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Velupillai Prabhakaran was born in the northern coastal town of Valvettithurai on 26 November 1954, the youngest of four children. [26] [27] His parents, Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and Vallipuram Parvathy, belonged to the Karaiyar community. [28] [29] [30] Thiruvenkadam Velupillai was the District Land Officer in the Ceylon Government.
She is shown half naked and disorientated, and the Sri Lankan soldiers initially believe her to be Dwaraka, daughter of the LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran. [ 14 ] [ 23 ] Photographs are also shown of Isaipriya lying in a ditch, possibly dead, with a gash across her face and clear signs of sexual assault.
The last evidence she has is a photo from a newspaper that shows her daughter, who was 19, sitting inside a bus along with others. ... Velupillai Prabhakaran. Prabhakaran died in 2009, but in the ...
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 movement. He was killed by Sri Lanka forces after surrendering during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War in May 2009.
The Tamil New Tigers (TNT) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant organization founded by Velupillai Prabhakaran on 22 May 1972. [1] The group was composed of a few close associates of Prabhakaran, who was only 17 years old when he founded the group. The group was a predecessor to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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In 2002, Judge Sarath Ambepitiya issued an open warrant to arrest LTTE's exclusive leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran in connection with the 1996 Central Bank Bombing. [11] The judge found him guilty on 51 counts and sentenced him to 200 years in prison.
According to the UK Telegraph, Prabhakaran was "...killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack as he tried to escape the war zone with his closest aides. Soosai, the leader of his "Sea Tigers" navy, and Pottu Amman, his intelligence chief were also killed in the attack." [72] The LTTE confirmed Prabhakaran's death on May 24. [73]