Police in Jaffna are asking a crowd protesting against the destruction of war memorial inside the University grounds to disperse as the gathering will cause a further spread of COVID-19, several people at the protest said.

The protest began last night after a bulldozer was used to break down a memorial to the civilians killed during the last stages of the war.

Former Member of Parliament for Jaffna Mavai Senathiraja told EconomyNext that the university had ordered the memorial destroyed after it was “pressured by the central authorities,” to do so.

https://economynext.com/jaffna-tense-as-war-memorial-is-destroyed-77705/