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5 unusual facts about University of Ruhuna


Mahinda Wijeratne

Professor Mahinda Wijeratne is a Senior Professor of Agriculture at the University of Ruhuna Sri Lanka.

Ragging in Sri Lanka

A a first year female student of University of Ruhuna committed suicide in 1997 as a result of ragging.

In 2011, a female student attached to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ruhuna, was semi-paralysed in one limb as a result of ragging she underwent at the faculty canteen.

University of Ruhuna

University of Ruhuna is used to be noted for high level of ragging in recent years with several major incidents grabbing national headlines.

It has seven faculties: Agriculture, Engineering, Fisheries and Marine Sciences & Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Finance, Medicine, and Science.



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