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    Why Does the Tigress Roar? Exploring the Role of Female Suicide Bombers in the LTTE

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    Author/Creator
    Mills, Lindsey
    Date
    2018-01
    Type of Work
    13 pages
    Text
    journal articles
    Program
    Bachelor's Degree
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    Collection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
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    Research -- Periodicals.
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    Why did women join the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and why did they then become suicide bombers?” There is no single psychological profile of a terrorist. Terrorism is a political action, not a disease or mental health problem. Recognition of this fact removes the study of terrorists from the field of criminal psychology and demands the study of terrorists as rational, and violent, political actors. It also means that it is important to study the operations of individual terrorist groups and examine the historical, social, and political trends that inform their decisions. This paper studies female suicide bombers in the LTTE from both an organizational and individual level. I argue that “the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s break from traditional Tamil and Sri Lankan gender norms in a time of war, when women were particularly vulnerable to attack, made joining the LTTE an attractive option for Tamil women. On a personal level, women used suicide attacks to escape and seek revenge for rape, to find gender equality, and to deal with coercion from the LTTE and constraints within society.


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    Goucher College
    1021 Dulaney Valley Road
    Baltimore, MD 21204

    www.goucher.edu

    Contact Information:
    kristen.welzenbach@goucher.edu
    library.goucher.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.