Growing discontent amongst Tamil Nadu students

by admin
Mar 12, 2013

Student protests that proclaim the US resolution on Sri Lanka inadequate, which were initially started at Loyola College in Chennai, have spread across the Tamil Nadu state, resulting in a massive student voice of dissent around India’s dealing of the Eelam Tamil issue.

The protests have resulted in spontaneous hunger strikes and burnings of the US draft resolution, reports TamilNet. The protesters have described it as a motion that “bails out the genocide-accused Sri Lankan state.”

Forming a conglomerate organisation, 'The All Colleges Students Federation of Tamil Nadu for the Liberation of Tamil Eelam', the students have made a 9-point demand to New Delhi.

See here for their demands.

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