The 2019 easter bombing in Sri Lanka looks similar to the work of Tamil Tigers LTTE which terrorized South Asia from 1976 until its military defeat in 2009 earning the title of one of the deadliest and ruthless terrorist movement the world has ever known They ostensibly fought for civil rights and sought an independent nation and have targeted the Sinhalese originally from northern India, now forming the majority of the population of Sri Lanka. The Tamil, people originally of southern India who speak Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family. The Sri Lanka Tamils, who live predominantly in the north and east of the island, form the largest minority group at 11.1% (according to the 2012 census) Hinduism in Sri Lanka is largely identified with the Tamil population and is concentrated in the Northern, Eastern and Central Provinces. LTTE were active from 5 May 1976 – 18 May 2009 until military defeat .At the height of its power, the LTTE attacked Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim targets and possessed a well-developed militia and carried out many high-profile militant attacks, including the assassinations of key figures within the Sri Lankan government. The LTTE assassinated two world leaders:[14] former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.[6][15][16] The LTTE utilized suicide belts and pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks.[14] They have attacked ethnic majority Sinhalese
Russian connection
Affiliates to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Wikipedia In 2006, Director of Communications of Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) Sahilal Sabaratnam, a student of the University of Toronto Sathajhan Sarachandran and 8 others were arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation for trying to purchase Russian-made missiles and firearms worth $1 million, for the LTTE. Arms smuggling The LTTE members operated a cargo company called "Otharad Cargo" in the United Arab Emirates. There are reports that the LTTE met Taliban members and discussed the "Sharjah network", which existed in the Sharjah emirate of the United Arab Emirates. The Sharjah network was used by Victor Bout, an arms-smuggling Russian intelligence agent, to provide the Taliban with weapons deliveries and other flights between Sharjah and Kandahar. Bout ran multiple air transport companies to smuggle weapons since the collapse of communism from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Drug trafficking[edit] number of intelligence agencies have accused LTTE of involvement in drug trafficking. In 2010, citing Royal Canadian Mounted Police sources, Jane's Intelligence Review said the LTTE controls a portion of the one billion dollar drug market in Montreal, Quebec.[283] It also states narcotics smuggling using its merchant ships, is one of the main ways of earning money out of its $300 million annual income. The U.S. Department of Justice states that LTTE has historically served as the drug couriers moving narcotics into Europe.[284] Indian authorities accused LTTE operatives of previously bringing narcotics to Mumbai from Mandsaur District of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab border.[clarification needed] The drugs were then transported to coastal towns in Tamil Nadu such as Tuticorin, Rameswaram, Ramanathapuram, Nagapattinam and Kochi, in Kerala State.[285]
Air Force LTTE acquired and used light aircraft in some of its attacks.[17] where two fuel facilities were bombed, Tigers later released pictures of a plane - a two-seater Czech Zlin light aircraft adapted to carry bombs. A second aerial bombing, of a northern military complex last Tuesday, killed six soldiers Zlín Z 42 - Wikipedia single-engine two-seat Czechoslovakian trainer aircraft manufactured by ...Moravan Aviation, founded in 1934 by Tomáš Baťa in the Czech Republic. ... Two Z-142s were used by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in bombing sorties on the Sri Lankan airforce bases in Sri Lanka ...
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- LTTE maintains branches in 54 countries. LTTE opened its first overseas office in London in 1984, has front organisations in India, Botswana, Myanmar, Cambodia, Denmark, Germany, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Qatar, South Africa, Switzerland and Thailand, besides others. Al jazeera
- 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was Al Qaeda's commander which claimed responsibility for Ramzi Ahmed Yousef 1993 WTC bombing. The Bojinka Plot to hijack an airliner to crash into the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency evolved into the September 11 attacks. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef trained Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bomb makers which was Al Qaeda funded terrorist group in the Philippines and which LTTE helped smuggle weapons. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef also masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was asked to plan an assassination of Pres. Bill Clinton in 1994, and ASG claimed Yousef's 1994 bombing of Philippines Airlines flight 434 which killed one but nearly destroyed the plane.
- Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Al Qaeda funded terrorists in the Philippines. LTTE provided logistics support to Pakistani group with al-Qaeda affiliations to transport a consignment of weapons to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Ramzi Ahmed Yousef met with the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines and soon after to New York City, met with radical cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, and then personnel and material for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Yousef later trained Abu Sayyaf bomb makers. Osama bin Laden was financing Abu Sayyaf, and wanted Yousef to assassinate U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton during his trip to the Philippines in 1994, and planned to planned to blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean which turned into 9/11 airliner attacks. ASG claimed Yousef's 1994 bombing of Philippines Airlines flight 434 which killed one but nearly destroyed the plane.
- Al Qaeda
- LTTE provided logistics support to Harakat-al Mujahideen, a Pakistani group with al-Qaeda affiliations
- LTTE gave hundreds of stolen Norwegian passports to al-Qaeda in exchange for money. Al Jazeera
- Canada 2001, Prapaharan Thambithurai became the first Tamil Canadian to be charged on terrorism financing, for soliciting donations for the World Tamil Movement. He was convicted in 2008 and sent to 6 months in prison.
- Britain British Tamils Forum (BTF),
- France 1986, the chief of the Coordinating Committee of Tamils-France (CCTF), V. Manoharan was arrested for smuggling illicit drugs into Paris.[23]
- India LTTE received political patronage and support from the political parties in Tamil Nadu since its early days.
- Italy 2008, Italian Police arrested 28 Sri Lankan Tamils suspected to be LTTE sympathizers, after a two-year investigation.[29]
- liberation: pro-russia In one of its documents released as far back as November 1998, it declared its resolve to work in solidarity with the various national liberation movements, socialist states, and international working class parties.
- Jihad LTTE had links with jihadi groups` - DAWN Sep 14, 2009 - ... a man the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) says is Selvarajah ... network', an arms supply line run by the Russian dealer Victor Bout.
- Khalistan movement worked with LTTE which was agitating for a separate Sikh state in northwest India attempted double 747 bombing destroyed Air India Flight 182
- Moro Liberation Front LTTE is said to have sent two combat tacticians and explosive experts to the southern Philippines to train members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Al Jazeera Marxist-Islamist alliance is the Philippines started with the New People’s Army sprouted from the Communist Party of the Philippines, provided fighters a Muslim rebellion led by a communist named Nur Misuari. New People’s Army forged an actual alliance the Moro Islamic Liberation Front America's Survival
- Naxalite (India) LTTE worked with Maoist Naxalite movement in India Naxalites are funded by Russia KGB "Russia (USSR) was paying money to India professors, Left wing Communists parties, writers, poets, Media, Indian newspapers, Naxalites & Maoists after India’s independence to promote Russian Communist Ideology in India. " they would professors to the Indo-Soviet Friendship Society. November 1967 after Naxalbari uprising, activists formed the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR) to plan a revolution along Maoist lines to seize political power through armed struggle. ‘Maoist’ and ‘Naxalite’ quickly became umbrella terms for the factions who were operating under a similar ideology, including those who would later unite as the Communist Party of India (Maoist) in 2004. Naxalites have committed terrorist violence, usually against government property and agents. They have attacked police and seized their weapons, kidnapped and executed politicians and bureaucrats, and destroyed symbols of the state such as roads, railways and police stations.but the state responds with indiscriminate violence against India’s rural and indigenous populations
- North Korea pro-russia Sea Tigers possess radar-evading stealth boats (probably North Korean built)
- Norway: March 10, 2007, Falk Rovik, the chief spokesperson for Norwegians Against Terrorism, stated in Toronto that the LTTE gave hundreds of stolen Norwegian passports to al-Qaeda in exchange for money. Al Jazeera
- Pakistan provide logistics support to Harakat-al Mujahideen, a Pakistani group with al-Qaeda affiliations, to transport a consignment of weapons to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines.
- Palestinian pro-russia worked with Palestinian factions in the Middle East from whom they received advanced military training from 1978 to 1980
- Phillipines logistics support to Harakat-al Mujahideen, a Pakistani group with al-Qaeda affiliations to transport a consignment of weapons to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines. LTTE is said to have sent two combat tacticians and explosive experts to the southern Philippines to train members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
- Ramzi Ahmed Yousef trained Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bomb makers which was Al Qaeda funded terrorist group in the Philippines and which LTTE helped smuggle weapons. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef also masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was asked to plan an assassination of Pres. Bill Clinton in 1994, and ASG claimed Yousef's 1994 bombing of Philippines Airlines flight 434 which killed one but nearly destroyed the plane. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was Al Qaeda's commander which claimed responsibility for Ramzi Ahmed Yousef 1993 WTC bombing. The Bojinka Plot to hijack an airliner to crash into the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency evolved into the September 11 attacks.
