Sepala Attygalle
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title:
Sepala Attygalle
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General Deshamanya Don Sepala Attygalle, was a Sri Lankan army officer, civil servant and diplomat. The longest serving Commander of the Sri Lankan Army (1967–1977), he went on to serve as the Permanent secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. He is most notable for successfully crushing the 1971 Insurrection in a matter of months and becoming the first Sri Lankan army officer to be promoted to the rank of full general. He is known as the "Fath
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Sri Lankan army general, civil servant, and diplomat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepala_Attygalle
date created:
2007-08-07T06:00:52Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T22:50:25Z
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