LTTE Leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran‘s bunker in Puthukuduirrippu in Mullaitivu has been destroyed, Tamil media reports while top military sources are confirming the demolition unofficially.
For the past week official permission has not been granted for tourists to visit the Tiger Leader’s bunker the Jaffna based Uthayan newspaper reports.
Residents claimed they heard a loud explosion around 6:40 p.m. last night following which the bunker was demolished.
Security forces personnel had asked residents in surrounding areas to take cover at schools and temples nearby, because they had discovered explosives inside the bunker.
Police from the area had then marshalled residents into safe locations prior to the explosion.
The army has officially denied knowledge of the demolition, but high ranking army sources confirmed the bunker had been destroyed.
Prabhakaran’s bunker has been a popular tourist destination for visitors to the former conflict zones in the South and was maintained as a showcase of the Tiger Leader’s opulent lifestyle after the war ended in 2009. It was a highly popular attraction on the so-called Tiger trail on the war-tourism circuit in the North.
Tamil politicians in the area said they believed the demolition was aimed at preventing the bunker from becoming a shrine to the slain LTTE leader since the area was now controlled by a Tamil provincial government. The demolition of the bunker at this stage was a tacit acknowledgment by the military establishment that the bunker had been preserved for the benefit of triumphalist Southern tourists rather than aimed at keeping alive the history of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Frank N. Stein / October 4, 2013
The Army and the Government admit by this move Eelam is coming,
if not now – in the early future. The Rajapakses still have time to
prevent this happening if they play their cards intelligently in
consultation with the international community.
F.N. Stein
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Sunil Perera / October 4, 2013
Reconciliation Rajapakse style.
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Mahela / October 4, 2013
Is Elara monument going to be the next to demolish.
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
DO not show your stupidity Modachuun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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JULAMPITIYE AMARAYA / October 5, 2013
EXCLUSIVE
C T
Some guys from 58 division of S L ARMY speculated that,
They Found Killer Pirapaharan’s Body Floating in the Nanndikadaal after he committed suicide by biting Cyanide Capsule????.
And after they Shot to his head to show their bosses????.
Need clarifications???????????
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / October 5, 2013
Denazification Sri Lanka style :D
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PalmSquirrell / October 5, 2013
Ironic coming from a Sarma since it is your genocidal BarbAryan mentality that the Nazis co-opted.
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Abhaya Premawardena / October 4, 2013
its coming to a theater near you . that is all
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JimSofty / October 4, 2013
F. N. Stein:
If a Dog barks a lot, it will never bite.
Go ahead and start it.
The military had used LTTE’s own explosives to eliminate it.
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Abhaya Premawardena / October 4, 2013
Now they should build a giant toilet over it so that everybody can shit over it !!
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ella kolla / October 4, 2013
well said…..
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Ela kollage thaththa / October 4, 2013
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.medalankara de choppe / October 4, 2013
Abaya premawardena,You bank at BOC kandy. That building too had been built over a shit shop.May you become a Shit Shop millionaire
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Jayantha / October 4, 2013
There are enough and more toilets available for Tourists to see including Hambanthota Harbour, Mattala Airport and Colombo Museum.
Some are looking for ways to fill their huge stomachs for a big bog.
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RajasH / October 4, 2013
you all shited at the mention of his name.
Yes build a toilet and precribe all Sinhal Modays suffering from constipation to sit on a natural cure without oral medicine.
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JimSofty / October 4, 2013
Finally he had to shit when he saw Sinhala soldiers.
People say he said SAAMI to Sinhala Army and sang the Sri Lankan National anthem before the death.
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RajasH / October 5, 2013
in Tamil I suppose
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
RAjasH
Sang indeed. Interestingly from the mouth located on the idiot’s back – because Podian Preba the mass Killler never had a head with a useful brain to think logically.
Did you also noted that SL forces had to make him naked because Podian Preba shitted himself badly and smelled unbearably due to the shit him all over.
By the way – It is reported that Podian Preba is noe always in the shit pool in the hell for the merits collected for 30 odd years.
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / October 5, 2013
They’ll be doing a great public service for northern Tamils too :)
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vipula / October 4, 2013
It should have never been show cased as a tourist destination. Without war memorial could we put up more peace memorial for every single citizen that died due to this cursed war?
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Athula / October 4, 2013
The same reason the Bin Laden was not berried on land – good riddance. Curious to note that all the steel furniture was from Damro!!
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Sunil Perera / October 4, 2013
Germany still preserve Hitler’s Concentration camps and Gas chambers for the world to see. They are tourist attractions and foreign exchange earners.
Recently Germany allocated 90 Million Dollars to upgrade those Nazi war memorials.
What is happening in Sri Lanka……Where’s KP, Karuna and Pilliyan’s Bunkers. Time to open them.
