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A hunger strike urging the Sri Lankan government to be brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC) commenced in Nallur, Jaffna today morning. Jaffna and Eastern University students and religious leaders – including Jaffna district’s archbishop priest, Jebaratnam Adigalar and Hindu clergy, Velan Swamigal came together to launch the first day of the hunger strike in front of the Nallur Kandasamy Temple. Velan Swamigal stated that one of the demands from the hunger strike is that the international community, particularly the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), its constituent…
(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) strong> By N Sathiya Moorthy
Though the so-called national media did not give it due coverage, the five-day Pothuvil-to-Polikandy multi-ethnic march of the Tamil-speaking people drew a decent crowd, recently. Equally important, it has quietly passed on the mantle of core Tamil politics from the well-entrenched older generation to the relatively younger ones, without anyone asking for it and anyone giving it. Yet, it did leave behind the North and East divide that the protest march was supposed to close as much as possible – and did do so at the level of the people, but not necessarily among the leaders.