A group of senior officers in Sri Lanka is called the defense officials rejected a threat to national security.
The Department of Defense military officials have sent to compulsory retirement.
The decision comes after a bitter campaign in which the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse won the former head of the army general Sarath Fonseka.
So this was attempted murder against them.
The BBC Sinhala Service has rejected those containing at least nine senior officers learned.
A senior military source told the BBC that he had three generals and four brigade headquarters.
The number of staff Gen. Fonseka campaign in recent elections worked.
The Director General of National Security Lakshman Hulugalle said in a statement that the men were involved in party politics.
It’s a threat to American national security, he said.
Gen Fonseka has refused to accept electoral defeat, saying his supporters had been intimidated and to determine the outcome.
A military source told AFP officers were rejected, all the attempted coup by supporters of the defeat of the army General Fonseka.
In a statement, the defense said an unknown number were sent into forced retirement because they have a direct threat to national security were examined.
President Rajapakse fall and Gen Fonseka became close allies in the military attack by the separatist Tamil Tigers have fought in May
There was a growing concern in the media of Sri Lanka to punish critics of the government.
Now that the president re-elected, he seems to be settling accounts with government critics, Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch said Friday.