{"id":165599,"date":"2016-07-22T02:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=165599"},"modified":"2016-07-27T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T09:18:19","slug":"one-can-not-blame-jaffna-students-for-wanting-to-give-prominence-to-their-culture-ven-galkande-dhammananda-thero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/one-can-not-blame-jaffna-students-for-wanting-to-give-prominence-to-their-culture-ven-galkande-dhammananda-thero\/","title":{"rendered":"Ven. Galkande Dhammananda Thero Highlights Importance Of Understanding Complexities That Led To Jaffna Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lecturer of the Department of History of the University of Kelaniya, Ven. Galkande Dhammananda<\/span><\/a> Thero has said that in any university due prominence is always given to that respective university\u2019s cultural background.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven at the University of Kelaniya or the University of Peradeniya, when there are major events, the cultural activities at these functions are based on the locality, hence one cannot find fault that even at the Jaffna University preference was for cultural activities from that area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaker further on the recent clash at the Science Faculty of the University of Jaffna<\/span><\/a>, the Thero noted that there is a general fear psychosis created because some are saying that the \u2018Tamils are attacking the Sinhalese.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cBut university clashes are nothing new although there has been a lot of attention to this clash in particular. There are university clashes from time to time and in all universities, and in some instances students have even been killed, but this clash in particular has been discussed at length,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Watch the full speech here:<\/p>\n