22.8.2008
Army spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said that a Sinhala
student had been shot and killed inside the Eastern University
on 21st aug.
The
victim was H.M.S.P. Samarasinghe, a final year commerce
student. He is a resident of Pothuhera of Kurunegala.
The killing took place in the student hostel of the university.
Police conducts further investigations.
Sinhala
students who were selected for the universities in Northern
and Eastern Provinces staged a protest before the University
Grants Commission with their parents appealing to provide
them other universities since they were unable to study
there.
LeN