{"id":10331,"date":"2021-01-11T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=10331"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:25:00","slug":"new-monument-to-be-constructed-in-the-jaffna-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/new-monument-to-be-constructed-in-the-jaffna-university\/","title":{"rendered":"New monument to be constructed in the Jaffna University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new monument is to be constructed in the Jaffna University premises to remember those killed during the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Construction work was launched today with the participation of the Jaffna Vice Chancellor S. Srisatkunarajah and university students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe foundation stone for a memorial to replace the demolished Mullivaikkal memorial at the university was laid today (Monday morning) led by Vice-Chancellor and the Hunger Strike came to an end,\u201d Jaffna District Development Committee Co Chairman and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Parliamentarian Angajan Ramanathan said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tense situation arose in Jaffna on Friday after the war monument in the Jaffna University was destroyed by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gates of the Jaffna University had been closed and Police were deployed near the gates as the war monument was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaffna Mayor Vishwalingam Maniwannan was among those who gathered outside the gate with several students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University Grants Commission (UGC) had defended the decision to destroy the war monument in the Jaffna University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chairman of the University Grants Commission, Sampath Amaratunge had said that the war monument was a threat to the unity in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that the war monument was constructed in 2018 and was modified over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UGC Chairman said that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, Professor Sivakolundu Srisatkunarajah, had decided to remove the monument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new monument is to be constructed in the Jaffna University premises to remember&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}