One of the One of the first leaders of the Tamil Guerrilla Movement	An obvious issue in invoking the principle of self determination as a practical means of solving persistent conflicts involving minorities is (1) how bad does the discrimination need to be to ripen to a right? and (2) how long must the minority seek remedy through traditional democratic processes before a majority government looses the right to govern the minority? We consider that in the case of Sri Lanka, 40 years is clearly enough. International Educational Development at the UN Sub-commission on Protection of Minorities (42nd Session August 1990)
Another Guerrilla Leader	"It is not clear how it was possible for the killings to take place without the connivance of prison officials, and how the assassinations could have been repeated after an interval of two days, since Welikade prison is a high security prison and the Tamil prisoners were kept in separate cells..." Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka, 1981-83:Staff Report of the international Commission of Jurists.
Tamil Eelam leader Mr. V. Pirabakaran hoisting the Eelam flag	"We launched our struggle for self determination and political independence because of the systematic oppression of our people by the Sri Lankan state..." - Velupillai Pirabakaran, Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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