Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
Eight youths have been killed by some unidentified gunmen today (25) morning inside a house at Kottawa. Attributing above incident, one Media Website has claimed that one military intelligence officer is among the dead persons. The Directorate of Military Intelligence of the Army Headquarters categorically denies Army’s involvement in the above incident and Sri Lanka Army further assures that no military intelligence operative is among the dead.
Japanese philanthropists, a nation that witnessed the brutalities of war some decades ago during the World War II, volunteered once again to offer their humanitarian assistance to the Sri Lanka Army, following an initiative undertaken by the Lion Club of Sri Lanka.
VAVUNIYA: THE SPECIAL TASK FORCE (STF) yesterday (2) recovered a massive cache of arms and weapons from a house belonging to a Sinhalese in Ambalangodella in the Vavuniya district, following information given by the woman who was nabbed on July 1st while carrying explosives hidden in a coconut shell.
DEFENCE SECRETARY Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Donald Perera and Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, in a bid to take stock of security concerns in the East had a round of discussions with senior officers in the Security Force Headquarters, East in Minneriya this morning (3).
THE 45TH DAY commemoration of late Ms. Maheshwary Velautham, Attorney-at-Law and Advisor to Dougals Devananda, Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare, assassinated by Tiger terrorists on 13th May, 2008, was held on the 27th of June at \"Amir Mahal\", Rohini Road, Wellawata.
DEFENCE SECRETARY Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Donald Perera and Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, in a bid to take stock of security concerns in the East had a round of discussions with senior officers in the Security Force Headquarters, East in Minneriya this morning (3).
SRI LANKA’S MOST successful Army Commander, serving under Sri Lanka’s militarily most successful Commander-in Chief and President, and most dedicated Defence Secretary, has held an important discussion with Colombo’s foreign correspondents on our most essential topic, the war. That General Fonseka is our most successful army commander may be hotly debated in the subjective and partisan Sri Lankan media, but not by top professionals overseas. Gen Ashok Mehta, formerly of the Gurkhas, once the youngest general to serve in the Indian army, and IPKF commander Batticaloa-Ampara sector, had this to say in the April 15th 2008 issue of The Tribune (Chandigarh): [Sri Lankan] \"Government forces have never before enjoyed military and moral ascendancy over the LTTE as now\". Note the word \"never\". He followed this up even more conclusively in a June 17 article (reproduced online in the Sri Lanka Guardian): \"Never before in the ongoing 30-year long war have the Sri Lankan Security Forces been better placed to defeat the LTTE. This has come about by a combination of proactive political, diplomatic and military measures. Two key developments choreographed by the government facilitated a favourable outcome of the military campaign\", granting the political leadership – President Rajapakse -- due credit for this achievement unprecedented in three decades.
THE 45TH DAY commemoration of late Ms. Maheshwary Velautham, Attorney-at-Law and Advisor to Dougals Devananda, Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare, assassinated by Tiger terrorists on 13th May, 2008, was held on the 27th of June at \"Amir Mahal\", Rohini Road, Wellawata.
DEFENCE SECRETARY Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Donald Perera and Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, in a bid to take stock of security concerns in the East had a round of discussions with senior officers in the Security Force Headquarters, East in Minneriya this morning (3).
SRI LANKA’S MOST successful Army Commander, serving under Sri Lanka’s militarily most successful Commander-in Chief and President, and most dedicated Defence Secretary, has held an important discussion with Colombo’s foreign correspondents on our most essential topic, the war. That General Fonseka is our most successful army commander may be hotly debated in the subjective and partisan Sri Lankan media, but not by top professionals overseas. Gen Ashok Mehta, formerly of the Gurkhas, once the youngest general to serve in the Indian army, and IPKF commander Batticaloa-Ampara sector, had this to say in the April 15th 2008 issue of The Tribune (Chandigarh): [Sri Lankan] \"Government forces have never before enjoyed military and moral ascendancy over the LTTE as now\". Note the word \"never\". He followed this up even more conclusively in a June 17 article (reproduced online in the Sri Lanka Guardian): \"Never before in the ongoing 30-year long war have the Sri Lankan Security Forces been better placed to defeat the LTTE. This has come about by a combination of proactive political, diplomatic and military measures. Two key developments choreographed by the government facilitated a favourable outcome of the military campaign\", granting the political leadership – President Rajapakse -- due credit for this achievement unprecedented in three decades.