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by A.H.M. Farook

Sub-committees dealing with the re-settlement process of displaced persons should ensure that their activities meet the satisfaction of all communities affected by war. They are duty bound to take initiatives without showing any discrimination to any particular community, observed SLMC leader and Minister Rauff Hakeem last Tuesday.

Hakeem made these comments at a special discussion in connection with resettlement of displaced persons from the North East held at the Ministry of Eastern Development and Muslim Religious Affairs last Tuesday in Colombo.

Several charges are being levelled against these Joint Task Forces and Sub committees today. However, special attention is being paid on the area of resettlement in the North East.

The activities of these Sub committees dealing with the humanitarian resettlement process of the North - East are also to be launched at hectic pace very shortly.

When these long and short term programmes are undertaken, the interests of the Minister should not be ignored. Steps must be taken to ensure that they too enjoy the due benefits accruing from it, the Minister said.

Matters relating to a comprehensive research on displaced Muslims in the North - East and engagement of Muslim volunteers in the demining process in Muslim majority areas were also taken up for discussion.

Officials and intellectuals who participated here brought to focus the innumerable problems Muslims of the East face when they venture out for resettlement even in the government controlled areas in the East.

Minister Hakeem here gave a detailed account of his meeting with the Japanese representative Yashooshi Akashi recently and informed those present that the latter had agreed to meet a Muslim delegation under his leadership in his next trip to Sri Lanka. 

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