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Originally Posted by Gunmaster45
I feel out of the loop. I don't know any of this shit.  |
Basically, the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) want to create their own little country in the Northern part of Sri Lanka. The Tamil people got imported to the island by the Brits, back when Sri Lanka was still a British colony, and the native Sinhalese hated them. Thus, after independence, Sri Lanka was an island where you had two tribes who hated each other. Some of the Tamils took this as far as wanting their own country on the island (which would be called Tamil Eelam), so various militias were formed to fight for it.
The LTTE got to be the biggest and most dangerous of the Tamil rebel groups, and eventually controlled half of Sri Lanka. They're best known for having used suicide bombers (before the jihadists took up the tactic), and even a ragtag air force and navy. Eventually, the Sri Lankan Army pretty much kicked their asses this past May when they killed off most of the LTTE leadership (including Prabhakaran, the chief of staff), so now it looks as though the LTTE is done, for the foreseeable future.
Hope that explains it.