Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
One more Sri Lankan soldier serving UN troops in Haiti died of an accident on Monday (21) evening following collapse of a concrete slab after he climbed on to a roof of a building in the area in order to observe a boat movement.
A Sri Lankan soldier, serving the UN troops in Haiti died on Monday (20) when a pre-dawn operation conducted by UN troops to remove armed ex-soldiers from a police station at Petit-Goave, west of Port-au-Prince, came under rival fire.
Fifty seven soldiers after their ten-week long Tae Kwon Do training course passed out recently at the Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps grounds in Kankesanthurai at a display graced by Major General S.D Tennakoon, Commander, Security Forces Headquarters, Jaffna as Chief Guest.
Air passengers bound for Jaffna, angered due to continuing LTTE orchestrated moves to extort money from them, no sooner than they land in Jaffna, have brought those acts of harassment to the attention of the Police and Security Forces authorities, seeking Police escort.
AMPARA : UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN suspected to be from the LTTE have opened fire at a group of people engaged in collecting sand from a river near the 16th colony in AMPARA Central Camp on Thursday (27) evening at about 4.40 p.m.
KILINOCHCHI: BASED ON INTELLIGENCE information and surveillance reports, Sri Lanka Air Force fighter craft shelled two LTTE military bases in KILINOCHCHI this (27) morning.
Commander, Security Forces Headquartes, Jaffna Major General S. D Tennekoon, forgetting his arduous security responsibilities in the peninsula for a moment, joined hands with thousands of school cricketers and fans during the one-day limited overs cricket match between St Patrick College and Jaffna College, held recently for the 17th time in Jaffna.
LTTE PRABHAKARAN faction’s unwillingness to accept hitherto two dead bodies of their cadres, who were killed on Monday (21) during rivalry clashes with LTTE KARUNA’s cadres in SENAPURA, WELIKANDA areas, despite authentication of their LTTE identity, serves a classic example of how embarrassed were LTTE PRABHAKARAN’s men to receive mortal remains of their own cadres.
Scores of irate civilians in the welfare center for Internally Displaced People (IDP) at MANDAN, THIRUKKOVIL on Monday (28) noon confronted an LTTE mob, which came there to abduct a child from the welfare center for LTTE conscription, irrespective of the pleas made by the child’s parents.
UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan in a special message of condolence and appreciation on the death of Sri Lankan Army’s Lance Corporal H. H. M Wijesingha while serving UN peace-keeping contingent in Haiti on 20th March 2005, has requested UN ambassador in New York to convey Secretary General’s appreciation of the services rendered by him for UN efforts to promote peace in Haiti.