Medical Faculty lecturers of Sri Lanka's Peradeniya University to join the academics' strike 
Fri, Sep 21, 2012, 08:23 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Sept 21, Colombo: The months-long strike of the university teachers of Sri Lanka is getting a boost as the medical faculty lecturers, who so far have not participated in the strike, have also decided to join it.
Accordingly, the lecturers of the medical faculty of the University of Peradeniya will join the strike from Monday September 24th, Federation of University Teachers' Associations (FUTA) says.
The Medical Faculty Lecturers' Association of the Peradeniya University says that their members will continue the strike in support of the FUTA protesting the authorities against not taking action to solve the problem and not paying the salaries of the striking university teachers.
The medical faculty lecturers also protest the Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayaka for his stance that furthers the crisis.
They have promised to join the protest marches the FUTA will start from Kandy and Galle on Monday.
Medical faculty lecturers so far have not participated in the strike and the medical faculties island wide were operating as normal.