Representatives of over 4,600 people from four refugee camps in the Trincomalee district who complained to the World Food Programme (WFP) that their food supply has been discontinued for the past seven months have been told that the government was responsible for the stoppage. The dry rations have been provided by the WFP to be distributed by local government authorities.
State authorities have announced that food provisions will be re instated only if the refugees agree to leave the camps and relocate to settlements selected by the government instead of returning to their original places of residence.
The huts they live are also in a dilapidated state. Mainly farmers and fisher folk by profession, the Sampoor war displaced refuse to be forcefully evicted to places that will affect their livelihood. They say that the demarcated areas for relocation are not suitable either for paddy cultivation or fishing.
India’s largest state-owned electrical company National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has been handed over most of the land within the HSZ in 2011, to build a power plant in a joint venture with Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). The generated electricity will be transferred through a high voltage power cable to Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
Residents of Sampoor have filed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition in June 2012, challenging the takeover of their land. The Sri Lankan Navy banned refugees from entering the Badrakali Amman Hindu temple near the HSZ demanding that the petition be withdrawn.
The refugees in Manatchenai, Kaddaiparichchan, Paddiththidal, and Kiliveddi camps had to flee their homes when the Sri Lankan military wrested the land from Tamil Tigers by war in 2006.
Their land in Sampoor East, Sampoor West, Koonativu and Kadarkaraichenai extending to 800 acres was cordoned off as a High Security Zone in 2007 through an extraordinary . | 
Thousands of war displaced in eastern Sri Lanka have been denied food in a bid to force them away from their ancestral lands occupied by the military and India’s largest electricity company. Local health workers fear that many children and mothers are already affected by malnutrition.
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Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
The Ministry of Health re-appoints Mrs.Bawani Pasubathi raja has director of the Jaffna Teaching hospital. [
“Mann expressed concern that government forces had given excessive freedom to the LTTE-breakaway “Karuna group,” which was using this freedom destructively. [
The customary UN Medal Parade, the prestigious military ceremony that recognizes the exemplary contribution, made by any specific contingent to maintain law and order in Lebanon, saw Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) troops, currently serving there, honoured awarding UN medals as their period of service in Lebanon is nearing completion. [
SriLankan security personals have found the house of LTTE leader at Aanandhapuram area in Mullaitivu today. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [