It's full of history, and also full of underground bunkers and ruins from the war.

In most cases, the earthworks consisted of earth walls but the mission also found underground bunkers and troop trenches.

The mines obtained from both sources are stockpiled in at least four concrete bunkers located in the Bulahaawo area.

There are also phone cables that were used in the '50s and many bunkers from the World War II era.

When asked to join LTTE, he declined but offered to assist in other ways, such as building bunkers and distributing food.

At 20 November 2004, there were a total of 346 mines a combination of TM 46 and TM 57 stored in the four bunkers.

Convinced that the Japanese would attack from the sea, the British defenses were encased in impenetrable concrete bunkers, with fixed artillery that could fire only to the south. So when the Japanese emerged from the jungle and mangrove swamps of the Malay Peninsula in the north, the British were powerless to stop them.

This notwithstanding, it is reported that men, women and children are forcibly made to perform duties such as road repair and construction, portering for the military, sentry duty, transport of military supplies, forced rice and tea cultivation, rock breaking, digging, gathering of firewood, construction, bush and scrub clearance, fencing of military barracks and compounds and digging of military bunkers and trenches.