 According to a local human rights agency University Teachers for Human Rights(UTHR), as the Sri Lankan Army personnel from Valaichchenai (see here) camp went into the villages of Vantharumoolai, Sungankerny and Karuvakkerny for a search and destroy mission, people from these villages ran into the Eastern University campus for protection.The lecturers at the campus provided protection for them and hoisted a white flag in front of the University.One eyewitness account, as recorded by UTHR, reports