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He also played a key role in the unmasking of the "conspiracy" against LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran by deputy leader Mahattaya. Pottu Amman is believed to have tortured Mahattaya and extracted his "confession". In 1993 two separate divisions were created in TOSIS - National Intelligence Division and Military Intelligence Service.
- S. Sivashankar, 1962
- Tamil Eelam
- 18 May 2009 (aged 46–47)
- Sri Lankan
Dec 7, 2022 · Pottu Ammaan was autocratic in running the intelligence wing. He also had a cruel streak which made him a much-dreaded man within and outside the LTTE. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran along with many senior LTTE leaders was killed in the military confrontation with Sri Lanka’s armed forces in May 2009.
Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam. ( 1955-04-06) 6 April 1955. Kankesanthurai. Leader of the LTTE since the death of Prabhakaran. Prior to that, served as the chief procurer of arms and head of the "Department of International Relations" of the LTTE. As the chief arms procurer since the origin of the organisation, Pathmanathan was involved in all ...
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Dec 14, 2022 · The PLOTE bodyguards could do nothing as their leader was taken captive. Later, the LTTE negotiated from a position of strength with the PLOTE and exchanged Kannan for Pottu Amman and his bodyguard. The extraordinary lengths to which the LTTE went to free Pottu Ammaan illustrated the regard with which he was held by the tiger supremo Prabhakaran.
Dec 28, 2020 · The fierce rivalry between Pottu Amman and Karuna Amman (Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan) was a major contributing factor. The latter was a prominent figure in the movement, commanding the Batticaloa and Ampara districts. These districts, relatively isolated from the LTTE strongholds in the country’s north, operated quasi-autonomously.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, were a separatist militant organization fighting for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority in northern Sri Lanka. Velupillai Prabhakaran founded the group in 1972 and by the late 1980s was the dominant Tamil militant group in Sri Lanka.
However, in a 2011 interview, Kumaran Pathmanathan, who was the Treasurer of LTTE and its chief arms procurer, apologized to India for Velupillai Prabhakaran's "mistake" of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He further said Rajiv's assassination was "well planned and done actually with Prabhakaran and (LTTE intelligence chief Pottu Amman).
