They had even recruited two photographers – Haribabu and Ravi Shankaran for filming the whole episode. This was the group that had been finally sent by the LTTE after months of planning the assassination The team consisted of – Baby Subramaniyam, Muthuraja, Murugan, and Shivarasan.Īs they went ahead with their plan of physically assassinating Rajiv Gandhi, they recruited more people according to their requirement, the last ones being Dhanu and Shubha – the suicide bombers from the Tamil Tiger Squad. Prabhakaran had mobilized a group of four of his trusted lieutenants at Jaffna to chalk out a plan and execute it.
Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the then LTTE supremo was certain about Rajiv Gandhi being re-elected as the PM, the occurrence of which would confirm the re-induction of the IPKF as promised by Gandhi in one of his interviews with the Sunday Magazine. The assassination was a careful execution of a plan that had been hatched over the span of a year. Vellupillai Prabhakaran was the Supremo of the LTTE at that time and he had planned Gandhi’s assassination In 1990, after much chaos had already been caused by the launch of this operation on either side of the border, Sri-Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa forced India to summon their troops back. Though it had been initially decided that the Indian troops (IPKF) would not be intervening in any of the major operations as they were solely being sent as peacekeepers, they did end up participating in numerous large-scale military battles. Indian Peace Keeping Forces land in Sri-Lanka for Operation Poomalai This was done under the direct orders of Rajiv Gandhi, who had been elected to fill in his mother’s shoes right after her assassination. India’s relations with Sri-Lanka gradually continued deteriorating and finally in the year 1987 India launched Operation Poomalai, much to the dislike of either party engaged in the war. The Sri-Lankan government had declined the proposition, despite which, according to investigations conducted later, she continued to train Tamil guerillas in various camps in South India. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, proposed to mediate a settlement between the two communities. Though it had started with random insurgencies and riots, the situation eventually culminated into a complete war. The civil war continued in Sri-Lanka for a number of decades starting form 1983 The Tamils were fighting for their right to establish a Tamil Eelam (independent state) within Sri Lanka.
A reconstructed body of Rajiv Gandhi is given back to his family for the state funeralĪlso Read: LivED It: Volunteering At Asia’s Biggest Management Fest At SRCC, DUĪ Complete Post-Mortem Of The AssassinationĪ civil war had been raging within Sri-Lanka since 1983 after decades of ethnic tension between the Sinhalese and the Tamils in the country. His cremation was done by the river Yamuna, at a spot nearby to his brother, mother, and grandfather’s cremation grounds. Dignitaries from around 60 countries attended the funeral. The state funeral was broadcast live, both nationally and globally. There the body was handed over to the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences for autopsy and reconstruction of the body. Immediately after the assassination, Rajiv Gandhi’s mutilated body was flown back to New Delhi. A number of people including had died due to explosion during the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi The explosion killed an estimated 25 people who were within the immediate radius of the explosive, including Thenmozhi Rajaratnam aka Dhanu, the assassin. While doing so she detonated the RDX laden belt that she was wearing underneath her suit. She garlanded him and bent down to seek blessings from the Former Prime Minister.
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