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Mudali-gedara, Paṭṭalē-gedara, Kapu-gedara, Hulō-gedara, Pali-gedara[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 January 2018, 18:30 GMT] The chief's house and premisesThe workshop premises The folk priest's house and premises or the silk-cotton-tree-fronted house and premises The Roḍī chief's house and premises The house and premises of a category of washerman Full story >> Sinhala Air Force, Navy compete with occupying Army in seizing Tamil lands in Vanni[TamilNet, Monday, 08 January 2018, 21:55 GMT]The occupying Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) is deploying at least 16,720 acres of public lands in Vanni, which have earlier been taken over by the Forest Department of genocidal Sri Lanka. The SLAF controls 8,500 acres of lands in Ampa-kaamam, 3,500 acres from Karippadda-mu'rippu to Ira'nai-madu and 2,200 acres in Keappaa-pulavu, where uprooted Tamil villagers are demanding de-militarisation and proper resettlement. In the meantime, The SL Navy base known as ‘SLNS Gotabaya’, which comes under the so-called Eastern Naval Area (ENA), has been officially allocated with 671 acres despite repeated protests from private land owners. The lands being allocated to SLNS Gotabhaya in Mu'l'livaaykkaal East also contains crucial evidences and traces of genocidal onslaught against Eezham Tamils in 2009 where the final onslaught took place in May 2009. Full story >> Colombo steps up structural genocide against Paduvaankarai in Batticaloa[TamilNet, Friday, 05 January 2018, 21:59 GMT] Former LTTE members who have resettled in Paduvaan-karai region of Batticaloa district complain that they are being systematically neglected in the provision of even the bare minimum assistance in the form of housing and loans. The SL officials have also gone to the extent of citing a section of the ex-LTTE families being away from Paduvaan-karai during the times of war as an excuse to denounce such assistance. In the meantime, The Tamil farmers and fishermen in Paduvaan-karai blame SL President Maithiripala Sirisena for silently introducing a new ‘leasing’ scheme for Sinhala colonists to seize the lands of Tamils in Paduvaan-karai region. Sirisena's Mahaweli Ministry is also alleged of re-channelling the water away from tanks used by Tamils in Batticaloa to his Sinhala electorate of Polonnaruwa. Full story >> Īccilam-paṟṟai/ Īccilam-pattai, Ińdi-bẹdda, Bẹddē-gama[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 December 2017, 18:30 GMT] The thicket of dwarf wild date palmsThe thicket or jungle of dwarf wild date palms The jungle village or the village in the jungle Full story >> Sinhala colonists resume violence against Tamil farmers in Paduvaan-karai, Batticaloa[TamilNet, Monday, 04 December 2017, 13:40 GMT]Sinhala colonists who have encroached into traditional Tamil areas in Batticaloa have again started to shoot and kill the cattle belonging to Tamil dairy farmers in Paduvaankarai region. Dairy farmers in Ko'ra'lai-pattu South blame three Sinhala encroachers as culprits after one of their cows was shot and killed on Thursday night. The farmers said they have recovered three of their cattle with gunshot injuries. Between 2013 and 2016, more than 1,000 cows, owned by Tamil dairy farmers were shot and killed. The process was accelerated after Sirisena coming to power. However, due to relentless protests and complaints, the menace was temporarily halted from the end of 2016. Now, it resumes again, Tamil farmers said. Paduvaan-karai was protected by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) before the end of war in the East in 2007. Full story >> Nīr-noccit-tāḻvu, Tāḻvu-pāṭu, Āṇṭit-tāḻvu, Ūr-uḍayan-daḷuva[TamilNet, Monday, 27 November 2017, 18:30 GMT] The low-lying land of Nīr-nocci treesThe low-lying seashore or shoal for Beach Seine Fishing The abode or quarters of the religious mendicant or the community of religious mendicants The quarters of the lord of the