A Tank From A Forgotten War | Tamil Tigers Makeshift Tank

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[@comradedog4075]

Still looks more effective than the bob semple

[@lochanageemal1711]

Killed like dogs

[@lochanageemal1711]

@@KMS_BISMARK 😂😂😂😂 really

[@මව්බිමශ්රීලංකා]

@@KMS_BISMARK 😂😂😂 You are very crazy

[@Joshua_N-A]

Tamil Tigers were a rare armed insurgent group where they have their own army, navy and air force.

[@jalpat2272]

Its Linda cool actually

[@bruhhhhh7799]

This group was so dengerous in history this group started making death propaganda and killing innocent peoples I hate terrorism

[@SantomPh]

they literally held one third of the country at some point and had covert (but denied) assistance from elements in India as well as Malaysia and the UK. Most of their actions were straight up terrorist bombings though rather than pitched battles.

[@Kasyom]

Ya, it's like Asif a much more powerful country with more resources did not have a powerful and rich state with a ethinic and religious vested interest in the conflict. Crazy Idea right?

[@sindhanaigal5720]

​@@SantomPhmost of their targets on the economy did not even have that many civilian casualties. Katunayaka Airport attack created a loss of 450 million dollars and 0 civilian casualties. The only straight up bombing rather than battles were done by incompetent over recruited srilankan army

[@meghdiip8503]

An Indian army officer in the 80s who participated in the peace-keeping mission in Sri Lanka had written that they often came across remarkably innovative engineering improvements made by the Tigers on their weapons, armaments and telecommunication equipment. He believed that one of the reasons was that there were many young men with engineering or technical backgrounds to be found among the ranks of the Tamil insurgents. In the 80s, they were probably the most educated rebel movement in South Asia, and that often led to their success up to a point.

[@Imeshgabriel]

Indeed... Yes

[@dogekoko9865]

sinhhaleses had better genetics i amm afraiid they were f ked

[@capitalaviation]

Brilliant job. They were very creative in making the best of what they had. Light aircraft. Howitzers. Semi submersibles. All amid a massive blockade.

[@gayannadeera2055]

They were study from another countries. They had not a special knowledge about battle tanks or submarines. Not only indian tamilnadu, more countries helped them. even from US.

[@sritharan1660]

@@gayannadeera2055 can you tell me exactly how US helped LTTE?

[@gayannadeera2055]

@@sritharan1660 Do you know how they help to Ukraine ?...like that. And you must know they were study about submarines, planes . That all knowledge they took from another countries. And you don't know ...before kill the LTTE terrorist leader, US government people came here....They told STOP THE WAR . Because they supported LTTE. but at that time here president ignore that all..And destroyed LTTE.

[@gayannadeera2055]

@@sritharan1660 after end that war...government let us to see that war aria. Our country, My country . But we had not a chance to see there before. They use TOYOTA van engines for submarines. And they attacked to big type ship. They take that ship all metal to make a big type submarine...ship name is "Pharah 03" They made a pool for test this submarine. But thanks god they had not a much time to finish it. If they finished that...i am not here to reply you.

[@sritharan1660]

@@gayannadeera2055 if US supported LTTE why did US ban LTTE and internationally? Why did US break the arms purchase link of LTTE? US sent it's officials to enable a ceasefire to human corridor to evacuate civillians trapped in war zone, their proposal was to send a ship to mullaithivu to evacuate civillians and drop them at trincomalee to the SL gevernment. Not stop the war entirely. Any other thing that i would say would never be accepted by you. So one logical question, if actually US supported LTTE as you claim, do you sincerely think SL stands a chance to win against US backed LTTE ? The first move would have been an econimic ban on SL which would have been solely enough to cripple the country. By the way SL is the only country that can accuse it's helpers as foes, since "LTTE are defeated and you are safe and alive" why don't SL declare US as its foe since it helped LTTE?

[@madkoala2130]

From all makeshift tanks this one actualy looks like a tank (almost like it was in full production). But i dont know why, but... It looks pretty.

[@kommandantgalileo]

I think it looks like a WW2 Japanese tank

[@4ae109]

resembles an m551 sheridan somewhat

[@4ae109]

nvm was only looking at 2d side view actually looks somewhat like a vk 28.01

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

@@kommandantgalileo not really a Japanese tanks.

[@bfchristianbf]

It has a exotic beauty to it,i like it makes me feel like the first time i saw the merkava,beautiful thing

[@NoName-sb9tp]

Honestly, it’s pretty awesome that they could make a vehicle like that. Some countries couldn’t maintain their tank properly.

[@djb_gaming1633]

But the ltte was a bad group

[@NoName-sb9tp]

@@djb_gaming1633 I don’t know about them, so I don’t have any opinion. I just think that the effort they put in to make the tank is incredible.

[@nauticaltruck802]

They also built and maintained their own submarines/submersibles and had a few turboprop planes

[@djb_gaming1633]

@@NoName-sb9tp yes that's cool

[@forcedave4997]

@@djb_gaming1633 bad for whome? Thugs and Racist military

[@rokuth]

Thank you for this. It was very enlightening to me as someone of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry, with roots in Jaffna Sri Lanka. My family had migrated out from Ceylon in the early 1920s to Malaya. This part of our History is always interesting to me.

[@sagard.yenchilwar1379]

Can you still able speak tamil ?

[@rokuth]

@@sagard.yenchilwar1379 : I can understand Tamil, about 55%, but not speak it. The rest of my family can though. Although it is mostly Indian Tamil as opposed to Sri Lankan Tamil.

