SINHALA ARMY requested time to conduct the withdrawal from TAMIL Public buildings/Private properties they had occupied in Vavuniya for decades.!!!

Army vacates Thandikulam camp: Land handed over to resettled families
August 11, 2010, 10:27 pm

by Franklin R. Satyapalan

The government commenced the withdrawal of the Security Forces from Public buildings and private properties in the Northern Region in stages. The Military last week vacated the fortified Thandikulam camp situated along the A-9 highway and handed over the 27 acres of land to 20 IDP families to resettle in their original places of residence, The Presidential Secretariat said yesterday.



It said that the withdrawals were being implemented in stages on the direction of Secretary of Defence Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.



District Secretary (GA) for Vavuniya Mrs P. S. M. Charles said that the military had withdrawn from the Omanthai Camp and set up camp elsewhere by clearing a jungle area 15 kilometres away.



The Vavuniya District Secretariat sources said that 40 acres of land vacated by the Army will be utilised to resettle IDP families in their original places of residence. One of the recipients was the family of Mrs. P. S. M. Charles, District Secretary for Vavuniya. They had to re-build their ancestral home which had been demolished during the conflict.



The Security Forces have requested time to conduct the withdrawal from public buildings and private property they had occupied in Vavuniya town for decades, District Secretariat Sources said.

ISLAND.LK