Who is prabhakaran ltte

The people and the fighters were terribly affected by this. The malaria I seemed to catch once every six months caused me a great deal of physical suffering as well. Because the medical division continuously kept using the malaria prevention medication, eventually malaria was eradicated in Vanni.

His command centre was set up in the Thiruvaiyaru area near the battlefield. I knew that there had been a clash with the army in the Konavil area on the first night. However, I did not know too many facts about it. A friend of mine who was at the medical centre nearby came running up to me, held on to my hand and said the words that burned into my soul. While I had always known that in this terrible unending war, either my sister, or I, or both, might die, the news that my sister, who had followed me into the Movement out of her immeasurable love for me, had lost her life in the field before me, tore at my heart.

She was born on 9 July, my sister Nageswari Gowri Subramaniam. She studied at the same school I did. Having joined the Movement in , she received combat training with me in the same camp and was taken into the Leopard Brigade. She would write poetry in her beautiful script and she would draw pictures. At one point in , my sister and I had both got three days leave to go home.

The two of us, who had fought often as children fought then as well. Unlike me, spending all my time with my head in a book, she would help my mother with all the housework.

She would visit all the relatives. India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises. But the news media is in a crisis of its own. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle. ThePrint has the finest young reporters, columnists and editors working for it.

Sustaining journalism of this quality needs smart and thinking people like you to pay for it. Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here. Support Our Journalism. All this earned him a certain following which in turn helped him to grow. Training camps came up in India, which provided a shady umbrella under which everyone — moderates and militants — could take shelter.

Terrorism was not too dirty a word in the s, more so if the victim country was in the Third World. None of the above is true today, except perhaps for the still lingering feelings among sections of Tamils of being discriminated by a Sinhalese-dominated state.

The sheer hypocrisy of the Tigers and its leadership and the manner in which they lorded over the mass of helpless and trapped Tamil civilians in the northeast right till its own demise cannot and will never be forgiven by the victims. Here was a group that mercilessly killed any Tamil who was ready to shake hands with the Sri Lankan state, but was more than ready to embrace Colombo when its own end was near. And Prabhakaran cut birthday cakes for his children in his underground lair even as his fighters snatched teenage boys and girls from poor Tamil families and forced them to fight and die for the cause of Tamil Eelam.

Even if a section of the Tamil diaspora — which funded the war while leading comfortable lives in the West — were to announce the formation of a LTTE, it will have no takers in Sri Lanka including in the northeast, where ordinary people, still furious over how the Tigers broke up families, will be the first to report to the state the activities of suspicious characters.

When he revolted in April and broke away, he was dubbed a traitor. But grant it to him, the man knew the LTTE inside out. People are fed up with all this violence. There are absolutely no chances of another LTTE coming up.

Prabhakaran was the youngest of four children, born in a middle-class family in Valvettiturai, a fishing town on the northern coast of Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula.

Very little is known about his early life. He described a deep-seated anger against the military and remembered an eighth-grade teacher who exhorted students to take up arms against it. Jaffna was then considered the heart of Tamil culture and literature in Sri Lanka, and also the center of the growing Tamil nationalist movement, which called for greater autonomy for Tamil-majority areas to protest what they considered discrimination against Tamils by Sri Lanka's Sinhala-speaking majority.

The most radical groups wanted complete independence and struck out at symbols of the Sri Lankan state, including fellow Tamils whom they considered collaborators.

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