20 Facts About Tamil Tigers

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka.

Historical inter-ethnic imbalances between the Sinhalese and Tamil Tigers populations are alleged to have created the background of the LTTE.

Tamil Tigers United Liberation Front leader Appapillai Amirthalingam, who was in 1977 elected as the Opposition leader of Sri Lanka Parliament, clandestinely supported the LTTE.

Thousands of outraged Tamil Tigers youths joined Tamil Tigers militant groups to fight the Sri Lankan government, in what is considered a major catalyst to the insurgency in Sri Lanka.

The first batch of Tamil Tigers were trained in Establishment 22 based in Chakrata, Uttarakhand.

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Notices were issued to the effect that all remaining Tamil Tigers insurgents join the LTTE in Jaffna and in Madras, where the Tamil Tigers groups were headquartered.

Tamil Tigers is said to have collaborated with the Indian Research and Analysis Wing to remove Prabhakaran from the LTTE leadership.

Tamil Tigers tried to take control of the eastern province from the LTTE, which caused clashes between the LTTE and TMVP.

Victory over the Tamil Tigers was declared by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 16 May 2009, and the LTTE admitted defeat on 17 May 2009.

Tamil Tigers assumed duty as the new leader of LTTE on 21 July 2009.

Tamil Tigers was a member of the LTTE delegation for Norwegian brokered peace talks.

In 1978, during the world tour of Amirthalingam, he formed the World Tamil Coordinating Committee, which was later found to be an LTTE front organisation.

The deal with North Korean government was carried out by Ponniah Anandaraja alias Aiyannah, a member of World Tamil Tigers Coordinating Committee of the United States and later, the accountant of LTTE.

Tamil Tigers worked at the North Korean embassy in Bangkok since late 1997.

Tamil Tigers maintained that the LTTE was a national liberation organization fighting against "state terrorism" and "racist oppression".

From ancient times, the Tamil Tigers civilization saw war as an honorable sacrifice, and fallen heroes were revered and worshiped in the form of a hero stone.

Experts estimated that the Black Tamil Tigers had carried out most of the suicide attacks recorded around the world by the time the Sri Lankan civil war ended in 2009.

In 2009 a Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations said the Tamil Tigers "continue to recruit children to fight on the frontlines", and "use force to keep many civilians, including children, in harm's way".

Local Tamil Tigers leaders were disturbed by the LTTE's call for the eviction of Muslims in 1990.

One Tamil Tigers prisoner held by the LTTE from 1992 to 1995 showed "clear signs of clear signs of burning with heated metalon his genitals, thigh, buttocks and back".