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Rameshwaram: Boat-loads of Sri Lankans are arriving on the shores of southern India, abandoning homes and livelihoods and even selling their jewellery to pay for the passage as escalating violence in tiny island nation sparks the region's biggest exodus in recent years. And as conflict and fear escalate, what started as a trickle of refugees in January is turning into a flood - about 8,000 this year, including 785 arriving on Sunday and Monday alone on this narrow mass of sand which juts out from a small island on India's south-eastern coast.
Aug 26, 2006
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