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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past

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Awakening to the Violence of State Thugs

In 1978, before the war broke out, you were arrested or taken by state thugs and taken to an office of the ruling party at the time. You say that that was an event that changed your life in a drastic way. With the 1983, I lost being a singleist and a Buddhist, because the singleist and Buddhist could just do this kind of this much of violence to some innocent people.

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