Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Wikipedia Initially starting out as a guerrilla force, the LTTE increasingly came to resemble conventional armed forces with a well-developed military wing that included a navy, an airborne unit, [16] an intelligence wing, and a specialised suicide attack unit The LTTE perfected suicide bombing as a tactic
Definition, History, Location, Goals, Facts - Britannica Tamil Tigers, byname of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), guerrilla organization that sought to establish an independent Tamil state, Eelam, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka The LTTE was established in 1976 and lasted until 2009, when its leadership was killed by the Sri Lankan military
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - SATP The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is the only terrorist group which once possessed its own ‘Military’ – Tigers (infantry), Sea Tigers (sea wing) and Air Tigers (Air Wing), in the world, began its armed campaign in Sri Lanka for a separate Tamil homeland in 1983
LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM (LTTE): THE TAMIL TIGERS | Facts and . . . The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were a pro-Tamil, anti-Sinhalese separatist movement in Sri Lanka that has waged a war in fits and starts from 1983 to 2009 against the Sri Lankan government in an effort to create an independent homeland for the Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka Eelam is the original Tamil name for Sri Lanka
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Narrative - UMD LTTE was founded and led by Velupillai Prabhakaran who acted as the chairman of the LTTE Central Governing Committee and the commander-in-chief of LTTE military units prior to his death in May 2009
Terrorism Profile – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) The LTTE, or more commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, are a separatist group from Sri Lanka The group was founded in 1976 and has been participating in terrorist activities since the late 1980s
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - Criterion Quarterly The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were a militant group central to the decades-long insurgency in Sri Lanka This article examines their rise, their role in the Sri Lankan civil war, and how their strategies and tactics shaped both the conflict and the eventual collapse of their movement
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam - Mapping Militants From the group’s founding to the end of the conflict in 2009, an estimated 70,000 people were killed by LTTE and government violence 6 The LTTE was disbanded in 2009 after their military defeat by the Sri Lankan government and some 6,000 LTTE members were rehabilitated and re-integrated into society 7 The Sri Lankan government stated in 2011
3361-The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Starting as just one of many organizations seeking Tamil separatism from Sri Lanka, the LTTE soon became the best organized and most dangerous militant group in Sri Lanka, as it often liquidated rival pro-Tamil groups