The Washington Post, October 10th, 1989
On many mornings, soon after the sun rises, steady traffic begins to flow both across and below the Ja-Ela Bridge. Vans and buses haul thousands of workers across the span to their jobs in a bustling free trade zone two miles north of here. But as they pass, the commuters often stop to look at the gruesome traffic in the Dunagama River below-the bodies of people killed in the night and dumped to float to the sea. The two-way traffic here is emblematic of this island nation's tragedy. Just six years ago, sleepy and socialist Sri Lanka seemed on the verge of an economic miracle. Aggressive free ...
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