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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
( , , commonly known as the
LTTE
or the
Tamil Tigers
) was a
militant organisation
that was based in northern
Sri Lanka
. Founded in May 1976 by
Velupillai Prabhakaran
, it waged a
secessionist
nationalist insurgency to create an independent
state
in the north and east of Sri Lanka for
Tamil people
. This campaign led to the
Sri Lankan Civil War
, which ran from 1983 until 2009, when the LTTE was defeated by the
Sri Lankan Military
during the presidency of
Mahinda Rajapaksa
.
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