Ethnic clashes

Image: Police curfew imposed in Gintota to control the unruly crowds.(Daily FT photo) A minor incident took place between individuals of Sinhala and Muslim community had  erupted in to ethnic clash in the southern town of  Gintota, Galle district quickly showing the ethnic distrust and tensions remain in the multi-ethnic Sri Lankan society. Ironically the incident took […]

(University of Jaffna. Credit: Wikimedia Commons) By Rajan Hoole. The crisis arising from the Sinhala-Tamil student conflict at Jaffna University is a part of the Sinhalese establishment’s absence of conviction on the cardinal importance of secularism and the drift of the Tamil elite towards religious obscurantism. Hundreds of Sinhalese students of Jaffna University had fled […]

By P.K.Balachandran. Giving their understanding of the underlying causes, Wigneswaran and Thavarajah said that frustrations have been accumulating among Tamils, students as well as non-students, over certain developments in the Northern Province. | Express Photo Service Giving their understanding of the underlying causes, Wigneswaran and Thavarajah said that frustrations have been accumulating among Tamils, students […]

The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) yesterday urged the university authorities to take all possible steps to identify the perpetrators of violence in the Science Faculty of the Jaffna University on Saturday and to bring them to justice. FUTA President Dr. Rangika Halwathura said, in a statement, that they condemned the attack. “We do […]

(A Sinhalese student brandishes a log towards a group of Tamil students as violence broke out at Jaffna University on Saturday.) Sinhalese students at the Jaffna University clashed with Tamil students earlier on Saturday, as violence erupted over the use of a Kandyan dance from the south of the island at a traditional orientation programme. […]