I don't think the people of Sri Lanka would be agreeable to breaking up their country. That won't be negotiable. Certainly they will be brought in, and they have a place even today. A majority of the Tamil people live among the Sinhalese and the Muslims. Only a very small minority was being kept by the Tiger forces, the Tamil Tigers. A lot of people moved out of Tamil Tiger-controlled areas to the government-controlled areas. Even in the city of Colombo, today the largest population is from the Tamil community; next come the Moors. The Muslims who are also a minority--they are the second largest--and the Sinhalese form the fewest number of residents in the capital city. So there is no problem with people living together.
What we as expatriates proposed was to share power at the centre, give them a role in the day-to-day government--that's what they said they did not have previously--and also devolution to a certain extent, like the district council at the district level. In addition to that, there is a belief...there is a Panchayati system in India whereby they empower the people at the village level. Most often, the central government and regional governments neglect the people at the grassroots, at the village level. That is to empower them to adopt the Panchayati system to devolve power to districts and bring in all the minorities, give them a role in government at the same time.