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The Uniqueness of LTTE's Suicide Bombers Empty The Uniqueness of LTTE's Suicide Bombers

Post by Rishi Sun Jan 12, 2014 3:29 pm

Another powerful motivation for the LTTE's suicide cadre is that the LTTE connects its ideology with a judicious use of symbols rooted in Tamil myth such as the tiger, the symbol of one of the most favourite Tamil gods, Murugan.It was? the emblem of the ancient Chola emperors, the concept of maram? (wrath), the concept of the brave mother (vira tayar) and the vira pen (brave woman) who sacrifice their loved ones for the war. This is a recurring theme in Purananuru poetry of the Sangam period between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D. The LTTE cadre is expected? to conform to the ideals of the past. A failure is not that of an individual, letting? down the? organisation, it is failure to live up to the ideals of a glorious past.

http://www.ipcs.org/article/suicide-terrorism-in-sri-lanka/the-uniqueness-of-lttes-suicide-bombers-321.html

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