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We are very angry and every single Tamil is crying over this. Victory? The Sri Lankan government has merely made a territorial gain at the moment.
There are LTTE supporters all over the place and all over the world. Unless we have a solution for the Tamil people, this problem will continue. We need to recognise their lands. This is an unnecessary loss in our beautiful country.
The government should immediately give us a solution and show us regard, look after Tamils. We want innocent Tamil people to be saved immediately.
We don’t believe in the death of Prabhakaran unless some proof is put forward. We have to wait and see. All the Tamils have faith in him. The Tigers have said that nothing has happened to him and they wanted the Tamil people to be calm.
I left Sri Lanka when I was 20 and that was because of discrimination. I was not courageous enough to take a stand and do something.
There were reports of jubilant celebrations in Colombo where people were setting off firecrackers.
I still have family in Colombo. I know how can Sri Lankans can treat the Tamils. You have to be careful of what you say and what you do. As a consequence, if you want to get a real honest opinion about what is going on, you won’t get it from Tamil society in the south.
Just because you are a Tamil, they would brand you a terrorist. I lived through the 1983 [anti-Tamil] riots.
I don’t believe Prabhakaran has died. Without him we will be lost. That is honest. People brand him as this and that. They call him all sorts of names. If his death is true, it is devastating news to Tamils. We didn’t have the motivation to stand up but he changed all of that.
But I feel the Sinhalese want to raze the identity of Tamils. They have occupied Kilinochchi. That is our place. In five years time they will change the name of that town to a Sinhalese name.
They will build Buddhist temples and take Sinhalese migrants to that area. They want the whole nation to be Buddhist and Sinhalese.

It has even been suggested, not entirely in jest, by one Kyokushin writer in Australia

(Harry Rogers) that maybe Oyama created the turmoil on purpose, because he didn’t want

Kyokushin to survive without him! It is however reasonably certain that all Kyokushin

groups, regardless of their ultimate allegiance, will still maintain the standards set by

Mas Oyama.Maybe a Kyokushin diaspora will be a good thing, since in all good families, some

of the children eventually do leave home and start their own families. Some of the splinter

groups may remain faithful to the Kyokushin principles, such as Hanshi Steve Arneil in Great

Britain did in 1991. Many others, such as Shigeru Oyama in the U.S., have taken it further

by developing their own style based on Kyokushin.Today, the IKO, headed by Kancho Shokei

Matsui, is the largest karate organization in the world with over twelve million members in

135 countries