[@finalarrow8188]

@4:53 As an Tamil Eelam Tamil, I really appreciate your article and your video on the Tamil Tigers Tank which we Eelam Tamils simply call the 'Composite Tank - ஒருங்குசேர் தகரி', as it was made from various parts of different armoured vehicles. My second point is, The second Tank was not knocked out by the Sri Lankan AF. It was already damaged, but was in a movable condition, as it was hit by a Tiger's RPG in the same battle and was pulled back by SL Armoured Corps. After overrunning the Pooneryn base, Tamil Tigers were able to capture both the T-55 Tanks. As one of the tanks was in a good state, they seized it and destroyed the other which was in a damaged state on the second day after overrunning the Pooneryn base - 12th Nov 1993. They even recorded that destruction scene in video (The damaged tank was brought to an open field by driving and then being bombed by the Tigers) and we Tamils still preserve that video, as it's the first memorable Tank captured moment by the Tamils. As the SL govt. could not believe that more than 800 of their troops were wiped out in a single-day battle and the Tigers captured a large haul of weapons and ammunition, they fabricated this knock-out story to tell their Sinhala people that they managed destroyed some of the captured weapons. In conclusion, I would like to ask you to get your facts right about the Eelam Wars' battles and don't twist the recorded history which you have no idea about. (I'm not going to ask you to change the word 'terrorist', a word game, which you wont accept but at least don't twist the recorded battle history. Just talk only about your content. i.e. Composite Tank or whatever you call it.)

[@jjdelft3216]

They were terrorists though. They attacked civilians for a political goal. Thats the definition of terrorism.

[@finalarrow8188]

@@jjdelft3216 No, they are freedom fighters of Tamils. one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. According to your definition US armed forces can also be described as a terrorists; because they have collateral damages. I don't want to do that. We Tamils are not against anyone - Except the ones who are occupying the Tamils homelands which are being described by the Sinhala genociders as the North and East province of Sri Lanka. "Terrorist" is a word used in the political word game by the elites of the 🌎. So, I don't give a damn sh### about it.

[@justintyson1138]

They are our martyrs❤

[@prabuprabakar856]

@@jjdelft3216 then srilankan army should also be called as a Terrorist, because they attack the civilians for political goal.Thats the definable of terrorism isn't it?

[@ranabimemathakayan3068]

Was this the only operational MBT the tigers had ? Ive heard that during the final stages of the war particularly in the Pudukudirippu battle the Ltte deployed a MBT (supposedly the one which is at 4.50 captured in pooneeyn).It was destroyed along with its crew by an anti tank missile dropped in a precesion airstrike Footage kzbin.info/www/bejne/oImQaqp_ardgo9k

[@bharathj1991]

Tamil Tigers were Freedom fighters who lost their way into militancy - lack of international political support took them into military defeat.

[@jeramysteve3394]

With the amount of unique stuff they came up with during a Civil war makes me wonder what they'd come up with proper funding and industry.

[@daisuki9296]

Tamils are most prosperous ethnicity in entire subcontinent, tamilnadu is a state excelling in all developmental indices despite the country's government being partial and allocating less funds to boost state's well being

[@lachiiirox]

Well they were with proper funding than the government forces😂

[@leopardontheboat8252]

@@daisuki9296😂 jokes 😂

[@sindhanaigal5720]

​@@lachiiiroxtigers got 200 million dollars per year as opposed to Sri Lankan government funding 2 billion dollars. How do non state forces get funded more than states 😂

[@ltte_slayer.0]

​@@sindhanaigal5720 ltte literally robbed tamils in foreign countries for money😂 go and cry me a river peelamist

[@morteforte7033]

Always fascinating to see effort put into a single piece of improvised equipment..and the sort of strange automotive mad genius that makes it happen, it's as real world close to WH40K orks as one can get! 😆

[@skepticalmagos_101]

Lol... thats the funniest way anyone had discribed them. This changes the way I see that Looted bulldozer I visited in IRL. 😂

[@daisuki9296]

More of -martian tech priests- tau than ork, they were well educated hardworking engineers who knew what they were doing, dissimilar to orks who had it easy by realising their beliefs by manipulating reality, also they were morally inclined because sinhala had long history of racist opression on Tamils

[@randomexcessmemories4452]

Improvised armored vehicles like this are always fascinating, and I'd love to see more covered!

[@gj1234567899999]

It’s not a bad looking tank! They have ingenuity!

[@matthewwagner47]

videos on improvised armored vehicles used by civilian defence groups and opposition groups are very interesting. Showing ingenuity and necessity of these type vehicles. Using WWII vehicles still is amazing and shows how effective these ancient weapons are ans still are effective against modern light infantry an untrained civilians.

[@jsma9999]

The Tank Remind me of Austiralian Forces M113 FSV and M113 MRV could do Project on them.

[@davec5153]

I think they transfered the turret and engine from the Salidin and thats why they had to relocate the engine. A tracked vehicle would obviously be more useful in that terrain.

[@misterscaz6011]

I was wondering why they would move the engine. I would think locating the turret over the former troop compartment would have made sense and keeping the engine forward would provide more protection….at least from a hit from the front.

[@damascus1111]

@@misterscaz6011 You then have to worry about gun depression not being capable of firing at any significant height below the vehicle if it was more rear-mounted. And given this vehicle is most likely akin to an IFV, having the ability to hit close up, or very low targets is key in engaging infantry.

