Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on the verge of defeat after years of civil war
Offline Due to a massive Sri Lankian offensive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2405347.stm
The Sri Lankan army says that there will be no more breaks in fighting against Tamil Tiger rebels as it completes manoeuvres to defeat them after years of war.
Mullaitivu, the last of the rebels' north-eastern strongholds, was taken in February preceded by the fall of Kilinochchi and rebel-held parts of the Jaffna peninsula.
The rebels now control only a small stretch of coastal land - estimated by the army to be no more than 12 sq km (5 sq m) - in the north-east of the country.
Thousands of people - troops, Tamil Tiger rebels and Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim civilians - are estimated to have been killed since fighting escalated after 2005. Thousands more have been displaced.
This could be the end for what the FBI calls one of the most dangerous and deadly terrorist group in the world
This is also a blow to suicide terrorism seeing as the Black Tigers have been known to train other groups for suicide terrorism.
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Yeah, that and Toronto gangs based on the Tigers (though it seems only by name). I'm not the Tigers' biggest fan.
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Wait... how was this bad again? I always thought Self-Defeatism was a good trait in an enemy o_O
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I'm not sure how this is a blow to suicide terrorism. Al-Qaeda trains their own, and it looks like they are training insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan now. I don't know about the Tamil Tigers, but Al-Qaeda uses a back-up system in case their bomber get some sense in their heads and simply use a remote detonation device.
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Actually, they have trained Lebanese and Palastanian groups, and there were allegations that they were working with Al Qaeda.
Looks like it's over
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8019199.stm
Sri Lanka can eliminate the Tigers with military force about as easily as they could eliminate everyone who's favorite color is blue with military force.
I'm not at all opposed to blowing away radically violent terrorist organizations; however, the global military community simply seems unable to get it's head around the concept of an organization that does not function as a static enemy entity. The Tigers (and groups like Al-Qaeda) are fluid ideologies - they aren't bound to a centralized syndicate structure. It's sort of like movement (much more violent) group like Anonymous: there are central movers and shakers, but at the end of the day, the movement will continue on long after there are no more 4channers kicking around because anyone can just put on a Guy Fawkes mask and declare themselves part of anonymous. Similarly, anyone can throw a home made bomb at an Israeli and declare themselves part of the Al Qaeda movement or shoot a government official in SA and call themselves a Tiger.
You can't beat a group like that with guns and bullets. Even if you kill every single currently existing member today, tomorrow someone else might decide that they like the idea and run with it. People should be thinking in terms of what brought down groups like the KKK rather than old school military action.
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February 27, 1940
While they may not get rid of the idea of an independent Tamil state, it discourages the method of which to achieve it.