今日熱詞：猛虎組織

英文表達：

the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (簡稱 LTTE)

背景介紹：

猛虎組織，全稱泰米爾·伊拉姆猛虎解放組織，是斯里蘭卡泰米爾族的反政府武裝組織，擅長游擊戰術。1976年成立，最高領導人為普拉巴卡蘭，為了建立一個在斯里蘭卡東部和北部的獨立的泰米爾國家而一直和斯里蘭卡政府進行武裝斗爭。2009年5月18日，普拉巴卡蘭被政府軍擊斃，軍方宣布收回斯里蘭卡全境，所有軍事行動結束。

外刊報道：

Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE) who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18, had decades to think about how his end would come. It could have come from the cyanide capsule that he — like many Tiger fighters — wore around his neck, a pledge to commit suicide in case of capture by the Sri Lankan Army. He had been fighting a war for an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority since 1983, and the Army pursued him throughout the jungles of the north and east for decades. In 2002, during a press conference near the beginning of a four-year-long ceasefire, Prabhakaran revealed that he had asked his aides to kill him if capture was near and he was unable to kill himself.