{"id":45223,"date":"2015-07-03T14:34:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T21:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45223"},"modified":"2015-07-03T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T21:34:53","slug":"minister-swaminathan-failed-to-visit-sinhala-idps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/03\/minister-swaminathan-failed-to-visit-sinhala-idps\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTER SWAMINATHAN FAILED TO VISIT SINHALA IDPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Jayantha Liyanage,\u00a0Coordinating Secretary \u2013 NESIA.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Certain Pro Eelamists websites has reported on 29.06.2015, that the Minister Swaminathan had visited Valikaamam North and had met representatives from certain organization representing uprooted Tamils. The said representatives have severely criticized the minister for its failure to provide housing for Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>North East Sinhala IDP Association (NESIA) represents the interests of uprooted Sinhala inhabitants from North &amp; East and has being engaging with Minister Swaminathan during the past several months highlighting the grievances of the Sinhala IDPs, in which most of them have been chased away by members of Tamil Eelam Terrorist organizations, now acting as political parties (EPRLF, TELO, PLOTE etc) as well as by the LTTE during pogrom against the Sinhala inhabitants during July 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The July pogrom against innocent Sinhala civilians were initiated by killing of 13 unarmed Sinhala soldiers by the LTTE who were out of duty and on their way home Thereafter, the army had to rescue Sinhala civilians in Jaffna from total genocide and large number of Sinhala inhabitants had been disappeared without a trace.<\/p>\n<p>NESIA had sent two specific documents (attachments 1 &amp; 2 with responses 3 &amp; 4) to the Minster consists of lists of names of the returned Sinhala IDPs now without permanent houses requesting the Minister to build houses for them at Navatkkuliya in Jaffna and in Madu area in Mannar district. The Minster has responded by directing the Jaffna and Mannar Government Agents to find out and report back.<\/p>\n<p>NESIA sadly notes that Minister Swaminathan has not visited the Sinhala IDPs during the visit to Valikaamam (Valigama in Sinhala), which is not far away from Navatkkuliya instead the minister appears to be concentrating on welfare of the Tamils only. Further NESIA states that so far no action has been taken by the resettlement ministry to address the grievances of the Sinhala IDPs now in Navatkkuliya in Jaffna and in Madu area even though, the 50000 Indian Housing project has been in operation since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jayantha Liyanage,<\/p>\n<p>Coordinating Secretary \u2013 NESIA.<\/p>\n<p>02.07.2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayantha Liyanage,\u00a0Coordinating Secretary \u2013 NESIA. Certain Pro Eelamists websites has reported on 29.06.2015, that the Minister Swaminathan had visited Valikaamam North and had met representatives from certain organization representing uprooted Tamils. The said representatives have severely criticized the minister for its failure to provide housing for Tamils. North East Sinhala IDP Association (NESIA) represents the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45223","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=45223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}