{"word_count": 64, "character_count": 491}
ELLIPALLAI, 19 June 2015 (IRIN) - As a young girl, Kasthuri Udayakumaran’s grandmother would tell her of a house where birds chirped as the morning sunlight streamed through the thick foliage of a peaceful village. It seemed like a fantasy, a world away from her home in the northern city of Jaffna where soldiers manned checkpoints and claymore mines exploded on dusty streets.via: http://www.irinnews.org/report/101655/sri-lanka-returns-land-confiscated-by-military-during-decades-long-war