The Sri Lankan terrorist group LTTE was behind the shootdown of a flight from Jaffna in 1998 in which more than 50 were killed.
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On this day in 1995, The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) assassinated Sri Lankaa President Premadasa during a May Day event and killed 17 others.
The LTTE used an SA-7 to shoot down two Sri Lankan Air Force planes in Jaffna in April 1995, killing all 95 people on board.
On this day in 2004, two suicide bombers wearing explosives targeted the headquarters of Iraq’s two leading Kurdish political parties.
After four years and almost 1,000 blogs (have I really written that many??) it should not surprise anyone that there has been some repetition along the way. As this is a blog on terrorism there can’t be that much to say, can there? Yes, unfortunately, there is always some heinous act against innocent people to […]
Imagine the following scenario. The weather outside is awful. It has been snowing for three days now and a lot of the white stuff has accumulated on the ground. In addition, the temperatures have hovered around zero (Celsius or 32 Fahrenheit) so there is a real risk of ice on the roads. Every TV station, […]
If there is one nation that for many of us evoked the spectre of terrorism at one time in recent history it could be Sri Lanka. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terrorist organisation that fought what it saw as egregious Sinhalese domination in the country (most Sri Lankans – 67% – are […]