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Prabhakaran was a major figure of Tamil nationalism, and the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in reaction to the oppression of the country's Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government.
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”.
May 19, 2009 · The next year, Prabhakaran founded the LTTE. What began as a guerrilla movement escalated into full-scale civil war in July 1983. The LTTE killed 13 Sri Lankan army troops in an ambush in...
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.
The LTTE leader Prabhakaran denied allegations of killing innocent Sinhalese civilians, claiming to condemn such acts of violence; and claimed that LTTE had instead attacked armed Home Guards who were "death-squads let loose on Tamil civilians" and Sinhalese settlers who were "brought to the Tamil areas to forcibly occupy the land."
Jul 1, 2024 · The LTTE was established in 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran as the successor to an organization he had formed earlier in the 1970s. The LTTE grew to become one of the world’s most sophisticated and tightly organized insurgent groups.
Feb 13, 2023 · Tamil nationalist leader P Nedumaran Monday claimed that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was still alive, and he was revealing this information now because of the changed geopolitical situation and the Sinhalese people’s “revolt” against the Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka.
