A poster showing Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa.
He has stepped up the campaign against the Tamil Tigers.
He has stepped up the campaign against the Tamil Tigers.
Inside Sri Lanka: An End To Violence In Sight
-- National Post
-- National Post
Hundreds of thousands have fled Sri Lanka's civil war, many of them to Canada. While the war zone has been off limits to journalists, the National Post's Stewart Bell recently toured the front lines just as the conflict appears headed for a decisive showdown. This is the sixth of a six-part series.
COLOMBO -- At the bustling Fort Railway Station, the walls have been patched and the bloodstains scrubbed away, but everyone still remembers what happened.
A woman stepped off a commuter train onto Platform 3 and detonated a suicide bomb in a crowd of D.S. Senanayake College students. A dozen died, eight of them kids.
"This is very ridiculous because only schoolchildren were dead," says Kumar Jayartha, a tour guide who was waiting for customers outside the station last February when the blast occurred.
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My Comment: All wars come to an end one day .... for Sri Lanka, that day is coming soon. The Tamils lost .... with time they will accept this outcome.
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