For his unadulterated brain, Eelam is not a bargaining, bartering item. But, Prabhakaran was different from Suntharalingams, Amirthalingams, Anandasangarys, Devanandas, Padmanabhas, Perumals and Karunas. Singh and Chandrasekhar) and one Indian army commander (Krishnaswamy Sundarrajan ).Įelam Tamils have seen so many savvy talking politicians, ‘me too’ militants and turn coats who tinkered with the Eelam word as a party tag, as an electioneering slogan for parliamentary seat, as a brokering mask and as an attention-grabbing tool. Kottegoda), not to mention four Indian prime ministers (Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, V.P. Premadasa, D.B.Wijetunga and Chandrika Kumaratunga) and eleven Sinhalese army commanders (namely, D.S.Attygalle, J.E.D. His Sinhalese adversaries were scared of his gift – an unadulterated brain, which outplayed and outwitted four Sinhalese Presidents (J.R.
I’d say, only Prabhakaran had a gift – not shared by any other Tamils of his generation. His Sinhalese adversaries were not scared of his mission. In 1970s, apart from Prabhakaran, quite a number of his contemporaries also shared his mission. Prabhakaran’s only mission in life was to retrieve the stolen Tamil homeland from the Sinhalese. Not only Prabhakaran, most Tamils share this grief. The boundaries of the Sinhala country, as it existed in 1796, appears in page xiii of Ralph Pieris’s 1956 book, entitled Sinhalese Social Organization (Ceylon University Press Board, Colombo, 311 pages). He had a gift.” His grief was that Sinhalese had stolen the traditional Tamil homeland (Eelam) by deceit and guile. In reductive terms, from Tamil perspectives, Velupillai Prabhakaran’s life can be summed up in three sentences. Rather than arranging the material, in the conventional alphabetical order, I had preferred to arrange it in chronological order. I have limited this bibliography to research-oriented publications that had appeared in peer-reviewed, international journals all of which I have bothered to read.
“No substantive evidence have been presented for us to launch an investigation,” he added, referring to alleged human rights abuses.As the only academic to author a Prabhakaran biography, what I present here as a select chronological bibliography provides details on Prabhakaran’s mission and strategic steps. Last night, Brigadier PR Wanigasooriya, an army spokesman, said Sri Lanka had been a repeated victim of “lies, half truths, rumours, and numerous forms of speculations”. The Sri Lankan authorities have always denied shooting anyone who was trying to surrender. Prabhakaran’s body was displayed on state television, part of the front of his skull missing, also suggesting he may have been shot at close range. There were reports at the time that several LTTE officials were shot and killed as they tried to surrender. That these events were also photographed and kept as war trophies by the perpetrators is even more disturbing.” The 12-year-old’s father, Prabhakaran, was killed along with most of the senior leadership of the LTTE as Sri Lanka’s army advanced on the rebels’ position. “It is difficult to imagine the psychology of an army in which the calculated execution of a child can be allowed with apparent impunity.
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