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How militarised has been post-war North/East of Sri Lanka??

Usually there is a discussion among arring factions at the end of a war to find a political solution and to
move on to economic development.
In the case of Sri Lanka a 30-yr war was over on 18 May 2009 and the following day the area that had been
under the control of the armed rebels including the final warzone was made out of bounds for the public and
ICRC and shifting of army divisions into the region began at once. On 1 June 2009 Security Forces
Headquarters were established in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu. Post-war PsyOps on the people by the Army
had already been planned ( https://www.scribd.com/document/440612550/Sri-Lanka-21C-PsyOps-on-the-
War-ravaged-People-in-the-North-East )

a.Distribution of Army Divisions:


There are nine provinces in Sri Lanka:
1.Northern Province
Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna (SFHQ-J) – 3 Divisions - estd 1982
Security Forces Headquarters - Wanni (SFHQ-W) – 5 Divisions – estd 1998
Security Forces Headquarters - Kilinochchi (SFHQ-KLN) – 3 Divisions – estd 01 June 2009
Security Forces Headquarters – Mullaitivu (SFHQ-MLT) – 3 Divisions – estd 01 June 2009
Independent Divisions in to towns in : Mankulam – 1 Division; Paranthan – 1 Division
2.Eastern Province - 3 Divisions
3.The other seven provinces - 4 Divisions
- List of current Sri Lanka Army formations (accessed 10 September 2020 )
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_Sri_Lanka_Army_formations )

b. It is curious that a printout of the List of Sri Lanka Army formations reveals the original information
which has been ‘’disappeared’’ from the online article a few years ago:
i. current online statement: References 3: Two Security Forces Headquarters established in Mullaitivu,
Kilinochchi Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine
ii. printout says: References 3: Two Security Forces Headquarters established In Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi
(http//www.dailynews.lk/2009/06/01/sec02.asp) Archived(https/wweb/eb.archive.org/20110916….... please
print the article and see.

c. SFHQ-J website, http://www.cimicjaffna.com/ which had deleted News Archives 2010-2019 on 31


December 2019, speaks of heightened PsyOps and much more.

d. North began to be encircled with military camps after the 1961 non-violent Satyagraha by Tamils in front
of Jaffna District Secretariat against ‘’Sinhala Only’’ because N.Q.Dias,  the Prime Minister's Secretary,
thought that there would be armed uprising in 25yrs' time( https://groundviews.org/2014/09/17/review-of-
neville-jayaweeras-jaffna-exorcising-the-past-and-holding-the-vision/ )

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