That he end with a genocide. Usually an armistice inter group is what ends war.
what genocide are you talking about?
Listen this very well. SL is a multi ethnic country where you will see people of all religions co existing with each other of course there are issues. And we are not living in a perfect world. SL is the only country which has a significant presence of all major 4 religions.
The SL issue has multiple reasons and external influences worsened it to the worse.
SL faced a war for 30 years and the prime reason it was dragged for 30 years destroying both people and property was the sustance of it by so called 'peace talks' and peaceful settlement. You cannot talk peace with an entity that holds onto their own objective and seek to attain it by any means.
In other words SL's only option was war. We tried your method for 30 years and because some people living in west believing in peaceful settlement our people continued to die.
And about civilian deaths, it is a highly exaggerated figure and mostly western propaganda. During the final war, Tamils came towards SL defence lines and LTTE shot at them. There are witnesses for this. LTTE used them as human shield which caused civilian deaths.
I dont know from which country you are, anyway Tamils are a community spread around SL, close to 25% tamil speakers in SL, capital colombo is 30 tamil ethnic and Tamils were part of the military onslaught against LTTE.