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a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war
How To Use LTTE In A Sentence
- It should be noted that it was only following the LTTE blocking of water supply to the East at the Mavilaru anicut, that the Government was compelled to undertake military operations against the LTTE in order to protect the civilian population and vital strategic assets including the Trincomalee Port. Asian Tribune
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the armed rebellion organization fighting for the independence of Tamil Eelam. WN.com - Photown News
- The next day, the LTTE and other Tamil parties called a hartal [strike and shop closures] throughout the north and east of the island which lasted for four days.
- Militant Tamils, the LTTE, sought the creation of an independent Tamil state, referred to as Tamil Eelam, which would comprise the North and East of the country. Countercurrents.org
- Mr Walden yesterday denied that his client was a supporter of the LTTE.
- Hence the second canard that was first assiduously pushed by HRW, which introduced the term internment camps to describe the centres in which civilians who escape from the LTTE into Government controlled territory are kept. Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka (MOD)
- A few weeks earlier another minister staged a 'satyagraha', a hunger-strike-unto-death, in an effort to force the Secretary General of the United Nations to withdraw the panel that he had appointed to advise him on the course of action he should take relating to the alleged acts of violence by the military that took place in Sri Lanka in the latter part of the conflict with the LTTE that ended in May 2009. NZ On Screen
- Their increased religious activity is giving the impression the places librated from the clutches of the LTTE are now become Buddhist colony. Sri Lanka - Is the Spring Far Away?
- The artillery attack was a violation of the unilateral cease-fire announced by the LTTE themselves to allow civilians to move out of the embattled zone, the statement said.
- The new names listed were Silambarajan (LTTE 'Radha' group leader), Gopal (LTTE mortar group leader), Mohana (LTTE 'Sodiya' group senior leader) and Keerthi (LTTE 'Jayanthan' group leader). Zee News : India National
