Major General Parakrama Pannipitiya, RWP, RSP, USP, psc, SLSR is a Sri Lankan general, who was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - East (SF HQ (E)). Under his command the Sri Lankan army units successfully concluded the Eastern Theater of operations in the Sri Lankan Civil War defeating the LTTE in the Eastern Province. Educated at Royal College, Colombo, he joined the army after leaving school and was commissioned into the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment as a Second Lieutenant.