Where to Buy a Land Mine in Sri Lanka
[ Time ] - [ Mar 31, 2010 9:36:03 GMT ]The civil war in Sri Lanka may be over, but you can buy a landmine on the side of the road in Jaffna - though they're more likely to explode in your mouth than anywhere else. In the main city on Sri Lanka's northernmost peninsula, besieged by two and half decades of bloody sectarian violence until last May, the spicy samosa sold by street vendors throughout the city is still known by its nom-de-guerre: "midi-vedi," the Tamil word for landmine. It was a name that was first given to it by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, popularly known as the Tamil Tigers, in the early 1990's when they were in control of the city of Jaffna. [ full story ]
