{"id":128698,"date":"2014-08-04T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=128698"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T08:54:30","slug":"tamil-undergrads-in-sabaragamuwa-university-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tamil-undergrads-in-sabaragamuwa-university-under-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Undergrads In Sabaragamuwa University Under Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduates of Tamil ethnicity in the Sabaragamuwa University have expressed concerns over the safety of their lives following a brutal attack on one of their colleagues and threats issued against Tamil students over leaflets put up in the hostel premises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sabaragamuva.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-128699\" alt=\"Sabaragamuva\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sabaragamuva.jpg\" width=\"394\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sabaragamuva.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sabaragamuva-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a>Shanthikumar Sudharshan \u2013 resident of Kilinochchi and a first year undergraduate of the Sabaragamuwa University had been attacked early Sunday (3) morning by a group of five masked men. Sudharshan\u2019s colleagues had found him few hours later unconscious, with cut wounds on his body, severe blunt force trauma to his head and rags stuffed into his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>The incident had occurred in the \u2018Shantha Bandara\u2019 hostel premises that accommodate only first year students while the Defense Ministry managed university security service \u2013 Rakna Lanka officials were present. During the investigations into the incident however, they have claimed they neither saw nor heard anything suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Notices containing threats to Tamil students had also been put up in the hostel premises the same night ordering all Tamil students to leave the premises within the next 10 days. The notice states those who dare defy the order would be shot to death and any females will be raped. These threats have escalated the climate of fear that prevails among students of Tamil ethnicity in the Sabaragamuwa University.<\/p>\n<p>Students say this is not the first instance of anti-Tamil sentiments have been propagated within the University. A similar incident had occurred on July 11 where notices containing racist statement against those of Tamil ethnicity had been strewn around the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":128699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tamil Undergrads In Sabaragamuwa University Under Threat - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tamil-undergrads-in-sabaragamuwa-university-under-threat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tamil Undergrads In Sabaragamuwa University Under Threat - 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