Are Kumar Davids hopes too sanguine?
has done well to take the bull by the horns and pose the question in his own words why the LTTE has a substantial degree of support among Tamils despite the fact that there is no semblance of democratic and human rights in the land of the Tiger. He recognises that there are sensitive Sinhalese who sympathise with if not support the Tamil cause but concedes that they themselves are baffled by this apparent contradiction. And underlying it one feels is a residual feeling of nostalgia for the gulf between a time when old Samasamajists like my old comrade Kumar of our mutual Kandy days looked forward to a grand alliance between Sinhala and Tamil Marxists and the future one-party state of the LTTE’s fondest hopes to which this today has deteriorated. Since Kumar writes partially in the hope of inviting a response may I as a ‘sensitive Sinhalese’ I hope butt in but with little hope of being understood by the generality of my community. As Kumar rightly points out the Tamils see the LTTE as t