village Full story >> Doḍam-pē, Mādam-pē, Hal-pē, Ẹhẹla-pē[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 November 2017, 18:30 GMT] The orange groveThe Mādam-tree jungle or grove The Hal-tree forest or grove The Ẹhẹla-tree jungle or grove Full story >> Nā-pā-vala, Nā-pā-goḍa, Dehi-gas-pā, Kańdu-pā-gama, Mā-pā-kańda, Sirī-pā-gama, Gal-pāya[TamilNet, Thursday, 09 November 2017, 18:30 GMT] The Nā-tree forestThe Nā-forest bank/ hill/ village The lime-shrub grove The hill-place village or the hill-forest village The great person's hill or the hill having a mansion/ temple The sacred-footprint village The stone mansion/ temple or the rocky expanse Full story >> Taṉip-paṉai, Paṉai-muṉai, Paṉai-niṉṟāṉ[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 October 2017, 18:30 GMT] (The locality of) the single or lonely palmyra palmThe point or promontory found with palmyra palms/ Point Palmyra The place where palmyra palms stand Full story >> Nāvaṟ-kāṭu, Paṉaṅ-kāṭu, Kilukiluppaip-kāṭu, Neruńcik-kāṭu, Kurakkaṉ-kāṭu, Tōṭ&am[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 October 2017, 18:30 GMT] The jungle of Nāval treesThe palmyra-palm grove The thicket of rattlewort shrubs The (locality found with) dense growth of cow's-thorn thistle The finger-millet cultivation field The pastureland of cattle herders The garden or plantation The Dutch-ruins jungle The sandy desert The burial ground The banyan-tree locality by the cremation ground The wild-mango-tree locality Full story >> Kūttaṉ-cīmā, Isaṉ-kaṉi-cīmai, Maḍul-sima, Kōraḷa-ima[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 18:30 GMT] The landholdings of a male dancer or settlement of the community of dancersThe landholdings of Isan Kani The provincial limits or precincts The divisional limits or precincts Full story >> Tamil village in Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa border Sinhalicized by Mahaweli authority, Survey Dept[TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 22:53 GMT]SL Mahaweli authority has alienated lands belonging to 300 uprooted Eezham Tamil families to Sinhala settlers in Oamadiyaa-madu village, which is situated near the district border of Polonnaruwa-Batticaloa in the East, Tamil civil officials in Batticaloa district said. Oamadiyaa-madu comes under Batticaloa district. But, SL Survey Department officials marked it as falling under Polonnaruwa district in an irrigation survey, marking the village as catchment area of a tank of Mahaweli system in Polonnaruwa. Omadiyaa-madu village is located 58 km north of Batticaloa city and 10 km north of Welikanda, a bordering Sinhala town in the Polonnaruwa district. SL President Maithiripala Sirisena, who has been in charge of Mahaweli ‘development’ for several periods since 1997, hails from Polonnaruwa district. Full story >> Sirisena’s Mahaweli ministry twists old records to Sinhalicize Paduvaankarai[TamilNet, Thursday, 14 September 2017, 22:52 GMT]SL Mahaweli Ministry, which is led by SL President Maithiripala Sirisena has recently sent a letter to the Planning Director of Batticaloa District secretariat claiming that there were 136 agricultural/farming [Sinhala] families residing in the past at Mayilaththamadu, which comes under Koa'ra'laip-pattu South (Kiraan) division of Batticaloa district. Between 2007 and 2014, at least 16,000 acres of lands in Paduvaankarai were illegally encroached by 300 Sinhala colonists from Polonnaruwa, the home district of SL President Maithiripala Sirisena. They went to the extent of constructing a Buddhist temple (hut). However, after protests the colonists were withdrawn towards the end of 2016. Now, Mahaweli Ministry is attempting to twist the old records to facilitate a fresh claim that there were Sinhala settlers in Paduvaankarai region of Batticaloa in the past, informed civil sources said.Full story >> Muḷḷiya-vaḷai, Kaḻutā-vaḷai/ Kaḷutā-vaḷai, Kumpaḻā-vaḷai, Āḻiya-vaḷai, Kōṇā-[TamilNet, Saturday, 09 September 2017, 18:30 GMT] The circuit or