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An internally displaced Tamil woman cooks at the Sithamparapuram refugee camp in Vavuniya
07 Sep 2008
Source: Reuters
 
An internally displaced Tamil woman cooks at the Sithamparapuram refugee camp in Vavuniya September 7, 2008. Sri Lanka's advance into the rebel Tamil Tigers' heartland over the past three weeks has unleashed the bloodiest combat in a decade and opened a new phase of the 25-year-old conflict. REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA)
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