noun
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
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the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war
• Syn: ↑Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ↑LTTE, ↑Tamil Tigers, ↑Tigers, ↑World Tamil Movement
• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
• Regions: ↑Sri Lanka, ↑Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ↑Ceylon
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑terrorist organization, ↑terrorist group, ↑foreign terrorist organization, ↑FTO
Useful english dictionary. 2012.