Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
NORTH, WANNI & EAST: SOLDIERS serving NAGARKOVIL area were caught up in an LTTE booby trap explosion Sunday (9) around 10.00 a.m. bringing death to one soldier and injury to another.
A high level delegation of German and Norwegian diplomats during a visit to the Jaffna peninsula on Wednesday (10) morning met Security Forces authorities in an attempt to receive an update of the current security situation in the peninsula.
SECURITY FORCES serving areas in the deep south where a pocket of terrorist infiltrators evicted from the east were creating violence from time to time in the past 2 – 3 months received Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Army this morning (11) who was on an inspection and review tour to the Yala area.
United States\'s Ambassador for Sri Lanka Mr E. Ashley Wills on Tuesday (March 11) toured Jaffna in a bid to receive an on-the-spot evaluation of the developments taking place there.
A high level delegation of the Colombo-based British High Commission, headed by Mr. Stephen Evans, British High Commissioner, during a two - day visit to Jaffna peninsula, met Commander, Security Forces Jaffna, Major General M. D. S Chandrapala in his office on 11 March 2004.
Major General N. Mallawaarachchi, Commander, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Forces paid a visit to the Kok Eliya Commando Training School and its Army camp recently with a view to learning their requirements and necessary developments.
The third Special Infantry Operational course (SIO) at Vavuniya Commando Training School, saw another batch of seventy Officers and Other Ranks of Sri Lanka Light Infantry, Gemunu Watch and Gajaba Regiment passed out early this week after a grand parade and ceremony in Vavuniya.
Acting Commander of the Army and Chief of Staff, Major General Sarath Fonseka, accompanied by Senior Officers of the Army on Wednesday (9) accorded a rousing welcome plus a Guard of Honour to the visiting Chief of the Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat NI ( M )at Army Headquarters, Colombo.