Prabhakaran The Tiger

It's official now. LTTE Chief Prabhkaran is dead. When I was looking at the pictures of his dead body, Somwhow I developed a sense of sympathy for him, I quite do not know why?

If I shed some light on the history of this conflict then it goes long back somewhere near 1972. When the Ceylon(previous name) was renamed to Sri Lanka, Buddhism was the main religion of locals Sinhalas whileTamils in Sri Lanka was not treated like a part of island nation they deprived of their rights LTTE was founded to fight for the justice against the Sri Lankan goverment.

He might be a declared terrorist who would have masterminded some of the high profile assasinations including our the then Prime Minister Rajeev Ghandhi in 1991 still he was a worrior, who faught till the last breath for Tamileen rights.

He was famous as a Ruthless Leader, who did not heed to any warnings by SL Govt /International Community.

Let me clarify I do not favour violance but Prabhakarn might be having enough reasons to walk on this path of War & terror. Information I have gathered about him from available literature states he was utterly dedicated for the cause of Tameelens, there is no doubt about it.

One Single man who has faught for 30 long years inspite of all International pressure, even when he formed LTTE it was a bunch of some young guys, he has built an entire Army including all 3 wings(Army, Naval, AirForce). This man certainly would have some guts. He used to tell to his pupils better die rather than captured.



His orgnaizing skills were so perfact, LTTE was the only declared terrorist group which had all three wings which worked like a professional Army with having seperate head for each wing. He has given new dimensions to the Gureilla War, most of LTTE's army vehicle were captured from SLA.

All LTTE Cadres used to carry a cynaide capsule with them in case of any possible chance of getting caught, they were told to swallow the capsule.

Lots of people will not agree with me here because the method used by Prabhakarn were inhumane like Suicide cadres, having executed some of the key assasinations which created an anger among people.
Even some of them say he was not fighting for justice but for his pride. People used to say he lived like King, let me ask them if you spend 30 years of your life in hiding, always on alert of either to be killed or captured does it sound like King's life? Does it make him pride? Well I don't think so.

The man who could have left Island nation at the start of this final phase of war, deided to stay till the last moment to support his troops.

Prabhakaran's cause was right but the method to achieve his goals were wrong but what else he could have done? To have a peacful solution both sides should compromise, You Can't clap with a single hand. This time ceasefire was broken by the SLA.
Prabhakaran, the Tiger is no more, his fight for Tamileens rights will be remembered with great pride and will be written in golden letters.

Above expressed views are my personal. No offences meant to anybody!!!
Love,
Mayank