ABOUT JAFFNA

Jaffna is located in the nothern part of the Sri lanka.This is the Home city of Sri Lankan Tamil.Most of the Jaffna Tamils are well educated .They have their traditional culture,Decency.This is an ancient port city.I am also from Jaffna.My village call "Ilavalai"which is located 5 km north of Jaffna Town.This city is fillup with traditional Hindu kovils, catholicChurches.The local citizens are Hindu ,Catholics & Muslims and Christians. The Jaffna Peninsula and the rest of Sri Lanka's vast Northern Province comprise the country's driest region.Jaffna, the center of Sri Lanka's Tamil culture, was the capital of an independent medieval kingdom and later a key colonial outpost for the Portuguese and Dutch.About a million people today make their homes on the Jaffna Peninsula. Some 999 square miles (2,587 square kilometers) in size, the peninsula is saved from being an island only by a halfmile-wide strip of sand at its far southeastern end.Its flat, dry land is interspersed with shallow lagoons,and a number of interesting offshore islands extend the geographical pattern. The yal is today the symbol of Jaffna,which sometimes is also called "Yalpanam," "city of the lyre."Just as with the eastern coast, so has much of northern Sri Lankafallen to disruption and destruction due to fighting betweenthe Sri Lankan armed forces and the Tamil Militants(Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam) led By Mr.V. Prabaharan.Jaffna, the strong hold of the militant groups has taken a heavy toll. Access to the north is heavily restricted .But,when better times comes, Jaffna and the north will offer the discerning traveler a glimpse into a land of stark beauty, that is rich in culture and history.
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The liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are a guerilla/terrorist group representing the minority Tamil community, fighting for an Eelam, or homeland in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Led by V. Pirabhakaran, the group started as a small forty to fifty man outfit in the early 1980s, but has since grown to an organization of several thousand. A unique, if macabre feature of its tactics has been the use of suicide commandos, both men and women, some in their early teens, for individual assassination as well as mass attacks. A former Indian prime minister, a Sri Lankan president, and several top aides have been targeted and killed in this way. The LTTE has not hesitated to kill prominent Sinhala civilians. Between 1987 and 1990 LTTE fought the Indian Army, which was sent to disarm it as part of an Indian-Sri Lankan agreement. After the Indian pullout in 1990, the organization used a suicide bomber to carry out the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Thereafter Indian authorities unravelled a well-organized network of safe houses, supporters, and logistics depots in Tamil Nadu. India maintains a strict naval cordon sanitate around the area of conflict, which shows no signs of abating.

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