The people who were battered by terrorism cannot forget the dark era they experienced.
Terrorism caused carnage and destruction to public property. If this brutal insurgency that plagued the country for three decades was not pulverized, the damage that could have been unleashed to the country would have been inestimable. This feature reminisces the damage done to the country by the ruthless terrorists.
The brutal tiger terrorists who grabbed bodies of two dead war heroes in the Kuchchaveli area in Trincomalee on 13th May 1985, took away the lives of another two war heroes on May 13th 1992 within the Katupotha area. On 13th May 1995 the terrorists lurking in the Kirimichchadaikulam area deprived the country of the valuable services of four brave soldiers.
The terrorists who stormed into the Pavatkulam area in Vavuniya on 13th May 1998 mooted a powerful assault on the war heroes killing four of them. Again on 13th May in the year 2000, the tiger terrorists killed three innocent villagers who were working reaping their harvest in the farmland in the Thavul-wewa area. On the same day the tiger terrorists launched a small weapons attack in China Bay, killing two war heroes.
In the year 2009 also on a day like today the tiger terrorists unleashed several attacks on the war heroes in the Wellamulli-waikkal and Mullaitivu areas. As a result 12 war heroes made supreme sacrifices on behalf of the unity of the motherland.
Terrorism which plagued the country in this manner for 30 years was annihilated from the Nanthikadal Lagoon on 18th May 2009. By then these merciless tiger terrorists had grabbed a total of 42 lives which included eight innocent unarmed civilians. The other 34 were valiant soldiers.
The heroic soldiers brought real freedom to the country on 18th May 2009 as a result of the unwavering leadership of the Commander in Chief, President Rajapaksa and the appropriate guidance of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and gave a fitting lesson to the world on how terrorism can be subdued. The people’s leader and the Defence Secretary with the support of the war heroes, who provided a lesson to the world ending terrorism, are also now setting an example to the world. It is an act which no country in the world have ever thought of doing. Instead of forgetting the war heroes who ended the war sacrificing their eyes, heads, hands and limbs in their brave attempts to enthrone freedom in the motherland, another lesson is being provided to the world taking care of them. This massive operation to save the lives of soldiers who were disabled in liberating the country from the terrorists is also a fitting lesson to the world. These war heroes cannot be forgotten for any reason. As such we refresh the memories of these war heroes in our features as they are eternally immortal.
As such we make another request from you. That is the photographs of the war heroes who sacrificed their lives on behalf of the country and which are most valuable to you and us which are well safeguarded and protected by you. You are assured that these photographs will be returned safely after being displayed to the nation in these features.
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