Tamil Tigers
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (commonly known as the Tamil Tigers or by the acronym LTTE) is a terrorist group operating in northern Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1976, originally with the goal of creating an independent state in northern Sri Lanka called Tamil Eelam. It has been involved in the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka since 1983.
Terrorist acts
- Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, was killed by a female suicide bomber on May 21, 1991.
- Ranasinghe Premadasa, the third president of Sri Lanka, was killed by a suicide bomber on May 1, 1993.
- Between 1980 and 2000, the LTTE has carried out 168 suicide bombings, more than Hamas and al-Qaeda combined.
Links to other groups
- The LTTE have been linked to supplying arms to radial Islamic terrorist groups in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Philippines.
- They also provided the false passport used by Ramzi Yousef (mastermind of the 1991 WTC bombings) to gain entrance to the United States in 1993.
