The University of Jaffna Teachers’ Association, in a statement condemning the recent smear campaign against fifteen academics of the University, has demanded the administration of the University to ensure freedom of expression within the University of Jaffna.
On the 17th of October 2024, fifteen academics of the University of Jaffna put out a statement on the Presidential Elections 2024. The statement urged the Tamils and other minority communities to evaluate in a holistic manner the challenges facing the country and their communities following the economic crisis that started in 2022 and vote in the elections in an appropriate manner without isolating themselves from mainstream politics.
The signatories of the statement underlined that voting or not voting in the presidential elections on the basis of Tamil nationalist aspirations may not be very helpful, while urging the people to reject the government at the time.
The following day, anonymous posters attacking and branding the signatories as traitors to the Tamil cause were put up within the premises of the University of Jaffna. The posters also carried personal attacks and character assassination.
On the 2nd of October 2024, at a Special General Meeting of the University of Jaffna Teachers’ Association, it was decided to issue a statement condemning the smear campaign against the fifteen academics and demanding the administration of the University of Jaffna to investigate this matter.
Read the full statement below:
Ensuring Freedom of Expression within the University of Jaffna
Statement Issued by the University of Jaffna Teachers’ Association
Universities function as sites that nourish exchange of ideas. Freedom of speech is an integral part of academic freedom. Those who are part of a university of community are generally mature enough to debate and discuss ideas.
Recently anonymous posters were put up within the premises of the University of Jaffna attacking fifteen academics of the University who had signed a statement. This and other similar incidents that took place within the University of Jaffna should be understood as attempts to stifle freedom of expression within the University.
Those who engage in such cowardly acts bring disrepute to not just themselves but also the University of Jaffna. While condemning this vicious poster campaign, the University of Jaffna Teachers’ Association emphasizes that the administration of the University of Jaffna must identify those who engaged in this smear campaign and take appropriate action against them.
Tony / October 13, 2024
They should do their politics in their motherland Tamil Nadu!!!!!
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Haran08 / October 13, 2024
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This is the problem we have in this cursed island. The attitude
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
HISTORIAN AND ANTHROPOLOGIST OF UNLIMITED ESTEEM UNEARTHED BY ACCIDENT!!?? WOULD LIKE TO KNOW TAMILNADU BETTER THAN PORTUGAL OR NETHERLANDS IS BETTER AS THE MOTHERLAND!!??
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Haran08 / October 13, 2024
Tony
Pack your bag and come and live with us go through the horrific life in here feel the pain rather than polishing white man shoes
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / October 15, 2024
It has now been proved that original people in the land were Veddhas who worshipped Murugan the God of Tamils and Dravidians who worshipped Siva. Very soon it will be part of Dravidian home land.
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Native Vedda / October 15, 2024
Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam
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“Dravidians who worshipped Siva.”
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The word Dravidian was not in use until Robert A. Caldwell introduced it in ” A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages (1856)”.
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You should always factcheck before you start typing.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / October 16, 2024
Yes. It was coined later. But the fact is that dark skinned people lived in India much before that. It is now accepted to call them Dravidians. It is found archaeologically that the people who lived in Tamil Nadu and northern and western Srilanka had the same civilization and genetic make up. So to say that the people whom lived in Srilanka before the origin of Sinhalese were Dravidians is correct.
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LankaScot / October 15, 2024
Hello Doctor,
Balangoda Man is the oldest Human found in Sri Lanka, if not South Asia. “The earliest evidence of this group dates back 38,000 years, where archaeological sequencing of artifacts has helped paint a detailed timeline of their settlements”.https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-hominins-of-sri-lanka-who-was-the-balangoda-man-65201
Show me evidence that he worshiped Murugan.
Best regards
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / October 16, 2024
Originally people were natural worshippers and later they adopted other forms of worship. So Balangoda man predates this. Evidence that Veddhas worshipped Murugan is in Kataragama. Are you not aware of this. Till now at the main pooja ceremony, food of the veddhas such as honey, dried venison and eats made of millet are placed in the altar of the temple. What more do you want. Two caves used by Veddhas were found in Kumana and Medagama near Bibile which had inscriptions in Brahmi and Tamil Brahmi which shows that Veddhas came under Tamil influence. All these predate arrival of Vijaya and setting up kingdom in Anuradhapura.
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old codger / October 16, 2024
Dr.GS,
“Two caves used by Veddhas were found in Kumana and Medagama near Bibile which had inscriptions in Brahmi and Tamil Brahmi ……predate arrival of Vijaya “
When? By whom?
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SJ / October 15, 2024
Siva did not enter Tamil worship systems until late Sangam period.
Even there, reference to Siva is by names that draw on non-Tamil mythology, and not Siva until much after.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / October 16, 2024
God was worshipped in three forms : Aruvam (formless) denoted by the ultrasound OHM, Uruvam (form) denoted by figure Nataraja and Aru-uruvam (in between) denoted by human phallus. It is now said Sumerians who are dark skinned, worshipped human phallus. It is the form of Nataraja that came into use during Sangam period.
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
Haran08,
What colour Polish – Black, Brown or White??? Sure, we intend going back to “Pristine Glory”, of the “Blue Leopard, Taprobane”!!?? Why Not?? If Tony is going to do it, it would be magnificent and STAND-OUT TOO!!?? WHAT AN EXOTIC WORLD TO GO BACK TO!!??
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chiv / October 13, 2024
Muslim and Tamil parties too need a System change. It’s upto communities to vote wisely to bring a change. Haven’t they, seen and heard enough of this BS.
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Ruchira / October 13, 2024
Hahaha cat jumps out of the bag! Jaffna University academics getting a dose of there own medicine from their own fellows. Very good!
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Suppression freedom of expression whatever the form has been a cultural hallmark of this part of the world, including Sri Lanka too.
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My experience during close to one year of presence in this forum, the comments section of which is dominated by Tamils, from all parts of the country and the world, and their acolytes, is evidence that this is particularly worse among Tamils!
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No plurality of ideas are accepted. If someone mentions a view even slightly different than the dominant one, that person would be subjected to a targetted well coordinated systematic harassment of insults and attacks, that extends to their actual lives outside of the online forum.
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So nothing surprising from the University of Jaffna. I suggest Tamils first learn to live with dignity and respect adhrreing to modern day’s standards of a dignified life ensuring freedoms and rights of every citizen within their own communities before the try to recocile with communities with which they have been in conflict for millenia….
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Ruchira / October 13, 2024
This suppression of freedom of expression has lead to a population of various perverted, dishonest characters, that lack intergrity across multiple generations – from the likes of Gnana Sankaralingam in the UK, Gobikrishna in the US, to Ratnajeevan Hoole and Sivasegaram in Jaffna, Wignesawaran and Sumanthiran, the likes of Pandi Kutti, Rohan25, Sugand, and chiv of somewhat younger generations, to of course the father of all perverts, old codger, it is difficult to find just one decent Tamil among this community.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / October 15, 2024
Tamils never had freedom of expression especially after prevention of terrorism act was passed. Just imagine what would happen to me, if I was living in Srilanka and criticising the government for racism and terrorism unleashed on Tamils. Few days ago a lady in Thirukovil has been arrested under PTA on thumped up charges of resurrecting LTTE, when in fact she was demanding the fate of her disappeared relatives.
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Native Vedda / October 15, 2024
Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam
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“Tamils never had freedom of expression especially after prevention of terrorism act was passed. “
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Forget the PTA did Tamils enjoy freedom of expression before the introduction of PTA 1978 or after it?
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / October 16, 2024
Read my statement correctly. I said “especially after PTA act was passed”, which means it was prevalent prior to that too.
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Ruchira / October 15, 2024
Sinhalese mother’s have never had the freedom to give birth to a son, if the father was an intelligent and keen student in an institute where a racist Tamil was cooking books. The same mothrrs never do seem to have appropriate emergency care that could have saved her life in a hospital that claims to be national located in the heart of the Colombo city, according to Tamils, a Sinhala governed Sinhala majority area, because of the son of the same criminal who was cooking books at Pembroke. Having brutally murdered by Indians the same mother never had a just post mortem because he gave birth to an intelligent son, who is Sinhalese and Buddhist.
