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Monday, April 22, 2013
Military acquires more lands in Vavuniya
Monday, 22 April
2013 
The government continues to acquire land
belonging to civilians in the North. This time around, the government has set
its sight on acquiring a large area of land in Vavuniya to build a permanent
military camp.
According
to the Land and Land Development Ministry, the civilian owners of the land
located close to the A9 highway have already been informed of this move.
The
Ministry has said the land acquisition was carried out legally and the owners
will be compensated.
Tamil
political parties have continuously raised objections to the presence of army
camps in the North following the end of the war.
The
army has said that the military did not have the mandate to acquire lands and
that any land requirement of the military is informed to the Lands
Ministry.
Sri
Lanka guilty of major human rights violations in 2012: US
report
The US has said that Sri Lanka's
rights record in 2012 was tainted by "major human rights problems" including
"involuntary disappearances" and "unlawful killings" by security forces and
pro-government military groups.
"The major human rights problems were attacks on and harassment of civil society activists, persons viewed as LTTE sympathisers, and journalists by persons allegedly tied to the government, creating an environment of fear and self censorship, involuntary disappearances as well as lack of accountability," the US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012 said.
It added that other serious problems included unlawful killings both by security forces and government-allied para military groups.
"The government prosecuted a very small number of officials implicated in human rights abuses but is yet to hold anyone accountable," it added.
Although the number of killings associated with government para military groups had declined from 2011, the report charged government-allied Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), led by Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare Douglas Devananda, of engaging in intimidation, extortion, corruption and violence against civilians in Jaffna.
The other issues listed in the country report include enforced and involuntary disappearances and widespread impunity with the government failing to solve attacks on journalists.
The US report follows the British government's 2012 report released earlier in the week, where the former too had expressed concern over the rights situation in Sri Lanka.
File Photo: Protests
in India against human rights violation in Sri Lanka.-PTI Colombo, April 21, 2013
The US has said that Sri Lanka's
rights record in 2012 was tainted by "major human rights problems" including
"involuntary disappearances" and "unlawful killings" by security forces and
pro-government military groups."The major human rights problems were attacks on and harassment of civil society activists, persons viewed as LTTE sympathisers, and journalists by persons allegedly tied to the government, creating an environment of fear and self censorship, involuntary disappearances as well as lack of accountability," the US State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012 said.
It added that other serious problems included unlawful killings both by security forces and government-allied para military groups.
"The government prosecuted a very small number of officials implicated in human rights abuses but is yet to hold anyone accountable," it added.
Although the number of killings associated with government para military groups had declined from 2011, the report charged government-allied Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), led by Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare Douglas Devananda, of engaging in intimidation, extortion, corruption and violence against civilians in Jaffna.
The other issues listed in the country report include enforced and involuntary disappearances and widespread impunity with the government failing to solve attacks on journalists.
The US report follows the British government's 2012 report released earlier in the week, where the former too had expressed concern over the rights situation in Sri Lanka.
