?A?Certainly it would increase but not as direct revenue to the government but as benefits to the local community.A?a? After a military incursion into Sampur in 2006, the BBC reported that 41,000 civilians had been displaced when the entire peninsula was the home for only about 16,000 persons.The donor community was encouraged to create a new use for the thousands of humanitarian workers who yearned to stay. The reluctance of resurgent China, reflecting the pride of Asia, to permit international aid workers to enter the country following the Sechuan earthquake has been particularly irksome to the do-gooder brigade. Shanthan played an important role in that and also in the recent election campaign for the TMVP from his office at Kathankudy.Meanwhile M.L.A.M. Their prime concern was not to help the survivors, who faced appalling conditions in squalid improvised refugee camps, but to suppress any opposition or protests at the governmentA?a??a? The international agencies have reluctantly begun to comply with this demand echoed by the Foreign Ministry. ?A?we are happy that the elections were finally held in the East after two decades. Pakistan, despite being under a military rule, won what could have been Sri Lanka’s seat in the council.http://defencewire.blogspot.com/2008/05/focus-on-east.htmlOh what joy to the global flock of humanitarian vultures. ?publicly pushing for peace talks, while privately holding top level discussions with the Sri Lankan military over possible war plans. The survivors were left without shelter, food, clean water and medicine. However, he did contest the electionsA?a??A? IA?a??a? ?t there a comparable urge to surf between the sexes? ?A?undermining national securityA?a??A?. I only know from you about the situation. I know women are different, but why isnA?a??a? Well, of course they do, but not in the numbers that men do, and there certainly arenA?a??a? However the figures show a growth of 8.6% when compared with 2007 according to Tourism Ministry Secretary George Michael. On the pretext of protecting the population, the government exploited the opportunity to clear away fishing villages to pave the way for luxury hotels and resorts.The plight of these refugees speaks volumes. he added. An editorial in the Kumaratunga quickly acquiesced, however. ?re missing out, and so are we!IA?a??a? Often the numbers of displaced persons and violations of human rights were exaggerated and these stories were readily picked up by the international media and the international community based in Colombo. ?A?In contrast was Haroun* from Batticaloa who is engaged in the agricultural sector said A?a? Mercy Corps has been helping through work recycling parts of houses such as doors to use in the reconstruction of the area.He says it was shocking to see how poorly the US was doing in helping victims.Meanwhile ethnic violence rose its ugly head again in the East with the assassination of the TMVP Political Head for Kathankudy Shanthan and his aide Raman Parasuraman while riding a motorbike near Kathankudy Bus stand at noon today by alleged ‘Jihadi’ Gunmen notorious for their activities in the Muslim enclave of Kathankudy, 3kms from Batticaloa Town.TMVP gunmen killed 3 Muslims in retaliation at around 12.20pm injuring 11 civilians including one Sinhalese near Arayampathi Tamil village. The Easterners have already realised that LTTE domination resulted only in misery and that only the Government can offer a comprehensive development and welfare programme.That goal will be affected if a party that is hostile to the Central Government is elected to govern the Provincial Council.Another significant revelation was that the people have had no trouble from armed groups as alleged by certain parties.As the President told the Eastern residents, it is time that we stopped casting aspersions on the TMVP simple because it remained as an armed group.This is certainly not the first time that such a transformation has taken place. nicely slotted into the face of one of the best rights in the Bay of BengalA?a? he noted.The UPFA won the election, with the Chief MinisterA?a??a? Indeed, there are some senior politicians who had participated in the youth insurrection of 1971.All Tamil militant parties except the LTTE have entered the democratic mainstream today.