In 30-Year-War, Didn't Have To Line Up For Gas, Fuel: Sri Lankan Citizen

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The economic crisis in Sri Lanka has hugely affected ordinary citizens in the island nation, many of whom have been forced to stand in kilometre-long queues for basic items like cooking gas and fuel. In conversation with NDTV's Sreeja MS, Paru, a teacher at a school in Colombo says that people never had to wait in long queues during the civil war for cooking gas or fuel. "PM's house is right here, if he looks out of his window, he can line seen citizens waiting in long queues for basic things. We went through a war for 30 years, but at least we didn't have to wait in queues for cooking gas and fuel," she says.

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