The Center for Defense Information (CDI), an independent Washington-based think-tank which provides expert analysis on various components of US national security, international security and defense policy, said in a report that arms sales to Sri Lanka from US had increased 40 fold, from $1.4m in 2006 to $60.8m in 2007.
The report points out that Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to Sri Lanka had jumped despite "new reports of children serving in government armed forc
