LTTE didnt have any issues with other Tamil Millitant Orgnazations if they worked for a independent Tamil Eelam. LTTE chief V.Prabhakaran was a admirer of the TELO founders and called them Maaveerars until his death. Prabhakaran learned eveything from Kuttimani & Thangadurai and Solo Figther Pon Sivakumaran. Hon-Prabhakaran even joined TELO for a short time and did many missions like attacks and robberies together. LTTE worked together with TELO, EPRLF and many organizations and even founded the umbrella united front ENLF (Eelam National Liberation Front).
The BIG 5 (TELO, LTTE, EROS, EPRLF) without PLOTE who didnt want to meet Prabahakaran of personal problems and the shooting incident in Pondy Bazar. Tall Sri Sabaratnam (TELO) ,V. Prabhakaran (LTTE) V.Balakumaran (EROS) K.Padmanaba (EPRLF)
TELO, EROS and EPRLF leaderships with DMK and Tamil Nadu Opposition Leader Karunanidhi
Realizing that unity among the liberation movements is essential to take forward the freedom struggle of the people of Tamil Eelam, the leaders of the Eelam Progressive Revolutionary Liberation Front, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization and Eelam Revolutionary Organization have decided to form a united front and name it Eelam National Liberation Front. - Statement from EPRLF, EROS and TELO after the meeting with Former Chief Minister Karunanidhi and imposition Leader while V.Prabahakaran and Uma Maheswaran was in a meeting with MGR.
Chief V.Prabahakaran and Lt. Shankar with MGR
“Before my death sentence is carried out, please remove my eyes and transplant them to a Tamil without eyesight. I will not be able to see the free Tamil Eelam but, at least, let my eyes see it.” - Kuttimani (TELO) before his murder in 1983 riots
V. Prabahakaran as mentioned didnt have problem with anyone aslong they worked full heartly for the liberation of the Tamil People and the creation of Tamil Eelam. Even when Uma Maheswaran and his loyal figthers started their own organization most known as PLOTE, LTTE chief V.Prabhakaran never called Uma Maheswaran and his cadres for traitors to Tamil Eelam or the Tamil People but traitors to the LTTE and it was a personal conflict, but this changed after Indian RAW murdered Uma Maheswaran after the Maldives Coup incident and PLOTE joined the Premedasa Goverment who was known to be Anti-Indian and even supplied weopons both to the LTTE and PLOTE to fight the Indians. When PLOTE started to attack LTTE bases with the help of the “enemy” thats when PLOTE was considred as traitors. It was simillar with Padmandba and Tall Sri.
The ENLF was short lived mainly beacuse of the involvment of India. India didnt want the millitants. The Indians didnt even want to train the Tamil Millitant Orgnazations together beacause India kne w if the Tamil rebels worked together they wont be easly to control and the Indian supremacy will be lost. LTTE knew this and saw TELO and EPRLF becoming to close with the Indians working as a mercenaries to teach Sri Lanka a lesson for aiding Pakistan during the war and fearing the relationship Sri Lanka had with the USA during the Cold War and even fearing American Supremacy in their own backyard simillar to the Cuba crisis.
Both TELO and EPRLF was dependent on Indian aid unlike the LTTE and PLOTE (Pre 1989). Both Tall Sri and Padmanaba was seen as puppets of India.Both EPRLF and TELO began to have internam issues where many cadres like popular Day didnt like the way it was going. Many of the cadres was against the thought of imperialism. People from EROS even PLOTE like the popular Brigafier Balraj which was going to give LTTE big sucsess on the battlefields were the people who didnt approve of this.
Unknown hungerstrike of Prabahakaran for releasing prisoners and weopons by the Indians where later Tamil Nadu politicans forced him to drink water.
The 13 cadres who forced themself to take sucide and this incident was seen as the betrayal of India and a reason to attack pro Indian groups.
TELO and EPRLF went to extent to supporting the Indo-Lankan accord in 1987 where the Tamil Millitants wasnt even represented not as a equal part but not at all. LTTE and PLOTE was angred by how India as a third part can make a deal with the second part (Sri Lanka) without consulting, innforming or even with their presence. The accord said demillitarize the armed movements and LTTE was pressured to follow this. LTTE leadership later accepted.
