Nalin Angammana

Nalin Angammana
Lieutenant General Nalin Angammana
Born	1945 Kandy, Sri Lanka
Died	1995 † Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Allegiance	Sri Lanka
Service/branch	Sri Lanka Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Sri Lanka Engineers
Commands held	General Officer Commanding, 3rd Army Division
Battles/wars	1971 Insurrection, Sri Lankan Civil War

Lieutenant General Nalin Angammana (In Sinhalese: ලුතිනන් ජෙනරාල් නලින් අංගම්මන) (1945 – 1995), Commander of Sri Lanka's 3rd army division, was one of the distinguished Generals in the Sri Lanka army.^[1][2] He is the most senior officer of Sri Lanka Army to be killed in battlefield during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Angammana was educated at Dharmaraja College, Kandy.^[3] He was commissioned to the Sri Lanka Engineers corps as he joined the Army. On July 30, 1995, when he was returning from an investigation into a terrorist attack on a government camp, the vehicle he was returning, caught in a land mine buried by the LTTE.^[4] Angammana, with 3 other officers was killed due to the explosion. 13 other soldiers were injured.

See also

• Denzil Kobbekaduwa
• Sri Lankan Civil War

References

1. ^ "LTTE's three times lucky terror at Katunayake". Sunday Times. 2001. http://sundaytimes.lk/010729/sitrep.html. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 
2. ^ "Sri Lanka Army". Nowpublic. http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sri-lanka-army. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 
3. ^ "Dharmaraja honours her war heroes". The Island. 2009. http://www.island.lk/2009/07/30/news29.html. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 
4. ^ "Brigadier Nalin Angammana,". CNN. 1995. http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/96/0112/feat2.html. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 

External links

• Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka
• Heroes who made the supreme sacrifice

Persondata
Name	Angammana, Nalin
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1945
Place of birth	Kandy, Sri Lanka
Date of death	1995
Place of death	Batticaloa, Sri Lanka