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Asian Tribune
December 30, 2017
Sivanathan Navindra alias Venthan, Former head of the Personal Security Division of the slain Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, and the present leader of the 'Crusaders For Democracy', told 'Asian Tribune' that ITAK has allocated 33 seats to contest in the local government elections in the NorthÃÂ ...
Lankaweb
December 30, 2017
The Sinhala even before the Independence had a very cordial relationship with the Tamils. Even in the small towns in the South, the barbers, the small boutique keepers selling cigars, and Saaivar Restaurants were run by Tamils, mostly Jaffna Tamils. These Jaffna Tamil traders were so well accepted byÃÂ ...
The Island.lk
December 24, 2017
State Minister for Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran (Jaffna District MP) has claimed that the Tamil community wouldn't have lost their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran if they had voted for UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe at 2005 presidential election. Maheswaran said so outside Jaffna DistrictÃÂ ...
The Island.lk
December 12, 2017
Dassanayake was there as the senior officer responsible for an unprecedented naval blockade meant to prevent a possible attempt to evacuate LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, his family and senior most cadres, such as Pottu Amman and Soosai, heads of Intelligence Wing and Sea Tigers respectivelyÃÂ ...
Tamil Guardian
November 25, 2017
The 63rd birthday of the leader of the LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran was marked at the ruins of his birth home in Valvettithurai on November 26. Civilians gathered at his family home, destroyed by the military, and cut a birthday cake at midnight. During the day, Tamils from the village and NPC Councillor MKÃÂ ...
Asian Tribune
November 24, 2017
The 63rd birthday of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the fallen leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is to be celebrated tomorrow in a grand scale in the Tamil regions of Sri Lanka and in the West. Is he dead or alive? If dead how his body was disposed - cremated or buried and where? 'Asian Tribune'ÃÂ ...
Daily Mirror
July 13, 2017
Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake has said that it was a myth that he orchestrated a rescue of Tamil refugees from a northern beach to help LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran escape Sri Lankan armed forces, India Abroad news reported on Tuesday. Blake said it was also fiction thatÃÂ ...
Economic Times
November 29, 2016
Top LTTE leader and Velupillai Prabhakaran aide arrested in Sri Lanka. PTI|. Updated: Nov 29, 2016, 03.16 PM IST. 0Comments. Karuna was the former deputy leader of the LTTE and a trusted cadre of LTTE chief Prabhakaran. He later became a deputy minister in the Rajapaksa government in 2010. COLOMBO:ÃÂ ...
The Island.lk
December 31, 1999
The road was badly savaged and cratered. Bombs, trucks, armoured vehicles and tanks had corroded its surface. We knew intuitively that to step off the apron and go behind the bushes carried great risk. There were landmines everywhere. The government had tried, before opening up the highway,ÃÂ ...
The Island.lk
December 25, 2017
State Minister for Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran (Jaffna District MP) has claimed that the Tamil community wouldn't have lost their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran if they had voted for UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe at 2005 presidential election. Maheswaran said so outside Jaffna DistrictÃÂ ...
NDTV
December 5, 2017
Pathmanathan took over the leadership of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after the outfit's supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed by the Sri Lankan Army in 2009. During the heady days of the LTTE, KP acted as its chief international arms procurer. He is wanted in India for his allegedÃÂ ...
Daily Mirror
December 4, 2017
They looked on as propaganda songs of the LLTE-era were brazenly played over loudspeakers and posters bearing pictures of the LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran were put up in some places. Red and White coloured flags of the Tamils, popularized by the LTTE, were hoisted everywhere. ChurchesÃÂ ...
Times of India (blog)
November 30, 2017
The national leader who is said to have fanned the Bhindranwale phenomenon and the leader who tried to manage the passions unleashed by Velupillai Prabhakaran, were both engulfed by those movements. Rahul Rawail, the director of Jo Bole So Nihaal (2005) and a Sikh himself, had tried to glorifyÃÂ ...
Tamil Guardian
November 30, 2017
A Tamil civil society activist has been questioned by Mullaitivu police over the celebration of the birthday of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Local activist Peter Ilachcheliyan was summoned for questioning by police on Thursday. Mr Ilachcheliyan had reportedly cut a cake next to a photograph ofÃÂ ...
Daily Mirror
November 28, 2017
It was reported that a group of Sinhalese students had complained to the Administration about the Tamil students celebration of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's death anniversary on the 26th November and the administration has decided to close down the university to prevent any possible clashÃÂ ...
The New Indian Express
November 27, 2017
COLOMBO: Notwithstanding a government ban, the 63rd birth anniversary of the slain LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was celebrated by some leaders of a pro-Tamil party in his home town in northern Sri Lanka. Member of Northern Provincial Council M K Shivajilingam of the Tamil National AllianceÃÂ ...
Asian Tribune
November 26, 2017
It was reported that the parental house of Velupillai Prabhakaran located in Valvetitutrai was demolished by the military, on the specific orders of the then Secretary to the Ministry of Defense. Furthermore, one of the regional Tamil language dailies reported that in the Point Pedro area, posters were put upÃÂ ...
Tamil Guardian
November 25, 2017
The 63rd birthday of the leader of the LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran was marked at the ruins of his birth home in Valvettithurai on November 26. Civilians gathered at his family home, destroyed by the military, and cut a birthday cake at midnight. During the day, Tamils from the village and NPC Councillor MKÃÂ ...
Asian Tribune
November 24, 2017
The 63rd birthday of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the fallen leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is to be celebrated tomorrow in a grand scale in the Tamil regions of Sri Lanka and in the West. Is he dead or alive? If dead how his body was disposed - cremated or buried and where? 'Asian Tribune'ÃÂ ...
Daily Mirror
November 21, 2017
... R. Premadasa, Lalith Athulathmudali, Gamini Dissanayake, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, S. J. V. Chelvanayagam and Velupillai Prabhakaran to a ...
WION
November 13, 2017
And yet, the UK allows Tamils to celebrate LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's birthday and hoist the flag of the banned organization in public ...
The Hans India
November 9, 2017
Manoj plays two characters in the film and while he plays a LTTE founder Velupillai Prabhakaran in the 1990s, he will be seen as a student ...
Press Trust of India
November 9, 2017
The LTTEs 30-year separatist campaign ended on May 18, 2009 in the northeastern Mullaithivu district when Velupillai Prabhakaran, the ...
The Telegraph
November 1, 2017
... intelligence agencies and our high commissioner in Sri Lanka had all misread the intentions of the Tigers' supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Asianet Newsable
October 29, 2017
Speaking about the film in details, he said, "I have shown the beginnings of Velupillai Prabhakaran, and how he rose as a leader. Initially ...
The Island.lk
October 24, 2017
The British parliament was told, on Oct 12, 2017 that Velupillai Prabhakaran killed Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in 1973. The statement was ...
Scroll.in
December 31, 1999
Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the LTTE, and Pottu Amman, the intelligence wing head of the organisation, remained at large until their ...
World Socialist Web Site
January 21, 2016
Gopalasamy, now the PWF's leader, used to boast that in 1989, he illegally took a boat ride from India to Sri Lanka to visit LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakharan. Now, however, he is promoting the Obama administration, which sanctioned Colombo's massacreÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
January 21, 2016
Gopalasamy, now the PWF's leader, used to boast that in 1989, he illegally took a boat ride from India to Sri Lanka to visit LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakharan. Now, however, he is promoting the Obama administration, which sanctioned Colombo's massacreÃÂ ...
