Sri Lankan police arrest member of parliament

Sri Lankan police have arrested a Tamil member of parliament for commemorating a separatist rebel, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called for reconciliation between ethnic groups.

Opposition legislator Selvarajah Kajendran was arrested yesterday, in the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heartland of the Tamils.

Nallur police confirmed the Tamil National People’s Front MP had been detained at the memorial, which was held near a temple where Thileepan.

There was no immediate comment from his party, but Sri Lanka’s main party, Tami