S. P. Thamilselvan

S. P. Thamilselvan

Infobox Military Person
name= S. P. Thamilselvan

lived= August 29, 1967 - November 2, 2007
placeofbirth= Chavakacheri, Sri Lanka
placeofdeath= Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka


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serviceyears= 1983–2007
rank= Second in Command [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/02/wtamil102.xml Sri Lankan air force kills Tamil Tiger leader - Telegraph ] ]
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Suppayya Paramu Tamilselvan, commonly known as S. P. Tamilselvan, (sometimes transscribed as "Tamilchelvan"), "Sunday Times", [http://www.sundaytimes.lk/071104/Columns/sitreport.html Situation Report: SLAF regains its image with powerful strike] ] was the leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a rebel organisation fighting for an independent homeland for the ethnic Tamil minority in nothern Sri Lanka. He was chief negotiator and second in command to rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran."The Times Online", [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2793399.ece Tamil Tiger No 2 killed in government air raid] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1159008,00.html "The Government is Creating an Environment for War" - TIME ] ]

Biography

Thamilselvan, who was born in Chavakacheri, Jaffna in 1967, joined the rebel movement in 1984, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2205184,00.html SP Thamilselvan | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited ] ] . At one point, he was the personal bodyguard for the LTTE's leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. He became the rebel organisations area commander for Jaffna during the IPKF intervention in the late 1980s. In 1993, he suffered a shrapnel wound at the Punarin battle which left him with a permanent limp and since then he walked with the aid of a cane. [ [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1159008,00.html "The Government is Creating an Environment for War" - TIME ] ] In 2001, he narrowly avoided being killed by the Sri Lankan Army's Deep Penetration Unit.

Thamilselvan began to rise in the movement after the capture of Jaffna city by government forces in the late 1990s. He was the international face of the separatist group led by shadowy rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and outlawed as a terrorist organisation in number of countries. When Norway began mediating in the peace efforts, he began to become more prominent due to the worsening health of the LTTE's international spokesman, Anton Balasingham, and led the LTTE's delegation during peace talks in Geneva.

Death

Thamilselvan, along with 5 other high ranking tamil rebels were assasinated on November 2, 2007 by a precision air strike carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) on an undisclosed location near the rebels's stronghold town of Kilinochchi. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/world/asia/03lanka.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin Political Leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers Killed in an Airstrike - New York Times ] ] [ [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1679817,00.html Sri Lanka Kills Rebel Leader - TIME ] ] [ [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/nov2007/sril-n05.shtml Sri Lankan military assassinates LTTE political leader in air strike ] ] "Associated Press", [http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j-TOLA51vP-BoTQDVn2g7JLCjGww Tamil Tiger political chief killed in Sri Lanka strike] ] [ [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=29531&sectionid=351020406 Press TV - Top Tamil Tiger leader killed ] ]

Analysts anticipated his loss would deal a sever blow to the rebel organisation.

References

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2864919.ece Obituary in "The Times", 14 November 2007]


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