Gotabaya Rajapaksa and National Security: The Kotelawala Defence University lecture
Thrishantha Nanayakkara-14 Jun, 2013
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As a citizen of Sri Lanka, naturally I was keen to know what the country’s secretary of defense thinks about the current security situation and the military history of Sri Lanka. Therefore, I went through his “lecture” under the National Interest Module of the inaugural MPhil/PhD Programme of the Kotelawala Defense University. Usually, any “lecture” is followed by a question and answer session unlike “speeches”. I am sure the secretary of defense allowed this tradition to happen in the free country. However, I couldn’t see such details of a Q&A session in the above link on defence.lk. Therefore, I thought of posing some of my thoughts as a citizen, not as an academic or any kind of defense expert, for the contemplation of the distinguished academics involved in the above MPhil/PhD programme and the secretary defense himself.
Heavy handed state reaction to public descent and National security:
