LTTE is an anti-government force in Sri Lanka, so the target of LTTE terrorist attacks is Sri Lankan government forces. They want to overthrow the government, establish their own political power, or safeguard the independence of their own region.

LTTE also launched a terrorist attack on Sri Lanka's domestic buildings, commercial centers, military facilities and even Buddhist holy places, which was unanimously condemned by the international community. June, 5438+June, 5438+19981October, LTTE tried to blow up the famous Buddha's Tooth Temple in Kandy, the ancient capital.

To this end, the Sri Lankan government declared LTTE an illegal organization. India, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the European Union successively characterized it as a terrorist organization and included it in the list of terrorist organizations.

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Establishment process

After Sri Lanka's independence from 65438 to 0948, the politically disadvantaged Tamils were dissatisfied with the Sinhalese-led government's policies in language, employment, education and religion, and the contradictions between the two ethnic groups intensified day by day, resulting in many bloody conflicts. In the early 1970s, Tamils formally put forward the idea of establishing an independent "Ilam State".

1976, 18 Tamil political parties formed the United Liberation Front, demanding autonomy in the eastern and northern regions where Tamils live in concentrated communities. Some militants later split to form the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, with Jaffna Peninsula in northern Sri Lanka as its base camp and prabhakaran as its highest.