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An uneasy calm has returned to areas hit by ethnic violence in and around the southwestern coastal junction town of Aluthgama.
Armed commandos of the Police Special Task Force (STF) and Army personnel stand guard at almost every hundred metres in Dharga Town, along the Matugama Road, the worst hit. Their Buffel armoured trucks, with V-shaped bottoms to minimise damage from landmines during the separatist war on Tiger guerrillas, conduct regular patrols.
Armed commandos of the Police Special Task Force (STF) and Army personnel stand guard at almost every hundred metres in Dharga Town, along the Matugama Road, the worst hit. Their Buffel armoured trucks, with V-shaped bottoms to minimise damage from landmines during the separatist war on Tiger guerrillas, conduct regular patrols.
