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Trip to Annivilunthan- 25Km from-by Dr harold Gunatillake   Just after the LTTE war, about eight years back, my wife and I with another friend name late Ken Sellaya, paid a trip to a village called Anaiviluinthan, 25 km interior to Kilinochchi. We travelled from Kandy and took about 10 hour’s drive to get to Kilinochchi. From the town area we turned left onto a sand tract and drove another 25km on Jeyapuram Road. It was all jungle area on both sides of the road, except for a few huts scattered all over. There was an army camp on the way, and just beyond was the village of Anaivilunthan.   The place we visited was a camp composed of about 500 Tamil families of Indian descent, all from the hill tea estates who fled during the 1983 riots. They walked all the way barefooted to Kilinochchi and the government settled ...