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Jaffna varsity memorial issue
Why is it in news?
- The Indian High Commissioner met the Sri Lankan PM [last weekend] and they discussed the Jaffna University memorial matter.
Details:
- On January 8, the Jaffna University authorities bulldozed a memorial erected two years ago.
- The memorial was erected to commemorate the scores of civilians killed in the final phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war in Mullivaikkal, in 2009.
- The sudden, overnight removal of sculpture set off spontaneous student protests, and drew sharp criticism of the attempt to stifle Tamils’ right to remember their loved ones lost in war.
- Now university’s Vice-Chancellor promised to “rebuild” a monument at the same spot.