University Ragging: Sub-Cultural Practice That Should Not Be There - Colombo Telegraph

University Ragging: Sub-Cultural Practice That Should Not Be There - Colombo Telegraph

By W.A. Wijewardena – Dr. W.A Wijewardena Plethora of laws to prevent ragging The death by suicide of an undergraduate of the Sabaragamuwa University, alleged to have been caused by severe mental trauma inflicted on him by some senior students through ragging, has made Sri Lanka’s civil society to rise against this unwholesome practice at universities. Even Sri Lanka’s Bar Association or BASL had issued a statement condemning this incident calli…

A continuing threat of ragging, harassment and abuse in Sri Lanka igher education sector: • Sri Lanka Brief

One marshal for 8,500+ students at Sabaragamuwa Uni Twenty-three-year-old Charith Dilshan, a Sabaragamuwa University undergraduate, took his own life on 29 April. Several students are in remand prison in connection with the physical and psychological abuse the youth underwent before making the decision to end his own life. In 1975, in order to avoid abuse, Rupa Rathnaseeli of the University of Peradeniya leapt off the second floor of the univers…