Fifteen years later many are wiser. All those Western and North American nations that opened their front doors and their back doors to the flood of Sri Lankan migrants at the time have one extra headache now. Back at home the nation bleeds internally. Those who suffer belong to all races. Young men and women lose life and limb at the battlefront, civilians get trapped in the crossfire and bombings.
Children become orphans.
The economy stagnates. All energies are dissipated in a war that the government forces are not winning and the guerrillas know they can never win. World opinion has turned against the LTTE as has quite a segment of opinion of the very community they represent. The LTTE is credited or debited, with killing more of their own than any other, including the Sri Lankan Army. And its own suspected traitors to the cause were shot by firing squads.