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28 Nov 2015

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NAFSO

Sri Lanka: Panama land issue - new government greedy and authoritative too

People toppled the previous government; among accusations land grabbing was a major one. MR government grabbed thousands of hectares of lands around the country for tourism sector development, most of the time using military power. The government also grabbed Panama lands in a violent way in 2010. They burned down the houses of the farmers in a night making them homeless and put the security fences with military and barbwires...After presidential election in January, a order have been released by the presidential secretariat in February 2015, to release the lands of the panama people except 25 acres which are used for constructions by the previous government....Until now, Local authorities do not have act to release the lands.as the power on lands hold by the District Secretary office, people accusing the local authorizes are also behind the land grabbing and they have conduct some illegal businesses regarding the grabbed lands and now they don’t want to work to resolve the issues as their jobs on risk.