COLOMBO, — Armed Forces of Sri Lanka on Friday (01/07/2011) open a food store chain that will sell products at low prices and guarded by soldiers previously stationed in the island's civil war. A total of 15 stores unnamed opened and will offer cheaper products brought directly from farms as a step to be taken in order to cut costs and reduce intermediary costs for consumers. Prices of vegetables have soared in Sri Lanka since October following a heavy rain season that disrupt supply and destroying crops to force the country to import in order to overcome domestic shortages. "It's a community assistance project that sells cheap vegetables to consumers and assist government to reduce the cost of living," said Major General Ubaya Medawala told AFP. Sri Lanka's Ministry of Information said that the move aims to eliminate intermediaries and black market mafia. The military has been deployed to guard the small food stalls and the main road which is a former war zones in the country because of Sri Lanka working on ways to spread the troops after the battle. Government troops crushed the resistance separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the north and east of the country in May 2009, ending four decades of war that claimed nearly 100,000 lives.

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