Sri Lanka Army

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Role: The government’s land force in the war with the LTTE
Appears on: The LTTE war, 1983 to 2009
Disappearances and wartime killings
War accountability at the UN
Communal violence and state force, 2013 to 2019

Connections (6)

Sri Lanka Army / Said by the government to have captured / Fall of Kilinochchi, January 2009
- A cabinet minister and ruling party spokesman said forces captured the LTTE’s political capital on Friday. The report says the army used a two-pronged offensive from the north and south, the LTTE had not replied, and the claim could not be verified because journalists were barred from the area.2 Jan 2009 · Al Jazeera · Sri Lanka troops 'capture' LTTE HQ
Sarath Fonseka / Army commander, from December 2005 / Sri Lanka Army
- He took over as army commander in December 2005. The profile says he modernised and expanded the army and was called the architect of its military victory.18 Nov 2011 · Al Jazeera · Profile: General Sarath Fonseka
Sri Lanka Army / Rejects any suggestion that soldiers are linked to / Mannar mass grave, found 2018
- The BBC report says the army rejects any suggestion that soldiers are linked to the remains, and that the government denies its forces caused civilian deaths or disappearances.23 Nov 2018 · BBC (via Daily FT) · Sri Lanka mass graves: 230 skeletons found at country's largest site
Sri Lanka Army / Said excavation is a civil matter for the police and courts / Chemmani mass grave, Jaffna
- Quotes the army media director, Brigadier Waruna Gamage, as saying that the excavations are ongoing and that it is a civil matter belonging to the police and courts.21 Aug 2025 · Ada Derana · Excavations at Chemmani mass grave to continue for eight more weeks
Sri Lanka Army / Military spokesman rejected it as concocted lies, half-truths and speculations / Channel 4 documentary “No War Zone”, 2013
- Reports that the military spokesman, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya, called it concocted lies, half-truths and speculations meant to embarrass the country, and said the makers had presented no evidence that would let the authorities open an investigation. The government rejected the two earlier videos as fabricated.21 Feb 2013 · Daily FT · Govt. rejects ‘concocted’ Channel 4 documentary
Sri Lanka Army / Troops fired on villagers at / Shooting at Rathupaswala, Weliweriya, August 2013
- Daily FT reports that four army personnel were indicted for causing three deaths and serious injuries to 12 others when troops fired on protesters at Rathupaswala, Weliweriya, in early August 2013.12 Sep 2019 · Daily FT · Indictments filed against four in Rathupaswala shooting incident
- Ada Derana reports that army personnel fired on villagers protesting a factory they said had polluted their groundwater, that three people were killed, and that the court ordered the four accused released.17 May 2024 · Ada Derana · Four army personnel acquitted over 2013 Rathupaswala shooting