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  2. Velupillai Prabhakaran - Wikipedia

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    When the Sri Lankan military rapidly advanced into the last LTTE held territory in the final days of 2008–2009 SLA Northern offensive, Prabhakaran and his top leadership retreated into Vellamullivaikkal, Mullaitivu. Fierce fighting occurred between LTTE and the Sri Lanka Army during these last few days. At around 3:00 a.m. on 18 May 2009 ...

  3. Thileepan - Wikipedia

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    Parthipan joined the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) prior to the 1983 Black July anti-Tamil riots. [9] He was given the nom de guerre Thileepan. Injured in the stomach in May 1987 during the Vadamarachchi Operation (Operation Liberation), he became the LTTE's political leader for Jaffna peninsula.

  4. 1997 Colombo World Trade Centre bombing - Wikipedia

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    Shortly before 7:00 am on 15 October 1997 a group of up to six fighters from the LTTE’s Black Tigers drove a truck laden with approximately 350 kg (770 lb) explosives into the car park of the Galadari Hotel, a five-star luxury hotel, located in the heart of Colombo’s business and government district, where they shot and killed four unarmed security guards.

  5. Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is an investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4 on 14 June 2011. [1] Described as one of the most graphic documentaries in British TV history, the documentary featured amateur video from the conflict zone filmed by civilians and Sri Lankan ...

  6. Colombo Central Bank bombing - Wikipedia

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    The attack took place on 31 January 1996, in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo. A lorry containing about 440 pounds of high explosives crashed through the main gate of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, a seaside high-rise which managed most of the financial business of the country. As gunmen traded fire with security guards, the suicide bomber in the ...

  7. 2009 suicide air raid on Colombo - Wikipedia

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    On February 20, 2009, the air wing of the Tamil Tigers separatist militia launched a suicide attack against military locations in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka, using two weaponized light aircraft. [1] It is speculated that the raids were intended to mimic the September 11 attacks, where aircraft were used as flying bombs and crashed directly ...

  8. Aranthalawa massacre - Wikipedia

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    The massacre. The Aranthalawa Massacre took place on June 2, 1987, [1] when a bus carrying Buddhist monks, most of whom were child monks, and a few unarmed civilians was approached by 20 [2] armed LTTE cadres near the village of Nuwaragalatenna, [3] [4] led by an LTTE leader named Reagan. [5] The driver let them in, mistaking them for Sri ...

  9. Divisions of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Wikipedia

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    Black Tigers is the LTTE division that carried out suicide attacks in the South and other parts of the country. It consisted of selected cadres from other regiments. The division was formed in July 1987, with the attack carried out by Vallipuram Vasanthan alias Captain Miller, by driving an explosive laden truck into a Sri Lanka Army camp in Nelliady Madhya Maha Vidyalaya, Jaffna, killing ...

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