This is to advise due to personal reasons this website will not be functioning anymore.

http://www.tamilnaatham.com/

Tamil websites 'Puthinam' & 'TamilNatham' run by Karan from Australia shut down suddenly due to infighting among pro -LTTE diaspora Tamils

9:30 AM Oct 19th from web

1. Death threats from my follow ealamites

http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/10/defeat_of
_ltte_cannot
_be_class.html



Defeat of LTTE cannot be classified as a 'Great military victory'

By Prof. Charles Sarvan



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To begin with numbers: exact figures are hard to come by, but it is thought that, at their height, the Tigers perhaps numbered 30,000. Towards the end, down to a few thousand and then a few hundred, they faced an army of perhaps 250,000. Then there is the matter of resources. The Tigers did not have jets and helicopters. Their propeller planes were slow and clumsy and of no real military value. Rejected by foreign governments, the Tigers were as isolated internationally as they were totally surrounded geographically.



In contrast, the Government of Sri Lanka received help and advice from several countries. The Taliban fight in mountainous, inaccessible terrain, while the Tigers occupied flat land albeit forested. Sri Lanka being an island and the government of the nearest country, India, implacably hostile, the LTTE did not have borders over which they could easily slip to re-group, recover and return to continue the struggle.



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