Global Terror Infrastructure and Implications for India continues...

This brain-washing was facilitated by recruitment of child soldiers, whose innocent minds were easy targets for brain- washing. Each and every cadre, including the leader Prabhakaran, carry a cyanide capsule necklace, ceremoniously place by local leader in a “passing-out parade” to be bit into, if captured. The Black Tigers are to give up life, deliberately for achieving an organizational target. They are brain-washed to hate their target if it is to be an assassination. For this, the targeted person has not only to be anti-LTTE, but someone who can be portrayed as having betrayed the Tamil cause. Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministe Kadirgama was an easy target because he was a Tamil who was with the Sinhala majority-led government.

Second, the glorification of the Black Tigers by the LTTE makes it prestigious. Every year, 5 July was celebrated by the LTTE as the day of the Black Tigers. (It was on 5 July 1987 that the first suicide attack was perpetrated by the LTTE, when it is claimed that LTTE’s “Captain” Millar drove a truck full of explosives into a Sri Lankan Army camp, killing nearly forty soldiers.) On this particular day, an eternal lamp is lighted in front of the tombstone of every Black Tiger, who had lost his or her life. The LTTE flag is hoisted and the parents of the Black Tigers, who had sacrificed their lives, are honoured. Dhanu, the “Black Tigress” who took the life of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 was indirectly honoured by posthumously decorating her late father, an obscure poet who had died in 1979. Since Prabhakaran did not have the nerve to decorate Dhanu, he honoured her father. The LTTE radio also broadcasts the brave deeds of the Black Tigers with their operational details.

Third, the Black Tigers lead most of the suicide military operations of the LTTE, especially its attack on the Sri Lankan Army camps. The Black Tigers, armed with explosives, drive directly into the army camp, catching the Sri Lankan Army totally by surprise and causing maximum damage.

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