Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT) is a Tamil Nationalist group who fought for an independent Tamil homeland and aspired to unite Tamil Nadu and Tamil Eelam to a Greater Tamil Nadu. It is designated as a terrorist organisation by the Government of India.
It was founded by P. Ravichandran in the late-1980s and is active in Tamil Nadu and the Karnataka State. TNRT was a small group estimated 30 members mostly from the Vanniyar community. It is accused of smuggling and close links with LTTE and Veerappan. In 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.
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