Srilankan
Political today
‘Thanks to all Medias to promote
Marichchikatti’
The whole country should know that
at that time when the LTTE was trying to divide this country, these innocent
people sacrificed their lands and moved out but did not assist them. These
people did not help the LTTE at the time and they left their homes, belongings
and mosques, everything … and left with just a handful of essentials in a
shopping bag.
Today it is these innocent
civilians who are living like this in the Marichchikatti village and are being
treated in this manner.
After having left their lands these people returned to their villages around 23 years later, and one can imagine that the forest had engulfed their villages and it was not the same as when they left; it had been uninhabited for the past 23 or so years. However the remnants of a mosque, Houses, well, Heritage inscription and a cemetery are yet visible and this is proof that these villagers lived here in the past.
Prior to 1990 this village was
occupied solely by the Muslim people and it is they who have now returned to
claim rightful ownership to their lands. Had there been any other race that
lived here then we too would welcome them now.
However it is only when these
innocent Muslim civilians are returning to claim their rightful land that the
Wildlife Department, the BBS, extremist monks and everyone else is making such
a big issue of it. I wish to firmly state that these people are not encroaching
on forest land. This is blatant discrimination against the Muslim villages and
we have not damaged or cleared any land that belongs to the Wilpattu National
Park.
Marichchikatti, internationally known as Marichchukkaddi,
during the British Colonial period, was one of several ancient pearling
villages, like Silavatthurai and Arippu, situated north of the Wilpattu
sanctuary, along the Kondaichchi Bay, and south of the Mannar Island, known as
“Epidorus” by the ancient Greeks and Romans. The trans-Indian Ocean pearl trade
with the Indian sub-continent and Sri Lanka, dominated by the Romans during the
heyday of the Roman Empire, was taken over by the Arabs, after the decline of
the Roman Empire in the 4th-century A.D.
http://www.mehamnews.com/2015/05/identity-my-medias-to-marichchikatti.html
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