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He stated, although the war between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE is over, Tamil Tiger networks still intimidate Tamil families in the diasporas and extort money from them, while also engaging in a range of other criminal activities.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
Tamil Tiger
Matale
attack
the war between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE Tamil Tiger networks
money
This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Professor G. L. Peiris during a long interview in Sydney on June 22 claimed that remnants of the defeated LTTE are involved in the people-smuggling business of bringing Sri Lankan boat people to Australia, reports Daily Mirror. He stated, although the war between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE is over, Tamil Tiger networks still intimidate Tamil families in the diasporas and extort money from them, while also engaging in a range of other criminal activities. He also requested Australia to proscribe the LTTE as a terrorist organisation, making any support to the terrorist organisation from Australia illegal.
Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
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63946-129037-327153 | 6/24/2013 | Sri Lanka | Former LTTE spokesman gets SLFP membership |
The original source
are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.
Note: incidences are geocoded by the district centroid.
In the same newspaper clipping is further information on the events:
Event ID | Date | Country | Act | District |
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63946-129037-327153 | 6/24/2013 | Sri Lanka | attack | Matale |