Report from Daily Mirror Online
All unauthorised
structures along the coastal belt from Dehiwala to Mount Lavinia were
demolished today by the Coast Conservation Department (CCD) with the help of
the Police and the Army. A senior official of the CCD said these unauthorized
structures were demolished after giving prior notice to those who would be
effected by it.
He said among the structures that were taken down were
restaurants and trade-stalls and that the owners had been advised to remove
them before hand. He said the occupants had ignored the order, compelling the
department to demolish the structures themselves. These officials said many of
the occupants of these structures had encroached even into the land reserved
for the railways.
The officials had demolished the unauthorized structures
using back-hoes amidst strong protests by their occupants who said they would
be left without a place to conduct business after their stalls were demolished.
They requested the authorities to provide them with alternate land to sell
their wares, adding that their families would starve to death otherwise.
(Indika Manoj Cooray and Kusal Chamath)
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