Another Army contingent leaves for UN Peacekeeping in Mali

2 July 2023 12:06 pm Views - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}} 6 Bookmark

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One more contingent of Sri Lanka Army personnel in the 5th Combat Convoy Company (CCC), designated to serve in the United Nations (UN) Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) left for Mali yesterday (July 01) evening as the first segment of 170 troops out of the full contingent of 243, set to leave in stages.

The first group consisting of 20 Officers and 150 Other Ranks left for Mali with Colonel W.W.N.P. Wickramarachchi of the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment as the Commanding Officer of the contingent.

The 5th CCC comprises Officers and Other Ranks of the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR), Sri Lanka Armoured Corps (SLAC), Sri Lanka Engineers (SLE), Sri Lanka Signal Corps (SLSC), Mechanized Infantry Regiment (MIR), Corps of Engineer Services (CES), Sri Lanka Army Service Corps (SLASC), Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps (SLAMC), Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps (SLAOC), Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (SLEME), Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police (SLCMP), Sri Lanka Army General Service Corps (SLAGSC) and Sri Lanka National Guard (SLNG).

The majority in the contingent is made up of SLSR troops.

Major General G.R.R.P. Jayawardana, Colonel of the Regiment, Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) and Quarter Master General (QMG) at the Army HQ was at the Bandaranaike International Airport departure terminal to see them off.

Earlier, a Guard of Honour parade, held at the SLSR Regimental HQ grounds saluted the Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Vikum Liyanage.

Comments - 6

Gert Jan, the Netherlands Sunday, 02 July 2023 12:24 PM

I don't understand this, because the Mali government is replacing the MINUSMA for the Russian Wagner Group at this moment. MINUSMA will never coöperate with that lot.

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Can you explain a bit more, to see if there is another scam going on Sunday, 02 July 2023 10:00 PM

Interested to know, as your men are going to earn dollars to government/military coffers. If somehow they aren't, with what you may be alluding too, please describe in detail.

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Earning for public purse the most respectable work Sunday, 02 July 2023 01:02 PM

These men are the most useful of all military. Probably for every one going overseas the UN pays enough for him to support five do nothing except stifle democracy lay about soldier here. If there is war overseas government must be willing to send some as mercenary too. While not as noble anything is better than being in Sri Lanka earning nothing for the nation in any way.

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Anthony Sunday, 02 July 2023 01:58 PM

WE ARE PROUD OF YOU ALL.

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Anton Monday, 03 July 2023 06:30 AM

After what they have done in Srilanka and Haiti?

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DOT Monday, 03 July 2023 12:24 PM

Great

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