The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Introduction The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)‚ also known as the Tamil Tigers‚ are a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka. The LTTE is infamous for introducing the suicide bomb jacket‚ as well as the use of women in suicide attacks. They are blamed for a dozen high profile assassinations‚ over two hundred suicide attacks‚ and its war against the government has cost more than seventy thousand lives. The LTTE‚ which may have between 7‚000 to 15‚000
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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
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) waged war against the government of Sri Lanka for 33 years. Being a minority group in a nation that has a long history of Western colonization‚ prompted the LTTE to lash out against the Sinhalese majority in the years following the country’s independence in 1948. Throughout the 1970s‚ the group began using acts of violence‚ while undergoing a couple of name changes‚ until 1976 when the group formally became the LTTE. Shortly after their establishment‚ the
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The FBI in 2007 revealed… “..The Tamil Tigers are among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world..” [1] BLACK TIGER Suicide Bombers of the Tamil Tigers “…The LTTE had perfected the use of suicide bombers; invented the suicide belt; pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks; murdered some 4‚000 people in the past two years alone; and assassinated two world leaders - the only terrorist organization to do so...” [1] “…The
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The group‚ Tamil Tigers‚ claim themselves to be freedom fighters. This report will show‚ and hopefully convince you‚ that they are not freedom fighters‚ but that they are a terrorist group. The use of boys and girls as young as ten years old for wars‚ suicide missions‚ and the assassinations of famous leaders‚ priests‚ and ministers are a few proofs that Tamil Tigers are terrorist. Tamil Tigers‚ also known as LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)‚ have been using boys and girls as young as ten
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an independent Tamil state. LTTE‚ most commonly known as the Tamil Tigers‚ rose a violent campaign over the Sri Lankan government and after the civilians from the 1970s. The Tamil Tigers are currently concerned as a terrorist organization by thirty two countries. Tamils are a group of people who were moved from the Indian subcontinent to other countries by the British colonial authorities. As it was before they still mostly work on the tea plantations. There are 77 million Tamils all over the world;
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m&catid=54:2005 o (n.d.) o (September 2012). New York Magazine. In September 11 by Numbers. Retrieved June 1‚ 2013‚ from http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/1year/numbers.htm o (n.d.) o (n.d.). Start. InTerrorist Organization Profile: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Retrieved June 1‚ 2013‚ from http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data_collections/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=3623 o Kate Pickret
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Discourse On the Tamil Tigers “I would prefer to die in honour rather than being caught alive by the enemy” (Towards Liberation 83). V. Prabakaran‚ leader and founder of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)‚ said this during an exclusive interview with the magazine the “Sunday.” This statement represents how most Tamil Tigers feel about their fight for freedom. Tamil Tigers are dedicated to dying in battle rather than being caught by the enemy (Sri Lanka military). The Tamil Tigers were founded
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Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Sri Lankan Tamil Fiction: A Study on Selected Pieces - Dr. Kandiah Shriganeshan‚ Senior Lecturer‚ English Language Teaching Centre‚ University of Jaffna‚ ‚ Sri Lanka Destruction of the environment and natural resources is the main danger that the modern world has to face. There is an urgent need for institutional reform within modern society to safeguard the environmental resources and to maintain the ecological balance. Environmental sociologists have different
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------------------------------------------------- Tamil Eelam INTRODUCTION Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழம் tamiḻ īḻam‚ generally rendered outside Tamil-speaking areas ) is a proposed independent statethat Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka. Tamil Eelam has no official status orrecognition by world states though sections of the Eelam were under de facto control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for most of the2000s. The name
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