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A violent militant group calling themselves the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are waging a terrorist campaign in Sri Lanka in order to create a separate state. The LTTE, while masquerading as a liberation organisation, has for almost a quarter century spurned all efforts at securing peace and continued a sustained campaign of terrorism against successive democratically elected governments and civilians of Sri Lanka. People from all ethnic communities - Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims - have been the victims of this terror. The LTTE is now banned in Sri Lanka, India, the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada and Malaysia. Other countries are expected to ban the LTTE soon following the events of September 11 2001, when the world woke up to the reality of international terrorism. |
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The gruesome brutality and wanton destruction that the LTTE has unleashed in its campaign to create a separate Tamil Only state in Sri Lanka is sustained by funds generated abroad by extortion from Tamil expatriates, and from trade in arms, narcotic trafficking, smuggling of illegal immigrants and money laundering. |
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This site contains some graphic pictures of LTTE massacres of innocent civilians carried out in the name of Tamil Liberation and self determination. By showing these pictures we try to draw your attention to a situation which will prevail if the peace loving people of the world continue to remain silent and unconcerned. |
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The U.S Government made the following statement while banning the LTTE and all its fund raising activities from its soil: |
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"The steps we are taking today of cracking down on fund raising for terror and of banning terrorists from our shores are steps we urge other countries to take within their jurisdiction. By steadily reducing the habitat in which terrorism thrives, we can hope to make terrorists first an endangered species, and ultimately, an extinct one" |
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--U.S Secretary of State, 8 October 1997. Read the Full Report. |
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The LTTE have been feeding the world with lies about discrimination against Tamils in Sri Lanka. They would make you think that Tamils cannot live among the Sinhalese and Muslims, but 52% of the Tamils live harmoniously amoung the Sinhalese and Muslims outside of the Northern and Eastern provinces the LTTE are claiming for their 'homeland'. As a percentage of the population, there are more Tamil Doctors, Lawyers, Government Officials and Top Civil Servants than any other ethnic group in Sri Lanka. Statistics show that the Tamil people in the country have always been among the most privileged minorities in the world. |
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Sri Lanka has been the home to the Sinhalese for over 2,500 years and Tamils only started arriving about 1,000 years ago from India. Although invading Indian Tamil armies have controlled parts of Sri Lanka for short periods, there has never been a Tamil Homeland on the island of Sri Lanka. Historical documents prove this, but Tamil separatists are trying to re-write the history of Sri Lanka in order to justify their claims for a monoethnic 'Tamil homeland'. |
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There were over 300,000 Sinhalese and Muslims living in harmony in the northern areas of Sri Lanka, before the LTTE commenced its campaign of terror. The LTTE has ethnically cleansed the northern parts, and most eastern parts of Sri Lanka of Sinhalese and Muslims by killing most of these families and driving out the others. Populations of entire villages, both Sinhalese and Muslim have been hacked to death by these terrorists. |
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*http://www.sinhaya.com |
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*http://www.slarmy.org |
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Revision as of 21:31, 25 December 2001
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