Sri Lankan youth and foreign youth gather in at closing ceremony of youth village in Sigiriya, some 170km northeast of Colombo, yesterday. Leaders of Sri Lanka’s unity government have pledged to build a country devoid of extremism and terrorism for the younger generation to be proud of the Sri Lankan identity when they participated in the closing ceremony of the Yowun Puraya youth camp on Saturday. The Yowun Puraya Programme, which has been revived after 28 years, was held under the theme “Future Begins” at the Air Force Base premises in Sigiriya from March 30 to April 3 with the participation of 5,000 Sri Lankan youth and 120 foreign youth.