Jaffna
Americannoun
noun
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In Jaffna, local politician Thiyagaraja Nirosh says family elders discourage young people from discussing political rights.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024
Ahilan Kadirgamar, an economist at the country’s Jaffna University, said the economy was likely to shrink by 10 percent.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
The 48-year-old driver joined the crowd waiting for the premiere at a theater in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, where Tamil separatists fought years for independence before government forces crushed them in 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 24, 2016
The men were sentenced by the High Court in Jaffna, the capital of Northern Province.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2015
WOLF, in his account of the Ceylon elephant992, says he saw one taken near Jaffna, which measured twelve feet and one inch high.
From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
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