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Arumugam Thiagarajah (Tamil : ஆறுமுகம் தியாகராஜா ; 17 April 1916 – 25 May 1981) was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament .
Early life
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Thiagarajah was born on 17 April 1916.[1] He was principal of Karainagar Hindu College.[2] [3]
Career
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Thiagarajah stood as the All Ceylon Tamil Congress 's candidate in Vaddukoddai at the 1970 parliamentary election . He won the election and entered Parliament .[4] He later defected to the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and voted for the new republican constitution .[5] [6] [7] He was labelled a traitor by Tamil militants and Tamil nationalists .[8] He was the target of an assassination attempt at his Colombo home in 1972.[6] Thiagarajah contested the 1977 parliamentary election as an independent candidate but was resoundingly defeated by the Tamil United Liberation Front candidate T. Thirunavukarasu .[9]
Assassination
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The United National Party chose Thiagarajah to be its lead candidate in Jaffna District at the 1981 District Development Council election.[10] Tamil militant groups had warned candidates not to contest for the UNP.[11] He was shot by the militant People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) on 24 May 1981 as he was addressing an election meeting in Moolai .[2] [12] He died on the next day 25 May 1981 in hospital.[13] [11]
References
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^ Sivendran, S. (2 January 2000). "Kayts, a different world" . The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) .
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1970" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 December 2009.
^ Sabaratnam, T. "Chapter 5: Tamil Youths Turn Assertive". Pirapaharan .
^ a b Sri Kantha, Sachi (30 May 2013). "Book Burning in 1933 and 1981: Nazi and Sinhalese goons: style comparisons" . Sangam.
^ Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 24: Tamil militancy - a manifestation". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story . Archived from the original on 13 February 2002. {{cite book }}
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^ Sri Kantha, Sachi (26 July 2010). "The Alfred Duraiappah Dossier - Part 1" . Illankai Tamil Sangam.
^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1977" (PDF) . Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011.
^ Hoole, Rajan ; Somasundaram, Daya; Sritharan, Kopalasingham ; Thiranagama, Rajini (1990). "Chapter 2: Some Milestones in the Development of Tamil Political Consciousness" . Broken Palmyra . University Teachers for Human Rights . Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2013 .
^ a b Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 27 - Horsewhip Amirthalingham". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story . Archived from the original on 22 June 2002. {{cite book }}
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^ Sabaratnam, T. (10 October 2010). "The order: Chase voters and stuff ballot boxes" . The Nation (Sri Lanka) . Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2013 .
^ "முன்னாள் வட்டு எம்பி தியாகர் துப்பாக்கிச் சூட்டுக்குப் பலி" (print) . Eelanadu . Jaffna, Sri Lanka. 25 May 1981. Retrieved 1 June 2020 .
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