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MARITIME FIGHTING POWER
Human Rights, Criminal Law, Fundamental Rights and in general, the legal
consequences of violation of any such laws during military operations,
its main function remains to be prosecutions before court martials,
negotiating and drafting agreements pertaining to procurements and
advice command on issues which may arise with duties connected with
safeguarding the territorial integrity with other stakeholders, within the
framework of domestic and international law while satisfying provisions
of LOSC, Geneva Conventions and its protocols.

Special Boat Squadron (SBS)

Formerly inaugurated in 1993, SBS consists of the most versatile and
highly trained waterborne elite naval troops who are tasked for small
scale clandestine covert or overt special operations on land and sea.
With time, the force grew from its original amphibious force concept
to clandestine operations in coastal and deep interior, long range
reconnaissance patrol, anti-ship hijack and hostage rescue, beach
survey, riverine operations, VIP protection, rappelling and heli-borne
operations with improved competencies. In addition, to many successful
brown water battles fought in the Northwestern coast, the Eastern coast
and the Jaffna lagoon, the battle for Muthur (Trincomalee) in year 2006
and the successful first line barrier carried out by this force along with
RABS as part of the strategy of the Navy to prevent the enemy leadership
from fleeing through the sea during the final days of the Humanitarian
Operation in the year 2009 are some of the key milestones of this
squadron. SBS are the invisible raiders of the Navy who are trained with
the US Seals and capable of carrying out combat operations on land, sea
and air. Today, SBS shares their hard earned knowledge on Asymmetric
Warfare (AW) to other nations through AW courses conducted in Sri

Lanka.

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