Tamil politicians believe the government intends to curb Tamil nationalism through intense security and population transfer.
In Tamil-dominated Jaffna, however, presidential portraits, plastered all over the south for the inauguration, are scarce.
The cabinet spokesman accused Ottawa of playing to the large Tamil diaspora in Canada.
Tamils in Mallavi, a town in the Tamil-controlled Vanni area, dutifully echo their leader's optimism.
In one incident, 44 Tamil refugees were killed when shells hit a 400-year-old Catholic Church.
The Tamil Tigers, meanwhile, deny accusations that they are holding civilians as human shields.
By contrast, poorly performing rulers, eg, in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, have been sent packing.
Sterlite employs about 3, 000 people in Tamil Nadu, including about 1, 000 at the smelter.
India is helping set up industrial zones, small-business parks and factories in Tamil areas.
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These would include giving government portfolios to the Tamil National Alliance, a pro-Tamil Tiger parliamentary group.
Authorities in India's Tamil Nadu state have lifted a ban on actor Kamal Haasan's film Vishwaroopam.
All of its public hearings so far outside Colombo have been in Tamil-majority areas.
They blame the Tamil diaspora for fueling allegations of continued army abuses, which they deny.
They blame the Tamil diaspora for fuelling allegations of continued army abuses, which they deny.
Restrictions on the flow of goods into Tamil-controlled areas, a serious grievance, have been eased.
Talaq, meaning divorce, was performed three times in the Tamil language, each time to packed houses.
Another former Tamil militant from Jaffna currently living in the UK also went back recently.
He has criticised her for not even entertaining the idea of talking to the Tamil Tigers.
Finnish girls and Tamil refugees, who now make up 5% of the population, fill the gap.
Tamil parties in Parliament also participated in the debate and did not reject the proposals outright.
The separatist Tamil Tigers, or LTTE, are a proscribed terrorist organisation in many capitals.
He was born into a landowning family in what is now Tamil Nadu, in southern India.
Two of her new-found allies are Tamil parties that have distanced themselves from the Tigers.
Rebel ranks swelled as the campaign for a separate Tamil state was renewed with increased ferocity.
But nor were the Tamil Tigers, under their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, any more trusting.
Separatist Tamil Tiger rebels had audaciously attacked the airport and the neighbouring air-force base.
Only in Tamil Nadu is the ruling party a member of the national alliance.
Rajiv lost the 1989 election and was then himself assassinated by Tamil militants from Sri Lanka.
The Tigers' explanation that the elections were of no interest to Tamil voters had some truth.
But the head of Tamil Nadu's Women's Commission, Vasanthi Devi, said mothers could not be exonerated.
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