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UGC to discuss Prof. Hoole`s position as Jaffna University Vice Chancellor
Thursday, 20 April 2006 - 3:37 AM SL Time
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Following the LTTE-backed university fraternity`s opposition to the appointment of Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole as Jaffna University Vice Chancellor, the University Grants Commission (UGC) is to decide on what steps it should take to settle the matter.
Amid protests from the students union, non- academics and some lecturers, Prof. Hoole assumed duties while being stationed in Colombo.
A spokesman for the university said its activities had been paralyzed without a head and the Senate meetings had not been held for the past two months.
The spokesman said in the absence of the Vice Chancellor the Senate was unable to approve the results of the university final year examination.
The TNA also opposed this appointment and requested President Mahinda Rajapaksa to re-consider his decision and its Jaffna district MP S. Gajendran said there would be a lot of unrest in Jaffna if the appointment was not cancelled.
UGC Vice Chairman Prof. Gunapala Nanayakkara said the problem would be discussed at today`s board meeting.
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ajan
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20 Apr 2006 09:31:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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If you dont know Proff Hoole Back ground you would say Why such fuss about Proff Hoole appointment?
he is well suited tp do the job acadamically , and have experiance energetic.
he should be left to get on with the job.
and why Mahinda favored him? not to bring the the standard up of Jaffna university , it is again use as propaganda war againt Tigers, and if possible kill him and discredit LTTE. and kill one more tamil. and
mahinda want to use hoole as a Canon
read the article published in 2002.
Read the article published in 2/10/2002
and now you guys know what the fuss about.
and why mahinda wanted Proff Hoole.
University Teachers for Human Rights ? Jaffna Branch
(UTHR-JB) Bulletins
MALICIOUS PROPAGANDA?
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated,
it is possible to make people believe that
heaven is hell ? and hell heaven.
The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
in Mein Kampf
Mark Twain is credited to have said, ?A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.? This is true at least in the case of the latest propaganda bulletin of the University Teachers for Human Rights ? Jaffna Branch (UTHR-JB), a small group consisting primarily of two brothers.
Bulletin No. 28, released by the UTHR-JB just 10 days ago, has already been quoted numerous times, not only in the Sinhala owned Sri Lankan media, but also by the Brahmin owned The Hindu, and even the BBC. This report claims widespread ?LTTE harassment of civilians?, ?conscription of child-soldiers?, ?profiteering?, etc. It will not be long before the other western media start repeating these allegations. The denials by the LTTE, and also by the duly elected Tamil members of the Sri Lankan Parliament, have not found currency, again proving Mark Twain?s point on truth ?putting on its shoes?.
University for Human Rights (Jaffna Branch)
The UTHR-JB has been reporting on the war in Sri Lanka since 1988. Their first endeavor was ?The Broken Palmyra?, a book which became widely known because of its accurate documentation of the mayhem during the occupation of the northeast parts of Sri Lanka by the Indian army (1987-1991).
Members of the UTHR-JB were resident in the area (the city of Jaffna) at that time, and their credibility was enhanced by their interventions on behalf of the Tamil youth wrongfully arrested by the Indian army. One of the authors of this book, the late Dr. Rajani Thiranagama, was the most active in this regard, much to the displeasure of the Indian authorities. She was killed by an unknown assassin, widely believed to belong to a Tamil militant group (EPRLF) aligned with the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) and the Indian Intelligence Agency (RAW). Subsequently the IPKF helped the leader of EPRLF become the Chief Minister of the Tamil province, a short-lived regime that collapsed no sooner the Indian army left.
The original UTHR (JB) group also left Jaffna at that time, practically disbanded, and eventually boiled down to the activities of two brothers, Rajan and Ratnajeevan Hoole. Rajan Hoole
, the primary author of The Broken Palmyra, continued to publish with the assistance of his brother Ratnajeevan Hoole . The book was in fact published in Claremont, California, where the Ratnajeevan lived and worked as a professor at a small college. Ratnajeevan subsequently moved to Sri Lanka, claiming antipathy to the American values as inimical to the welfare of his children. The two brothers have since spent considerable energy producing voluminous reports on the war in Sri Lanka.
These reports have received some respectability, firstly because the authors are ?Tamils? and that they ?hail from Jaffna?, and secondly because of their claim to a connection to the Jaffna University.
The Dons at the Jaffna University, however, have publicly disclaimed any connection with this group on at least three separate occasions. In 1993, Jaffna University Senate passed a resolution to this effect, and in 1996 and 2000, groups of influential teachers at the university issued joint statements condemning them.
The public rejection by the Jaffna University notwithstanding, the duo have deceitfully continued to use the name ? ?University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna Branch)? ? a name coined when one of them was attached to the Jaffna University. According to the current teachers at the Jaffna University they have not been to Jaffna since they left more than 10 years ago.
Edited By - ajan - 20 Apr 2006 09:43:44 GMT |
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20 Apr 2006 13:32:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Tamils people of decent values must not allow their only university to be used as political/terrorist football.this is bad as demolishing their library.what will be next?schools,hospitals,court houses,private homes? |
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20 Apr 2006 15:23:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Justman , it was sinhalala racisists burn Jaffna Library and now the same sinhalal racisist wants to distroy jaffna university. that is what they doing.
and it is not LTTE playing politics at jaffna university . it is Mahida so tell your dumb mahinda. |
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20 Apr 2006 15:57:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Send a decent Sinhalese as a Vice Chancellor Tamils may accept, NOT a traitor. |
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20 Apr 2006 16:13:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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Shan totally agree.
if i hadnt place 2002 article here this news would have received hundreds of comments,
Edited By - ajan - 21 Apr 2006 16:08:35 GMT |
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21 Apr 2006 22:54:57 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ajan
It's true that the Jaffna library is burnt down by the government sponsored thugs and does it mean we should allow similar destruction by another lot.This is state money spent for good purpose of educating the young in that area,and none of us should use that institution for political purpose.There some things that are 'sacred' to humanity,where ever it is, should be let alone.We were angry when the JVP terrorists did the same thing in the universities in the south,during '89. |
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