Sri Lanka military parade marks war anniversary

Sri Lanka is appearance the three-year ceremony of the end of its continued civilian war with a ample aggressive array in the capital, Colombo.President Mahinda Rajapaksa gave a accent at the event, which commemorates soldiers who fought adjoin Tamil Tiger rebels, or the LTTE.Critics say the celebratory attributes of the aggressive array is inappropriate.R Sampanthan, baton of the capital Tamil party, said the "triumphalism" over the war should end.The LTTE [Tamil Tigers] has been defeated. That is the absoluteness that everybody knows. And adulatory a aggressive achievement year afterwards year is not traveling to be accessible from the point of appearance of reconciliation," he said.On Friday, a baton of the university students' abutment in the Tamil-dominated boondocks of Jaffna was baffled with adamant confined as he abounding a canonizing accident for the bags of civilians believed to accept died in the final months of the war.In the past, the government has banned several agnate memorials.Sri Lanka's civilian war began in the 1980s, with Tamils acute for freedom adjoin a accomplishments of an more absolute Sinhalese nationalism.