[@shenalmendis4406]

@@misterscaz6011 these tanks were not operated as shock unit. They were mostly used to mow down troops from a distance. So I think the arrangement suited the conditions well.

[@danangprasetyajaya4828]

Its crazy how this tamil tiger is look more of actually worked post era military vehichel

[@kikokltzhke8266]

This thing looks like the most perfectly & satisfyingly shaped modern light tank I've been dreaming of!!! Who would've thought it actually existed from somewhere unknown lol, it would've looked & performed even better too if it had the 90mm low pressure gun!

[@alejandrocasalegno1657]

The tamils introduced the "Explosive Jacket" for suicide missions......until the Al Qaeda rise the biggest number of suicide attacks was launch by the "Tamil Tigers".

[@asiff60000fx]

i from SL They even had prototype submarines

[@vincere_]

I fear for the comments section of this video.

[@capitalaviation]

Let’s hope people are sensible. Great video. One of the most interesting I’ve seen on the conflict

[@senthilkumars7407]

Stop calling the Tigers as terrorist group, they sincerely fought for their homeland independence with utmost decipline. They never treated civilians badly, esp womens. Not even single rape allegation against them.

[@vincere_]

@@senthilkumars7407 The UN HRC says otherwise, for both the Sri Lankan military and the LTTE.

[@senthilkumars7407]

@@vincere_ Roughly 100 million tamil people live on the planet, majority of them in India, Srilanka, Malaysia and scattered on other countries, live as minorities in all these countries. They don't have a country of their own yet, living as orphans. There is no govt to represent them in any world forums. So they can be branded any how by the world powers at their will.

[@capitalaviation]

@@senthilkumars7407 so you say ‘they never treated civilians badly’. That is just not true. They mistreated Tamil civilians in unbelievable ways. Everyone suffered because of those fascists.

[@louiswilkins9624]

Excellent bit of improvisation

[@sindhanaigal5720]

Tamil tigers were able to achieve this because they had patriotism for their homeland. Clever engineers educated in the west came running back to fight and engineered the bunkers, weapons and air force, navy etc. Fought an army 20 times there size. Unlike the state forces which joined the army for salary when economy came crumbling down.

[@tomasdavey4598]

i love seeing these lesser known wars and vehicles so im glad you came up in my recommended :)

[@001hellcat1]

Actually looks like a pretty well designed light tank

[@brandenburg2388]

Sri Lanka should have gotten those ex-LTTE guys to open a local armament factory. If this was done, Sri Lanka could today be earning foreign exchange by exporting weapons.

[@kaush8491]

LTTE wanted upper half of Sri lanka and they was a very strong and organisation. Sri Lanka government and people didn't like the LTTE habits they like butchers bcz that started the war in the 2009 Sri lanaka won the war but LTTE was very smart organisation

[@தமிழன்-ர7ட]

I am Tamil too but Indian Tamil . Most Tamils still support Tamil Eelam. Most LTTE soldiers who were captured were killed in a terrible manner and most Tamils don’t identify as Sri Lankan due to war and since Sri Lankan army and government is mostly Sinhala. So no way captured LTTE soldiers would work for the Sri Lankan govt willingly unless they are flattered by money or threatened with their life. Even then, suicide might be better than working for the SL army for most Tamils since they witnessed genocide against their own people.

[@prabuprabakar856]

@@kaush8491 srilankans wants only sinhalese domination in the island and dont forget "Gal oyo" riots in srilanka where tamils were massacred in 1958. So if you oppress tamils what did you expect in return?

[@sindhanaigal5720]

​@@prabuprabakar8561956, 1958, 1977, 1983 pogroms and also burning of the ethnic pride , Jaffna library, the largest library in South Asia which the british helped to build during colonial times

[@JamesJMauro]

When I visited, Sri Lanka a few years ago, I went to see a place called Alimankada. A Sri Lankan soldier Jumped with a grenade into an Armed Suicide Bulldozer in order to save the camp. Brave men in Sri Lankan Army

[@tharakasajithvlog]

THANKS For VISIT

[@Titan_Ruler622]

Are you sure it wasn't a movie or a drama shooting? 😂

[@prabuprabakar856]

You should watch the documentary "Srilanka killing fields" & "No fire zone" to see more brave action

[@hazeythefirst3036]

@@Titan_Ruler622 real story, on both sides

[@JamesJMauro]

First, I'm not here to argue about who's best and who's weak. Because you guys brought this up I like to express my opinion, I was there with my family when bombs exploded in Colombo we were terrified and went back to my country because of this dire situation. Taking a life is a bad thing whoever did it but Tamil tigers killed lots of innocent people on both sides. They kidnapped lots of Tamil children, and turn them into cold-blood killers and suicide bombers. I visited Jaffna after the war, and most of the Tamil people were so happy because they were liberated by the SL army.

[@impcec6734]

I didn’t know that this conflict ever happened! I never thought I would hear about a guerrilla insurgency that turned into a peer conflict!

[@hp2084]

Even thought Indian central government called LTTE terrorists, India state of Tamilnadu supported them because they were of same ethnicity.

[@kingoftheskies34]

I only know of this because my parents flew out of Colombo airport a few hours before an attack

[@nialldoyle8206]

Yup a pretty nasty war at that. Lots of atrocities on both sides.

[@SantomPh]

the war was there for nearly 20 years....what poor news services you had.

[@nialldoyle8206]

@@SantomPh sadly it never got much mention in our “ free press”. I followed it closely as I have a huge interest in India and the whole subcontinent. It’s an indictment on our education system too.

