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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.
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...
May 19, 2009 · Obituary: Velupillai Prabhakaran. Tamil Tigers commander led a committed force of separatist fighters. 19 May 2009. Prabhakaran, centre, posed with pilots before a suicide air raid on Colombo...
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.
The world’s most-feared and ruthless terrorist leader, VELUPILLAI PRABAKARAN alias THAMBI alias KIRUBAKARAN alias THURAI alias HARRY alias KARIKALAN alias ALIPHA alias JUZO alias PIRABHAHARAN who massacred at least 30,000-40,000 human-beings in the past three decades is dead and gone.
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 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...
Velupillai Prabhakaran was an Eelam Tamil revolutionary. Prabhakaran was a major figure of Tamil nationalism, and the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
May 18, 2024 · The Danish family of Velupillai Prabhakaran, Founder of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, are shown at a memorial service in his honor at the DGI Huset conference center, Saturday, May 18, 2023, in Vejle, Denmark. From left center are, Karthic Manoharan, nephew of Prabhakaran, and Velupillai Manoharan, brother of Prabhakaran.
Velupillai Prabhakaran (vĕ´lōōpĬl-lī präbhä´kärän), 1954–2009, Tamil nationalist guerrilla leader in Sri Lanka. Involved as a youth in protests against discrimination against Sri Lanka's Tamils, he was accused of the killing (1975) of Jaffna's mayor.
