Thereafter, his father sent him to an area controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Similarly, northern Sri Lanka is the main battleground for the long running conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Approximately 600,000 persons had been displaced within Sri Lanka as a result of conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which had sought to establish a mono ethnic secessionist entity.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been listed in Annex II of the report owing to the fact that the LTTE has for many years been engaged in recruiting children for armed combat.

BRUSSELS Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country s Tamil minority.

For over two decades, Sri Lanka has been under sustained assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed group that employs brutal methods and suicide bombings in its campaign of terror to obtain a separate State.

Sri Lanka was of the opinion that the recruitment of children by the armed group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, consisted of four grave violations, namely attacks against schools and civilian centres abduction of children denial of humanitarian access for children and the use of children in armed conflict.

July 15 Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

With the support of a broad multi ethnic coalition of parties, I proceeded to talk with the rebel armed group  the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)  about ending the conflict, and discussed with all the parties in parliament a new, more inclusive, political Constitution that would share power with all communities.

It was reported that the above mentioned 13 persons are being kept in detention in Wellikadai Prison in Colombo. All these persons were arrested on ethnic grounds, i.e. for the simple fact of being ethnic Tamils, and under suspicion of involvement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the main armed opposition group.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

Rajapaksa was wise to speak a few words in Tamil while announcing the victory over the Tigers.

The conflict between the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Ealam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka in the north and east of the country has at times restricted the freedom of movement of returnees and produced large numbers of internally displaced persons.

The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka s government for most of the past three decades.

It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka s Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.

It was purely coincidental that the extremist Tamil Tigers leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed and his movement decimated at the same time as India was voting.

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Tigers?

The most dangerous game ? You mean tigers? Tigers?

9. The Government of Sri Lanka has also brought to the attention of the international community and relevant organizations of the United Nations system, the violent campaign of terror unleashed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE), a terrorist group seeking to establish a mono ethnic state in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

Tamil Nadu

NEW DELHI Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka s long and brutal civil war against the Tamil Tigers are now crossing political swords.

And tigers?

And tigers.

Like the Tamil Tigers, the Malayan Communists were also damned as terrorists, but the casualties they inflicted were small compared to the mass killings caused by both sides in Sri Lanka's war.

Taming the Tigers

Release the tigers!

Their political duel was aggravated recently when the President, wary that her prime ministerial rival was too soft in dealing with the rebel Tamil Tigers, sacked three ministers and took over their portfolios.

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

In Tamil Nadu, the school education of the Tamil Muslims is above average compared to general literacy level.

Hunting Tigers in China

Don t Cripple the Tigers

One Forest, Two Tigers

Stifling heat, mosquitoes, tigers.

It is saving the tigers.

There were lions and tigers.

Lions and tigers and bears!

Yelelo ailesa yelelo... Tamil Folk Tune