Public urged not to be duped by misleading & malicious reports: Army

The attention of the Sri Lanka Army has been brought to notice that certain interested parties giving misleading and concocted interpretations and propagating baseless, unfounded and provocative allegations are attempting to discredit and tarnish the Army as well its dedicated members serving across the Island, Army said in a statement.

“As evident in the past few days, different interested elements and groups with vested interests are poised to insult the troops and speculate alleging that the troops are about to " cause violence", " under training to assault", etc, which are completely false, fabricated and baseless,”the statement said.

As clearly seen, not a single trooper has to date got involved in any of those tense situations, Army stressed. 

The Army strongly and categorically denied those sinister moves and flatly reject those attempts, meant to bring disrepute to this organization and simultaneously urge the civic-conscious and right- minded citizens of this country to place the full confidence in the troops as it has been done in the past.

“..because current serving troops remain more trained, professionally- qualified and well-suited to take on any security challenge, in this scenario, ONLY if the Police call us to assist them,”the statement said.