afp,  Sat Jan 16 23:16:22 EST 2010

    JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Scarred by decades of war and official indifference, Sri Lanka's minority Tamils are now being courted as political kingmakers -- a shift that many of them view with bitter scepticism.

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- The Academic

A very strange fate of events.
Yes,a bitter scepticism.exactly right.

we have recieved the worst kind of hit,the destruction of our lives,
our villages,towns our education of our children for over 30 yrs.

What is this poisonous offer again?
30 or more yrs of tormented life where the Tamils have stood up
with committment giving up their sons and daughters and willing to
give up the meagre sustenance they had to free themselves of this
menace of torture for a better life has to be clear to the governemnt
and to our singhala bretheren

If ever there was a time then here it is.The offer makes the Tamils
feel like a rediculed Tamil nation.We have given the government the answer.
We have taken the repulse.we still stand for our rights.

So what is the 'best solution'  the contenders could offer the Tamil minority
if at all they think they are the 'best contenders' for this great country.

Surely this could be understood.


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