http://www.opendemocracy.net/Democracy_power/politics_protest/sri_lanka_stalemated Comments for "Sri Lanka’s stalemated conflict, Sumantra Bose " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/Democracy_power/politics_protest/sri_lanka_stalemated <p>I remember Kittu well. Kittu - full name Sathasivam Krishnakumar - was the second-in-command of Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tigers (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE) during the first decade of Sri Lanka&#39;s civil war. As LTTE commander from 1985-87 on the Jaffna peninsula - the Tamil heartland in the island&#39;s far north - Kittu, born in 1960 in Velvettithurai, a coastal town devoted to fishing and smuggling on the peninsula, led the Tigers&#39; meteoric rise as the civil war intensified. When he stepped down from his command, after losing a leg to an assassination attempt in 1987, he had already achieved mythic stature as a guerrilla leader.</p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/Democracy_power/politics_protest/sri_lanka_stalemated" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/Democracy_power/politics_protest/sri_lanka_stalemated">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/Democracy_power/politics_protest/sri_lanka_stalemated#comment democracy &amp; power Creative Commons normal globalisation institutions &amp; government politics of protest Sumantra Bose Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:52:17 +0100 admin 33052 at http://www.opendemocracy.net