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Death of the Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s downfall is a lesson to all those world leaders who want to achieve their political and personal goals by the means of violence and use of gun. LTTE was formed in early eighties. Since its formation, LTTE has witnessed many ups and down along with its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Infect he has been killed by the Sri Lankan military on May 18 and it is being said that with his death LTTE’s armed struggle for a separate Tamil land has ended. Hs death and LTTE’s defeat has been hailed by many international communities and nations which have been badly affected by the international terrorism. Though LTTE was officially declared a terrorist organization in almost 40 countries but still it has the support of some countries also. In the early years of its formation LTTE had a support of almost all of the world nations but later on it evaporated as it started to target civilians. There were many instances when LTTE used suicide bombers to kill hundreds of innocent people. UNO had also criticized LTTE for recruitment of child soldiers in its military. There were some reports when LTTE had conscripted hundreds of child soldiers following the international pressure.   Formation of LTTE When Sri Lanka got independence most of its administration was controlled by the Tamils as they were the most literate community in the island country. Successive Sinhalese governments took it as major threat for the rights of their community and many discriminatory policies were passed to keep them at bay. In the early days of his life Prabhakarn saw the discrimination of Tamils by the majority of Sinhalese that prompted him to choose arms for the protection of his community. In the early days of his youth Prabhakaran had worked in many Tamil organizations that protested the discrimination of his community. In early eighties he formed Tamil New Tigers. Prabhakaran was not adult yet when TNT was formed. TNT carried out many small scale attacks and bombings as a protest. His first political assassination was of the mayor of Alfred Duraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna. And with it his group got notoriety and was banned by the Sri Lankan government. There were times when he slept in the open in Sri Lankan jungles without food for many days. TNT funded its activities by committing bank robberies. [...]