Jaffna under Sri Lankan military
The Jaffna fishermen and the Sri Lankan navy. 500 fishermen in Punguduthivu, an islet off the Jaffna coast, have submitted a complaint to the Government Agent of Jaffna that the Sri Lankan Navy is preventing them from fishing. The complaint was signed by all 500 fishermen. In the complaint, the 500 fishermen have requested the Jaffna Government Agent to make arrangements for them to go fishing.
The Sri Lankan Navy is also preventing fishermen from other islets off the Jaffna coast from taking their catch to the Jaffna mainland for sale as they have always done. The population size in their own islet is too small for these fishermen to market their catch. Thus the fishermen in these other islets are also denied their livelihood. In addition, Jaffna which is facing shortages of food due to the closure of the A9 route is not even getting the locally caught fish. The above ban is in addition to the ban on fishermen imposed by the Sri Lankan Navy in the northeastern part of Jaffna for the last six months. Recently the Navy has said that the fishermen can use nets to catch fish from the shores. The fishermen society has charged that these shores are too shallow to catch from the shores. Most people in the world think the fishermen live off the sea and the navy protects the sea for the fishermen. In the island of Ceylon, fishermen in the Tamil homeland are prevented from fishing even for their daily bread by the Sri Lankan Navy. 106 vehicles confiscated by SLA from its civilian owners in Jaffna over the last month are used by the Sri Lankan military for its own use. The Sri Lankan military in Jaffna is refusing to return the vehicles to the owners. The military using the vehicles for military purposes and the vehicles have sustained damages. The owners have complained that they can see their vehicles being used by the SLA. Sri Lankan military have begun to steal valuable possession from people’s homes when they round up villages to search civilian homes.
30 September 2006
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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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