However, the process of achieving 'peace' or the state of peace and the path leading to it could vary depending on the situation. Waging a military operation against the LTTE, although costly and destructive, is an essential first step, a prerequisite for attaining the initial stability and required equilibrium to search for and identify the real problems and thereafter work towards an authentic and lasting state of peace. As we all know, this is an impossibility. It will only extend and intensify the problem. Lessons have to be learned from events of the recent past.
All evidence points to the latter.
S. J. V. Chelvanayakam categorically articulated this 'aspiration' long before any of the above stated 'problems' arose. This is a concrete fact that the whole country in general and the Tamils in particular must face squarely and honestly and accept without further ambiguity. There is no use beating about the bush, drawing red herrings across the trail and giving all kinds of lame excuses. Although such events are yet being highlighted as the precursors for this 'aspiration', the chronology of events proves otherwise. Historically, it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that Tamils never had a permanent presence in the north and east and that they are recent invaders and settlers with no possible claim to a 'historical homeland'.