அகரமுதல 206,  புரட்டாசி 15 – 21,   2048 /  அட்டோபர் 1 - 7,  2017

‘வழி வழி வள்ளுவம்’ , சென்னை

இலக்குவனார் திருவள்ளுவன்      01 அக்தோபர் 2017      கருத்திற்காக..

அன்புடையீர்
வணக்கம். 

சென்னைக் கம்பன் கழகம்,

சிரீ கிருட்டிணா  இனிப்பகம்,

 பாரதிய வித்யா பவன்

இணைந்து நடத்தும்

‘வழி வழி வள்ளுவம்‘

தொடர் நிகழ்வின் இந்த மாத  (புரட்டாசி 17, 2048 / 03.10.2017)  நிகழ்விற்கு

 உறவும் நட்புமாக வருகைதர வேண்டுகிறேன்.

சிறப்புரை:  மறைமலை இலக்குவனார்

தமிழ்நிதி விருது பெறுபவர்:  உ.தேவதாசு

 அன்புடன்

இலக்கியவீதி இனியவன்

செயலர், சென்னைக் கம்பன் கழகம்

Health of 2 hung-striking political prisoners deteriorate

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 September 2017, 20:30 GMT]

Two of the three Tamil political prisoners currently waging a hunger strike for 6th day at Anuradhapura prison have been transferred to prison hospital as their health condition has deteriorated. 30-year-old Sulaxan Mathiyarasan and Rasathurai Thiruvarul (Chengkan) reportedly fainted before being admitted to hospital. In the meantime, the third political prisoner Ganesan Tharshanan has been shifted back to his cell after being held for a while along with Sinhala criminal prisoners sentenced to death. On Monday, the remaining Tamil political prisoners are going on a one-day symbolic hunger-strike in support of the three, informed legal sources in Vavuniyaa told TamilNet. 

The SL Attorney General's Department is waging a shadow war against the three political prisoners. It was transferring their cases away from Vavuniyaa High Court to Anuradhapura Court despite a promise from Vavuniyaa High Court Judge that their cases would be heard in Vavuniyaa. 

Refusing to recognise the detained Tamils under the notorious Prevention of ‘Terrorism’ Act (PTA) and Emergency Regulations, the AG Department has reiterated that the only avenue was terrorism proceedings against the Tamil prisoners. 

Fearing that the judges in the courts in the North would not accept manipulated witnesses and confessions obtained under duress, the AG Department is transferring the cases to courts where it could easily influence the outcome.

Chronology:

30.09.17  Health of 2 hung-striking political prisoners dete..

25.09.17  Political prisoners resume hunger-strike as Colomb..

07.09.17  SL Attorney General's Dept., TID continue to consp..

20.08.17  Sulaxan commences hunger-strike with two other pol..

08.08.17  Protests reinvigorate grassroots movement in North

03.08.17  Tamil political prisoner Sulaxan to launch hunger-..

23.05.17  Tamil POWs reject SL deceptive offers to testify a..

12.05.17  SL Prime Minister twists figures on Tamil prisoner..

10.04.17  Colombo wants discarded confessions obtained throu..

29.03.17  Genocidal Colombo sentences 60-year-old Tamil acti..

11.01.17  Colombo wants to transfer cases of 38 Tamil prison..

04.01.17  Colombo frames cases to prolong imprisonment of Ta..

16.10.16  NPC Councillor initiates action to assist Muslim p..

23.09.16  Tamil POWs denounce Colombo's latest announcement,..

20.09.16  ‘Reconciliation prospects’ look as grim as ever: R..

19.09.16  Tamil POWs relaunch hunger-strike, urge cases to b..

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11.09.16  Lawyers demand UN action into allegations of Colom..

08.09.16  Colombo adopts further delaying tactics on Tamil P..

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12.08.16  Tamil polity urged to principally oppose ‘military..

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28.07.16  Colombo continues to dilly-dally on processing pol..

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02.03.16  Released Tamil prisoner says all inmates subjected..

28.02.16  Three Tamil political prisoners on hunger strike a..

22.02.16  17 political detainees go on hunger-strike in two ..

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16.12.15  Jeneevan, Komahan call off hunger strike after mee..

15.12.15  Tamil political prisoners on hunger strike face de..

12.12.15  Colombo seeks to contain political prisoners' stru..

10.12.15  Another Tamil political prisoner goes on hunger-st..

09.12.15  Hunger-striking political prisoner transferred to ..

07.12.15  Tamil political prisoner, subjected to indefinite ..

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26.11.15  Tamil student in Jaffna commits suicide demanding ..

18.11.15  Hunger strike exposed non-seriousness of US Resolu..

17.11.15  Political prisoners call off hunger strike, issue ..

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Sinhala Catholic establishment continues to abet Theravada Buddhists-led ethno-nationalist project

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 September 2017, 23:08 GMT]

The Sinhala Archbishop of Colombo Rt Rev Cardinal Malcom Ranjith who was very close to genocidaire Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and was instrumental in suppressing Tamil Catholic sentiments which were opposed to the crimes of the unitary regime in Colombo, is now scheming a plan to attach two substations in Mukaththuvaaram, coming under the Parish Priest of Kokku'laay with the Diocese of Anuradhapura, informed sources in Vanni told TamilNet this week. Mukaththuvaaram, which is the northern tip of the lagoon-mouth of Kokku'laay is situated close to the border of the Northern and Eastern provinces. In an attempt to permanently wedge the territorial and demographic contiguity of the homeland of Eezham Tamils, Colombo Establishment is deploying hardline Sinhala Catholic elements in the genocidal colonisation project. The Jaffna Diocese, when contacted, was dodging to give any information. 

In the meantime, the SL Governor to North Reginald Cooray, a Sinhala Catholic, who has been promoting Sinhala Buddhicisation of Tamil homeland, is now collaborating with the extremist monk in Kokku'laay. 

The location of Kokku'laay village and lagoon. [Satellite map courtesy: Google Earth]

Shown within the box is the target area of Colombo discussed in the feature

Asgiriya Chapter of Theravada Buddhism in the island is fully backing the controversial extremist monk at Kokku'laay, who is engaged in putting up a Buddhist Vihara establishment at Kokku'laay, 1 km north of Mukaththuvaaram at lands illegally seized from Tamils. There are no Buddhists in the locality, except the occupying Sinhala soldiers and sailors. 

Ven Sri Thissapura Gunarathna thero, the occupying Sinhala monk at Kokku'laay is now trying to convert the Sinhala fishermen occupying Mukaththuvaaram. Among 370 Sinhala occupant fishermen families, only three families are Buddhists. 

Fearing repercussions from Asgiriya Chapter, the Sinhala Catholic SL Governor of North has been promoting Sinhala-Buddhicisation projects in North including Mukaththuvaaram. 

Gunarathna thero demands more public lands in order to be alienated to Sinhala occupants who have put up huts along the coast in Mukaththuvaaram. 

The monk has been exerting pressure on SL Governor Reginald Cooray to legally transfer the lands that belong to Tamil landowners, who have been chased out from Mukaththuvaaram. 

Mr Cooray has exerted pressure on the Divisional Secretary of Mullaiththeevu through his subordinate officials and District Secretary of Karai-thu'raip-pattu directly, demanding the lands of uprooted Tamils to be alienated to 300 Sinhala settlers. 

In the meantime, Gunarathana thero has been campaigning among the Catholics to convert to Buddhism in order to become eligible for lands with housing scheme. 

The extremist monk, occupying Sinhala military and the Sinhala Catholic colonists, who are violently opposed to Tamils who are demanding their lands in Mukaththuvaaram are jointly operating regardless of their religious affinities. 

The Colombo establishment had allocated 50 houses to Sinhala occupants in Mukaththuvaaram already during the times of the late SL President Ranasinghe Premedasa (SL Prime Minister between 1978 and 1989 and later SL President between 1989 and 1993). Tamils were fully chased out from the area in 1983. However, the Sinhalicisation agenda didn't succeed due to the war. But, after 2009, Sinhala fishermen from South occupied the area again with the backing of SL military intelligence. 

Today, the prayers at the churches are carried out in Sinhala. Citing the occupants as overwhelming majority of devotees of the traditional Tamil church at Mukaththuvaaram, Colombo-based Catholic Establishment is trying to bring the churches in Mukaththuvaaram under Anuradhapura Diocese. 

St Anne's Church and St Sebastian's Church in Mukathtuvaaram are the two substations coming under Kokku'laay Parish Priest, which belongs to Jaffna Diocese. 

Before the times of war, a demographic change was carried out from Negombo to Puththa'lam, systematically Sinhalicising Tamil Catholics in the Western and North-Western Province. A similar project is being schemed also along the Eastern province, Tamil Catholics in Mullaiththeevu said. 

Cardinal Malcom Ranjith, along with former SL Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, was instrumental in the Sinhala militarisation of Mu'l'lik-ku'lam in Musali, Mannaar. 

The current project of Sinhalicisation targeting the coastal strip from Naayaa'ru to Mukaththuvaaram comes after the creation of Sinhala-Only division of Ma'nal-aa'ru (Sinhalacised into Weli-oya) which is located to the west of Mukaththuvaaram. Creating a coastal outlet to Weli-oya and permanently wedging North from East through demographic change is the joint motives of the Sinhala colonisation project. 

