In order to achieve their main political objective, which is to divide the country, the LTTE terrorists have killed a plethora of Tamil leaders and civilians. It all started with killing of then Jaffna mayor Mr. Alfred Doreappa.
Mr. Alfred Doreappa (1975)
The leader of the LTTE, Prabhakaran, a mono-ethnic megalomaniac, has boasted that he himself killed the Tamil mayor of the Jaffna municipality, Mr. Alfred Doreappa, a respected democratic politician, in 1975.
Mrs. Yogeswaran (1998)
Yogeswaran was a member of the Tamil United Liberation Front. In 1997, she was elected mayor of Jaffna, the first elected mayor in 14 years.
Mrs. Yogeswaran was shot five times with a pistol near her Jaffna home on May 17, 1998. She died on the way to hospital. A group calling itself the Sankiliyan Force claimed responsibility. It is believed the LTTE was ultimately responsible. They had assassinated her husband, V Yogeswaran, in 1987.
P. Sivapalan (1998)
Sivapalan succeeded Sarojini Yogeswaran as mayor of Jaffna after she was assassinated in 1998 by the LTTE. Like Yogeswaran, Sivapalan belonged to the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF). He too was assassinated, on September 11, 1998, when a mine exploded in the Jaffna city council chambers with Sri Lanka Army Jaffna town commander, Brigadier Susantha Mendis and his Principal Staff Officer (PSO), Captain Ramanayaka. Later it was identified as a Claymore bomb attack and the LTTE was believed to be responsible.
Following Sivapalan's death, the Jaffna mayoral office had been officially dissolved and has remained under the purview of the Government Agent of the Jaffna district.
They all were victims of fascism of LTTE. After defeating LTTE terrorism, the Mahinda Rajapaksa government has step up to restored democracy by conducting local government election. It is our duty to remember all those scarified their lives on a historical day that democracy is restored in Jaffna peninsula.
Reference:
- RESULT OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES ELECTIONS 2009 - JAFFNA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
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