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Floods hit harvest festival in S. Lanka former war zoneBatticaloa, Sri Lanka (AFP) Jan 15, 2011 Sri Lanka's minority Tamils would normally celebrate their annual harvest festival Saturday, but instead they are struggling to survive the worst flooding in living memory. With a handful of rice and a couple of incense sticks, Sadairani Kumar is keen to mark the festival of Thaipongal, popular among the Hindu ethnic Tamil community who offer thanks to the sun god for a bountiful harvest. But this year, floods have washed out crops, swamping agricultural land in the country's rice-growing east a ... read more |
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