Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
WELIOYA: THIRTY-NINE CIVILIANS belonging to thirteen families, unable to survive LTTE atrocities in their residential areas in MULLAITTIVU district reached PULMODAI, WELIOYA Wednesday (2) afternoon around 3.30 p.m. in search of protection for their lives.
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.
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.
WELIOYA: THIRTY-NINE CIVILIANS belonging to thirteen families, unable to survive LTTE atrocities in their residential areas in MULLAITTIVU district reached PULMODAI, WELIOYA Wednesday (2) afternoon around 3.30 p.m. in search of protection for their lives.
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.
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.
Two school buildings of the Point Pedro based prestigious Hartley College, widely admired and respected by Jaffna\'s Tamil community, which remained occupied by the Sri Lanka Army’s Brigade Headquarters for about six years, were vacated on Monday (29) evening in accordance with the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the government and the LTTE.
The Nation on Tuesday (30) witnessed the conferment of country’s most prestigious Gallantry Awards on its 254 guardians of law and order in a colourful and august ceremony, attended by both first citizens of Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe.
If luck and fortune has something to do with sports, it was there in the first match of the second round Caltex Rugby tournament played between Army and CH & FC ruggerites on Sunday 27 at Colombo CH grounds. Dashing all hopes, Army Rugby team had to suffer an unexpected defeat in the encounter.
Fluttering Japanese and Sri Lankan national flags at the sports ground at Army Headquarters, Colombo to the tune of Japanese and Sri Lankan national anthems on Sunday (24) marked the formal acceptance of a consignment of four ambulances, one fire-engine and 240 wheel chairs, donated by a team of Japanese philanthropists to the Army for the third consecutive time within a span of three years.