After nearly two decades of war, are the Tamils suffering battle fatigue?
Kadirgamar: Definitely. The Tamil people who live in Sri Lanka have been severely buffeted by war for nearly 20 years. They have experienced all its horrors, including death, the destruction of property, and disruption to their lives. They wish for nothing more than an end to the war. They do not want a separate state. They do not want to be ruled by a fascist organization. They wish to be left alone to pick up the pieces of their broken lives. Like all human beings everywhere, they yearn for peace, not for the continuation of a war to achieve a separate state. The Tamil expatriates who live in the affluent countries of the West do not experience the horrors of war. Some of them raise the money that fuels the war. But if they came back to Sri Lanka and lived in the North and East they would surely be in the vanguard of the movement for peace, the movement to end the war. TIME: Would Prabhakaran respect his peoples’ wish for an end to violence? Kadirgamar: He will have to. He will not b
