SL State agencies, occupying military accelerate

Sinhalicisation in Madu
A community hall built with external funding at the site of the Sinhala colonisation at Madu Road in
Poomalarnthaan GS division in Madu

TamilNet, Sunday, 19 April 2015, 20:18 GMT]

Two departments of the occupying Sri Lankan State, the Wildlife Department and the
Forest Department, have been blocking the uprooted Eezham Tamils from resettling and
owning lands in the four villages that come under Poomalarnthaan GS division, which is
one of the 17 GS areas of Madu division in the Mannaar District, the uprooted Tamil
villagers complain. The policy of social engineering targeting Sinhalicisation of Madu
division has not changed under the new regime, as these departments seem to compete
with each other in the occupation of the lands. The threatening presence of Sinhala
soldiers in the villages and the jungles facilitates the occupation. The programme of
Sinhalicisation is accelerated following the commencing of railway line to Mannaar, the
civil sources said.
The sources also added the SL State has been channelling the funds being obtained from
the foreign countries into the demographic genocide against Eezham Tamils in Madu.
The Tamils living abroad should question these States on their role in abetting the
sophisticated structural genocide being carried out by the Sri Lankan State, a Tamil
official said. The official was also condemning the Tamil politicians claiming to represent

the Eezham Tamils for ignoring the plight of Tamil villagers in Madu DS division.
The Sinhalicisation of Madu division is an old blue print of the Sinhala State. However,
the move was halted for two decades due to the armed struggle of Eezham Tamils. But,
after the SL military entered the Madu Shrine in 2008, the social engineering has been
accelerated by Colombo.

A house built by the People's Bank which celebrated its golden jubilee in 2011 by settling 31
Sinhala families in the 50 houses constructed at Poomalarnthaan.
In 2011, the Peoples Bank celebrated its Golden Jubilee by constructing 51 houses in what
was claimed as public lands. The lands were belonging to the Catholic Diocese of Mannaar.
As the construction the houses had been already completed, the Bishop of Mannaar abandoned
his complaints and transferred the lands to the Government Agent of Mannaar, informed
sources said.

Different types of huts have also been put up by the intruders from South

A board put up by the Wildlife Department at Poomalarnthaan

A church situated in Poomalarnthaan GS division

The Sinhala MV school at Madu Road

The Golden Jubilee of Peoples Bank was celebrated as a function marking a victory of
Sinhalese in Tamil land, Tamil civil sources in the division say. 31 families of Sinhalese settlers
were brought in from rural villages in Asoakapura, Mihintale and Medawachiya of
Anuradhapura district. The SL officials were claiming that these familes were living in Madu
before the war. In fact, only two of three of these families had such connection. The
remaining families had no documentary evidence of residing in Madu Road.
Today, the Sinhalese families do not live in these houses, but maintain them as their property.
This also proves the intention of occupation, a Tamil civil official said on condition of
anonymity. 19 Tamil families were also included in the scheme and they continue to live in
their houses.
Madu Road, Poomalarnthaan, Murungkaiyadik-ku'lam and Nedung-ku'lam are the four villages
in Poomalarnthaan GS division (MNR/130). The occupation is going on also in other villages,
except the Madu Shrine, the villagers say. Except two of the 7 GS divisions, there are no Tamilspeaking Muslims in the division.
A planned Sinhala settlement was created in 1970s at Madu Road, which branches off the main
route to Madu shrine, situated in the middle of traditional Tamil area. The Sinhala settlers were
running teashops, bakeries, cashew plantations, poultry farms and some of them were also
employed as railway employees. All of these settlers returned to their native villages after the
intensification of military confrontations.
The Wildlife Conservation Department claims 26,677 hectares of lands under the tag Madu
Road. But, this also includes several other villages and the jungle tracts in other GS divisions
beyond the Poomalarnthaan GS division. The WCD officers have no clear demarcation of the
lands, which they claim as coming under their purview and they have no right to occupy the
private lands, the civil officials in Madu said.
What they do in practice is that they put up a board first. After a few weeks have elapsed, the
officers come back again to plant boundary stones. A few months later, they fence of the area.
Thus, the area has now become their property. In the meantime, the officers belonging to these
departments and the SL police would refuse to register the complaints from the owners of the
lands.
Several uprooted Tamil families left Mannaar as refugees to Tamil Nadu in early 1990s are
still languishing at the camps in India. All their lands are gone, a civil official told TamilNet.

The threatening situation of genocidal land grab has gone to the extent that these departments
have started to file cases against the Tamil owners of the lands at Mannaar Magistrate's court,
the official further said.
A large military cantonment of the notorious Special Task Force is situated at Theakkam, the
nearby GS division. The SL military is present at Madu Road and at Pa'raiyan-aalang-ku'lam
junction. There are several checkposts manned by Sinhala soldiers belonging to the SL Army
and the STF.

A community hall constructed at the site of Sinhalicisation in Poomalarnthaan GS divsion. The

construction of the community house was funded by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) with
the funds donated by the USA, Canada and the European Commission.
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