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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...
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 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 13, 2023 · Veteran Tamil political leader Pazha Nedumaran on Monday (February 13) made a shocking claim that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was still alive and healthy.
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...
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.
Feb 13, 2023 · Prabhakaran, one may recall, was killed in 2009 by the Sri Lankan Army. Let’s take a look at who Prabhakaran was, what we know about his death, and Nedumaran’s claims: Who was he? Sri Lanka saw a civil war fought from 1983 to 2009 over the minority Tamils’ demand for ‘Eelam’. ‘Eelam’ in Tamil denotes the homeland of the Tamil people.
Feb 13, 2023 · Velupillai Prabhakaran was a Sri Lankan Tamil nationalist and separatist rebel leader, who was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly...
