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Jaffna diary September
30 Monday -Parathithivu
- A man who broadcasts songs of former LTTE cadre Dileepan is attacked
by an unidentified person -Jaffna - A woman who allegedly steals Rs. 1000 from the handbag of another female passenger while travelling in a mini bus is produced at the LTTE women's camp -A Naval officer, Kumarasiri Ratnayake of Bandarawela is killed in a motor bike accident in Mallakam, six miles away from Palaly October 1
Tuesday - A programme
to plant thousand plants is launched at Inuvil -The Navy says
it will hand over houses that are not being used in the High security
zone of Mandaithivu October
2 Wednesday _ A complaint
is made to SLMM regarding a school girl being chased by a Sri Lanka
Army soldier when returning home after school. October
3 Thursday -A government
soldier crosses over to LTTE controlled areas because he is denied
leave October
4 Friday October
5 Saturday "I want
LTTE to return my house" Vishwanathan Kathiravelu has written three letters to the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran since July this year, but his appeals have fallen on deaf ears, he said. Mr.Kathiravelu
has taken up the matter with the Jaffna police, the Sri Lanka Monitoring
Mission (SLMM), the UNHCR and even sought legal assistance from
the Legal Aid Commission but the LTTE continues to occupy the house
on Browns Road, Jaffna. Mr.Kathiravelu
said he had given the three bed-roomed house in this highly residential
area of Jaffna for rent for two years in mid 2001. But in June this
year, LTTE cadres had entered the city under the terms of the MoU
signed with the government to carry out political work and they
had occupied this house. Having heard of the impending entry of
the LTTE cadres to the city, his tenants had given three months
notice and left the house as the group had occupied the house in
1990 as well when they were in control of the area. However, when
the army took over in 1996, the house had been handed back to him. Mr.Kathiravelu
had lodged complaints with the Jaffna police who had gone to the
house along with him. But the cadres had said that the house did
not belong to him and he had no right to ask for it. The house is
in the name of his sister who resides in Britain, but Mr. Kathiravelu
has been given the power of attorney to dispose of the property,
he said. He had then
requested they give him their code numbers so that he could write
to the LTTE leader requesting that he get his men to leave his house.
They had refused this as well. Mr.Kathiravelu
had then approached the SLMM in early July who informed him that
he was the first person to make a formal complaint regarding forcible
occupation of a house by the LTTE and promised to pursue the case.
He said LTTE cadres had promised a visiting SLMM official they would
leave the house but later demand that Mr.Kathiravelu visit them
and make the request himself. "I will
not go to them. They are violating my basic human rights by occupying
the house forcibly," he said. Although the
police have asked him to file a case in Jaffna, he says it is unlikely
any lawyer there will appear for him. Instead he had sought free
legal aid so that he could file a fundamental rights petition in
the Supreme Court but that had been of no avail either. "I
have no money to spend on lawyers. I am a displaced person and I
live on the funds that my sisters and brother who live abroad send
me," he said. "Upto
1985, the LTTE cadres were a disciplined lot but now they are behaving
more like thugs," he charged. He hopes there will be some redress
for him soon and the police will act on his complaints. "If all the other police stations are carrying out their duties, the Jaffna police should do the same. This is a case of criminal trespass and they must act according to the law to deal with the offenders," he said. |
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-LTTE
hands over three children that come to join its movement back to
their parents
