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<text>
<title>
Sri Lanka: Global Terrorism
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
Asian Overview: Sri Lanka
</hdr>
<body>
<p> Although the separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) suffered a series of setbacks on the battlefield in
1991, it continued to pose a terrorist threat.
</p>
<p> In March 1991, the LTTE returned to urban terrorism with the
car-bomb assassination of Deputy Defense Minister Ranjan
Wijeratne in Colombo. Scores of innocent bystanders were killed
or injured. A second car-bomb attack in June devastated the
government's Military Operations Headquarters, again taking many
civilian lives. Interrogation of LTTE suspects reportedly
revealed that future targets included government figures and
major public utilities.
</p>
<p> In India, a Madras court indicted the leader of the LTTE and
his intelligence chief in connection with the 21 May
assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Seventeen
others also died in this bombing, which occurred while Gandhi
was campaigning. Numerous LTTE suspects tracked by Indian police
committed suicide to avoid capture.
</p>
<p> The LTTE also continued to assassinate rival Tamil
politicians in Sri Lanka and India. In rural areas, the Tigers
massacred hundreds of Sinhalese and Muslim villagers to drive
them from areas deemed part of a "Tamil Homeland."
</p>
<p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
</p>
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