[2] A body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land is called Manal Aru in Tamil.

It is called the "border village" (s) since the territory north of Weli Oya was previously under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

A body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land is called Manal Aru in Tamil.

[5] After settlements inhabited by ethnic Sinhalese near Maduru Oya Basin in Vadamunai, Eastern Province began to encroach on state land creating a controversy the Sinhalese were ejected from the east and resettled along a line from Padaviya to Nedunkerny in the north, in the Mullaitivu district with jungles being cleared and new roads being opened from Padaviya to Dollar Farm, Kumbakarnan Malai, Ariyakundam, Kokkuchchankulam, Kokkuttoduwai and Veddukkan malai.

Despite its scale the project began suddenly without the knowledge of either the residents or Government Agents of Vavuniya or Mullaitivu including AGAs Land Officers.

[5] The UTHR reported that the Weli Oya colonization scheme was only a ploy by the military to use civilians as "both bait and human shields against the LTTE."

[6] Following the massacres of Sinhalese, Tamil families were living in 42 villages for generations were asked to vacate their homes and farmlands within 48 hours or face eviction by force in case of default.