Recent Years
In 2006 due to the Sri Lankan Civil War the Sri Lankan Government announced a formation of a Home Guard unit made up of residents of Colombo for deployments within the city. This was not a reforming of the town guard as the new unit came under the authority of the Department of Civil Defence (Sri Lanka) unlike the town guard that came under the command of the army. This was the first time a home guard unit was formed within Colombo.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
—Bernard Baruch (1870–1965)