From correspondents in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 10:31 AM IST
A student belonging to the majority Sinhala community was shot dead at an university in predominantly Tamil minority eastern Sri Lanka by unidentified persons, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
The student, identified as a 27-year-old first year business management student attached to the Vandaramullai University in Batticaloa, was shot dead Thursday night.
The spokesman said it was not clear as to who was responsible for the shooting or the motive for the killing.
The shooting came as students belonging to the majority Sinhala community who have been selected to attend the university staged a protest in the capital, refusing to register at the university because they claim it is not safe.
The students selected to go to the university are asking the government to allow them to register in other universities in the south which are located in predominantly Sinhala areas.
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This unfortunate tragedy has the potent to exacerbate the already sour relations between the Sinhala and Tamil communities of the small Srilankan island. Such shooting incidents do not exemplify the true Buddhistic indeed Eastern cultural values, but may merely reflect a mindless aping of racially driven bloodthirst in the West, where even schoo kids are massacred by madcaps on the prowl.
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