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Tbc
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Ruchira / October 15, 2024
Having murdered she never had a dignified embalming process either, neither the space for her loved ones to mourn and pay last respects, her sisters at least to attend the funeral house – why, she was a Sinhalese buddhist who gave birth to an intelligent Son, and cared for him in ways that even the son did not know. Her son was poisoned with muscle toxins so his hips and legs becomes week and he neither could have the pleasure of enjoying sex nor could reproduce, this is after having purposely injured the base of his spinal column, the 5th lumbar vertebral disc to be precise. So that he ends up with perpetual low back pain and bilateral sciatica – simply because he is Sinhalese Buddhist and intelligent. All this while her husband is poisoned with the right amount of heavy metals so that he declines cognitively. He then is deprived of taking a nap in his own bed in his own house without being subejected to bein snooped on by naighouring cctv cameras and various other hidden cams fixed in the vicinity targetting his bedroom and bed to capture some occassional.moment during which his sarong would loosen a little and his genitals exposed, to use such footage to spread the runour that he is some sex pervert.
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.tbc
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chiv / October 16, 2024
Thank God, the injury is at L 5 level , not the higher executive functions of brain. ( disinhibition ???? )
Are you sure it’s heavy metals and not alcohol causing, cognitive decline.
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chiv / October 16, 2024
1) Didn’t your partner Jester try helping with his psi 300 pump 2) purposely injuring the base of spinal column by poisoning, causing lack of arousal / libido, infertility and impotence. ( physiology / Anatomy ?????). That too muscle toxin, not nerve toxin or Ganasara’s miracle pill. 3) wonder, was this before or after, the alleged Maid incident.
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Ruchira / October 15, 2024
“Tamils never had freedom of expression …”
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Pribabbly true. One must know the meaning of freedom in order to enjoy it. When you let some murderous bunch of terrorists to be the sole representative of you who then murdered all your most capable leaders, conscripted children to be trained in guerrilla fighting and suicide bombing, it is kimd of tragic you lot are incapable of enjoying any freedoms, expression or otherwise. All you seem to be able to do is plotting raping young girls, then video recording them and distribute among yourselves to masterbates to them, telling each other that if they kill her boyfriend they’d get to fuck her. I mean what else are you Tamils capable of, seriously?
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old codger / October 16, 2024
“Pribabbly true. ” Thank God you didn’t attend Prince of Wales. Angoda Central is the proud owner of your legacy.
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
ONE HAS TO BE DECENT; TO FIND ANOTHER IN COMMUNITY!!??
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old codger / October 15, 2024
Feeling a little wet today, aren’t we, Your Majesty Queen Ruchi?
Take it easy. Take those pills. Go get your daughter from the Mosque…….
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SJ / October 15, 2024
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Some conditions need very special medication.
He may be gulping the wrong pills.
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
R,
“NO PLURALITY of IDEAS are ACCEPTED.”
Ideas emanating from which sundown dance of Kolonnawa region!? Very amusing claim, probably convoluted due to transfer of communication via Imperialist capitals, famous for “DIVIDE ‘N’ Rule” failing to say ‘God Save The King’ and reaping the consequences!
MY FOOT OOUCH!!?? What A LOAD of EXCRETA!!??
You are still imagining that Mahendra Percival’s Regime-time!!??
That episode has all passed-on and none of that MPR’s residual matter remains, to tarnish SL anymore!!
In any event “Apache’s” influence never, ever pervaded this ‘noble forum’, unlike the SUBSERVIENT, so-called National Press of Sri Lanka, negating information from the Public Fora, under the guise of SELF-SENSORSHIP!!?? GODDAM IDIOSYNCRATIC IDEA OF A PACK OF FOOLS, PRETENDING AND ACTING AS TRUTHFUL AGENTS OF DEMOCRACY, when they are indeed NOT, but mere Agent Provocateurs for delusion, filled with illusion of farsighted intelligence and acumen!?
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
(Part I)
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“So, nothing SURPRISING FROM the UNIVERSITY OF JAFFNA. I SUGGEST TAMILS FIRST LEARN TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT ADHRREING TO MODERN DAY’S STANDARDS of a DIGNIFIED LIFE ENSURING FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS OF EVERY CITIZEN WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES BEFORE THE TRY TO RECOCILE WITH COMMUNITIES WITH WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN IN CONFLICT FOR MILLENIA….”
Written by an ill-advised retard, uneducated under Post SWRDB era!?
Word, ‘MILLENIA’, PLURAL FOR MILLENIUM meaning “end of 1000 years”!! Story of, Or History of such period!!??
What Malfunctioned mind, in a “Dysfunctional Human Cranium”, could have sought such clarification, unless the clear despondency of one’s situation has confused such thoughts of puerile men and women!!? SAD state of affairs indeed for Sri Lankans and Lanka!!??
