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Article: Friends urge travel to Sri Lanka
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- June 21, 2006
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FREMONT -- Sri Lanka is sometimes called an island of
contradictions: It has some of the most pristine beaches in the
world, as well as one of the longest ongoing civil wars.
On his first trip to Sri Lanka -- and his first trip outside the
United States, for that matter -- Aldo Zilli of Fremont saw those
contradictions firsthand.
Zilli, an international affairs graduate student at Cal State
Sacramento, marveled at the great rock fortress of Sigiriya, yet he
was unable to travel through parts of the country because of the
deteriorating security situation.
He saw ancient ruins steeped in history, then surveyed the damage
done by the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed more than ...