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AS PART OF its community-oriented welfare projects in the Jaffna peninsula, Army troops, following directives given by Commander, Security Forces Jaffna Major General G.A. Chandrasiri took steps to distribute fifty brand new computers among students of fifty schools in the peninsula at a special ceremony held in Telippalai Union College on Monday (7).
PRIME MINISTER Ratnasiri Wickrmanayaka yesterday told Parliament that everybody should join hands irrespective of political differences to eradicate terrorism which has become a cancerous menace to the country.
ARMY OFFICERS and other ranks serving in Jaffna recently listened to a lecture delivered by an officer of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) on International Military Law and role of ICRC in conflict situations at the Transit Camp in Kankesanthure and 51 & 52 Divisions under the Security Forces Headquarters – Jaffna (SFHQ-J).
MULLAITIVU: FIGHTER JETS of Sri Lanka Air Force targeted a flotilla of Sea Tiger boats in the seas about 1 km off the MULLAITIVU beach Wednesday (9) morning at about 8.00 a.m..
AS PART OF its community-oriented welfare projects in the Jaffna peninsula, Army troops, following directives given by Commander, Security Forces Jaffna Major General G.A. Chandrasiri took steps to distribute fifty brand new computers among students of fifty schools in the peninsula at a special ceremony held in Telippalai Union College on Monday (7).
PRIME MINISTER Ratnasiri Wickrmanayaka yesterday told Parliament that everybody should join hands irrespective of political differences to eradicate terrorism which has become a cancerous menace to the country.
WANNI: OFFENSIVES AND MAJOR OPERATIONS to crush Tiger terrorism went on for another day on Tuesday (8) with several confrontations and damages to their infrastructure reported from WANNI theater of humanitarian operations.
THE TURKISH Chief of Staff Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said on Tuesday that the terrorist organisation PKK/Kongra-Gel was running guns to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka.
THE OVERNIGHT new ‘star’ in the world of cricket Sergeant Ajantha Mendis has been commissioned in the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Army with effect from 8th July on a directive given by His Excellency, the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, just hours after he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, following his magnificent performance in the Asia Cup tournament in Karachchi.
ARMY OFFICERS and other ranks serving in Jaffna recently listened to a lecture delivered by an officer of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) on International Military Law and role of ICRC in conflict situations at the Transit Camp in Kankesanthure and 51 & 52 Divisions under the Security Forces Headquarters – Jaffna (SFHQ-J).