Thank you for the excellent and informative article Mr. Gunadheera!

If the Tamil struggle had campaigned for "equality of citizenship," rather than a separate nation, the struggle may have had a better chance of succeeding (the comparison is the civil rights struggle in America--they won equal citizenship and Obama is a culmination of that win).

With regard to the APRC, It's pretty evident that it is a sham and the government has no intention of ever presenting a political package. The 'liberated' East is proof of this, with even the existing 13th amendment not being implemented--land and police powers have been withheld and governance is largely in the hands of Colombo. IF the war is won (whatever that means), the government will probably declare that there is no ethnic conflict any more--problem solved, we can all go home, no need for a political package. We can expect the daily tally of shootings in the 'liberated' east to continue unabated, and to extend into the 'liberated' north.

Here's a quote from Senator Ron Paul that has parallels to our tendency in SL to create blowback of our own. It is a more thoughtful statement than that of Obama's 'kill Bin-Laden.'

"I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem."

For anyone interested, here's the link:
http://mises.org/story/2588