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By Nilakshan Perera
From a very early age, I used to maintain diaries. I still treasure them. One day, while we were serving our cadetship at the Kotelawala Defence Academy (KDA), my batchmate and close friend , Preethi, asked for my diary and wrote this note on a page which happened to be his birthday. “Remember me when I am gone to a silent distant land”. I never realised the irony of what...
In 1979, the Sri Lanka Security Forces recommended the establishment of a higher education academy to the then Government of Sri Lanka headed by President J.R. Jayewardene to enable officers of the Tri Forces to gain higher academic qualifications.
The significance and the value of this farfetched initiative and its contribution to the country’s military might have been...
Remembering Thibba:
My acquaintance with Thibba goes back to March 1979, when I was being inducted as a prefect. As prefects, we had to report to the college and be at the duty points by 6.55am. I used to travel on the Moratuwa bus instead of my usual 100 Panadura school bus which usually arrived at college by 7.05am, where I met Thibba from opposite Airport Ratmalana, where he was residing...
On August 3, 1982, a batch of 14 from various parts of the Island arrived at the Kotelawala Defence Academy (KDA) in Ratmalana to train as Service Cadet Officers. We had been informed by telegram to report to the KDA by 1500 hrs and we were there on time, accompanied by our parents and well-wishers. We were filled with mixed emotions of keen excitement tempered with a...
By Nilakshan Perera
Former Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranayake wanted to create a cordial relationship with schoolchildren and the Police...
Thirty years ago on July 3, 1990, ‘Operation Eagle’ was launched to evacuate a group of critically wounded soldiers of the 6th...