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The most radical Tamil group was the Liberation Tigers, who used guerrilla and terrorist methods to pursue their goal of an independent Tamil state to be called Eelam in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Tamil minority, well-educated Hindus whose ancestors had lived on the island for nearly 2,000 years, held a large proportion of ...
Principal Collaborators: Joanne Richards, with Keith Krause and Oliver Jütersonke. This stand-alone project was mandated to the CCDP by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police to investigate the institutional history of the LTTE (also known as the Tamil Tigers). The project focused on the military as well as the political wings of ...
May 31, 2019 · In a final effort to defeat the armed separatist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers), the Sri Lankan state forces relentlessly shelled an area called Mullivaikal in the ...
May 16, 2022 · The 26-year civil war between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government was marked by countless atrocities by both sides. In the final months the LTTE ...
Apr 12, 2024 · The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a well organized group with a two-tier leadership structure. There is a military wing and a political wing, both of which is led by an overseeing central committee. This committee, and the organization as a whole, is led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. Other prominent leaders include:
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) is an organization. They fought the Sri Lankan Civil War against the Government of Sri Lanka for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka called Tamil Eelam. LTTE are also known as the Tamil Tigers. The group was started in 1972 by Velupillai Prabhakaran who was ...
Jun 25, 2017 · Abstract. This chapter examines, dissects and revisits the three-decade-long political violence campaign of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka. It argues that in the absence of a uniting, coherent ideology beyond primordialist ethno-nationalism, it was the LTTE’s leader Velupillai Prabhakaran who managed to obtain public ...
