The Muslim community, which is at least one million strong, or maybe more, is all over the island, except in the north, where they were expelled by the LTTE in the early 1990s. They are very strong in the eastern province. They would make up about one-third of the population of the eastern province. In certain parts of the eastern province, like Ampara, they are so self-evidently the majority that they would actually like to have some autonomy themselves, not as a secessionist state but certainly as an identifiable province or constituency.
The Muslim community also very wisely entered into the mainline Sri Lankan political parties after independence. For 30 or 40 years they've gained a much more credible political position in Sri Lanka because they cooperated with the UNP and the SLFP, the two major parties. It's only in the last 15 or 20 years that they have started to split off and form their own political parties, like the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. Even then, they tend to cooperate with the state. I would have to say that they are not in favour of the LTTE and would be delighted to see the end of them.