Black Tigers are the self-protective armor of our race, … They are the men of flame who can destroy the enemy’s armed strength.

If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

The right conditions have not arisen for the (Tigers) to abandon the policy of independent statehood.

With the mediation help by the Norwegian government, I believe this process will succeed this time.

sincerely and seriously committed to peace.

The struggle for political independence is the demand of Tamil people, … The question whether we accept the hegemony of the Sri Lankan government has not arisen.