fazlal
06-03-2007, 09:50 AM
A total of 1,118 individuals belonging to 310 families of the Athawetunaweva village in the Welioya, are now settled in a school in the adjacent Parakramapura town, being displaced following the LTTE mortar attacks on 31st May,2007.
The civilians fled the border village which was populated by ethnic Sinhalese in fear for life as the terrorists continued firing mortars indiscriminately. A SL Army soldier was killed and five others including two civilian suffered injuries.
The President has ordered urgent relief to the villagers, with additional food provisions and medicine for the displaced. According to divisional authorities majority of the displaced are women and children.
Meanwhile, hundreds of villagers belonging to nine villages, including Alagalla, Theeruvagama and Aluthgama in Vavuniya, protested at Kalukunnamtaduwa along the Jaffna-Kandy A-9 road yesterday(01), demanding additional security for their villages.
The protestors said that eight home guards attached to their villages had been killed by the LTTE in recent weeks and no action had been taken to fill the vacancies. They threatened not to leave the demonstration until authorities assured them of adequate security to their villages.
A large number of families had left their villages in the face of increasing LTTE atrocities.
The LTTE is a ruthless terror group who fights for a mono-ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils living in Sri Lanka since 1983. It has been the outfit's strategy since its inception to flush out Singhalese and Muslim people from North and East by bloody ethnic cleansing raids. Thousands of civilians, mostly women and children were perished in the most ruthless massacres during its 20 years of terror campaign.
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The civilians fled the border village which was populated by ethnic Sinhalese in fear for life as the terrorists continued firing mortars indiscriminately. A SL Army soldier was killed and five others including two civilian suffered injuries.
The President has ordered urgent relief to the villagers, with additional food provisions and medicine for the displaced. According to divisional authorities majority of the displaced are women and children.
Meanwhile, hundreds of villagers belonging to nine villages, including Alagalla, Theeruvagama and Aluthgama in Vavuniya, protested at Kalukunnamtaduwa along the Jaffna-Kandy A-9 road yesterday(01), demanding additional security for their villages.
The protestors said that eight home guards attached to their villages had been killed by the LTTE in recent weeks and no action had been taken to fill the vacancies. They threatened not to leave the demonstration until authorities assured them of adequate security to their villages.
A large number of families had left their villages in the face of increasing LTTE atrocities.
The LTTE is a ruthless terror group who fights for a mono-ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils living in Sri Lanka since 1983. It has been the outfit's strategy since its inception to flush out Singhalese and Muslim people from North and East by bloody ethnic cleansing raids. Thousands of civilians, mostly women and children were perished in the most ruthless massacres during its 20 years of terror campaign.
http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070602_04