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- ↑ "Second Jailbreak". SangamOrg. 15 October 2004. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
- ↑ "Tamil Times, June 1984". Noolaham. 30 June 1984. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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