Tamil Tigers

plural noun

1. the Tamil Tigers
   a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist movement founded in the early 1970s that seeks to establish an independent Tamil homeland (Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka

Example Sentences

Discussing the Tamil Tigers’ defeat, their past mistakes and even Prabhakaran’s death is discouraged in Tamil society, especially in the diaspora.

From Seattle Times

Government troops crushed the Tamil Tigers in 2009 and since then the government has faced international pressure to resolve the power-sharing issue through talks.

From Seattle Times

It provided arms to both sides of the Iran-Iraq war and to Libya, among other customers, and after the Soviet Union fell it supplied rebels in Angola and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

From New York Times

In the years following the savage end of the government's 25-year war against the separatist Tamil Tigers in 2009, Sri Lanka benefited from something of a financial "peace dividend".

From BBC

K, a close friend, joins the Tamil Tigers and urges her to work for them as a medic; as Sashi is drawn closer into the conflict, she sees her own values take shape.

From New York Times