- Russia: LTTE met Taliban members to use the "Sharjah arms smuggling network", in the United Arab Emirates which Victor Bout, an arms-smuggling Russian KGB intelligence agent ran to arm the Taliban and LTTE. Bout ran multiple air transport companies using former Russian air force pilots to smuggle weapons since the collapse of communism from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East.
- Socialist State pro-russia documents resolve to work in solidarity with the various national liberation movements, socialist states, and international working class parties.
- Thailand Sea Tigers attempts to build submarines failed when their base in Thailand was discovered.
- Truck bomb suicide bombings on July 5, 1987, when a truck laden with explosives was rammed into a building housing Sri Lankan soldiers. aj
- The Sea Tigers are reported to possess radar-evading stealth boats (probably North Korean built) but their attempts to build submarines failed when their base in Thailand was discovered.
- United States 4 Tamil-Americans affiliated to TRO, including the director of the American branch of the LTTE, which operated through charitable front organisations, Karunakaran Kandasamy, were arrested for their alleged material support for LTTE, including purchase of arms and ammunition.[27] They had attempted to bribe US Justice of Dept officials with $1 million in exchange for removing LTTE from FBI’s list of banned terrorist organizations.
- Victor Bout LTTE Selvarasa Pathmanathan travelled from Bangkok Thailand to Kabul Afghanistan through Pakistan May 19, 2001, and met Taliban leaders about the 'Sharjah network' arms smuggling run by Russian dealer KGB agetn Victor Bout who operated three to four flights a day to Kabul to transport weapons. The LTTE operated a cargo company in Dubai, 17kms from the offices of the Sharjah network. LTTE had registered the front company in Karachi Pakistan which procured several consignments of weapons for the LTTE as well as Pakistani militant groups dawn
- Working class party documents resolve to work in solidarity with the various national liberation movements, socialist states, and international working class parties.
- World Trade Center 1993 Bombing: LTTE was linked to arming the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) which met with Ramzi Ahmed Yousef who was mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Sinhalese
| Attack | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent and Dollar Farm massacres | 1984-11-30 | Vavuniya District, Northern Province | 62 | LTTE Tamil Tigers | LTTE cadres shot dead 62 Sinhalese villagers and injured several others.[3] |
Buddhist
| Attack | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|
| Aranthalawa Massacre | 1987-06-02 | Aranthalawa, Ampara District | 35 | LTTE | LTTE cadres mutilated and killed 33 young Buddhist monks and their mentor, Ven. Hegoda Sri Indrasara Thera, who was the chief priest of Vidyananda Pirivena, Ampara.[16][unreliable source?] |
Hindu
| Attack | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
|---|
| Kathiresan Hindu temple attack | 1988-02-16 | Kathiresan Hindu temple, Bambalapitiya, Colombo | 10 | JVP | At least 10 people died and 26 others were injured when two bombs blasted in a crowded Hindu temple during a religious festival.[18] |
Muslim
| Akuressa suicide bombing | 2009-03-10 | Akuressa, Matara District | 14 | LTTE | A LTTE suicide bomber caused an explosion at an Islamic religious parade near Godapitiya Jumma mosque in Akuressa, Southern Sri Lanka, killing 14 and injuring 35 civilians. Several government ministers were among the injured while few local politicians died from the attack.[63][64] |
Airliner
| Lionair Flight 602 | 1999-09-29 | Off the cost of Mannar District, North West | 55 | LTTE | A passenger aircraft Lionair Flight 602 disappeared from radar screens, after departing Kankesanturai Airport in Jaffna. Initial reports indicated that the plane had been shot down by LTTE cadres using MANPADS. All 7 crew members and 48 passengers were killed.[43][44] |
Bus
| Dambulla Bus bombing | 2008-02-02 | Dambulla | 18 | LTTE | A pilgrimage ended in blood-shed, after LTTE members exploded a private bus killing 18 devotees including women and children, in Dambulla Town.[57] |
Petroleum Production
| Attack to the oil storage complexes at Kolonnawa and Orugodawatta | 1995-10-20 | Kolonnawa, Colombo | 26 | LTTE | Suicide cadres of the LTTE attacked the oil storage complexes at Kolonnawa and Orugodawatta. They managed to blew themselves up destroying the tanks. 22 security personnel died by this attack and petroleum oil worth over US $10 million were destroyed.[33] |
