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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Mathara District people organized against on Land Grabbing


An awareness meeting was conducted In Mathara district organized by the Sothern Fisheries Organization- Mathara on 17th Oct. Issues of island wide Land grabbing were the main focus of the program.
About 100 participants were participated to the program and main speech was made by Thilak Kariyawasam, a well known environmentalist in Sri Lanka.
At the end participants decided to make a petition with 1000 signatures against the land grabbing and submit to the precedent, Mr.  Mahinda Rajapasha in the near future.    




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