The Sri Lankan military held two workshops in Kilinochchi this month to teach and “enlighten” both Tamil students and farmers about telecommunications and solar power.
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Troops from the 9 Sri Lanka Signal Corps (SLSC) and 7 Sri Lanka Artillery (SLA) reportedly took the lead in arranging the entire exhibition” on telecommunications for Kilinochchi schoolchildren, earlier this month.
The Sri Lankan army stated that there were “more than 300 students with the blessings of Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, Commander, SFHQ-KLN.”
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Meanwhile Sri Lankan troops also arranged a workshop for farmers in Kilinochchi “to acquire knowledge to uplift their cultivation methods”.
Also see our earlier posts:
Sri Lankan army teaches Tamil women about ‘personal hygiene’ (26 May 2015)
Continuing militarisation of Tamil school children across North-East (17 Feb 2015)
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