Q.1 What is the best solution for Tamils in Sri Lanka?
Separation from Sri Lanka and forming an independent Tamil state. 90.23%
Forming a federal system in Sri Lanka: becoming a state within a Sri Lankan federation. 9.32%
Staying in Sri Lanka under a unitary system or single central government, as they are now. 0.45%
Q.2 If you support separation, the best model for Tamils to follow is
The Christians in Indonesia, who got their own state in East Timor. 54.78%
Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, who gained safety in the new Bosnian federation. 2.06%
Albanians in Kosovo, who escaped ethnic cleansing in independent Kosovo. 18.79%
Slovaks in Czechoslovakia, who withdrew and formed their own country of Slovakia. 11.16%
None of the above. 13.2%
Q.3 If the only solution is non-separation (living under a single federal government) what do you think best model would be?
The French speakers in Canada, where Quebec is separate state within the Canadian federation. Quebec and other Canadian provinces are self-governing, but must follow Canadian law and foreign policy. 58.54%
The Bosnian Model, in which both Croats and Bosnian Muslims (and others) live safely within the Bosniak-Croat Federation. Serbian ethnic cleansing made this arrangement necessary. 4.3%
Scotland and Wales in the UK, where local self-government has devolved to Scots and Welsh. 15.03%
Tamils in India, where Tamil Nadu is one state of the weak multi-ethnic Indian federation. 6.16%
None of the above. 15.97%
Q.4 If the solution is a federal setup for Tamils, what should be the status of the Tamil state?
All the powers of a separate state, including the power to secede. 82.73%
All the power of a separate state except not having their own armed forces or foreign policy. 2.99%
Each state makes its own laws and conducts its own government, but does not have its own foreign policy and can not secede (as in the U.S.). 7.04%
Weak federation (as in India) where central government can dissolve the local government. 0.89%
None of the above. 6.36%
Q.5 What should the Obama administration do in Sri Lanka?
Force the UN to have a referendum regarding partition separating the northeast of Sri Lanka from the rest of the country (Like in East Timor before independence ). 76.43%
Bring Tamils and Singhalese to the U.S. and compel them to agree to a reasonable solution, as the U.S. did with warring parties in the former Yugoslavia (Ex. Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro). 7.04%
Stop the fighting in Sri Lanka, ask the UN to send peace-keeping troops to northeast of Sri Lanka to maintain the peace, and then find a way to resolve the problem. 9.61%
U.S. Humanitarian intervention to save the Tamils from genocidal war. 5.83%
Ignore the problem and let it play out by itself. 1.09%
Q.6 If the Obama administration were to force the UN to conduct a referendum in the Tamil portion of Sri Lanka regarding partition of the northeast of Sri Lanka from the rest of the country , who should be allowed to participate?
Tamils in Northeast. 39.08%
Tamils in the Island. 4.15%
Tamils in Sri Lanka as well as the Tamil refugees abroad who fled the genocidal war. 50.76%
Anybody living in the northeast, Tamils or otherwise. 6.01%
Q.7 When should the Obama administration take action?
90.23%
