Tamils need to come to terms with the fact that the international community is simply not interested in their difficulties.

We cannot rely on the international community to restrain the Sri Lankan state.

The more successful Sri Lanka’s military efforts are, the less international support there will be for a negotiated solution.

Even if the international community was able to appreciate Tamil aspirations, there is little evidence that it is capable of delivering them.

The President’s twin objectives cannot be fulfilled through a federal solution.

The international community has - again - put the Sinhala establishment in charge of the Tamils’ future.

At some point in during the peace process, the international community assumed that it was no longer necessary to apply the concept of parity to resolving the Tamil question.

There is no sense that the international community actually understands what the Tamils themselves want. Or care to find out either.

The international community has miscalculated Sri Lanka’s dynamics. But it is unlikely to reconsider.

Resolutely backing Sri Lanka is not going to prevent a war nor deliver a federal solution.

The international community’s past policies towards Sri Lanka and its failure to revisit fundamental assumptions is fuelling the slide to renewed war.

The Rajapakse administration is pushing for a new round of conflict - with specific strategic objectives.

Muslims are being coopted into the Sinhala state’s efforts to crush the Tamil struggle.

The formidable obstacles to peace and negotiated settlement have been assembled by President Rajapakse himself.