Why did Prabhakaran killed Telo?
Prabhakaran also feared that India would use the TELO to have him killed. On 29 April that year, they launched an all-out assault on the TELO. TELO bases across Jaffna were shelled with mortars. TELO cadres, whether armed or unarmed, came under rifle attack and were shot dead.
Why did Prabhakaran start LTTE?
The LTTE was established in 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran as the successor to an organization he had formed earlier in the 1970s. In 1983, after the killing of 13 soldiers by Tamil guerrillas and retaliatory attacks by the Sri Lankan military, large-scale violence erupted between the government and the LTTE.
Does Prabhakaran drink?
Tamil control The Indian army left Sri Lanka in March 1990, having had 1200 soldiers killed. Prabhakaran became ruler of the northern part of Sri Lanka. Prabhakaran did not trust other people. He would only drink his own bottled water, he slept with a gun under his pillow.
How did LTTE chief Prabhakaran surrender?
According to the sources, when Prabhakaran’s bodyguards, numbering around 30, exhausted their ammunition, the LTTE chief was captured by the Sri Lankan special forces, and the organisation’s political head Balasingham Nadesan and the chief of the Tigers’ peace secretariat Seevaratnam Pulidevan surrendered.
Was Prabhakaran’s son Balachandran killed after capture?
“Several army sources have said that Prabhakaran’s (younger) 12-year-old son Balachandran was killed after capture. Our (sources) said that he was killed in front of his father,” said UTHR, which has always been critical of excesses both by the military and the LTTE.
Was Prabhakaran killed by an ambulance?
It is not clear whether this ambulance was initially thought to have been used by Prabhakaran and his bodyguards to escape, although there are some reports that his body was found in it. The bullet wound just above his right temple and the absence of any other injury on his person suggests he was killed from close range.
Did Sri Lankan special forces locate Prabhakaran’s hideout in Vellamullivaikkal?
Sources said that the Sri Lankan special forces located Prabhakaran’s hideout in Vellamullivaikkal at least two days before the end came. Apart from LTTE intelligence chief Shanmugalingam Shivashankar, alias Pottu Amman, Prabhakaran’s family, and his bodyguards, only one other person knew of the Tiger chief’s whereabouts.