Jaffna University will re-commence academic
activities soon according to the sources. A boycott by academics and students at Jaffna has
ground academic activities to a halt since November 28.
On Friday a Jaffna University officials, led by
Vice-Chancellor Vasanthi Arasaratnam, met Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa
and other education officials to discuss the university’s problems and other
issues.
Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) questioned
three female undergraduates on Friday and recorded their statements. Jaffna
University students have told the university authorities that they will not
return for classes until the four detained students were released.
Professor V. P. Sivanathan, Dean of the Arts Faculty,
University of Jaffna, told the media that students were on an “unofficial
boycott” of lectures.
Army personnel deployed around the university campus
during the student protests have been withdrawn, while a dozen Policemen have
been deployed in three temporary huts at the entrance to the campus.
“We urge the Government to consider the immediate release of the four students
being helde at the rehabilitation centre in Welikanda” academic Ratnam
Vigneswaran told the media.
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