Global Terror Infrastructure and Implications for India continues...

India was once sympathetic towards the LTTE, but soon after dismissal of the DMK State Government in 1991 and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the LTTE has been discredited. Its support is clandestine and has to be purchased.

The funds for the LTTE came from three major sources:
1. Diaspora contribution: The major source of funding is by the Sri Lankan Tamil expatriates living in developed countries.

2. Extortion: The LTTE also collects money from the people living in areas controlled by it in Sri Lanka as taxation.

3. Narcotics: The Tigers are also earning huge amounts of money through the drugs trade, as Sri Lanka is strategically located between the “Golden Crescent” and the “Golden Triangle.”

It is this large funding which had enabled the LTTE to increase its firepower by acquiring sophisticated weapons and weapon systems including surface-to-air missiles. The Tigers also received from the Sri Lankan Government, incredible as it may appear, during 1989-92, to assist their fight against the IPKF, weapons captured from the Lankan Army.

The LTTE is one of the few groups in the world, along with the Hizbollah, the Hamas and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of Turkey, to have an elite suicide squad. Even since the first suicide attack by the Hizbollah in 1983 in Beirut, in which more than 150 American and French Peace-Keepers were killed, there have been more than 250 suicide attacks by various groups all over the world. Of these attacks, the Black Tigers alone had carried out 150; more than those carried out by all other groups put together. They are the only group which succeeded in assassinating two heads of government—Rajiv Gandhi as former Prime Minister and Premadasa as serving President of Sri Lanka.

In his book, Dr. Robert Pape quotes the LTTE as defending suicide bombing as ensuring maximum damage with minimum loss of life.

How is it that the LTTE had succeeded in sustaining its suicide wing? First, the entire LTTE cadre were brain-washed to have a suicide psychology.


to be continued....