"It is also important to remember that this is a cynical situation where the Tigers have herded a large number of people - thousands of people - into an enclave and used them as hostages to convince the international community to call for a cease-fire,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

you know, the animals and the bears and the tigers and the people.

有动物、熊、老虎还有人类，

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I like the Pistons, the Tigers, the Lions, Red Wings.

我喜欢活塞队，虎队，狮队，红翼队。

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But now,military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam once controlled a large area of the north and east.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Bob Feller pitched on the final day of the nineteen thirty-eight season against the Detroit Tigers.

VOA: special.2011.01.09

The squadron became known as the Flying Tigers.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

The military sounded confident that victory in its campaign to wipe out the Tamil Tigers is close at hand.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

But there is concern that civilians are at grave risk, as the government intensifies its onslaught against the Tamil Tigers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Rights groups and western governments heavily criticized Sri Lanka for its controls on the media during fighting against the Tamil Tigers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Among other things, it cited accounts of the Tamil Tigers recruiting children as combatants and using civilians as human shields.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

But the statute is being challenged by the Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

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far more live in captivity. Without immediate action, the WWF says,by 2022, there may no longer be any wild tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The big cats once roamed throughout Asia, into Siberia, but conservationists say only a few thousand tigers remain in the wild;

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The High Commissioner has accused both the government and Tamil Tigers of possibly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

India's soldiers withdrew in humiliation three years later after failing to neutralize the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Sri Lanka's defense minister, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, is rejecting the cease-fire declared by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Sri Lanka this year tightly controlled media coverage of fighting that led to the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

The Tamil Tigers struggle for an independent homeland was triggered by complaints of discrimination against the minority Tamil community by the majority Sinhalese.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Conservation Canines has teamed up with Cambodian rangers and the conservation group WWF to protect wild tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The military says heavy clashes are taking place as troops advance toward a 30-square-kilometer patch of jungle in which the Tamil Tigers are cornered.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

They fled this year's fighting between government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Lean Kha was a soldier with the communist Khmer Rouge in the early 1980s and admits he killed wildlife for food and trade, including 14 tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

The Tamil Tigers began fighting for an independent state more than 25 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona says that the Tamil Tigers are deliberately not allowing civilians to leave the war zone and are using them as a buffer against attacks by the military.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The Chicago White Sox are currently in second place in the American League Central Division, one game behind the team they face on the road in the coming days, the Detroit Tigers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

Nick Cox,the WWF's Dry Forest and Tiger Program coordinator for the countries along Southeast Asia's Mekong River, says the forests of Cambodia's eastern plains offer an intact habitat for reviving wild tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

U.N.officials say the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have ignored calls to release tens of thousands of civilians they are using as a "buffer" between them and the military in the combat zone.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

It says the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have lost many senior leaders and are now confined in a 20 square kilometer safety zone that has been designated by the government for civilians seeking sanctuary from the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06