Politician
assassinations of key figures within the Sri Lankan government. The LTTE assassinated two world leaders:[14] former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.[6][15][16]
http://users.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/issue5/roots.htm
THE ROOTS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Antero Leitzinger (March 2002)
How Socialists became Islamic terrorists
Modern terrorism was born within a year, 1967-1968. International socialists (communists) started the fashion all over the world simultaneously, which should make us suspicious about the common roots. National socialists followed suit, turning Marxists of Muslim origin into Islamists of Marxist origin. In May 18th, 1967, Yuri Andropov took over the leadership of the KGB. The Russian security services evolved into a state within the Soviet state, as it became clear when Andropov became the communist party’s general secretary after Leonid Brezhnev’s death, in 1982. During Andropov’s era, which was far longer than that of any other KGB chief, the Soviet secret services supported international terrorism through satellite states and Marxist "liberation fronts". "On becoming chairman of the KGB in 1967, Andropov immediately announced his intention to revive KGB ‘special actions’ as an essential tool of Soviet policy during the Cold War." (Andrew & Mitrokhin, p. 374)
Former KGB general Oleg Kalugin assured correctly on a BBC World News TV discussion on September 23rd, 2001, that there were more terrorists of al-Qayda who had been trained by the KGB than by the CIA, y Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB officer from 1956 to 1984, who prepared a secret report in 1987 and defected to Britain in 1992. He describes "false flag" operations, where "Soviet-trained Afghan guerrilla units posed as CIA-supported, anti-Soviet mujahidin rebels [Islamic freedom-fighters] to create confusion and flush out genuine rebels". In January 1983, there were 86 such "false bands", trained by KGB officer V. Kikot of the 8th Department of the "Directorate S". Kikot was transferred from Cuba, and was acquainted with training Palestinian terrorists. There were also over 110 agents infiltrated in Iran and over 200 agents in Pakistan, including Murtaza Bhutto, son of the former president and brother of the future prime minister. (WP 24.2.2002; IHT 25.2.2002)
Victor Bout
KGB officer, Viktor But (Victor Bout), flew arms to the Taliban until 2001. The beginning of this business enterprise would have remained unknown, if a Russian airplane would not have been spotted at Kandahar airport. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, But served in UN peace troops in Angola. (Sunday Telegraph 22.7.2001) He still has a house in Johannesburg, now used as a brothel. In 1995, But appeared in Belgium as the owner of a cargo flight company. He flew arms to Afghanistan, since 1997 to East Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda, and since 1998 to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Destinations may have included also Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq, Eritrea or Georgia (the end users are often unknown), Peru, and Sri Lanka (Tamil Tigers). (Jane’s Intelligence Review, February 2002; The Washington Monthly 1/2002) Bout’s partners were Soviet-trained air force generals of the Taliban. To be closer to Afghanistan, he moved in 1997 to the United Arab Emirates. When UN sanctions forced the United Arab Emirates to check the cargo going to Afghanistan, in January 2001, Bill Clinton’s administration did its last favour to friendly Russia by allowing an exception for carriers registered in Russia. (LAT 20.1.2002) For Clinton’s administration, Russians were always above any suspicions as sponsors of Islamic terrorism. Once again, the British MI6 was needed to turn CIA’s attention to the right direction. (Sunday Times 17.2.2002) Islamists in modern Russia are KGB-trained provocateurs, who fight traditions and nationalism, and dream about a re-established Soviet Union. Their perception of Islam resembles more a Communist caricature than the historical roots of ethnically mainly Caucasian and Tatar Muslims. To understand the development to this better, KGB’s activities in the Middle East can be divided in five-year periods: 1978-1982 the KGB puts great hopes on the "Islamic revolution" of Iran, and its expansion to Arab countries, while exporting communism into Afghanistan.
