Don t Cripple the Tigers

Such reports are denied by the LTTE.

Thailand was once touted as a future Asian Tiger.

Peace came about only with the total and unconditional defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels.

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

This was the largest massacre of Muslim civilians by the LTTE to date.

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

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

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.

The armed group LTTE, in gross violation of its commitments, continues such recruitment.

Autocracies, which are much praised for their decisiveness, and for guaranteeing law and order, are paper tigers.

Nobody underplays the LTTE s contribution to the 2009 savagery but, with the Tigers leaders all dead, international attention should now be focused overwhelmingly on holding the government accountable for its failure to accept its responsibility to protect its own people.

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.

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

Thousands of Tamil Tiger fighters have deserted. A rebel army has dwindled to a fanatical few.

He then learned that his father had been detained in Jaffna by LTTE and later killed.

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.

However, two and a half years ago, the LTTE walked away from the peace talks for the sixth time in 18 years.

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

In that action plan, the LTTE agreed to halt recruitment of children and release all children within its ranks.

The East Asian tigers invested heavily in education, and it paid off in terms of a capable and modern workforce.

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

The team s members also knew that Sri Lanka s government had wide support among UN member states, and that the LTTE had none at all.

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

Indeed, the LTTE has been accused of a range of human rights violations, in addition to such killings, including abduction, child conscription, and using civilians as human shields.

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.

Health officials in North America mostly missed the teachable moment. Instead of these lessons, many people learned (or mislearned) that pandemics are paper tigers, and that health officials are fear mongers.

It is alleged that even as the situation in Punjab came under control, the Indian government was offering arms and training to the LTTE rebels fighting the government of Sri Lanka.

Now the country is being divided by the political rivalry between two Sinhalese war idols, each of whom wants to be remembered as the true leader who crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.

As of 31 January 2005, the total number of cases of under age recruitment by the LTTE stood at 4,811, with 1,452 outstanding cases.

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.

As the money rolled in, wages rose, real estate prices reached to near Parisian levels, and people fooled themselves into thinking that Kazakhstan had become Asia s latest tiger.

Yet the United Nations estimates that more than 7,000 noncombatants were killed in the final months of the war as government forces overran Tamil Tiger bases.

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.

The Palliyagodella massacre was carried out by the LTTE, an organization which has been banned in 33 countries including the US, Australia, EU, India and Canada due to its terrorist activities.

No significant special efforts have been made to reach out to the Tamil speaking minority in order to understand better and address those legitimate concerns that found illegitimate expression through the LTTE.

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.

A first step in the national healing process must include exploring in a public way the grievances of the country s minorities, both Tamil and Muslim, and discussing the violations perpetrated by the LTTE and the government during the conflict.

As it basks in its new status as an economic superpower the dragon that is outpacing Asia s tigers as well as the donkeys of the West China is mistakenly downplaying its own serious structural weaknesses.

Chua s thesis is that, when compared to Americans, Chinese children tend to be successful because they have tiger mothers, whereas Western mothers are pussycats, or worse.

Moreover, the LTTE has engaged in re recruiting those who had been released and even those who had escaped from training camps, through threats, intimidation and physical attacks on the children, as well as their family members.

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.

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.

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.