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India-LTTE Nexus
Feb 18 2009, Zaheerul Hassan

THE Tamil campaign for a separate homeland “Tamil Eelam” from Sinhalese majority dates to the 1970s. By the late 1980s, the Tigers had seized control of part of the island’s northeast coast. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelarn (LTTE allegedly...

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