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Were Tamil Tigers International Terrorist or Freedom Fighters? youtube What makes the narrator say, that LTTE is the most deadliest and ruthless terrorist movement the world has ever known. This is completely wrong. Of course LTTE was terrorizing - they were rebels. Not only terrorists
pressTV pro-LTTE Member of European Parliament (7:35) Robert Evans (British) falsely claim Sri Lanka has a apartheid regime, Sinhalese discriminate against Tamils. The truth is 'Apartheid' never existed in Sri Lanka. If USA did not support Talibans to fight Russia, Afghanistan could have been a peaceful country today. If USA could remove Sadam for dictatorial leadership then USA/EU should also be able to see LTTE dictatorship in the same perspective. LTTE killed Sri Lankan Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims who disobeyed him, used civilians as human-shields, recruited child soldiers, used suicide bombers to kill innocent civilians in Sri Lanka. Civilized societies unable to understand the war in Sri Lankais. It is a separatist terrorism. They call LTTE terrorists as liberation fighters. Civil societies have an obligation to protect a civil society from a terrorist group. SRI LANKA WAR MY PERSPECTIVE I salute Lt. Gen. Fonseka, Commander of Sri Lanka Army for being honest and say correctly that solution to Sri Lanka war is a militarily solution (Part-2) . So called "sole representatives of minority Tamils" LTTE started ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese and Muslims in North and East of Sri Lanka. Innocent civilians were massacred by the most ruthless separatist terrorists LTTE for the last 26 years and General Fonseka was one of survivors of 200+ suicide attacks by LTTE against Sinahalese.
The history of the Tamil Tigers | Sri Lanka News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2008/11/2008112019115851343.html Apr 28, 2009 - Formed in 1975, the group has vowed to carve out a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.After 1948, the Tamils also became the targets of numerous riots that swept through the island nation. Believing that these riots were instigated by the Sinhalese authorities, Tamils began calling for an independent state and for an organisation to protect their rights. Other prominent armed groups included the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOT), the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation (EROS) and the Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF). These armed groups lost ground and became obsolete as the LTTE killed their leaders and absorbed their trained cadres. The LTTE's most famous suicide mission was against Rajiv Gandhi, a former Indian prime minister.
http://users.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/issue5/roots.htm
THE ROOTS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM
Antero Leitzinger (March 2002)
How Socialists became Islamic terrorists
Modern terrorism was born within a year, 1967-1968. International socialists (communists) started the fashion all over the world simultaneously, which should make us suspicious about the common roots. National socialists followed suit, turning Marxists of Muslim origin into Islamists of Marxist origin. In May 18th, 1967, Yuri Andropov took over the leadership of the KGB. The Russian security services evolved into a state within the Soviet state, as it became clear when Andropov became the communist party’s general secretary after Leonid Brezhnev’s death, in 1982. During Andropov’s era, which was far longer than that of any other KGB chief, the Soviet secret services supported international terrorism through satellite states and Marxist "liberation fronts". "On becoming chairman of the KGB in 1967, Andropov immediately announced his intention to revive KGB ‘special actions’ as an essential tool of Soviet policy during the Cold War." (Andrew & Mitrokhin, p. 374)
Former KGB general Oleg Kalugin assured correctly on a BBC World News TV discussion on September 23rd, 2001, that there were more terrorists of al-Qayda who had been trained by the KGB than by the CIA, y Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB officer from 1956 to 1984, who prepared a secret report in 1987 and defected to Britain in 1992. He describes "false flag" operations, where "Soviet-trained Afghan guerrilla units posed as CIA-supported, anti-Soviet mujahidin rebels [Islamic freedom-fighters] to create confusion and flush out genuine rebels". In January 1983, there were 86 such "false bands", trained by KGB officer V. Kikot of the 8th Department of the "Directorate S". Kikot was transferred from Cuba, and was acquainted with training Palestinian terrorists. There were also over 110 agents infiltrated in Iran and over 200 agents in Pakistan, including Murtaza Bhutto, son of the former president and brother of the future prime minister. (WP 24.2.2002; IHT 25.2.2002)
Victor Bout
