Tamil nationalist leader P Nedumaran Monday claimed that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was still alive, and he was revealing this information now because of the changed geopolitical situation and the Sinhalese people’s “revolt” against the Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka. Prabhakaran ’s ... Velupillai Prabhakaran (1954-2009) was a Sri Lankan militant leader and the founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). He founded LTTE with the intent of forming a separate country for the Tamils in Sri Lanka. He was also convicted of assassinating Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. He died in May 2009, aged 54, after the Sri Lankan Army killed him in a firefight. The financial strain was so severe that Prabhakaran had to leave his studies. He worked as a labourer in a sawmill for two years and assisted his family with farming. Velupillai Prabhakaran , 54, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18, had decades to think about how his end would ...
