Tag Archives : LTTE

The United Nations recently announced that internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, housed in refugee camps since the time they fled their homes during the final and fatal offensive against the LTTE, can now go back to their homes. The questions are whether they still have homes to go back to and how safe is it for them to go back. The Sri [...]

Sri Lanka has announced that, it will begin the process of giving permission to the civilians who got displaced and lost their homes during the gruesome war between Sri Lankan military forces and the terrorist organization, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since the military offensive began, the villagers and civilians from the nearby regions [...]

One of the most prestigious and renowned business schools in the Indian sub-continent, the Indian Business school was dealt a major blow today, when one of the premier board member’s of the organization Billionaire Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam was arrested and charged by U.S investigators in the matter of an insider-trading case, that [...]

Sri Lankan authorities have stated that, they have arrested the new chief of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE), Selvarajah Pathmanathan, who has been on the most wanted list of the authorities, since Sri Lankan forces dismantled the terrorist organization in May this year. Selvarajah has been known to be the point man in LTTE’s [...]

There have been reports of young Tamil women found with their throats slit, as well as abduction by paramilitary groups of Tamil children who have been suspected of being former Tamil Tigers child soldiers. Other refugees have reported the disappearances of some children from the camps. International humanitarian organizations have also observed that [...]

After days of speculation as to whether LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead or still alive, the Tamil Tigers have finally admitted that their leader died on May 17. Last week, the Sri Lanka government released photos of Prabhakaran’s body but pro-Tamil websites insisted that he was ‘alive and safe.’ Now, for the first time, a confirmation [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met this Saturday with Sri Lanka government leaders on the situation of the 280,000 people displaced by war. Ban was also scheduled to visit several camps for the displaced refugees in the north. “After winning the war of 26 years this week, the government of Sri Lanka needs to win the peace solution to the conflict,” [...]

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or more commonly called Tamil Tigers has been one of the more savage militant groups that have ever been formed. The group has been notorious in undertaking suicide bombings, as well as recruiting child soldiers. It is also known to have engaged in arms trafficking. The Tamil Tigers “were the pioneers in [...]

The government of Sri Lanka has assured that all leaders of the Tamil guerrillas have been killed, but has yet to officially confirm finding the body of the group’s top leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. On the other hand, the pro-Tamil website Tamilnet asserts that Prabhakaran is ‘alive and safe.’ Also yet to be recovered is the body of Pottu [...]

The Tamil Tigers have been surrounded by the Sri Lanka military within a radius of only six square kilometers. On the verge of defeat, the rebel group called for a ceasefire which the Sri Lanka government promptly rejected. “The LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is not in a position to request or require anything,” said Foreign Secretary [...]