Tamil+Tigers

**//Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam //**
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//Basic knowledge of Tamil Tiger LTTE, stands for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Was a anti-government group in Sri Lanka. "Suicide bomb" is the most regular terror they create in their country and a lot of important people has been killed from it. Moreover, Tamil Tiger attacks civilian buildings, economy center, military institution and even Buddhist temples. This is what they start to gets aimed by the international society and other countries. January 1998, Tamil Tiger was trying to blow up the a famous Buddhist temple called "Dālada Maligawa". Therefore, Sri Lanka government has officially announced Tamil Tiger as illegal organization. India, USA, UK, Canada and EU also sees it as a terrorist organization and list it on the list of terrorist organizations.

The formation of Tamil Tiger is actually a represent of Sri Lanka national conflict. Long time ago start from 19th century there was 2 nations in the country. One is the Hindus, which form about 18% of the population in the country. Another nation is called the Sinhalese who believed in Buddhism, and this is the rich group of people who runs the country and forms about 74% of the population. 2 nations were very unite at that time, they were fighting the British Empire together at that time, however, the British did use the strategies to spilt them us, cause conflict among 2 nations. Hindus are mostly quite poor and the Sinhalese are quite rich. The hatred between the 2 nations last a very long time until today. Finally Tamil Tiger used this hatred and build up their group in the name of gaining rights and power for the Hindus, they are also a group that extremely anti-Buddhist.

1948, after Sri Lanka's independence from Britain Empire. The Buddhist wasn't very happy about the policies of language, employment, education and religion. The conflict between 2 nations are getting very serious and had many conflict already. Some of the extremist formed the terrorist organization called Tamil Tiger and start to officially combat with the government.

Tamil tiger has set very strict laws for their soldiers. They are not allowed to drink or smoke, they cannot get marriage without permission. Usually female at 24 and male at 28 are allowed to get married. Half of them are female, they do not get payed to join it, all depends on their personal belief. Guerrilla force is the main military power of Tamil tiger, their jobs are mainly searching for information and special operations. All members of Tamil Tiger has a little container on their neck, even the people that has a very high rank. They all realize that once they got arrested, they will suffer the torture. They choose to die but to give up the position of the organization. This little container also helps us to identify the differences between Tamil Tiger and other terrorists group around the world.

History of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam//

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was founded in May 1976, in northern Sri Lanka. It was a violence group to independent from the Sri Lanka.

In July 1983, LTTE killed 13 government armies and it caused the civil war between government and LTTE.

In 1987, Sri Lanka government made an agreement with India government. After 1987, India helped the government army so LTTE fought with India's army for 4 years.

In 1990, India's army withdrew from the Sri Lanka because 1200 of Indian army killed. As a result, LTTE got northern Sri Lanka and it growth up to very big group even they had navy and air force.

In 1991, the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi killed by suicide bomber

In 1993, LTTE assassinated the Sri Lanka President Ranasinghe Premadasa used suicide bomber.

In 1996, LTTE attacked government’s base and killed 1200 people.

In February 2009, LTTE attacked capital of the Sri Lanka

In May 16th 2009, President of Sri Lanka announced that they won.

Goal of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam  Tamil Tiger use violence to try to create a an independent country at the East and North part of Sri Lanka, they disagree with Sri Lanka-India peace contract, and ask India to retreat all military force immediately. They mainly equipped with Battle tank, BMPs, Long range heavy artillery, air defense missiles and large number of gunboats. Since the establishment of Tamil Tiger, violence is almost the only way they use to anti-government. Basically, the goal of Tamil Tiger is to break down Sri Lanka into 2 countries.

The ending of Tamil Tiger

18th of May, Sri Lanka army has announced that Tamil Tiger supreme commander Velupillai Prabhakaran has been eliminated. Sri Lanka president announced in 19th that 25 years of civil war is finally finished. The people from the high rank of the government in Sri Lanka reported, Sri Lanka army has surrounded Velupillai Prabhakaran and other important members of Tamil Tiger. Velupillai Prabhakaran try to escape with a track, however the track got exploded by RPG. After that, people went inside the track and confirmed the dead body is Velupillai Prabhakaran, and also the naval force commander and the leader of Tamil Tiger intelligence agency.//Velupillai Prabhakaran did not choose who will replace him if anything happened to him when he was alive. This is a big mistake because then it means that himself is the Tamil Tiger and when he die, Tamil Tiger will be dead too.

Effects to Sri Lanka Political

Years of civil war brought by Tamil Tiger has caused an unstable political situation for the last 25 years. Basically during the strongest time of Tamil Tiger, Tamil Tiger can combat with Sri Lanka national armed force face to face, they are like another government for Sri Lanka and quite a few countries have accepted them. Some countries even secretly giving them military supplies. Their Nationalism thought gave them a huge number of supporters in the country, government was badly threatened by them.

Economy

During the 25 years of civil war between Tamil Tiger and the government has badly damaged the economy of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka government spend about 60%-70% of their GDP every year for their military to fight with Tamil Tiger. Also during the war, some armed conflict was very serious, it even involves with heavy weapons sometimes. Such as heavy artillery and tanks, these things are extremely harmful to the economy. Tamil TIger understands that destroy the economy structures would be a key point for them to win the war, therefore a lot of factories and other form of economy has been destroyed, which caused a even worth situation of Sri Lanka economy.

Social

Tamil Tiger has caused huge effects for Sri Lanka. As Tamil Tiger involves with National issue, therefore they have destroyed a lot of culture stuff such as Museums, they have also eliminated many other cultures that they do not want. SInce they particularly protect one nation, the 2 nations in the country are having conflict, what you do all depends on which nation you belongs to. //

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"Tamil Tigers." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 12 May 2010 [] //__

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