News: Prabhakaran

05/24/2011 | 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.
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02/24/2011 | BBC
The cremation site of the mother of Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran has been desecrated, relatives say.
02/22/2011 | Sify
Chennai, Feb 22 (IANS) Thol. Thirumavalavan, a member of the Indian parliament and leader of the VCK party, was denied entry into Sri Lanka by the island-nation's immigration officials Tuesday and was forced to return.
02/22/2011 | Hindustan Times
A Tamil Nadu MP and his two associates were deported from Colombo international airport early Tuesday after they attempted to enter Sri Lanka to attend slain Tiger chief V Prabhakaran’s mother’s funeral in Jaffna. President of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Panther’s Party) T. Thirumavalavan, known for pro-LTTE sentiments, had taken an early morning flight from Chennai. He landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport at around 2 in the morning.
02/22/2011 | BBC, BBC Sinhala
Velupillai Parvati Pillai, the mother of Vellupillai Prabhakaran, was cremated on Tuesday with traditional Hindu rites.
09/26/2010 | The Guardian (UK)
In concentrating power in his own hands Mahinda Rajapaksa resembles the ruthless Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran
07/01/2010 | Gulf News
Velvettithurai: "No further," the lance corporal says, moving his Chinese-made T56 rifle off his shoulder. He means business. I open my arms out to show I am not a threat and plan to obey his order. "Prabhakaran's house," I point, still hoping to get by this young sentry with obvious orders to stop all from going up the rutted lane.
06/21/2010 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Colombo – Sri Lanka's defence secretary warned Monday that the minority Tamil rebel international network was still active, after the separatists were defeated militarily last year.
04/29/2010 | Daily Mirror
The house of slain LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in Valvettiturai has been demolished completely, Tamil National Liberation Alliance (TNLA) general secretary M.K. Sivajilingam said yesterday.
12/12/2009 | Daily Mirror
Decks have been cleared for the closure of Rajiv Gandhi assassination case with Sri Lankan government confirming the deaths of two most important conspirators in the case, LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran and its intelligence chief Pottu Amman, formally to India.