{"id":156182,"date":"2026-05-13T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=156182"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:22:35","slug":"the-forgotten-facts-about-kachchatheevu-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/05\/13\/the-forgotten-facts-about-kachchatheevu-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten facts about Kachchatheevu Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

by, Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Kachchatheevu Islands are a 285-acre island located in the Palk Strait; which was recognized as Sri Lankan territory under the 1974 and 1976 maritime boundary agreements signed between India and Sri Lanka; in 1974 and 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to political  scholars this was seen as a deliberate political move to unrest Tamil Nadu political powers: in fear of itself demanding independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This resulted in the curbing of the Tamil Nadu fisherman’s longest legitimate fisherman’s fundamental territorial rights; with the Kachchatheevu islands two agreements; signed between the then Prime Ministers Mrs. Indira Gandhi of India and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike; in 1974 and 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This system change unfortunately is causing humiliation to the Tamil Nadu government as the Sri Lanka Navy’s operations are made to forcibly take into their custody these Tamil Nadu fisherman who enter into the territorial waters within the Kachchatheevu Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must also point out here that the long lasted Jaffna Peninsula and it’s Kingdom before it’s Dissolution by the Portuguese in 1619; was an exceptionally authentic Tamil Empowerment of South India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore I strongly point out to the facts straight and directly, “that what is historically evidential must not be made to be abrogated by the manipulation of political parties for their self recognition and governance”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by, Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine Kachchatheevu Islands are a 285-acre island located in the Palk Strait; which was recognized as Sri Lankan territory under the 1974 and 1976 maritime boundary agreements signed between India and Sri Lanka; in 1974 and 1976. According to political  scholars this was seen as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156182","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=156182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156183,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156182\/revisions\/156183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}