Country policy and information note: Tamil separatism, Sri Lanka, …
WEBApr 14, 2023 · In addition, rehabilitated LTTE members and their families or anyone considered to have had any link to LTTE during the conflict are targets of constant surveillance.
How the Tigers Got Their Stripes: A Case Study of the LTTE’s …
WEBNov 24, 2021 · Relying primarily on contemporaneous accounts in Tamil and English, this article traces the process by which the LTTE became the primary avatar of Tamil nationalism, and explores the question of why consolidation unfolded so violently in …
Spy Tigers: The LTTE Intelligence Wing (Part II) – Project O Five
WEBDec 28, 2020 · The specialists, known as Spy Tigers, were responsible for the significant success of the LTTE’s shadow fighters. In 1992, the National Intelligence Service gained access through radio monitoring and a well-placed mole to the detailed program of an inspection tour led by Major General Denzil Kobbekaduwa …
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam | Mapping Militant Organizations
WEBLTTE attacks targeted individuals and groups who did not support their overarching goal of attaining an independent Tamil state, which included the Sri Lankan military, Sri Lankan and Indian politicians, police, and sometimes various civilian populations. The LTTE also targeted Sri Lankan Tamil politicians who did not support the LTTE and their ...
Life in the Open-Air Panopticon: Surveillance and the Social …
WEBMay 20, 2014 · The way in which panopticism functions for ex-LTTE combatants in post-war Sri Lanka is precisely by instilling in them an awareness of perpetual visibility and, in effect, creating self-policing subjects.
UNHCR Web Archive - Refworld
WEBFeb 11, 2015 · [p]ersistent surveillance, intimidation and monitoring of former LTTE members by the security forces continues to restrict their freedom of movement and association, and has, according to witnesses interviewed by Amnesty International and others, inhibited them from reintegrating into the social and economic life …
WEBIn a February 2022 report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) describes the case of a man who had been forcibly recruited as a child by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). He was reportedly detained in 2009, tortured and forced to sign a document in Sinhala which he did not understand.
“If We Raise Our Voice They Arrest Us” - Human Rights Watch
WEBSep 18, 2023 · The LTTE committed a range of atrocities including suicide attacks and targeted killings of civilians; torture; recruiting and using child soldiers; forced evictions; and the use of human shields.
Remnants of a Checkered Past: Female LTTE and Social Reintegration …
WEBAug 2, 2018 · Both male and female LTTE deal with community fallout resulting from their continued surveillance by the government, largely in the form of suspicion and fear provoked by military visits. But women face allegations of promiscuity and impropriety.
WEBareas and instituted intrusive surveillance. Tamils lived with the constant threat of arbitrary arrest and abuse. They spoke of the ubiquitous white vans, civilian vehicles used by security forces to abduct suspected LTTE supporters, who were then brutally tortured in custody.” (Human Rights Watch (19 February 2016) Sri Lanka After the Tigers)
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