A photograph of the Sri Lankan president and members of the military were hung on walls of newly built houses that were formally handed over to displaced Tamils on Monday.
The smiling face of Maithripala Sirisena, who was in the North-East to officially hand over the houses at a ceremony, is placed above a photograph of military commanders with the words, "men in green are friends indeed."
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