Kumar, I don't think the media coverage u r exposed to show the real ground realties. And I don't blame u for that. General mass of sinhalese treat tamils, muslims and other minorites equal. You don't have to go to a border village to see how these communities live peacefully and how much LTTE wants to disrupt that for their own political propaganda. There are a good percentage of tamils who live in colombo and suburbs. Unfortunately, there life is not easy becuase there are LTTE infiltrators among them and security forces are hunting them. Just like LTTE wanted inncocent tamils get arrested and mistakenly detained. Imagine, what would happen in India if another minority, like tamils or sheiks demand thier own languages to be a national langugae. Majority in north india will go crazy instigating communal riots. In sri lanka tamils make about 12% of the population and tamil is already a national language. Sinhala majority doesn't seemt o have an issue with that. I agree we must find a federal system, and several proposals have been put forward. But unfortunately, Prbhakaran wants more than that, a kingdom of his own, to rule with an iron arm, even suppressing its own people. I think, LTTE needs to be weakened first and then address grievences of tamils. If you put on an independant hat you will see that actually the core issue is the economic disparity in society faced by both poor tamil and poor sinhala communities. There are affluent sinhalese and affluent tamils enjoying
