. By Manjula Fernando . . . He . Earlier last week Karuna Amman alias Vinayagamoorthy Muralithran, a one-time, trusted bodyguard of LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran and LTTE Eastern Commander turned politician, in an interview with India's Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, stirred a hornets nest, when he claimed Prabhakran was not killed by the Sri Lankan . The expulsion of the Muslims from the Northern province was an act of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization in October 1990. PRADEEB (Translation): When the Prabhakaran group attacked our base, we repelled them and forced them to retreat, we followed their retreating forces, entered their camps, and destroyed some of their camps in Vaharai. Yogi, the LTTE's political spokesman claimed that this expulsion was carried out in retaliation for atrocities committed against Tamils in the Eastern Province by Muslims, who were seen by the LTTE as . According to Karuna Amman, a former top commander of Prabhakaran and now a Federal Minister, a spokesman for LTTE's International Relations head S Pathmanathan had told him that Tiger supremo's . For this constructed reality, Karuna had served two MULLAITTIVU: LTTE's aging DAYA MASTER, in government retention and late terrorist supremo's former eastern military leader, now a reformed Minister, VINAYAGAMURTHI MURALITHARAN (MP) (KARUNA AMMAN) Tuesday (19) afternoon flew to 53 Division area in PUTHUKKUDDIYIRUPPU where PRABHAKARAN's dead body lies. In a way, it has also put the LTTE at the crossroad all over again as never before, coming as it does after the historic Ceasefire Agreement with the Sri Lankan Government, but how far is too early to determine. [4] [9] Pottu Amman was recalled to Jaffna , and in October 1987, when war had erupted between the LTTE and the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), he was sent to Tamil Nadu to co-ordinate the flow of supplies from India to Sri . He joined the LTTE in 1983 and became a top commander in the district he represented. Karuna denies saying Prabhakaran was captured alive July 24, 2015 05:28 pm Former Deputy Minister Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan, commonly known as Karuna Amman, today completely denied reports quoting him as saying that slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was captured alive and tortured by Sri Lankan troops before being killed. Benchmarks . He fought the Sri Lankan Civil War to make an independent state for the Tamil people in the north of Sri Lanka. Karuna feared tiger intelligence chief Pottu Amman who was to Prabhakaran what Beria was to Stalin. One month before the Parliament elections, the LTTE suffered for the first time a major split with its Batticaloa-based eastern commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman revolting against Prabhakaran's leadership in what was seen as a tussle for the second position with intelligence chief Pottu Amman. Thereafter it was a horrible gang rape with TMVP cadres taking turns to sexually assault her. Karuna Amman, a former lieutenant of slain . Karuna Amman is a father of three children. Slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's body was identified by his two former aides with the help of certain scars and birth marks. NSE Gainer-Large Cap . According to a version of events carried in the Tamil Times of 15 March 2004 a version distinctly anti-Karuna Prabhakaran had initiated the inquiry entrusting that task to Pottu Amman, Nadesan and Thamilendhi several weeks prior to the revolt, and the inquiry could have represented an impending purge of an emerging 'Karuna faction'. 0 0. Tamil Eelam was established in 2009 after China's conquest of the region during the Sri Lankan Civil War which had helped establish it. Hon. The simmering tensions erupted into an open revolt on March 3, 2004. Prabhakaran killed himself, says Karuna Amman August 30, 2015 10:08 pm Responding to a question made by a reporter during an interview on an Indian TV channel, Muralitharan also revealed that Prabhakaran's wife and the daughter were killed by shell-fire during the final stage of the war. Long-simmering differences between Prabhakaran and Karuna came into the open on March 3 when Karuna refused to send an additional 1000 troops to the North as requested by Prabhakaran. the man better known in his guerrilla days as Karuna Amman said the body was Prabhakaran's. The slain LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran's wife and daughter as well as his top commander Pottu Amman have died in the Sri Lankan conflict, the Tigers' international spokesman S Pathmanathan has told the rebel supremo's former ally Karuna Amman. MULLAITTIVU: LTTE's aging DAYA MASTER, in government retention and late terrorist supremo's former eastern military leader, now a reformed Minister, VINAYAGAMURTHI MURALITHARAN (MP) (KARUNA AMMAN) Tuesday (19) afternoon flew to 53 Division area in PUTHUKKUDDIYIRUPPU where PRABHAKARAN's dead body lies. According to one of the newly elected MPs from Jaffna, the Batticalao-Amparai MPs privately told him that they would. Both visitors confirmed the identity of the dead body as that of LTTE chief VELUPILLAI . In 2003 he was elevated to the rank of special commander for the eastern Batticoloa . Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, who commanded the Sri Lanka Army during the 2006-2009 Eelam War IV, has refuted the contention of former LTTE commander "Col" Karuna Amman, that Tiger Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran had shot himself dead and was not killed by Lankan troops as claimed, the New Indian Express reported. He was one of six members who were selected by India's Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) for further training in special intelligence. Karuna, regional LTTE commander of Batticaloa and Ampara districts since 1987, took with him several hundred Tiger cadres -- perhaps as many as one . Federal Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralidaran,alias Karuna Amman,one time close confidante of Prabhakaran,and Daya Master,the former LTTE media spokesman who had surrendered recently,identified the Tiger supremo's body after he was killed on May 18. How did Prabhakaran die? Colonel Karuna, the LTTE commander of the Eastern region before he fell out with Prabhakaran in . Asked what he felt on the death of Prabhakaran, Karuna said he thought about the nearly one lakh people who had died and huge amounts of property that was wasted because of Prabhakaran and the military conflict run by him for years. Slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's body was identified by his two former aides with the help of certain scars and birth marks. The Nation is ruled by the Chinese Proxy known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam thus making it a . Karuna Amman - The One Even Above The God By V. Kanthaiya - " The fate of Premini was terrible. LTTE members were adoring the fight, he Amman. But Karuna realized what Pirabaharan did not know by participating in the peace talks. Karuna Amman was accused over the deaths and abductions of many during the war, including when he was in the LTTE. Earlier last week Karuna Amman alias Vinayagamoorthy Muralithran, a one-time, trusted bodyguard of LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran and LTTE Eastern Commander turned politician, in an interview with India's Puthiya Thalaimurai TV, stirred a hornets nest, when he claimed Prabhakran was not killed by the Sri Lankan military as claimed but shot himself with his . Karuna has alleged that Prabhakaran intentionally dragged out peace talks so that the rebels could use the cessation in hostilities to re-arm for further combat. Muralitharan was born in Kiran, a village in the Batticaloa district in eastern Sri Lanka to Vinayagamoorthy, an agriculturist from the Vaisyas Caste (Farming and Business Community). Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna, the Deputy Minister of Resettlement of the Rajapaksa Administration and former LTTE commander in the East, spoke to Ranga Jayasuriya of Lakbimanews on wide-ranging issues: about allegations of extortion levelled against groups loyal to him, diaspora tactics, regrouping of the LTTE and how Prabhakaran learnt his military tactics from movies. COLOMBO: Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, who commanded the Sri Lanka Army during the 2006-2009 Eelam War IV, has refuted the contention of former Tamil Tiger commander "Col" Karuna Amman, that Tiger Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran had shot himself dead and was not killed by Lankan troops as claimed. better known by his nom de guerre, Colonel Karuna Amman. Tamil Eelam is a nation located in Northeast, North, East and Northwest Republic of Sri Lanka that is a Satellite State of the People's Republic of China. He was once even a bodyguard to LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. . ADDENDUM: Memo from Gerald H Peiris, 1 March 2017 Karuna's recounting of the circumstances of his defection from the LTTE (as recorded by Liyanage) has some factual inaccuracies. By rebelling against supremo Prabhakaran in an unprecedented way, Col Karuna, LTTEs sacked commander for Sri Lankas Eastern Province, has put the clock back in more ways than one. Karuna Amman claimed Prabhakaran shot himself but it was denied by Fonseka who claimed the injury was from shrapnel citing the lack of an exit wound. Prabhakaran may be the leader whose instructions the TNA candidates have to follow, but Karuna is the strongman of the east now. Federal minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralidaran, alias Karuna Amman, one time close confidante of Prabhakaran, and Daya Master, the former LTTE media spokesman who had surrendered recently . Karuna Amman, the LTTE commander of the Eastern region before he fell out with Prabhakaran in 2004, said he always wanted a political solution to the decades-old ethnic conflict, a view that was . In 2003 he was elevated to the rank of special commander for the eastern Batticoloa . The so-called 'Federal Solution' on which there was a tentative and highly qualified agreement between the two delegations took place at the 3rd round of negotiations in Oslo - i. e. 2-5 December 2002. As Colonel Karuna, he maintained an iron first in the volatile east. According to Karuna Amman, a former top commander of Prabhakaran and now a Federal Minister, a spokesman for LTTE's International Relations head S Pathmanathan had told him that the Tiger supremo . . Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, told the Presidential Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) here on Monday, that only Tiger chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran and the. Velupillai Prabhakaran (November 26 1954 May 18 2009) was the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He committed suicide -Karuna. Federal Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralidaran, alias Karuna Amman, one time close confidante of Prabhakaran, and Daya Master, the former LTTE media spokesman who had surrendered recently, identified the Tiger supremo's body after he was killed on May 18. He joined the LTTE in 1983 and became a top commander in the district he represented. The proposal for an ISGA was drafted by Prabhakaran, who Karuna is now opposing. Plot to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi was hatched solely by Prabhakaran. He denied that his former leader was captured, tortured and . He was the first person after Prabhakaran to learn about the LTTE's military capabilities. Prabhakaran, centre, posed with pilots before a suicide air raid on Colombo in February 2009 . Handling of Karuna: Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, often known as Colonel Karuna Amman, was once the bodyguard of Prabhakaran who captured the strategic Elephant Pass in 1997-98. He was once even a bodyguard to LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. Prabhakaran's body was displayed on state television, part of the front of his skull missing, also suggesting he may have been shot at close range. Tamil Tigers commander led a committed force of separatist fighters. Karuna Amman had told a Tamil Nadu TV channel that Prabhakaran had committed suicide by shooting himself when capture seemed imminent. Karuna feared tiger intelligence chief Pottu Amman who was to Prabhakaran what Beria was to Stalin. Tamil Tigers and their supremo V Prabhakaran are facing imminent defeat at Kilinochchi as the Sri Lankan army is on the verge of overrunning Liberation Tigers of Tamil . These two bodies were personally identified by the present member, I think, of the cabinet Karuna Amman, who was the LTTE military wing leader at the time before he joined the government. If he had shot himself, the . vinayagamoorthy muralitharan alias karuna amman, who was special commander of the liberation tigers of tamil eelam (ltte) in batticaloa and ampara districts, says that the rift between him and ltte leader velupillai prabhakaran took place in december 2002 when the tiger chief accused him of "betrayal" of the kind mahendrarajah alias mahattaya was