Now we control much of the north and east and have access to the Tamil people there.
The Tamil people will learn to solve their problems not by killing themselves and everybody else off but through democratic dialogue.
In the third of his big set-piece victory speeches early this month, Mr Rajapaksa asserted that the war had been fought to liberate the Tamil people.
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The Tamil people felt that somebody like Prabhaka-ran -- who, in my opinion, is a ruthless, inhuman murderer -- should be supported because they had no other solution.
This amendment is extremely retrogressive from the point of view of checks and balances and it will have a bearing on governance and the rights of minorities and rights of the Tamil people.
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The Tamil people felt they had no alternative but to take up arms against the government, which not only turned a blind eye to their problems but used force against innocent Tamil people in the most heinous fashion one could imagine -- thinking that was the solution.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha said people in Tamil Nadu had been angered by "barbaric acts" against Sri Lankan Tamils.
The Times of India quotes the paper as arguing that China should join forces with "different nationalities" such as Tamil and Kashmiri people so that they can establish independent nation states of their own.
Sterlite employs about 3, 000 people in Tamil Nadu, including about 1, 000 at the smelter.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ms Jayalalitha said people in Tamil Nadu had been angered by "barbaric acts" against Sri Lankan Tamils.
Earlier plans for more regional power have been scrapped and the government seems to be using the army to help shift more Sinhalese people into Tamil-dominated regions.
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About 15 other people, mostly Tamil and Muslim women, some of them weeping, held placards showing sons or husbands who vanished three, four or more years ago - some of them former rebel combatants, others not.
Despite this, it has already set aside money from sales to fund water projects, including one in a village of 10, 000 people in the Tamil Nadu region of India, where Belu has created four sources of water for the town, sanitation blocks for children and hygiene education.
Last month, at least five people were killed in Tamil Nadu after a tropical cyclone swept across the state.
He said that "for the betterment of the country", "Martyrs' Day" - which commemorates dead Tamil Tiger fighters - should not be observed by people.
As the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Mr. Prabhakaran, more than any other leader in recent Tamil history, has projected the aspirations of his people.
The Eelam People's Democratic Party, a moderate Tamil group that backed the government but was not part of it in the last parliament, has apparently won just enough seats to give the People's Alliance a bare majority.
"We understand that the prison authorities have told the four men that their mercy petitions have been rejected by the president, " Balamurugan, general secretary of the People's Union for Civil Liberties in Tamil Nadu, told BBC Tamil's Swaminathan Natarajan.
The Tamil Tigers have been fighting in the north and east since 1983 and about 70, 000 people have been killed in the violence.
People familiar with the uncleared areas (and well disposed to the Tigers) talk of them almost as Tamil havens.
Kerala now says the dam is too old and dilapidated and poses immense danger to millions of people living in the region and that it needs to be destroyed and rebuilt - a move opposed by Tamil Nadu.
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