If they'd called her LTTE I would totally get it.
Voice of Tigers - the LTTE ran its own radio and television stations.
"The officers were being rotated," he recalls, and the same question was barked again and again: "Did you pay LTTE?" "Do you know LTTE?" He repeatedly denied it, and was kicked in the leg.
Despite insisting that its enemy was the LTTE, not the Tamil minority it claimed to represent, the government has done little to ease Tamil grievances.
He made a spirited defence of the behavior of his troops, and compared it to the LTTE's atrocities, and then, as if to settle the matter, he said: "Look, the very existence of the terrorists is against the law.
Within hours, another self-described Tiger faction, quoting the Tigers' intelligence arm, released a statement that said, the "LTTE leadership is safe and it will re-emerge when the right time comes".
But because the LTTE's victims are not western, it does not elicit the same kind of response that Islamist terror groups do.
Having ended such a costly war, it wants to give the LTTE, which retains cash and support among expatriate Tamils, no chance to recover.
On May 19, 2009 the Government of Sri Lanka announced that it had defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending one of the longest civil wars in South Asia.
Given that we have spent seven years unable to establish a united front against our nation's internal demons, a campaign to build country-wide support for state action to stem the insurgency -- not a negotiated ceasefire, certainly, for unlike the LTTE, the Taliban will not rest until it controls the entire state -- would do a great deal more than encourage a policy shift.
