Rasaiah Parthipan
Sign in to saveRasaiah Parthipan (; 29 November 1963 – 26 September 1987; commonly known by the nom de guerre Thileepan) was a Tamil Eelam revolutionary and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka. He died while on hunger strike.
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- date of death
- 1987-09-26
- date of birth
- 1963-11-29
- manner of death
- Suicide
- member of
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- start of work period
- 1983-00-00
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Rasaiah Parthipan (; 29 November 1963 – 26 September 1987; commonly known by the nom de guerre Thileepan) was a Tamil Eelam revolutionary and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka. He died while on hunger strike.
==Early life and family== Parthipan was born on 29 November 1963. He was from Urelu near Urumpirai in northern Ceylon. His father was a Tamil teacher and he had three older brothers. His mother died when Parthipan was three months old. After his father died of diabetes he was brought up by his brothers. He was educated at Jaffna Hindu College. After school he enrolled in the University of Jaffna.
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