List of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups Totally Explained

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Following is a list of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups.

Student organizations

TSL – Tamil Students League [TamilManavar Peravai] (1970), founded by Ponnuthurai Satyaseelan. See also, TYL.
TYL – Tamil Youth League [TamilIlaignar Peravai] (1973), the progenitor of Eelam Tamil militancy.
GUES – General Union of Eelam Students, part of EROS and forerunner of EPRLF.

Major groups

LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - Only remaining armed Tamil nationalist group (After successfully neutralizing other groups).

EPRLF Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front - Part of TNA.

EPDP Eelam People's Democratic Party - Pro-government group and a political party accused of being a paramilitary.(External Link

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TELO Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization - Once decimated by the LTTE, part of TNA.

PLOTE People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam - Minor standalone political party accused of being a paramilitary. PLOTE, unlike others, vehemently denies this.

ENDLF Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front - Created with the help IPKF now active in India in refugee settlements in Orissa.

EROS Eelam Revolutionary Organisers - Part of LTTE.

TMVP LTTE splinter group, pro-government group accused of being a para-military.

ICMM - Indo Ceylon Merger Movement (Inththiya Ilanggai Innaippu Iyakkam). (1971-1980)

TNT - Tamil New Tigers (Puthiya Thamil Pulikal). (1972-1978) part of LTTE

TLO - Tamil Liberation Organization. (1974-1978)

Militant fronts

Upsurging People's Force Considered to be a front of LTTE.

Ellalan Padai - A front organization of LTTE.

Ravanan Padai - Considered to be a front of LTTE.

Senan Padai - Considered to be a front of LTTE splinter group Tamil Makkal Viduthalaip Pulikal. Officials of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalaip Pulikal have denied any connections.

Political front parties

TSK – Tamilar Suya-Aadchi Kazhakam (1969), of V. Navaratnam; a splinter group of ITAK.

ETOM – Eela Thamilar Ottrumai Munnani (1960), of C.Suntheralingam; a one-person band, which became a minor constituent of the TULF.

DPLF – Democratic People's Liberation Front, the political wing of PLOTE, of D.Siddarthan.

PFLT – People's Front of Liberation Tigers (1989), now defunct political party of the LTTE.

ENLF – Eelam National Liberation Front (1985-1986), a short-lived union of the LTTE, EROS, TELO and EPRLF. LTTE wiggled out of this union.

TELF – Tamil Eelam Liberation Front (1982), of S.C. Chandrahasan, M.K. Eelaventhan, journalist Kovai Mahesan and Dr. S.A. Tharmalingam; a splinter group of the TULF.

ENDLF – Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (1987), a group created by RAW from PLOTE, EPRLF and TELO.

Minor groups

ELDF – Eelam Liberation Defence Front.

ELO – Eelam Liberation Organisation (1975).

ELT – Eelam Liberation Tigers.

EM – Eagle Movement, of Gnanavel.

ERCP – Eelam Revolutionary Communist Party.

GATE – Guerrilla Army of Tamil Eelam.

NLFTE – National Liberation Front of Tamil Eelam, which according to Taraki, was a small but influential Maoist group based largely in Jaffna, which "drove down the road to perdition by splitting hairs over the question of whether it should first build an armed wing or a mass political movement."

PLFT – People's Liberation Front of Tamil Eelam, a splinter group of NLFTE.

PLA – People's Liberation Army, the military wing of EPRLF, Led by current EPDP leader Douglas Devananda. Important achievement of the PLA was the 1984 kidnapping of American couple Stanley and Mary Allen from Columbus, Ohio, in Jaffna.

PLP – People's Liberation Party.

RCG – Red Crescent Guerrillas.

RELO – Revolutionary Eelam Liberation Organisation.

RFTE – Red Front of Tamil Eelamists. (1984)

RW – Revolutionary Warriors.

SRSL – Socialist Revolutionary Social Liberation

TEA – Tamil Eelam Army (1983), of Panagoda Maheswaran.

TEC – Tamil Eelam Commando.

TEDF – Tamil Eelam Defence Front.

TEEF – Tamil Eelam Eagles Front.

TELA – Tamil Eelam Liberation Army (1982) of Oberoi Thevan; a splinter group of TELO. After the assassination of Thevan in 1983 by the LTTE, TELA was absorbed by PLOTE.

TELC – Tamil Eelam Liberation Cobras (1983), a short-lived Batticaloa-based group. As per Taraki, "It was widely known as the Cobra Army (Naaha Padai)".

TELE – Tamil Eelam Liberation Extremists, which Taraki identified as "led by one 'TELE Jegan.' He was shot dead by the LTTE.

TELG – Tamil Eelam Liberation Guerrillas.

TENA – Tamil Eelam National Army (1983), of Amirthalingam Baheerathan.

TERO – Tamil Eelam Revolutionary Organisation, of Sudan Ramesh; a splinter group of TELO.

TERPLA – Tamil Eelam Revolutionary People's Liberation Army, of Thangarasa.

TESS – Tamil Eelam Security Service.

TLO – Tamil Liberation Organisation (1969), the progenitor of TELO.

TNC – Tamil National Council (1989).

TNT – Tamil New Tigers (1972-1976); renamed the LTTE.

TPCU – Tamil People's Command Unit.

TPDF – Tamil People's Democratic Front.

TPSF – Tamil People's Security Front.

TPSO – Tamil People's Security Organisation.

TEBM – Tamil Eelam Blood Movement. ==

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