Speaking to Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) on the arrest of the Norwegian Tamil poet Jayapalan, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Jaffna, said that the arrest “was part of the ongoing campaign of witch-hunt against Tamils journalists, university students and academics”.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the lecturer added,
“The military and police intelligence operatives are closely monitoring every movement on a daily basis. The level of their activities and interruption in routine life under heavy-military presence in the peninsula are unprecedented and unbearable, especially after the visit to Jaffna by British Prime Minister David Cameron,”
See here for more on the story by JDS.
See also: Ananthi threatened over Jaffna protests (23 Nov 2013)
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