LTTE definition
Examples of LTTE in a sentence
The Sri Lankan armed forces shall continue to perform their legitimate task of safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka without engaging in offensive operations against the LTTE.
This atrocity saw members of the Sinhalese community turning on their Tamil neighbours in retaliation for the murder of 13 Sri Lankan soldiers by the LTTE, an event that crystallised rising anti-Tamil sentiment brought on by the formation of violent Tamil separatist groups.
Relying heavily on the proposition that the Tamil diaspora are an extension of the demonic, persecutory LTTE, state discourse dismisses all international agitation against the military operation as propaganda.
In Sri Lanka, the state and the LTTE have trafficked in claims and counter-claims of victimisation: to sustain identities of victimhood and to seek political gain and international legitimacy.
The ‘Othering’ of the Tamil community since independence has been embedded in the institutions of education and public administration, state policy and practice on language and religion, and intensified by the discursive association of the entire population with the LTTE.
Each committee shall consist of five members, two appointed by the GOSL, two by the LTTE and one international monitor appointed by the HoM.
The LTTE are portrayed as animalistic, savage and greedy, awaiting sustenance from outside.
In an assassination attempt by the LTTE in 1999, she lost her sight in one eye.
An historical examination of nation-building in pursuit of Tamil Eelam under the LTTE explores nation-building performatives and rituals, largely related to the commemoration of martyrs, and analyses the current socio-political landscape, where commemorative practices are criminalised and Tamil life is excluded from life considered “grievable” (▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2004).
The real attack, the state suggests, is the propaganda attack on the Sri Lankan state by the LTTE, orchestrated by its international “proxies”, representatives and supporters (MOD, 5 May 2009).