KDU to be converted into an international defence university

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana 

Colombo, June 4 (Daily Mirror) - The Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) is to be converted into an international defence university, Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya told Parliament today. 

Responding to a question raised by MP Ravi Karunanayake, the Prime Minister said the government is planning to bring in legal reforms to convert KDU into an international defence university. This, she said, was the wish of late Prime Minister John Kotelawala who donated the land to set up the university. 

"Previous governments have run the KDU according to their whims and fancies," the Prime Minister added.