I think you'll find that the Japanese Red Army were communist and that (as far as I can discover) did not carry out any suicide bombings. The LTTE are primarily an indigenous and nationalist movement rather than a socialist one. Sadly, I suspect that the religous psychos we unleashed in Iraq will have easily out-stripped the Tamils in terms of numbers killed through suicide bombings.
Suicide bombing indicates to me 2 things: 1 - A fanatical commitment to a particular extremist ideaology (of whatever source) 2 - An assymetrical conflict (if they had access to tanks, F16s, artillery etc., I bet they'd use them instead).
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Date: 2006-08-11 12:27 pm (UTC)The LTTE are primarily an indigenous and nationalist movement rather than a socialist one.
Sadly, I suspect that the religous psychos we unleashed in Iraq will have easily out-stripped the Tamils in terms of numbers killed through suicide bombings.
Suicide bombing indicates to me 2 things:
1 - A fanatical commitment to a particular extremist ideaology (of whatever source)
2 - An assymetrical conflict (if they had access to tanks, F16s, artillery etc., I bet they'd use them instead).