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Sri Lanka recovers from its crippling 26-year-long civil war with the LTTE, which ended in May 2009 with the killing of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, it is reaching out to the international community for help across the board. At the end of 2011,...
Such a pledge also gave the Indian government an alibi to tamp down on Tamil chauvinistic sentiment in Tamil Nadu, where political forces had contributed morally and materially to keeping alive the Tamil Eelam cause. As a concession to those Tamil...
The discussions focussed primarily on the resettlement of Tamil civilians displaced due to the three-decade-old war that ended in May 2009 with the killing of LTTE [ Images ] chief Velupillai Prabhakaran [ Images ] in a military operation. Krishna told...
Krishna is expected to press for an early political solution to the Tamil problem and review the developmental projects being implemented by India with regard to relief and rehabilitation of the Tamils displaced due to the three-decade war that ended...
The ghost of the slain LTTE supremo has returned to haunt Sri Lanka, on stamps allegedly issued in France with government approval! In all, four stamps have been brought out by LTTE operatives who keep their identity under wraps, claim pro-Tiger and...
Any guesses as to how India would have reacted in a similar situation? Imagine Prabhakaran in the jungles of Tamil Nadu, holding several hundred Indians as hostages? Is there a chance in hell that there would have been a military operation against him?
A Sri Lankan Tamil who embraced militancy in the 1970s, Nabha – as he was known – did not have the glamour of Velupillai Prabhakaran. He did not kill at will. True, the man did later head a ‘People’s Liberation Army’. But it was a rag tag force more...
Velupillai Prabhakaran (Tamil: வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன்; November 26, 1954 – May 18, 2009) was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. LTTE and many other secessionist movements were born in the 1970s as a... Full Article
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