Sri Lankan Students Protest After Memorial for 100K Tamil People Killed in Civil War is Destroyed
At the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, a war memorial dedicated to the Tamil people was destroyed over the weekend, resulting in student protests, sudden arrests and a viral Instagram post.
What happened: On Jan. 8, the Sri Lankan authorities bulldozed a monument known as the Mullivaikkal memorial, according to Al Jazeera.
The memorial was built by students on the university’s grounds to commemorate the Tamil civilians who were killed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. It was also built to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of the end of the war.
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