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 JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (AP) - Judging by the scenes in the Tamil heartland — the tanks, the armored personnel carriers, the soldiers digging bunkers — this is a place preparing for battle.
The Jaffna Peninsula, and its once-vibrant main city, may well be the major theater if rising tensions and violence between the government and Tamil separatists erupt into the full-scale civil war that many worry is coming to Sri Lanka.
For the Indian Ocean island's 3.2 million ethnic Tamils, the peninsula on the island's northern tip is their traditional homeland, and Jaffna city their cultural capital.
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