Velupillai Prabhakaran

Eelam Tamil nationalist and military leader (1954–2009)

Velupillai Prabhakaran (26 November 1954 – 18 May 2009) was an Eelam Tamil nationalist, revolutionary and guerrilla leader. A major figure of Tamil nationalism, he founded and led 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.

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