Army builds hotel on shores of Nanthikadal Lagoon
ප්රභාකරන් මැරුණු නන්දිකඩාල් කළපුවේ රු: 15,000ක් ගෙවලා රැයක් ඉන්න කැමැතිද?  'මව්බිම' ගවේෂණයට මෙවර මුල් වූයේ පුවත්පත් දැන්වීමකි. 'නන්දිකඩාල් කළපුවේ සුවය විඳීමට එන්න' නන්දිකඩාල් කළපුවේ ඉදි කළ නිවාඩු නිකේතනය පිළිබඳ එම දැන්වීම මෙවර 'මව්බිම' ගවේෂණයට පාර කියන්නට විය. මීට අවුරුදු හතරකට පෙර ත්රිවිධ හමුදාව ... Read More  View from balcony of the military-built hotel - shores of killing fields can be seen across the lagoon-26 December 2012  
The Sri Lankan Army has completed the construction of another hotel, this time on the shores of the Nanthikadal Lagoon.
The Lagoon’s Edge is a luxury hotel, built entirely of teak and was built in a "place where thousands of war heroes, terrorists and others died", according to Sinhalese newspaperMawbima.
Writing in the Huffington Post, author of “Still Counting the Dead”, Frances Harrison describes how the hotel “caters for Sinhala war tourists who want to see the last bastion of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels.”
  President Rajapakse during the opening ceremony and planting a holy Buddhist bodhi tree, with defence secretary Gotabhaya.
Just across the lagoon, visible from the hotel, is the area where hundreds of thousands of Tamils were attacked by the Sri Lankan military in 2009.
“Right in the heart of what was rebel territory, the hotel overlooks the stretch of water that became the frontline during the final bloody months of the conflict, in which it's now estimated by the United Nations 40,000 or possibly 70,000 civilians died in a few months. Tamil survivors describe wading through the neck-high water, passing floating corpses and dodging bullets. Several children and injured or elderly people drowned in the water in the struggle to escape,” wrote the former BBC correspondent.   A picture also shows what appears to be a memorial frame with a soldier in a triumphal pose, with a machine gun in one hand and the Sri Lankan flag in the other.-Sign at entrance to hotel, entirely in Singhalese |
