Ruhunu Uni victim of ragging transferred to NH

23 Dec 2011, Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

A first-year-student of the faculty of Social Sciences of the Ruhunu University, who was admitted to the Matara General Hospital after she sustained serious injuries to her hip bone due to ragging by senior students of the University, was transferred to the Colombo National Hospital yesterday.
It was alleged that 21-year-old Wathsala Kumudinie de Silva was subjected to ragging at the university canteen by a group of senior students. Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayake had ordered that an ambulance be rushed to the scene to take Wathsala to the National Hospital for treatment.

Minister Dissanayake told the media that a student of the Peradeniya University had been both emotionally and physically scarred as a result of inhumane ragging. He claimed that ragging was yet to be eliminated from the Ruhu-
nu and Peradeniya Universities. The Minister said that the JVP was behind these incidents and he also put the blame for such occurrences on the Vice Chancellors of the two universities, saying they too will be held responsible.
Matara SSP Sumith Edirisinghe, SP Damayantha Wijeya Sri, HQI Hishantha Perera and SI K.m.a.gunaratne were conducting inquiries into the incident on the instructions of Senior DIG, Southern Province, Lalith Jayasinghe.