Providing a stimulus to the fast-growing healthy relations between North and South, arrangements were made by the Security Force Headquarters - Wanni (SFHQ-W) to take newly-recruited 45 Tamil woman soldiers on a tour with the intention of exposing them to the places of interest in the deep South of the country.
The three-day long trip as a part of their training programme, enabled those new woman soldiers to make offerings to Kataragama shrine, Kiri Vehera, Tissamaharamaya and visit Ruhunu Magampura International Conference Hall, Magampura Mahinda Rajapaksa Harbour, Hambantota saltern, Mattala Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport and several other places of interest.
The project, meant to promote reconciliation, co-existence, harmonious life, collective work, mutual understanding, ethnic unity, commitment, knowledge on languages and multi-ethnic character, was implemented by SFHQ-W on the instructions of Major General Boniface Perera, Commander, SFHQ-W.
For the first time in the history of the SFHQ-W and the Army, 45 woman soldiers from the dominant Tamil community in the North were recruited recently to the Army to be in line with the government’s policy, ‘One Nation - One Country’.
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