List Of Sri Lankan Tamil Militant Groups
Following is a list of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups. Student organizations *TSL – Tamil Students League amil Manavar Peravai(1970), founded by Ponnuthurai Satyaseelan. See also, TYL. *TYL – Tamil Youth League amil Ilaignar Peravai(1973), the progenitor of Eelam Tamil militancy. * GUES – General Union of Eelam Students, part of EROS and forerunner of EPRLF. Major groups *LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - was the only remaining armed Tamil nationalist group, after successfully liquidating other groups. LTTE was defeated militarily by the Sri Lankan armed forces in May 2009. The leader was V. Prabakaran. * EPRLF Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front - a part of the TNA. The leader was K. Pathmanabha * TELO Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization -once decimated by the LTTE, part of TNA The leader was Kutimani(nickname) & Sri Sabaratnam * PLOTE People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam - a minor standalone political party accused of being a paramilitary; ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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GUES
The Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) is a series of Sri Lankan political parties and a former Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, militant separatist group. Militant separatists The EPRLF was formed in 1980 by K. Pathmanabha (Padmanaba), Douglas Devananda, Suresh Premachandran and Varatharajah Perumal as a breakaway faction of the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students. In 1982 the EPRLF formed a military wing, ''People's Liberation Army'', headed by Douglas Devananda. The PLA is believed to have received military training by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In early 1986 disputes amongst the EPRLF leadership led to it splitting into two factions: ''EPRLF (Ranjan)'' and ''EPRLF (Douglas)''. In late 1986 the Tamil Tigers attacked the EPRLF, inflicting heavy losses. Many of its cadres were killed or taken prisoner and its camps and weapons were seized by the Tigers. Douglas Devananda was blamed for the debacle. In 1987 the ''EPRLF (Dougl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Senan Padai
Following is a list of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups. Student organizations *TSL – Tamil Students League amil Manavar Peravai(1970), founded by Ponnuthurai Satyaseelan. See also, TYL. *TYL – Tamil Youth League amil Ilaignar Peravai(1973), the progenitor of Eelam Tamil militancy. *GUES – General Union of Eelam Students, part of EROS and forerunner of EPRLF. Major groups *LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - was the only remaining armed Tamil nationalist group, after successfully liquidating other groups. LTTE was defeated militarily by the Sri Lankan armed forces in May 2009. The leader was V. Prabakaran. *EPRLF Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front - a part of the TNA. The leader was K. Pathmanabha * TELO Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization -once decimated by the LTTE, part of TNA The leader was Kutimani(nickname) & Sri Sabaratnam *PLOTE People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam - a minor standalone political party accused of being a paramilitary; the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Factions In The Sri Lankan Civil War
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Oberoi Thevan
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Panagoda Maheswaran
Panagoda Maheswaran (born 1955 as Thambapillai Maheswaran) is a Sri Lankan Tamil militant who founded and led the Tamil Eelam Army. He studied chemical engineering from the University of London and was an expert in explosives. His name ''Panagoda'' came as he was jailed in Panagoda Cantonment in the outskirts of Colombo Colombo, ( ; , ; , ), is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. The Colombo metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 within the municipal limits. It is the ..., whence he made an audacious escape. He attempted to blow up an Air Lanka aircraft in 1984. References Sri Lankan Tamil rebels Sri Lankan Tamil people 1955 births Living people Alumni of the University of London {{SriLanka-activist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tamil Eelam Army
The Tamil Eelam Army is a defunct Tamil separatist group in Sri Lanka. It was founded by Panagoda Maheswaran. It was implicated in a bomb attack against a Sri Lankan airliner at Madras airport in India. It was disbanded after that incident. See also * Sri Lankan Civil War *Tamil Eelam *List of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups Following is a list of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups. Student organizations *TSL – Tamil Students League amil Manavar Peravai(1970), founded by Ponnuthurai Satyaseelan. See also, TYL. *TYL – Tamil Youth League amil Ilaignar Peravai(1973) ... * Meenambakkam bomb blast External linksTamil Eelam Army chief held for Chennai blast* Factions in the Sri Lankan civil war Tamil Eelam Terrorist attacks on airports in Asia Terrorist incidents in India in 1984 February 1984 1980s in Madras (city) Improvised explosive device bombings in India Building bombings in India {{SriLanka-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maoist
