Army’s role in victory
Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath
Jayasuriya states that the Sri Lanka Army has joined directly in the
development drive to make Sri Lanka the Miracle of Asia as
envisioned by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his Mahinda Chinthana
Future Vision.
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CEPA: Who is excited?
One has to note that India began liberalizing
its trade regime with respect to consumer goods late in the 1990s on
the one hand, and on the other, our import regime itself acted as a
bias against our exports due to increased levies and duties over the
same period.
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The STF Humanitarian Operation in eastern and
northern provinces:
Reminiscing the final phase
The Sri Lanka Army launched the Humanitarian
Operation to liberate the entire Eastern and Northern Provinces from
the LTTE, when the terrorists blocked the Mavil Aru water gates in
July 2006. The STF which was mainly dominating the Ampara and
Batticaloa Districts at that time received instructions to take over
the areas dominated by the SLA
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The fight to the end
Air Force shattered LTTE targets:
As one year has passed since the defeat of the
LTTE terrorists the Government has declared today a day to mark this
heroic occasion. The victory would have been impossible if not for
the stable guidance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defence
Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
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Navy foiled LTTE master plan:
Trinco and Colombo ports were targets
The LTTE terrorist group had a master plan to
surround the entire Eastern coast, capture the Trincomalee port and
take Jaffna after defeating the Armed Forces, but the national
intelligence services and the Navy intelligence grasped the
terrorist plan to preempt the plan, to make the victory of the Armed
Forces over the terrorist group.
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Bhopal 25 years later
In the early hours of December 3, 1984, over 40
metric tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas were accidentally
released into the atmosphere from the US-owned Union Carbide plant
in the Indian city of Bhopal. It affected the people living in
nearby slums.
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