Chinniah Rajeshkumar (Ragavan)

Alfred Duraiappah was killed 50 years ago, on 27 July 1975, by my early friend—who would later become the LTTE supremo—Prabhakaran, along with a few other young men. Although I had no role in the killing, at the time I felt a deep sense of satisfaction, believing that a “traitor” had been removed and that, for the liberation of our people, such individuals had to be eliminated. After the murder, Prabhakaran came to my village, Punnalaikadduvan, and I sheltered him for almost a year in my grandm