Days before the military decided to destroy the bunker of the LTTE Leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, security forces personnel repeatedly chased away Tamil residents that came to visit the site as a reprimand for voting in the TNA, reports Colombo Telegraph.
Chasing them away from the bunker, Sri Lankan army soldiers argued,
“We have done so much for you people, still you went and voted for the TNA.”
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