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Mil Mi-17 Crash (July 1996) near Mullaitivu District, Sri Lanka
Army base in Mullaitivu District was overrun by enemy killing more than 1000 soldiers. A rescue operation was planned and executed by Army 1st Special Forces Regiment within few hours as they were getting ready for another operation in a different area.  Lt Col  Fazly Lafir, the commander of the 1st SF regiment who was personally leading the rescue operation was Killed in action and many other officers who volunteered from other AO's to  reinforce the leadership was also either KIA or heavily wounded. when the rescue force finally approached the base they found it overrun by enemies and all the buildings inside the base had been razed to the ground. Military decided to withdraw from the area with all the rescued soldiers and other servicemen.  Navy & Airforce assisted in withdrawal under heavy enemy fire.  

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Edited by Sgt (Ret) T. Wayne
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FOUR FOUR BRAVO AMBUSH (23JULY1983 JAFFNA PENINSULA, SRI LANKA)

The land Rover and the truck consisting of 15 soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army is Ambushed by an extremist rebel group killing 13 men including the patrol commander Lt Vaas Gunawardene. The remaining two soldiers continue to return fire, pinning the enemy down until they run out of ammunition. They barely escape with their lives as the enemy advances to loot the dead comrades. Cpl Perera Hides his wounded buddy Cpl Sumathipala on a corner of a wall with vegetation. Wounded himself, he makes his way toward the town to get his hands on a telephone to inform the HQ about the Ambush. Unbeknownst to any of them at the moment, this ambush alone will drag the island nation to a 30 year long conflict resulting in hundreds and thousands of casualties

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