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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mohamedhanas" data-source="post: 24903648" data-attributes="member: 155478">US says it is giving $480m as a non-refundable grant. WHY?     US says MCC has no conditions, if so why produce a Constraints Analysis which names     <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lack of Assess to Land</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Policy Uncertainty</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Inadequate overland transport</li> </ul>If MCC is coming to help Sri Lanka’s poor why does MCC want access to land?    MCC Constraints Analysis makes clear that MCC wants to buy land for ‘investment purposes’.    How do we know what MCC conditions are? Unbelievable that in a sovereign country a government ministry is placed subordinate a US MCC authority board. Where have you heard of a government Ministry below a corporate body?    Sri Lankans have access to land – who doesn’t have access? It is the foreigners    When MCC speaks about lack access to land it is MCC that is seeking land for investment.     When MCC speaks about policy uncertainty, it is MCC that is seeking legislative changes advantageous to MCC investors    When MCC speaks about inadequate overland transport, it is for MCC investors.The obvious plan via the Land Special Provisions Bill was to remove obstacle where 84% of state land was held by farmers. The only way to do that was to give outright ownership to grantees of state land by privatizing state land. Once grantee land owners had title deeds to land they are on their own.Why is US asking for changes to our administrative systems – privatizing state land, giving title deeds, removing cap on foreign ownership of land – what is their bigger plan?    What happens when all State land is privatized?     Political power over land passes from Centre to the provinces.     Isn’t this what TNA & LTTE had been fighting & demanding for 30 years?      By now you should have understood that Land Special Provisions Act & Land Bank Act are integral parts of the MCC conditions.  </blockquote>

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