SRI LANKA - The Price of conflict
Sri Lanka's rusting metal cannons facing the Indian Ocean are long defunct, but the hefty Chinese-manufactured Kalashnikovs look real enough. So do the taught, tense expressions on the faces of the gun-toting soldiers charged with protecting ministerial offices, high-end hotels and leading corporates from bomb attacks. Conflict has returned to Sri Lanka, and foreign investors have been the first to cut and run. Elliot Wilson reports.
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