TNS Corner
Sri Lanka Colonizes the Tamil Homeland - LTTE

May 2, 2008, 00:00

Killinochchi - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) says Sri Lanka systematically engineered demographic changes in the Tamil homeland for many decades. Singhalese leaders, past and present openly says Sinhala settlements in the Tamil home land will destroy the claim of Tamil Home Land.

"Sri Lankan State engineered demographic changes in the Tamil homeland

For decades, Tamil people have observed with alarm the Sri Lankan State engineered demographic changes in the Tamil homeland. Many a Sinhala leading politicians have openly stated that these Sinhala settlements in the Tamil homeland will destroy the claim of Tamil homeland," LTTE statement said.

"The creation of Amparai district making Tamils who were the predominant majority in that area into a minority, the insertion Sinhala areas in Trincomalee thus making it a hotspot of ethnic pogroms, the creation of the Manalaru HSZ and Sinhala settlements, the massacres and burning of Tamil homes to chase them away in order to facilitate these changes have not been documented adequately," statement added.

"A few publications in Tamil have come out recently. Peace Secretariat has collated the data in these publications and has released an English document with maps and statistics," statement added.