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The leader of the organization is Velupillai Prabakharan. The LTTE has infamously absorbed or eliminated most of the people from the other organisations over the twenty year independence struggle, and has generally pursued an all-out approach to war, including terrorist activities (at home and abroad) and suicide bombings as well as successful conventional engagements. LTTE is proscribed as a terrorist organization by several countries including USA, Britain, India, Australia and Malaysia. Nevertheless, the organization is widely recognised as the entity the government must make peace with, if it is to have peace with the Tamils, and consequently it is not banned in Sri Lanka. It is currently a party to negotiations with the government aimed at seeking a solution to the long-standing crisis.
The LTTE's early years of struggle reportedly enjoyed considerable sympathy from the Indian government, especially in the state of Tamil NaduState Seal Capital Chennai Language Tamil Governor Surjith Singh Barnala Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa Area 130, 058sq. km Population Total Density 62,110,839 ( 2001) 478/kmē Literacy rate : Total Male Female 73. 55% Tamil Nadu ( , "Land of the Tamils") i where there was sympathy for the discrimination against Sri Lankan Tamils by the majority SinhaleseThe Sinhalese are the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, who probably came from Northern India. They speak Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language. According to legend, they may have descended from King Vijaya and his party of several hundred that set foot on th. It is widely believed that India provided the LTTE and other Tamil guerilla groups with monetary and training support.
Indo-Sri Lanka Peace AccordIndo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed on July 29, 1987, was signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President Jayewardene, the Sri Lankan Government made a number of concessions to Tamil demands, which included devolution of power to the provinc was signed on July 29, 19871987 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 1 Nunavut's capital changes it name to Iqaluit from Frobisher Bay. January 3 Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. January 4 An Amtrak train, was signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv GandhiRajiv Gandhi ( ( August 20, 1944 May 21, 1991), son of Indira Gandhi, was Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on October 31, 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following general election defeat. Initially preferring his career as a and President Jayewardene , the Sri Lankan Government made a number of concessions to TamilTamil may refer to: The Tamil language, is considered by most scholars to be one of the Dravidian languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. The origin of the language is rooted back to over 2000 years. Other theories that do not recognize Dravidian lan demands, which included devolution of power to the provinces, merger--subject to later referendum--of the northern and eastern provinces, and official status for the Tamil language. India agreed to establish order in the north and east with an Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) and to cease assisting Tamil insurgents. Militant groups, although initially reluctant, agreed to surrender their arms to the IPKF.As time went on, the Indian forces began to meet with stiff opposition from all sides. The Sri Lankan government, fearing a large scale rebellion began to grow wary of the presence of IPKF, and allegedly entered into a secret deal with the LTTE, which culminated in a ceasefire. However, the LTTE and IPKF continued to have frequent hostilities, and according to some reports, the government even armed the rebels willing to see the back of the Indian forces. Casualties mounted and eventually India pulled out its troops. The LTTE, gaining complete control of the north and east, continued to systematically eliminate opposing Tamil groups, (culminating in the assassination of the EPRLF leader Padmanabha at the Indian city of ChennaiChennai in Tamil), formerly known in English as Madras is a sprawling port city on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. One of the major Metropolitan cities of India, it is also the capital of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. It is India's fourth largest c in 1990). Since then, India has significantly tightened the screws on the organization in its territory. Support from India dropped more noticeably in 1991, after the assassination of a recently ex-Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, by a woman presumed to be an LTTE suicide bomber. India remains an outside observer to the ongoing peace process, with frequent demands to press for an extradition of Prabhakaran, even if a peace deal is struck between the parties in the future.