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A LTTE Sea Tiger fast attack fibreglass boat passing a Sri Lankan freighter sunk by the Sea Tigers just north of the village of Mullaitivu, North-eastern Sri Lanka According to Rohan Gunaratna , since late 1997, North Korea became the principal country to provide arms, ammunition, and explosives to the LTTE.
The Palliyagodella massacre was carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against the mostly Muslim population of the Palliyagodella village located on border region of the northern part of Sri Lanka that were controlled by the Tigers at the time. This was the largest massacre of Muslim civilians by the LTTE to date.
The following is a list of notable people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly known as Tamil Tigers or as LTTE. [1] [2] The LTTE was a militant organisation that was based in northern Sri Lanka, which fought for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka between 1983 and 2009. [3]
Beginning in December 2005, there was increased guerrilla activity to the northeast, including Claymore mine attacks which killed 150 government troops, [153] clashes between the Sea Tigers and the Sri Lanka navy and the killings of sympathizers on both sides including Taraki Sivaram, a pro-LTTE journalist, and Joseph Pararajasingham, a pro ...
Prabhakaran was a major figure of Tamil nationalism, and the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in reaction to the oppression of the country's Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government.
After months of reconnaissance by LTTE intelligence wing, the LTTE carried out a raid on the 12 April 1996, when the country was celebrating the Sinhalese New Year.The night before, the 7:40 pm the Command Operations Room of the Western Naval Area of SLNS Ranagala received an anonymous call stating that a merchant ship outside the Colombo harbour was being boarded by sea pirates.
Execution-style mass murder of unarmed police officers was carried out by the militant organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka on 11 June 1990. Members of the LTTE are alleged to have killed over 600 [1] unarmed Sri Lanka Police officers in Eastern Province on that day. Some accounts have estimated ...
The Tamil Tigers are designated as a terrorist organization by 32 countries, including the United States, Canada, and the member nations of the European Union. [6] [citation needed] By 2002, the Tamil Tigers controlled an area of approximately 15,000 km 2 in the north and east Sri Lanka. At the time, facing increasing losses on the battlefield ...