There was speculation that illegal Tamil migrants held up in Bangkok would be moved to the West under cover of the Bangkok Conference. The possibility is also great that these talk shows are an attempt at blunting the West's new toughness against the Tigers. Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena who has now donned the mantle of a humanist has to be asked whether his sympathy extends to all the victims of war. G. G. Ponnambalam Jnr. This one time anti-LTTEer was, perhaps, forced to take up the cause of the Tigers out of mortal fear for his life.
Human motives are indeed ambiguous.