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Monday, 13 July 2009 |
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By Jyoti Thottam / Colombo Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' fearsome leader. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the man who tamed the Tigers. Now his task is to heal a nation still divided by tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. In a rare, wide-ranging interview, Rajapaksa, 63, talked with TIME's Jyoti Thottam at the President's official compound in Colombo on July 10.
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
Officials in Sri Lanka hope a new resort development will help rejuvenate tourism to the country. By Adrian Bridge Sri Lanka’s tourism authorities have unveiled plans for a substantial new resort development in the previously off-limits north of the country. The development, the first of its kind to be announced since the end of the civil war, will include hotels and a marina and will extend over the 14-island archipelego of Kalpitiya, about 100 miles north of the capital, Colombo.
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