{"id":54598,"date":"2012-09-19T20:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=54598"},"modified":"2012-09-24T06:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T06:11:57","slug":"sri-lankan-army-still-has-vast-presence-in-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-army-still-has-vast-presence-in-north-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Army Still Has Vast Presence In North &#038; East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Nirupama+Subramanian&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\">Nirupama Subramanian<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than three years after winning the war against the LTTE, the Sri Lankan Army retains an overwhelming presence in the North and East of the island, deploying 16 out of its 19 divisions in the Tamil-dominated regions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-army-still-has-vast-presence-in-north-east\/20th_lanka_co\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54599\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-54599 lazyload\" title=\"20TH_LANKA_CO\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20TH_LANKA_CO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"353\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20TH_LANKA_CO.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20TH_LANKA_CO-270x300.jpg 270w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 318px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 318\/353;\" \/><\/a>Information available with\u00a0<em>The Hindu<\/em>\u00a0indicates that besides three divisions in Jaffna, there are three each in Killinochchi and Mullaithivu, while five divisions are stationed in Vavuniya. Another two divisions are deployed in the East. Three divisions are headquartered in southern Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The information, from an internal Sri Lankan military document showing the deployment in a series of maps for a PowerPoint presentation, is for the month of June 2012, but there have been no significant changes since then.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/article3915391.ece?homepage=true\">The Hindu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":54599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1],"tags":[4911,4913,4912],"class_list":["post-54598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","tag-sri-lankan-army-the-hindu","tag-sri-lankan-military-in-north-east-sri-lanka","tag-tamil-dominated-regions-and-army"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Army Still Has Vast Presence In North &amp; 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