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The Sri Lankan Army has organised a blood donation event at Thelipalai hospital in Jaffna, reported the defence ministry's website.
Army and police personnel were reported to have contributed their blood to the National Blood Bank.
"The admitted Patients of the Hospital will be highly benefited by such type of community based initiative organized by the Army." said the report on the website.
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Extracts from our latest editorial on the militarisation of civilian functions in Tamil areas:
"The burgeoning military budget, the grabbing of civilian lands for military housing and establishments, and the military’s saturating presence within everyday civilian life has continued; not only contrary to well-trodden paths of post-conflict reconciliation, but in brazen defiance of international criticism.
"The significance of militarisation of the North-East however, goes beyond these measurable markers and tangible concerns. The end of the armed conflict has not proved to be a window of opportunity, to ensure equal rights for all citizens or create a ‘terrorism’-free liberal democracy. Instead it has been exploited by the Sri Lankan state as an opportunity to orchestrate the unhindered expansion of Sinhala Buddhist hegemony."
