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Army returns gold for rightful owners in North
Oct 15, 201412:29 PM
The Security Forces in the North have launched a project to return identified gold jewellery, recovered earlier from the LTTE, to their rightful owners.
It appeal the civilians who have failed to claim their valuables from Civil Coordinating Offices in the Wanni, Kilinochchi, Mullaittivu, Mannar and Jaffna and process their ownership claims, proving their bona fides for verification.
According to the Army, following Presidential directives, Security Forces as the war for separation, was coming to a climax, took charge of a considerable stock of gold jewellery which is of sentimental and decorative value to the Tamil community after they were recovered from the so called ‘Tamil Eelam Banks’ and ‘Eelam Pawning Centres’ that were in operation in some areas under LTTE diktats during humanitarian operations.
All those recoveries of jewelleries were duly documented, properly catalogued and detained for safe-keeping under the custody of the Security Forces on the directions of the President, the Army says.
In the aftermath of the humanitarian operations, Security Forces, irrespective of painstaking and inevitably complicated modalities involved in the process, have so far managed to identify 2377 legitimate claimants to such jewelleries, although some of which had already been pawned by those owners and money value obtained from the terrorists as evidenced in some receipts, produced to the Security Forces by the victims.
