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  • Press Release (04/36)Army Headquarters -“ 27 November 2004 at 2300 hrs

    Barely after twenty four (24) hours after the LTTE took an undertaking with the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Vavuniya that they (LTTE) would not hoist LTTE flags but would sit together with SLMM and Security Forces on a daily basis to discuss day to day matters, LTTE men on Friday (26), kept off from attending the scheduled meeting at SLMM office in Vavuniya today (27).

  • Press Release (04/35)Army Headquarters -“ 26 November 2004 at 2300 hrs

    In an apparent intensified attack on soldiers attached to Army intelligence unit in order to provoke Security Forces, five LTTE men waylaid and hacked two soldiers attachd to the Army intelligence unit in the general area of NUNAVIL, CHAVAKACHCHERI around 7.30 p.m. on 26th November 2004 while they were returning to their camp after duty.

  • Candian High Commissioner On Fact-Finding Mission To Jaffna

    Canadian High Commissioner for Sri Lanka Ms.Valerie Raymond, accompanied by several senior Canadian military personnel toured the Jaffna peninsula recently in an attempt to evaluate the ongoing de-mining process in the north, and also to learn more about developments in the aftermath of the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed between the government and LTTE.

  • Press Release (04/33)Army Headquarters -“ 24 November 2004 at 2000

    The Police and Security Forces in MANNAR, accompanied by Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) officials, were reluctantly compelled to lower LTTE flags on Wednesday (24) evening that were hoisted in the MANNAR Town Hall premises and the Urban Council grounds, despite repeated requests made to the LTTE to refrain from doing so.

  • Press release issued by Ministry of Defence 24 November 2002.

    The Sunday Thinakural newspaper of Sunday, 24 November 2002 has misreported by distortion of the proceedings and the recommendations made by the Ampara District Committee for De-escalation and Normalization, held in the Divisional Secretariat in Akkraipattu on 23 November 2002. Even the heading itself on Page 10 of this newspaper shows the extent of mischievousness in reporting.

  • A TRI-SERVICE GUARD OF HONOUR GREETS SRI LANKA'S NEW PRESIDENT

    A glittering and colourful tri-service Guard of Honour greeted Sri Lanka's newly elected fifth executive President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday (19) minutes after he was sworn in before the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo His Excellency, the President Mahinda Rajapakse remains the Commander-in –Chief of all three Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force).

  • CDS, Service Chiefs &; IGP call on new President

    Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Daya Sandagiri, Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Shantha Kottegoda, Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda, Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Donald Perera and Inspector General of Police Chandra Fernando paid their first courtesy call on the newly elected His Excellency, the President Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday (23) at Presidential Secretariat.

  • Gemunu soldiers bid goodbye to their colleagues

    Soldiers of the Gemunu Watch (GW) in the Army are next in line for departure to the State of Haiti on UN Peace Keeping assignments after bidding farewell to their Regimental colleagues at Kuruwita, Ratnapura.

  • -œRemembrance Day- at War Memorial recalls cherished memories

    The “Remembrance Day Service and Parade,” an annual event that brings the memories of fallen War Heroes closer to the hearts of vast multitudes of grateful people with a red-coloured Poppy flower worn on their chests, got under way at Vihara Maha Devi Park on Sunday (13), attended by a large gathering of Parliamentarians, Diplomatic Corps, Service Chiefs, Senior officers of three Armed Forces, Members of the Ex-servicemen's Association, next of kin of War Heroes, Representatives of the Disabled and other dignitaries.

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