She believed she could bring peace to the island by offering the Tamils generous autonomy in the north-east, but the Tigers' leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, appears unwavering in his demand for a separate state.
When the enemy broke through and the combat was hand-to-hand, he carried on -- comforting the injured and the dying, offering some measure of peace as they left this Earth.
In the document on ProPublica's Web site -- titled "Cooperation for Peace, Justice, and Progress" -- Iran does not address its own nuclear program, offering vague notions instead.
They care about offering peace to those who are actively seeking their destruction so that they can applaud themselves for their open-mindedness and tell themselves how much better they are than savage conservatives.