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“Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.” quote by Ru Freeman — Download Open image

“Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.”

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