premise: "If they did not do it, who else could have done it. And we need to stop them."
  "It is important to establish contact with the LTTE to ensure that the peace process will not collapse," he said, adding that the Tigers and the government had not maintained direct contact at field level for several months.
  Sri Lanka's peace broker Norway has tried but failed to arrange a top-level meeting between the two sides to strengthen the February 2002 truce.
  Fonseka said he did not believe that the escalation of violence in the island's former rebel stronghold of Jaffna would lead to fresh hostilities.
   What may happen if they establish contact with the LTTE?
hypothesis: strengthen the February 2002 truce