Their organization is just a band of terrorists! What else could you expect their leader to be!
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, is a politico-military organization that has been waging a secessionist campaign against the Sri Lankan government since the 1970s in order to secure a separate state for the Tamil majority regions in the north and east of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon).The LTTE is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by 29 countries including the US, India, EU and Canada.The LTTE is headed by its founder, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
RECENTLY...
The Sri lankan Government accused the LTTE of executing 13 laborers on May 29 2006. [14] A claymore mine attack on 15 June 2006 on a bus carrying 140 civilians killed 68 (icluding 15 children),and injured 60.The US state department and the SLMM have named LTTE as culprits for this attack.[15].On August 14, 2006, a convoy carrying the Pakistani High Commissioner was attacked by a claymore fragmentation mine concealed within a rickshaw, killing seven and injuring seventeen.[57] The blast was near the office of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Sri Lankan government accused the LTTE of responsibility. Pakistan has accused the Indian intelligence agency, RAW, for the attack.[58]
The attack coincided with a series of battles between LTTE guerrillas and Sri Lankan security forces around eastern Sri Lanka and the Jaffna peninsula, including a Sri Lankan military airstrike on a building which killed a number of school children. The LTTE claimed it was an orphanage, while the government maintains the target was a child soldier training camp. UTHR(J) notes 51 school children (based on list by local principals were killed due to the bombing. UTHR also notes that this installation was previously used by LTTE for training militia. UTHR reports that LTTE had organised this residential camp against the parents wishes with the aim of recruiting some of these school children. [16].
UNICEF and the SLMM truce monitors saw only 19 bodies of young men and women but agree there was no evidence to support government claims that the installation was a military training camp.[59] On September 1st, Sri Lankan police arrested three of the young women - aged 18, 19 and 20 - who were injured in the airstrike and were susequently brought to a to a hospital in central Sri Lanka for treatment. Inspector General of Police Chandra Fernando said the three young women all claimed that they were taken by a member of the Tamil Tigers to a camp deep within rebel territory for first aid training but when they reached the camp, they were forced to undergo weapons training.[60] The Defense Ministry also released a video of the 3 women confessing that they were taken by the LTTE for forced training sessions. (Link to Video) Although a human rights group, Asian Human Rights Commission had previously complained in 2005 that the Sri Lankan police is known to obtain confessions through torture, duress and other inhumane activities,[61] neither they, nor anyone else, stated that these young women made their confessions under duress.
2006-12-09 15:40:11
·
answer #1
·
answered by az helpful scholar 3
·
0⤊
0⤋