Govt. extends LTTE ban by five years; terms it threat to India

The government, under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, has proscribed the LTTE as an ‘Unlawful Association', it said.

“The declaration of LTTE as an ‘Unlawful Association' has been extended for a further period of five years with effect from May 14, 2014,” the notification said.  

LTTE, which came up in 1976, was based in northern Sri Lanka and fought for creation of an independent Tamil state in the north and east of that country. It was decimated by the Sri Lankan military in 2009.

Thousands of people were killed during the bloody movement launched by LTTE under the leadership of Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was also killed in the fight with the Sri Lankan Army in 2009.

It had carried out the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and Sri Lanka's President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.