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A group of Sinhala Buddhist monks and Sri Lankan soldiers from the 66 Division distributed school supplies to Tamil children in Ponnakari on Boxing Day, reports an official army website.
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Almost 200 Tamil schoolchildren from the Kiranchi Government Tamil Mixed School, some as young as 5 years old, were present at the military ceremony, which reportedly “got underway with the blessings of the Security Force Headquarters - Kilinochchi (SFHQ-KLN)”.
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