Balasingham Nadesan

{{Short description|Sri Lankan Tamil rebel}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Use British English|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Balasingham Nadesan | image = BalasinghamNadesan.jpg | alt = | spouse = Vineetha Samarasinghe Gunasekara | caption = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date = 18 May 2009 | death_place = Mullaithivu, Sri Lanka | other_names = B.Nadesan | known_for = | occupation = Political Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam }}

'''Balasingham Nadesan''' (Tamil:பாலசிங்கம் நடேசன்)<ref>[http://www.dailypioneer.com/147348/Sri-Lankan-troops-march-into-Tiger-capital-Kilinochchi.html Sri Lankan troops march into 'Tiger' capital Kilinochchi] Daily Pioneer - 2 January 2009</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Nadesan appointed new Political Head of the LTTE|url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=23659|work=Tamilnet|date=2007-11-02|access-date=2008-12-20}}</ref> was the Political Chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from late 2007 until his death in 2009. Formerly, he was the organization's Chief of Police.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1117458,prtpage-1.cms | title=India to keep distance from LTTE | newspaper=Times of India | date=21 May 2005}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Balasingham Nadesan was married to a Sinhalese woman, Vineetha Samarasinghe Gunasekara, when they worked in the police force for the Sri Lankan Government in Colombo. He left the Sri Lankan Police joining the LTTE after the Black July riots in 1983 in Colombo.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2003/10/12/fea01.html|title=Tiger cops learn Sinhala|publisher=www.sundayobserver.lk|date=12 October 2003|access-date=4 March 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062620/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2003/10/12/fea01.html|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

==Career==

As Chief of Police, Nadesan oversaw the development of police stations in the East following the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement brokered by Norway. He also accompanied numerous delegations of the LTTE overseas. In November 2007, he became head of the political division after S. P. Thamilselvan was killed in an air strike by the Sri Lankan Air Force.

==Death==

Nadesan was killed on 18 May 2009 when the Sri Lankan Army overcame the final stronghold of the Tamil Tigers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6309915.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519190039/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6309915.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 May 2009 |title=Times Online 18 May 2009 |publisher=Timesonline.co.uk |access-date=2013-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=29403 |title=18.05.09 Mahinda's accounts crime |publisher=TamilNet |date=2009-05-18 |access-date=2013-01-31}}</ref> Nadesan and his family were executed by the Sri Lankan Army after an agreement to surrender during the White Flag incident that came to recognition on international terms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/witnesses-support-claim-that-sri-lanka-army-shot-prisoners-8508617.html|title= Witnesses support claim that Sri Lanka army shot prisoners |newspaper= The Independent|date=24 February 2013|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=29409|title= War crime in the massacre of LTTE officials|publisher=Tamilnet|date=19 May 2009|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref>

==See also==

*Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

==References== {{Reflist}}

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