The Sri Lankan army will start a Joint Field Training Exercise in the Eastern Province this week with the navy and air force, announced the Army Chief of Staff Major General Jagath Dias.
The exercise, entitled ‘Cormorant Strike’, will be the sixth tri-forces Joint Field Training Exercise, announced the recently promoted general.
The promotion of the accused war criminal to Chief of Staff of Sri Lanka's army was slammed as a major setback for peacebuilding on the island by the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and TRIAL (Track Impunity Always) earlier this year.
See our earlier post:Maj Gen Dias promotion 'major setback' for peace-building in Sri Lanka - NGOs (20 May 2015)