Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Chapters: Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students members, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam members, Sri Lankan Tamil rebels, List of commanders of the LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Douglas Devananda, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, Balasegaram Kandiah, List of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, Vaithilingam Sornalingam, Rohana Wijeweera, Anton Balasingham, Shanmugalingam Sivashankar, Perinpanayagam Sivaparan, Arul Pragasam, S. P. Thamilselvan, Kethesh Loganathan, Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan, Kumaravelu Vignarajah, Rasaiah Parthipan, Saman Piyasiri Fernando, Balanadarajah Iyer, Selvam Adaikalanathan, Kandiah Ulaganathan, Vallipuram Vasanthan, Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, Shantha Bandara, M. K. Shivajilingam, Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Balasingham Nadesan, Vino Noharathalingam, Pandara Vannian, Annamalai Nadesu Sivasakthy Ananthan, Nallathamby Srikantha, Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy, Ponnuthurai Sivakumaran, Adele Ann Wilby, Loganathan Sabanayagam, Charles Lucas Anthony, Sathajhan Sarachandran, Migapulle Arachchi, Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja, Mangalan Master, Tamil New Tigers, Shanmuganathan Ravishankar, Ramalingam Paramadeva, Panagoda Maheswaran, Arumaipperumal, Ambalavanar Neminathan, Colonel Akbar, Nadarajah Thangathurai, Selvarajah Yogachandran, V. Balakumaran, Ranjanlal Gnanendramohan, Jeganathan. Excerpt: The following is the list of commanders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, a separatist militant Tamil nationalist organisation, which operated in northern and eastern Sri Lanka till May, 2009; when the Sri Lankan Military defeated it in May 2009. According to the conventional Sri Lankan army view that has been dominated by the majority Sinhalese Buddhists since 1962, the military designations in front of their names are part of their aliases, and are not recognised military ranks. The following is the list of commanders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, a separatist militant Tamil nationalist organisation, which operated in northern and eastern Sri Lanka till May, 2009; when the Sri Lankan Military defeated it in May 2009. According to the conventional Sri Lankan army view that has been dominated by the majority Sinhalese Buddhists since 1962, the military designations in front of their names are part of their aliases, and are not recognised military ranks. Velupillai Prabhakaran (Tamil: ; Sinhala: ; November 26, 1954 May 18, 2009) was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers), a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. For over 25 years, the LTTE waged a violent secessionist campaign in Sri Lanka that led to it being designated a terrorist organization by 32 countries. Prabhakaran was wanted by Interpol for terrorism, murder, organized crime and terrorism conspiracy. He also had arrest warrants against him in Sri Lanka and India. Founded in 1976, the LTTE rocketed to prominence in 1983 after they ambushed a Sri Lanka Army convoy outside Jaffna, resulting in the deaths of 13 soldiers. This ambush, along with the subsequent rioting which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Tamil civilians, is generally considered the start of the Sri Lankan Civil
