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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, center, hoists the national flag, as Navy Chief Vice Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, second left, looks on during the 62nd Independence Day celebrations in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Rajapaksa on Thursday offered talks with minority ethnic Tamils to solve a decades-old ethnic conflict as the country celebrated its first independence since the end of a 25-year civil war. AP
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