02 September 2016

News Story: Sri Lanka's expertise in defeating terrorism can benefit world - defense secretary

COLOMBO, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's in-house expertise on defeating terrorists can be of immense benefit for the rest of the world especially in the face of terrorist threats, Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi said here on Thursday.

Addressing the inaugural session of the "Colombo Defence Seminar - 2016" which kicked off in the capital on Thursday, Hettiarachchi said that seven years after the end of war on terrorism, the country's leadership had realized how important it was to share the knowledge gained over the decades with the international community.

Sri Lankan forces fought a 30-year civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels which ended in May 2009 with the defeat of the rebels.

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