The Charles Antony Special Regiment,[1] was an elite infantry unit and the first conventional fighting formation created by the LTTE. It was founded on 10 April 1991, and was initially trained under the leadership of Brigadier Balraj. It was the oldest and one of the most highly trained infantry units of the Tamil Tigers with its own military academies, research units and defence colleges for its officer corps.[2] The soldiers in the unit all hailed from villages in the Northern Province. The brigade made history during the Second Battle of Elephant Pass when it became the first non-state military regiment to defeat an entire infantry division (54 Division) in a conventional battle. Military analysts say that with the fall of Elephant pass, the Charles Anthony Special Regiment established the LTTE as the only non-state military force in the world capable of such complex manoeuvre war fighting. The Elephant pass base was described as "impregnable" by a US army officer who visited the garrison months before its fall in April 2000[3] By October 2003, the regiment had lost 14 commanding officers and 1056 soldiers.[4] The regiment was named after the LTTE's first military commander and a close associate to LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, Charles Lucas Anthony(Lt.Seelan). Lt.Seelan led the first ever attack on the Sri Lankan army by any Tamil militant group on 15 October 1981 when the LTTE ambushed an army jeep driving down the KKS Road in Jaffna, killing 2 soldiers.
The CASR fought in over 100 battles against the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) including Operation Thavalai (Frog), Battle of Mullaitivu, Operation Jayasikurui, Operation Unceasing Waves II, Oddusuddan (1999), Second Battle of Elephant Pass, Battle of Jaffna, Battle of Kilinochchi and Battle of Ananthapuram .[5] From its start to the end of civil war it has lost around 2200 soldiers in various battles.
Balraj TamilNet". Tamilnet. 23 May 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2009. CharlesAnthonyBrigade celebrates 15th anniversary of inauguration Two top LTTE leaders...
revenge for Seelan's death. The CharlesAnthonyBrigade was named after Seelan. Prabhakaran's eldest son CharlesAnthony was also named after Seelan. A...
Unceasing Waves (Oyatha Alaigal) I, II, III and IV. The brigade was named after Charles Lucas Anthony alias Lt. Seelan, who had been LTTE leader Velupillai...
Kittu artillery brigade, Kutti Sri mortar brigade, Ponnamman mining unit and hit-and-run squads like Pistol gang. CharlesAnthonybrigade was the first...
commanded the LTTE's first conventional fighting formation, the CharlesAnthonyBrigade, which distinguished itself during the Second Battle of Elephant...
in July/August 1991. When Balraj was appointed commander of the CharlesAnthonyBrigade in 1992 Theepan became the new regional commander for Vanni. Theepan...
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Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United...
the Irish Transvaal Brigade, which can be found in Anthony J. Jordan's edited version of the writings of MacBride.: 1–79 The Brigade would come to be known...
CharlesAnthony Raven Crosland (29 August 1918 – 19 February 1977) was a British Labour Party politician and author. A social democrat on the right wing...
name Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke (26 September 1874 – 9 May 1963) was the third and last White Rajah of the Raj of Sarawak. The son of Charles Brooke...
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