country_of_citizenship gopalaswamy mahendraraja
Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja ( 1956 -- 28 December 1994 ) , also known as Mahattaya was a member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who was killed for leaking secrets to ___MASK34___ ' s RAW . Thiruvenkadam Velupillai Prabhakaran ((); November 26 , 1954May 19 , 2009 ) was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers ), a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of ___MASK54___ . Tamil Eelam (" tami am ", generally rendered outside Tamil - speaking areas as      ) is a proposed independent state that Tamils in ___MASK54___ and the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of ___MASK54___ . Tamil Eelam has no official status or recognition by world states though sections of the Eelam were under " de facto " control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) for most of the 2000s . The name is derived from the ancient Tamil name for ___MASK54___ , Eelam . ___MASK54___ ( or ; Sinhalese :         ', Tamil :     " Ilakai "), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of ___MASK54___ ( formerly known as Ceylon ), is an island country in South Asia near south - east India . ___MASK54___ has maritime borders with India to the northwest and the Maldives to the southwest . The Sri Lankan Civil War was an armed conflict fought on the island of ___MASK54___ . Beginning on 23 July 1983 , there was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( the LTTE , also known as the Tamil Tigers ), which fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north and the east of the island . After a 26 - year military campaign , the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009 , bringing the civil war to an end . Percy Mahendra " Mahinda " Rajapaksa , MP (, ; born 18 November 1945 ) is a Sri Lankan ___MASK66___ who served as the sixth President of ___MASK54___ from 19 November 2005 to 9 January 2015 . A lawyer by profession , Rajapaksa was first elected to the Parliament of ___MASK54___ in 1970 , and he served as Prime Minister from 6 April 2004 until his victory in the 2005 presidential election . He was sworn in for his first six - year term as President on 19 November 2005 . He was re - elected for a second term on 27 January 2010 . He was defeated in his bid for a third term in the 2015 presidential election by Maithripala Sirisena and left office on 9 January 2015 . The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (" Tamia viutalaip pulika ", " Dhemala lm vimukthi koti ", commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers ) was a militant organization that was based in northeastern ___MASK54___ . Founded in May 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran , it waged a secessionist nationalist insurgency to create an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the north and east of ___MASK54___ for Tamil people . This campaign led to the Sri Lankan Civil War , which ran from 1983 until 2009 , when the LTTE was defeated by the Sri Lankan military during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa .