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Mallarajan Rajiba and her brother Kanagan lost their parents and four brothers at the end of Sri Lanka's civil war in Mullivaikal. (Photo by Marwaan Macan-Markar)

MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR, Contributing writer

September 24, 2015 00:00 JST

MULLIVAIKAL, Sri Lanka -- Across a barren strip in Mullivaikal, on Sri Lanka's northern coast, newly painted houses glow under a scorching sun. But this evidence of renewal cannot whitewash the grim history of the area, the site of the final battle in the island state's 26-year civil war.