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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
noun
a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
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the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war

Syn: ↑LTTE, ↑Tamil Tigers, ↑Tigers, ↑World Tamil Association, ↑World Tamil Movement
Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
Regions: ↑Sri Lanka, ↑Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ↑Ceylon
Instance Hypernyms: ↑terrorist organization, ↑terrorist group, ↑foreign terrorist organization, ↑FTO

Useful english dictionary. 2012.