A proportion of the recently announced 1000 acre government resettlement plan in the Jaffna Valikaman High Security Zone (HSZ), was previously rejected as inadequate by Tamil families, reports the Uthayan.
220 acres of the 1000 acre resettlement plan was initiated by the former Defence Secretary Gotobaya Rajapaksa, and previously deemed inadequate by the Tamil people, reports the Uthayan, as doubts emerge over the credibility of the new government resettlement plan.
The TNA spokesperson Suresh Premachandran speaking at a press conference on Friday, noted that there were at least 18 military run hotels in the Tamil areas that would have to be demolished to make way for resettlement.
In November 2013, 150 families who were displaced from the Valikamam HSZ were offered to be resettled in lands east of their original place of residency, in what was reported as an attempt to improve Sri Lanka's image ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that took place in Colombo.
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