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AL centres in Vanni shifted due to fighting - Over 11,000 students displaced, education material lost
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 - 9:45 AM SL Time
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Some G.C.E. Advanced Level centres have been shifted due to fighting on the Kilinochchi front. Of the 10 centres in the Kilinochchi administrative district, three in the Pooneryn area were shifted to Kilinochchi Central College on August 11. The examination began on August 6.
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), which represents INGOs active in Sri Lanka said the centres had to be shifted due to shelling at Vanneikkulam in Pooneryn.
The Examination Department said that altogether 108 centres had been established in the Districts of Mannar (12), Jaffna (76), Mullaitivu (10) and Kilinochchi (10). An official said that the fighting hadn t seriously affected the examination. He was confident that the examination could be held as scheduled.
The examination will end on September 3. The Examination Department said that there would be a three-day break beginning August 22 due to PC elections in the North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provinces on August 23.
The IASC in its latest bulletin released on Monday (18) quoted the Kilinochchi NGO consortium as having said that 4,372 newly displaced had been accommodated at 12 schools in the Kilinochchi district. The Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights said that the Government Agents in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu had brought this to the notice of the Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance (CCHA).
According to the UNICEF, 7,500 children in Madhu education zone and about 4,500 in Vavuniya (north) zone havebeen displaced by the fighting. The agency said that education material, too, had been lost due to multiple displacements and the quantity of materials were insufficient for the upcoming term.
Officials admitted the displaced people would have to be moved out of schools by the first week of September as government schools were scheduled to be re-opened on September 4.
The IASC said that providing shelter to the growing number of the displaced was a priority. According to the IASC, thousands of families who had fled Manthai west and east during previous military operations and sought refuge in LTTE-held areas had been displaced again. They had moved to Kilinochchi town and the neighbouring areas. Altogether, 3,100 families (11,800 persons) had been displaced from Veravil, Kiranchi, Valaippadu, Jeyapuram, Pallavarayankadu and Kariyalainagapaduvan.
Authoritative sources questioned the moves to settle people fleeing ongoing military operations within the LTTE-held areas as they, too, would come within the area of ground operations. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, an official asserted there was absolutely no point in moving the displaced to areas on the part of the multiple army advance into the rapidly shrinking LTTE territory.
The Government Agents in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu and INGOs had identified some sites to re-settle the newly displaced within the LTTE-held area.
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Joseph
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It is sad to see the uncertainty of Tamil students during the exams and it is heartning to see the GOSL trying to do the best for the students under the circumstances.
But what have to 'sole representatives' done to tamil students over last 25 yrs....
Here are just some stories.....
QUESTION TIME
What is this called ?
Is it Extreme selfishness or deceit or hypocrisy or hoodwinking or taking for a ride or fooling of tamils or all of them ?
-OL and AL students to have compulsory training to get killed !
-Children are abducted amid screaming of helpless parents
-Children are threatned to be shot from behind if they don't go forward in the battlefield
-100 children die in LTTE training camps every month.
-14 yr old Kid shot for not joining LTTE
-I went for tooth extraction when I was kidnapped
-Sister killed trying to prevent brothers being abducted
-Child soldier dies of claymore accident
-23 kids abducted in Batti and parents chased away
-5368 kids recruited since CFA (UNICEF report)
-9000 tamil kids have already perished on the alter of self determination
-18000 kids injured, amputated or have become psychological wreaks
-University asked to shut
-Principals killed causing chaos in education
-Children 6 and above ordered to join civilian training
-GOSL soldiers guarding tamil students even during exams
-Parents not sending kids to school for fear of abduction
-Kids who refuse are hanged up side down and skin pierced with orange thorns
-Parents sending kids under for protection of HRC
-LTTE cadres wait till dark, force open and take kids away
-Villages attack LTTE cadres who returned the body of a child
-Canadian tamil appeals for kidnapped neice
-Only 10% of tamil kids sit for GCSE s due to fear of abduction
Can you remember them saying the struggle is because tamil students were deprived of university places !!
Now not only denies the alphabet but also the right to live !
BUT
Prabakarans kids are studying in UK universities
(Tamilselvam s) kids studying in Norway
Nadesan s kids are studying in UK
(Balakumar s) kids are studying in UK
CAN ANY ONE BE MORE CRUEL THAN THIS ?????? |
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