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Velupillai Prabhakaran (listen (US English) ⓘ; Tamil: வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன்; [ˈʋeːlɯpːiɭːaɪ pɾaˈbaːhaɾan]; 26 November 1954 – 18 May 2009) was a Tamil revolutionary. Prabhakaran was a major figure of Tamil nationalism, and the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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.
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...
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.
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 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. Prabhakaran had led the LTTE outfit in a bloody 26-year-long civil war in Sri Lanka before finally being killed by government forces in 2009.
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 · 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...
Velupillai Prabhakaran (also spelled Prabhakaran), the leader of the Tamil Tigers, was known for his ruthlessness and fearlessness and was generally seen as Pol-Pot-like leader. The son a local government official, he was brought up near Jaffna.
May 18, 2009 · Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead, the Sri Lankan military says. State television made the announcement shortly after the military said it had surrounded him in the north east....
