Well I guess you could use the Muslim example; they know and just look the other way.
You don’t have much choice when you live in a North Korean style political system (run by the LTTE in the North/East) and on other side have a brutal Sri Lankan military, which uses tactics not too different from the Russians in Chechnya.
IOW, the Tamils are a helpless bunch, who will get slaughtered whichever way they turn-hope you’ve seen UAV footage of the LTTE shooting fleeing Tamils.