The Sri Lankan government’s decision to build 65,000 houses for the war-displaced in the Tamil-majority Northern Province will hamper ethnic reconciliation, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) told President Maithripala Sirisena.
The TNA has stressed this because the houses are unsuited to the local climate and culture, the New Indian Express reported.
Going ahead with the scheme disregarding the true needs of the Tamil people of the North and East can only be reflective of an unwillingness to effectively honor the government’s public commitment to ethnic reconciliation, said R.Sampanthan, TNA chief and Leader of Opposition in parliament, in a letter to Sirisena.
Using steel rather than bricks, the houses will not suit the tropical climate of the North, Sampanthan said.
-NIE
-Agencies
