Amnesty for Sri Lanka's military desertersSri Lanka Sri Lanka (srē läng`kə) [Sinhalese,=resplendent land], formerly Ceylon, ancient Taprobane, officially Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, island republic (2005 est. pop. has offered an amnesty to tens of thousands of soldiers who deserted the army, a spokesman said Sunday, under reforms following the end of the war with separatist sep·a·ra·tist n. 1. One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist. 2. Tamil rebels. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said troops who were absent without leave could report back to their units and be officially discharged without penalty. "They must bring all their documents and return whatever is due to the army and then they will be granted an honourable honourable or US honorable Adjective 1. principled 2. worthy of respect or esteem honourably adv Honourable Adjective discharge," Nanayakkara told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . The move comes after government forces defeated the Tamil Tiger separatists separatists, in religion, those bodies of Christians who withdrew from the Church of England. They desired freedom from church and civil authority, control of each congregation by its membership, and changes in ritual. In the 16th cent. in May after decades of bloody ethnic conflict. In 2001, the army had about 51,000 deserters on its books. Despite the end of the fighting, the military wants to recruit new troops to fill vacancies and to be deployed in areas of the north and east captured from the Tamil rebels. Last week, the government freed 1,800 jailed military deserters as part of a presidential amnesty. 
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