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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:11 pm    Post subject:

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British charity Oxfam has had to pay the Sri Lankan government $1m in import duty for vehicles used in tsunami reconstruction work.

Paperwork had kept the 25 four-wheel drive vehicles idle in the capital, Colombo, for a month.

The Sri Lankan government told the BBC News website the aid had been duty-free until the end of April but was now needed to prevent "market distortions".

Nearly 31,000 people died in Sri Lanka when the tsunami struck on 26 December.

Half a million were made homeless. :ph34r:
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:17 pm    Post subject:
The senseless thing is that the money paid will probably be used to fund the civil war against the Tamil Tigers guerillas. :angry:
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:22 pm    Post subject:
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The senseless thing is that the money paid will probably be used to fund the civil war against the Tamil Tigers guerillas.  :angry:
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:45 pm    Post subject:
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British charity Oxfam has had to pay the Sri Lankan government $1m in import duty for vehicles used in tsunami reconstruction work.

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