Trincomalee town converted to look like a Sinhala Buddhist
Trincomalee district currently looks like a battle ground
following three and half years of ceasefire and the
declaration of emergency regulation by the parliament.
Military check points and security posts appear in the nooks
and crooks of the Trincomalee town. As if this is not enough
military motorcycle brigades travelling on the roads at high
speed is further threatening the people. The military has
been filling up the town and the surroundings under the
pretext of protecting civilians following the Buddha statue
affair. Roundups have become a regular daily event.
It is to ameliorate this tense situation created by
excessive military deployment that the Tamil People’s
Federation (TPF) requested the SLMM to take the necessary
actions to remove the military camps and check points in the
key locations in town by Monday. The federation says that
they have held talks with SLMM seven or eight times with
this request. It is critical of SLMM because it says SLMM
has taken no definitive action on the matter. In particular TPF has asked SLMM that the security posts in
the town centre like the one near the Shanmuga Hindu Ladies
College and the one in Srimapuram to be removed immediately
as they are creating fear and a lot of inconvenience to the
people. Sinhala chauvinism is acting very smartly to occupy
Trincomalee town. It is also cleverly using the law to
repress people’s right to speak out. In particular using
the current environment of emergency all possible activities
against Tamils are being carried out. These activities have
destroyed normalcy in Trincomalee. Anyone who has visited
Trincomalee a few months will be taken aback by the changes.
Every possible action to make the town look like a Sinhala
Buddhist has been undertaken. A substantial part of Trincomalee was already illegally
settled through planned colonisation over the last few
decades. The latest well planned actions have changed its
appearance completely. One must wait and see what actions SLMM is planning to take
on this matter.
29 August 2005
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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