The government has accused the leadership of using tens of thousands of civilians trapped there as human shields. During this time, according to UN estimates, more than 6,000 civilians have been killed as the Tigers were pushed from their northern territories into a “no fire zone”, consisting of a few kilometres of northeast coastline. This has been particularly evident during the last four months, before Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory on Sunday. The “Tamil Tigers”, as they came to be known, would become the progenitors of modern suicide bombing.įor Prabhakaran, no sacrifice was too great for the objective of “Eelam” (precious land), a Tamil state in an island of mainly Sinhalese Buddhists. UNDER THE leadership of Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has been killed aged 54 in fighting with the Sri Lankan army, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were moulded into one of the world’s deadliest insurgent groups. Tamil chief who waged war for over 30 years
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