Tamil National Alliance - Assassination of MPs

Assassination of MPs

See also: Human Rights in Sri Lanka, State terrorism in Sri Lanka, and List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War

The first TNA Member of Parliament (MP) to be killed was Nadarajah Raviraj. A local human right organization, University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR), claimed that they were near certain that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, current Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence of the Government of Sri Lanka, was involved in the assassination. Further, it claimed that one Gajanayake, whose forces work under the Ministry of Defence, was the main organiser behind the assassination. The Sri Lankan government denied responsibility and strongly condemned his killing.

In the murder of Joseph Pararajasingham, UTHR report claimed the pro government Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal a splinter group from LTTE that is headed by one Karuna and Eelam Peoples Democratic Party headed by Douglas Devananda, para military cadres were responsible for the murder.

K. Sivanesan the third M.P. was killed on March 6, 2008 by a roadside bomb near Killinochchi in LTTE controlled area in northern Sri Lanka while he was returning to his house in Mallaavi. The LTTE and other TNA MPs alleged that it was carried out by a Sri Lanka Army Deep Penetration Unit, the Army has denied the allegation. K. Sivanesan had alleged that he had been harassed by Sri Lankan Army earlier.

Further Ariyanayagam Chandra Nehru a founder member of the pro-LTTE NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESHOR) and also a former Member of Parliament of Tamil National Alliance elected from Amparai in Eastern Sri Lanka was ambushed and killed on February 7, 2005. The government had denied any responsibility, however the family and TNA blame SLA