Rathugala Bibile Veddah community decides to go back to Caves

Rathugala Bibile Veddah community decides to go back to Caves

The Veddah community living in the village  Rathugala,Bibile  have claimed that they do not receive any assistance from the government.Hence they had unanimously decide to go back to their original  ancestral land in the Nilgala forest.

This had been expressed by the Veddah chief of Rathugala village Suda Vannila Eththo

It is said that in the year 1938 when the Senanayake Saudraya was constructed seven Veddah families

had been asked to vacate and were requested to live in Rathugala village. in Bibile. They have accused that for 78 years they have not received any assistance from any government.This had been conveyed by the Sudu Vannila Eththo.

It is reported that owing to the severe drought that is prevailing thses days around 108 Veddah families have been terribly inconvenienced.Without water the village has been transformed into a desert.The Sudu Vannila Eththo had added that without any facilitates that it is better than dying to go and settle in their original caves in the forest.