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“Tiger” Diaspora Backs Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam led All-Ceylon Tamil Congress (TNPF) in Polls
Posted by Administrator on 7 August 2015, 5:55 am
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By D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Valvettithurai is a place that has figured prominently in the politics of Sri Lankan Tamils. Valvettithurai is a coastal town along the Vadamaratchy littoral region of the northern Jaffna peninsula.VVT as Valvettithurai is generally referred to acquired a notorious reputation at one time as the hotbed of smuggling. In later years Valvettithurai became known as the nursery of Tamil militancy. A very large number of VVT youths have been at the forefront of the Tamil armed struggle launched to achieve the secessionist ideal of Tamil Eelam. Chief among these was Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) leader Thiruvengadam Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The Tamil armed struggle was crushed conclusively in May 2009 with the military debacle of the LTTE at Mullivaaikkaal in the Mullaitheevu districrt. Prabhakaran himself was killed along the shore of the Mullaitheevu lagoon known as “Nanthikkadal”. Even Prabhakaran’s ancestral abode in Valvettithurai has been razed to the ground and the property is now overrun with vegetation. Nevertheless Valvettithurai continues to retain an inexplicable aura within Tamil ultra-nationalist circles.
Gajendrakumar at party manifesto releasing event in Valvettithurai-August 2, 2015