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Prabhakaran was a major figure of Tamil nationalism, and 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 .
Velupillai Prabhakaran (tamil. வேலுப்பிள்ளை பிரபாகரன், ur. 26 listopada 1954 w Velvettithurai, Sri Lanka, zm. 18 maja 2009) – tamilski bojownik i przywódca polityczny Tygrysów Wyzwolenia Tamilskiego Ilamu.
19 maj 2009 · V elupillai 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...
The LTTE leader Prabhakaran denied allegations of killing innocent Sinhalese civilians, claiming to condemn such acts of violence; and claimed that LTTE had instead attacked armed Home Guards who were "death-squads let loose on Tamil civilians" and Sinhalese settlers who were "brought to the Tamil areas to forcibly occupy the land."
9 sty 2011 · The Tamil army—known as the L.T.T.E., or simply the Tigers—was led by Velupillai Prabhakaran, a charismatic, elusive man who had become one of the most successful guerrilla leaders of modern...
19 maj 2009 · During three decades of conflict, Prabhakaran’s Tamil Tigers launched a series of devastating attacks on government targets, sapping military morale and taking the lives of thousands of...
Tamil Tigers, guerrilla organization that sought to establish an independent Tamil state, Eelam, in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE was established in 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran as the successor to an organization he had formed earlier in the 1970s.
