Word: dambulla
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...part by the resumption of internal trade with the Tamil-dominated northern and eastern areas of the country, isolated for years by a government-imposed embargo. Before the peace process began, Wickremesinghe says, "we were a market of 15 million. Now we are a market of 19 million." In Dambulla, a trading town in the center of Sri Lanka, vegetable sellers now do brisk business with Jaffna, the chief city in the Tamil north: these days, large onions and pineapples are sent up north, while trucks carry small red onions, bananas and beetroots south. Cheap agricultural produce from the north...
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