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Merchants return to their burned out businesses in the Pettha ...

Tue Jul 22, 1:01 PM ET

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Merchants return to their burned out businesses in the Pettha area of downtown Colombo, Sri Lanka on Aug. 1, 1983, to see what can be salvaged following a week of rioting. More than 1,000 businesses and homes of Tamil's were destroyed in the racial riots. As Sri Lanka marks the 25th anniversary of the riots Wednesday, July 23, two exhibits by artists from the Sinhalese majority seek to prod their countrymen into acknowledging a quarter century of suffering, in the hopes of offering a path out of the violence.

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