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The first Director General of the Civil Defence Force was Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara. [2] Functions of the Department of Civil Security were established to be: [1] Taking actions as a supplementary force for aiding and assisting the armed forces and police service, depending on the prevailing security status in the country,
Sri Lanka Civil Security Force (1 C, 1 P) I. Sri Lankan intelligence agencies (4 C, 4 P) L. ... Sri Lankan government forces attacks in the Sri Lankan civil war (4 C ...
The Ministry of Defence also manages day-to-day running of the armed forces, contingency planning and defence procurement. The National Security Council of Sri Lanka is the executive body of the Sri Lankan government that is charged with the maintenance of national security with authority to direct the Sri Lankan military and Police. The ...
Sri Lanka's security forces abducted men and women from the ethnic Tamil minority and tortured them in custody long after the end of a bloody civil war in the South Asian island nation, a human ...
The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the socialist United Front Government of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
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.
The 1985 Trincomalee massacres refers to a series of mass murder of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military and Sinhalese home guards in Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka. In a succession of events that spanned over two months, hundreds of Tamil civilians were massacred and thousands were driven out by the Sri Lankan military and Sinhalese ...
The National Security Council (NSC) of Sri Lanka is the executive body of the Sri Lankan government that is charged with the maintenance of national security with authority to direct the Sri Lankan military and Police. This was established in 1999 during the HE D. B. Wijetunga's government. [2] [3]