Over 500 college students were arrested in Chennai for attempting to picket the Raj Bhawan even as they continued their protests over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue for the eighth day on Monday.
A large number of students joined the protests despite government directing closure of educational institutions.
Protests ranged from fast to agitation to boycott of classes in various parts of the state including Coimbatore, Salem and Tirunelveli, with students pressing for various demands, including an independent probe against Colombo for alleged human rights violations and moving the International Court of Justice.
City-based Loyola College students had first embarked on a fast-unto-death last week on this vexed issue, with more and more students taking to various forms of protests.
Tamil Nadu is on the boil after pictures by a private channel showed the alleged cold blooded killing of slain LTTE chief V Prabakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran.
Meanwhile, around 200 students were arrested when they tried to proceed towards the airport to stage a protest.
They were detained outside the airport and arrested, police said.
The issue should be war crimes or atrocities against Tamil civilans
.Action against LTTE was justified in a proper manner of course. How
can we make this an issue of Tamil Eelam ?
Then we should entertain seperate Kashmir, seperate Gujarat for
Muslims and so on and so forth. These college people just get taken in
by the rabble rousers.
Why were they ( DMK and ADMK) keeping quiet when LTTE killed Tamils in
Sri Lanka, I just hope people remeber ERPLF,TELO etc whose leaders and
cadres , all Tamils only were murdered by LTTE's Prabhakaran
Let us also not forget that the same Tamils ( LTTE ) killed an Indian
Prime Minister.Any other country would have taken strong action and
completely blocked the Sri Lankan Tamils.We are a generous country.
Really proud to see the students involving in political life. There not selfish and they started their protest at the right time. Its upto central govt to respect our feelings which is not only based on race but on humanity. Any noble soul will protest against such killing of innocent lives.
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