Mohandas had also praised the intelligence wing of the Tigers: The LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) was highly idealistic and well organized under its charismatic leader Velupillai Pirapaharan. This is what he records about the LTTE and its leader Pirapaharan: In that book, MGR: The Man and the Myth (Panther Publishers, Bangalore, 1992, 181 pp), he recorded his assessment about the militant groups. Mohandas wrote a book after his retirement. Mohandas had repeatedly told MGR that Pirapaharan’s LTTE was the best of the Tamil militant groups. He was a Malayalee and was very close to MGR, a Kandy-born Malayalee. Mohandas was the Deputy Director General of Police (Intelligence) in 1983. Q branch, Tamil Nadu’s intelligence agency.Īll these agencies rated the LTTE as the most active, disciplined and committed for the their cause – the establishment of the separate state of Tamil Eelam. Central Intelligence Bureau (CBI), India’s internal intelligence agency.Ĥ. Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external intelligence agency.Ģ.
Pirapaharan was well respected.įour Indian intelligence agencies monitored the Tamil militant groups that functioned in Tamil Nadu from the beginning of the ‘eighties. Though small in size, Indian intelligence and Indian authorities rated the LTTE highly. Abnormal expansion, in his view, would cause serious problems of discipline leading to disintegration.” Pirapaharan, says Anton Balasingham in War and Peace (Fairmax Publishing, Mitcham, Surrey, UK, 2004) was a “firm believer in the systematic evolutionary growth of the organizational structure, particularly the military.
Pirapaharan was not worried about the sudden swelling of the other militant groups. The LTTE was thus relatively small at the beginning of 1984. He admitted the number he could feed, house and train. He insisted on discipline and commitment. Pirapaharan was cautious and calculative. They had problems of discipline and were plagued with internal rivalries. This enlistment strategy was the main cause for their failure. They wanted to show India that they were big and influential. They did not worry about quality or commitment. Indian training came as a godsend to all the militant groups. The daring ‘hitting back’ his men dealt to the armed forces etched for him an indelible place in the hearts of the Tamil people. The riots of 1983 and the collective punishment meted out to the people by the police and the army drove the people behind Pirapaharan. Jayewardene and the daring deeds of the militant cadres did that for him. The first and foremost among them, as I have already pointed out, was the mobilization of the Tamil people behind him. Three factors helped Pirapaharan to commence the building of a national liberation army and the basic structures for a separate state. In that year he started building the structures – administrative, revenue, law and order and other measures – necessary for the establishment of a separate state. In that year, as I indicated in Chapter 21, Pirapaharan switched over from hit-and-run guerrilla combat to sustained guerrilla warfare, and commenced the process of transforming the LTTE into a national liberation army. Accessed 22 June 2012.Pirapaharan: Vol., Chap.26 Foundation for Tamil Eelamġ984 is a milestone in the life of Pirapaharan and in the history of Tamil freedom struggle.
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