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Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and ...
Lieutenant general (abbreviated as Lt. Gen.; Sinhala: ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල්, romanized: Lutinan Jenaral) is the second-highest rank of the Sri Lanka Army and generally it is the highest active rank as the Sri Lanka army do not have any appointment in the rank of full general but in the case of the appointment of Chief of Defence Staff, the rank of full general is given ...
Defence.lk. Defence.lk is the official web portal of the Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka. [1] At the conclusion of the Sri Lankan Civil War it was the Sri Lanka's 7th most viewed web site, with an average daily hit rate of over 8.8 million in May, 2009. [citation needed] Traffic and popularity have fallen sharply since the end of the civil war ...
Rock House Army Camp. / 6.9642; 79.8683. Rock House Army Camp is a military base located at Modera, north of Colombo in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. [1] It serves as the regimental headquarters of the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps of Sri Lanka Army .
The Special Forces Regiment (SF) ( Sinhala: විශේෂ බලකාය Visēsha Balakāya ;) is a special forces unit of the Sri Lanka Army. Founded in 1986 as a combat tracker team , it was established as a regiment in 1988, and later expanded into a brigade. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, direct ...
No. 1 Ceremonial White. The No. 1 Ceremonial White dress uniform, was the most formal uniform in Sri Lankan Army. No. 1 was a full white uniform while No. 1A was a white tunic and dark blue trousers similar to the British Army Warm weather ceremonial uniform. No. 1 was reserved to be used by Army officers appointed and serving as Aide-de-camp ...
Medals of the Sri Lankan military displayed on a Sri Lanka Army service uniform. The Sri Lankan Armed Forces award medals and their associated ribbon bars in recognition of various levels of service, personal accomplishments and commemorative events while a regular- or volunteer serviceperson is a member of the Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and the Sri Lanka Air Force.
Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (2000-2007) General Chandrika Srilal Weerasooriya ( Sinhala :චන්ද්රිකා ශ්රීලාල් වීරසූරිය) or 'C.S. Weerasooriya', RWP, RSP, VSV, USP is a retired Sri Lankan Army General. He was the 15th Commander of the Sri Lankan Army ...