[@ЙоанДимитров-в4ж]

Bulgarian BMP-23 and BMP-30, the bulgarian Frankenstein BMP's, made chassis of Arteliry 2S1 Gvozdika, Bulgarian made turret and anti-air gun 2A13/2A14 23 mm gun.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

Frankenstein!!!!

[@MegaPunisher777]

Привет 👋. Курица не птица, Болгария не заграница. Да, есть такой франкенштейн.

[@ЙоанДимитров-в4ж]

@@MegaPunisher777 Only non-Soviet BMP in Warsaw Pact. Bulgarian BMP-23 was rival to Soviet BMP-2.✊🇧🇬

[@MegaPunisher777]

@@ЙоанДимитров-в4ж what about BMP's assembled in Czechoslovakia?

[@ЙоанДимитров-в4ж]

@@MegaPunisher777 BMP-2 is base of BVP-2, there is no difference between two IFV before 1989. Bulgarian BMP is made by other components. After fall of Warsaw Pact every East European country start to make domestic BMP/IFV, that differentiate one another.

[@mikhilmuhuthan6903]

You know, this war wouldn't have happened if people just got along with eachother

[@lilanisaranasooriya4426]

A lot of wars wouldnt have happened if people got along with each other ☹

[@TheJohn_Highway]

People die when they are killed

[@joonasnaski9513]

@@TheJohn_Highway Well yes but they will die even without being killed

[@ReviveHF]

Warthunder should add this for the British BR3.7 tech tree.

[@NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd]

lol

[@sritharan1660]

The captured T-55 was commandeered initially by a senior LTTE colonel (col. Kittu i think , not sure who it was exactly), and it was deployed to attack sl navy's dwora boats! Yes, LTTE would place baits in the sea close to the shore, when the sl navy boats come to attack the bait targets the tank which would be waiting hidden in the coast would fire at them with its 100mm main gun, LTTE successfully struck several navy boats like this until the navy learnt later that these were traps and withdrew sending dworas to such attacks. The same tank was also used as artillery to hit sl army base at trincomale when LTTE infantry attacked it. I don't know about the crew or further actions and command related to the T55. All the above info were gathered from other KZbin channels. Even srilankan media announced that "the LTTE had successfully deployed the captured T-55 and had used it powerful 100mm gun very effectively against the state's armed forces, inflicting considerable damage with a single captured MBT until it was abandoned" LTTE also used modified bulldozers, tractors against sl army as armoured platforms for infiltration attacks and as mobile cover for infantry. Some of them are placed as exhibits in war museums even now LTTE made innovations in naval and air warfare as well ( I'm not mentioning them here since this is a 'tank' channel) Thank you for this awesome video focussing on a war that ended 13 years ago. My kind suggestion is : if you are mentioning about an army or an insurgent group please don't call them as terrorists or as "the bad guys", call them by their name, since we only speak the technical aspects and not politics, so let's not take a stance here.

[@Valour-qh9ie]

Where can find and read about their naval and Air warfare strategy ? I don't knowwhere to look ? Is there any book written on that?

[@sritharan1660]

@@Valour-qh9ie there is a channel called tamilpesi which is a tamil channel that speaks about their history. Unfortunately I'm not able to give any other sources as I'm not familiar with them and not accessible to them as well from my country. What I know about them is mostly from various other means online that i read or heard for many years. I'm sorry that I cannot cite any sources, mostly because they are not accessible to me, there are a lot of books about them but I cannot confirm about their reliability, But you can refer : "ஆறிப்போன காயங்களின் வளி" This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War Published July 13th 2014 by Viking Hardcover, 336 pages Edition Language: English and here are sime keywords to search online : sea tigers, sky tigers, velupillai prabakaran, thamil selvan, charles antony brigade, jeyandhan brigade, sodhiya brigade, anbarasu brigade, black tigers, kittu artillery brigade, radha air defense brigade, anton balasingam, katunayaka airbase attack, anuradhapura airbase attack, sl oil refinery attack, china bay attack etc (Online sources are not always unreliable)

[@Valour-qh9ie]

@@sritharan1660 ohh brother thank you so much. Don't worry about i already quite familiar with tamil pesi channel . And I will search those key words . Thank you so much nanba

[@sritharan1660]

@@Valour-qh9ie welcome nanba ❤

[@tasman006]

Wow a blend of Western and Chinese armour very interesting.

[@haterhated5655]

You guys should cover the Italian flak bus equivalent: The Lancia 3Ro 90/53 a Lancia truck with a 90mm flak cannon strapped to it

[@masstendo8288]

Tamil tigers the best and most powerfull group!

[@gamingnadiya4397]

But they lost in 2009

[@Xothemi1]

Thats why they used their own people as a human shield lol also child soldiers and killing innocent civillians

[@Xothemi1]

@@gamingnadiya4397 නරියො🌝

[@doucefrance5481]

@@gamingnadiya4397 😘But since Cingalam childrens are learning Tamil as it is compulsory

[@masurangasanjeewa8338]

Most powerful terrorist group. But now RIP😂

[@s_vb2220]

2:45 the guy in front is carrying a Belgian FNC, interesting.

[@STScott-qo4pw]

fn rifles were the workhorse of commonwealth militaries for decades. very capable, hard-hitting rifle.

[@s_vb2220]

@@STScott-qo4pw that would be the FN-FAL, this is a FNC, the little brother of the FAL

[@josephsarra4320]

For plane encyclopedia, can you cover the flying wing from Raiders of the lost ark like how you cover Indiana jones tank in tank encyclopedia?

