Name- velupillai prabhakaran
birth 26 11 1954










Velupillai Prabhakaran



in November 2006

Born November 26, 1954(1954-11-26)

Velvettithurai, Sri Lanka

Died May 18, 2009 (aged 54) [1][2][3][4]

Nanthikadal lagoon, Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka

Cause Killed by gunfire [5]

Motive Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism

Charge(s) Crimes against life and health, terrorism, murder, organized crime and terrorism conspiracy

Penalty Arrest warrant issued by Colombo High Court[6]

Death warrant issued by Chennai

Status Deceased

Spouse-               Mathivathani Erambu

Parents Father: -   Veraswami Thiruwengadam Velupillai

Mother:     -         Velupillai Parvathi Pillai[7]

Children              -Charles Anthony

                              Duwaraka
                             Balachanthiran.






 Early life

Velupillai Prabhakaran was born in the northern coastal town of Velvettithurai on November 26, 1954, to Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and Vallipuram Parvathy.[11][12] Thiruvenkadam Velupillai was the District land Officer in the Ceylon Government[13] 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.[14] In 1972 Prabhakaran founded the Tamil New Tigers (TNT)[15] 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.Political situation[›]



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,[16] because he backed the then ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He was also seen by Tamil militants as betraying the Tamil nationalist sentiments in the Jaffna Peninsula, by allying with the Sinhalese majority government.[17]


] Tamil Tigers

 Founding of the LTTE

On May 5, 1976, the TNT was renamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers.[18][not in citation given]

Religion was not a major factor in his philosophy or ideology, but the LTTE was characterized as anti-Buddhist.[19] Prabhakaran himself was a lapsed Methodist.[20] The LTTE was also an organization that did not cite any material from religion or religious texts in any of its ideological documents and propaganda but were driven only by the idea of Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism. They focused on this single-minded approach and inspiration toward the attainment of an independent Tamil Eelam.