Tamils are a group of people who were moved from the Indian subcontinent to other countries by the British colonial authorities. As it was before they still mostly work on the tea plantations. There are 77 million Tamils all over the world; three million of them live in Sri Lanka, estimated. Their religion is mostly Hinduism, but they have people believe in Christianity, Islam and Jainism as well.
LTTE is “perhaps the most lethal, well organized and disciplined terrorist force in the world”
(http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/shrilanka/terroristoutfits/LTTE.htm).
The creator of the Tamil Tigers organization, Velupillai Prabhakaran, founded it in the 1975 and gained many supporters, mainly by the Tamil youth, who were satisfied with all the policies that Prabhakaran introduced. The organization included men, women, and even some children joined it later, because after the signing of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) there was a shortage of manpower because of increasing casualties and the escalation of the conflict later. From the time that the organization was founded, they began from the attacks on the local policeman to the severe terrorism acts all over Sri Lanka, including the assassination of the mayor of Jaffna. “A typical unit of children was trained for four months in the jungle. Woken at 0500hrs they assembled, fell in line, and their leader raised the LTTE flag. This was followed by two hours of physical training, after which the recruits engaged in weapons training, battle and field craft, and parade drill. During the rest of the afternoon, time was spent both reading LTTE