SL teachers join lawyers in Weriweliya condemnation

The Teacher-Principal Trade Unions Joint Committee condemned the Weriweliya incident, and said that the government should take responsibility for it.

The committee's swift public condemnation, in line with legal bodies, criticised the military's attack on 'unarmed civilians who were protesting for a basic human need'.

Condemnation from the Sinhala polity, professional bodies and public has been swift. See more:

Legal profession speaks out on civilian killings

Usual suspects: Tamil diaspora provoked Weliweriya protesters says SL media

Next day delivery..

See also our editorial on the incident: 'Unequal in death'

Add new comment

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Global and entity tokens are replaced with their values. Browse available tokens.