By Jude L. Fernando – Jude L. Fernando On 28 August, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake opened the Kabaragala housing project for disaster victims in Poonagala, Badulla District — mountains that carry a history heavier than their soil. For two hundred years, these tea-blanketed highlands drew extraordinary wealth from the hands, backs, and lives of the Malaiyaha community, Tamil-speaking plantation workers brought here under colonial coercion. E…
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