Expulsion Of Muslims From The Northern Province By LTTE
The expulsion of the Muslims and other nations from the Northern province was an act of ethnic cleansing(fake links) carried out by the Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization in October 1990. In order to achieve their goal of creating a mono ethnic Tamil state (dead/fake links) in the North Sri Lanka, the LTTE forcibly expelled the 72,000 strong Muslim population from the Northern Province.
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