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Why are Buddhists and Hindus killing each other in Sri Lanka which is known as the home of the suicide bomber?

Tamil Tigers have staged two thirds of all the suicide bombings in the world. Tamil Tigers are driven by ethnonationalism. In the case of the Tamil Tigers, they go for civilian (Central Bank, Maradana, etc.) as well as infrastructure (airport, port, World Trade Centre, Colombo) targets. In an interview with FRONTLINE/World, a Sri Lankan newspaper editor described the Tamil Tigers' process of taking young orphans and refugees off to a hidden area in the jungle where they are given special status and primed to become suicide bombers. At the moment, the Tamil Tigers are continuing to recruit, raise funds, arm, and train Tamil youth, including children. Although verbally the LTTE has agreed to negotiate towards an end to violence, in terms of their actions or deeds we have yet to see sincerity. Unless the Norwegian facilitators/negotiators link devolution of power to decommissioning, the LTTE will try to strengthen themselves militarily and violate the cease-fire and return to conflict as they did before both with the Government of India and two Sri Lankan administrations previously.

Public Comments

1. Thank you for bringing attention to yet another area that the news stations have ignored! (Ask your kids if they've ever heard of Kosovo or Somalia) They're probably killing each other for the same reason that Sunnis and Shi'ites are killing each other in Iraq.
2. The first suicide bombing was against the U.S. embassy in Beirut. The Tamils didn't invent suicide bombing, but they embraced it with a passion. They currently account for about 1/3 of the suicide bombings in the world (you got your statistic a little reversed). My one word answer: Religion. The struggle is political on the surface, but the division underneath all that is religious.
3. yes you are right thankyou for care with tamil people