Unprecedented security as Sri Lanka holds elections in recaptured, violence-plagued, east (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Yahoo March 9th, 2008Thousands of police patrolled streets in the tense city of Batticaloa as residents prepared to vote Monday in the city’s first municipal elections since government forces seized control of eastern Sri Lanka last year from ethnic Tamil rebels.
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