{"id":2513,"date":"2026-06-15T08:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:10:02","slug":"mayiliddy-residents-submit-petition-to-northern-governor-seeking-land-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/06\/15\/mayiliddy-residents-submit-petition-to-northern-governor-seeking-land-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayiliddy Residents Submit Petition to Northern Governor Seeking Land Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the <strong>Mayiliddy Resettlement Development Committee<\/strong>, who staged a peaceful protest in front of the Jaffna District Secretariat demanding the release of their lands, met <strong>Northern Province Governor N. Vethanayahan<\/strong> on Monday (15) and officially handed over a petition outlining their demands.<\/p>\n<p>In the petition, the committee highlighted that their community, displaced on <strong>June 15, 1990<\/strong>, has now spent <strong>36 years living as displaced persons<\/strong>, with many families still unable to return to their original lands.<\/p>\n<p>The petition requests that the following two key demands be brought to the attention of the President:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The <strong>High Security Zone Gazette Notification No. 1810<\/strong>, issued on <strong>March 28, 2013<\/strong>, should be completely revoked.<\/li>\n<li>As an initial step, lands belonging to residents of the <strong>J\/248, J\/251, J\/255, and J\/246 Grama Niladhari divisions<\/strong>, who have been continuously engaged in peaceful campaigns for land release, should be returned to their owners.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Following the protest, representatives of the committee visited the Governor\u2019s Secretariat and submitted the petition.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Governor <strong>N. Vethanayahan<\/strong> accepted the petition and assured that it would be forwarded to the President immediately for consideration and necessary action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Mayiliddy Resettlement Development Committee, who staged a peaceful protest in front of the Jaffna District Secretariat demanding the release of their lands, met Northern Province Governor N. Vethanayahan on Monday (15) and officially handed over a petition outlining their demands. In the petition, the committee highlighted that their community, displaced on June &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}