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Jul 1, 2024 · Tamil Tigers, byname of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), guerrilla organization that sought to establish an independent Tamil state, Eelam, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE was established in 1976 and lasted until 2009, when its leadership was killed by the Sri Lankan military.
Jul 1, 2024 · This book tells the story of why the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost the war that it had always dreamt of winning in Sri Lanka. It is a collection of news stories and commentaries penned by the author from 2003 to 2009 on the ethnic conflict in the country.
12 hours ago · Later, the Indian government began to engage more with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). When the Rajiv-Jayawardene Accord of July 1987 was signed, the LTTE was not a signatory, but ...
6 days ago · This was largely because of the relentless propaganda against the Tamil leader, and the need for the Sinhala majoritarian parties to have a villain in the north who could replace the feared leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, V. Prabhakaran, in the minds of the people.
Jun 28, 2024 · Rogers Brubaker’s groupism framework helps us to understand how the process of Tamil identity formation in diasporic contexts has been shaped by the Tamil organisation The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Jun 30, 2024 · The armed forces had allowed her to return to her home in Puthukudiyiruppu, in the Mullaitivu district in northern Sri Lanka, just weeks earlier. The region was one of the worst affected during the civil war, with tens of thousands of Tamils being killed, especially close to the end of the war.
2 days ago · American political scientist Robert Pape argued that, prior to 2003, the group that used suicide bombing the most was the Tamil Tigers, a largely secular ethnic separatist group from Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, suicide bombings since 2003 have been mounted almost exclusively by groups espousing religious causes.
