Swamy, M R Narayan.

Inside An Elusive Mind - Delhi Konark Publishers 2003 - 290p.

Twenty years after he took measured steps into the world of violent sub-nationalism, Velupillai Prabhakaran of Sri Lanka has become one of the world's most ruthless separatist leaders. Not even 50 yet, he is unrivaled in his sinister influence over a nation's fate. Since 1983 he has lorded over a secessionist movement that has led to at least a dozen cold-blooded political assassi nations, several internecine murders, tens of suicide bombings and over deaths even as it has created perhaps the world's most well-oiled fighting apparatus that would qualify as anywhere. a de facto military

Prabhakaran's fiercely loyal outfit Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, has been fighting to carve a separate Tamil nation out of the tropical Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka. The LTTE has been designated a terrorist organization or put on the terror list in countries ranging from the United States to India. Prabhakaran himself is one of the most wanted men in the world.

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