AFP 2012-08-11 12:15:12
Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu devotees are held up by hooks inserted into their skin during the Adippura religious festival in Colombo on August 11, 2012. Tamils who are mainly followers of Hinduism are the main minority community in the island which is emerging from nearly four decades of ethnic conflict which had claimed up to 100,000 lives. AFP PHOTO/ LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI
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