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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11848279" data-attributes="member: 92282">First year students of the Jaffna University had started jeering at  Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake recently when he remarked at a  function that there were LTTE activists within the university, a  students’ right activist said today.Former convener of the Inter University Students’ Federation Udul  Premaratne told journalists today that there is an attempt by the  government to brand political opponents as LTTE supporters. “Once someone is branded as an LTTE activist, it is easy for the  government to suppress his or her rights. The government tries to brand  us too as terrorists,” Mr. Premaratne said.   Also, he said that Jaffna undergraduates had started jeering when the  Minister started speaking in Sinhala without a Tamil interpreter.   “After jeering by the students who were present, a Tamil interpreter had been brought,” he said. DM</blockquote>

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