 Slogans raised in the meeting were in support of a separate Tamil homeland Eelam, and in praise of its national leader Prabhakaran and the Tamil Tigers.Following Muthukumar, 17 other youth from Tamil Nadu have burnt themselves for the same cause.Even before the funeral procession entered the cremation ground, news reached the students that the ruling DMK Government had ordered indefinite closure of all colleges and hostels to clamp down protests.