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  • CDS Visits Kilinochchi to Receive Updates


    Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetilleke, Chief of Defence Staff with the view to receiving an update on ongoing development work and security arrangements, visited Kilinochchi recently and met Major General A.W.J.C De Silva, Commander, Security Forces Headquarters, Kilinochchi (SFHQ-KLN).   
     
  • Thiruvaiaru Children Get New Park & School Building


    Children of remote Thiruvaiaru village in the 571 Brigade Headquarters area under the Security Forces Headquarters, Kilinochchi (SFHQ-KLN), recently received a children’s park plus a new building for primary education at Thiruvaiaru Vidyalaya, Kilinochchi. Both the park and the new building were sponsored by the Child Fund Institute on the instructions of Ms Sang Mee Mun, project instructor and several other officials of the same institute, based in Sri Lanka.
     
  • Oddusudan School Prefects Taken on Picnic to Colombo


    Forty school prefects from Oddusudan Divisional Secretariat area, Mullaittivu, together with their teachers and parents, enjoyed the hospitality of southerners for three days when they were recently taken on a picnic by 64 Infantry Division Headquarters under the Security Forces Headquarters, Mullaittivu. Those children on arrival in Colombo visited Colombo Ananda College, Standard Chartered Bank, Zoo, NDB Bank......
     
  • Admission to Madu Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya Commenced


    Admission of fresh students to Madu Sinhala Maha Vidyalaya in Madu, Mannar for the year 2012, took place at the school premises last week during a brief ceremony, organized by the 54 Division Headquarters at Thalladi, Mannar. Symbolic enrolment of four Sinhala and Tamil students to the Year 1 class and 10 kids to the school’s kindergarten on the same day by school authorities amply reflected gestures of goodwill, co-existence and harmony that prevails in the area.
     
  • 'Ruthless' To Expose LTTE Crimes Against Humanity & Tamil Civilians

     
    The DVD "Ruthless," that displays LTTE’s heinous crimes against humanity as the humanitarian operations were reaching crucial final stages in early 2009, was released on Wednesday (8) during a media conference at Media Centre for National Security (MCNS). Flanked by tri-service and Police spokesmen, MCNS Director General Mr Lakshman Hulugalle after screening the DVD explained the series of ordeals that the  Tamil people had to undergo under the diktats of the LTTE’s ruthless leader Prabhakaran and his cohorts. Sri Lanka has proved that all material and video clips against Sri Lanka are false, although the pro-LTTE international media such as Channel-4 and Diaspora had unleashed adverse publicity against the tri-services and the government, Mr Hulugalle said. “The Tamil community in the North and the East have gone through a harrowing ordeal during the past three decades, due to war and terrorism. These people had no freedom to even speak against the bitter experiences they have had to face,” he added. The ‘RUTHLESS’ LTTE’s Final Crimes Against Humanity DVD produced by the Defence Ministry, includes facts and evidence supplied by the Tamil people, relating to the war along with the identity of the real perpetrators of atrocities against them.
     
  • "e- Nenasala" To Provide IT Training to Dependent War Heroes at ' Abimansala'

     
    The 'Abimansala', wellness resort at Anuradhapura where some 52 life-time dependent War Heroes of the North Central Province (NCP) are housed for therapy, rehabilitation, rest and recreation was honoured once again when the government under the Presidential Secretariat's, 'Guna-Nena Saviya' project gifted a " e-Nenasala" IT training centre after donating a stock of new laptop computers to those inmates.
     
  • More than 300 Troops Donate Blood to Trincomalee Hospital

     
    As one more community project of the 22 Division Headquarters, Trincomalee, over 300 officers and other ranks on Thursday (09) took part in a blood donation campaign, held at the Headquarters premises. The day’s programme was comprised of free distribution of lunch packets among needy families in the Trincomalee town area and donation of exercise books and meals to the Sri Revatha Children’s Home in Trincomalee.
     
  • Indian & US Delegates on Tour to Jaffna Meet Jaffna Commander


    Two delegations from India’s Ministry of External Affairs and US State Department recently visited Jaffna peninsula with a view to receiving an update on ongoing community-oriented different projects and security matters. Mr M.K Sinha, Joint Secretary (personnel) of India’s Ministry of External Affairs, accompanied by Mr V. Mahalingam.....
  • Engineer Service Regiment Marks Its 62nd Anniversary


    Engineer Service Regiment (ESR), one of the most hardworking and exemplary wings in the Army with its unblemished record of service to the nation, marked its 62nd anniversary recently with a series of commemorative events at its Headquarters, Army Cantonment, Panagoda.....
  • Army Takes Jaffna Students to See -œDeyata Kirula-


    Security Forces Headquarters, Jaffna (SFHQ-J), recently took more than 1000 students from various Jaffna schools to see the “Deyata Kirula” national mega exhibition at Oyamaduwa in Anuradhapura on the instructions of the Commander, SFHQ-J. Five buses on daily basis departed from Jaffna to Anuradhapura taking students, teachers and parents with protection provided by soldiers serving the SFHQ-J. In addition..........