Yes, certainly we will accept (Indian help). We are looking into ways and means as to how this can be done.

In our situation, it’s not a question of pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Peace is not going to be manufactured instantly. Peace is a long road and a hard process,

It was a major military camp in the north, and the fact that it is no more ours, I will make no bones about it, is a major military setback,

senseless act of terrorism.

Let that be absolutely clear, that if it’s war the LTTE wants … then it is war that it will get,

I am not in the slightest bit surprised that the Indian government thinks it fit to put its navy on the alert,

The LTTE might well believe that it can win a separate state by force. If it does believe that, as it may well do, it is making an absolute horrendous mistake,

You must be concerned in a situation like that, because it is a situation of grave danger to the men. No doubt about that. We are saying that quite openly,