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Police and Military have threatened the students and several staff of Jaffna University who
organized a memorialization event in relation to end of the war on 18th of May 2019 at the
Mullavaikkal memorial in the University of Jaffna. Tamil Guardian reports despite the threats,
organizers have continued the event. At the time, the university had been closed indefinitely
after two student activist were arrested previous week (see incident 19 in the section on other
issues)