Political situation and aspirations of the populace of Sri Lanka

The present regime in Sri Lanka has partially understood that the majority race, the Sinhala people in general, give priority to maintain the unitary status of the country. Hence, the President being a person born and bred from Ruhuna which had produced so many patriots appear to have realised this fact and is making a determined and a concerted effort to free the country from fascist terrorists, the main motto of the LTTE is to divide this country and create a separate state for the largest minority race, the Tamils.
It also may be that the opportune moment has arrived for the suppression of the anti national group the Tamil Tigers which is confronted by a doubting Tamil population who appear to have now realised the fact that a setting up of a separate State for the Tamils is an unattainable dream. The Tamils have also realised that the Sinhala people in general have no animosity against the Tamils of Sri Lanka and are a peace loving people who have co-existed in harmony with other minority races/communities who have been born and bred in the Island. The LTTE had successfully kept the Tamils without interaction with the Sinhala people of the south during the last three decades in order to win the Tamil support to fight for a separate State.
The President Mahinda Rajapakse seems to have come in at the correct time to save the country from division. This is a natural happening of the era as luck would have it. The common belief that a saviour to save the country from aggression from the forces inside the country as well as outside, a mythical Prince Diyasena was to arrive, the Sinhala majority believes has come true in the form of President Mahinda Rajapakse.
This being the most opportune moment to free the country from the LTTE in spite of feeble attempts by some of the foreign elements who secretly support the LTTE protesting against military attacks against the terrorist Tamil Tigers, President Rajapakse continues to battle against terrorism and free the country from separatist LTTE occupation of certain Northern and eastern parts of the island which the Tamil tigers make the Tamil people to believe is the natural homeland of the Tamils.
The Tamils of the northern and eastern parts of the island who were forcibly isolated by the Tigers during the last three decades, now on their own have chosen to live in harmony with the Sinhala people as well as the Muslims, of the north, the east, as well as the south.
Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe, the leader of the UNP, also has changed his theme, realising the fact that the majority of the country endorses the action of the President Mahinda Rajapakse for his policy of not giving into the terrorist groups trying to divide the country. Mr. Wickremasinghe, too states that if the UNP comes in to power that he too will continue with the war to free the country from the LTTE, and he too is for a unitary State and an undivided Sri Lanka. He further states that the division of power will be within a Unitary Sri Lanka and not a United Sri Lanka which was his former policy.
This change is advantages to the country as there was always a difference of opinion between the governing party and the opposition with regard to the policies adopted by them with regard to the ethnic issue.
Though it is rather late to have realised this fact, it is better than never, for the main political parties of the majority race the Sinhalese to have a united policy regarding the ethnic issue, thus making it possible to find a common political solution acceptable to the country in general and makes it possible to change the Constitutional changes necessary for it’s implementation.