National Safety Day to be held in Batti. next year
December 26, 2010 02:25 pm
The people of Jaffna are the ones most concerned about the country’s safety, said Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister D.M. Jayarathne who also stressed that he is pleased that the National Safety Day is being celebrated in the city of Jaffna today.
When the tsunami hit the country on a similar day in 2004 we were able to prevail only because we acted without any discrimination as Sinhalese, Muslim or Tamil people. We worked as one, the Prime Minister said during his speech which was delivered for 18 minutes in Tamil.
D.M. Jayarathne further expressed that if another disaster ever hits Sri Lanka we will be able to triumph it with ease if we join hands and stand together.
The National Safety Day was held at the Weerasingham Hall in Jaffna today (December 26) to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the dreaded tsunami hitting Sri Lanka, displacing more than one million people and destroying over 100,000 houses.
A two-minute silence was observed throughout the country today starting at 9.25 a.m. (0355 GMT), the time the killer waves first hit the eastern coast.
Disaster Management Minister, Mahinda Amaraweera who also attended the function revealed that next year the National Safety Day will be celebrated in Batticaloa.
When the tsunami hit the country on a similar day in 2004 we were able to prevail only because we acted without any discrimination as Sinhalese, Muslim or Tamil people. We worked as one, the Prime Minister said during his speech which was delivered for 18 minutes in Tamil.
D.M. Jayarathne further expressed that if another disaster ever hits Sri Lanka we will be able to triumph it with ease if we join hands and stand together.
The National Safety Day was held at the Weerasingham Hall in Jaffna today (December 26) to coincide with the sixth anniversary of the dreaded tsunami hitting Sri Lanka, displacing more than one million people and destroying over 100,000 houses.
A two-minute silence was observed throughout the country today starting at 9.25 a.m. (0355 GMT), the time the killer waves first hit the eastern coast.
Disaster Management Minister, Mahinda Amaraweera who also attended the function revealed that next year the National Safety Day will be celebrated in Batticaloa.
