Coming Up: Inside story of LTTE, Rajiv’s murder, and TN politics

With the killing of Velupillai Prabhakran in 2009 by the Sri Lankan Army, the 35-year-old Tamil struggle for a separate nation ended abruptly. With him, and the other Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leaders who were killed with him, went the answers to all the questions we have been asking in India for some time now. Firstpost will now bring you the complete answers. [caption id=“attachment_12962” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Who trained the Tamil militants in India? AFP”]  [/caption] In an exclusive interview to VK Shashikumar of THL Mediagrove, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, alias Kumaran Pathmanathan, or simply KP, who now is in Sri Lankan government custody, has spoken out in detail about the LTTE, its leaders, its links with Tamil Nadu politicians, the role of Church groups in funding the Tamil struggle even now, and, above all, how India sowed the wind by training the Tamil extremists and then reaped the whirlwind when the LTTE murdered Rajiv Gandhi. The interview, accessed with the help of the Sri Lankan government, shows KP in a penitent mood, having seen decades of struggle producing nothing but pain for the Tamil people on whose behalf the civil war was waged. He speaks out strongly against Tamil diaspora groups that are still trying to rebuild the war machine. Watch this space and you will soon get answers to the following questions: • Who trained the Tamil militants in India and what went wrong with the strategy • Why the LTTE developed an antipathy to Rajiv Gandhi, and its roots in Dravidian politics • How Tamil politicians fished in the troubled waters of Eelam for their own narrow reasons • How the personality of Prabhakaran and his goals moulded the Tamil struggle for a separate state • How the UN and a western country offered to rescue LTTE leaders in May 2009 – and why it was too late. So look out for the full interview transcripts, analysis, and video excerpts of the interview of the year.