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...After returning from a year’s work in Dubai he is interrogated and tortured by the Sri Lankan state police and spuriously accused of being a member of the LTTE (The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil...
...The state is accused of mass “disappearances” of suspected LTTE personnel....
...14 when his grandmother, Indira Gandhi, then prime minister, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, and 19 when his father, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was killed by supporters of Sri Lanka’s LTTE...
...Mr Gandhi was targeted because his government had sent to Sri Lanka an Indian peacekeeping force, which ended up fighting the LTTE rebels....
...India was targeted by the rebels for having sent a peacekeeping force during the Sri Lankan civil war that ended up fighting against the LTTE....
...Former Tamil Tiger (LTTE) female rebel fighters and brides Nadarasa Sukirtha, left, and Premarathnam Sugandhini, centre, look on as Jayarasa Merry Babila, an ethnic Tamil, gets ready before the start of...
...The owners admit there will be challenges in hiring former LTTE members....
...First, the LTTE’s own record of human-rights abuses and terrorism had hardly endeared it to most of the rest of the world....
...Many of those casualties were caused by government shelling, according to the UN, although the LTTE has also been accused of holding thousands of civilians as human shields....
...The documentary claimed that both the Sri Lankan army as well as the opposition Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were guilty of serious war crimes....
...A ruthless organisation led by a megalomaniac, the LTTE pioneered many techniques of modern terrorism and insurgency, from suicide to roadside bombs....
...The accusations have infuriated the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa, president, who this year won presidential and parliamentary election victories on the back of his defeat of the LTTE, which fought for...
...Sri Lanka denied that it had used heavy ordnance and accused the west of being “pro-LTTE”....
...In the final months of the war, the LTTE herded hundreds of thousands of civilians into its last redoubt, a pocket of coastal beach, before it was overrun by government forces....
...The Tamil minority, who make up about 12 per cent of Sri Lanka’s population of about 20m people, voted freely for the first time in decades without fear of harassment by the LTTE, which has boycotted previous...
...“We have what we believe is incontrovertible evidence that the money of Mr Rajaratnam and his father made its way to the LTTE as intended, that they knew the LTTE was engaged in a massive campaign of terrorism...
...Mr Walden on Sunday denied that his client was a supporter of the LTTE....
...It also contains human rights accusations against the LTTE, including the recruitment of children, the use of civilians for forced labour and as “human shields” against attacks by the security forces....
...The government’s strong result in the south was a clear sign of endorsement for the military’s victory over the LTTE....
...The LTTE has been quiet since the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, its supreme chief, in May....
...The government has claimed it wanted to complete demining before it took people home and that tight security was needed because of the lingering presence of LTTE operatives....
...government’s current drive to wipe out the LTTE....
...The Council also pressed the LTTE to cease human rights abuses....
...He lost effective control of the LTTE’s eastern territories by falling out with his commander there....
...Deaths due to starvation are imminent,” the LTTE statement said....
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