The owners of five houses and lands that have been illegally seized by the Sri Lankan military for more than two decades at Koozhaavadi, situated on Maanippaay Road at Aanaik-koaddai in Jaffna protested on Wednesday against the attempt by Colombo to transform their lands into State property with the motive of permanently sustaining a war-time military camp, which was notorious for extra-judicial interrogations, abductions and disappearances since 1996. TamilNet: 24.01.15 Resettling Tamils silently expelled from Champoor in Trincomalee In the meantime, 22 families that have resettled in their lands situated near Kaa’li temple at Champoor have refused to move away from their lands as their lands do not come under the High Security Zone or Special Economic Zone. The officials who came from the Board of Investment and the SL military officers were telling the people that the uprooted would only be allowed to resettle under an official resettlement scheme and not on their own. The uprooted Champoor people were not allowed to resettle even in the lands that are outside the boundaries of the so-called HSZ and SEZ. However, two weeks have passed without a proper response from the Sri Lankan authorities and the TNA politicians, a representative of the displaced people in Champoor told TamilNet on Saturday. The people were told that the TNA leaders wanted to give a few more days to the new government in Colombo. The EPC members of the TNA have also been requesting the people to relocate peacefully without protest, the uprooted people said. But, within a few hours after the elections, Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment officials accompanied by SL Navy officers and SL Police came to their temporary huts instructing the people to move away from their lands. The uprooted people demanded that they should be allowed to enter their lands first in order to consider voting for Rajapaksa. The campaigners of Mahinda Rajapaksa regime promised resettlement to a section of uprooted Champoor people if they were prepared to vote for Mr Rajapaksa. Officials from Colombo accompanied by SL military Tamil National Alliance (TNA) politicians in Trincomalee are under pressure from the Sampanthan polity not to voice against Colombo at this juncture as the TNA is collaborating with Mr Maithiripala Sirisena’s regime on a number of issues, including the future governance of the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC), the uprooted people from Champoor told TamilNet. Despite the ‘regime change’, the Sri Lanka Navy occupying Champoor and the Sri Lankan Police have chased away the 162 families, who were clearing their plots to prepare for resettlement in the 1,430 acres of lands appropriated by Colombo under the so-called SEZ. The occupying Sri Lanka Navy was blocking the uprooted Tamils from resettling in their lands. Their lands, seized by Colombo under the so-called ‘Special Economic Zone’ (SEZ) were to be handed over to a Chinese-owned corporate. It has already announced its list of national (nominated) MPs.įollowing the election of Maithiripala Sirisena as new Sri Lankan President, the uprooted families from a section of the 5th Division and 7th Division of Champoor situated along both the sides of Champoor main road, started to clear their lands for resettlement. The Tamil National Alliance led by R Sampanthan will be contesting as Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi. The EPDP would contest under the betel leaf symbol and not under its own Veena symbol. This will be the first time that TMVP is contesting in north Sri Lanka.Īnother significant feature of the 2010 parliamentary election in Jaffna is that the Eelam Peoples’ Democratic Party (EPDP) led by Jaffna strongman and Cabinet minister Douglas Devananda is contesting as part of the United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
People vote for the party list and also indicate their preferences within the list.Īmong the parties contesting in Jaffna is the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP), a breakaway LTTE group thought to have a base only in the eastern districts of Batticaloa and Amparai. Political parties submit lists of candidates on a district basis. The elections are contested on a district basis with each district having a set number of seats.
The Sri Lankan parliamentary elections are to be held on April 8. Fifteen political parties and 12 independent groups would contest for the nine parliamentary seats in Jaffna district.
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