Uppa'lam, Lu'nu-ka'lapuwa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 March 2016, 21:12 GMT]
The saltpans or the saltern

The salt producing lagoon
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Maithiripala deploys ‘Mahaweli’, monks, military to grab Tamil lands in Ampaa'rai

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 February 2016, 23:30 GMT]
The Tamil people, who are trying to resettle in their traditional villages in Poththuvil area in Ampaa'rai district complain that the continued presence of the occupying Sinhala military along the two sides of the main access road to Poththuvil Road threaten their resettlement. Tamil civil service officials observe a pattern of SL President Maithiripala Sirisena's so-called ‘Mahaweli Development’ ministry systematically deploying its departments to seize lands from Eezham Tamils in the same area. In the meantime, Sinhala Buddhist extremist monks and their operatives are seeking inroads to establish their temples in the villages where no Sinhalese are found citing they want to help Tamils to ‘confront’ occupation by Muslims.
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Colombo accelerates demographic genocide along border villages of Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 22:55 GMT]
Rural Development Society representatives from the villages situated along the border of Batticaloa district in the Eastern Province, complain that their native villages are being systematically Sinhalicised under the Maithiripala regime. The occupying Sinhala military has brought a number of extremist Buddhist monks into these villages in recent times. Buddhist temples (Pansala) and SL military positions have been mushrooming along these villages since 2007 when Sinhala military brought the entire district under its control. The same pattern of structural occupation is also observed along the Tamil villages bordering the Polonnaruwa district, which is the native district of SL President Maithiripala Sirisena.
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Pannawa, Heen-pannaawa, Kehel-pannala

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 February 2016, 10:17 GMT]
The workplace or duty place

The small or abandoned workplace/ farm

The banana farm
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Karaa-midula

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 2016, 17:54 GMT]
The nearby place positioned in front

The nearby yard or house front
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Madulla, Madul-boawa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 January 2016, 17:03 GMT]
The circle, division or district

The district part
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Thumba-liyadda, Æl-liyadda, Karal-liyadda

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 06 January 2016, 23:27 GMT]
The grid for the cultivation of a kind of gourd

The grid for the cultivation of Æl-vee paddy

The cereal cultivation grid
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Paalu-kadawala

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 December 2015, 07:21 GMT]
The desolate passage or the desolate locality to pass through
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Hik-kaduwa, Kadu-wela

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 December 2015, 23:20 GMT]
The forest of Hik trees

The jungle paddy field
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Deawaale-gaawa, Wadigamang-gaawa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 29 November 2015, 23:02 GMT]
The temple neighbourhood

The neighbourhood of the Telugu people's street; or the neighbourhood of the village of carpenters
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Kadawatha, Galle Four Gravets

[TamilNet, Saturday, 21 November 2015, 15:36 GMT]
The border post

Galle town area within the four border posts
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Habara-kada, Wæli-kada

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 18 November 2015, 10:16 GMT]
The forest of Wæddas (hunters) or the forest of Habara trees

The sandy piece of land
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Madigea

[TamilNet, Sunday, 15 November 2015, 07:29 GMT]
The customs (of the times of Kandyan Kingdom)
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Colombo intensifies demographic genocide in Moothoor, Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Monday, 09 November 2015, 23:51 GMT]
After settling local scores with a corporate outfit associated with the previous regime of Rajapaksa by releasing some of the lands seized from Eezham Tamils in Trincomalee back to the uprooted people from Champoor and making use of the act involved in a larger re-alignment of the geopolitical nexus with external powers that were trading on influencing the OISL recommendations and finally a resolution by ‘consensus’ at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in October, the current regime of genocidal Sri Lanka has silently intensified the plans to permanently Sinhalicise 1,500 acres of lands that were already seized from Eezham Tamils at Kangkuveali, located southeast of Champoor in Moothoor division of the Trincomalee district.
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Kema, Walas-kema

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 November 2015, 21:34 GMT]
The waterhole on the rocks

The rock-waterhole or pool frequented by bears
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Katu-kæliyaawa, Maha-ke'liya, Kælæwa

[TamilNet, Monday, 02 November 2015, 08:17 GMT]
The thorny jungle

The big forest

The forest
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Hela-gama,
Berali-hela

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 October 2015, 21:01 GMT]
The hill village

The hill found with Beraliya trees
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Hindutva-Buddhist ‘pincer mechanism’ to compete hybrid mechanism

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 September 2015, 17:52 GMT]
While Tamils are busy in comprehending and extricating themselves from the sophisticated web of ‘hybrid mechanism’ cast on them by Washington and Washington-led UN, New Delhi in its own crude way plans a bilateral ‘pincer mechanism’ along with Colombo, as could be seen from Ranil’s visit to New Delhi. Even though the imperialist aims are different, both ‘mechanisms’ follow the same policy of denying justice to the national question of Eezham Tamils to the genocidal satisfaction of the Sinhala-Buddhist State; the same strategy of absolving Colombo as well as themselves, and the same tactics of wooing Colombo in which only the shades vary, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.
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Hom-baawa, Kæs-bæwa, Gal-kissa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 19 July 2015, 10:36 GMT]
The facing part or the opposite part

The armpit-like bent part (of the river or lake)

The rocky cove
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Sinhala occupation of pastureland causes existential threat to Batticaloa Tamil farmers

[TamilNet, Sunday, 14 June 2015, 23:19 GMT]
316 Tamil farmers belonging to two administrative divisions in Batticaloa district own around 85,000 cattle. The cattle-herders from this region have been officially demarcated 45,000 acres of lands in Maathava'nai, Periya-maathava'ani and Mayilaththa-madu. More than 5,000 Tamils are dependent on the cattle industry in the region. They supply 15,000 litres of milk to three collecting centres run by Milko and Nestlé in Kiraan and Chengkaladi. The Sinhala colonisers have seized 12,000 acres (one fourth) of the allocated pastureland. Operatives belonging to SL Wildlife Conservation Department and the occupying Sinhala soldiers have been chasing the Tamil cattle herders away as the intruding Sinhala farmers engage in Chena-cultivation. The Tamil farmers demand a permanent solution before the Sinhala intruders are set to commence Chena cultivation for next season in August 2015.
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