Eelam

Tamil Eelam has no official status or recognition by world states though sections of the Eelam were under de facto control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for most of the 2000s.

The tiger symbol of Chola Empire was later adopted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the tiger became a symbol of the unrecognised state of Tamil Eelam and Tamil independence movement.

In the north and east, Mr. S.J.V. Chelvanayakam led Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) took the Vaddukoddai Resolution to the electorate, asked for a mandate to establish a separate state, called Tamil Eelam, and received an overwhelming mandate.

SEGAMAT: A despatch rider, S. Teeran who was charged with supporting and possessing items linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last month, was denied bail by the Sessions Court here today.

Sri Lanka’s tryst with terror could have ended with the death of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Prabhakaran in 2009 if the remaining terror groups had been dealt with immediately thereafter.

The Centre on Tuesday extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for another five years.

The individuals, who were arrested by the Malaysian Police on suspicion of having links to the now-defunct terror group defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have been produced before a Malaysian court today (29).

Its outcome was the horrific 30-year between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a proscribed international terrorist organization in UK since March 2001.

Maybe another war will force these Sinhalese back to their homes, as they previously had done during the Eelam war by Tamil Tigers.

India opposes the new state Tamil Eelam that LTTE wants to establish, saying that it would lead to Tamil Nadu 's separation from India, despite the leaders and common populace of Tamil Nadu considering themselves Indian.

Sharma, p.16 Sri Lanka seeAlso The Sri Lankan Civil War broke out with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which was demanding an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.