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Velupillai Prabhakaran (listen (US English) ⓘ; Tamil: வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன்; [ˈʋeːlɯpːiɭːaɪ pɾaˈbaːhaɾan]; 26 November 1954 – 18 May 2009) was an Eelam Tamil 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...
May 18, 2009 · Colombo, May 18 : Sri Lanka's 26-year-long insurgency ended with a blaze of bullets as Velupillai Prabhakaran, the dreaded chief of the Tamil Tigers that was responsible for assassinating Indian...
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”.
Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954-2009) was a Sri Lankan militant leader and the founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). He founded LTTE with the intent of forming a separate country for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. He was also convicted of assassinating Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
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...
Velupillai Prabhakaran (November 26 1954 — May 18 2009) 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. Under his leadership, the Tamil Tigers became one of the most deadly guerilla groups in the world.
Velupillai Prabhakaran (vĕ´lōōpĬl-lī präbhä´kärän), 1954–2009, Tamil nationalist guerrilla leader in Sri Lanka. Involved as a youth in protests against discrimination against Sri Lanka's Tamils, he was accused of the killing (1975) of Jaffna's mayor.
May 19, 2009 · A man with little education from a small fishing village in northern Sri Lanka, Velupillai Prabhakaran founded and led one of the most ruthless and committed separatist organisations the world...
