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<<(CNN) -- Sri Lanka's quarter-century-long civil war is in its final phase, the government suggested Friday, as its troops pounded Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's north. The rebels -- formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- have fought for an independent state in Sri Lanka since 1983. >>
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Since the LTTE was one of the very last Cold War-era national liberation movements left, does its demise tell radicals anything about the limitations of that type of insurgency?
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Since the LTTE was one of the very last Cold War-era national liberation movements left, does its demise tell radicals anything about the limitations of that type of insurgency?
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Re: Apocalypse comes for the Tamil Tigers
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Re: Apocalypse comes for the Tamil Tigers
Tue, May 19, 2009 - 5:20 PMedition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD.../index.html
<< COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Angered by what he perceived as the systemic discrimination of the minority Tamils by successive Sri Lankan governments, 18-year-old Velupillai Prabhakaran, armed with just a revolver, set out in 1972 to right the perceived wrongs by forming a militant group.
That group eventually morphed into the Tamil Tigers, who have engaged in a brutal 25-year insurgency for an independent Tamil state that has left more than 70,000 dead. >>
Sri Lanka claims he's dead, but what's left of the Tigers say he lives.
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