07/04/2010
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Gulf News, Sunday Leader
Elephant Pass: The military checkpoint here is sponsored by the Colonial Group, pipe and steel manufacturers based in Colombo. It’s a well-built structure allowing soldiers to stand guard behind sandbags, neatly felled palm tree trunks and some steel railings.
07/02/2010
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Gulf News
After 37 years of civil war, business is slow in Jaffna for the few taxi drivers with their collection of Austin Cambridges, Ambassadors and Morris Minors. For Rs10,000, Mohan will take me for a day's drive to Kilinochchi, about 60 kilometres to the south down the dangerous A9, a road that has only been reopened to civilian traffic — as long as you have permission from the Sri Lankan military to travel it.
07/01/2010
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Gulf News
Velvettithurai: "No further," the lance corporal says, moving his Chinese-made T56 rifle off his shoulder. He means business.
I open my arms out to show I am not a threat and plan to obey his order.
"Prabhakaran's house," I point, still hoping to get by this young sentry with obvious orders to stop all from going up the rutted lane.
06/23/2010
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Gulf News
A year after Sri Lanka's long and bloody civil war ended, Gulf News visited the northern peninsula to gauge reconstruction and reconciliation efforts there. A photo essay.