NAUMAN SADIQ: Historically, suicide bombing as a weapon of war was
invented by the Tamil Tigers during the 1980s in their war against the
Sri Lankan armed forces. The Tamils are a Hindu ethnic group of northern
Sri Lanka who were marginalized by the Buddhist majority and they led a
civil war in the country from 1976 until they were defeated by the Sri
Lankan armed forces’ Northern Offensive in 2009.
