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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Tamil Tigers use a worldwide network of fake charities and a sophisticated smuggling operation to raise up to $300 million a year to fund a separatist battle with the Sri Lankan government, Jane's Intelligence Review reported in its August edition.
The London-based journal said the Tigers' fundraising prowess enabled the group to develop "one of the most sophisticated insurgencies in the world," which includes an army, navy and even a primitive air force of a few light aircraft.
The group has been fighting for more than two decades for a separate ethnic Tamil state in the northern and eastern part of this island nation off the southern coast of India in a war that has killed an estimated 70,000 people.
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