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Sunil Perera / October 4, 2013
Germany still preserve Hitler’s Concentration camps and Gas chambers for the world to see. They are tourist attractions and foreign exchange earners.
Recently Germany allocated 90 Million Dollars to upgrade those Nazi war memorials.
What is happening in Sri Lanka……Where’s KP, Karuna and Pilliyan’s Bunkers.
It’s time to open their bunkers.
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bo / October 4, 2013
Well, German ones are now run by shylocks!
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PalmSquirrell / October 4, 2013
Obviously the Army destroyed it; after all they left it intact all these years and only now they discovered there were explosives there, just a load of crock.
Why does the SL gov. come up with such blatant lies, so blatat that it is clear they are lying, as also was the case with that Western chap who was accused of insulting Buddhism when it was discovered he had a tattoo of Buddha taking up his back.
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vishvajith / October 4, 2013
Wonder what the people felt when they visited the place, did they think, here was the dreamer, who died with his dream ? Here was the man, whom we Southerners created with our policies ? Do we forget our actions and only remember what his team did ? Selective Memory loss.
Never mind, an era ended in 2009, now let’s build the peace, democratically.
I mourn the best and the brightest lost in our Motherland in the various uprisings since independence. We owe it to them to build a better SL.
Thanks for reading.
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Dev / October 4, 2013
a nice sentiment !
As a Tamil I too thought 2009 gave another chance to start again but I think we have missed the boat again !
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shankar / October 4, 2013
what is the point in destroying the bunker and not the man.Prabha had at least 3 body doubles and wasn’t keeping them for fun.
BTW has the death certificate been given to india as requested by them in order to finalise the rajiv case?Probably they will be given the bunker certificate instead to keep them happy and mollified.
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Lankan / October 4, 2013
I hated Prabaharan and LTTE. But I can be sure that Prabaharan will be hailed as a Hero because he died in the battle field. Although he was a terrorist he died in the battle field. Even the wounds on his head show that even when some one shot him and hammered him on the head he did not turn his head. Unlike Got-a-baya, who ran off to US when he was sent to the battle front and now claims that he won the war sitting behind a desk. Similarly the President too never went to the battle ground, he was always surrounded by security. The history books will definitely call Prabaharan a Hero and a Terrorist.
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gamini / October 4, 2013
Lankan I am amazed at the intellect of all who have commented. Did anyone wonder why VP left such fortification and exposed himself on a Beach Front miles away after he sold his look alike in a span cloth to take the heat off his back, which even MR govt drummed for the consumption of the South and the whole world?
VP had been so benevolent allowing MR to market this bunker of his, to the Fools of the South as a tourist spot, without even leaving a Booby Trap to blow up. Afterall VP had so many suicide cadres he could have left one to blow up when the Army came? How could VP do that when he was promised a way out after surrender by MR, in return for the favour VP did to MR by getting him elected as the President, that was arranged by the Americans and the Indians?
Where is David Blacker? I believe he is still counting the dead of the Forces for the thirty months from Jan 2007 to Mey 2009, like Frances Harrison still counting the dead LTTE. The Only difference is Frances’s will exceed thousands, that were butchered when they tried to surrender, but David Blacker’s list will not exceed even fifty on the govt side as there was no real war, but a Propaganda War only, where the Wanni including the LTTE stronghold Kilinochchi was conceded to the Forces without a battle. If David fails, a list is currently being compiled of the dead Forces for the thirty months and will be released in time. David where are you?
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Abhaya Premawardena / October 4, 2013
ha ha ha ha .. He definitely did not die in the battle field fighting . just begging like the coward he was .
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bo / October 4, 2013
Actually the pig was running away leaving his family and kids to face the inevitable.
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JULAMPITIYE AMARAYA / October 5, 2013
As from the inside story of S L Army. Killer pirapaharan did not ran away,
He was Cheated by KP, Karuna, Pilayan, Rajive Gandhi, Prmadasa,
M R, and other RAJAFOXES.
We believe, ALL who Fought and died in Both sides are HEROS of SRI LANKA,
as this Civil war was initiated and Funded mainly By INDIAN BUEROCRACY TO Slow our Country’s development.
He [ KILLER Pirapaharan] was not admired by Tamils wholesale.
He was killed by the army giving false promises,
Promises from RAJA-FOXES and lured to Mullaithieve from Wellai mulliwaikal.
It deserved to him, as he put Tamil people of sri lanka in jeopardy and cheated them.
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
JA
Your comments made me hillarious. HEROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Please go and refer a plain English dictionary for the definition of “HEROS”. May be time for you to attend some night class my poor friend.
