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To mark 16 years since the Sri Lankan military onslaught that massacred tens of thousands of Tamils, we revisit the final days leading up to the 18th of May 2009 – a date remembered around the world as ‘Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day’.
After providing an initial death toll of 40,000, the UN found evidence suggesting that 70,000 were killed. Local census records…