serviceyears commands death_place death_date allegiance unit awards battles birth_date rank article_title name
1989-1990 officer-in-command , kokavil army camp kokavil , sri lanka june 11 , 1990 sri lanka army sri lanka sinha regiment parama weera vibhushanaya weera wickrama vibhushanaya sri lankan civil war 1964 captain saliya upul aladeniya
 '' ` captain saliya upul aladeniya '' '
saliya upul aladeniya

saliya upul aladeniya pwv , wwv , slrs -lrb- in sinhalese : -rrb- -lrb- 1964 - june 11 , 1990 -rrb- was the second recipient of the parama weera vibhushanaya , highest war time award for valour of the sri lanka military .
he was a sri lankan army officer who refused to abandon the injured of his platoon and , fought until the kokavil army camp was overrun by ltte .
educated at trinity college kandy , he joined the sri lanka army in 1989 .
after basic training he was commissioned as second lieutenant into the sri lanka sinha regiment .
lieutenant -lrb- at that time -rrb- aladeniya was in command of an army outpost with a handful of men at kokuvla -lrb- kokavil -rrb- that was established for guarding the television relay station .
the camp was surrounded for several days by ltte cadres who outnumbered them five to one .
the food and water were running out in the camp and so was the ammunition .
in spite of many requests , reinforcements sent from lt. aladeniya 's regimental headquarters in nuwara eliya never reached kokavil , having been diverted elsewhere .
orders to withdraw from the camp came at the eleventh hour but then it was too late and aladeniya had wounded men whom he did not want to leave behind .
pledging that he would rather die alongside them than leave them , lt. aladeniya fought on till an adjacent fuel dump exploded , killing the majority of the defenders in the camp .
lt. aladeniya lost his life and was posthumously promoted to rank of captain and honoured with a parama weera vibhushanaya medal on june 21 , 1994 .
