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It’s about time!
They are extremely dedicated to their cause of a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka, and are atheists with sympathies towards Hindu and Christian Tamils. They are fiercely anti-Muslim.
They use modern techniques of warfare, and weaponry. They source their funding from wealthy sympathisers in India, Canada, Britain and the rest of Europe.
After they assassinated former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, in revenge for his ordering of Indian troops into Sri Lanka to destroy the LTTE, they were put under the list of terror organisations by the Indian government. Pressure from India led the US to do the same.