Buddhism is involved on the Sinhala side as part of the nationalist identity. Hinduism is not involved on the LTTE side. In fact, many of the LTTE, if they embrace any religion at all, are Roman Catholics. If it is described as a kind of religious war, if you want to put it that way, it would have to be a very loose description, and it could only pertain to the hard right-wing Sinhala nationalists who wish to bring that dimension into it. To some degree, the Jathika Hela Urumaya and other Desha Premi groups, nationalist groups, have done this over a period of 40 or 50 years.
I think it's more like Northern Ireland, where Catholicism and Protestantism were sucked into, basically, a political drama: on the coattails of a political situation, religion came to have a role to play in it, tragically. We certainly all know that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope—nobody would ever have agreed to a religious war in Ireland, but it was done anyway. That's the way I would look at it, sir.