[@chanakasenarathna1849]

The graffity displaying on the tank belongs to the SL Army, who wrote them probably in 2009, after the defeating of LTTE. 16 VIR mean 16 th battalion of Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment and 58 div indicate the 58 Division of SL Army.

[@Titan_Ruler622]

Seems like the Sri Lankan army claims everything except the war crimes.

[@chanakasenarathna1849]

@@Titan_Ruler622 good point

[@roshantweerasinghe9866]

Very interesting and innovative documentary ❤ Thanks

[@BenjaminRajkumar-st2jm]

I don't accept the term terrorists. Tamil tigers were the defenders of the Tamil community

[@BlackTiger-rz7zt]

and today so called war hero gotabaya ran away like coward today from own country.. haha what a joy to watch. karma 2009

[@shenalmendis4406]

6 VIR stands for 6th Battalion Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment. They spearheaded the final assault around Mulative.

[@bambamermitanyo1049]

Fascinating video. Brilliant inventive industrious people.

[@wolverine2314]

The Tamil Tigers were freedom fighters who fought against the terrorism of the Sinhalese government and the Tamil genocide of Sri Lanka. But they do not get the support of the world nations for the sole reason that they are an armed non-governmental organization. Using their own skills and local resources, the weapons they created were amazing.

[@administratorshan]

Then why the fuck would ltte be listed as a terrorist organisation in USA, UK and Canada?

[@Elainerulesutube]

Tamil Tigers sounds like the name of a football team.

[@forcedave4997]

Of course they have a foot ball team… checkout internet

[@MALITH666]

Some briefed info about the conflict : - It was due to lack of understanding, poor political experience, and short sighted decisions from both parties. - LTTE first started because of the leftist teachings in the north around 50's 60's. However instead of resorting to communism, or socialism, there was a rise of Nationalism among tamils. - This kind of similar Nationalism uprising happened among Sinhalese on 50's and 60's as well, due to same leftist teachings. - So obviously Conflict arose first as protest , and it became a series of escalations till a Famous Tamil person who was a Moderate (was not nationalist) got shot by LTTE member. - Then the attack on the Army patrol. - This started the War, Note that at this time Sri Lanka did not have much of an Army to spare and was stretched pretty thin, and a Sinhalese uprising happened on the South as well, so had to tend to that as well. So the Army with the lack of personal, and especially new recruits ended up escalating the conflict as well. - Then India at that time used LTTE as a method for expansionism. And funded and trained them. - Later India sent troops on the pre-text of 'aiding' Sri Lanka. - Because of that Sri Lanka started underhand dealings with LTTE and funded them. - This fundings from both parties backfired to Both parties. LTTE ended sending suicide bombers both to Indian VIP's and Sri Lankan VIP's. Killing two Notables - Hon R. Premadasa(SL), and of Gandhi family(India). - This lead to mutual peace and understanding between India and SL. - SL sought peace with LTTE around 2001, however they still carried out assassinations and the mentioned incident of cutting water supplies in Eastern province. - War re-started in 2004 and ended in 2008 with LTTE leaders annihilated. As you see like in most cases, War is complex. No point on arguing who won because everyone, Tamils and Sinhalese lost. Wish both Tamil and Sinhalese, Indian leaders had more political foresight, knowledge back then. There still much to be done to build the trust, learn lessons, and give resolution to families that lost their loved or gone missing, or faced crimes.

[@finalarrow8188]

The above ones are written by a Sinhala govt supporter who appreciated the Tamil Genocide and has given a distorted version of the real history to blame Tamils for everything. The points which he has sorted are just blatant lies and are the vomits that the Sri Lankan govt still airs through their media against the Tamil people. (I kindly request the readers to google the words which I have listed inside the quotations.) 1) No, it was not due to the lack of understanding or whatever lies he has listed out. The war started due to the "Sinhala Chauvinism" because of its "Mahavamsa Mentality" which still prevails with them. 2) No, it was not the LTTE rather it was Sinhalese who started the massacres. "LTTE" was formed in 1976 (large attacks began on 1983 only), not in the 50s or 60s. The first Sinhala govt organized massacre against Tamils was in 1956 ("1956 anti-Tamil pogrom"), later it continued till 1983 ("1958 anti-Tamil pogrom", "1977 anti-Tamil pogrom", "1981 anti-Tamil pogrom" - where the Jaffna Library was burnt by Sinhalese) where a large govt organized and premeditated pogrom ("Black July") started and lasted for 7 days. In this alone, more than 3000 Tamils were killed/raped/or burned alive. Until 1977 Tamils were using Non-violence (aka Gandhian strategy) as a method to retaliate which doesn't speak/stop the violent Sinhalese massacres but rather increased day by day. After 1983 Tamils started to fight back with arms to resist against Sinhalese massacres and colonization of Tamils' homeland which continues till today. Yes, in the 1970s as Tamils could not live side by side with the Sinhalese, who hunted them like animals, they started Nationalism to form a homeland to have a prosperous life for their future generations to come and to escape the ongoing massacres. 3) yes 4) Yes, but "Alfred Duraiappah" was responsible for "the 1974 Tamil conference massacre". He was a Sinhala govt collaborator and not a moderate. Don't hide the truth. 5) yes 6) Yes, they don't have an army to spare but they had an army to safeguard the colonies in Tamil Eelam, where the Sinhala thugs from southern SL were brought to settle in Tamil homelands. 7) Yes, but Tigers soon realized this and doesn't fall into that trap. 8) Yes, the Tigers bravely fought back against the 100k Indians from 1987-1990 killing 1,200 and wounding another 6000+. The Tigers' side martyrs were only 640. 9) Yes 10) Yes 11) Yes, 12) SL sought peace with LTTE because the military power balance increased with the Tamil Tigers after overrunning Elephant Pass military complex in 2000. In the case of assassinations, it was first started by the SL who first send their LRRP and killed LTTE's Airwing commander Col. Shanker in a claymore ambush in 2001, during the initial stages of the peace talks. And this sparked the Intelligence War for another 4 years (2002 - 2006) during peacetime, where both parties carried out assassinations on each other's key targets. 13) Again lie. The war ("Fourth Eelam War") began on 2006 and ended on 2009 May 18 with a Genocide of Tamils by the Sinhala military - "Examining different sources, including from the United Nations, census figures and World Bank data, ITJP found that the highest estimate of those killed during that final phase could be as large as 169,796" (Tamil Guardian, 12 March 2021) War would have been avoided if the Sinhalese have not started to hunt the Tamils like animals, now after Genociding the Tamils in Mullivaikkal it's hilarious to see that the Sinhalese like you are talking about avoiding the war. Sinhalese didn't lose anything rather than their soldiers who came to occupy the Tamil's homelands where the Tamils lost more than 216,000+ Tamils and their livelihood. 1 million Tamils have fled their homelands in fear of massacres by Sinhalese. No more trust in Sinhalese, you take back your occupying armed forces from our homelands and set us free. That's it.

