tamil tigers

Noun
  1. A terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students;
    Currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam;
    Relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel (synset 108048776)
    "the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"
    referred to in: act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
    domain region: ceylon, democratic socialist republic of sri lanka, sri lanka - a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
    is an instance of: foreign terrorist organization, fto, terrorist group, terrorist organization - a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
    same as: liberation tigers of tamil eelam, ltte, tigers, world tamil association, world tamil movement

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