Balakumaran seriously injured claim media reports

by admin
Feb 3, 2009
Senior leader and special member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) K.V. Balakumaran was seriously wounded by Sri Lankan military bombardment, according to media reports.
 
Balakumaran was injured at Udaiyarkattu area in Mullaitheevu on Monday, January 26 and is receiving intensive treatment added the reports. However, neither the LTTE nor the Sri Lankan military is yet to comment on the report.
 
Balakumaran founded the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students in the eighties and in 1990 joined the LTTE with his followers. He has been focusing on the political aspect of the Tamil struggle for the past two decades.
 
Balakumaran is the second senior most leader of the LTTE to be wounded after the beginning of the current phase of fierce clashes between the government troops and the LTTE since August 2006.
 
In November 2007, LTTE's former political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in an air raid by the Sri Lankan air force jets in Kilinochchi.

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