Quote "Democracy may mean acceding to the rule of the majority, but democracy also means governments by discussion and persuasion. It is the belief that the minority of today may become the majority of tomorrow that ensures the stability of a functioning democracy. The practice of democracy in Sri Lanka within the confines of a unitary state served to perpetuate the oppressive rule of a permanent Sinhala majority. It was a permanent Sinhala majority, which …showed first 75 words of 1969 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1969 total…state terrorism and genocide against our people, the demand for a separate state become the only logical expression of the oppressed Tamil people. Our armed struggle is the manifestation of that logical expression." The future of that lawful armed struggle clearly falls to be determined in the context of the security of the Tamil people and their right to self determination and these are matters for resolution across a negotiating table, not in vacuum." Unquote