Plainclothes police and Sri Lankan intelligence officers have been deployed at Jaffna University said a senior police official, following clashes between Sinhala and Tamil students at the campus last week.
Inspector General Pujitha Jayasundera told the Divaina that security in Jaffna would be maintained.
“In addition to officers in civvies, we have deployed a large number of officers within the Jaffna university,” he said.
He added that intelligence officers had also been deployed in order to provide “security to Sinhala students”.
This is the first instance of Sri Lankan police officials admitting to the use of plainclothes and intelligence officers at the campus reports JDS.
The IGP went on to reassure readers that “there is no such a severe incident in the Jaffna Campus”.
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