He joined the Sri Lanka Army in 1989 as a volunteer officer ( reservist ) . Following a short commissioning course at the Sri Lanka Military Academy , he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant into the 2nd ( v ) Battalion , Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment . He served with the battalion in Nuwara Eliya during the later stages of the 1987 – 1989 JVP insurrection . He was later transferred to the 3rd ( v ) Battalion of the Sinha Regiment and was attached to the A company . On 18 May 1990 , the A Company with three officers was deployed the Mankulam . Two officers and 58 men from A Company was dispatched to an isolated army outpost at Kokuvla ( Kokavil ) that was established for guarding the television relay station . Aladeniya as a Second Lieutenant was part of that detachment . On June 5 , the LTTE Mankulam and was repulsed killing 43 militants . On the 11 June 1990 , the Sri Lankan government ordered over 600 police officers to surrender to the LTTE after their police stations were surrounded , who where then massacred . The next day Mankulam and Kokavil were surrounded by the LTTE . On June 16 , there was a ceasefire , the Captain in charge of the camp and fifteen others went on leave . Leaving Lieutenant Aladeniya in charge . On 27 June , 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 Wanni headquarters never reached Kokavil , having been diverted elsewhere . On July 11 , 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 . Since his body was not recovered he wasn listed as missing in action . Aladeniya was posthumously promoted to rank of Captain and awarded the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya medal on June 21 , 1994 . In offensive operations in 2009 , the Sri Lanka Army recaptured Kokavil . In 2011 , the transmition tower was rebuilt and a monument to Aladeniya and his men was built
who where then massacred
1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers
Saliya Upul Aladeniya