En­vi­ron­men­tal ac­tivist and po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst, Siva­gan­gai-based elec­tri­cal en­gi­neer Senthil Ku­mar Sub­ra­man­ian nar­rates NTK leader See­man’s love for Tamil na­tion­al­ist leader Prab­hakaran on the oc­ca­sion of his sixty-fifth birth­day.

NAAM TAMI­LAR KATCHI LEADER SEE­MAN joined Tamil na­tion­al­ists world­wide to pay glo­ri­ous trib­utes on the sixty-fifth birth an­niver­sary of Velupil­lai Prab­hakaran who decades back had led a de­ter­mined strug­gle to up­hold the cause of Tamil na­tion­al­ism and the rights of Ee­lam Tamils in Sri Lanka. See­man said Prab­hakaran con­tin­ues to in­spire him, his party to up­hold Tamil rights in the face of op­pres­sion and sup­pres­sion.

In a state­ment re­leased to the me­dia to­day, See­man greeted Tamils on the oc­ca­sion of the birth­day of the Tamil Ee­lam leader Prab­hakaran, call­ing him “my leader, my brother”, who be­came a mar­tyr for the cause of Tamil Ee­lam, in the armed strug­gle against the Sin­halese gov­ern­ment.

Velupil­lai Prab­hakaran was born in the north­ern coastal town of Val­vettithu­rai on 26 No­vem­ber 1954, as the youngest of four chil­dren to Thiru­venkadam Velupil­lai and Val­lipu­ram Par­vathy.

Be­ing a staunch sup­porter of the role played by Prab­hakaran in lead­ing the Tamil strug­gle in Sri Lanka, the Naam Tami­lar Katchi has de­clared that “Prab­hakaran was a Tamil na­tional hero who en­deav­oured to de­mol­ish the bondage of slav­ery of the Sin­halese who were in­stru­men­tal in killing thou­sands of Ee­lam Tamils.”

Naam Tami­lar Katchi party makes no bones about its affin­ity for Prab­hakaran and the re­mark­able role he played to es­tab­lish the Tamil na­tion on the face of the earth in Sri Lanka. Ex­tolling his lead­er­ship qual­i­ties, NTK chief co­or­di­na­tor See­man said, “He had the clar­ity to say that he was op­posed to the Sin­halese army and not the Sin­halese peo­ple.” “It is a mat­ter of pride for all Tamils to re­call and im­bibe the qual­i­ties of Prab­hakaran that set him apart from other lead­ers,” he added.

“I spend every mo­ment of my life with Prab­hakaran. I am able to re­deem my­self from pit­falls and over­come stress and fear of death by liv­ing up to his ideals. I yearn my son to be like him to carry on the legacy of Tamil na­tion­al­ism.”

See­man, Chief Co­or­di­na­tor, Naam Tami­lar Katchi

See­man said that “the as­pi­ra­tion of Prab­hakaran for a sov­er­eign, in­de­pen­dent Tamil Ee­lam as the moth­er­land of Tamils where they can study in their own mother tongue Tamil, where they are not sub­jected as sec­ond-class cit­i­zens, where their de­mo­c­ra­tic, civil and po­lit­i­cal rights are not crushed, will con­tinue to in­spire Tamils to work self­lessly for the cre­ation of an egal­i­tar­ian so­ci­ety in Sri Lanka as well as in Tamil Nadu.

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Strik­ing a per­sonal note, See­man, an ar­dent sup­porter of Prab­hakaran, with a life-size photo with him adorn­ing the NTK of­fice, said, “I spend every mo­ment of my life with Prab­hakaran. I am able to re­deem my­self from pit­falls and over­come stress and fear of death by liv­ing up to his ideals. I yearn my son to be like him to carry on the legacy of Tamil na­tion­al­ism.”