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Theepan became the de facto deputy military commander of the LTTE following the death Balraj in May 2008. After the fall of Kilinochchi in January 2009 the LTTE were forced to retreat east. Theepan was involved in heavy fighting as the LTTE battled to retain its dwindling territory.
- V. Baheerathakumar, 8 January 1966
- 1984–2009
- Thavabalasingam, Sivatheeban
- Chavakachcheri Hindu College
Mar 15, 2023 · Theepan was a cousin of Thileepan alias “Curdles”, former LTTE commander for Thenmaratchy region who was killed in the Kaithaddy explosion of 14 February 1987. Curdles also known as “Kerdy” was also from Kandawalai where his father served as school principal for a long time.
The following is a 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 from the late 1970s to May 2009, until it was defeated by the Sri Lankan Military.
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Parthipan was born on 27 November 1963.[a] He was from Urelu near Urumpirai in northern Ceylon. His father was a Tamil teacher and he had three older brothers. His mother died when Parthipan was three months old. After his father died of diabetes he was brought up by his brothers. He was educated at Jaffna Hindu College. After school he enrolled in...
Parthipan joined the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) prior to the 1983 Black July anti-Tamil riots. He was given the nom de guerre Thileepan. Injured in the stomach in May 1987 during the Vadamarachchi Operation (Operation Liberation), he became the LTTE's political leader for Jaffna peninsula. As hostilities increased in northern ...
Determined to make the Indians meet the demands, Thileepan began a hunger strike on 15 September 1987 in front of Nallur Kandaswamy Temple. Thileepan gave speeches which were broadcast on Nidharshanam, the LTTE's TV stations. People from all over Jaffna peninsula came to observe and participate in the hunger strike. On 22 September 1987 Indian High...
LTTE leader Prabhakaran accused India of betraying the Tamils after vowing to protect them.Thileepan's death resulted in large anti-government and anti-Indian protests in northern Sri Lanka.
A statue of Thileepan was built behind Nallur Kandaswamy Temple in 1988. After the Sri Lankan military re-captured the Valikamam region in 1996 they destroyed the statue. The statue was re-built in 2003 during the Norwegian mediated Cease Fire Agreement. After war resumed, Thileepan's photograph and decorative lamps at the statue were damaged by th...
- R. Parthipan, 27 November 1963
- 1983 –1987
- Amirthalingam Thileepan
- 26 September 1987 (aged 23), Nallur, Sri Lanka
Brigadier Theepan was one of the main LTTE commanders who made great achievements on the battlefield. Although he had made many achievements, the most important was that he had stationed forces on the Jaffna peninsula at the Kilali-Nagercoil-Muhamalai axis, the Northern front linr for many years.
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Brigadier Theepan, a senior LTTE commander, is an incomparable commander of the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle. He was a nightmare to confront for the Sri Lankan forces during the battle at Jayasikuru.
May 20, 2019 · Colonel Theepan, the present Northern Forces Commander of the LTTE, recalled that in one heavy battle at Munthirikaikkulam, Balraj took part in an LTTE ambush in which fourteen SLA soldiers were killed and several weapons were seized.
