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Bravery of women soldiers highly appreciated
She was addressing a press conference held at the Thotupola Holiday Resort at Piliyandala recently. According to her, four women soldiers became disabled in the war. There are about 3,000 women soldiers in the Sri Lanka Army working in five units. The SLAWCA which was inaugurated in 1995 by Major General Denis Perera is celebrating its 10th anniversary on April 2. At present the SLAWCA is comprised with a membership of more than 300. "It was in 1979 that Major Denis Perera decided to recruit women soldiers to the Sri Lanka Army. The first batch comprised six women who were sent for training at the Women's Royal Army Corps in UK. At that time these women soldiers were placed in the Army as telephone operators, clerks and nurses. The war started only in 1983 and even during that time, all the necessary work that was done inside the premises by the soldiers were later handled by these newly recruited women soldiers", she said. The cap of the women soldiers is designed with the emblem of Viharamaha Devi. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, the SLAWCA has organised several events at the Mahanama College auditorium on April 2 at 3.00 pm. Mothers of the 18 women soldiers who had made the supreme sacrifice and the founders of the SLAWCA, General Denis Perera, President of Ex-Services Association Major General Thilak Paranagama, Col. Janet Lawson of Women's Royal Army Corps UK and the former President of SLAWCA Major Ramani Kangaraarachchi will be honoured at the festival. Meanwhile " Private Devi V " - a book written by Major Ramani Kangaraarachchi will also be launched on the same day along with the distribution of 12 scholarships to the children of the SLAWCA members who have excelled in their year 5 scholarship Exam and O/L and A/L examinations. |
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