Plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka – Then and Now / Tamil Week, 23 March 2007
http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/837
Dr. S. Narapalasingam
"The present depressing situation particularly for the Tamils in Sri Lanka is the worst since India intervened in 1987 to end the internal strife that had escalated to a violent campaign for a separate autonomous state of Tamil Eelam in the island’s North-East region."