Insulting SL armed forces

No Head of State of Sri Lanka had ever alleged that the country’s security forces were unprofessional until unrecently. Our forces successfully suppressed two insurgencies in 1971 and 1989, fought a thirty-year war against the world’s most ruthless terrorist group, and emerged victorious. The then-President proudly named his Commander of the Army as the best Commander in the world.

Our forces have been continually selected by the UN to serve as peacekeeping forces globally. However, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who appointed a his Secretaries of Defence and Public Security and the Deputy Minister of Defence retired personnel from the Army and Police, now claims in Parliament that Sri Lanka’s armed forces are unprofessional. Does the President wish to go down in world history as the only elected leader who insulted his armed forces? A Ratnayake.