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The video showed a number of dead bodies including a naked woman with her hands behind her back. [20] This woman was later identified as Isaipriya by several sources. [ 10 ] [ 13 ] [ 20 ] [ 3 ] An off-camera Sinhala voice is heard in the same video saying "I would like to fuck it again" in the segment showing the dead naked bodies of Isaipriya ...
Pictures have surfaced of Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of LTTE founder and leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, alive, unharmed and in custody of the military. A photo from a few hours later shows the boy's dead body shot in the chest five times. [8]
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.
[68] [69] Ajay Rathnam portrayed a character resembling Velupillai Prabhakaran. [70] The film's alleged negative depiction of rebels in the Sri Lankan civil war raised concerns. DMK leader M Karunanidhi asked the Tamil Nadu government to enquire if the film portrayed Sri Lankan Tamils in a poor light and if so, to take proper action. [71]
The civil war ended on 18 May 2009 with the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, founder and leader of the LTTE. [8] A United Nations report found that as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the civil war, mostly as a result of indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan military.
The Sri Lankan armed forces claimed that the leader of the LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed in the morning of 18 May 2009 while he was trying to flee the conflict zone in an ambulance. The announcement on state television came shortly after the military said it had surrounded Prabhakaran in a tiny patch of jungle in the north-east.
The photo, according to the newspaper, shows captured Tamil Tiger fighters in the last stages of the war in May 2009. Dead or alive? Parents of children gone in Sri Lanka's civil war have spent 15 ...
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]