FARMERS RESTART THEIR PROTEST CLOSE TO THE BLOCKED IRRIGATION CANAL WHILE MINISTER SAYS SECURITY FORCES ARE READY TO TAKE ALL ACTION TO REOPEN WATER TO FEED 35,000 ACRES
(By Walter Jayawardhana)
Los Angeles:- Defense spokesman of the cabinet Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the nation’s security forces will take all necessary steps to supply water to the 15,000 people who have been deprived of water by the closing of an irrigation canal by the liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Interviwed by the BBC Sinhala Service the Minister refused to elaborate the necessary steps.
Asked about the conditions put forward by the LTTE to open the sluice gates closed by them the Minister said to discuss anything the sluice gates must be opened first.
The Sri Lanka Airforce pouned the LTTE military camps with six rounds of bombings to make an atmosphere for government engineers to open the sluices of the irrigation canal named Vegal Aru.
Meanwhile farmers led by Buddhist monk kandegolle Pannasiha Thero demonstrated against the blockade. They have blocked the highway and said they would start a fast unto death on the bund of the irrigation canal if the opening would not take place by tomorrow.
