Sri Lanka Army - Wikipedia
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා යුද්ධ හමුදාව, romanized: Śrī Laṃkā yuddha hamudāva; Tamil: இலங்கை இராணுவம், romanized: Ilankai iraṇuvam) is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.Established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972.