Jaffna Streets and the Dutch Fort
September 29th 2013 Jaffna Streets and the Dutch Fort:
As we travelled north past Vivuniya we couldn't help but wonder what we would find in Jaffna. To the left and right were pockmarked, roofless, partly-destroyed buildings and vast areas with very little population. The civil war which started in 1983 had taken quite a toll on the countryside.
The highway itself had been "newly carpeted", which means it h
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