There was no conflict which existed for more than 76 Years, since Independence, or 93 Years, 1931 Donoughmore Commission Reforms and elections and consequent Governance thereafter!!?? Some of these people making random claims seem to Ignore Facts and events which are intrinsic part of SL History, such as ONE of the many sighted herein below:
“During the period of Muslim and Sinhala riots in 1915 Governor Robert Chalmers declared martial law and ordered the military
(TBC)
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
(Part II)
to arrest ALL THE SINHALA LEADERS.
Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan undertook a risky sea voyage to England to represent matters to the King on behalf of the Sinhalese leaders. As a result all the detainees were released. On HIS RETURN to the ISLAND the SINHALA PEOPLE CARRIED HIM IN A PALANQUIN FROM THE COLOMBO JETTY TO HIS WARD PLACE RESIDENCE.”!!??
It seems that fast moving world makes people to forget CRITICAL HAPPENINGS OF HISTORY!!?? There was NO conflict or Crisis for MILLENNIUM, let alone the MILLENIA – plural of the former word!!?? The sick use of the incorrect word, should be overlooked and forgiven, as these progeny after 1950’s thought none others had a Language of their own except Sinhala and Sinhalese, which idiosyncrasy was due to seeding of ill-founded thought by Political Dramatist of that era and distinguished Lineage of a South-Indian PANDARAM – ‘Neela Perumal’ and coterie of Religious Leaders headed by an outgoing Business Minded Buddhist Priest to advance their own ends – None – else making Sinhalese the NATIONAL, OFFICIAL LANGUGE of SL!!?? Anyhow, the Major Minorities, Tamils and Muslims (who were, Tamils following Islamic Religious faith Tamil speaking) never agreed to this disenfranchisement by Sinhala Maha Sabha,
(TBC)
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Mahila / October 15, 2024
(Part III)
the front being “Pancha Maha Balavegaya” a confluence of Buddhist Priests, Ayurveda Physicians, Teachers of all grades, Workers and farmers!!??
That conflict was only 68 Years – 932 Years short of One Millennium let alone the fantasy of the CONFLICT OF Millennia!!??
IMAGINATION RUNNING RIOT AND IS OUT OF CONTROL RESOURCEFULLY INCITING THE INNOCENT AND VULNERABLE!!?? THE RURAL POOR UNDERGOING HARDSHIPS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE DIVIDE ARE EMOTIONALY CHALLENGED – MAY TIP-OVER TO ONCE MORE UTTER PURPOSELESS CONFLICT!!?? BEST, AVOIDED!!??
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RBH59 / October 13, 2024
Universities function as sites that nourish exchange of ideas.
For further norishing The NPP, has come to power after 76 years of rule that ended in bankruptcy. The previous ruling party’s mismanagement and interactions with global powers failed to deliver results, leaving the country in financial ruin. Now, with NPP in charge, the message is clear: give them time and see if they can bring the much-needed change.Monior the one month direction Global is powering to help the policies as they come with resources support.Try the nee Party
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SebastianSR / October 15, 2024
In 1948 SJV labeled GGP as a traitor and formed ITAK. This remained a fringe “racist” for most Colombo Tamils. The 1956 language bill as well as the bill against caste discrimination changed all that. The attacks on protesting Tamils led to tit for tat clashes until the Vaddukkodai resolution. Soon after, those labeled “traitors” were marked out. A first “thurogi” assasinated was Duraiappa-the mayor. Later, JRJ and his minions replied with the 1983 pogram of Tamils. The “Arasu-Eelam aspiration” became the big Ethnic issue; any disiisdents- துரோகிகள்-had to face death, go south an hide, or exile abroad. We faced that from 1975 to 2009. The anonymous attackers in 2024 are nothing. We see their weakness from the mere 1.7% votes for Airyanethiran although the Tamil population is 12%-15%. In 1977 a Tamil candidte would have got over 10%. So, Tamils are moving from their suicidal fantasy planted by SJV, EMV, Navaratnam and others during 1948-1952 period, even before SWRD’s Sinhala only bill. This time Wiggy and Ponna are not even running.
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SJ / October 15, 2024
“In 1948 SJV labeled GGP as a traitor “
SJVC did not label anybody a traitor.
Such terminology came about much later.
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