Tigers

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Tigers
       n : a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as
           a student protest over the limited university access for
           Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an
           independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla
           strategy including terrorist tactics that target key


           government and military personnel; "the Tamil Tigers
           perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war" [syn: {Liberation
           Tigers of Tamil Eelam}, {LTTE}, {Tamil Tigers}, {World
           Tamil Association}, {World Tamil Movement}]