Sisitha Fernando. Hailing from a Kandyan Sinhala Buddhist backdrop and with a number of policemen and women in the family, Mervin Premalal Weerasinghe joined Sri Lanka army’s 3rd Sinha Regiment in 1978 with the same pride that others in his family too, felt in volunteering to protect the nation. Having served in some of the most fierce battles in Sri Lanka’s North and East during the ethnic war, and won peoples’ hearts as a war hero, Weeras…
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