A television camera captured the instant a bomb exploded at a Muslim festival in Akuressa, Sri Lanka, on March 10, killing 15. Reuters TVResentments In Sri Lanka Reflect Challenges To Peace -- The New York Times
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka — The homeless Tamil refugees camped in shanties here provide a hint of the difficulties and divisions that lie ahead as the Sri Lankan government fights what it says is a final battle to end a 25-year separatist insurgency.
Ethnic Tamils who fled an earlier round of fighting three years ago, the refugees still live in uncertainty, surrounded by barbed wire, and their resentment against the majority-Sinhalese government has grown.
“If they won’t let us go back to our land, then cancel our citizenship and send us to another country,” said Chitharaval Somasundara, 55, who was once a farmer.
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