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K. G. Shantha
K. G. Shantha ((シンハラ語:K. G. ශාන්ත), died 1 November 2008) was a senior non-commissioned officer in the Sri Lanka Navy. He was killed in a sea battle against the Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in the seas of northern Sri Lanka. He posthumously received the Parama Weera Vibhushanaya, the country's highest award for gallantry, and is the second recipient of the medal from the navy.
==Action on 1 November 2008==
On the dawn of 1 November 2008 at approximately 5.45 am, a battle erupted between the navy and a group of Sea Tiger boats off the coast between Point Pedro and Nagar Kovil, near the northern tip of Sri Lanka.〔 At the time, Shantha was a Petty Officer in the navy's elite Special Boat Squadron (SBS). He was in command of the Arrow-class patrol boat ''Z-142'', which was armed with a 23 mm autocannon and two machine guns, and was part of the navy group engaged in the battle.
Shantha and his crew engaged the Sea Tiger vessels, using the high maneuverability of the ''Z-142'' to their advantage. However, all three gunners were eventually incapacitated, and Shantha was left unable to attack the enemy boats now approaching the navy's larger vessels. A Sea Tiger suicide boat was heading towards the ''P-164'', a Colombo-Class fast attack craft of the 4th Fast Attack Flotilla carrying 10 sailors. Seeing this, Shantha maneuvered the ''Z-142'' into the path of the suicide boat and rammed it. He was killed in the resulting explosion which obliterated the suicide boat and the ''Z-142'' with it, but the ''P-164'' and its crew were spared.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.navy.lk/index.php?id=3238 )〕
The outcome of the battle is unclear, as both sides claimed victory. The Sea Tigers claimed that they had sunk two navy vessels and forced them to retreat, while the navy claimed that they successfully repelled the attack and destroyed at least four Sea Tiger vessels with the assistance of the air force.
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