{"id":55696,"date":"2016-06-18T21:28:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T03:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55696"},"modified":"2016-06-18T04:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T11:28:04","slug":"lack-of-sinhala-representation-in-the-resettlement-committee-appointed-for-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/18\/lack-of-sinhala-representation-in-the-resettlement-committee-appointed-for-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Sinhala Representation in the Resettlement Committee appointed for the North"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa\u00a0<\/strong>Media Spoekman\u00a0THE GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

3rd June 2016<\/p>\n

H.E Maithreepala Sirisena<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President of Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n

P<\/strong>r<\/strong>e<\/strong>sident Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombo -1<\/strong><\/p>\n

S<\/strong>r<\/strong>i Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lack of Sinhala Representation in the Resettlement Committee appointed for the North<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear H.E the President,<\/p>\n

We, the Global Sri Lankan Forum, refer to the recent formation of high level committee to work out a methodology to resettle the displaced Sinhala and Muslim people in the Northern province due to the LTTE Tamil terrorism. We understand that the committee is comprised of two Muslim Ministers and one Tamil Minister but not a fair representation for the Sinhala people who in fact faced more issues than any other group in the Northern province. The members to the High Level committee appointed by the parliament are Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Prison Reforms, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs D.M. Swaminathan and Minister of Provincial Councils and Local Government Faizer Mustafa.<\/p>\n

The Global Sri Lankan Forum- GSLF- would like to draw your serious attention on the appointment of Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen to this sensitively important Committee. As Your Excellency is well aware of Mr. Bathiudeen is instrumental in resettling and creating Muslim colonies illegally all over the North and the East and had been accused for his alleged involvement in encroaching the Wilpatthuwa national reservation by force. Further, another member of the committee; Minister of Prison Reforms, Resettlement and Hindu Religious Affairs D.M. Swaminathan has unfairly ignored to provide much needed infrastructure, housing for the internally displaced Sinhala people in the North and the East and he has been allegedly acted in a biased manner and by providing undue favouritism to Tamils over the internally displaced Sinhala people.<\/p>\n

The civil society groups and Sinhala people have no confidence and trust on this ethnically imbalanced so called High Committee which only represent the interests of two minority communities.<\/p>\n

Sinhala people who lived in Northern Province were forced move to the South due to Tamil terrorism. According to the reliable sources it has been recorded that over 75,000 Sinhala people had been displaced in North due to LTTE Tamil Terrorism. Currently, only Sinhala settlement in Jaffna is Sinhala Ravaya Gama<\/em>\u201d in Nawakkuliya and even this Sinhala village has not been benefited from resettlement and reconciliation programmed implemented by your government to date.<\/p>\n

This village is also under frequent threats and attacks by the Tamil extremist and pro-LTTE<\/p>\n

politicians in the TNA (Please refer http:\/\/www.sinhalanet.net\/sinhala-ravaya-gama-in-jaffna)<\/a><\/p>\n

In relation to these important issues, we, the Global Sri Lankan Forum would kindly request you to redress the following;<\/p>\n

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  1. Nominate two Sinhala Ministers who has good historical knowledge of Sinhala people who lived in the North and the East to this High Committee to resettle the internally displaced Sinhala People in the said two provinces,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Direct the relevant government ministers and institutions to provide all necessary housing, education, medical and infrastructure facilities to all internally displaced Sinhala people living the North and the East (e.g. in Nawakkuliya \u2013 Jaffna, Killinochchi, Kokilllai , Bogahawatte, Keviliyamaduwa, Mangalagama, Eravur etc.,)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Your Sincerely,<\/p>\n

      Ranjith Soysa<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Media Spoekman<\/p>\n

      For Global Sri Lankan Forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Ranjith Soysa\u00a0Media Spoekman\u00a0THE GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM 3rd June 2016 H.E Maithreepala Sirisena The President of Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka President Office Colombo -1 Sri Lanka Lack of Sinhala Representation in the Resettlement Committee appointed for the North Dear H.E the President, We, the Global Sri Lankan Forum, refer to the recent formation of […]<\/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-55696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55696","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=55696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}