July 15 Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.

Rajapaksa was wise to speak a few words in Tamil while announcing the victory over the Tigers.

Thereafter, his father sent him to an area controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka s government for most of the past three decades.

It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka s Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.

Similarly, northern Sri Lanka is the main battleground for the long running conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

It was purely coincidental that the extremist Tamil Tigers leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed and his movement decimated at the same time as India was voting.

BRUSSELS Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country s Tamil minority.

NEW DELHI Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka s long and brutal civil war against the Tamil Tigers are now crossing political swords.

Like the Tamil Tigers, the Malayan Communists were also damned as terrorists, but the casualties they inflicted were small compared to the mass killings caused by both sides in Sri Lanka's war.

Their political duel was aggravated recently when the President, wary that her prime ministerial rival was too soft in dealing with the rebel Tamil Tigers, sacked three ministers and took over their portfolios.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been listed in Annex II of the report owing to the fact that the LTTE has for many years been engaged in recruiting children for armed combat.

Taming the Tigers

The defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.

For over two decades, Sri Lanka has been under sustained assault by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed group that employs brutal methods and suicide bombings in its campaign of terror to obtain a separate State.

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On Facebook, users created a page called Marie Colvin's Eyepatch, in reference to her left eye patch from an injury she had received more than ten years ago while covering the conflict between the government and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

In Tamil Nadu, the school education of the Tamil Muslims is above average compared to general literacy level.

No sooner had Sri Lanka s military crushed the Tamil Tigers who ran a de facto state for more than two decades in the north and east than Rajapaksa removed Fonseka as army chief to appoint him to the new, largely ceremonial post of chief of defense staff.

NEW YORK Days after Sri Lanka s government defeated its long time foe, the Tamil Tigers, in May, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon flew into the country s capital, Colombo, for a 24 hour visit to urge its president to open up its refugee camps to international aid groups.

This brought prosperity to the Tamil Muslim community.

They are determined to limit Hindu Tamil power in Sri Lankan affairs and encourage the country's leaders to make few concessions to Tamil autonomy.

Tigers haven't fared any better down to maybe 3,000.

Tigers lead solitary lives, except for mothers with their cubs.

The king himself shot eight rhinos, 21 tigers and one bear.

The region holds very few wolves, due to competition with tigers.

Sri Lanka's bitter war of terror one that practically invented the infamy of the suicide bomber had been showing signs of abating of late. But a bitter power struggle between Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and a schism among the rebel Tamil tigers, now threatens to reignite the violence.

It was reported that the above mentioned 13 persons are being kept in detention in Wellikadai Prison in Colombo. All these persons were arrested on ethnic grounds, i.e. for the simple fact of being ethnic Tamils, and under suspicion of involvement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the main armed opposition group.

360 degree view Being the oldest and important mosque in Tamil Nadu, Kazimar Big Mosque is listed in the 360 degree view list of Tamil daily Dinamalar's web site.

The song Cinema Cinema commemorates the 75th anniversary of Tamil cinema.

Studies indicate that in areas where large predators (tigers and leopards) are extinct, wild pigs are over 10 times more numerous than in areas where tigers and leopards are still present.

Tamil is a south Indian language, and I said, can Tamil speaking children in a south Indian village learn the biotechnology of DNA replication in English from a streetside computer?

But fighting the Tigers and seeking a peace deal have never been alternatives.

Tamil Nadu s voters, who supported the scheme at election time, silenced the critics.

The world's first Tamil Islamic Literature Conference was held in Trichy in 1973.

Over the past few months, the Tigers have suffered a series of devastating blows.

When it comes to raising our children, we need fewer tigers and more elephants.

The ad proclaims that the Dappankuthu is an energetic dance prominent in Tamil cinema.

Vandayarriruppu is a village in the Orathanadu taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India.