Word: eelam
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...meeting room at Temple Trees, the stately British-colonial residence that now makes up the President's official compound, Mahinda Rajapaksa sat next to a framed 14th century temple painting and spoke with TIME's Jyoti Thottam about winning the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE...
...Lanka's 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' fearsome leader. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the man who tamed the Tigers. Now his task is to heal a nation still divided by tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. In a rare, wide-ranging interview, Rajapaksa, 63, talked with TIME's Jyoti Thottam at the President's official compound in Colombo on July...
...effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, lying on a muddy patch of ground with wide eyes and a fractured skull. His life's end terminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's decades-long fight for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority - about 10% of the population - and a cycle of violence that Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and religions have been living with for decades...
...veil of secrecy over the whereabouts of three doctors who worked in Sri Lanka's shrinking war zone last month has finally been lifted. On Thursday Colombo announced that the doctors, who were treating patients in areas held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the final days before those areas were gained by Sri Lankan government forces, are now in government custody and face court action for collaborating with the Tigers...
...government that controlled vast swaths of territory and boasted its own systems of taxes, roads and courts. As the army closed in, he allegedly used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields. By the final days, just 250 LTTE members remained. They died too, along with the dream of eelam...