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A Ukrainian weapons baron has been selling arms to Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka, according to a former warlord with the terrorist organisation. ... Muralidharan, also known as ‘Karuna’, is believed to be the former right-hand man of the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabhakaran.
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rt.com/Top_News/2009-01-23/%E2%80%98Tamil_Tigers_get_we...
rt.com/Top_News/2009-01-23/%E2%80%98Tamil_Tigers_get_weapons_from_Ukraine%E2%80%99.html
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RCMP claims money raised for aid spent on arms ... According to Jane's Intelligence Review, Cambodia has been a significant source of the Tamil Tigers' weapons. The rest have come from places such as North Korea, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Turkey and Ukraine.
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www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1562915
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have been fighting for a separate ethnic homeland on the island, effectively surrendered when they said that their campaign had reached its "bitter end" and they would lay down their weapons after weeks spent trapped inside a tiny enclave on the north-east coast.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/534011...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5340110/Sri-Lankas-Tamil-Tiger-rebels-lay-down-weapons.html
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The two combatants in the war in Sri Lanka were never short of firepower. ... Will Hartley, the editor of Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre, said that the Tamil Tigers used 11 merchant ships to deliver weapons. “They got arms from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Cyprus, Thailand and Croatia and other countries,” he said.
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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article638347...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383474.ece
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Leslie Wiser, the FBI special agent-in-charge in Newark, New Jersey, said: "This weekend's operation has severely impaired the Tamil Tigers' ability to acquire funding and weapons for their ongoing terror operations in Sri Lanka."
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/aug/23/usa.armstrade
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Twelve men arrested in US as a result of an FBI sting operation have been charged with attempting to buy arms for Tamil Tigers and trying to bribe American officials to have group's name removed from a US government list of terrorist organisations. ... They also asked for anti-ship weapons and AK-47 assault rifles.
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www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-22-2006-106330.asp
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The Sri Lankan Defence Ministry claimed on Saturday that the LTTE’s “plot to utilise chemical weapons in their future battlefields” has been tracked by intelligence sources. ... Labels: Tamil Tigers, Terrorists...
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www.eaglespeak.us/2007/08/chemical-weapons-for-tamil-ti...
www.eaglespeak.us/2007/08/chemical-weapons-for-tamil-tigers.html
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ; World Tamil Association (WTA) ; World Tamil Movement (WTM) ; ... Founded in 1976, the LTTE was the most powerful Tamil group in Sri Lanka and used overt and illegal methods to raise funds, acquire weapons, and publicize its cause of establishing an independent Tamil state.
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www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ltte.htm
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Britain and other EU countries sold military equipment worth millions of pounds to the Sri Lankan Government in the last three years of its bloody civil war with the Tamil Tigers, The Times has learnt.
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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article641071...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6410718.ece
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