Adding insult to injury action are still continued to deprive the Muslims from even the 15% of the land holdings in Ampara District. It is sad to observe that these actions are being contemplated in the name of religion and culture. Certain areas where Muslims have been living traditionally have been already earmarked as places of Archaeological Interest. The commissioner of archaeology has stated in the "Silumina" on the 1st January, 1984 that 273 sites in the North and East have been excavated and Sinhala Buddhist are to be settled in these places. According to Hansard Volume 25 No. 10 of Friday 7th October, 1983, there are 43 places of archaeological interest in the predominantly Muslim areas of Ampara District.
Some of the Buddhist priests and Sinhalese have tried to make out that even the Northern and Eastern Provinces were peopled by Sinhalese several centuries ago.
The claims that are being made to lands in the Northern and eastern Provinces as Sinhalese territory are on par with the claims of the Jews in Palestine.
Successive government have pursued the same policies as the Jews are pursuing in Palestine in dispossessing the Arabs of their land and driving them from their homes. Today we find a fantic search for Buddhist shrines, not for the love of Buddhism but to chase away the Muslims from their lands.
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