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Velupillai Prabhakaran
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founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization in Sri Lanka (1954-2009)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1954-11-26 ) 26 November 1954, Valvettithurai , Dominion of Ceylon
- Died
- 18 May 2009 (2009-05-18) (aged 54), Mullaitivu , Sri Lanka
- Cause of death
- Killed in action
- Other names
- Karikalan Nicknames : Thalaivar, Anna, Thambiyanna, Thamizh Thesiya Thalaivar
- Occupations
- Founder & leader of the Tamil New Tigers in 1972 and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam .
- Known for
- Tamil nationalism , National Leader of Tamil Eelam , Military Tactics.
- Criminal charges
- Planning assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 , Colombo Central Bank bombing of 1996
- Criminal penalty
- Arrest warrant issued by Colombo High Court , Death warrant issued by Madras High Court , India . , Sentenced to 200 years imprisonment by Colombo High Court.
- Spouse
- Mathivathani Erambu (1984–2009)
- Children
- Charles Anthony (1984–2009) , Duvaraga (1985–2009) , Balachandran (1997–2009)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sri Lanka
- Place of birth
- Valvettithurai
- Occupation
- dictator
- Political party
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Conflict
- Eelam War IV
- Image
- Prabhakaran 2 by Rajasekharan 2019.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1954-11-26
- name in native language
- வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன்
- member of
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- date of death
- 2009-05-18
- Commons category
- V. Prabhakaran
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Encyclopedic overview
Velupillai Prabhakaran (26 November 1954 – 18 May 2009) was an Eelam Tamil revolutionary, guerrilla leader and a major figure of Tamil nationalism, being the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE was a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in reaction to the oppression of the country's Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government. Under his direction, the LTTE undertook a military campaign against the Sri Lankan government for more than 25 years.
Prabhakaran was the youngest of four children, born in Valvettithurai, on Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula's northern coast. Considered the heart of Tamil culture and literature in Sri Lanka, Jaffna was concentrated with growing Tamil nationalism, which called for autonomy for Tamils to protest the discrimination against them by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan state and Sinhalese civilians since the country's independence from the United Kingdom in 1948.
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