Colombo beefs up naval installations along eastern coast
[TamilNet, Friday, 03 June 2016, 23:16 GMT]Emboldened with the blessings coming from the diplomatic US
Establishment and its increased ‘military-to-military’ rapport with the
Sinhala navy in the island, the military Establishment of genocidal Sri
Lanka has stepped up its programme of militarisation and Sinhaliciation
of the strategic belt in the three coastal directions of the country of
Eezham Tamils in the recent months. The SL Navy, which has been
fortifying its coastal cantonments, mini-camps and detachments along the
western coast facing towards the Gulf of Mannaar and the Palk Bay
during the past 6 months, has in recent weeks stepped up its expansion
programme along the eastern coast of Northern and Eastern provinces
facing the Bay of Bengal.

‘SLNS Gotabhaya’ at Mu'l'livaaykkaal
The SL Navy at the largest
navy camp in Vanni, named ‘SLNS Gotabhaya’, has already seized more than
300 acres of private lands and 200 acres of public lands for the
expansion into a full-fledged cantonment as the ones established during
the Rajapaksa regime at Champoor (SLNS Vidura and SLNS Parakumba) in
Trincomalee district.
Now, new tall buildings have become
visible from a distance from Ve'l'laa-mu'l'livaaykkaal where ‘SLNS
Gotabhaya’ is situated, eyewitnesses who have seen the expansion said.
SL
Navy personnel, including young recruits from South, are continuously
deployed in putting up fences around the seized area, Eezham Tamils from
Mullaiththeevu said.
In the meantime, Tamil rights activists
have alleged that the place was also used as a detention camp to keep
undeclared Tamil Prisoners of War imprisoned for several months.
The area also contains crucial evidences from the last days of genocidal onslaught in Vanni in 2009.
The ‘Gotabaya’ camp was
initially launched as a Naval Deployment (ND) in January 2011 and was
formally announced as ‘Sri Lanka Naval Ship Gotabhaya’ in 2012,
transforming it as a key ‘Regional Security Center’ of the SL Navy.
Several naval detachments connected to ‘Gotabhaya’ were deployed between
Naayaa'ru to Kokku'laay.
‘SLNS Gotabaya’ comes under the
so-called Eastern Naval Area of the SL Navy Command, which has its
central command at Trincomalee.

‘Eastern Naval Area’ as defined by the occupying SL Navy [Image courtesy:
navy.lk]

There are 13 so-called ‘Commissioned Navy Bases’ in the Eastern Naval Area of the SL Navy [Image courtesy:
navy.lk]

‘Mahaweli
Master plan’ currently targeting Mullaiththeevu, Batticaloa and
Ampaa'rai through System L and System B [Image courtesy:
mahaweli.gov.lk]
The SL Navy has divided the entire island into 7 ‘Naval Areas’.
SL
Navy's Eastern Naval Area (ENA) covers the longest eastern belt of the
occupied country of Eezham Tamils, and consists of 13 Commissioned Naval
Bases (CNBs), the largest establishment within the SL Navy.
Of
these 13 CNBs, ‘SLNS Gotabaya’ is the only one in Mullaiththeevu
distirct. ‘SLNS Kashyapa’ is the other single CNB in Vaakarai of
Batticaloa district in the Eastern Province. The remaining 11
commissioned bases are all situated in the strategic Trincomalee
district.
For comparison, Western Naval Area covering Colombo
from Chilaavaththu'rai in North and Bentota in South has 8 CNBs,
Northern Naval Area covering Palk Bay and Bay of Bengal maintains 7
CNBs, North Central Naval Area covering Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannaar is
having 5 CNBs, North Western Naval Area has established 4 CNBs, Southern
Naval Area is having 3 CNBs and the recently established South East
Naval Area (it was part of ENA earlier) is having one CNB.
Several
commanding cantonments have been put up along the Eastern Coast, each
attached to a programme of structural genocide with the intention of
causing demographic changes and permanently wedging the territorial
integrity of the Tamil homeland at its strategic locations. The various
detachments linked to each of the named command centers are classified
as Naval Deployment (ND), Naval Sub Units (NSU) etc.
‘SLNS
Gokanna’ at Ki'n'niyaa, ‘SLNS Lankapatuna’ at Thoappoor, ‘SLNS Vidura’
and ‘SLNS Parakumba’ at Champoor, ‘SLNS Ranweli’ at Pulmoaddai, ‘SLNS
Walagamba’ at Thiriyaay, ‘SLNS Vijayaba’ at Nilaave'li, ‘SLNS Maweli’
and the Naval Dockyard at Trincomalee city are some of the SL Navy
cantonments located in the Trincomalee district.
Several of
these SLNS cantonments also have a so-called ‘Fisheries Coordinating
Office’ embedded into them and these offices operate behind the scene in
bringing Sinhala fishermen from South to rich seabeds in the
territorial waters of Eezham Tamils amidst protests from native
fishermen.
While Colombo has conceived its plan for
Sinhalicisation and Militarisation of the coastal stretch from
Nalla-tha'n'nith-thoduvaay in Mullaiththeevu to Thu'rai-neelaava'nai in
Batticaloa district using its naval establishments, the so-called
‘development’ agenda, backed by the West, is aggressively targeting the
fertile interior lands of Eezham Tamils through the so-called ‘Mahaweli
Master Plan’, which is being led by ‘Polonnaruwa Chinthana’ of
Maithiripala Sirisena, the incumbent president of genocidal Sri Lanka.
‘System
L’ of Mahaweli project targets the fertile areas in Mullaiththeevu
while ‘System B’, the largest of the current projects, aims to seize the
resourceful interior lands of Batticaloa district.
In the
meantime, another ‘urban’ development programme, conceived already by
‘Mahinda Chintana’ targeting Trincomalee has now been transformed to
‘Singapore’ based scheme with the advice coming from USA, informed civil
sources in Trincomalee said. SL Prime Minister Ranil Wickramsinghe is
spearheading this urban development project, which targets the city of
Trincomalee and its suburbs.

SL Navy personnel deployed in putting up fence around 500 acres of lands seized for the largest SL Navy base in Mullaiththeevu