Sri Lanka: War and Traffic · Global Voices
Neha Viswanathan

indi.ca on traffic snarls in Colombo, partly due to the war and because Mahinda, the President thinks nothing of shutting down traffic on the streets when he has to get somewhere. “One of the biggest daily troubles of the war is the traffic. Streets are closed and there are checkpoints everywhere. Somedays they’ll just decide to check every single car.”