Sajith Premadasa's SL ministry steps up

Sinhalicisation in Mullaiththeevu
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 18:25 GMT]
Sinhala officials of Colombo's National Housing Development Authority, which comes under UNP Minister
Sajith Premadasa attempted on Tuesday to grab lands that belong to uprooted Eezham Tamils at
Mukaththuvaaram in Kokku'laay of Mullaiththeevu district. A tense situation prevailed as Sinhala settlers
confronted the Tamil landowners. However, the move to survey the lands that belong to Eezham Tamils
was halted after Northern Provincial Council (NPC) member Thurairajah Ravikaran documented the land
deeds to survey department officers who were brought by the so-called National Housing Development
Authority to seize the lands to Sinhala colonisers in the country of Eezham Tamils. The SL State is
accelerating Sinhala colonization with the aim of permanently wedging the demographic contiguity of the
northern and eastern provinces at this strategic location.

The location of Kokku'laay

Shown within the box is the target area of Colombo for Sinhalicisation to wedge the territorial integrity
of Tamil homeland

The Sri Lankan State-sponsored Sinhala colonisation has been taking place
from the times of former SL presidents J.R. Jeyawardene and R.
Premadasa, the father of Sajith Premadasa.
The Tamil landowners, chased away from their villages in 1980 are in
possession of documents of ownership. A lot of their lands have already
been encroached by the Sinhala settlers with the backing of the occupying
SL military.
NPC councillor Ravikaran blamed that the Divisional Secretary of Karaithu'raip-pattu for backing the survey department officials who attempted to
survey the lands.
The Tamil landowners had alerted the NPC councillor as soon as they
spotted the presence of the surveying department officials in their lands.