surroundings found with Muḷḷi plantsThe circuit or surroundings found with Kaḻutai-muḷḷi plants The circuit or surroundings found with Kampaḻā shrubs; or the Potters' circuit The seaside circuit or surroundings The remote circuit or the corner circuit The secluded or detached circuit Full story >> I'rakkaamam Police behaves as occupying Sinhala Force: Muslims[TamilNet, Friday, 08 September 2017, 19:23 GMT]The SL police in I'rakkaamam was behaving as an occupying Sinhala force taking the side of the encroaching Sinhala Buddhist monks, blame Tamil-speaking Muslims in Ampaa’rai. The Sinhala police was blocking the Muslim villagers who protested against the extremist Buddhist monks who were attempting to expand an access route to the foothill of Maayakkalli-malai, where the monks placed a Buddha statue last year amidst opposition from Tamils and Muslims. The president of the Federation of Mosques in I'rakkaamam, Mr A.H.M. Aswar said the SL Police was blocking the Muslim protesters while allowing the intruding monks and their supporters to continue with their aggression. The SL Police was also refusing to register a complaint. Maayakkalli-malai is located between the Tamil village of Maa'nikka-madu and the Muslim village of Varip-paddaagn-cheanai, 14 km southwest of Ampaa'rai town. Full story >> Colombo revives hostility through controversial Buddha statue in Ampaa’rai[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 September 2017, 22:17 GMT]Sinhala extremist monks led by Ranmuthugala Dhammarathana Thero from Kalmunai deployed a fresh attempt on Saturday to put up a road link to Maayak-kalli hillock where they had forcibly placed a Buddha statue amidst opposition from Tamils and Muslims in October 2016. In the meantime, Sinhala officials comprising of SL Colonial Governor of Colombo, Provincial Land Commissioner of the Eastern Province, SL Government Agent of Ampaa'rai District and archaeologists of the SL State have been promoting the erection of Buddha statue and the project of establishing an access route to the hillock linking it with the main road. The project is also promoted by the extremist Buddhist Power Force (Bodu Bala Sena). The hillock, known as Maayak-kalli-malai is located between the Tamil village of Maa'nikka-madu and the Muslim village of Varip-paddaagn-cheanai, 14 km southwest of Ampaa'rai town. Full story >> Kōyilāk-kaṇṭi, Kaṇakkaṉār-kaṇṭi, Poli-kaṇṭi, Kaṇṭiyāṉ-kuḷam, Aḍik-kaṇ&[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The temple partThe settlement part or quarters of the accountant/ teacher The paddy (field) part or the paddy field The tank of the paddy field The bottom part or the lowest part The small part, embankment or paddy field The paddy field at the hill bottom or the paddy field of the hill neighbourhood Full story >> SL Forest Department at war with resettling Tamils in Vavuniyaa North[TamilNet, Monday, 21 August 2017, 23:06 GMT]The Forest Department of occupying Colombo has been harassing Eezham Tamils who are resettling in Vavuniyaa North division at Rasapuram in Chinna-adampan. While facilitating Sinhala colonization in forest lands, the Forest Department officials have sealed a well and forced the people to abandon the entire well by giving an ultimatum of facing arrest or back filling the well for complete decommission. 69 of 150 houses have been constructed for the resettling Tamils in the permit lands where they were settled in the past. Now, the Sinhala officials belonging to SL Forest Department claim the area as coming under its domain. Full story >> Talāva[TamilNet, Friday, 18 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The high-ground plain or the open glade of the high ground
Full story >> Aiyaṉār-kōyilaṭi, Nātaṉār-kōyil, Antōṉiyār-kōyil-veḷi[TamilNet, Monday, 14 August 2017, 18:30 GMT] The Aiyaṉār-temple neighbourhood The temple of Nātaṉār (Buddha) The open place or expanse of the St Antony's church Full story >>
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