Collapsed orange yellow Hindu temple in the front with folded palm trees in the background.

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   Sebastian Lasse (sl007@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 02:12:26 JST Sebastian Lasse

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   On the way back, we pass some areas where we can only walk by the help of the army cause the locations of mines from the civil war period can only be predicted now.
   We look into the eyes of very hungry wild dogs while the elephants stood reportedly on higher ground in a group close together.
   Especially at the East Coast, large areas like around this collapsed Hindu temple were completely destroyed.

   The only lesson I learned:
   Whenever solid structures are destroyed – be it by a disaster, by fascists, by Elmo (or any) –
   we need to rebuild.
   Continuously rebuild.

   The next day in Batticaloa we wanted to visit Chitravadivel again …

   🧵