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Balachandran Prabhakaran (1 October 1996–19 May 2009) was the third child of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He was killed by Sri Lankan forces after surrendering during the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war in May 2009.
A photo from a few hours later shows the boy's dead body shot in the chest five times. [8] Other photos have appeared of Isaipriya, the LTTE TV broadcaster, alive and in the custody of the Sri Lankan military. Footage obtained by Channel 4 News shows a number of dead bodies, including that of Isaipriya, which showed signs of possible sexual ...
With Prabhakaran being the most wanted man in Sri Lanka, [53] he had said in 1984, "I would prefer to die in honour rather than being caught alive by the enemy." [54] Prabhakaran held his first speech on 4 August 1987 at the Suthumalai Amman temple in front of over 100,000 people explaining the position of the LTTE. [55]
Founded in May 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE was involved in armed clashes against the Sri Lankan government and its armed forces. Initially starting out as a guerrilla force , the LTTE increasingly came to resemble that of a conventional fighting force with a well-developed military wing that included a navy , an airborne unit , an ...
The following is a list of notable people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly known as Tamil Tigers or as LTTE. [1] [2] The LTTE was a militant organisation that was based in northern Sri Lanka, which fought for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka between 1983 and 2009. [3]
A body was found in the passenger seat of a vehicle after a driver was pulled over during a traffic stop in Georgia on the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, police say. According to a Feb. 3 news ...
The cellphone footage provides the clearest angle yet of Wednesday's tragic midair collision in Washington, DC, that killed 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a ...
In a 2011 interview, Kumaran Pathmanathan, who was the Treasurer of LTTE and its chief arms procurer, apologized to India for Velupillai Prabhakaran's "mistake" of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He further said Rajiv's assassination was "well planned and done actually with Prabhakaran and (LTTE intelligence chief Pottu Amman).