Tamil National Retrieval Troops ( TNRT ) was a short lived Tamil nationalist militant group who had fought to gain independence from India in the 1980s . The group wanted to unite a greater Tamil Nadu nation for their people . Tamil National Retrieval Troops fought the majority of their conflicts in the 1990s . This organization was considered to be part of a larger nationalist Tamil Nadu movement . However , the Tamil Nadu Retrieval Troops were never that large ; their membership often hovered around 30 . The young men fighting in the Tamil National Retrieval Troops were mostly from the Vanniyar community . The Tamil National Retrieval Troops are also known as Tamil Nadu Retrieval Troops The group was also interested in creating their own area in Tamil Nadu . The group was founded by P. Ravichandran in the late-1980s . After the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi , support for Tamil liberation groups decreased steadily . This remained true for years before new Tamil pro-liberation movements , emerged . This was quickly shut down by the then Chief Minister Jayalalitha . This eventually led to the banning of the TNRT . In the 1990s its leader Ravichandran was an accused of the murder of Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) general secretary and the 1991 Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Tamil National Retrieval Troops