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Staff Reporter. Lt Gen Ramesh Senanayake, Commander of the Sri Lankan Army along with an official delegation visited Pakistan Ordnance Factories. Lt Gen Sadiq Ali, HI(M) Chairman POF Board, received Commander Sri Lankan Army and his entourage. Chairman POF Board, in his welcoming remarks ...
WAH CANTT: Lt Gen Ramesh Senanayake, Commander of the Sri Lankan Army alongwith an official delegation visited Pakistan Ordnance Factories. Lt Gen Sadiq Ali, HI(M) Chairman POF Board, received Commander Sri Lankan Army and his entourage. Chairman POF Board, in his welcoming remarks ...

Despite continued calls for the de-militarisation of the North-East, Sri Lankan military constructed a new tennis court exclusively for the use of its soldiers inside its military headquarters in Mullaitivu last month. Mullaitivu, one of the most heavily militarised districts in the North-East, has as many as one ...
US military officials from the US Pacific Command (PACOM) met with the head of Sri Lanka's army last week, where they discussed “career development prospects in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region” and “further expansion of security cooperation”. According to a Sri Lankan military website, the American ...
The Sri Lankan Army has re-seized land belonging to a Kilinochchi school after the school spent a substantial amount of money restoring the property. Photograph from 2017. Last month the army reoccupied four acres belonging to Kilinochchi Mahavidyalayam and also completely closed off the road ...
Apr 05, Colombo: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka Police has arrested a retired senior Sri Lankan Army officer in connection with the abduction, and assault of journalist Keith Noyahr in May 2008. The CID says former Chief of Staff of Army, retired Major General Amal Karunasekara ...

The Sri Lankan Army is demanding 880 million rupees to release 530 acres of occupied land in the North. The resettlement ministry has said it is requesting the funds from the finance ministry in order to secure the release of Tamil civilians' land. The Secretary to the Ministry for Resettlement, Ponniah ...
The Sri Lankan Army is attempting to seize around 25 acres of land belonging to Muslims in Eravur, Batticaloa. The army is planning to use the land in Punnaikuda to establish an artillery division. The landowners have demonstrated fierce opposition to the land-grab attempts and brought the issue to the ...
A Buddhist ceremony was held at the Sri Lankan army's headquarters in Batticaloa earlier this year, to “invoke blessings” on Sri Lankan soldiers. An all-night chanting ceremony say 18 senior Buddhist monks at the military base, were soldiers dressed in all white offered them alms. Buddhist monks have ...
The air base falls within occupied land which the Sri Lankan Army maintains as a “high security zone”, nine years after the end of the war. Teachers reported that Sri Lankan Army officials actively go to Tamil preschools to arrange such visits and activities and that teachers feel powerless to raise objections.
A Tamil journalist was detained by the Sri Lankan army and subject to threatening and abusive language by an army official while reporting on the army's plans to appropriate land in Mullaitivu. The journalist who had been working in Alampil, were residents have reported that the Sri Lankan Army is ...
... ( March 17, 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Members of the Security Force Headquarters, Central (SFHQ-Cen) of the Army who have now been entrusted the arduous challenge of rebuilding and renovating all damaged properties in the recent communal riot-affected areas of Digana, Akurana, ...
Though Myanmar and Sri Lanka, both are Buddhist majority countries but Sri Lankan Army and Police are trying their best to protect Muslims while Myanmar's Army was itself involved in the massacre, rape and torching of Muslims, just like Indian state machinery was involved in mass killings of Muslims in ...
Sri Lankan troops today guarded mosques and facilitated Friday prayers as authorities stepped up security in the violence-hit Muslim neighbourhoods in Kandy district after four days of riots that have left at least two people dead. Several homes, businesses and mosques in the hilly Kandy district have been ...
Sri Lankan army and police stand near a vandalized mosque in Digana, Kandy. A nationwide emergency was imposed on Tuesday after mob attacks against the Muslim population, in violence that has highlighted the country's fragility as it recovers from decades of civil war. Tension brewed between ethnic ...
Mar 06, Colombo: Sri Lanka army said at the request of the Police, a contingent of about 200 Army personnel have been deployed to stand by and assist the Police following the tense situation that has erupted in the general area of Theldeniya Police Division on Monday (05). Reports said that a clash ...
The Sri Lankan Army held a sports tournament at the Jaffna Security Force Headquarters in Palali, an army base built on occupied land categorised as a 'high security zone', which remains inaccessible to locals and landowners, nine years after the end of the war. The tournament, or Kabaddi championship ...

All articles now feature tags allowing you to explore related topics and articles. Dismiss. Middle East. Tamil Tiger rebels in action during a clash with the Sri Lankan army near Kilinochichi, the guerilla group's stronghold, in 2008. Months later the conflict endedAFP/Getty Images. Shareemailfacebooktwitter ...
He stated that if there is something of the sort the Sri Lankan Army, Air Force, Navy and the Police will look into it. “We have the strength within us. Such a situation will never arise,” the Commander pointed out. Journalists also questioned the recalling of Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, Minister Counsellor ...
While the issue of Sri Lankan Military Attache Brigadier Priyanka Fernando attached to the Sri Lankan High Commission in London, who displayed his shoulder flash bearing the national emblem to pro-LTTE protestors in London on February 4, was heating up in the United Kingdom, Sri Lankan Army has ...
Despite repeated calls for Sri Lankan military forces to stay out of the tourism industry, the Sri Lankan Army constructed and opened a tourist viewpoint in Point Pedro on Monday. The viewpoint which marks the northernmost point of the island features a new army-built structure bearing a Sri Lankan flag ...
The Sri Lankan army commander on Wednesday rejected the possibility of an inquiry into the country's Defence Attache, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, after he was filmed making a throat slitting gesture to Tamil protesters, claiming that he had only been explaining that the LTTE leader had been 'taken care ...
The Sri Lankan army commander today rejected the calls for the military officer, filmed making a throat slitting gesture to Tamils protesting in London, to be suspended, stating "they could not remove officials merely because of a social media video". "He is back to work but there will be an inquiry," Lt Gen ...
The Sri Lankan army warned that “certain elements with malicious and vested interests and hidden agendas” were engaging in “organized vilification” of the military in a press release last week. The military claimed that a campaign was being carried out against the army “with the motive of demoralizing, ...
ISLAMABAD: Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Lt Gen Mahesh Senanayake, called on Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday. Matters relating to bilateral defence relations and mutual cooperation were discussed during the meeting held at the Prime Minister's Office, said an official statement ...
The Sri Lankan Army has re-seized some lands in Valikamam North that were released to their owners earlier this month. Just two days after releasing around 683 acres from the 28-year occupation of the 'high security zone', Sri Lankan soldiers blocked off access and reoccupied lands in Thaiyiddi South ...
New Delhi : Sri Lankan army chief Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne on Tuesday clarified that the claims about the Hambantota port in southern Sri Lanka ... The Sri Lankan army chief reiterated that the maritime preparedness in the Indian Ocean region was of utmost priority for Sri Lanka and that it was ...


 

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