Sri Lankan Army commando soldiers participate in a victory day parade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, June 18, 2010. Sri Lanka showed off its military hardware during a victory parade Friday to celebrate the first anniversary of the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, amid growing criticism over alleged rights abuses in the last phase of the quarter-century civil war.
Soldiers disembark from a helicopter during Cormorant Strike, a joint Sri Lankan military exercise, in the northern town of Mannar November 24, 2010. Over 2,500 troops from Sri Lanka's army, navy and air force are taking part in the nine-day long exercise, which involves amphibious landings followed by operations on land under simulated combat action.
Sri Lankan military personnel take part in a joint nine-day training exercise in the northern town of Mannar on November 24, 2010. Some 2,500 troops from the army, navy and air force took part in the exercise conducted along the coastal lines in the former war-torn areas in the north. The exercise, the first of its kind for local troops, comes after security forces wiped off the Tamil Tiger rebel leadership in May last year, that ended 37-years of bloodshed.
