TamilEela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal

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Background

Origins of the Civil War

• Origins of the Civil War
• Black July • Human Rights Issues • Riots and pogroms
• Attributed State terrorism
• Prison massacres
• Tamil militant groups

LTTE

• LTTE • Attributed Terrorist attacks • Child Soldiers
• Attributed assasinations
• Notable Attacks • Expulsion of Muslims from Jaffna

Major figures

• Mahinda Rajapakse
• Velupillai Prabhakaran
• Karuna Amman
• Sarath Fonseka

Indian Involvement

• Operation Poomalai
• Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
• Indian Peace Keeping Force
• Rajiv Gandhi • RAW

See also

• Military of Sri Lanka
• TMVP • EPDP
• Notable assassinations

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Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Tamil: தமிழீழ மக்கள் விடுதலைப்புலிகள், English: Tamileela Peoples Liberation Tigers) is a political party and paramilitary group formed in 2004 by break-away LTTE Military Head of Batticaloa district V. Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna). Karuna led a split in LTTE in 2003, breaking away chunk of the organization in the eastern part of Sri Lanka and adding another organization to the long-running Sri Lankan civil war. The president of TVMP is Colonel Karuna and the general secretary G.E. Gnanarajah.

Together with Indian-based Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front, TVMP has formed Tamileela Iykkiya Viduthalai Munnani as a united front. The purported aim and the motive of the party is to safeguard the rights of the Tamils from the district of Batticaloa.

The president of the party has consented his willingness to contest the forthcoming elections, and to enter the democratic political process.

The party claims no affiliations to any of the political parties nor the Sri Lankan government, although the LTTE claims that cadres belonging to the TMVP are used by the Sri Lankan government to kill LTTE cadres. Human rights organisations such as AHRC claim that this group is used to abduct civilians from the Jaffna peninsula in numerous white vans and presumably kill them.^[1]