Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Quotes

Well I think what - the way things have improved obviously is that the killing has stopped in so for as there is no war. But if you talk to people in the north and east in general, there is a concern that the freedom that they expected as a consequence of the end of the war has yet to be realised.

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

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