Most certainly, that's what they think they're doing. It's like having a big festering wound on your leg and you're running a very high temperature, and they're trying to pump in medicine to get the fever down. So they may be able to crush that section, the area the LTTE is in right now, but I think until you treat the wound on the leg, it's not going to go away. In fact, it may come up with a different name. Right now LTTE is banned, so let's say it comes up as ABCD. Then ABCD is going to start, because this is a problem that started due to violence on the Sri Lankan government's side, and of course nowadays violence is met by violence. That's how LTTE came into being.
I am somebody who has lived in this beautiful country for the last 21 years. When I was in the refugee camp in 1983, I was working for an American oil company, and after 14 days they airlifted me, they flew me to Singapore to work for one month. When I was in that camp, from July 25, 1983, to about August 6 or 7, there was not a single day when I thought that maybe I should become an LTTE myself, that maybe I should become a Tiger. At that time it was not very violent; they were just fighting--of course, with guns.
This is what's been difficult for us, the fact that there have been so many instances of violence against us, and it was to resist this that the LTTE started. Sometimes I have said to myself that maybe there is a small Tiger in my heart--I'm talking as a person here.
So that's the problem there. They may be able to eliminate that particular section, but the problem is still going to be there in a different form.