Breathing in a free country…

5 July 2011 12:27 pm

A tourist walks in a temple in Colombo on July 5, 2011. Sri Lanka has eased restrictions on tourists travelling to the island's former war zones two years after the defeat Tamil Tiger separatists, the government said. Foreigners no longer require defence ministry clearance to visit the northern region where hundreds of thousands of Tamils were forced to leave their homes during years of fighting between the rebels and government forces. AFP Photo