This Tamil tiger leader was born in 1954, November 26th in Vevettithurai town. Thiruvenkadam Velupillai was the District land Officer in the Ceylon Government Angered by what he saw as discrimination against Tamil people by successive Sri Lankan governments, he joined the student group TIP during the standardization debates. In 1972 Prabhakaran founded the Tamil New Tigers (TNT) which was a successor to many earlier organizations that protested against the post-colonial political direction of the country, in which the minority Sri Lankan Tamils were pitted against the majority Sinhalese people.
In 1975, after becoming heavily involved in the Tamil movement, he carried out the first major political murder by a Tamil militant group, assassinating the mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah, by shooting him at point-blank range when he was about to enter the Hindu temple at Ponnaalai. The assassination was in response to the 1974 Tamil conference incident, for which the Tamil radicals had blamed Duraiappah, because he backed the then ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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It is really good that Sri Lankan govenment finished the 30 year war on 2009 May 18th by finishing the leader of Tamil Tigers. But some LTTE supporters are still tyring to proof that their leader is not dead base on many pictures and movies. They say Prabakaran is still living in some other forign country and one day he will return. They deny Prabakaran is among the dead tigers and that what SL army found was not real Prabakaran. To reinforce that they do many stupid things like creating fake movies and pictures edited by graphic softwares.
