Tamil first year students studying at southern universities have reported harassment from Sinhalese seniors who are preventing them from going home to vote.
The Tamil students said that they were being targeted for extreme ‘ragging’ by senior Sinhalese students who were harassing them and preventing them from going to their home districts to vote in the local elections.
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