Pon Sivapalan

Pon Sivapalan

Pon Sivapalan was a Sri Lankan politician.

Sivapalan succeeded Sarojini Yogeswaran as mayor of Jaffna after she was assassinated in 1998 by the LTTE. Like Yogeswaran, Sivapalan belonged to the Tamil United Liberation Front. He too was assassinated, on September 11, 1998, when a mine exploded in the Jaffna city council chambers with Sri Lanka Army Jaffna town commander, Brigadier Susantha Mendis and his Principal Staff Officer (PSO), Captain Ramanayaka. Later it was identified as a Claymore bomb attack and the LTTE was believed to be responsible. Following Sivapalan's death, the Jaffna mayoral office had been officially dissolved and has remained under the purview of the Government Agent of the Jaffna district.

External links

* [http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/asia/srilanka.html Human Rights Watch report]
* [http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=2034 TamilNet coverage]


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