Pro-Eelam activists storm military campus, cane-charged

Around 250 workers of a pro-Eelam Tamil outfit on Sunday protested against the reported training of Sri Lankan armed forces personnel at an Army campus near here, leading to a police lathcharge and arrest of 120 of them. Police had kept a strict vigil and formed a two-tier security at a bridge, three kms from the Madras regimental centre (MRC) at nearby Wellington to prevent the pro-Eelam outfits, holding a series of protests against the training of Lankan personnel. However, the workers of Naam Tamizhar Katchi of film director Seeman managed to enter the MRC campus from another side, to the surprise of officials, police said. As the activists rushed towards the campus, housing the Defence Service Staff college, some policemen stationed inside it, made a lathicharge and managed to stop them ahead of the training institution.