Major General Vanigamuni Indrajith Vijeyakumar Mendis Wimalaratne,RWP,RSP,VSV,USP was a senior Sri Lanka Army officer. One of the most distinguished field commanders in Sri Lanka,Wimalaratne raised the Gajaba Regiment,he commanded the 1st Brigade during the Vadamarachchi Operation,he commanded the Amphibious Task Force Commander during Operation Balavegaya and was the Commander Security Forces –Jaffna at the time of his death in a land mine explosion at Point Arali in the Kayts Island while making preparations to re-capture Jaffna.
Lieutenant General Parami Sudammika Bandara Kulatunga,RSP,VSV,USP was a Sri Lanka Army general. He was serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army and its third highest-ranking officer at the time of his assassination. On the morning of 26 June,he was killed by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber who drove an explosives-laden motorbike into his staff car as it was driving to a military base at Pannipitiya near Colombo.
The Gajaba Regiment (GR) is an elite infantry regiment of the Sri Lankan Army. Formed on 14 October 1983 at the Saliyapura Camp in Anuradhapura,it is named after the famous Sinhalese King Gajabahu the First. It consists of 14 regular battalions and 6 volunteer battalions.
Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa,is a former Sri Lankan politician and military officer,who served as the eighth president of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 14 July 2022. He previously served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former President Mahinda Rajapaksa,during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
The Rajarata Rifles was a former rifle regiment of the Sri Lanka Army. It was one of only three geographically based regiments in the Sri Lanka army. The cap badge of the Raja Rata Rifles show the figure of a Bherunda Pakshiya.
The Battle of Pooneryn took place between the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan military during the Sri Lankan Civil War for control of the military base in Pooneryn in northern Sri Lanka from 11 November to 14 November 1993.
Colonel Aslam Fazly Laphir,PWV,RWP,RSP,SF was a Sri Lankan Army officer and posthumous recipient of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya (PWV). He was awarded the PWV for his actions leading the 1st Special Forces Regiment during the Battle of Mullaitivu in which he was killed. Colonel Laphir played a major role in the formation and development of the Special Forces Regiment from the original Combat Tracker Team.
The Battle of Vavunathivu took place during the Sri Lankan Civil War. It occurred on 7 March 1997 in which the LTTE militants attacked and overran the Sri Lanka Army military camp at Vavunathivu off Batticaloa.
General Jagath Jayasuriya,VSV,USP is a retired Sri Lanka Army officer;he was the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 15 July 2009 to 31 July 2013. During the closing stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War,he served as the Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Wanni with overall command of SLA offensives in the Wanni region during the 2008 - 2009 period. He was also the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil,Argentina,Chile,Colombia,Peru and Suriname from June 2014 to August 2017.
Operation Thrividha Balaya was a combined military operation,the first of its kind,launched by the Sri Lankan Military in Jaffna. The Operation was carried out to break the siege of the Sri Lanka Army garrison of the old Dutch Jaffna Fort in Jaffna.
General Shavendra Silva,is a Sri Lanka Army four star general who is the current Chief of Defence Staff,the head of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces serving from 1 January 2020. He also served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 19 August 2019 to 31 May 2022. His other important appointments include,Chief of Staff of the army,Adjutant General and Director of Operations of the Army. During the Sri Lankan civil war he gained fame as the General Officer Commanding of the elite 58 Division. He had also served as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Headquarters.
General Shantha H.S. Kottegoda,WWV,RWP,RSP,VSV,USP is a retired senior Sri Lanka Army officer. He was the seventeenth commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 1 July 2004 –5 December 2005. He had served as the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil and Thailand. In April 2019,following the Easter Sunday bombings he was appointed as the permanent secretary to the Ministry of Defence.
Vice admiral Susith Maliya Bandara Weerasekara RSP,VSV,USP,ndu,psn,MSc. (DS) Mgmt,DISS,DIDSS was a commissioned officer of the Sri Lanka Navy. He was the highest ranked senior officer of the Sri Lanka Navy at the time he was overlooked for the position of Commander of the Navy,leading to his subsequent retirement. A committee appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena found that he was politically victimised by the previous government and he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral in October 2015.
Major General Jagath Dias,WWV,RWP,RSP,USP was a Sri Lankan general,who served as the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army. He was the General Officer Commanding,57 Division and 56 Division. He was the Sri Lankan Deputy Ambassador to Germany,Switzerland and the Vatican.
General L. D. E. Cecil Waidyaratne,VSV,USP was a Sri Lanka Army general. He was 12th Commander of the Sri Lankan Army and a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand.
General Akurathiya Withanage Jagath Crishanthe de Silva,RWP,USP is a retired senior Sri Lanka Army officer. He had served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 22 February 2015 to 4 July 2017,as the Chief of Defence Staff from 29 June 2017 to 21 August 2017. Later he was appointed as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Bangladesh.
Road to Nandikadal is a book about the defeat of the LTTE. It was written by former Major General Kamal Gunaratne. The book was released on 6 September 2016,a day after Gunaratne's retirement. The Sinhala and English versions of the book were released on the same day. It covers several incidents that occurred during the Sri Lankan Civil War,including the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Major General Galwaduge Janaka Laksiri Waduge,RWP,RSP,VSV,USP,ndu is a retired Sri Lankan army general. He was the 10th Commander Security Forces Headquarters –Central and the former Colonel commandant of Military Intelligence Corps. He retired from active service in 2020 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 55 for Sri Lankan Armed Forces Personnel.
Major General A. K. Sumedha Perera,WWV,RWP,RSP,USP is a retired Sri Lankan general. He is the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Mahaweli,Agriculture,Irrigation and Rural Development;and former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army.
Major General Jagath Gunawardena,RSP,VSV,USP was a Sri Lankan senior army officer. He was the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army,having served as the Commandant of the Volunteer Force,Commander,Security Forces Headquarters –Wanni and Master General of Ordnance. He served as the Colonel Commandant of the Sri Lanka Engineers.
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