Truck bombs are so ubiquitous in the capital Colombo, any given lorry with some hardware store's decal on the cab could be packing a manifest of diesel and fertilizer and headed to a gleaming office skyscraper near you, turning your lunch break into a platter of white and dark meat served on shards of glass. A truck bomb obliterated Colombo's Central Bank in January 1996 and the Colombo World Trade Center in October 1997. A March 1998 decree made it illegal for heavy vehicles to enter Colombo Fort (downtown-the business district where the Presidential residence is located) without a special permit. If the driver is a Tamil, he needs a letter from his boss verifying he's never killed a Sri Lankan soldier nor blown up a Colombo bank teller on his coffee break. The Sri Lanka version of a "deathalyzer test."
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