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In this July 5, 2006, file photo, Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels salute during an annual memorial for suicide cadres at the rebel controlled eastern town of Kovilporativu in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. The April 21, 2019 deadly Easter attacks in Sri Lanka are a bloody echo of decades past in the South Asian island nation, when militants inspired by attacks in the Lebanese civil war helped develop the suicide bomb vest. Over nearly 30 years of civil war, the Tamil Tigers would launch more than 130 suicide bomb attacks, making them the leading militant group in such assaults at the time. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)
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