Postcards from Tigerland

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Postcards from Tigerland Life behind the battle lines of Sri Lanka's 19-year civil war Nurse Eelavany at her clinic in Tiger-held territory, on the east coast of Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula. Joining the LTTE at age 14, she trained as a medic and a sharpshooter, once cutting down 15 government soldiers in battle

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