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373 YOUNG SUICIDE BOMBERS HAVE DIED EXPLODING THEM AND OTHERS IN QUEST OF A TAMIL STATE SAYS LTTE

By Walter Jayawardhana

Tamil Tigers' UK sources have claimed in anticipation of the coming Heroes' Day celebrations planned in London on November 27 that 373 young men and women have died so far as suicide bombers in a so far unsuccessful attempt to create a separate state carved out of Sri Lanka.

Quoting Kilinochchi sources the LTTE local media said from November 27 1982 to November 20 2008 274 male suicide bombers and 104 female suicide bombers have died trying to carve out a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka . The walking bombs known as Black Tigers have been used to attack unarmed civilians like people traveling in buses and trains as well as government installations and military convoys. Claimed to be an economical way of waging a war the Black Tigers have caused the death of hundreds of civilians and caused millions worth of property damage.

According to intelligence sources the suicide units of the Tamil Tigers are the most innovative under the world's terror groups and have perfected a technologically superior suicide jacket with plastic explosives, which has been sold to Middle Eastern suicide groups probably for a price.

According to the same sources the suicide bombers or Black Tigers have been trained from former child soldier units after children being recruited as soldiers. Most of the child soldiers have been taken from homes, schools , temple festivals and even playgrounds by simply kidnapping without the consent of their parents. It has been said brainwashed children make the best soldiers as they are easy to manipulate at tender ages.

The pro-LTTE media basing their statistics from what they claimed as Heroes Department in Kilinochchi said the 373 suicide bombers were among 22,390 Tamil Tigers who have died in quest for a putative Tamil ethnic state between Sri Lanka and India. The proposed separate state encompasses one third of the Sri Lankan landmass and two thirds of the Sri Lankan coastline, far bigger in ratio to their strength in population. Among those Tamil combatants who were killed 17, 496 were males and 4894 were females , the LTTE supplied statistics said. These figures do not agree with other claims of the deaths of the Tiger combatants.

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