprooted from Vellaave'li were allowed to resettle after being given clearance that the area is free of land mines by the occupying Sri Lanka Army.