08/02/2011
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National Fisheries Solidarity Movement
young boy has taken the burden of feeding ten membered family in a village of Jaffna district. 17 year old Muththaiya Dharshan work as construction worker and live in temporary shelter built in some one else's land. The family from Valikamauam North, have been shifted to vanni during war in 90s, after the end of war they have reach to home town hoping to resettle in their own land, but the land still inside the high security zone barbwires (HSZ).
03/10/2011
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Lanka Business Online
Mar 10, 2011 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Hotel Developers, a listed firm which owns the building on which Colombo Hilton is operated said a land sub-leased from a private party had been taken over by the state.
03/04/2011
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Zee News
Colombo: Sri Lankan Army said on Friday they are handing over a landmark hotel in Jaffna to its owners as part of the military's initiative to return private properties they occupied 15 years ago.
02/09/2011
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TamilNet
Large stretches of lands in Jaffna Peninsula in the so-called High Security Zones and in other areas where people are not permitted to resettle in the guise of landmines are hurriedly sold to Sinhala businessmen ostensibly to start ‘industrial estates’. 100 acres of land near Ezhuthumadduvaa’l railway station along the A9 Highway has been recently sold to an influential Sinhala businessman. Another Sinhalese attempted buying 80 acres between Ki’laali and Puloappazhai. Occupying military officials are also said to be interested in buying lands. Industrial estates are a smokescreen, but Sinhala colonisation in that stretch to completely seal off the people of Jaffna within their own peninsula is the strategy, political circles in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, in Valikaamam HSZ, a Sinhalese is said to be running a farm at Vasaavi’laan and another indiscriminately quarry limestone near Keerimalai.
10/17/2010
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The Sunday Leader
Over 80 ‘Sinhala’ families claiming to have lost their land during the war have returned to Jaffna asking for their land. The families in question have taken refuge in a railway station.
10/14/2010
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The Sunday Leader
The JHU has said that more than 150,000 Sinhalese families have been displaced in the North and East due to the war.