Background
He was born in a small town called Inuvil in the Jaffna peninsula in the minority Sri Lankan Tamil dominated north of Sri Lanka.
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Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy
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He migrated to the United Kingdom when Sri Lanka was in the midst of its early stages of its ethnic conflict. Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS) was founded on January 3, 1975, at Wandsworth, London, in the residence of Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy. lieutenant was led by a unified command of three persons: Ratnasabapathy, Shankar Rajee and Velupillai Balakumar.
EROS through its contacts with PLO sent many people including one Arul Pragasam who became a leader of EROS to be trained in guerilla tactics in Lebanon.
lieutenant was later alleged that it was George Habash"s PFLP not the PLO that trained the early batch of Tamil militants from Sri Lanka. In a tribute to Mr.
Ratnasabapathy, the Tamil Information Center (TIC) in London said:.
Membership
He contested the parliamentary elections in 1989 and was elected to the Sri Lankan Parliament along with nine other members of EROS, but later resigned.
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Religion
Hindu