Students and staff at the University of Jaffna today remembered the 18th anniversary of the 'Pongu Thamil' uprising.
Gathering by the Pongu Thamil declaration monument on the university campus grounds, students and staff remembered the widespread uprising calling for Tamil self-determination.
"The aspirations of the Tamils namely right of self determination, traditional homeland, Tamil as a distinct nationality, should be recognised" the monument's inscription reads.
The Pongu Thamil uprising was made up of a series of large scale rallies in 2001 across the Tamil homeland, calling for the Tamil right to self-determination. The rallies were later echoed in Tamil diaspora communities worldwide in 2008.
