{"id":119443,"date":"2014-02-02T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119443"},"modified":"2014-02-03T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T20:38:08","slug":"defence-ministrys-leadership-training-claims-another-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/defence-ministrys-leadership-training-claims-another-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Ministry\u2019s Leadership Training Claims Another Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another student died while undergoing the Defence Ministry\u2019s programme to carry out \u201cLeadership Training\u201d for all university students. The student, identified as Mudiyanselage Lahiru Sandaruwan Rathnayake was undergoing leadership training at the Peradeniya Gannoruwa Army Camp and was admitted to the Peradeniya Hospital on 26 January, due to a sudden ailment, passed away yesterday, The Ceylon Today reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/University-Leadership-Training-Sri-Lanka-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119445\" alt=\"University Leadership Training Sri Lanka 22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/University-Leadership-Training-Sri-Lanka-22-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/University-Leadership-Training-Sri-Lanka-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/University-Leadership-Training-Sri-Lanka-22.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Selected to the University of Jaffna, upon successfully sitting the GCE Advanced Level Examination in the commerce stream from the Nochchiyagama Vidyadarshi College, Lahiru Sandaruwan was 21 years old at the time of his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Military Spokesperson Brigadier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ruwan+Wanigasooriya&amp;x=6&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ruwan Wanigasooriya<\/span><\/a> said according to the father of the deceased, the student had been receiving treatment for an ailment from which he had been suffering since his infancy. Asked whether students were subject to a fitness test, prior to their enrolment in the leadership training programme, Brigadier Wanigasooriya said, &#8220;No. That is not our responsibility. It is the Ministry of Higher Education which is tasked with obtaining their fitness reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Compulsory leadership training for undergraduates\u00a0 is a mandatory programme introduced in 2011 by the\u00a0 Government for all students selected State universities. The residential three week leadership training and \u201cpositive thinking development\u201d training camps under the Defence Ministry\u00a0 has claimed at least two lives so far. In\u00a0\u00a0 2011 a student died during the leadership program for undergraduates, while a principal who was part of a similar leadership training program died in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":119445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Defence Ministry\u2019s Leadership Training Claims Another Life - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/defence-ministrys-leadership-training-claims-another-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Defence Ministry\u2019s Leadership Training Claims Another Life - 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