May I repost this? I think a lot of my friends would be really interested in reading your thoughts on this - most of us know no more about your country than what we hear on the BBC.

Speaking of which, I listened to an interview with a Sri Lankan government official today (I forget his name and the news page isn't updated with it yet), and when asked if he thought the Tamels had any reason to still feel resentment, anything that could cause them to take up arms in the future, he sidestepped the question and focused on how Prabhakaran was not democratically elected and was no true representative of the people. I think he meant that to imply that he was something of a freak accident that wouldn't happen again. Which would have sounded over-simplistic and unrealistic to me even without reading this. =/