Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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Militant nabbed in Pak Army HQ siege behind Lanka team attack...were injured. A Pakistani police team is currently in Sri Lankan capital Colombo to investigate whether there were any local links, including the possibility of the involvement of LTTE, to the attack on cricketers. The officials were... In this article: Sri Lankan cricket team, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lahore, Punjab, Suicide, Indian Parliament, and Harkat-ul-Ansar |
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The Hindu - News | March 04, 2009
Contempt proceedings should be initiated against lawyers
On the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan, Swamy, a vocal LTTE opponent, suspected an LTTE-Al Qaeda nexus behind the incident and said that US and Sri Lanka should assist Pakistan in probing the incident.
In this article: Supreme Court, Subramaniam Swamy, LTTE, Janata Party, Sri Lankan cricket team, Pakistan, Chennai, and Sri Lanka
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The Times of India - World | June 04, 2009
Tamil protesters in UK demand Lankan team's ouster from T20 WC
...their ouster from the tournament in the wake of alleged human rights violation by the island nation's army in its recent offensive against the LTTE. The protest took place when Sri Lanka and South Africa were playing a warm-up match at...
In this article: LTTE, Sri Lanka, London, Sri Lankan cricket team, England, UK, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
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New Kerala | September 06, 2009
Tamil Tigers funded attack on Sri Lankan cricketers: Pakistan
Gilani told reporters that investigators have got indications to suggest that the Tamil Tigers had financed the attack in which a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers was fired at by gunmen near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Gilani...
In this article: Tamil Tigers, Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan, Sri Lankan cricket team, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore, Islamabad, Sri Lanka, and Australia
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New Kerala | September 06, 2009
LTTE was behind attack on SL cricket team in Lahore, says Gilani
LTTE was behind attack on SL cricket team in Lahore, says Gilani Islamabad, Sep 6: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was the mastermind behind the attack on the visiting Sri Lankan...
In this article: Yousuf Raza Gilani, Lahore, Sri Lankan cricket team, Mahinda Rajapaksa, World Cup, International Cricket Council, Australian cricket team, and Lashkar-e-Toiba
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The Hindu - News | March 09, 2009
Lahore attack: Needle of suspicion on LTTE, says Sri Lankan Minister
...visit due to returned home subsequently. "And he (Thileepan) said the LTTE rejected speculation that it could be linked to the attack in Pakistan on the Sri Lankan cricket team," the SBS reported. "We don't have any connections with those...
In this article: LTTE, Lahore, Mumbai, Sri Lankan cricket team, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Special Broadcasting Service, Peshawar, and Colombo
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New Kerala | May 30, 2009
Sri Lankan cricketers cancel Oxford University visit over security fears
...report claimed that over 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed during the final days of Sri Lanka's offensive against the Tamil Tigers, The News reports. "This afternoon, the Sri Lankan cricket team's security advisers have informed us that,...
In this article: Oxford University, Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricket team, Muttiah Muralitharan, Oxford Union, Tamil Tigers, Punjab, West Bengal, and London
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Independent.co.uk - World | March 03, 2009
Strike had hallmarks of Mumbai massacre
...attacked." Another theory was that Sri Lanka's bitter civil war, with its recent upsurge of fighting, has spread abroad, with the Tamil Tigers either directly involved in the assault or had planned it, using Pakistani proxies. But Tamil...
In this article: Dawood Ibrahim, Mumbai, Suicide, Sri Lankan cricket team, Lahore, Pakistan, Javed Miandad, Al-qa'ida, and Benazir Bhutto
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | March 04, 2009
Taliban, LeT Lahore attack suspects
...group's hand was in the attack, but The New York Times quoted an unidentified South Asia specialist as raising the possibility that LTTE in Sri Lanka might have asked Lashkar- e-Taiba militants in Pakistan to attack the visiting cricket...
In this article: Taliban, Mumbai, Lahore, Dried fruit, Suicide, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Sri Lankan cricket team, LTTE, and George W Bush
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | March 02, 2009
Sri Lankan cricketers attack: Islamic terror groups growing in strength in Pakistan
...terror groups growing in strength in Pakistan In the absence of a claim of responsibility, and the unlikelihood of the besieged Tamil Tigers being able to reach into Pakistan, it appears that today's 'commando' attack on the Sri Lankan...
In this article: Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Islamic, Lahore, Benazir Bhutto, Taliban, Muttahida Quami Movement, Karachi, Al-Qaeda, and Mumbai
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள்), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, is a militant Tamil nationalist organization that has waged a violent secessionist campaign against the Sri Lankan government since the 1970s in order to create a separate, socialist, Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). The LTTE is currently proscribed as a terrorist organization by 31 countries (see list). It is headed by its founder, Velupillai Prabhakaran. ==History==
===Rise to dominance===
The LTTE was founded in 1972 by Velupillai Prabhakaran and attracted many supporters amongst disenchanted Tamil youth, who were dissatisfied with policies followed by successive governments towards solving various concerns of the nation's Tamil community. They carried out low-key attacks against various government targets, including policemen and local politicians. A notable attack carried out during the time was the assassination of the Mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiyappah. Initially the LTTE operated in cooperation with other Tamil militant groups which shared their same objectives, and in April 1984, the LTTE formally joined a common militant front, the Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF), a union between itself, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF).
A few months later, the LTTE attacked training camps of the EPRLF, forcing it to withdraw entirely from the Jaffna peninsula.
- Name:
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Location:
- Sri Lanka
- Head:
- Velupillai Prabhakaran
- Ideology:
- Tamil nationalism, socialism
- Status:
- Runs de facto state Tamil Eelam, proscribed as a terrorist organization by 31 countries
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