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Message: <blockquote data-quote="handley" data-source="post: 24845666" data-attributes="member: 567805">In 2004, Karuna Amman fell out with the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and defected from the organization on March 3. He took around 1000 cadres with him and formed what was then referred to as the "Karuna Faction". Chandrakanthan(Pillayan) joined Karuna and in his rebellion, and was named deputy leader of the party.[2] However a number of cadres remained loyal to Prabhakaran, and they defeated Karuna's faction in a decisive battle near on the banks of the Verugal Aru in April 2004.[4]The Karuna Faction then took a lower profile, maintaining a number of small camps in the southern end of the Eastern Province. Given covert backing by the Sri Lankan military, they carried out regular attacks against the Tamil Tigers throughout the east of the island.[5] As the ceasefire in place since 2002 between the government and the Tamil Tigers broke down in mid-2006, the Sri Lankan Government launched a military offensive to drive the Tamil Tigers out of the Eastern Province. The Sri Lankan military fully achieved this objective in July 2007, with the aid of the TMVP, which overran a number of Tamil Tiger camps in the process.[5][6]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivanesathurai_Chandrakanthan" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivanesathurai_Chandrakanthan</a></blockquote>

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