Sri Lanka arrests Tamil MP for commemorating separatist rebel
Al Jazeera
Opposition legislator Selvarajah Kajendran arrested for remembering rebel who died campaigning for minority community.
Sri Lankan police have arrested a Tamil member of parliament for commemorating a separatist rebel who died campaigning for the minority community, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called for reconciliation between ethnic groups.
Opposition legislator Selvarajah Kajendran was bundled into a police vehicle on Thursday in the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heartland of the Tamils, despite protests from onlookers at a memorial for Tiger rebel Thileepan.
Video footage shared on social media showed Kajendran, 46, resisting arrest and eventually being forced into the car along with two of his aides at Nallur, 360km (225 miles) north of Colombo.
