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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.
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.
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 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.
