MR: I agree.

•SG: Or to hold cities. Or territory.

MR: That’s right, and that was another mistake that he made.

•SG: So elaborate a little…

MR: because he wanted not only a area, he wanted the whole country.

•SG: Oh not just the Tamil regions.

MR: No. No. His plan was to take over the country.

•SG: How could he have done that? You know, because…

MR: This is what when…when…

•SG: This country is 85 per cent Sinhala.

MR: Ya, but he might…he thought that everybody can be controlled by terrorism, with a gun.

•SG: And the threat of assassination.

MR: Yes.

•SG: So let’s elaborate a little bit more. I am fascinated by you saying that the biggest mistake he made in his thirty years, thirty year career fighting, was the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

MR: Yes.

•SG: And that ultimately led to his downfall.

MR: That’s true.

•SG: Elaborate. Just some details.

MR: You know, who create this problem. If, I mean the…when this man was…when he started this, then we…everybody knew that they were trained in India. And finally they killed an Indian leader who was loved by the Indian people.

•SG: And particularly Tamils.

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