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EASTERN SRI LANKA, 2009-05-24
The trains were running. The roads were all but done. Normalcy, arguably, was the norm. The common perception is that the East of Sri Lanka is in geometric progression to conventional routine.
Not quite, but almost there. Farmer families did not have to take refuge in the jungle at night fearing marauding Tiger killer squads. They are now in their homesteads in routine pursuit of normal living. That was what we saw. A small group of journalists was taken on tour to the Batticaloa district of the Eastern Province.
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| Youngsters recruited were from three ethnic groups in the Eastern Province Sinhala, Tamil, and Muslim. We interviewed a small group of these trainees. A mixed group. There were also young Tamil combatants recently rehabilitated who were in that first group of trainees. |
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Workers receive two months of training before they are broken into multi-ethnic work teams. Photo/Brandix
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