Vakarei City Development - Sannasa

Vakarai is a dust bowl of a village, right at the edge of the coast in Sri Lankas east. The last three decades have not been too good for this fishing village — located about 300 kilometres east of the capital Colombo — and its inhabitants, mostly from the minority Tamil community.

From war and disaster to a state of normalcy, this village of about two thousand inhabitants has come full circle. But that is getting ahead of the story.

Since the late 1990s the village had been caught in fighting between the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government forces. The former was in control of the village from the late 1990s till January 2007, when they were finally dislodged by government forces.

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• Vakarei
• east
• development
• city development
• mahinda chinthana
• sri lanka