Who interviewed Prabhakaran?
Pratap, reputedly the first journalist to interview Velupillai Prabhakaran, when he lived in Chennai in 1985, features in Methagu (His Excellency), a biopic on the slain supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Who trained LTTE?
Eight other batches of LTTE were trained in Tamil Nadu. Thenmozhi Rajaratnam alias Dhanu, who carried out the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and Sivarasan—the key conspirator were among the militants trained by RAW, in Nainital, India.
What did Prabhakaran do?
Prabhakaran argued that he chose military means only after observing that nonviolent means were ineffectual and obsolete, especially after Tamil Eelam revolutionary Thileepan’s fatal hunger strike in 1987 had no effect….
| Velupillai Prabhakaran | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Tamil nationalism, National Leader of Tamil Eelam |
How was Rajiv Gandhi as PM?
He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian prime minister at the age of 40. The following year he won his brother’s Parliamentary seat of Amethi and became a member of the Lok Sabha—the lower house of India’s Parliament.
Is India supported LTTE?
Support for the LTTE in India dropped considerably in 1991, after the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by a female suicide bomber named Thenmozhi Rajaratnam. Navaneetham found the LTTE and its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran responsible for the assassination.