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LTTE leader of Norway: With the demise of LTTE in May 2009, Nediyavan appeared as the military leader of the LTTE. He was apprehended by Norwegian authorities in May 2011. [27] Brigadier Thurka † 5 April 2009 Aanandapuram: Commander of Sothiya Regiment: A female commander of the LTTE, she was the leader of the all-female Sothiya Regiment.
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.
The LTTE's political leader for Jaffna peninsula Thileepan died during a hunger strike directed at the Indian government after it had failed to meet his demands; and on 5 October 12 LTTE cadres detained by the Sri Lankan Navy committed suicide when the Sri Lankan Army attempted to take them to Colombo for interrogation after the IPKF refused to ...
Established in 1972, Tamil New Tigers (TNT) was the precursor to the LTTE. After it was renamed as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and restructured under the leadership of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the group staged low key attacks against various government targets, including policemen and local politicians. [1]
"Ex-LTTE leader Karuna's claim to be probed". The Hindu. 22 June 2020 – via PTI. NewsX (12 May 2009). Interview with Col. Karuna Amman. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. P K Balachandran (1 November 2015). "Ex-commander Karuna Now Blames Prabhakaran Sting for Leaving LTTE". New Indian Express. Jayasekara, Bandula (17 March 2004).
An LTTE press release a few hours after his death attributed the attack to a special deep penetration unit of the Sri Lankan army, and claimed that the date of his killing had been chosen deliberately to coincide with the anniversary of the death of Thileepan, who had died 14 years earlier in a hunger strike protesting the policies of the Sri ...
He then travelled, along with LTTE leader Prabhakaran, to Madras, India. [2] LTTE member Seelan (Charles Lucas Anthony), a close associate of Prabhakaran, was killed in a confrontation with the Sri Lanka Army in Meesalai on 15 July 1983. [2] On 20 July 1983 the Sri Lankan government banned all reporting about the LTTE. [2]
The LTTE gave him the nom de guerre Mukundan. [5] He was chairman of the LTTE's central committee from 1977 to 1980. [3] He received military training in Lebanon and Syria. [6] [7] Maheswaran and LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran were blamed for the shooting of MP M. Canagaratnam on 24 January 1978.