On a recent summer afternoon in June, as I walked through the streets of La Chapelle in northern Paris, better known as ...

Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers, says 2002 cease-fire with government is defunct and that rebels will push to form independent state (S) By Shimali Senanayake Nov. 28, 2006 ...

Released during Tamil New Year in 1991, Captain Prabhakaran not only became a major box-office hit but also etched the ...

Velupillai Prabhakaran News from United Press International.This is our urgent and final appeal. If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year ... establish self-government ...

Sri Lanka declared Monday it had crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and ending his three-decade quest for an independent homeland for Tamils.

This week the government declared it had finally killed Velupillai Prabhakaran and proclaimed victory against his Tamil Tiger rebels, crushing a 25-year rebellion that the United Nations estimates ...

NEW DELHI — Reclusive Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran had narrowly escaped death several times during the last three decades even as his obsession with security ensured that untold ...

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 ...

Sri Lanka's military said Thursday it has proved conclusively through DNA testing that Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed last week, after supporters refused to believe a ...

In the end, Prabhakaran--who lived by the gun, with scant respect for democratic norms and dissent--only succeeded in transforming a justifiable cause, that of securing democratic rights for the ...