Edited sentence: Jayawardene, Daily Telegraph 11th July 1983.The government headed by President Jayawardene refused to condemn the riots and did not even release a statement until after four days of mayhem.“I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people… now we cannot think of them, not about their lives or their opinion.. the more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here… Really if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy.” – President J