Lankan Army most disciplined in world

Darma SRI ABEYRATNE

The Sri Lankan Army is one of the most disciplined Armies in the world, Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said.

The Minister flatly denied certain foreign media reports such as over Channel 4 and Al-Jazeera that the Sri Lanka Army had violated human rights.

"The Sri Lanka Army consists of professionals who always respect human rights and ethics. Sri Lanka Army maintains the quality of a professional Army. We have seen hundreds of incidents where human rights were violated by foreign forces in the world," he said.

"As the Sri Lanka Army maintains such high qualities, foreign countries have been asking Sri Lanka to train their own Army in accordance with the way the Sri Lanka Army is trained," the Minister said. "Many parties continuously tried to safeguard the LTTE by stopping the humanitarian action of the Army against the LTTE. When they failed to do so they have come on the other way round that our Army is brutal," the Minister said.