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Rajiv Gandhi gruesome assassination: blast from the past | velupillai prabhakaran | ltte Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Rajiv Gandhi gruesome assassination: blast from the past | velupillai prabhakaran | ltte Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Update: 2020-08-17
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 Determined to prevent Rajiv Gandhi from returning to power fearing the reinduction of the IPKF, the LTTE supremo Pirabhakaran ordered the killing of Rajiv at a meeting held in Jaffna in October 1990. 


Dhanu was a member of the LTTE's suicide squad, Black Tigers. Very little is known about her, except that she was an extraordinarily motivated woman and carried out two dry runs during public meetings before targeting then PM Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally in Sriperumbudur. 


Background music Credit: Liam Seagrave


Youtube link for background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipNqY9wHPqg 


Sources: 


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19472490903387191 


https://www.deccanchronicle.com/opinion/op-ed/210516/a-blast-from-the-past-rajiv-gandhi-assassination.html 


https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/lady-with-the-poison-flowers/228400 


https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/investigation/story/19910715-rajiv-gandhi-assassination-ltte-supremo-pirabhakaran-ordered-the-killing-in-jaffna-in-october-1990-814580-1991-07-15 



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Rajiv Gandhi gruesome assassination: blast from the past | velupillai prabhakaran | ltte Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Rajiv Gandhi gruesome assassination: blast from the past | velupillai prabhakaran | ltte Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Abhishek Tiwari