Sri Lanka: NPC member presents data exposing extent of genocidal land grab in Vanni

Mullaiththeevu district

300 Sinhala families have been brought from South into Gajabapura, which was earlier known as Ceylon theatre. Each of the occupying family has received 1/2 acre residential land and 1 acre of agricultural land. Similarly, 450 Sinhalese families have been brought into Nikkawewa , 400 families into Kalyanapua and 400 in Kiripanwewea, Mr Ravikaran said.

Sinhalese from South have been brought in to the occupied Tamil villages. Not a single Tamil has received lands from Colombo under the Mahaweli scheme so far in Mullaiththeevu district, the NPC councillor said.

In Odduchuddaan, ancient Tamil villages have become Sinhalicised into Gajabapura, Nava-kalyana-pura, Apitawatunu-wewa and Nikkawewa, These areas now come under the Sinhala division of ‘Weli Oya’.

In Karai-thu’raip-pattu division, Tamil villages have been Sinhalicised into Janakapura, Kiripanwewa, Agatualwewa, Kalyanapura and Sampathnuwara.
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