He is currently wanted by Interpol for terrorism, murder, organized crime and terrorism conspiracy.[3] Although during an interview he stated that the LTTE are not yet ready to give up the demand for an independent state, he has suggested that this may be a possibility once the "Tamil homeland, Tamil nationality and Tamil right to self-determination" are politically recognised and accepted.
Prabhakaran was born in the northern coastal town of Velvettithurai, Sri Lanka to Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and Vallipuram Parvathy.[1] In 1972, at the age of 18, Velupillai Pirabhakaran founded an organization named Tamil New Tigers (TNT) which was a successor to many initial organizations that protested against the post colonial political direction of the country that pitted the minority Sri Lankan Tamils against the majority Sinhalese people.Political situation[›]
In 1975, after becoming heavily involved in the Tamil movement, he carried out his first political murder by murdering the mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah, by shooting him at point blank range while he was about to enter the Hindu temple at Punnelary. The assassination was in response to the 1974 Tamil conference incident, and the Tamil radicals had blamed Alfred Duraiappah[4] because he backed the then Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP) implicated in the violence as well as for allegedly betraying the Tamil nationalist sentiments in the Jaffna peninsula. [5]
On May 5, 1976, the TNT was renamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers
Caste and religion
Pirabhakaran is a member of relatively lower Karaiyar caste in the Caste system in Sri Lanka[6] although his grandfather was the builder/director of a local Hindu Siva temple.[1]
Religion is not a major factor in his philosophy or ideology. The LTTE is also an organization that does not cite any material from religion or religious texts in any of its ideological documents and propaganda but are driven only by the idea of Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism and considers it as the only single-minded approach and inspiration towards the attainment of an independent Tamil Eelam.
For instance, upper caste Hindus traditionally cremate their dead yet others don't, but LTTE fighters are buried. A few of the leading LTTE officers have been Christians, such as Anton Balasingham. Pirabhakaran named his son Charles Anthony, after one of his most trusted associates, Charles Lucas Anthony, alias Seelan, who was killed in 1983.
Personal life
There are not many insights onto Pirabhakaran's personal life, either from his interviews or from cited media sources, although it is widely known that he is married to Mathivathani Erambu.[1] Their marriage was held in Tirupporur, near Chennai on 1 October 1984. They have a daughter named Duwaraka, a son named Charles Anthony and another son named Balachandran. Their whereabouts are not known, but it is widely speculated that they are not in Sri Lanka.[1]
Pirabhakaran studied up to G.C.E. Ordinary level (Grade 12) at Chidampara College. Pirabhakaran is also known to suffer from a number of stress and fatigue related syndromes such as blood pressure, diabetes, and TIAs.[1]
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