Sinhala People were Banned meeting President in Batticaloa
While President Ranil Wickramasinghe was on a visit to Batticaloa district in 23rd June 2024 the Eraur Magistrate Court has issued a restraining order against 14 people, including Sumanarathana Thero, Ampitiya Mangalaramadipati of Batticaloa, in order to prevent any obstruction to the events taking place in Karadianaru and Chenkaladi areas.
After considering a request made by the Police Station Officer Karadianaru to the Eraur Magistrate’s Court, saying that if a group including Ven. Sumanarathana Thero of Ampitiya participates in the celebrations of the President’s arrival, the Tamils are likely to be provoked.
Commenting on this, the Batticaloa Mangalarama nayaka thero Ampitiye Sumanarathana said:
“Divulapotana are Sinhala villages where our people have lived for a long time. After the war, when our people moved, pro-LTTE Tamils kicked out the Sinhalese farmers because they called the pastures where the cattle of the Tamils could graze. So far, 45 farmers have been evacuated from the Dibulapotana area. They have not been given the opportunity to harvest the crops. So far only 13 farming families have been allowed to stay in that village.
We were thinking of informing the President about the injustice done to those people. Therefore, the police have taken this interim order to prevent it.
The President comes to Batticaloa and does a lot of programs. But it is a pity that we did not get a chance to meet the only Sinhalese settler and monk living in Batticaloa and discuss the problems that the Sinhalese people in this area have been suffering for decades in the hands of Tamil and Muslim extremists politicians and pro-LTTE Tamils.
Thero thinks that some Tamil and Muslim extremists in Batticaloa are not allowing to meet the President.
Thero further said that We are confident that the President will give us an opportunity to solve our problems. Therefore, we request the President to give an opportunity to discuss the problems of the Sinhalese people living in Batticaloa district. Even if we are locked up with injunctions today, we will work for the people tomorrow, no matter what obstacles come our way”.
Susanta Amarabandu
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