Taking turns, a group of people from Keppapilavu in Sri Lanka’s northern Mullaitivu district has stayed put under a roadside tent, asking the government to return their land which is under military occupation. Over the last two years, the Maithripala Sirisena-led government has handed over about 8,500 acres of military occupied land to civilians. But the exercise is far from complete, with hundreds of war-displaced families awaiting the release of their land eight years after the war ended. May be that is why the Army doesn’t want to part with the land,” Ms. Chandraleela said. If one asks any of the families that have relocated, they will say how unsettled they continue to feel.

Source: The Hindu March 03, 2018 14:03 UTC