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Militarism of the LTTE. Prabhakaran explicitly stated that an armed struggle is the only way to resist asymmetric warfare, in which one side, that of the Sri Lankan government, is armed and the other comparatively unarmed.
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 24, 2019 · On May 21, 1991, Velupillai Prabhakaran, chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, made what was arguably the biggest blunder of his life. An LTTE hit squad assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
May 19, 2009 · On Tuesday, S. Pathmanathan, head of the LTTE's international relations said that Prabhakaran was alive and well. A claim which was by noon apparently revealed as untrue. There are theories that the entire LTTE leadership had committed suicide as earlier suggested by the wife of a senior commander, when their death at the hands of Lankan forces ...
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."
May 20, 2021 · Though the LTTE and Prabhakaran kept denying its role in the suicide bombing, the killing sealed his fate. It was Dharmalingam Siddharthan, a former Sri Lankan Tamil MP, who was among the...
Feb 14, 2023 · But in the evening when an LTTE leader based in the Far East claimed Prabhakaran was alive, the media was agog with speculation. Army Chief Sarath Fonseka told INDIA TODAY that he had got a call from his commander just after the President’s address in Parliament informing him that they had recovered the body of Prabhakaran and that ...
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.
May 23, 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.
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...
