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The Online Citizen
January 22, 2018
The Straits Times today (22 Jan) reported that Singapore will be signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka tomorrow. The signing will be witnessed by PM Lee and his host, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena. PM Lee will arrive in Colombo today for a 3-day official visit to Sri Lanka.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
January 15, 2018
Kleinkredite spielen im Prozess gegen die Mitglieder der Tamil Tigers eine zentrale Rolle. Beim beschuldigten Bankangestellten handelt es sich um einen Filialleiter der Bank now. Bereits vergangene Woche hatte einer der Verteidiger vor Gericht das Fehlen des Geldinstituts auf der Anklagebank kritisiert.
Asian Tribune
January 12, 2018
A careful assessment by the Asian Tribune further reveals that the professional arm of the Tamil Diaspora - who emotionally reacted to the demise of the Tamil Tiger leadership - was so focused that they became a source of information and analysis that provided a great deal of information and data to the ...
Xinhua
January 8, 2018
GENEVA, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The trial of 13 financiers accused of funneling more than 15 million Swiss francs (15.3 million U.S. dollars) to the Sri Lankan rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) started at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Monday. The accused are from Switzerland, Germany ...
India New England
January 5, 2018
The operation against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka in the 1980s may have been a doomed venture, but ... Silvam's fleeting trysts with his wife and son also give a glimpse into the personal life of a Tamil Tiger who puts cause over family.
Lankaweb
January 4, 2018
Between 1999 and 2009, they allegedly created a complex fundraising structure which involved coaxing members of the Tamil diaspora to obtain loans from banks. To raise higher amounts, the WTCC was accused of creating fictitious companies in the name of borrowers that issued fake salary certificates.
swissinfo.ch
January 4, 2018
The trial of 13 financiers accused of funnelling more than CH15 million ($15.3 million) to the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) has started at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court. The accused are from Switzerland, Germany and Sri Lanka. Some are former members of ...
swissinfo.ch
January 4, 2018
The trial of 13 financiers accused of funnelling more than CH15 million ($15.3 million) to the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) has started at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court. The accused are from Switzerland, Germany and Sri Lanka. Some are former members of ...
Metro
November 8, 2017
The 26-year war was fought between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who were fighting for an independent homeland for the Tamil minority, and ... The men said they were accused of trying to revive the Tamil Tiger rebel group and were tortured between early 2016 to as recently as July of this year.
Lankaweb
December 31, 1999
After 34 days long battle Elephant Pass base fell to Tamil Tigers. ... Robert Evans, two MEPs who visited Sri Lanka recently, without mincing words accused the Sri Lankan government “of not doing enough to protect civilians caught up in the war against Tamil Tiger rebels and is covering up their suffering.
Asian Tribune
December 31, 1999
President Mahinda Rajapaksa was a hard-line Sinhalese nationalist who wanted no investigation against atrocities committed by armed forces against the Tamil Tigers. No accountability means no reconciliation with minority Tamil community, declared Keith Harper. Sri Lanka's Universal Periodic Review ...
Lankaweb
December 31, 1999
If harassing the Sri Lankan soldiers for eliminating the internationally sponsored (including Canada) Tamil Tiger terrorism is based on the UN's .... used as the Bible to nail Sri Lanka's armed forces, the only national army in the world that whipped the most ruthless terrorists in the world, the Tamil Tigers, says ...
Asian Tribune
December 8, 2017
The 2009 military defeat, or as some describe it an annihilation, of Prabhakaran and his separatist Tamil Tiger (LTTE) movement in Sri Lanka brought a ... Sri Lanka, since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam/LTTE) in May 2009, was humiliated by Western Powers, especially the ...
Lankaweb
December 7, 2017
In October 1990, 100,000 Muslims were given 48 hours to get out of the north by the Tamil Tiger terrorists leaving all their valuables and gold at the ... Jaffna was quiet that evening and it was another day of alertness at the Army camp at Gurunagar keeping an eye on the Tamil Tigers movements and where ...
Asia Times
December 4, 2017
Maaveerar Naal has been observed annually since 1987 on November 27 to commemorate the day the first Tamil Tiger soldier was killed in action in 1982. ... The men were accused of trying to revive the Tamil Tigers rebel group and were tortured between early 2016 and July of this year, the report said.
Lankaweb
November 25, 2017
Active mainly to breakdown the vile attacks on the Sri Lankan soldiers by Tamils who are still smarting at them for annihilating their Tamil Tiger ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
November 15, 2017
The men said they were accused of working with the Tamil Tigers, which Sri ..... The Tamil Tiger rebels, as they were known, were designated a ...
SFGate
November 15, 2017
The Tamil Tiger rebels, as they were known, were designated a terrorist organization after a wave of suicide bombings, and were also accused ...
Lankaweb
November 12, 2017
The latest cry has been raised by 52 former Tamil Tiger fighters who ... terror group such as the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) subjecting themselves to ...
Metro
November 8, 2017
The 26-year war was fought between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who were fighting for an independent homeland for the Tamil minority, and ... The men said they were accused of trying to revive the Tamil Tiger rebel group and were tortured between early 2016 to as recently as July of this year.
