Mr. Thiruvenkadam Velupillai, father of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran died at Panagoda Army camp yesterday (7th) night. When Security Forces asked all civilians who were fenced in by tiger terrorists during the last stages of the war to come to cleared areas Mr. Velupillai and his wife Vallipuram Parvathy entered Army controlled areas with other [...]
In an act of tremendous political-military significance, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday ceremonially opened a national war memorial at Pudumattalaan, near the site where LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed.The memorial is located near the mangroves in Nanthikadal lagoon where Prabhakaran fell to the bullets of the Sri Lankan forces in the third [...]
A. Ram, a top LTTE leader now in the custody of the Sri Lankan government, has issued a Heroes’ Day message condemning the way Velupillai Prabhakaran had led the LTTE and the Tamil people, the Tamilnet website reports. Ram had blamed Prabhakaran’s “uncompromising policy” for the defeat of the Tamil armed struggle and the annihilation [...]
The Sri Lankan government rejected on Monday fresh accusations that Tamil Tiger separatist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was executed after surrendering to security forces. Sri Lanka’s military announced on May 18 the killing of Prabhakaran, who led a 37-year campaign for an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the majority Sinhalese country. The Sri Lanka Guardian, [...]
According to information gathered from a Senior Defense Ministry source in Colombo, it is established that the LTTE leader Velupillai Pirabakaran had surrendered to the army in the final stage of the war without swallowing the cyanide capsule tied to his neck. The credible evidence obtained from the source linked to the Sri Lanka’s Military [...]
Indian Prime Minister’s defense advisor M.K. Narayanan had declared at the Indian DGP – IGP Police conference last week that there are signs that the Tamil Tigers are re-grouping themselves. He said, “Chances are yet for the Tamil Tigers to regroup and rearm.’ He went on to add,‘…the funding lines of the LTTE are still [...]
Though India made a request to the Sri Lankan Government soon after the military crushing of the LTTE in the Wanni in May, for the death certificates of Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence head Pottu Amman, to wrap up the case into the assassination of former Indian Premier Rajiv Gandhi, Colombo has so [...]
When LTTE was conclusively defeated from Sri Lankan soil and Prabhakaran was killed and no signs of the survival of second in command Pottu Amman, the Tamil Diaspora still wanted to continue their struggle for Eelam and supported the Interpol fugitive self proclaimed leader Kumaran Pathmanathan who has many aliases. Unexpectedly for the Tamil Diaspora, [...]
Slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran had ambitions beyond Sri Lanka and he wanted to become the “King of Tamil Eelam” with support from some elements in South India, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said. Rajapaksa said the huge accumulation of lethal weapons by the Tamil Tiger chief suggested that Prabhakaran was looking beyond the island country [...]
In a new twist to LTTE politics in the post-Prabakaran era, new Tiger chief Selvarasa Pathmanathan known as “KP on Thursday claimed that the decision of the Tigers to give up armed struggle and take recourse to “political and diplomatic moves” was taken by Velupillai Prabakaran along with other commanders at Mullivaikkal in Mullathivu district [...]
Prabhakaran’s personal files found Police search party uncovers a cache of key LTTE documents and materials, as well as weapon parts, hidden in Mullaitivu during the last days of the war By Damith Wickremesekara Personal files belonging to the late LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran – with details about arms deals and arms shipments, intended targets, [...]
Prabhakaran did Prabhakaran did not die as a hero: PLOTE By Romesh Madhushanka Leader of the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) Dharmalinagam Siddarhthan said that Prabhakaran who used violence and arms to become the sole leader of the Tamil people finally reached his end as a person who was not accepted by the [...]
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