The fundraising efforts of LTTE was often done through false names or false initiatives, including raising a large amount of money after the 2004 tsunami hit Sri Lanka. Charities/Donations: Charities and donations to raise money for its efforts.Human trafficking to the UK and parts of Europe, reportedly one of LTTE’s most lucrative investments.Drugs and narcotics, particularly heroin, from Southeast and Southwest Asia, utilizing the routes developed for the movement of munitions.Weapons: international cell and offices help facilitate the movement of arms around the world.Extortion: LTTE cadres extorted money from Tamil families abroad by threatening family members who still lived in in LTTE-controlled areas Tamils in these regions often faced more direct threats.Robbery: LTTE cadres have robbed banks for both income and political reasons ("for the revolution").In 2008, the government ended the cease-fire with LTTE, international monitors leave Sri Lanka.In 2003, LTTE pulled out of the peace-talks with the Sri Lankan government, and by 2004, violence had increased within Sri Lanka.The Norwegian government also facilitated six mediated peace-talks between LTTE and the government of Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2003. Under the name, “Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission,” the government of Norway mediated the ceasefire in order to resolve the violent fighting between LTTE and the Sri Lankan government.The group engaged in a ceasefire with the Sri Lankan government under the supervision of the Norwegian Government from 2002 to 2008.The political wing was created to handle issues concerning LTTE publicity, law enforcement, the judicial system, the LTTE global network, social service initiatives, and the collection of funds.The political wing acted as a de facto government in the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka, alongside the local Sri Lankan government.Organized into two wings, one of which is considered the political wing.Create a homeland, Tamil Eelam State, in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka for ethnic Tamils.Take control of Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka from the ethnic majority, the Sinhalese people.Sri Lanka (Wanni region, in the north and east of the country) Founding YearĮthnic-Separatist-Tamil Specific Goals Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to be among the most dangerous and deadly extremist groups in the world. During the height of its influence, the group was considered by the United States government and the U.S. In May 2009, LTTE admitted to being defeated by the Sri Lankan government after a military attack in northeast Sri Lanka left them with very little territory and killed LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. After several suspected Tamil Tiger attacks, the government returned to militaristic and punitive methods to rid the country of the LTTE. In 2008, the ceasefire was called off by the Sri Lankan government.
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Between 20, LTTE signed a Norwegian-mediated ceasefire, in which both sides agreed to stop fighting, bring an end to violent intimidation, and engage in a series of six peace-talks, supervised by Norwegian diplomats. The group is responsible for creating and employing the use of the suicide belts and suicide bombers, while also being the first group to employ women as military soldiers. The LTTE ruled over northeast Sri Lanka as a de facto government, in which the organization shared much of the governing responsibilities with Sri Lankan local governments. From 1986 to 1990, the LTTE also attacked rival insurgencies it perceived as "traitors and opportunists," fully eliminating the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), and seriously impacting the capabilities of the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOT) and the Indian-sponsored Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPERLF). In pursuit of this goal, the organization fought a civil war against the Sri Lankan government for 26 years, between 19. The purpose and goal of LTTE was to create a homeland for ethnic Tamils in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. Tensions between the Tamils and the Sinhalese are rooted in exclusionary practices and policies of the Sinhalese-dominated government, albeit reinforced by differences in language and religion. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was created in 1976 in response to the growing ethnic and political tensions between minority Tamils and majority Sinhalese in the northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka.
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