The life of the Tamil Eelam National Leader is a guide for future generations!
Today is a special day for the Tamil people all over the world as it is the day where the light of the Tamil people came to illuminate our nation Tamil Eelam. He came with the ambition of creating a nation for the Tamil people who live spread all over the world today. Today is the golden day of our nation.
Today is a unique day for the Tamil people of the world as a multi-faceted hero emerged to rescue the Tamil people from Sinhala oppression. Today is an unforgettable day in our minds for the birth of a great leader who was admired all over the world came to build a unique identity for the Tamil people.
The world is growing very fast. Many changes are caused by this development. But no matter what changes take place, we must not forget our struggle and the sacrifice of our heroes. Everyone is thinking that everything is over after our struggle was silenced in Mullivaikkal in 2009. Our younger generation has also been forced to live without the knowledge of struggle. This has created a situation where our histories can be forced to be silenced and forgotten. This can become a major obstacle on the path to Tamil liberation.
So, we have to change it and tell our stories to the children from time to time. Only then can we raise our children with the knowledge about our national identity. In that sense, today, the birthday of our Tamil Eelam National Leader V. Prabhakaran is a day where we have a duty to revisit the memories and history of him.
He was born on 26th of November 1954 in Valvettidurai to Velupillai and Parvathiyammaal. He was their fourth and last child. Prabhakaran attended Chidambaram College, Urikkadu, Valvettithurai up until 10th grade. He could not get an education beyond that. His compassion for the Tamil people hindered his education. From an early age, he was concerned with thought of freeing the Tamil people from the Sri Lankan government’s ethnic oppression.
The ethnic riots in the south of Sri Lanka in 1958 changed his mind. When Prabhakaran was four years old, the tragic events of the Tamil annihilation in southern Sri Lanka in 1958 had a profound effect on his mind eyewitness stories reached him. Prabhakaran, who was a boy, listened intently when a widow, who was well known to his parents, told his mother about the tragedy that had befallen her. It made him think hard. He was further incensed when he learned of the horrific violence during the riots, such as the burning of a Hindu Guru alive in Panadura.
But he kept all this to himself and continued his studies. As he got older, his compassion for the Tamil people increased. Prabhakaran took part in various struggles initiated by Tamil patriots demanding an end to the violence perpetrated by the Sinhala racist government and forces against the Tamils. Prabhakaran, who told his parents he was going to school had been campaigning for the liberation of the Tamil people in different ways. He kept this hidden from his family. Later on, his ability to keep secrets that he learned from a young age, helped him a lot.
The Sinhala government, which was involved in the genocide, began to interfere in the education of Tamil students as well. Tamil students were affected by the standardization policy introduced by the Sinhala government to reduce the number of Tamil students going to higher education after completing their schooling. This activity also angered Prabhakaran. His instinct and desire to rescue the Tamil people held captive by the Sinhala state kept growing in his mind.
He decided that to confront the Sinhala forces that attacked innocent unarmed Tamils with weapons, an armed movement was necessary.
Studying until grade 10, he became more and more impatient and started acting as a freedom fighter. Parents did not understand Prabhakaran’s activities. However, one day when the Sri Lankan forces came looking for him early morning at 3 o´clock they started to understand. Prabhakaran, who escaped from the police, did never return home again. He turned himself into a full-time fighter. He carried out small-scale attacks against the Sri Lankan Army with locally made grenades.
Although, Prabhakaran was an only acting as a small group, consisting of only his closest friends, Tamil students affected by the Sri Lankan government’s standardization began to rally behind Prabhakaran. With his excellent leadership qualities, he started the New Tamil Tigers in 1972 at the age of 18 by mobilizing these students and friends. That movement grew and developed step by step. They carried out attacks that chocked the Sinhala troops. As the movement grew, it was in 1976 renamed as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was teaching the Sri Lankan government great lesson for trying to step on the Tamil people. This attracted the attention of India as well.
Following Prabhakaran’s contacts with India and especially other Eelam sensitizers in Tamil Nadu, LTTE members were able to receive weapons training in India. This brought about many changes in the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle. With these changes, Mr. Prabhakaran became well known in India. This turned the leader of and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a very powerful force. Leader Prabhakaran was subsequently inspired by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. This attraction further strengthened the LTTE struggle.
Subsequent time became the era of the LTTE. The LTTE became an organization accepted by all the people of Tamil Eelam. Leader Prabhakaran was accepted by the entire Tamil people as the national leader of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE, which had previously disguised itself as guerrillas and carried out attacks, eventually evolved into those capable of waging conventional battles against Sri Lankan forces. From only having small arms, the fighter now started to have access to state-of-the-art weapons.
Prabhakaran was not only engaged in fighting a war with the Sri Lankan forces but also succeeded in building a separate homeland for the Tamil people. In addition to the ordinary forces, he also established the Navy and the Air Force to ensure the security of the Tamil people. He created an army of black tigers that could inflict casualties on the enemy with fewer casualties for themselves. He ensured equal rights to women not only in his battalions but also in the administrative infrastructure of Tamil Eelam. He established police forces, judicial systems, tax-infrastructure, banks and many other institutions and created a government for the Tamil people. This government acted to the amazement of the many nations worldwide. More than these, as a practice nowhere else in the world, he established the Tamil Eelam National Heroes’ Day once a year on the day of the death of the first fighter to honour the war veterans. He also considered this to be a holy day that must be honored.
Truly these activities are things that a normal human being cannot do. No matter how strong he is, it is impossible for an ordinary man to achieve such successes without the help of other nations. But our leader ended up doing it and many have praised our leader for this. His close friend P L. Nedumaran said: ´There have been significant liberation struggles in the twentieth century. One of India’s greatest leaders, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, set up an independent Indian state in Singapore, formed the Indian Army and fought for Indian independence. But the world-renowned leader Subhas Chandra Bose was backed by the then superpowers Germany, Japan and Italy. When Ho Chi Min led the Vietnam liberation struggle, the China and the Soviet Union fully supported that struggle. Similarly, during the Palestinian liberation struggle, Yasser Arafat led it, but twenty-seven Arab countries sided with him. India fully assisted during the Bengal liberation struggle.
But the most unique struggle of the twentieth century is the liberation struggle of Tamil Eelam. This struggle for Tamil Eelam that has been led by Prabhakaran and will continue to be led by him have never received any help from any nation or any government in the world. Instead, we must not forget that our neighbors, such as India, have come out against the struggle.
In this situation, the Tamil Eelam National Leader Prakaran, with the support of Tamils all over the world, carried out this heroic liberation struggle relying only on the youth and young women of his country.
Prabhakaran is very, very young in age and experience when I compare them to the world-renowned leaders I mentioned earlier. But in this struggle that Prabhakaran is leading a single man without the help from NATO or any country, all Tamils have a duty to support said Mr. P L. Nedumaran. Stories such as this one need to be told to the young generations of today.
Some young people in the homeland and in the diaspora, especially those in their 17s and 20s today, do not know what the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle is. Parents do not even want to tell it to them. Such an act would push our Tamil nation into the abyss. The younger generation needs to know the full story about our struggle and our leader. Parents should take measures to ensure this. This is the message that is put forward on our Tamil Eelam National Leader’s birthday today.
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