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	Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers Forcibly Recruit Child Soldiers (Human Rights Watch, 10-11-2004)
		The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) use intimidation and threats to pressure Tamil families in the north and east of Sri Lanka to provide sons and daughters for military service.
		The Tamil Tigers have recruited at least 3,516 children since the start of the February 2002 ceasefire with the government, according to cases documented by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
		Under the Action Plan, the Tamil Tigers agreed to end their recruitment of children and to release children from their forces, either directly to the children’s families or to new transit centers that were constructed specifically for this purpose.
	www.hrw.org /english/docs/2004/11/10/slanka9651.htm (901 words)

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		Tamil Nadu is bounded by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in the north and Kerala in the west.
		Tamil Nadu is principally washed by the Cauvery, originating in Coorg in neighbouring Karnataka.
		Tamil Nadu was ruled by three major dynasties-the Cholas in the east, the Pandyas in the central area and Cheras in the west.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /tamil-nadu (1208 words)

	In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers Reaffirm Commitment to Peace Process
		In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tiger rebels have reaffirmed their commitment to a four-year truce that is under threat from spiraling violence.
		The Tigers were responding to Norwegian mediators who asked the rebels to reaffirm their commitment to the truce after they walked out of talks with the Sri Lankan government earlier this month in Oslo.
		However, it is unclear if the Tamil Tigers have lifted their objections to the presence of monitors from the European Union who are supervising the truce.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-06-20-voa39.cfm (457 words)

	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - The Birth of the Tiger Movement - விடுதலை ...
		Tamil Informers, 1998 "...any action that the LTTE may take against a Tamil (even though he be a traitor) sets one Tamil (family) against other Tamils, and will divide and erode the solidarity of the Tamil people, unless the justice of the action and the reasons for the action are publicly known and accepted..."
		The boycott was called by the Tigers, who, for the first time, launched an effective popular campaign appealing to the people to shun the local government elections as a mark of disapproval and rejection of the racist State system that has imposed a reign of terror and repression against the Tamils.
		The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are an actual combat group, fully uniformed, occupying territory, engaging in sustained and concerted military operations with an identifiable chain of command and using the methods and materiel of armed conflict.
	www.tamilnation.org /ltte (4667 words)

	Peace and the Tamil Tigers? - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tamil Tigers have one political goal: a division of the small island and the creation of a separate state.
		Restrictions on Tiger fundraising in the West was seriously hampered this year by bans in Canada and the European Union, and in the United States this year, authorities arrested several men in New York and Baltimore suspected of attempting to purchase weapons for the Tigers.
		To bring the Tamil Tigers into meaningful and lasting cease-fire agreement, and stop the violence that is besieging the small nation, it's fund-raising activities in the West will need to be stopped.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20061216-113344-2459r.htm (442 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Sri Lanka
		The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, is a political and military organization whose aim is an independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka.
		The Tamil Tigers were formed in the late 1970s, sparked by tensions between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil populations.
		The Tamil Tigers began to target politicians in the north who were seen as sympathizers of the Sinhalese.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/srilanka/tamil-tigers.html (1406 words)

	Tamil Tigers ditch dove -DAWN - International; November 19, 2005
		COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tiger rebels deliberately ditched the man who signed a truce with them and cleared the way for his hawkish rival to win the presidency in a calculated move that has dashed peace hopes, analysts said on Friday.
		The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) prevented Tamils from participating in Thursday’s presidential election thereby blocking votes that many expected to hand victory to opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.
		Fearing that a high poll among Tamils could favour the former premier, the Rajapakse camp asked the court to stop Tamils voting in rebel-held areas, a call rejected by the judiciary earlier this month.
	www.dawn.com /2005/11/19/int13.htm (818 words)

	Tamil Tigers launch air raid: World: News: News24
		The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said their first ever airborne attack was carried out by two light fixed-wing aircraft against the Katunayake air base where the military's supersonic aircraft fleet is located.
		Monday's attack was the first public demonstration of the Tigers' air power although they had been hinting of an air wing for the past 10 years.
		The LTTE also operates a sea-going wing known as the Sea Tigers, a "navy" that is a rarity among the world's guerrilla forces.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,9294,2-10-1462_2088995,00.html (448 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Tamil Tigers losing their grip on northern Jaffna
		The Tamil Tiger guerrillas are still insisting on the dismantling of the HSZs, but the army and the government have refused.
		The Tamil Tigers are on the same path again, killing their opponents after the signing of a cease-fire agreement.
		The Tamil Tigers had submitted their contentious proposal for the ISAG in October 2003, when the UNP was in the government.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=9845 (2049 words)

	Tamil Tigers say still committed to peace - Boston.com
		Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers said on Friday they had reassured mediator Norway that they stood by their commitment to a ceasefire and peace process in their conflict with the Colombo government.
		JEVNAKER, Norway (Reuters) - Sri Lankan rebel Tamil Tigers said on Friday they had reassured mediator Norway that they stood by their commitment to a ceasefire and peace process in their conflict with the Colombo government.
		He said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were firm in their decision that the European Union members of a five-nation Nordic ceasefire monitoring mission should leave the Indian Ocean island.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/06/09/tamil_tigers_say_still_committed_to_peace (552 words)

