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Diyatalawa (දියතලාව)is a garrison town in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, in the Badulla District of Uva Province. It is at an altitude of and has become a popular destination for local holiday makers. It is home to the Diyatalawa Garrison of the Sri Lanka Army, which includes the Sri Lanka Military Academy, officer training center of the army; SLAF Diyatalawa, the Sri Lanka Air Force's ground combat training centre; and facilities of the Sri Lanka Police. ==History== It is not known when Diyatalawa became a training station for troops, but available records show that it was selected around 1885, when the British Army first established a garrison at Diyatalawa. At that time training was conducted at the Imperial Camp which is now occupied by the Gemunu Watch troops. In 1900, the British War Office constructed a concentration camp in Diyatalawa to house Boer prisoners captured in the Second Boer War. Constructed to house 2500 prisoners and 1000 guards and staff, the number of prisoners increased to 5000. During World War I an internment camp for enemy aliens was set up.〔(The Bore Prisoners of War in Ceylon ) The Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon〕〔(The Diyatalawa water works ) IESL〕 Early in World War II the camp was reopened and German nationals resident in Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as many sailors, like those removed from the ''Asama Maru'' in violation of international law, were housed here. Also imprisoned were Buddhist monks of German extraction like Nyanaponika and Govinda Anagarika who had acquired British citizenship. In June 1941 most of the sailors were transferred to Canada. The section for Germans was sensibly divided in a pro- and anti-Nazi wing. There was also a section set up to house Italian POWs. After the Japanese started bombing the island, inmates were on 23 February 1942 transferred to camps on the mainland. Males usually went to Dehradun.〔:de:Internierungslager in Indien〕 Officer training was also carried out here during the war. After World War II the Royal Navy had a holiday station there, and it was often referred to as "DLA"; HMS ''Uva'' was situated at Diyatalawa with recreational facilities, which were also sometimes used by RAF personnel, such as from RAF Negombo/Katunayake, and their families; the facilities were later taken over by the Royal Ceylon Navy in 1956, commissioning it as HMCYS ''Rangalla'' and established its training center there. They had to move out in 1962 and it was taken over by the Gemunu Watch. Sri Lanka gained its independence, as Ceylon, in 1948. In the mid-1950s, all British military facilities were taken over by the Sri Lankan services. In 1952 the Royal Ceylon Air Force established SLAF Diyatalawa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diyatalawa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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