I just saw a nice cartoon from today's Divaina.It is nicely explained the sad situation in Sri Lankan universities.As a SL university drop out I know that all these clashes start with student politics. In most of the srilankan universities there are two groups.First group is called raggers.Other one called anti-raggers.Raggers who support ragging and anti-raggers are against it.Universities like Kalaniya,Jayawardanapura,Peradeniya,Wayamba majority of students are raggers.But there are some anti-raggers but in small in number.In University of Colombo and Moratuwa majortiy are anti-raggers.
In universities with majority of raggers , student councils are runed by 'Anthara wiswa widyala shishaya bala bandale' aka 'anthare'.Most of the anthare guys mainly support one political party.They used ragging to get students to thier political agendas.Most of them are furious over anti-raggers who are mostly come from city areas. The fights start with this raggers and anti-raggers conflict.Most of the time those clashes ended up with several people injured and universities close for several months.