	Three dogmas about Tamil Tigers
		25,000 Tamils recently gathered in Canada, and 10,000 in Geneva, to show support for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who are defending their Tamil "homeland" in the north and east of Sri-Lanka against the advancing Sri-Lankan army.
		Tamil people are rallying behind Tigers as never before and this should be reflected upon carefully by the international community: if Tamils can be mobilised internationally on this scale, one can imagine the level of support the Tigers have in their strongholds in the north and east.
		With a full-scale invasion of the Tiger stronghold of Jaffna immanent- French doctors have just reported that many school children were killed last week by one wave of aeriel bombing,, it is important for the international community to exert pressure on the Chandrika-government to abandon its misconceived military strategy.
	www.eelam.com /analysis/3dogmas.html (1001 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Tamil Tigers: A fearsome force
		Tamil Tiger recruits are given a rigorous military training and ideological makeover.
		The Tamil Tigers are notorious for their suicide attacks, and the LTTE has carried out at least five times more such attacks than other similar organisations put together.
		In one pre-dawn attack in late 1999, Tiger units were accused of hacking to death women and children in a majority Sinhala village.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/526407.stm (439 words)

	TamilNet: 27.11.04 Tamil Tigers will launch freedom struggle if peace talks are further delayed - LTTE leader
		The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mr Velupillai Pirapaharan, in his annual statement marking Heroes’ Day, cautioned the Sri Lanka government that his organisation would be compelled to launch the freedom struggle of the Tamil nation if peace talks were further delayed and the suffering of his people continued.
		The Tamil Tiger leader severely censured Sinhala political organisations for their lack of a clear, coherent policy or proper insight into the fundamental issues underlying the Tamil national question.
		While pointing out that "there is division, discord, confusion and contradiction within the Sinhala political leadership on the Tamil issue," Mr Pirapaharan urged the Sinhala political parties in the south to openly declare their official position on the core issues of the Tamils.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=13487 (3044 words)

	CNN.com - Tamil Tigers reject peace talks - May. 30, 2003
		The Tigers said on Friday the plan was not suited to carrying out humanitarian work in Tamil areas hit by two decades of war, Reuters news agency reported.
		The Tigers suspended peace talks last month and pulled out of a donor conference in Tokyo to protest at what they said was a lack of progress on government promises to rebuild the Tamil areas.
		The rebels have also threatened to stay away from an all-important international aid-pledging conference scheduled for next month in Tokyo unless their demand for a rebel-controlled interim administration in northern and eastern provinces of the country was met.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/30/srilanka.peace (545 words)

	Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen on Sri Lanka on National Review Online
		In 1976, the Vaddukoddai Resolution was drafted by the Tamils in response.
		But by disarming, the Tamil Tigers would acknowledge their loss of sovereignty, and be forced to accept a peace deal dictated by a government that has never exhibited good will toward them.
		The Tamils are living their demands for "internal self-determination." Instead of waiting for a formal peace treaty, the Tamils have already begun rebuilding for the future — schools and hospitals, roads, water systems, and power grids.
	www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel_gallant_eisen200403030918.asp (2173 words)

	Radio Australia - News In Depth - Timeline - Conflict in Sri Lanka - Text Only
		Tamil grievances are further exacerbated in 1972 - the year in which the island becomes a republic and is renamed Sri Lanka.
		Relations between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the government rapidly deteriorate with the election in November of President Mahinda Rajapakse, with the backing of hardliners opposed to any power-sharing deal with the rebels.
		In May the European Union outlaws the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist organisation, leading the rebels to demand that the EU components of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) withdraw from the country.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/timelines/s1708507_to.htm (917 words)

	TamilNet
		A Tamil journalist, Arthur Wamanan, working in the Sunday Leader English weekly Thursday filed a Fundamental Rights Violation petition in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka seeking the court to declare his arrest and detention on October 24 was illegal.
		Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) Northern Front Operations Command Saturday said an attempt by a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unit to advance towards their Forward Defence Line (FDL) positions in Naakarkoayil Friday morning was thwarted before the SLA unit managed to approach the FDL.
		Six gunboats of Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE), Friday morning at 7:50 approached Peasaalai in Mannaar and opened fired from their vessels from a close distance of 75 meters, on coastal naval and police sentry posts, Police said.
	www.tamilnet.com (2525 words)

	TamilBrisbane.com :: Tamil Speaking Community Portal - Brisbane - Queensland - Australia - Peace deal between Sri Lanka ...
		Confirming the worst fears of Sri Lankans who oppose the ceasefire agreement, the Tamil Tigers have said that the deal has granted de facto recognition to the existence of Tamil Eelam, their separate state, but it indicated that the door for peace was not fully closed.
		In a hard-hitting statement issued to mark the fifth anniversary of the ceasefire agreement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said the marginalisation of the agreement by the government had compelled them to resume their freedom struggle.
		The Tigers said their organisation was a liberation movement which had a long history of struggle for the Tamil people’s right to self-determination.
	www.tamilbrisbane.com /content/view/412/1 (700 words)