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. A difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a united front of progressive forces in class society would lead the vanguardism, revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than communist revolutionaries alone. This theory, in which revolutionary Praxis (process), praxis is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary, represents urban Marxism–Leninism adapted to pre-industrial China. Later theoreticians expanded on the idea that Mao had adapted Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions, arguing that he had in fact updated it fundamentally and that Maoism could be applied universally throughout the world. This ideology is often referred to as Marxism� ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ENLF
The Eelam National Liberation Front (ENLF) was a short-lived (1984–1986) umbrella organisation for leading Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups. Formation In April 1984 M. Karunanidhi invited the leaders of the five leading Tamil militant groups, Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS), Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), for talks aimed at uniting the groups. K. Pathmanabha (EPRLF), V. Balakumaran (EROS) and Sri Sabaratnam (TELO) accepted the invitation but Velupillai Prabhakaran (LTTE) and Uma Maheswaran (PLOTE) did not. Shortly afterward EPRLF, EROS and TELO formed the Eelam National Liberation Front. The inaugural meeting of the ENLF was held at the EPRLF's office in Madras (now Chennai) and Ramesh of the EPRLF was elected the secretary. After the meeting Pathmanabha, Balakumaran and Sri Sabaratnam i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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TULF
The Tamil United Liberation Front (, ) is a political party in Sri Lanka. Formation On 4 May 1972, several Tamil political groups, including the Federal Party (ITAK), Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC), and All Ceylon Tamil Congress formed the Tamil United Front (TUF) under the joint leadership of S.J.V. Selvanayagam, S. Thondaman, and G.G. Ponnambalam. The TUF changed its name to Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and adopted the demand for an independent state to be known as the "secular, socialist state of Tamil Eelam". The CWC declined to support the newly formed TULF. 1977 Parliamentary General Election In the first general election contested by the TULF, the 1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, in which the UNP won by a landslide, the TULF won 6.40% of the popular vote and 18 out of 168 seats in the Sri Lankan parliament, including all 14 seats in the Northern Province. Votes and seats won by the TULF by electoral district The TULF became the official opposition as a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chellappah Suntharalingam
Chellappah Suntharalingam (; 19 August 1895 – 11 February 1985) was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic, politician, Member of Parliament and government minister. Early life and family Suntharalingam was born on 19 August 1895. He was the son of Chellappah and Meenachchi from Urumpirai in northern Ceylon. He was educated at St. John's College, Jaffna and St. Joseph's College, Colombo. In 1914 he entered the University of London from where he graduated with a B.Sc. honours degree in mathematics. He then went on to Balliol College, Oxford from where he was awarded a double first in mathematics tripos. Suntharalingam hailed from a distinguished family and had four eminent brothers: C. Nagalingam, a Supreme Court judge, was acting Governor-General of Ceylon in 1954; C. Panchalingam was a medical doctor; C. Amirthalingam was Director of Fisheries; and C. Thiagalingam was a leading lawyer. Suntharalingam married Kanagambikai Ambal, daughter of M. Kanagasabi. They had two sons (Gnanaling ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
The Eastern Province ( ''Næ̆gĕnahira Paḷāta'' , ''Kiḻakku Mākāṇam'') is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the country. The provinces have existed since the 19th century but did not have any legal status until 1987 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka established Provincial Councils (Sri Lanka), provincial councils. Between 1988 and 2006 the province was temporarily Merger (politics), merged with the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province to form the North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, North Eastern Province. The Capital city, capital of the province is Trincomalee. Kalmunai is the largest and most populous city of Eastern Province. History In 1815 the British gained control of the entire island of Ceylon. They divided the island into three ethnic based administrative structures: Low Country Sinhalese, Kandyan Sinhalese and Tamils, Tamil. The Eastern Province was part of the Tamil administra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |