President tells people of Kilinochchi:

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President tells people of Kilinochchi:
HSZs to go in due course
*Right to freedom, democracy has been protected
*No one will be allowed to destroy peoples’ rights
Dharma SRI ABEYRATNE in Kilinochchi
The remaining High Security Zones will be removed in due course, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said, while stressing that the rights of the people have been safeguarded by the government. No one will be allowed to violate these rights again, he said.
President Rajapaksa was addressing a large gathering at Kilinochchi in Jaffna last afternoon. In line with the event, a foundation stone was also laid for a sports complex under the patronage of the President. The complete sports complex will comprise facilities for numerous sports events including cricket and 25 other indoor games. The government will invest Rs 325 million in the sports complex which will have a nearly 10,000 seating capacity.
The President further said that the rights of the Northern people had been violated for over three decades due to terrorism. The right to freedom and democracy has been protected.
No one will be allowed to destroy those rights, the President stressed. The President said that the government has taken measures to uplift the facilities for sports for the people in the North and East. Due to terrorism these people could not have any facility to sharpen their sporting abilities for over three decades. But after establishing such a sports complex and providing facilities for sports, the youth of Kilinochchi will be as world famous as Muttaiah Muralitharan.
He said that almost all ex-combatants who were rehabilitated have become useful persons in society. Of these persons, a considerable number of youths are engaged in foreign employment. The President added that the government has implemented a mechanism to address the issues of widows.
‘These widows and their children are well looked after. In addition, the elderly people will also be looked after through a mechanism which will be introduced soon.
“Qualified graduates will be absorbed to the teacher service aiming to solve the teacher shortage.”
“The government will implement Compassionate Justice for ex-LTTE combatants who have been rehabilitated,” President Rajapaksa said.
“We are the sons and daughters of the same country. The country belongs to all of us.
We all have to live in this country peacefully with dignity”, the President added. He further said that the people of the North can now elect their leaders in a democratic way. During the 30-year terror period, people were not able to experience democracy.
As a result of the war, the country has gone backwards by 30 years. The government and the people are duty-bound to drive the country forward. As a people-friendly government, this government is engaged in serving and developing the entire country. “It is our duty to bring the country back to its past glory, it was lagging for 30 years due to terrorism,” the President noted.