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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Other known front organizations: World Tamil Association (WTA), World Tamil Movement (WTM), the Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils (FACT), the Ellalan Force. DescriptionFounded in 1976, the LTTE is the most powerful Tamil group in Sri Lanka and uses overt and illegal methods to raise funds, acquire weapons, and publicize its cause of establishing an independent Tamil state. The LTTE began its armed conflict with the Sri Lankan government in 1983 and relies on a guerrilla strategy that includes the use of terrorist tactics. ActivitiesThe Tigers have integrated a battlefield insurgent strategy with a terrorist program that targets not only key personnel in the countryside but also senior Sri Lankan political and military leaders in Colombo. Political assassinations and bombings have become commonplace. The LTTE has refrained from targeting Western tourists out of fear that foreign governments would crack down on Tamil expatriates involved in fundraising activities abroad. StrengthApproximately 10,000 armed combatants in Sri Lanka; about 3,000 to 6,000 form a trained cadre of fighters. The LTTE also has a significant overseas support structure for fundraising, weapons procurement, and propaganda activities. Location/Area of OperationThe Tigers control most of the northern and eastern coastal areas of Sri Lanka but have conducted operations throughout the island. Headquartered in the Jaffna Peninsula, LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has established an extensive network of checkpoints and informants to keep track of any outsiders who enter the group's area of control. The LTTE prefers to attack vulnerable government facilities, then withdraw before reinforcements arrive. External AidThe LTTE's covert organizations support Tamil separatism by lobbying foreign governments and the United Nations. The LTTE also uses its international contacts to procure weapons, communications, and bomb-making equipment. The LTTE exploits large Tamil communities in North America, Europe, and Asia to obtain funds and supplies for its fighters in Sri Lanka. Information obtained since the mid-1980s indicates that some Tamil communities in Europe are also involved in narcotics smuggling. Tamils historically have served as drug couriers moving narcotics into Europe.
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 Sinhaya From: sinhalaya To: mprofaca@public.srce.hr Subject: Sri Lanka related Web Sites Date: 01.April,1998 01:04 Hi. A group of terrorists calling themselves the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are waging a terrorist campaign in Sri Lanka. The LTTE, while masquerading as a liberation organisation, has for almost a quarter century spurned all efforts at securing peace and continued a sustained campaign of terrorism against successive democratically elected Governments of Sri Lanka.  The gruesome brutality and wanton destruction that the LTTE has unleashed in its campaign to create a separate 'Tamil Only' state in Sri Lanka is sustained by funds generated abroad by extortion from Tamil Expatriates, and from trade in arms, narcotic trafficking, smuggling of illegal immigrants and money laundering.  Our site contains some graphic pictures of LTTE massacres of innocent civilians carried out in the name of 'Tamil Liberation' and 'self determination'. By showing these pictures we try to draw your attention to a situation which will prevail if the peace loving people of the world continue to remain silent and unconcerned. The U.S Government made the following statement while banning the LTTE and all its fund raising activities from its soil. "The steps we are taking today of cracking down on fund raising for terror and of banning terrorist from our shores are steps we urge other countries to take within their jurisdiction. By Steadily reducing the habitat in which terrorism thrives, we can hope to make terrorists first an endangered spices, and ultimately, an extinct one" U.S Secretary of State, 8 October 1997. Since you seem to have links to a wide range of Sri Lanka related web sites, we will be grateful if you would include Sinhaya - http://www.sinhaya.com. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. We have enclosed a banner for Sinhaya, should you decide to include a link. Thank you very much. Sinhaya Email: editor@sinhaya.com http://www.sinhaya.com |