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Velupillai Prabhakaran belongs to srilanka vellalar(pillai) community not karaiyar community

velu 2409:40F4:103F:C32B:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 07:30, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be more be more neutral.

This article fairly talks about Prabhakaran from his perspective and LTTE perspective for the causes of the war and the discrimination and violence tamils faced n Sri Lanka. However in the summary other than the "However, he is acknowledged to have created one of the most ruthless and sophisticated insurgencies of the modern era, with many of the tactics he pioneered influencing political militant groups globally". There is no other perspective to him or the LTTE actions. I dont deny that the Sri Lankan government has committed equal or if not worse crimes but I feel as though this article needs to be further balanced in its presenting of the information, considering the countless deliberate military actions on civilians, that are considered war crimes by international organisations and the fact that the LTTE was designated a terrorist attack by 33 other nations. VicksX2000 (talk) 07:19, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]