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Ela kollage thaththa / October 5, 2013
Shut up you blady Sinhalis [Edited out] . VP is a great soldier unlike The blady Rajafoxes, He’s a well deserved hero who took arms and rebelled against the atrocities of the Sinhala government. If not for VP the Tamils plight for freedom would have never been heard. Same thing thats happening to the Rohingaya Muslims in Myanmar will been happening to the Tamils in Srilanka today. Whether you lot say it or not VP will be hailed as a hero that’s for sure.
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kris / October 5, 2013
Big pig put cynadie capsuls around your brothers and sisters neck but pig put white flag around his neck
But both ended in 2009, therefore Army should destroy all big pig memories as they destroy the big pig(praba)
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shankar / October 5, 2013
Abhaya,even if he supposedly begged as you claim,how do you know it was not a body double?Why was a death certificate not done?
These are the questions that you have to ask because there are strong rumours that VP is living in an undisclosed country.
gamini,you are mad if you think VP would have trusted MR and the US and india.VP won’t even trust his own shadow.
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
HERO hidden in unknown location? Is he a hero or a coward. Probably latter suites him well Shonker.
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shankar / October 8, 2013
hadagamba,i agree with you that prabhaharan was a coward because i have never heard of him taking part in a battle and always 24/7 in a bunker with that other coward pottu next to him.Pottu’s body has not been found.These two always go together.My point is that there are persistent rumours even after 4 years that prabha is alive.Even just after his supposed death there was in srilanka talk among tamils that he was alive.I’am wondering why this thing is not dying down and so persistent and why the government cannot give a legal registered death certificate to India as requested by them and put down these rumours once and for all.If karuna identified the body then it should be easy to do that isn’t it?
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Abhaya Premawardena / October 7, 2013
lmao . all you guys dont know the truth . body doubles . who do you think this turd was . Hitler . no he was just the leader of th e bata slippers gang . with a takaran air force .
This is not a great hero but a total coward and fool who was propped up by the indians when the Sri Lankan army was a laughable force . He was the rank stupid turd who killed the arm that fed him in blowing up Rajiv . Tamils need better role models than cowardly fools . but they are still living with the MGR complex , that is why they lose every battle and war . :)
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R.Dias / October 4, 2013
Prabhaakaran destroyed everything in the area that reminded him of Sinhaese due to brutality displayed towards Tamils in 1976..1983 …..the same brutality is displayed by the democratic Demons who conducted a Humanitarian Operation.. Prabhaakaran re born…his spirit has entered the …ing.
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JimSofty / October 4, 2013
Pabakaran never understood and thought of how THE Sinhala minority SURVIVED for millennia under the majority Tamils in south India.
BUILDING A TOILET, FOR TOURISTS TO AREA, ON THAT PLACE IS A GOOD IDEA
THAT WILL BE A SYMBOL FOR LTTE – TAMILS OVERSEAS TO REMIND HOW THEIR MONEY WAS WASTED AND BECAME A TOILET.
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shankar / October 5, 2013
“Pabakaran never understood and thought of how THE Sinhala minority SURVIVED for millennia under the majority Tamils in south India.’
You stupid,it was the pandyas who time and again fought the cholas and saved the sinhalese arse.Did you not know that the sinhala DNA is more than 50% tamil because the pandyas supplied all the women for them.The next time there won’t be the pandya’s coming to save the sinhala arse,because the sinhalese after independence thought that they are big enough to take care of themselves and committed atrocities on the tamil people.If you look at the 2500 year history there are no atrocities by the sinhalese on the tamil people though there would have been wars between monarchs and siblings in power struggles.
The sinhalese fought ferociously to retain their identity and i don’t for one moment take any credit for that from them,but it was the help and backing from their allies the pandyas who felt they were their kith kin due to marriages that made the difference between annihilation and survival.
Even the word bandara is pandara,a pandya name.Pandara vannian is known as bandara vanni by the people in anuradhapura who respect him like a god.Though the language was tamil in the vanni the people could very well have been sinhalese and pandara vannian could very well have been a sinhalese who spok tamil.Nayakkar is a another tamil title hence pandara nayakkar becomes bandarnayake. So you got to understand our history properly and realise how everything is intertwined.
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
JS
A BIG Toilet created from Toilet cleaners hard earned money from all over the world. Just a value addition to your statement above.
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hannah.rajaratnam SOUTH has knuckled under his / October 4, 2013
shankar- India did not recieve a copy of the registered death cerificate of Prabakaran becuase they did not have a legal certificate.
The government typed a death certificate and sent it on as they were caught off guard by geeting a request from India to close the case against Prabakaran.
No single army personal had ever seen Prabakaran face to face.Who identified the body? No one army personal standing on the homeland.
Untill Sarath Fonseka the army commander took Karuna in his helicopter to identify the body.Karuna had one look and said NO.This news item appeared soon after.
As you mentioned Prabakaran had 3 like him.
Why do you think the GOSL has its eyes on Karuna.Because karuna said NO? SF made him say yes.
Karuna signed as the only witness much against his will.!!
