President Chandrika Kumaratunge of Sri Lanka, who had been repeatedly expressing her unhappiness andconcern over the way the Government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe had been negotiating with theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and blindly trusting its promises of good behaviour, must be feelingvindicated by the LTTE's suspension of its participation in the negotiations on April 21, 2003.