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May 22, 2012 · First, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi not only led to India designating the LTTE a terrorist organization, which had serious implications, but it also led India to eliminate the LTTE’s important base in Tamil Nadu within its borders (DeVotta, “The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam” 1041).
Dec 27, 2021 · Relying primarily on contemporaneous accounts in Tamil and English, this article traces the process by which the LTTE became the primary avatar of Tamil nationalism, and explores the question...
Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu Date 11 August 1937 – present (87 years, 2 months) Location Present-day Tamil Nadu, India Caused by Various attempts by the Government of India (1947–present) and the Government of Madras (during 1937–65) to promote Hindi language in the State Goals To prevent the imposition of Hindi in the State Methods Non-violent - Conferences, fasts, legislations ...
Jan 5, 2010 · Set within the context of the Sri Lankan Tamils' liberation war dominated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), this article examines the series of events that followed Pirapāharan's (Prabhākaran) decision to eliminate Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 in order to pre-empt his election as Prime Minister.
- Michael Roberts
- 2009
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, were a separatist militant organization fighting for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority in northern Sri Lanka.
- May 17, 2009
- July 8, 2015
- May 22, 1972
In an attempt to end the Sri Lankan Civil War, while simultaneously appeasing a significant domestic constituency in Tamil Nadu, the home of over sixty million Indian Tamils, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi–having assumed the office after the assassination of his mother–sought to broker a peace deal between the LTTE, five other smaller Tamil ...
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