[TamilNet, Thursday, 12 March 2015, 23:32 GMT]The officials at the office of the Consulate General of India (CGI)
in Jaffna have been urging the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)
parliamentarians, provincial councillors and civic members not to
promote any peaceful rally during the visit by the Indian Prime Minister
to North. The CGI officials in collaboration with a section of Sri
Lankan officials have also instructed the government officials to
suppress public mobilisation. A representative of War-affected people's
group, Mr V. Sahathevan, who is waging a three-day fasting in front of
the Public Library of Jaffna was insulted on Thursday as the Municipal
Council officers removed his banner and his temporary hut. However, a
section of the public organisations in Jaffna have announced a peaceful
rally on Saturday with 10 demands addressed to the visiting Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi.
The organisers of the Saturday rally said the families of the victims
subjected to enforced disappearances, uprooted Tamils denied of
resettlement in lands seized by the occupying Sri Lankan military and
the Tamil fishermen deprived of livelihood will be the main participants
in the rally.
The organisers have planned to walk from Jaffna
Bus Stand to the Consulate General of India in Jaffna at Nalloor, where
they will hand over an appeal addressed to the visiting Indian Prime
Minister.
Valikaamam North Resettlement Association, Citizens
Committee in Valikaamam North, Fishermen's collaborative network,
Village Workers Association, Poontha'lir women's group, Mayiliddi
fishermen's association and associations representing the families and
relatives of the victims of enforced disappearances are extending
support to the event.
Meanwhile, Tamil rights activists in
Jaffna questioned whether the Indian Prime Minister visiting Jaffna
would be prepared to commemorate the Tamil victims slain by the Indian
military during the IPKF intervention in late 80's.
The Indian
government should also investigate the role played by the previous
regimes in New Delhi in abetting the Sri Lankan State in its genocidal
war against Eezham Tamils, they said.
India had promised to
construct 50,000 houses to war-affected people in the North-East. So
far, only 18,000 houses have been completed. The visiting Indian envoys
and politicians throughout the past five years have been ceremonially
attending the handing over of some of these houses to the recipients.
The visiting Indian PM is also expected to do the same, news sources in
Jaffna said. There are 32,000 houses still remaining to be completed.
In
the East, uprooted people of Champoor have been mobilising to get the
attention of the visiting Indian PM. They have called for a protest on
Friday despite the TNA politicians in Trincomalee attempting to suppress
the mobilisation of the uprooted people of Champoor.
