The President's son, Namal Rajapaksa, was in Vavuniya today, overseeing the development of recently built Sinhala settlements.
The state's settlement of 2500 Sinhala families from the island's South into Vavuniya, a region within the Tamil areas of the North and East of the island, began in February last year and was inaugurated by Namal Rajapaksa.
The area, previously a Tamil village known as Kokkachaankulam, was renamed into several small regions with Sinhalese names, including Bogasweva 1 and 2, Namalgana and Nandimithragama. The building of eleven Buddhist temples within this region is already underway.
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| Sinhalese name board of Namalgama village in Vavuniya |
The state's settlement of 2500 Sinhala families from the island's South into Vavuniya, a region within the Tamil areas of the North and East of the island, began in February last year and was inaugurated by Namal Rajapaksa.
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The area, previously a Tamil village known as Kokkachaankulam, was renamed into several small regions with Sinhalese names, including Bogasweva 1 and 2, Namalgana and Nandimithragama. The building of eleven Buddhist temples within this region is already underway.
See here for more.
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