Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Tamils are an ethic group and lives in southern India and on Sri Lanka (mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu); it is an island of 21 million people odd the southern tip of India. According to a 2001 government census, most Tamils live in the eastern and the northern Sri Lanka, and they comprise approximately 10 percent of the island’s population. From their religion most of them are Hindu but Tamil language set them apart from the four fifths of Sri Lankans who are Sinhalese; the members of a largely Buddhist, Sinhala-speaking ethic group. When Sri Lanka was ruled by the British as Ceylon, most Sri Lankans regarded the Tamil minority as collaborators with imperial rule and resented the Tamil’s supposed superior treatment. Since Sri Lanka became independent in 1948, the Sinhalese majority had dominated the country. The remainder of Sri Lanka’s population includes ethnic Muslims as well as the Tamil and Sinhalese Christians. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, is the only terrorist group which once consumed its own ‘Military’ – Tigers (infantry), Air Tigers (air wing) and Sea Tigers (sea wing) in the world. LTTE began its campaign in Sri Lanka for a separate homeland in 1983 for Tamils. On January 10, 2008 The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that the LTTE is one of the most deadly and dangerous extremist group in the world and the world should be concerned about their outfits as they have inspired networks worldwide including the Al-Qaida in Iraq. The LTTE is the disreputable for having established the suicide bomb jackets as well as the use of women in suicide attacks. Also, they are blamed for the assassinations on a dozen high-level, over two hundred suicide attacks and its war costs more than seventy thousand lives against the government. In May 2009, the Sri Lankan government declared that the twenty-six yearlong conflict have been ended. The military claimed it had defeated the rebels and killed the LTTE’s
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