05/24/2011
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IBN
CHENNAI: In his first interview to a media house outside Sri Lanka, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, popularly known as KP, who is now the head of the decimated LTTE, candidly admitted that slain LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran had been influenced by the Dravidian ideology propounded by the DMK.
04/17/2011
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New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Attempts to map out the future course of Sri Lanka’s Tamil community and elect a leadership from among its diaspora have proved disastrous, writes NEVILLE DE SILVA
03/10/2011
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Daily Mirror
LTTE Arms Procurer KP should be extradited to India if requested for legal cases pending in that country, UNP said in Parliament yesterday.
08/19/2010
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The Economist
WEARING a crisp blue shirt, Kumaraswamy Nageswaran gestures dejectedly to a towering fence that keeps him from his village and his three acres of farmland on the Trincomalee coast. Five years ago, as Tamil Tiger rebels fought desperately with the Sri Lankan army, thousands of families fled Sampur and adjoining villages. They returned in the six months to January this year, only to find themselves victims of post-war development plans.
08/14/2010
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The Island
Last week I highlighted three episodes as evidence of the dystopian state of Sri Lankan politics. There are many more but one in particular deserves dishonourable mention: the KP interviews. The serialized media interviews of T.S. Pathmanathan (KP) should raise the concern whether Tamil politics in Sri Lanka is being reduced to the status of serial stories published in Tamil Nadu magazines like Kalki, Kumudham and Ananda Vihadan. All three were staple reading among Sri Lankan Tamil middle class families in better times. In hard times now, people have no time for stories but story telling is becoming the pastime in Tamil politics.
07/29/2010
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The Island
The late LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s successor, T. S. Pathmanathan aka KP says Sri Lanka should strive to deal with domestic issues on its own without involving external elements. Former head of LTTE procurement section, the soft-spoken, KP points out that all previous attempts by foreign governments to address Sri Lanka’s problems failed.
07/11/2010
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Sunday Times
Last week, while Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Maldives to help that country’s ruling and opposition parties settle their political disputes, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met six members of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in New Delhi and advised them to engage constructively with the Rajapaksa government so that long-standing political and ethnic issues could be sorted out.