[1] The young men fighting in the Tamil National Retrieval Troops were mostly from the Vanniyar community.
[2] 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.
[3] On July 2, 2002, The Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT) are included in the Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA), 2002.
The TNRT, along with the Tamil Nadu Liberation Army and Veerappan requested that numerous political demands must be met in order for the hostage to be released.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam established the National retrieval troop as a small militant group.