[@prabuprabakar856]

Lol, tamils should have just allowed the sinhalese to kill them. Since they fought back. It was a mistake from both side.

[@knowkname624]

BTW LTTE also invented C4/plastic explosives.... motivation for innovation

[@blackginkgo8169]

Honestly african wars are way more interesting than modern wars between superpowers or midpowers. Despite all the tech used ukraine war for example is more like ww1 than a war of movement like ww2 was. While african wars are more like a war of movement and asymmetric warfare

[@keiyoshi5232]

What about the Philippine army's M113 with a FV scorpions turret on it? They have quite a few of them in service

[@myms7375]

Not really that rare, Australian Army also did the same with their M113

[@keiyoshi5232]

@@myms7375 o, didn't know that

[@AndrewLambert-wi8et]

TAMIL TIGERS WERE THE GUYS. THEY WERE UNIMAGINABLE IN CREATING NEW CONCEPTS FROM NOTHING. THEY ARE SOUTH INDIANS THAT ARE INDIAs ORGINAL PEOPLE AND THE HIGH TECH PEOPLE OF INDIA.

[@matthewwagner47]

"Garbage dump camoflage pattern." = ) looks knocked out/ abandoned.

[@kenulafernando4749]

Why are there so many terrorists defending these terrorists. The amount of destruction they caused was unspeakable. They killed mothers and children just to send a message. They used civilians as meat shields and yet they get support for what they did. Whatever said and done LTTE lost their leader died and Sri Lanka is free again

[@oceanhome2023]

The Tamail Tigers were the first to use suicide bombers , mostly women this is how Mrs Gandhi was killed .

[@CommonCanc]

Wrong Gandhi my friend, it was her son which was killed by a suicide bomber

[@patriotenfield3276]

it was mr Rajiv Gandhi. son of late PM Ms Indira Gandhi who was assassinated by her own disgruntled bodyguards.

[@dharaneedharandme020]

Originally his own under vest bomb expolded no wonder Indian lobbies cleverly played against LTTE

[@senthilkumars7407]

It was wrong to say that. Read the Jain commission report submitted on this assassination case. An arm broker guy, north indian origin, called, Chandra Swami is involved in this conspiracy. Till today, this case is unsolved in indian courts. You need to read more and do your own research, than to make a surfacic comments.

[@dharaneedharandme020]

@@senthilkumars7407 exactly very ture subramaniya swamy was involved in it..

[@zedono1391]

I wouldn't call the Tamil Tigers a terrorist group. They fought decades of oppression by the majority Sinhalese. Maybe Sri Lanka is experiencing the karma now from the murder of hundreds and thousands of Tamils. From Rachel town Lincoln county Nevada United States.

[@click_my_picture_watch_my_vids]

And u r a tamil too who is living in usa, So why did you put your adrees in the comment ?

[@zedono1391]

@@click_my_picture_watch_my_vids is it a crime?

[@click_my_picture_watch_my_vids]

@@zedono1391 Yes. The ltte bombing trains where normal civilians travel , etc are crimes 👍

[@zedono1391]

@@click_my_picture_watch_my_vids do you have concrete evidence. To my knowledge and the evidence I had that Sinhalese soldiers murdered more than a hundred thousand Tamil civilians after LTTE surrendered. Not forgetting the atrocities by the Sinhalese police and army towards Tamils after the independence of Sri Lanka that brewed into the creation of LTTE. LTTE wouldn't exist if the Sri Lanka government had been kind to Tamils. Every country is not perfect but what Sri Lanka and Sinhalese did to the Tamils cannot be forgiven even by God. Now, Sri Lanka is a bankrupt country. Anyway, I hope Tamil Nadu and India accept Tamil refugees and not the evil Sinhalese.

[@juanperes-jy1di]

Talk about "self" made tanks in salvador... You will find something interesting

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

We already covered a lot of them on our website.

[@gururammgr4458]

They are not insurgents they fought for their freedom and justice , the Tamil tigers where well disciplined and well trained army . 💯

[@nmjerry]

Seeing what is going on in The Ukraine, one has to wonder if the Tamils were actually terrorist. At one time the U.S. was OK with them.