The Daily Star
November 8, 2017
The men said they were accused of working with the Tamil Tigers, but the ... said he was accused of belonging to the Tamil Tiger rebel group.
The Hindu
November 8, 2017
The men said they were accused of trying to revive the Tamil Tiger rebel group and tortured between early 2016 to as recently as July of this ...
Lankaweb
November 4, 2017
In many circles of the Tamil polity it is considered that the TNA are still the creatures and lackeys of the LTTE even though the tigers had been ...
BBC News
August 29, 2017
The Tamil Tigers said they were fighting for a homeland for minority ... the Tamil Tiger rebels were alleged to have used civilians as human ...
The Australian
July 20, 2017
... refugee deal with the US because of their links to Tamil Tiger rebels. ... The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group was defeated in Sri ...
Asian Correspondent
December 31, 1999
The November UPR was the latest attempt to hold the country accountable for human rights violations during and after Sri Lanka's civil war, which ended in May 2009 when the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was defeated by the government of President Mahinda Rajapakse.
Lankaweb
October 2, 2017
When the Sri Lankan Security forces launched an offensive to re-capture the Jaffna peninsula from the grip of Tamil Tigers in October 1995, ...
Asian Tribune
September 22, 2017
... of the Eelam War IV against the fighting cadre of the Tamil Tigers. ... who saw an end to Tamil Tiger militarism and terrorism in May 2009 was ...
Independent Online
September 6, 2017
... the shrinking patch of territory still controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels, ... military punctured Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) defences ...
Independent Online
September 6, 2017
Colombo - The president of Sri Lanka declared on Saturday that the island's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels have been "defeated militarily" after ...
Independent Online
September 6, 2017
Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka - The leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers is trapped in ... The Tamil Tiger spokesperson "says that Prabhakaran was living ...
BBC News
August 29, 2017
The Tamil Tigers said they were fighting for a homeland for minority ... the Tamil Tiger rebels were alleged to have used civilians as human ...
The Hindu
August 19, 2017
In 1972, the separatist Tamil Tigers took up arms and launched a bloody ... He was a key figure in the war, capturing over a dozen Tamil Tiger ...
Hindustan Times
August 18, 2017
In 1972, the separatist Tamil Tigers took up arms and launched a bloody ... He was a key figure in the war, capturing over a dozen Tamil Tiger ...
Mizzima News
August 12, 2017
"We have defeated and crushed the Tamil Tigers militarily. But the ... He referred to the famous white flag case when Tamil Tiger rebels trying to ...
Hindustan Times
August 10, 2017
Tamil Nadu lost two tigers this year as compared to Uttarakhand's 11, according to the National Tiger Conservation Authority's official database ...
Xinhua
August 9, 2017
... the country defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels after a 30-year bitter conflict. ... that China supported us and stood by us to defeat the Tamil Tigers.
Colombo Page
July 26, 2017
July 26, Brussels: The European Court of Justice on Wednesday removed Sri Lanka's defunct Tamil Tiger terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers ...
Asia Times
July 25, 2017
... monuments celebrating their 2009 victory over Tamil Tiger rebels. ... where the remnants of the Tamil Tigers were slaughtered by the Sri ...
The Australian
July 20, 2017
More than 100 Tamil asylum-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island could ... refugee deal with the US because of their links to Tamil Tiger rebels.
The Australian
July 19, 2017
More than 100 Tamil asylum-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island are likely to ... refugee deal with the US due to their links with the Tamil Tiger rebels. ... with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, “remains at immediate risk of ...
STRATFOR
January 18, 2017
But in the years since the government's victory over the Tamil Tigers, the ... role in the bloody assault on Tamil Tiger territory that ended the civil ...
Times Colonist
November 21, 2016
He testified that eventually he had assumed a role with the Tamil Tigers to make bombs that were hidden in the ground and used to explode ...
Asian Tribune
March 23, 2017
She notified Ambassador Robert Blake, who was accredited to Sri Lanka during the final two years of the military battle against the Tamil Tigers, and to another former senior US Foreign Service officer Peter Burleigh who was ambassador to Sri Lanka in ...
Revelstoke Mountaineer
March 22, 2017
It tells the story of Sivadhasan, a Tamil Tiger, during the Sri Lankan Civil War - a war the Tamil Tigers lost. After heading to a refugee camp, Sivadhasan decides to claim asylum in France.
Saudi Gazette
March 14, 2017
At least 100,000 people were killed during the separatist war between government forces and rebels from the Tamil Tigers group, with atrocities recorded by both sides.
Gulf Times
March 14, 2017
In the end, the Tamils lost, and their leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, who headed a militant organisation called Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was brutally shot dead by the Sri Lankan army. The strife in terms of human displacement with one ...
New Zealand Herald
March 14, 2017
BRUSSELS (AP) " The European Union's top court has rejected an argument by people accused of collecting funds for Tamil Tiger rebels that activities by the group shouldn't be classified as "terrorist acts." Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009 when ...
Lankaweb
March 13, 2017
The Tamil Tiger Rebellion would not have had chance if the Indian Special Forces had not armed and trained them in the first instances.
News18
March 5, 2017
Family members of people who disappeared during the war between government forces and Tamil Tiger guerrillas protest against what they say are continued abductions, in front of the UN office in Colombo on May 10, 2016.
