What would be the lot of the Tamil people in the coming months?

We will continue to pressurise the international community to ensure that the rights

These things will come later. What needs to be done right now?

The primary thing is that the displaced people should be resettled and must be enabled to commence their lives. Their houses have been destroyed, their assets have been destroyed, their farming equipment has been destroyed, their fishing equipment have been destroyed, their plantations have been destroyed, their animal husbandry have been destroyed.

Persons who led honourable lives have been reduced to a state of penury and destitution. They are now stretching their palm out to someone. They never lived on a dole. Neither the Sri Lankan government nor anyone else gave them a dole.

Secondly, if the LTTE has been defeated, what is the need for a heavy overwhelming armed presence in the north and the east. That too an armed force that is completely Singhalese. Why on earth are you there oppressing and suppressing us?