[@Gokkolya]

In Ukraine war no one use suicide bombers and mainly LTTE carried out attacks in high religious places and civilian places nowhere near conflict killing hundreds. There even videos they killed monks in high religious place.They killed civilians intensionally Ukraine is more of a collateral damage. Ukraine government is not letting people evacuate, using them as human shields. scenarios like bucha is just propaganda. artillery is the way of the Russians just decimated areas within range before roll with infantry

[@nmjerry]

@@Gokkolya ukraine has been shelling civilian areas for a long time too. NATO recently sanctioned the Patriarch of Moscow, not a lethal attack but targeting a religious leader. As long a suicide bomber uniformed and targeting military target, that is OK. All militaries have sent psople on suicide missions. . I don't know, but I have this feeling Tamils got screwed. It has become apparent that western mainstream media cannot be relied on.

[@SantomPh]

@@nmjerry the Patriarch has advocated killing of Ukranians just for being Ukranians. He deserves to be sanctioned and defrocked.

[@SantomPh]

The oppression of the Tamils was a real thing and still is a thing in modern day Sri Lanka- however they believed in asymmetrical warfare and civilian targets including the prime minister of India and Buddhist monks, as well as fundraising from propaganda -fed Tamils overseas. There is armed resistance but there is terrorism.

[@northumbriabushcraft1208]

What's that rifle at 2:30? I thought it was a FAL (looking kinda like the Israeli pattern) at first, then i thought it looked like a G3 with one of those Rhodesian insulator handguards, i also was thinking FN CAL. I'm also getting vibes of the Bushmaster Assault Rifle but that's unlikley. Is it a domestic rifle? Or does the mag just look like a 5.56 mag and not a 7.62 mag due to the low quality? I know FAL's would be available in Sri Lanka but it looks like most the other guys are using Type 56's. Edit: is it the same gun at 2:45? I would guess it was a FN CAL or FNC but the front end looks more HK33. The stock looks more FN though, like a FAL 50.63 stock. Edit 2: Pretty sure it's a FN CAL now. But point out to me if i'm wrong.

[@ho-leesheet5923]

Galil😜

[@lorenzoeliante6126]

You would be amazed at the amount of M16A2s they had

[@LuigianoMariano]

Econo-Bradley

[@taimurkhan5432]

Can someone tell us is the movement completely finished or is it still alive? Btw very interesting video.

[@STScott-qo4pw]

i hope they're dead and done. in canada for years the ltte extorted "taxes" from sri lankans who had emigrated to canada and could get pretty murderous when their demands for money weren't met. thanks, ltte, for bringing your civil war to my country.

[@finalarrow8188]

They were militarily defeated on 2009 may with a genocide on Tamils, but the thirst of the Tamil people to achieve their homeland to escape the Sinhalese oppression is in full swing. They are fighting politically now.

[@mclovin6877]

That’s insane.

[@kaptunkordan6656]

Ah yes another vehicle that is inferior to tank God bob semples glorious and perfect creation...

[@prabuprabakar856]

Do watch "No fire zone srilanka killing field " video it will shock you more.

[@jlvfr]

Mad Max, Asia style.

[@Jeyjeyanth]

Tamil tigers are not terrorists they fight for our tamil identity and protected tamil community from greater genocide by sinhalese government.

[@jasoncornell1579]

Looks like an American Chafee infantry support tank

[@comentedonakeyboard]

No Relations to german Tigers

[@__40su]

Good video

[@forcedave4997]

Tamil Tigers are not terrorist according to Tamils. Because it’s very sensitive for Tamils expecting you’ll correct soon.

[@ikmkb3.032]

Tamil Tamil Tamil Tamil Tiger🔥💪😎

[@Hineofrhein]

I am a tamil😁

[@cameronpillay8050]

I watched " Sri Lankas Killing Fields " ( KZbin documentary) by Britains channel 4' s Jon Snow.

[@heavenlypot]

They were fighting genocide by the Sinhalese.

[@justintyson1138]

They seems to be brilliant than the sri lankan army.

[@pasindupereraSL]

That’s why they lost to the Sri Lankan army

[@justintyson1138]

@@pasindupereraSL that's why you guys now begging from indian and tamils

[@pasindupereraSL]

@@justintyson1138 The people aren't begging, they fighting against the traitorous government . Also Sri Lankas situation would have been better if Indian RAW and Tamil Nadu didn't finance and fund the worlds most dangerous terrorist group in the world according to the FBI, even after 9/11. Despite the current situation, Sri Lanka is still having a better HDI than India.

[@patriotenfield3276]

@@pasindupereraSL not gonna involve in this Civil war stuff,because i know who won but it takes a lot of false pride and jingoism to still claim Sri lanka has a better economy than India,in fact with Sri Lankan economy on the verge of bankruptcy and being crushed under chinese and now IMF loans .

[@pasindupereraSL]

@@patriotenfield3276 I never said Sri Lanka has a better economy than India, who even claimed that? I was referring to the HDI. And yes Sri Lanka is already bankrupt thanks to the Rajapaske family and the civil war that India helped to put on us and the world needlessly extended for 30 years. Sri Lanka going towards China is the fault of Sri Lankans for voting in pro-Chinese politicians, but it is also the fault of Indias terrible policy in dealing with Sri Lanka that pushed it into Chinas grasp in the first place, but don't worry Sri Lanka will come out of this, it has come out of worse in the past numerous times.

