The Tamil tigers kill 100 Sri-Lankan troops. Thousands of Sri-Lankan troops have been killed so far. The Tigers are fighting for their own seperate state in the North-East portion of the country. The conflict started because the Tamils demanded equal rights as the Sri-Lankans. They were marginalized, and thus sought to violence in order to gain attention to their cause.

Since then, it has been a bloody affair. Violence is not the solution, but this contention will take more decades to reduce. I do not think the Tigers will stop at anything less than a new state, even though the Sri-Lankan government vows to eliminate them by 2009. I do not understand rebels who move to a new country and expect a new state. They should have stayed with their home country.