{"id":81231,"date":"2018-09-21T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81231"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:22:14","slug":"establishment-of-mono-tamil-villages-in-the-hill-country-stop-this-national-disaster-at-all-cost-before-it-is-too-late-appeal-to-all-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/21\/establishment-of-mono-tamil-villages-in-the-hill-country-stop-this-national-disaster-at-all-cost-before-it-is-too-late-appeal-to-all-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishment of mono Tamil Villages in the hill country – Stop this national disaster at all cost before it is too late Appeal to all patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sudath Gunasekara <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

21.Sept. 2018<\/p>\n

Dear Patriots<\/p>\n

I attaching herewith a bill presented to Parliament by Digambaran the Minister of Upcountry Village And Infrastructure Development foe establishing mono Tamil villages in the Hill Country the Geographical Heartland of this country<\/p>\n

Already this Government has established 1340 Tamil villages within the N\u2019Eliya District in areas over 3500 feet above sea level going up to 7700\u00a0 feet at Lidasal with 160 houses even before this bill. At Dancinan they have built 404 house. All these 1340 housed has already been ceremonially handed over to Estate Tamils with the Participation of the Indian Ambassador by this Government.<\/p>\n

These are estate lands coming under the LRC . The LRC has no legal authority to alienate crown lands as far as I know.<\/p>\n

The irony is that none of these lands have been given under the existing laws covering the alienation of crown land. The Government Agents and the Divisional AGAA who are vested with powers over crown lands tare also kept completely out of this program. These houses are funded by the Indian Government<\/p>\n

This programme will cover the entire hill country and just imagine 1.2 million Indian estate labourers occupying these villages whose heart and souls are in India, occupying the prime watershed of this country that provides the main source of the water for the whole country and on which rests the entire life system and the civilization of this Island nation.<\/p>\n

This programe will final end up in a Mini Tamilnadu right at the center of our nation. Just think of the future political and strategic situation that will emerge if this is allowed beside the numerous ecological ramifications where the need to put all lands at least above 3000 feet \u00a0under forests is a crying need to protect this country.<\/p>\n

In my opinion no all land above at least 3500 feet \u00a0should be converted to strictly reserved forest if this country is to be protected from future desertification<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t is a shame for a national government to embark on this kind of lunacy, having only the Tamil vote in mind as if the destruction and the devastation the British has done by removing the entire forest cover on the hills\u00a0 over 1,3 million acres en is not enough, Shame to these politicians who have no love for the country or the Sinhala nation.<\/p>\n

The crying need of the our is to think of a comprehensive national programme to restore what is lost and rehabilitate the land and the forests cover to bring back the physical stability of the prime watershed of the nation by declaring it as a Tahanchi kele as it was done by our ancient Kings where there was no settlement on lands above 3500 feet..<\/p>\n

Therefore I earnestly request all MPP irrespective of whether o Sinhala, Tamil or Muslim to oppose this suicidal decision .Let all settlements be on land below 3000 and all land above 5000 under strict forest cover. If immediate steps are not taken to stop this Indian invasion and colonization of the nations mother watershed, we are doomed to\u00a0 disappear as a nation in no time.<\/p>\n

ONE HAS ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THE Tea plantations will disappear before long from these lands degradation and \u00a0due to plantation would\u00a0 slide back to forest as John Still (1930) a planter and antiquarian has pointed out<\/p>\n

Furthermore it is a tragedy that no one ever has thought of the plight of the Kandyan Sinhalese peasant who fought valiantly for nearly 500 years against the colonial invaders and lost everything they had inherited from the dawn of history in order to save their motherland for posterity.<\/p>\n

The Kandyan Peasantry Commission of 1951 is now permanently thrown in to the dust bin of history. The once lingering Kandyan Peasantry Department and the Upcountry Development Authority were closed down in Jan 2014 and the Kandyan Sinhalese were also buried along with it.<\/p>\n

In this backdrop I appeal to all Sinhala politicians especially those who are supposed to represent the Kandyan areas to vehemently oppose this legislation and abort this attempt to create mono Tamil Villages in the central hill country.<\/p>\n

However since I have no trust or an atom of faith what so-ever on any of our power hungry self-seeking unpatriotic politicians I appeal to you all true patriots who love the motherland\u00a0 and the Sinhala nation to rise against this conspiracy and disaster and to do everything under the sun to stop this move\u00a0 national calamity<\/p>\n

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New Villages Development Authority for Plantation Region Bill presented to Parliament<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

By Skandha Gunasekara<\/em><\/p>\n

The Government presented the New Villages Development Authority for Plantation Region Bill in Parliament on Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Presenting the Bill, Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development Minister PalanyThigambaram said that plantation sector communities have not been provided with even the most basic of facilities, and that it was high time the State took measures to rectify the situation.Successive Governments have failed to resolve the hardships faced by the upcountry plantation sector community. In 1997, the then-President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga set up a Ministry to address the issues faced by the plantation sector communities in the hill country, but that Ministry was soon absorbed into the Ministry of Housing. When the current Government came into power in 2015, a Ministry was set up once again, but as it was a new Ministry there wasn\u2019t enough resources and manpower to carry out the necessary development activities. Therefore, this bill is crucial to uplifting the lives of those living in these communities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He said the new authority would allow the State to directly be involved in providing assistance, such as infrastructure and roads. The Bill seeks to establish the New Villages Development Authority for the Plantation Region, which would develop new villages in the plantation region, as well as infrastructure development.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the Bill, the objectives of the Authority shall be to: ensure inclusion of the plantation community in the designated areas into the social mainstream by socio, economic, cultural and infrastructure development in the plantation region; and empower the plantation community in the designated areas socially and economically, in order to enable them to contribute to the national development process.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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