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Vanni – Sri Lanka’s civil war

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other, hundreds of thousands of people spent

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an estimated 40,000 other lives and displaced

400,000 people.

The story continues

in Vanni: a Family’s

Struggle through the

Sri Lankan Conflict

(New Internationalist).

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