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India to train Lankan troops
India is throwing open the doors of its different military institutions to train Sri Lankan soldiers. The Times of India says over 500 officers and other ranks will receive training in institutions ranging from Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare to specialised naval courses in gunnery, navigation, communication and anti-submarine warfare.

Sri Lanka's economic growth slowed for the first time in a year in the first quarter as inflation running above 25 percent and escalating violence in the South Asian island's civil war damped spending.

Spending by consumers and companies is weakening as the central bank holds interest rates at a six-year high to cool the fastest inflation in at least four years. Sri Lanka's economic outlook ''depends critically'' on an end to the island's 25-year civil war, according to the International Monetary Fund.

No. But, I know 'Pakaman' area? Historically, Great King Elallan had a harem in that area where his lieutenants brought high-class women from South of the island for king's use.

Care to enlighten us poor folks on this latest move by India please?

India to train Lankan soldiers
1 Jul 2008, 0214 hrs IST, Rajat Pandit,TNN

NEW DELHI: Even as it pushes Sri Lanka to renew political efforts towards resolving its bloody ethnic strife, India is virtually throwing open the doors of its different military institutions to train Sri Lankan soldiers.

In 2008-2009 alone, over 500 Sri Lankan officers and other ranks will receive training in institutions ranging from Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairengte (Mizoram) to School of Artillery at Devlali (Maharashtra), apart from undergoing specialised naval courses in gunnery, navigation, communication and anti-submarine warfare, say sources.

This comes even as India has also stepped up military supplies to Sri Lankan forces, even though they are 'largely defensive' in nature, as reported first by TOI.

This twin-prolonged strategy of arms supplies and military training, coupled with intelligence sharing and 'coordinated' naval patrolling, is primarily aimed to counter China's ever-growing strategic inroads into Sri Lanka.

In fact, the high-level delegation led by national security advisor M K Narayanan, which also included foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and defence secretary Vijay Singh, to Colombo 10 days ago expressed India's concern over Sri Lanka increasingly turning to China and Pakistan for weapons.

Though India has not gone ahead with a long-pending military pact with Sri Lanka due to domestic 'Tamil sensitivities', it has reversed its earlier policy of not supplying arms to Colombo.

The arms transfer process, which really began with a Sukanya Class offshore patrol warship in 2002, has been speeded up in recent times, as has been the case with military training.

Though India trains soldiers from several countries, ranging from Maldives, Mauritius and Mongolia to Botswana, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, the facilities extended to Sri Lanka are far ahead of others.

The premier Indian Military Academy at Dehradun, for instance, is running two 'special courses' in 2008-2009 for as many as 100 'gentlemen cadets' from Sri Lanka.

Moreover, 39 Sri Lankan officers will undergo courses at College of Military Engineering at Pune, 15 in School of Artillery at Devlali, 29 in Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre at Ahmednagar, 25 in College of Materials Management at Jabalpur, 30 in Electronics and Mechanical Engineering School at Vadodara, 14 at Military College of Telecommunication Engineering at Mhow.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/India_to_train_Lankan_soldiers/articleshow/3182598.cms

tell me why do you call Prince Vijaya a Sinhala?

You Sinhala squatters are refusing to leave Tamil Eelam and illegally occupying our homes, schools and Temples.

Actually this so called Mannar is Manthota (Mahathitha) where Prince Vijaya first landed. When you live for 2500 years in an area, develop it, construct irrigation tanks, cultivate paddy in a massive way, and build beautiful temples I think you earn the right to call that place home. LTTE goons are the squatters by any sensible measure.
Cheers!

When did I call Vijaya a Sinhala, you wretched fool? He is obviously an Indian. He founded a kingdom whose people developed their own unique culture separate from Indians in Lanka and came to be known as Sinhala.