Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah (15 June 1926 – 27 July 1975) was a Sri Lankan lawyer who served as Mayor of Jaffna from 1970 until his assassination. He...
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notoriety in 1975 when Prabhakaran and three other members assassinated Alfred Duraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna. The group continued to carry out attacks and...
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against President Richard Nixon. 1975 – Mayor of Jaffna and former MP Alfred Duraiappah is shot dead. 1981 – While landing at Chihuahua International Airport...
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Duraiappa stadium mass grave (redirect from Duraiappah stadium mass grave)
Thuraiappa) was discovered and excavated at the Duraiappah Sports Stadium (named after Alfred Duraiappah) in the formerly embattled northern city of Jaffna...
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the University of Western Ontario. Duraiappah is the nephew of lawyer and politician Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah, a former Sri Lankan Mayor of Jaffna...
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led him to militancy. In 1975, he assassinated the Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah in revenge for the 1974 Tamil conference incident. The LTTE was subsequently...
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murder the Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah. A member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who was loyal to Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Duraiappah was seen as a traitor...
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After the Tamil conference incident in 1974, the then mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah was assassinated by the leader of rebel LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran...
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at Muthirai junction Nallur and declared open by then Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah. On 2011 was the statue removed and a new statue was built at the...
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the precursor to the revenge killing of the SLFP mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah by the LTTE which began the era of Tamil militancy amongst the youth...
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Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam...
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major wing of the library was opened in 1959 by then Jaffna mayor Alfred Duraiappah. The architect of the Indo-Saracenic style building was S. Narasimhan...
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Christianity See Assassination of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike July 27, 1975 Alfred Duraiappah, Mayor of Jaffna Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) December...
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one was in the car. No one suspected Sivakumaran. Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duraiappah was a member of the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party and its chief...
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first major operation was the assassination of the mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiappah, in 1975 by Prabhakaran. The LTTE's modus operandi of the early war...
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Lankan lawyer, politician and speaker of the State Council of Ceylon Alfred Duraiappah - Member of Parliament from 1960 to 1964; Mayor of Jaffna Jeyaraj...
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Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam...
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– Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, author, and critic (d. 2005) 1926 – Alfred Duraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (d. 1975) 1927 – Ross Andru...
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began taking form with notable incidents such as the assassination of Alfred Duraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna in 1975 and the killing of Inspector Bastianpillai...
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Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah V. Navaratnam E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M...
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(named as Tamil United Liberation Front - TULF). On 27 July 1975, Alfred Duraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna and ruling party Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)...
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S. Nagarajah 8 January 1966 24 March 1966 Alfred Duraiappah 15 February 1970 21 April 1971 Alfred Duraiappah Sri Lanka Freedom Party 22 April 1971 27 July...
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Retrieved 19 August 2021. Ferdinando, Shamindra. "Who could have shot Duraiappah at Varadaraja Perumal temple, Ponnalai?". The Island. Retrieved 8 July...
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Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah V. Navaratnam E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M...
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champion; in Algiers Died: Anne Spencer, 93, African-American poet Alfred Duraiappah, 49, the mayor of the Sri Lanka city of Jaffna, was assassinated along...
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Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam...
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Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam Alfred Duraiappah V. A. Kandiah E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam...
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staff and network within the island. Following the assassination of Alfred Duraiappah on 27 July 1975, CID began gathering intelligence on Tamil militant...
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(1970-1977) and a Member of Senate of Ceylon. He was a political rival of Alfred Duraiappah and was initially suspected of behind his death. However, the assassination...
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monitored activities of the Tamil parties following the assassination of Alfred Duraiappah. Bastiampillai was considered as one of the best CID officers at the...
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