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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
'Where is our Rector?' - protests in Jaffna as Sri Lankan President visits disappeared priest's former school
20Mar 2018
The Sri Lankan President was met by protestors in Jaffna on Monday where
he had travelled for the inauguration of a new school building.
President Sirisena was in Jaffna to open a new technology centre at St
Patrick's College, where old students and families of the disappeared
protested demanding to know the whereabouts of Father Francis Joseph,
the school's former rector who was disappeared after surrendering to the
Sri Lankan Army alongside hundreds of LTTE cadres and high-ranking LTTE
officials in May 2009.
St Patrick's old students were angered by the decision to invite the
President who was acting defence secretary at the end of the war, to
inaugurate a facility which had been entirely funded by alumni
contributions.
On top of the president's huge security detail, police packed the
streets in response to the protest with reports of police officers
aggressively pushing back protestors, including elderly women, and
ripping up placards.
Protestors also reported that some families of the disappeared were
invited inside on the pretense of a meeting with the president, in order
to disperse the protest, but that the president left without seeing
them.
The Sri Lankan President was met by protestors in Jaffna on Monday where
he had travelled for the inauguration of a new school building.
President Sirisena was in Jaffna to open a new technology centre at St
Patrick's College, where old students and families of the disappeared
protested demanding to know the whereabouts of Father Francis Joseph,
the school's former rector who was disappeared after surrendering to the
Sri Lankan Army alongside hundreds of LTTE cadres and high-ranking LTTE
officials in May 2009.
St Patrick's old students were angered by the decision to invite the
President who was acting defence secretary at the end of the war, to
inaugurate a facility which had been entirely funded by alumni
contributions.
On top of the president's huge security detail, police packed the
streets in response to the protest with reports of police officers
aggressively pushing back protestors, including elderly women, and
ripping up placards.
Protestors also reported that some families of the disappeared were
invited inside on the pretense of a meeting with the president, in order
to disperse the protest, but that the president left without seeing
them.
