STORY OF Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

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beginning of LTTE 

*Prabhakaran was born in Valvettiturai, a fishing town, on the northern tip of Sri Lanka. His father worked for the government. After Ceylon became independent in 1948, life became very difficult for the small Tamil population. There were laws to limit their chance of getting to university or working for the government. In 1972, Prabhakaran started a group called the Tamil New Tigers (TNT). In July 1975 he shot dead Alfred Duryappa, the mayor of Jaffna.^[16] Duryappa was also a Tamil, but Prahbhakaran believed he had become too close to the Sri Lankan government. Prabhakaran went to India to escape from the police 

Training of LTTE 

He turned the TNT into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)LTTE leaders at Sirumalai camp, Tamil Nadu, India in 1984 while they are being trained by RAW ,    Lingam; Prabhakaran's bodyguard : Hungarian AK , commander Aruna :Beretta Model 38 SMG , LTTE founder-leader Prabhakaran : pistol , commander  Pulendran: Ak 47     

Sea  Tigers

 The Sea Tigers (Tamil: கடற்புலிகள் Kaţaṛpulikaḷ) was the naval wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during the Sri Lankan Civil War. It was founded in 1984.^[1] The Sea Tigers had a number of small but effective suicide bomber vessels.^[2] During its existence it had gained a reputation as a capable adversary for the Sri Lankan Navy.^[Over the years the Sea Tigers had sunk at least 29 Sri Lankan small inshore patrol boats and one freighter.                                                                                                        

Uniform of LTTE

Black tigers( Suicide bombers )

The Black Tigers (Tamil: கரும்புலிகள்) were a wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant Tamil separatist organization. They were specially selected and trained LTTE cadres whose missions included mounting suicide attacks, military and political targets, among them Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa and former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. From their formation in 1987 until the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009, more than 330 Black Tigers made suicide attacks on air, land and sea, mostly in Sri Lanka.

Air tigers 

The Air Tigers (Tamil: வான்புலிகள்) was the air-wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who used it against the Government of Sri Lanka. Though the existence of the Air Tigers had been the subject of speculation for many years, the existence of the wing was only revealed after an attack in March 2007, during Eelam War IV

click here to watch video of LTTE air wing 

Indian Support to LTTE 

 August 1983 to May 1987, India, through its intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), provided arms, training and monetary support to six Sri Lankan Tamil insurgent groups including the LTTE. During that period, 32 camps were set up in India to train these 495 LTTE insurgents, including 90 women who were trained in 10 batches. The first batch of Tigers were trained 

Cyanide pills (suicide poison)

The  of the LTTE prisoners arrested by the Sri Lankans had been a big issue to LTTE so they made 

suicide poison called Cyanide. every LTTE soldier should wear a Cyanide pills. if  LTTE soldier  caught they chewing Cyanide Pill. 

 

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