Tamil New Tigers

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Tamil New Tigers
LeaderVelupillai Prabhakaran 
Dates of operationMay 22 1972- May 5 1976
Notable attacksDuraiappa Stadium Bombing
StatusInactive. Militarily disbanded in May 1976.
Designated as a terrorist group bySri Lanka

The Tamil New Tigers (TNT) was a militant Tamil organization founded by Velupillai Prabhakaran on May 22, 1972.[1] The group was composed of a few close associates of Prabhakaran, who was 17 years old when he founded the group. They initially carried out several small scale attacks, including the bombing of a carnival at the Duraiappa Stadium in 1972, and several explosions during Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike's visit to Jaffna in 1974. The group gained notoriety in 1975 when Prabhakaran and three other members assassinated Alfred Duraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna.[2]

The group continued to carry out attacks and a string of bank robberies after the assassination, and the Sri Lanka Police were issued orders to arrest all members of the group. Wanting to form a guerrilla group, Prabhakaran created the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on May 5, 1976, thereby disbanding the Tamil New Tigers.[3]

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  1. ^ "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)". The Jain Commission Report. Vol. 5. Archived from the original on 2006-07-16. Retrieved 2009-04-14 – via India Today.
  2. ^ Sabaratnam, T. "Birth of Tamil New Tigers". Pirapaharan.
  3. ^ "Prabha's unlucky 33 bullets". The Daily Mirror. 2009-04-08. Archived from the original on April 11, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-14.

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