First and foremost, Thileepan is a LTTE soldier. The LTTE and Tamil nationalism (in its most regressive form) were represented by him. The many Sinhala literatures I am stumbling across these days have lost sight of the fact that he was a member of a death squad that killed Tamils who opposed the ideology of the LTTE brand of nationalism. His premediated suicide served as a political strategy that consequently laid the foundation for the suicide politics/culture of the Tamil Tigers. Thileepan, as a soldier, at no point embodied non-violent…
