Tomorrow (May 19), at the National military Heroes’ Commemoration ceremony, the Sri Lankan government will honor the military heroes who perished during the thirty-year civil conflict.
The ceremony, which is being organized by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, will begin at 4 p.m. at the Battaramulla War Heroes’ Memorial.
This war hero commemoration ceremony will be attended by former presidents, prime ministers, deputy ministers, the speaker, the secretary of the ministry of defense, chiefs of defence, commanders of the three armed forces, the inspector general of police, war heroes who were injured in battle, the families of the fallen war heroes, and school cadet groups.
Defence Secretary (Retired) General Kamal Gunaratne said that this war hero celebration has been organized this year, with a special war drum beat and floral tributes to appreciate the bravery heroism and eternal memories of the war heroes of the Army, Air and Navy, Police and Civil Defence Department who laid down their lives to secure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.
It has been 14 years since the three-decade civil war in Sri Lanka drew to an end after the leader of the armed separatist group LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed by the Sri Lankan security forces at the Nandikadal Lagoon on May 18, 2009.
