India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

A small nation can fight a superpower with determination and dedication.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

What you have to assess is whether you have the will to fight.

India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.