Sri Lankan soldiers take cover under umbrellas during a heavy downpour in Mullaittivu, the former military headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels Photo: AFP/GETTYFrom The Telegraph:
Sri Lanka is to train Pakistan army officers to fight the Taliban insurgency with lessons from its devastating defeat of the Tamil Tigers.
Colombo has been inundated with training requests since it finally put down the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elaam's (LTTE) 26-year rebellion in a final onslaught which claimed the lives of more than 10,000 civilians and left 300,000 displaced by the fighting.
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Update: Sri Lanka to train Pakistani army -- BBC
My Comment: Pakistan was a major supplier of weapons to Sri Lanka during its civil war. This is Sri Lanka's way of paying back Pakistan
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