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==Composition and activity==
Its membership consisted of radical (mostly national liberal) Slovene youth from former [[Austrian Littoral]], and a few [[Croats]] of [[Istria]], where its support was much weaker. Many members of this organization were connected with [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] and [[United Kingdom|British]] intelligence services and many of them were militarily trained.<ref name="Mira Cencič 1997">Mira Cencič, ''TIGR'' (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1997)</ref><ref name="Tatjana Rejec 1995">Tatjana Rejec, ''Pričevanja o TIGR-u'' (Ljubljana: [[Slovenska matica]], 1995)</ref> The aim of the organization was to fight violent [[Fascist Italianization]] and to achieve the annexation of [[Istria]], the [[Slovenian Littoral]] and [[Rijeka]] to [[Yugoslavia]].

The TIGR carried out several bomb attacks on Italian and [[Nazi Germany|German]] soil,<ref name="Tatjana Rejec 1995"/> as well as [[assassination]]s of Italian military personnel, police forces, civil servants and prominent members of the [[National Fascist Party]].<ref>Milica Kacin Wohinz, [[Marta Verginella]], ''Primorski upor fašizmu'' (Ljubljana, 2008).</ref> It also planned a popular uprising against the Fascist regime, which was however never carried out.<ref>Borut Rutar, ''Iz primorske epopeje: Mirko Brovč in narodna vstaja organizacije TIGR, 1938-1941'' (Klagenfurt: Mohorjeva družba, 2004)</ref> Because of these actions, it was treated as a [[Terrorism|terrorist]] organization by the Italian state.

The organization was dismantled by the [[Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism]] in 1940 and 1941. Many of its members joined the [[Liberation Front of the Slovenian People]] during [[World War II]]. After the war, many former TIGR activists were persecuted by [[SFR Yugoslavia|Yugoslav Communist]] authorities.<ref name="Mira Cencič 1997"/><ref>Tatjana Rejec, ''Partija in tigrovci'' (Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 2008)</ref><ref>Tatjana Rejec, ''Pričevanja o TIGR-u'' (Ljubljana, 1995)</ref><ref>[[Branko Marušič]], ed., ''Domovina, kje si? Zbornik ob 100. obletnici rojstva Alberta Rejca'' (Celje: Mohorjeva družba, 1999)</ref>