The Pirabakaran Phenomenon

 

Velupillai Pirabakaran

People familiar with Sri Lanka have found Mr. Velupillai Pirabakaran, the leader of the LTTE, to be most intriguing.

Friend and foe alike are fascinated (awestruck, really) by his performance as the leader of a nation of people threatened with genocide, under conditions most challenging.

Unable to decipher and make sense of this exceptional feat, literally thousands of articles have been written about him, all attempting to understand, but none with any real insight. Most have tried to peg him to the semblance of a known somebody. Foes, of course, have tried to compare him to famous villains, and to the followers, naturally, he is godlike.

None, however, have truly analyzed this extraordinary phenomenon in any great depth as these continuing series of articles.

 


Adoration


Pirabakaran
Speaks


People Listen


Guard of Honor


Expressing Concern
Thileepan Fasting


Grieving with
Kittu's Mother

 

 

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Part One - Premature Obituary in the Madras Hindu

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Part Two - What is Leadership?

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Part Three - Learning from Mistakes

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Part Four - Humor in anti-Pirabhakaran polemics

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Part Five - Pirabhakaran - the Morale Booster

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Part Six - A Brando in the Battle Front

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Part Seven - Violating the Seventh Commandment

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Part Eight - Pirabhakaran as a cash-cow

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Part Nine - Four Musketeers of UNP

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Part Ten - Civil War Leader for Tamils

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Part Eleven - 1987 - Paradigm Shift in Eelam

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Part Twelve - In the eyes of Foreign Journalists

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Part Thirteen - Pirabhakaran and Duraiappah

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Part Fourteen - Casualty Breakdown in Eelam Civil War

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Part Fifteen - Demand of Discipline

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Part Sixteen - Colombo Beggars in the bin Laden Bandwagon

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Part Seventeen - Emerging Truth in the 'Terrorist' Label

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Part Eighteen - A Ramanujan in Military Science

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Part Nineteen - Repercussions of Rajiv-Jayewardene Accord

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Part Twenty - Implications of Indo-LTTE War

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Part Twenty One - ‘Pol Potist’ Label: Facts and Fantasy

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Part Twenty Two - 1989 - The Year of Indian Intrigue

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Part Twenty Three - Standing-up Against India's Imperial Itch

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Part Twenty Four - Surviving the Plots of RAW and Premadasa

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Part Twenty Five - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: Wading through the Paper Maze

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Part Twenty Six - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: The Forensic Science Angle

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Part Twenty Seven - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: The Political Angle

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Part Twenty Eight - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: the judicial angle of Justice S.S.M.Quadri

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Part Twenty Nine - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: the judicial angle of Justice K.T.Thomas

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Part Thirty - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: the judicial angle of Justice D.P.Wadhwa

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Part Thirty One - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: Jigsaw puzzles in the judicial angle

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Part Thirty Two - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: The Conspiracy Angle

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Part Thirty Three - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination: The Sinhalese Angle

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Part Thirty Four - The Tamil Sentiments and V.P. Singh's Views

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Part Thirty Five - Rajiv Gandhi Assassination - International Links

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Part Thirty Six -Rajiv Gandhi Assassination  - One Spoke in the South Asian Wheel of Intrigue

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Part Thirty Seven - Why is He Loved by the Tamils

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Part Thirty Eight - The Quality of Sinhalese Military Competition

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Part Thirty Nine - The Paradigm Shifter

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Part Forty - Valveddithurai’s Gift

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Part Forty One - Biographer's Interlude

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Part Forty Two - Even Grass is a Weapon for the Courageous

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Part Forty Three - Prime Antagonist to Brown-Skinned Buddhist Aryanism

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Part Forty Four - Countering the Fangs of Brown-Skinned Buddhist Aryanism

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Part Forty Five - The scenario at the eastern front: D.S. Senanayake’s notorious Lebensraum (Living Space) strategy: a synopsis

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Part Forty-Six - TORMENT IN THE EASTERN FRONT:  Predicaments of Scenario Sketchers

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Part Forty Seven - Nuda Veritas on The Muslim Factor

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Part Forty Eight - Projecting Tamil Power

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Part Forty Nine - Analyzing the Tamil Victims of LTTE's Power

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Part Fifty - Thwarting the Careers of Closet Tamil Operatives

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Part Fifty-One - Is Pirabakaran a Deviant and Merchant of Death?

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Part Fifty-Two - Eelam's Karma - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Part-Fifty-Three - Being a Tamil Hero