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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12645954" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Sri_Lanka_Army_Logo.png/120px-Sri_Lanka_Army_Logo.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sri Lanka has arrested over 36,400 soldiers who had deserted the army  following the end of a three-decade-long civil war with the Tamil  Tigers, a military spokesman said Monday. Army spokesman Ruwan  Wanigasooriya said during the first three months of 2012, over 2,500  ex-soldiers were arrested and dealt with under military law, reported  Xinhua. Over the past two decades, around 65,000 soldiers have  deserted the army and since the end of war in 2009, over 36,400 of them  have been arrested.   "There are another 1,000 to be arrested  and the deserters have become an administrative burden to the country's  army," Wanigasooriya said. Sri Lanka's army numbers around 200,000 but the deserters have become a problem in maintaining the figure.  "Following  the end of war in May 2009, we gave a number of opportunities for those  deserters to return and clear their files and leave the army  officially," Wanigasooriya said. He added while short-term  absentees of one or two months have to face a summary procedure, those  long-term absentees would be dealt by the court martial under the  military law. More than 21,000 soldiers were killed in the battle against the LTTE.    IANS</blockquote>

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