{"id":106393,"date":"2020-09-08T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106393"},"modified":"2020-09-08T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T21:32:18","slug":"tamil-speaking-people-in-east-hakeem-asked-for-separate-admin-district-in-2015-pcoi-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/08\/tamil-speaking-people-in-east-hakeem-asked-for-separate-admin-district-in-2015-pcoi-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil-speaking people in East &#8211; Hakeem asked for separate admin district in 2015: PCoI told"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Yoshitha Perera <\/strong>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader, MP Rauff Hakeem had requested former president Maithripala Sirisena and former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to create a separate administrative district for Tamil-speaking people in the Eastern Province, the PCoI into the Easter Sunday attacks was told on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he had made this request during the 2015 presidential election and that it was a just proposal because people have to conduct their administrative work in their own language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SLMC was of the view that a separate administrative district should be given to the Tamil- speaking people in the coastal areas of the Ampara district and I do not think it was a barrier for reconciliation,\u201d Mr. Hakeem said in response to a question asked by a representative of the Attorney General&#8217;s Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there was a vast difference between an administrative unit and a political unit and the administrative unit was convenient for people living in a particular area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AG&#8217;s representative asked Mr. Hakeem if this was part of the Oluvil declaration put forward by some university students during the then minister A.H.M. Ashroff&#8217;s tenure as SLMC leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Hakeem said it could be possible because by signing the Indo-Lanka agreement in 1987, the Muslims were severely affected and with the 30-year armed conflict, the Muslim leaders feared that Muslim community would take up arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Mr. Hakeem answered in the positive when told that most of the administrative activities in the Northern and Eastern Provinces were currently being conducted in Tamil.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader, MP Rauff Hakeem had requested former president Maithripala Sirisena and former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to create a separate administrative district for Tamil-speaking people in the Eastern Province, the PCoI into the Easter Sunday attacks was told on Monday. He said he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}