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Gotabhaya instructs to ban transport of livestock from abandoned Tamil houses in Batticaloa

Thursday, 04 October 2007

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has instructed the Batticaloa district commanding officer of Sri Lanka Army (SLA), Superintendents of Police and Special Task Force (STF) officials to ban the transport of livestock of Tamils from the areas in Batticaloa district, recently brought under the authority of the Sri Lankan Army.

The DS gave this directive after receiving a complaint from Minister of Disaster Relief Services, Ameer Ali, in this connection.

In the complaint submitted to Ameer Ali, Tamils alleged that Sri Lankan soldiers and cadres of paramilitary groups are stealing livestock and poultry birds from their houses and those are being sold in Sinhala areas in Polonnaruwa district.

The affected Tamils have already made a number of complaints regarding the rampant incidents theft of their livestock from abandoned houses in areas such as Vaakarai and Kokkaddichchoalai to their members of Parliament as well as to a number of top officials, including the SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

More than 60,000 Internally Displaced People (IDPs) who are yet to be resettled in areas like Chengkaladi-Badulla Road and Pulipaaynthakal, Kiraan, are still languishing in welfare centers in inhuman conditions, amid absence of many basic amenities.

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Jay said:

The crimes of the Sri Lankan soldiers and cadres of paramilitary groups have now resorted to stealing livestock and poultry birds from the houses of the affected Tamils and selling them in Sinhala areas in Polonnaruwa district. Already, they have looted all their belongings, raped the Tamil women and destroyed their livelihood. While the government is blocking the UN rights activists from visiting the devastated areas and against the move for the UN monitoring mission to be put in place. All these are happening in the back. Either the government is not giving the soldiers enough to eat or is the mentality of the Armed forces as such Ã¢â?¬â?? a proud achievement of the government.

2007-10-05 03:32:18

saj said:

Came on Jay,

You haven't seen Sri Lanka for last few years. What property these people have to loot or rob. Their valubles were taken long back by LTTE prommissing their own tamil Ealam and their so called leaders invested that money in giving education to their children in Europe.

Just think, Has prabakaran or ThamilChelvan worked hard and earned lot of money to send their children to Europe for education. Or they use the money which they robbed from innocent civilians to do so.

Do not believe falls propaganda. Use your own brains and think before you act.

2007-10-06 09:26:12

Jay said:

The following excerpts which are extracted from a Journalist view point on the aftermath of the aerial bombings and destruction carried out by the Srilankan armed forces as he toured the areas of the East:
-Babies born in dirty tents - babies born under a dirty tent, on a mattress of sand, flies and mud
-Realities reveals women gather near a tent with their young children, some squatting,
others standing just to collect their weekly rations of 140 gms of sugar, and 1.4 kg of
rice.
- A wizened distraught old lady lamenting to journalists, "My grandson was taken in by
the army. He has wife and children living under a torn tent in the transit centre and deprived of her familiar surroundings, this is more than she can bear.
- Displaced families who are forcibly brought to the camps are mainly paddy
cultivators, fishermen Ã¢â?¬â?? a man laments, Ã¢â?¬Å?We were brought here by force and through cunning. Forty buses arrived with boards stating Sampur. We thought we were being taken back to our villages and our homes. But we were brought here to this transit centre instead by force. We can't go out. We are like prisoners. The children have had their education interrupted due to constant movement.
- In Alamkulam IDP camp in Vaharai, 480 families and 1615 people mark time
endlessly waiting for their lives to be restored.
- Poor sanitary conditions and weak water supply; diarrhoea is most prevalent among
the IDPs. it is malnutrition that poses the biggest threat.
- Jungles scorched to the ground by the military. The flora and fauna, the habitats
destroyed.
- Tsunami houses destroyed - in Panichchankerni, a row of houses built for the victims
of the tsunami were bombed from above.
- The Vaharai hospital Ã¢â?¬â?? hospital authorities explained that malnutrition and hepatitis
are most prevalent; a maternity ward had been aerially bombarded causing death of
10 patients.
-Ample evidence of aerial bombardment all around. Along the way towards Valachchenai and Batticaloa, newly built tsunami reconstruction houses had been bombarded with shells.
- People living in the IDP camps say they have lost faith in humanity.

Is this enough to know what the Sri Lankan armed forces are capable of doing. The journalist is a Singhalese who referred the devastated area as Ã¢â?¬â?? the wretched earth.

2007-10-07 05:57:59

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