	Taming the Tamil Tigers
		Most recently, the Tamil Tigers attacked a ship carrying 700 unarmed troops together with international cease-fire monitors on May 11, the eve of one of the most sacred dates in our calendar, when Sri Lanka's Buddhist-majority were celebrating the 2,550th anniversary of the birth of Buddha.
		The Tamil Tigers' strategy is to take control of the sea off the areas they control in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
		These citizens are extorted by Tamil Tigers' agents in their workplaces, who beat up workers who refuse to make regular contributions from their wages.
	in.rediff.com /news/2006/jun/01guest.htm (899 words)

	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka, separatists) - Council on Foreign Relations
		The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a separatist terrorist group that seeks an independent state in areas in Sri Lanka inhabited by ethnic Tamils.
		However, some of the Tigers’ innovations—such as the “jacket” apparatus worn by individual suicide bombers—have been copied by al-Qaeda, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, and Palestinian groups such as Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
		The Tamils are an ethnic group who live in southern India (mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu) and on Sri Lanka, an island of 19 million people off the southern tip of India.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9242 (1277 words)

	Al Jazeera English - News - Tamil Tigers Show Off Air Force
		According to Sri Lankan air force sources, the Tamil Tiger's Zlin Z 143 aircraft is said to have a range of 630 nautical miles and is capable of carrying an ordinance load of 240 kg.
		The Tamil tigers had been planning an air wing for over a decade now, but most of these air assets have been built after the Norway-brokered ceasefire came into effect in 2002.
		Prabhakaranthe, the reclusive leader of the Tamil Tigers, posing with pilots and technicians of the air wing.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/BDCED416-507F-4C89-8DAA-0CDA370B1F3C.htm (443 words)

	Sri Lanka battles a weakened Tamil Tigers \| csmonitor.com
		The Tiger rebels, who invented suicide bombing and are famous for overwhelming targets with speed and fire power, have over the years emerged as a formidable nonstate force.
		According to the Sri Lankan military, 13 of the Tigers' 30 suicide boats were destroyed by the Navy while the rest were forced to retreat.
		New Tiger recruits are less motivated, and the rebels now face open defiance by a growing number of Tamil civilians, says Mr.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0905/p06s01-wosc.html (1135 words)

	Tamil Tigers accuse Sri Lanka government - Pravda.Ru
		Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday accused Sri Lanka's government of not honoring commitments given at the just-concluded Geneva talks by failing to crack down on an armed member of a rival Tamil group in the north.
		The group accuses the Tamil Tigers of killing at least 40 of its members since the 2002 cease-fire between the rebels and the government.
		Tamils complain of systematic discrimination by the Sinhalese majority, and are seeking autonomy in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated northeast, reports the AP.
	english.pravda.ru /news/world/27-02-2006/76504-Tamil_tigers-0 (439 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Tamil Tigers end 19-day water blockade to government-held areas in Sri Lanka
		On July 20, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels blocked water supplies to 60,000 people in government-controlled villages in northeastern Trincomalee district 135 miles northeast of Colombo.
		Tigers wanted "security of civilians who must travel between government and LTTE areas; to remove the ban on items imposed by the army; and to incorporate drinking water supply to their areas," a statement said.
		Tamil Tiger rebels have fought the government since 1983 to create a separate state for the country's 3.2 million minority Tamils accusing majority Sinhalese of discrimination.
	www.deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,645191508,00.html (256 words)

	The Lanka Academic :: View topic - Targeting the Tamil Tigers - Editorial
		Any hope that the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would respond to diplomatic pressure and renounce their terrorist tactics ahead of the cease-fire negotiations scheduled for the end of the month was murderously subverted by a suicide attack that killed more than 100 Sri Lankan sailors this week.
		The Tamil Tigers have entered negotiations and cease-fire agreements with a disingenuous promise of peace only to use the break in hostilities to secretly regroup, rearm and relaunch their offensive.
		The Tamil Tigers are not interested in peaceful coexistence; their only goal is to win substantial territorial concessions, which is a nonstarter for the Sri Lankan government, and justifiably so.
	www.theacademic.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=4341 (348 words)

	globeandmail.com: The Tamil Tigers
		Peace talks between the Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lankan government later this month are under a dark cloud after an explosion on Monday continued the violence that has wracked the island nation for over 30 years.
		The Tamil Tigers' power is based in economically-deprived agricultural regions, and is also manned by unemployed urban Tamil youth who the Tigers say face economic and social discrimination.
		Different Indian administrations are believed responsible for training and arming the Tamil rebels in the past in different parts of the sub-continent, and much of their weaponry are said to have come from the former Soviet Union.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20061016.wworldfact1016/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20061016.wworldfact1016 (493 words)

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