The Battle of Pooneryn (LTTE code-named Operation Thavalai Paachchal (Frog Leap)) took place between the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE...
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base at Pooneryn, during the Battle of Pooneryn. Few months earlier they had executed an officer and several soldiers captured during the Battle of Janakapura...
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K. W. T. Nissanka (category Recipients of the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya)
and his platoon was assigned to the Pooneryn Camp and deployed facing Pooneryn just outside the town. Due to pooneryn being a strategic stronghold it was...
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Amphibious warfare (section Battle of Kismayo (2012))
amphibious warfare in some of their successful battles such as Battle of Pooneryn in 1992 and Second Battle of Elephant Pass in 2000 to overrun and capture...
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in the Battle of Weli Oya in July 1995, where LTTE suffered major casualties. List of Sri Lankan Civil War battles Battle of Pooneryn Battle of Mullaitivu...
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Sri Lankan Civil War (redirect from End of the Sri Lankan Civil War)
stronghold of Pooneryn. Simultaneously, the newly created Army Task Force 3 was introduced into the area of Mankulam with the objective of engaging the...
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Cecil Waidyaratne (category Commanders of the Sri Lanka Army)
isolated detachments like in the case of the Battle of Janakapura and the Battle of Pooneryn. Following Pooneryn, Waidyaratne resigned on 31 December 1993...
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T-54/T-55 (redirect from T-54/55 main battle tank)
in the capture of two T-55A tanks by the LTTE in the Battle of Pooneryn in November 1993. One of these were destroyed soon after by the Sri Lanka Air...
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Ranjith de Silva (category Year of birth missing (living people))
District. He is known for leading the defence of the Sri Lanka Army garrison in Pooneryn during the Battle of Pooneryn. Silva received his education at Dharmapala...
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Gajaba Regiment (category Infantry regiments of the Sri Lankan Army)
killed and 115 missing) in the Battle of Pooneryn and the 8th battalion in the Second Battle of Elephant Pass. By the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the...
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