President Maithripala Sirisena today rebuffed claims that Sinhalese were being resettled in the Tamil dominant Mullaitivu district.
Dismissing the claims as baseless, the President told media heads and senior journalists at a President’s House news conference that although in principle he believes that all Sri Lankans, irrespective of their ethnicity or other differences, have the right to live in any part of the country, there was no state-sponsored programmes to bring the Sinhalese from the South and resettle them in the north.
However, he said that to cope with the land requirements of the people in the Mahweli L zone in view of the natural population growth, they were being resettled in the adjacent areas.
In the Mullaitivu district, protests were held recently, claiming the Sinhalese from the South were being given land in the district to change the demography of the area.
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The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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