73 displaced from Kachchai in Jaffna among the dead in Mullaittivu
High Security Zone constraints push people into death
Out of a death toll of 1666 in Mullaittivu as at 09.00 today 1st January 2005, rescue workers identified 73 persons belonging to 26 families from one village, Kachchai, Chavakachcheri in Jaffna. These are Tamil fishermen families from St. Ligory’s Church road in Kachchai, Chavakachcheri who were displaced from their homesteads in the Jaffna peninsula during military operations in 1996.
The cease fire agreement (CFA) signed by the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, envisaged civilians displaced to resettle in their own places within a time frame of a maximum of 90 days within which the occupying SL military was to vacate public buildings and civilian homesteads. But this assurance was not honoured in spite of a lapse of three years since the CFA, and many parts of the Jaffna peninsula including the village of Kachchai continue to be designated as High Security Zones and denied access by the SL military to the rightful owners of homesteads and farmlands. Similar tragedy had befallen on many other fishermen families from Palaly, Myliddy and Mathagal in the Jaffna peninsula who were displaced during 1996 and set up temporary shelters along the sea shore in the areas free of military occupation and conducive for their livelihood. There was a heavy concentration of such families in the Mullaittivu coast at the time the tidal wave struck. Updated Figures by the LTTE Peace Secretariat as at 20.00hrs 1st January 2005
| District | Number
of
Bodies
Found | Number
of
People
Injured | Number
of
People
Missing | Number
of
Families
displaced | | Amparai | 13128 | 2800 | 2643 | 84921 |
| Batticaloa | 2254 | 2100 | 1000 | 52117 |
| Jaffna & Vadamaradchi East | 780 | 1218 | 2000 | 16174 |
| Mullaitivu | 1687 | 1386 | 2750 | 5800 |
| Trincomalee | 958 | 2238 | 2431 | 20296 |
| Total | 18807 | 9742 | 10824 | 179308 |
01 January 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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