Thileepan a famous orator and student of the Jaffna Hindu College who joined the LTTE to fight against the oppression but still belived in peace and good relations with India.
But after the Thileepan Incident and the sucide of the 13 LTTE figthers LTTE got issues with India. Accord stated that India would protect the Tamil People and the Tamil figthers if they layed up their arms which a promise IPKF couldnt hold.
Thieepan went to a fast against the arrest of the 13 cadres. This incident was the incident which madd the LTTE leadership not to belive in peaceful protest. This fast was the second peaceful protest against India. After a "martyr's funeral" in Jaffna, Thileepan's body was handed over to the University of Jaffna's medical faculty. Thileepan's death resulted in large anti-government and anti-Indian protests in northern Sri Lanka even when the LTTE gave his body and Indian Army uniform.
Prabhakaran over his dead friend after the hungerstrike. After this incident Prabahakaran went out to say that peaceful protests will get ignored or sabotaged
There were rumours of pro Indian organization disturbing the peace and hurting civillians and the massacres and massrape the Indian army did didnt make it easier.
Matters came to a head with the assassination of two prominent Tamil politicians in Jaffna, M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam, in September 1985. The TELO and the LTTE blamed each other for the killings. In February 1986, the LTTE pulled out of the ENLF. In the meantime, differences with the LTTE were also growing. The LTTE was unhappy with the pro-India stance of the TELO. They also were upset that the TELO was getting by far the largest share of contributions from Sri Lankan Tamil expatriates, even though the TELO was not as active or successful as the LTTE. Prabhakaran also feared that India would use the TELO or EPRLF to have him killed.
“TELO and EPRLF usually held the Indian view of problems and pushed for India's view during peace talks with Sri Lanka and other groups. LTTE denounced the TELO view and claimed that India was only acting on its own interest. As a result, the LTTE broke from the ENLF in 1986. Lingam a native of Velvettithurai, Jaffna joined LTTE as a part timer in 1980. He became full time member in 1981.
In early 1986 tension between LTTE and other militant groups started to grow each passing day. During such a situation TELO arrested two LTTE cadres. Known as a very calm man LTTE sent Lingam to talk with TELO.On 29th April 1986 Lingam was killed inside TELO camp. He was shot in the eyes. Other two detained LTTE cadres were also shot dead.
Lingam one of LTTE’s most coolheaded and patient men.
Lingam’s murder was the trigger point for the war between LTTE and other groups. Within one week whole TELO group was wiped out and other militant groups were neutralized militarily” - Gopal anna answer - Who were those 29 members present in LTTE before 1983 Anti-Tamil pogrom (Black July)?
Gopal R (गोपाल R)'s answer to How did the LTTE capture Jaffna in 1985 with ease?
Soon fighting broke out between the TELO and the LTTE and clashes occurred over the next few months. As a result, almost the entire TELO leadership and at least 400 TELO militants were killed by the LTTE. LTTE was forced to kill TELO cadres after the murder of Lingam and peace negotioter of LTTE in TELO camp.
The LTTE attacked training camps of the EPRLF a few months later, forcing it to withdraw from the Jaffna peninsula.Notices were issued to the effect that all remaining Tamil insurgents join the LTTE in Jaffna and in Madras, where the Tamil groups were headquartered. With the major groups including the TELO and EPRLF eliminated, the remaining 20 or so Tamil insurgent groups were then absorbed into the LTTE, making Jaffna an LTTE-dominated city.
Other reasons were also the internal issues all the Tamil Millitant Orgnazations had and werent stable enough or objevtive to go for the goal of independent Eelam.
Amirthalingam first Tamil to be the leader of the opposition and his sons took up arms for the LTTE.
Amirthalingam was killed beacuse of his close links to Iinks to India and supported Indo-Lankan which went against the promises he did. “Long before the Tigers began their armed struggle, TULF leaders including Mr Amirthalingam were calling for an independent state for Tamils in the north and east called Tamil Eelam.” -BBC
Amirthalingam with his wife
Amirthalingam won the Tamil votes by promising a seperate country for Tamils and Self Determination but by agreeing to Indo-Lankan accord he was seen as traitor in the eyes of the Tamil Tigers.
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