KGB officer, Viktor But (Victor Bout), flew arms to the Taliban until 2001. The beginning of this business enterprise would have remained unknown, if a Russian airplane would not have been spotted at Kandahar airport. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, But served in UN peace troops in Angola. (Sunday Telegraph 22.7.2001) He still has a house in Johannesburg, now used as a brothel. In 1995, But appeared in Belgium as the owner of a cargo flight company. He flew arms to Afghanistan, since 1997 to East Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda, and since 1998 to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Destinations may have included also Bosnia, Serbia, Iraq, Eritrea or Georgia (the end users are often unknown), Peru, and Sri Lanka (Tamil Tigers). (Jane’s Intelligence Review, February 2002; The Washington Monthly 1/2002) Bout’s partners were Soviet-trained air force generals of the Taliban. To be closer to Afghanistan, he moved in 1997 to the United Arab Emirates. When UN sanctions forced the United Arab Emirates to check the cargo going to Afghanistan, in January 2001, Bill Clinton’s administration did its last favour to friendly Russia by allowing an exception for carriers registered in Russia. (LAT 20.1.2002) For Clinton’s administration, Russians were always above any suspicions as sponsors of Islamic terrorism. Once again, the British MI6 was needed to turn CIA’s attention to the right direction. (Sunday Times 17.2.2002) Islamists in modern Russia are KGB-trained provocateurs, who fight traditions and nationalism, and dream about a re-established Soviet Union. Their perception of Islam resembles more a Communist caricature than the historical roots of ethnically mainly Caucasian and Tatar Muslims. To understand the development to this better, KGB’s activities in the Middle East can be divided in five-year periods: 1978-1982 the KGB puts great hopes on the "Islamic revolution" of Iran, and its expansion to Arab countries, while exporting communism into Afghanistan.
*Sources
Were Tamil Tigers International Terrorist or Freedom Fighters? youtube What makes the narrator say, that LTTE is the most deadliest and ruthless terrorist movement the world has ever known. This is completely wrong. Of course LTTE was terrorizing - they were rebels. Not only terrorists
pressTV pro-LTTE Member of European Parliament (7:35) Robert Evans (British) falsely claim Sri Lanka has a apartheid regime, Sinhalese discriminate against Tamils. The truth is 'Apartheid' never existed in Sri Lanka. If USA did not support Talibans to fight Russia, Afghanistan could have been a peaceful country today. If USA could remove Sadam for dictatorial leadership then USA/EU should also be able to see LTTE dictatorship in the same perspective. LTTE killed Sri Lankan Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims who disobeyed him, used civilians as human-shields, recruited child soldiers, used suicide bombers to kill innocent civilians in Sri Lanka. Civilized societies unable to understand the war in Sri Lankais. It is a separatist terrorism. They call LTTE terrorists as liberation fighters. Civil societies have an obligation to protect a civil society from a terrorist group. SRI LANKA WAR MY PERSPECTIVE I salute Lt. Gen. Fonseka, Commander of Sri Lanka Army for being honest and say correctly that solution to Sri Lanka war is a militarily solution (Part-2) . So called "sole representatives of minority Tamils" LTTE started ethnic cleansing of Sinhalese and Muslims in North and East of Sri Lanka. Innocent civilians were massacred by the most ruthless separatist terrorists LTTE for the last 26 years and General Fonseka was one of survivors of 200+ suicide attacks by LTTE against Sinahalese.
The history of the Tamil Tigers | Sri Lanka News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2008/11/2008112019115851343.html Apr 28, 2009 - Formed in 1975, the group has vowed to carve out a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.After 1948, the Tamils also became the targets of numerous riots that swept through the island nation. Believing that these riots were instigated by the Sinhalese authorities, Tamils began calling for an independent state and for an organisation to protect their rights. Other prominent armed groups included the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOT), the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation (EROS) and the Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF). These armed groups lost ground and became obsolete as the LTTE killed their leaders and absorbed their trained cadres. The LTTE's most famous suicide mission was against Rajiv Gandhi, a former Indian prime minister.
Sea Tigers is the largest wing of the LTTE. Their personnel include sea-going units, onshore marine engineers, maintenance personnel, naval communications and intelligence cadres, and, the commando Black Sea Tigers.
The LTTE craft vary from heavily armed gunboats and troop carriers to ocean going supply vessels, all most all designed and built indigenously.
The Sea Tigers are reported to possess radar-evading stealth boats (probably North Korean built) but their attempts to build submarines failed when their base in Thailand was discovered.
