SRI LANKA CORPS OF MILITARY POLICE HAS ASSISTED THE OWNERS TO RECIEVE THEIR JEWELLARIES WHICH HAS ARRESTED FROM LTTE ELAM BANKS AND THE PAWING CENTRES DURING THE LAST HUMANITARIAN OPERATION
His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday (4) afternoon returned one more stock of identified gold jewelleries to rightful owners of the north during a special ceremony at TempleTrees.\r\n \r\nSri Lanka Army which had taken care of those gold jewelleries upon recovery after the troops stormed areas where the so-called ‘Tamil Eelam Banks’ and ‘Eelam Pawning Centres’ were operating at the time of humanitarian operations before May 2009 underwent painstaking efforts to identify rightful owners mainly due to non availability of proper documents at all with claimants or those in possession of partly-damaged or disfigured documents, etc after tracing the whereabouts or newly-resettled areas of those claimants.\r\n The Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police has assisted the owners who are coming to receive their jewellaries back. The receivers of the jewellaries have reached to Colombo via three special trains from Mannar and Kilinochchi. Throughout the event, Military Police personnel have provided the protection, guidance and the assistance to them. The ceremony was held at the Temple trees Colombo under the patronage of his Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. There were total of 1960 identified owners from Mannar (223), Vavuniya (319), Jaffna (45), Kilinochchi (1187) and Mullaittivu (186) receive their gold jewelleries. Sri Lanka Army provided the meals and other refreshments during the journey.\r\nMr Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary to Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake, Commander of the Army and several invitees were present at the ceremony.\r\n
