President Rajapaksa’s predecessors spent years engaged in fruitless talks and ceasefires, during which the guerrillas remained committed to their aim of dividing the country, and making demands for political and socio-economic changes that no democracy could accept, even as they carried on killing and kidnapping.
Los predecesores del Presidente Rajapaksa pasaron años dedicados a conversaciones y ceses del fuego infructuosos, durante los cuales la guerrilla continuaba comprometida con su objetivo de dividir el país y exigiendo cambios políticos y socioeconómicos que ninguna democracia podría aceptar, mientras seguía matando y raptando.