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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.
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...
May 13, 2020 · The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed 11 years ago in combat with the armed forces of Sri Lanka on 19 May 2009. The longest war in South Asia came to an end after the military debacle of the LTTE on the shores of Nandikadal Lagoon in the Mullaitivu District of northern Sri Lanka.
Its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran cited violent incidents of the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom during his childhood that led him to militancy. In 1975, he assassinated the Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah in revenge for the 1974 Tamil conference incident.
May 18, 2009 · Prabhakaran was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a guerrilla group that fought for a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka. He was killed by the Sri Lankan military in 2009, after a long and bloody civil war that claimed thousands of lives.
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...
Jan 9, 2011 · The Tamil army—known as the L.T.T.E., or simply the Tigers—was led by Velupillai Prabhakaran, a charismatic, elusive man who had become one of the most successful guerrilla leaders of modern...
