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A year after Sri Lanka unrest, Slave Island hungers / 33MN9JG
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Before the dramatic ouster of Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa last year, he was blamed for an economic crisis that brought food and fuel shortages, blackouts and runaway inflation to the island nation. "Life is harder than last year," says a resident of Slave Island, a working-class pocket of Colombo where the Portuguese housed African slaves during the colonial period. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES