By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan

Several Tamil politicians and local welfare organizations, that support the war victims, are set to take to the streets of Jaffna today (2) to draw the attention of visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, while he is there.

The awareness protest, organized by Tamil National People’s Front General Secretary Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, will be held opposite the Jaffna Library starting from 8 a.m. today and they would want Ban to note that after the war ended seven years ago, the internally displaced persons numbering, in the thousands, are still unable to return to their own land in Myliddy, Palaly, Valikamam North, Keppapilavu and many other areas in the North and in the East.

They also wanted the SG to tell them what happened to the persons who were abducted and those who surrendered to the Military during and after the war and urged him to pressure the government to find out the truth.

Also, they are in the hope that the political prisoners, whom the government says are LTTE suspects, who are not tried or found guilty legally to be immediately released and to hold an international probe into the alleged war crimes.

Meanwhile, MP Sivajilingam will also stage a protest opposite the Jaffna Kachcheri today, Ceylon Today learns.

There are several IDPs who are ready to handover a petition signed by 100s of them to SG Ban urging him to send them back to their original villages instead of resettling them elsewhere, where there are no basic facilities and livelihood.

Courtesy:Ceylon Today