Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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liberation-tigers-of-tamil-eelam-203-11300058
title:
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
text:
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the northeast of the island in response to violent persecution and discriminatory policies against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan Government. Its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran cited violent incidents of the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom during his childhood that led him to militanc
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Tamil organisation in Sri Lanka (1976–2009)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam
date created:
2001-12-25T21:10:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:50:11Z
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13
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