Karuna likes being surrounded by security because he is scared that Prabakaran is a free.Man must be still seing him in his dreams.
The bunker blown up?.Probably they don’t want the PC to show case the bunker and make it a sacred place.
Looks like the army is retreating?
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
Hannah
You sound like a “Watti Amma” from my old village – The local Al-Jazzera News”. How do you know all these? You have a Mister in SL Defence?
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Abhaya Premawardena / October 7, 2013
he is still alive living as a toad waiting for hannah to kiss him and make him her toilet prince .
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Mahinda / October 4, 2013
Aiyo I was going to use it when the Sinhala people chase me
stupid Gota
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DeSelva / October 4, 2013
Beware the repurcussions of the blast will vibrate through the undeground bunkers and create an earhquake
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
Desilva
an earthquake in Podian Preba’s back I suppose.
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Queen Victoria / October 4, 2013
Are you sure you blew up the right target.
Perhaps you are waiting for CHOGAM to finish?
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JimSofty / October 4, 2013
It is very good idea. Build a toilet on that place to Remember and allow tourists to that area to use it.
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RajasH / October 5, 2013
The state of the art LTTE HQ in Killinochi built by Prabakaran is now the NE Command centre of the Army.what a shame.
This act of using the LTTE HQ As the Army HQ is in fact an acknowledgement and a salute to VP.I am sure the army ge
This building will serve as the memorial for not only VP but also for the Tamil Struggle.
The army generals and president and cabinet memebers etc when they walk through the doors of this building are bowing to VP
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Jim softy / October 6, 2013
that also shows the subjugation of the Tamil majority by the Sinhala minority.
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RajasH / October 5, 2013
“A military spokesman told the BBC that tourism was only “a temporary phenomenon” at the bunker.
Now that the area had been de-mined he said that there was no reason “to keep the ghosts of terrorism”….SO WJAT ABOUT THE KILLINOCH ARMY H.Q. BUILT BY PRABAHARAN.
However, the authorities may have been uneasy at the propaganda effect of the bunker, our correspondent says.
When the BBC visited it and other sites last year, some Sri Lankan tourists expressed some admiration for the Tigers’ technical expertise”
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hannah.rajaratnam SOUTH has knuckled under his / October 5, 2013
Deselva – may be right.somewhere another time an earthquake or a mini tsunami.
Prabakaran is never going to go away that easy.Maybe hisengeers have time it?
They do’t want to learn but DESTROY.
Well done — A major A10 highway to DESTRUCTION.
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Jim softy / October 5, 2013
Prabakaran’s name should not go that easy.
He reminded how ingenious Sinhala Soldiers are, my heroes.
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PalmSquirrell / October 5, 2013
Is that why you need many nations including regional and World superpowers to defeat the LTTE, despite having overhwhelming numerical superiority.
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DeSelva / October 5, 2013
“When the BBC visited it and other sites last year, some Sri Lankan tourists expressed some admiration for the Tigers’ technical expertise”
say no more
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shankar / October 5, 2013
So do people looking at what was built by the aztecs and incas in peru.I prefer to survive without building skill than to die with it.
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selva / October 5, 2013
These fools do not know to do business too bad look how the bunker of the late Hoe Chee Min of Vietnam is kept as it is & now a tourist attraction ,well anyway another thousand Parabakaran will emerge soon to haunt the present govt.
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Jim softy / October 5, 2013
That is how Tamils are.
They will not understand how the first Prabhakaran died with an Axe mark on his forehead.
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
Selva
Bring it on my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!. SL Defence forces need some target practice to keep their skill enhanced. They could not do that for 3 years now.
Buffhead Selva – You really sounds like one of the Ta-Mil Die-Ass-Poo-Ras. Surely you will never send your kith and kins for the next round.
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Fathima Fukushima / October 5, 2013
What’s the use of a bandicoot hole without the bandicoot?
The bandicoot died 4 years ago at the feet of soldiers. His wife still lives with KP.
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gamini / October 5, 2013
‘His wife still lives with KP’ in Colombo, shared with MR?
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
Gamini
You are badly mistaken my friend – I am sure HE Rajafoxsa never puts his hands and other tools to “Muuda Puwak Halis”.
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gamini / October 7, 2013
Hadagemba, for MR type the urge to merge is not controllable and any port in a storm would do.
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hadagamba / October 7, 2013
Gamini
You sounds very promising. How was it? Should be very painful to bare the feeling. Has he paid the right amount for the sevice?
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shankar / October 8, 2013
yes,but not with his money,with the chinese loans.
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Hela / October 5, 2013
Destruction of these places have been planned long time ago. For that reason, these places have not been maintained properly by the Army. Keen visitors would have detected it. So this is not some sudden occurence.
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Gingerly oil / October 8, 2013
Did M R cup Ranil in the bunker.
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