{{Short description|Sri Lankan politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2020}} '''Chelliah Kumarasuriar''' was a Sri Lankan politician. He served as the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (1970-1977) and a Member of Senate of Ceylon. He was a political rival of Alfred Duraiappah and was initially suspected of behind his death.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Perera |first1=Janaka |title='Sunda' a friend of the press |url=http://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=200942 |access-date=9 December 2019 |agency=Island}} {{deadlink|date=September 2020}}</ref> However, the assassination was widely blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its leader V. Prabhakaran.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hoole|first1=Rajan|authorlink1=Rajan Hoole|last2=Thiranagama|first2=Rajini|authorlink2=Rajini Thiranagama|title=Sri Lanka: the arrogance of power : myths, decadence & murder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3i1uAAAAMAAJ|date=January 2001|publisher=University Teachers for Human Rights|isbn=978-955-9447-04-7|pages=11, 46|chapter=Chapter 2 – Antecedents of July 1983 and the Foundations of Impunity}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Sabaratnam|first1=T.|title=Pirapaharan|publisher=Ilankai Tamil Sangam|url=http://sangam.org/Sabaratnam/PirapaharanChap8.htm|chapter=Chpaper 8: First Military Operation}}</ref> On 25 April 1978 the LTTE issued an open letter, which was published in the ''Virakesari'', claiming responsibility for the assassination of eleven people including Duraiappah.<ref>{{cite web|title=27 July 1975|url=http://pact.lk/27-july-1975/|publisher=Peace and Conflict Timeline|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216194934/http://pact.lk/27-july-1975/|archive-date=16 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Athas|first1=Iqbal|authorlink1=Iqbal Athas|title=The Situation Report|url=http://www.sundaytimes.lk/990801/sitrep.html|work=The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)|date=1 August 1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rajasingham|first=K. T.|title=Sri Lanka: The Untold Story|url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DB02Df03.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020416074026/http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/DB02Df03.html|url-status=unfit|archive-date=2002-04-16|chapter=Chapter 25: War or peace?}}</ref>
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