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Will Hamas in 2023 go the way of Tamil Tigers in 2009?
Both groups will be remembered for fighting ruthlessly in the name of their people – and bringing suffering upon them.
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A handout picture showing troops walking among debris inside a war zone in Sri Lanka on May 17, 2009, when they helped evacuated the last of the Tamil civilians from the area.
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At the turn of the century, it wasn’t uncommon for Hamas and Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the Tamil Tigers, to find mention in the same debates as governments around the world weighed how to deal with these two militant groups.
In fact, both Hamas and the Tigers were designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organisations on the same day – Oct 8, 1997. So, too, was Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group operating in Lebanon.
