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Every time I hear something about the Tamil Tigers, it makes me think of a little league baseball team.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 3 November 2002 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

TAMIL TIGERS ARE INFATC PEOPLE WHO ARE AGAINST SRI LANKAN PEOPLE AND THEY WANT TO TAKE OVER THE NORTH OF SRI LANKA. IM NOT QUITE SURE HOW THEY REMIND YOU OF LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL

― S L M wijeratna, Sunday, 3 November 2002 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother has a tiger tattooed on his back.

― Kris (aqueduct), Sunday, 3 November 2002 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just that the name always sounds like a little league baseball team name to me, rather than a group of guerillas. I always have this feeling of incongruity between the name and the things they actually do.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 3 November 2002 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a funny name for a militant group... I'm trying to think of other groups with metaphorical names.

It would be great if Hamas changed their name to the Death Bunnies Of Palestine.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 3 November 2002 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds like an exciting lollipop to me

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 4 November 2002 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The LTTE began its armed conflict with the Sri Lankan Government in 1983 and relies on a guerrilla strategy that includes the use of terrorist tactics. The group's elite Black Tiger squad conducts suicide bombings against important targets, and all rank-and-file members carry a cyanide capsule to kill themselves rather than allow themselves to be caught. The LTTE is very insular and highly organized with its own intelligence service, naval element (the Sea Tigers), and women's political and military wings.

The Tamil Tigers are clearly the coolest separatists in the world.

― martin leeson, Monday, 4 November 2002 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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