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Thursday, November 20, 2008

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Sri Lankan women in Colombo participate in a peace march to celebrate government troops' victories over the Tamil Tigers on November 19. Sri Lankan security forces on Thursday captured a key defence line of Tamil Tiger rebels after six days of intense fighting that left "scores" of guerrillas dead, the defence ministry said.
(AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara)


Eastern Province Chief Minister and former Tamil rebel Pillayan (L) inspects the scene of a shooting in Athurugiriya, a suburb of Colombo November 14, 2008. Kumaraswami Nandagoban alias Ragu, personal secretary of Pillayan, and another person were shot dead while they were travelling in a car at Athurugiriya, police said.
REUTERS/Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi (SRI LANKA)

This handout picture from Sri Lanka's Defence Ministry dated November 15, 2008 shows government troops at the strategically important town of Pooneryn. Sri Lanka stepped up air attacks against Tamil rebels in the island's north Sunday as heavy fighting raged a day after troops re-captured a highly strategic town, the defence ministry said.
(AFP/HO)

A portrait of Brigadier Balraj, special commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, adorns the wall of a shopping center in the Scarborough district of Toronto. Many ethnic Tamils in Canada are still sympathetic to the Tigers' cause for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.
(AFP/Parameswaran Ponnudurai)

Relatives mourn near the body of Lance Corporal Manjula Serum during his funeral in Dhamana village, in eastern Sri Lanka Ampara, November 19, 2008. Serum was killed last Sunday when the government military exchanged fire with Tamil Tiger rebels in Akkarayakualam, north of country.
REUTERS/Stringer (SRI LANKA)

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Velupillai Prabhakaran

The rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush.

Prabhakaran, 54, was born to a middle-class family on the Jaffna Peninsula. Incensed by discrimination against Tamils and radicalized by a militant grade-school teacher, Prabhakaran founded the LTTE in 1976, a year after a group he headed claimed responsibility for killing Jaffna's mayor. By 1983 the guerrilla movement--which pioneered suicide bombings and the recruitment of child soldiers--escalated the fighting into a civil war.

At the height of his power earlier this decade, Prabhakaran led a de facto government that controlled vast swaths of territory and boasted its own systems of taxes, roads and courts. As the army closed in, he allegedly used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields. By the final days, just 250 LTTE members remained. They died too, along with the dream of eelam.

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