Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
Teams conducting immediate relief operations in Tsunami tidal wave affected areas urgently require following medical items.
Barely six hours after the ad hoc Disaster Relief Centre (DRC) at Galle Face esplanade was established on Monday (27) by tri-services (Army, Navy & Air Force), the DRC was able to dispatch three lorry loads of essentials to affected Trincomalee area following the tremendous response it received from the public.
Troops of the Sri Lanka Army, rising to the occasion were able to clear several main roads including road stretches between Moratuwa – Bentota and Nonagama – Hambantota on the main Colombo – Kataragama road (Galle road) and facilitated transportation by late Monday (27) afternoon.
VAVUNIYA, MANNAR & BATTICALOA: FURIOUS LTTE terrorists after losing many of their cadres to the Army in WANNI confrontations past several days, Thursday (3) ran amok in MANNAR an attack on innocent villagers in ILLANDAMODDAI with mortars and injured four of them around 11.25a.m.
WANNI: THREE CONFRONTATIONS occurred in VAVUNIYA, MANNAR and WELIOYA areas Friday (4) between to 8.30 to 9.00 a.m. killed five more terrorists while injuring a number of terrorists.
COLOMBO : SECOND LIEUTENANT D.M.S.K. DISSANAYAKE of Sri Lanka National Guard (SLNG) who was among the critically injured following the Wednesday’s (2) LTTE claymore attack at SLAVE ISLAND succumbed to injuries while being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the National Hospital, COLOMBO this morning at about 3.05 a.m.
Chief of Defence Staff Vice Admiral Daya Sandagiri and Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Shantha Kottegoda were in Jaffna during the weekend in order to take stock of gravity of the tsunami disaster in the peninsula and ensure speedy remedial measures.
Sixty five aircraft carrying immediate relief and medical supplies from the four corners of the earth have so far turned up at Bandarnaike International Airport, Colombo after tsunami tidal waves struck the coastal belt of Sri Lanka on 26th December 2004.
COMMANDER OF THE SRI LANKA ARMY, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka categorically denies having spoken or given any interview to a Website, called “Eelamnation.com,†in which Lt General Fonseka was directly quoted for a number of wrongly and maliciously construed utterances, said to have been made to this particular Website by the Commander himself. The Office of the Army Commander rejects and denies having made all those statements attributed to the Commander in that report outright and believes the story in question, dated 3rd January 2006 is a reflection of another example of anti-Army propaganda mill, rich with malicious, fabricated, baseless and untrue accounts of the ground realities. It was crystal clear that this particular story too has been planted as another part of the ongoing anti-Army disinformation mill.
THE ARMY COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE (ACSC) at Batalanda, one of the most prestigious and highest seats of military learning on Thursday (05) gave away laurels for a new batch of graduates during a ceremonial convocation at BMICH, dignified by a gathering of distinguished guests, none other than the Secretary Defence himself, Chief of Defence Staff and all three Service Commanders.