There was a move by the LTTE. After the war and the terrorism, several countries started banning the LTTE. Their sources of funding were blocked. They offered to come to a ceasefire, and they said that they were willing to settle for something short of separation. At the talks, they only bought time to rebuild their forces. They were not interested in any settlement short of separation. The monitoring mission only recorded the number of violations. They had no way of preventing it. They were just keeping score—this side has killed so many military or so many civilians. They just kept records, but that was not effective in preventing violations.
On March 30th, 2009. See this statement in context.