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Velupillai Prabhakaran (listen (US English) ⓘ; Tamil: வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன்; [ˈʋeːlɯpːiɭːaɪ pɾaˈbaːhaɾan]; 26 November 1954 – 18 May 2009) was a Sri Lankan revolutionary.
May 19, 2009 · Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18,...
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...
May 19, 2009 · During three decades of conflict, Prabhakaran’s Tamil Tigers launched a series of devastating attacks on government targets, sapping military morale and taking the lives of thousands of...
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 .
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.
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”. The Sri Lankan army had announced Prabhakaran’s death on May ...
May 21, 2009 · Velupillai Prabhakaran, commander of the Tamil Tigers, died on May 18th, aged 54. May 21st 2009 |. Getty Images. THE body of the young man lay on a scarlet bier. He was in his colonel's uniform...
Apr 8, 2009 · Suicide bombings and assassinations have been the group’s calling cards, all orchestrated by Velupillai Prabhakaran, who founded the insurgent group in the mid-70s.
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.
