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Velupillai Prabhakaran (listen (US English) ⓘ; Tamil: வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன்; [ˈʋeːlɯpːiɭːaɪ pɾaˈbaːhaɾan]; 26 November 1954 – 18 May 2009) was a Sri Lankan revolutionary.
Velupillai Prabhakaran was a Sri Lanka-born Tamil nationalist who founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant organisation, in 1975. He ordered the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, in 1991. At 54, he was killed in action during a gunfight with the Sri Lankan Army in May 2009.
May 19, 2009 · V elupillai Prabhakaran, 54, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18, had decades to think about how his end would...
Velupillai Prabhakaran (November 26 1954 — May 18 2009) [16] was the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He fought the Sri Lankan Civil War to make an independent state for the Tamil people in the north of Sri Lanka .
Feb 15, 2023 · On February 13, Tamil nationalist leader P Nedumaran claimed that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was still alive, and would “announce his next plan (to liberate) Tamil Eelam very soon, himself”.
Born on November 26, 1954 in the Tamil heartland of Jaffna, Prabhakaran was a guerrilla fighter for most of his life and presided over a war that has left at least 70,000 dead -- roughly a...
May 19, 2009 · He was a man with little education from a small fishing village in northern Sri Lanka, but Velupillai Prabhakaran founded and led one of the most ruthless and committed separatist organisations...
