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In October 2010 the charges against Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman in relation to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi were dropped after the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a report stating that the pair were dead. The failure of the Sri Lankan military to produce Pottu Amman's body has fueled the belief that he survived the civil war.
- S. Sivashankar, 1962
- Tamil Eelam
- 18 May 2009 (aged 46–47)
- Sri Lankan
Dec 7, 2022 · Though reported dead and subsequently pronounced legally dead, the fact remains that Pottu Ammaan’s body or remains were never found. This has led to much speculation about the LTTE intelligence chief not being dead. This writer has over the years received many queries from readers about Pottu Amman.
Nov 19, 2013 · Our soldiers were on a search and destroy operation and in these circumstances, Pottu Amman's body could not be identified," Sri Lanka's powerful defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said. "There were so many bodies we could not identify. All the people who were there were killed and I am 100 per cent sure that Pottu Amman was also killed ...
Sri Lanka is 100 per cent sure that its forces killed LTTE intelligence chief during the last phase of army offensive against the rebels, but admitted that Pottu Amman's body could not be ...
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, were a separatist militant organizationfighting for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority in northernSri Lanka. Velupillai Prabhakaran founded the group in 1972 and by the late1980s was the dominant Tamil militant group in Sri Lanka. After a number offa...
The LTTE’s leadership was divided between thegroup’s military wing and its secondary political wing. A central governingcommittee led by Prabhakaran oversaw all activities of the LTTE, both politicaland military. The military wing of the LTTE was further divided intosub-groups: the group’s naval wing, known as the Sea Tigers, was led by ColonelSoos...
May 22, 1972: Tamil New Tigers. Prabhakaran founds the Tamil New Tigers, the LTTE's predecessor, in 1972.May 5, 1976: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Prabhakaran establishes the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1976 and disbands the Tamil New Tigers.Unknown: 11,664 (Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Maj. Gen Sudantha Ranasinghe)February 1, 2002: 6,000-9,000 (Presidential spokesperson Harim Peiris, stating estimated LTTE strength before the February 2002 ceasefire)December 31, 2002: 16,000 (Presidential spokesperson Harim Peiris, stating estimated LTTE strength by the end of 2002 ceasefire.)January 8, 2004: 18,000 (Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's Office)Indian Ministry of Home Affairs: 1992 to PresentBritish Outlawed Foreign Groups: 2000 to PresentU.S. State Department Foreign Terrorist Organizations: October 2003 to PresentEU Designated Terrorist Organizations: 2006 to PresentThe LTTE had an annual budget of around $200-$300 million, mostof which was obtained from the global Sri Lankan diaspora. The main financial body of the LTTE is theAiyanna Group, responsible for monitoring financial flows and revenue,including donations from overseas Tamil communities and LTTE supporters. In 2009, overseas Sri Lankans sent an estim...
Overseas funding is mainlyprovided by the large Sri Lankan diaspora, which has continued to grow sinceSri Lanka's 1948 independence. During the 1970s and 1980s, the LTTE's mainfinancial support came from the Tamils who fled Sri Lanka to India, Malaysia,Europe, and North America. The Indian state of Tamil Nadu became a crucialtransit point for low-t...
Theactivities of the Tamil Tigers were primarily based in the Northern and Easternregions of Sri Lanka, where the majority of Sri Lankan Tamils reside. Howevermany of the group’s major attacks were carried out in the capital of Colombo,and violent attacks occurred throughout Sri Lanka. The SriLankan Tamil Diaspora, and widespread funding sources th...
The LTTE is one of several violent offshoots of the Tamil UnitedLiberation Front (TULF), formerly the Tamil United Front (TUF). TUF was formedin the early 1970s from groups such as the Tamil Congress and the Federal Party.When it officially called for the formationof an independent Tamil state in 1976, the group’s name was changed to theTamil Unite...
May 14, 1985: Gunfire attack on Sri Lankan Buddhist holy site in Anaradhapura. (146 killed (BBC) (GTD: 86 killed, 100 wounded)).May 3, 1986: Bomb planted on Sri Lankan Air flight carrying British, French, and Japanese tourists, at the Colombo airport set to fly to the Maldives. (14-16 killed, 23-39 wounded).April 21, 1987: Car bomb explodes at a bus station in Colombo, killing civilians. (113-150 killed, 200 wounded).June 2, 1987: Aranthalawa massacre of Buddhist monks on a bus in Eastern Sri Lanka. (33 killed).- May 17, 2009
- July 8, 2015
- May 22, 1972
Sep 12, 2014 · Meera Srinivasan. Dismissing reports that the LTTE’s one-time intelligence chief Pottu Amman had been arrested in Hong Kong, the Sri Lankan Army on Thursday said he was dead for years. The Army ...
May 18, 2009 · In October 2010 the charges against Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman in relation to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi were dropped after the Central Bureau of Investigation filed a report stating that the pair were dead. The failure of the Sri Lankan military to produce Pottu Amman's body has fueled the belief that he survived the civil war.
