The Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Ilankai Tamil Sangam

their leader should be? Obviously not. Do they regard these as
free democratic elections from a Tamil viewpoint?
The enemy of the LTTE is the Sinhalese armed forces, who are out
to suppress Tamil aspirations for Autonomy on behalf of every
successive Sinhalese government. It is nothing short of a freedom
struggle to be freed from the rule of the self centred Sinhalese. The
deeper question is whether we can escalate the debate between
the parties any further, considering how inconsistent the goals of
each side are with the other. One demands autonomy, the other
refuses to consider it. Are we not chaffing at threads in trying to
pretend that there is anything that holds us together?
Assimilation or genocide the only choice?
There is an old saying that the best way to deal with your
enemy is to assimilate them, because you cannot kill them all.
Can the Tamils possibly be assimilated?
With the current standoff, war is inevitable. Unless the government,
comes to grips with reality, and face the fact that the North East
must be free of their stifling and unwelcome domination.
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