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SL Minister was forced to wait outside the port of the SL Navy cantonment at Mu'l'likku'lam
The uprooted people from Mu'l'lik-ku'lam were categoric in their demand to release their occupied village.
Majority of the Tamils from Mu'l'likku'lam are Catholics. Former SL Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa visited the
village in December 2012.
Accompanied by the Sinhala Archbishop of Colombo, Rt Rev Dr Malcolm Ranjith, the SL defence secretary had declared
the entire Eezham Tamil village out of bounds for its uprooted residents.
In turn, Gotabhaya was offering 450 acres, at the rate of half an acre per family, to resettle the Tamils away from the
village. The villagers were told that they could visit schools and religious
places but not their abandoned houses at Mu'l'likku'lam.
Uprooted Eezham Tamil villagers of Mu'l'likku'lam residing at Malang-ku'lam demand their lands back at Mu'l'likku'lam
Mu'l'likku'lam and other SL Navy and Army bases in the region [Map courtesy: Google Earth, Legend by TamilNet]
The river flowing and entering the Gulf of Mannaar at Mu'l'likku'lam is the boundary between the Northern and the North Western Provinces. The
Vilpattu reserved forest south of the boundary was scattered with a number of Tamil villages before it was declared a reserved forest in 1903. The
Tamil territory was contiguous up to Negombo in the Western Province at that time, before the Sinhalicisation of the Tamil Catholics of today's
Puththa'lam and Gampaha districts. [Map courtesy: Google Earth, Legend by TamilNet]
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