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,
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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,”
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