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One night, two months before the war ended, an LTTE kamikaze light aircraft crashed into an office building in central Colombo. It was aiming for Army HA, but it hit Inland Revenue HQ instead on the opposite side of the road. Many locals cheered, hoping their tax files had disappeared in the flames. Symbolically, that closed Colombo's war chapter.