[@senthilkumars7407]

Stop calling the Tamil Tigers as terrorist group, they sincerely fought for their homeland independence with utmost decipline. They never treated civilians badly, esp womens. Not even single rape allegation against them.

[@TanksEncyclopediaYT]

We have already had our own troubles with Google in the past relating to “terrorist activities”, and we would not like that to repeat. We have even made a couple videos on it in the past.

[@SantomPh]

blowing up civilians with suicide bombers is not really the act of an independence movement.

[@Gizmo_edits]

Not forgotten war ...x

[@vnkarulmuruganandham7328]

They are not terrorists. They are freedom fighters

[@heavenlypot]

Yes.

[@kenulafernando4749]

Says the guy that looks like every terrorist ever😂💔

[@vipulkumuditha4182]

They are terrorists...

[@NilumindaAbhilasha]

​@@heavenlypot They killed civilians and they used Sucied bombers and childsoldires

[@Xothemi1]

2009 all of them died😂

[@dharaneedharandme020]

Now your srilankan people fucking for food rajapaksha run out of country 😂😂🤣

[@sucessmanpower3169]

You guys will have a slow death without them. Lol

[@sritharan1660]

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once" - william Shakespeare

[@Titan_Ruler622]

Now it's your turn 😁.

[@prabuprabakar856]

Bro , lions begging now foe money , milk , petrol and food

[@sapumalmaduhara]

Those are not made top to bottom by ltte, they made these using captured armed vehicles from sl army, there is no rocket science, they even use tractors bulldozers but non of them went well

[@Titan_Ruler622]

How much of the weapons used by Sri Lankan military during the war were made top to bottom by the Sri Lankan government? The only rocket science done by Sri Lankan government was to buy banned weapons from black market as claimed by the infamous Kaputas former finance minister

[@sapumalmaduhara]

@@Titan_Ruler622 where from you think all that guns and ammo came to ltte? They built them also?

[@Titan_Ruler622]

@@sapumalmaduhara They probably got it from the same black market where the Sri Lankan government got.

[@postalpacifist88]

do a vid on the killdozer

[@1914ap]

it wasnt a fight between two races. there were all Tamil, Muslim, and sinhala race's soldiers in SL army and still they are they were terrorists However I admire their skills coz they were able to fight about 30 years with minor resources and they had built their own boats etc.

[@roshantweerasinghe9866]

LTTE made use of I.E.D in a very extensive way

[@nadaraja8334]

A group which fore saw the past present and the future. The reason for the present future. These Deva's have the capacity of being born to their enemies and screwing them, now that is just the tip of their tactics.

[@stuew6]

What ww2 m8 greyhound armor car

[@shanex5478]

❤❤

[@matthewwagner47]

Could you put ERA on old WWII tanks or even APS, along with a RPG cage.

[@brandondavis3537]

I believe Israelis put early ERA on certain M50/M51 Super Shermans

[@shanex5478]

❤

[@EELAMJR]

Ltte aim wasn’t taking over Sri Lanka, it just wanted a separate state or a country in the north & east! I’m sure people that understand this video, will understand they could have taken over that island if they wanted to 🙃 unfortunately it took more than Sri Lanka to take them down

[@furryfriendsfun-q3n]

they closed the water canel named "mavil aru.."...then its the end of ltte...water is the most valuable thing..dont play with it..

[@oldschoolpiston5454]

Don't tell LTTE as terrorist you know nothing about the war like us tamils

[@SantomPh]

so blowing up civilians and the Indian Prime Minister was what? a weekend drive?

[@Desertfox18]

Don't try to justify LTTE and don't try to hide all your war crimes because we, Sri Lankans know what LTTE have done to Sri Lanka.

[@oldschoolpiston5454]

@@Desertfox18 you are now taking the karma nothing to eat ,survive by supported theives like Rajapaksa and disliked a man who fought for his people

[@oldschoolpiston5454]

@@Desertfox18 sri lankan army does no war crimes go and tell this to some one who born yesterday

[@Desertfox18]

@@oldschoolpiston5454 Who said Sri Lankan Army didn't do war crimes?😂 I said you're justifying LTTE.

[@cameronpillay8050]

🐅🫡

[@s.lmemer4071]

8.20 VIR

[@arunkrishna1473]

@arun sri lanka belinongs to srilanka tamils..check overview history..Sinhalese arrive at bc 500..before the bc 2000 era tamils lived in srilanka

[@SLFoodTalks8436]

Don't tell fucking lie man. read the MAHAWANSHAYA the histry of sri Lanka. The English version is also available.

[@ranabimemathakayan3068]

8.14 this graffiti is done by the soldiers of the Vijayabahu Infantry regiment also called as VIR . They were the soldiers who beared the brunt of fierce Ltte campaigns during the 90s and early 2000s. They got the perfect chance at redemption by destroying the entire Ltte leadership along with its leadership on the 18th of May

[@lepmuhangpa]

Calling them terrorists is not really true, if you know the whole history.

[@cameronpillay8050]

Exactly 💯

[@Wikumranabahu]

Sri Lanka

[@vj_great551]

Tamils r all like this

[@ishankamadhuranga3729]

Hold on. but tamil tiger leader was killed by using axe. now he is in other world.

[@Titan_Ruler622]

The same world where you all 69 Lakhs going to be if India, China or IMF doesn't put anything in your plate to eat.

[@fintonmainz7845]

Get to the point.

[@RHasan-yy1fb]

sri lanka is a great country. love you brothers from bangladesh