The location of the newly Sinhalicised division in the Mullaiththeevu district that will be wedging North and East, created after erasing out traditional Tamil villages and renaming it from Ma'nalaa'ru in Tamil to Weli-Oya in Sinhala. [Satellite image courtesy: Google Earth. Legend by TamilNet]

The Census Map of 2012 showing Weli-oya, a recently created and colonized division of the Mullaith-theevu district as an exclusive Sinhala division. The division has now wedged the contiguity between the Tamil districts Vavuniyaa in the Northern Province and Trincomalee in the Eastern Province, while it established contiguity with the Sinhala district Anuradhapura in the North Central Province.

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Colombo rushes ahead with military land grab of Mu'l'livaaykkaal

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 September 2017, 23:13 GMT]

671 acres of residential, coastal and agricultural lands in Mu'l'livaaykkaal East GS division in Mullaiththeevu, containing crucial evidences and traces of genocidal onslaught against Eezham Tamils, are now being ‘officially’ appropriated by Colombo citing ‘public purpose’. The appropriation planned under Rajapaksa regime is being carried out by Maithiripala-Wickramasinghe regime. The lands have already been seized and fenced off by the SL military for years since 2009. Now these lands are being ‘legally’ transferred to the occupying Sinhala Navy for its largest navy cantonment in Mullaiththeevu named ‘SLNS Gotabhaya’. An extraordinary Gazette notice issued by SL Minister of ‘Lands and Parliamentary Reforms’ on August 04, 2017, only talks about ‘public purpose’ without mentioning the military purpose. 

‘SLNS Gotabhaya’ at Mu'l'livaaykkaal

Gazette notification announcing the seizure of Mu'l'livaaykkaal lands

‘Eastern Naval Area’ as defined by the occupying SL Navy [Image courtesy: navy.lk]

There are 13 so-called ‘Commissioned Navy Bases’ in the Eastern Naval Area of the SL Navy [Image courtesy: navy.lk]

‘Mahaweli Master plan’ currently targeting Mullaiththeevu, Batticaloa and Ampaa'rai through System L and System B [Image courtesy:mahaweli.gov.lk]

However the Divisional Secretary of Karai-thu'raip-pattu division has been instructed to issue a separate notice citing the purpose as ‘national security’, civil officials in Mullaiththeevu said. 

The ‘public purpose’ clause is widely misused to appropriate lands for the occupying Sinhala military in the occupied country of Eezham Tamils. 

Eezham Tamils have never surrendered the sovereignty of their traditional homeland to genocidal Sri Lanka through any democratic process of State formation. Neither did Eezham Tamils surrender their sovereignty while facing the genocidal war abetted by world Establishments. 

Occupying Colombo is now rushing through all land appropriations before proceeding further with its constitutional discourse. 

The Gazette notification of land acquisition in Mu'l'livyakkaal war issued by Gayantha Karunatilake,
 Gayantha Karunatilake, the SL Minister of “Lands and Parliamentary Reforms”. 

The latest acquisition affects 379 acres of private landowners in Mu'l'livaaykkaal. 

The fishing jetty at Mu'l'livaaykkaal has also been absorbed by the SL military seizure. 

The militarization of Mu'l'livaaykkaal should also be seen together with the Sinhalicisation that has taken place in Ma'nal-aa'ru and from Kokku'laay to Mukaththuvaaram in Mullaiththeevu. 

The uprooted people have been struggling demanding their residential, agricultural and coastal lands in Mu'l'livaaykkaal, including their jetty. 

In the meantime, SL military commander Lt Gen Mahesh Senanayake has brushed away accusations that 150,000 Sinhala army soldiers are stationed in North. After meeting the hard-line Theravada Buddhist prelate of Asgiriya chapter, the SL commander also justified the militarization in the North and stated there would be no reduction of the military. Senanyake was also saying that the number of soldiers stationed in the North was a matter subjected to careful calculations and that there is no need for any explanation as the UN Human Rights mechanism was already aware of the stand of the SL military on the matter. 

Now, the SL military commander is even citing the UN Human Rights Council for continued militarization of Tamil homeland, commented Tamil civil officials in Mullaiththeevu. 

The declaration that a land or a servitude is required for a ‘public purpose’, under the so-called ‘Land Acquisition Act (Chapter 460) is given under Section 5 as follows: 

1. Where the Minister decides under subsection (5) of section 4 that a particular land or servitude should be acquired under this Act, he shall make a written declaration that such land or servitude is needed for a public purpose and will be acquired under this Act, and shall direct the acquiring officer of the district in which the land which is to be acquired or over which the servitude is to be acquired is situated to cause such declaration in the Sinhala, Tamil and English languages to be published in the Gazette and exhibited in some conspicuous places on or near that land.
   
2. A declaration made under subsection (1) in respect of any land or servitude shall be conclusive evidence that such land or servitude is needed for a public purpose.
   
3. The publication of a declaration under subsection (1) in the Gazette shall be conclusive evidence of the fact that such declaration was duly made.

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