Labour and civil society groups in Jaffna marked May Day with a rally outside the university today.
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Demonstrators gathered in front of the University of Jaffna before marching through Palali Road and around Kantharmadam, before gathering again outside the campus.
During the rally, participants chanted and held banners calling for Tamil political prisoners to be freed, for military-occupied lands to be returned to the people, for an urgent solution to the disappearances issue, for an international investigation into genocide and for an end to the systematic Sinhalisation of the Tamil homeland.
Organisations involved in arranging the rally were Ceylon Teachers Union, University Employees Union of Jaffna University, Rural Workers Union, Theatre Action Group, Centre for Tamil Livelihood Rights and Social Research Council.
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