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‘Only original dwellers will be resettled’

*Not a single family other than original dwellers were resettled in the villages in the Musali Division

*Health facilities, schools and vocational training centres in welfare camp complex

Transport Minister Dullas Allahapperuma on behalf of the Government yesterday stressed that the Sinhalese will not be settled in earlier Tamil dominated areas when displaced persons are resettled in the North.

Addressing a press briefing at the Mahaweli Centre in Colombo, the Minister emphasised that no Sinhala colonies will be established in the areas where only Tamil people were living during the resettlement process.

Scoffing at a Parliamentarian’s comment to Times UK online, that the Government is trying to settle Sinhalese in Tamil villages under the cover of resettling displaced in the north, the Minister said not a single family other than original dwellers were resettled in the villages in the Musali Division in Mannar.

“The Government has no intention to Sinhalize people in Tamil dominated areas. We have not settled any outsider family other than permanent dwellers in the Eastern province,” he said.

The Minister said the displaced people in the Northern Province will be resettled in their original places of residence as soon as possible and the Government has not even thought of settling Sinhalese people in these areas.

Minister Allahapperuma also rejected the allegation that over 2,400 people die in the Menik farm welfare centre complex every week.

He said the Government has provided all facilities to these people and Japanese Special Envoy Yashushi Akashi also admitted that conditions in the welfare camps were satisfactory.

The Government looks after their welfare including health and educational requirements.

“We have established health facilities, schools and vocational training centres in this welfare camp complex,” he said.

 

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