AKD's Jaffna visit, the UNHRC sessions and justice delayed

From the beginning of this month, our president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has engaged in visiting the northern capital of this country. Dissanayake’s visit needs to be appreciated.

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No other head of state has visited the peninsula so many times as President Dissanayake has done during the short time since he was elected to power.

The people of the north — who voted him and his government into power over regional political parties - - have responded to the president’s overtures positively. Through their actions, they have shown that ethnic and politics of division will no longer work as a vote garnering machine.

During his visit, the president launched a series of development projects, most importantly the development of the third stage of the Fisheries harbour at Myliddy. He also visited the Jaffna Library burnt at the instigation of Cabinet ministers of a different era -- where he inaugurated an e-library programme.