Every year on 21 May, Anti-Terrorism Day is celebrated in India. On 21 May 1991, India's seventh Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in a terrorist incident. The responsibility of this murder was taken by the militant LTTE operating in Sri Lanka. The seeds of this incident are hidden in the internal conflict of Sri Lanka which was going on many years ago.
Discrimination in sri lanka
Since the time of Sri Lankan independence, the Tamil-speaking people there had to ignore the Sinhala community, which considers the majority Buddhism. Gradually the Tamil people were pushed to the margins in every region. Due to this discrimination, the Tamils took up arms and a young Tamil named Velupillai Prabhakaran formed an organization named 'Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam' - LTTE. In the 1980s, the LTTE became the strongest, disciplined and large Tamil terrorist organization.
Civil war situation
Now the equation is that the Tamils of India were sympathetic to the Tamils of Sri Lanka. And they also started supporting Sri Lankan Tamils. Meanwhile, riots erupted after the killing of 13 soldiers in Sri Lanka in July 1983 in which Tamils were killed in large numbers and became a state of civil war.
India Sri Lanka Agreement
In 1987, a peace agreement was signed between India and Sri Lanka in which the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi signed it. As part of the agreement, India was to send a force called the Indian Peace Keeping Force to Sri Lanka to surrender to the LTTE. Initially, the LTTE was ready to surrender and many mass surrenders took place. But within three weeks this surrender stopped.
India and LTTE face to face
Dissatisfaction over surrender and subsequent settling of Tamils, handing over dedicated weapons to LTTE opponents are cited as reasons that led the LTTE to demand the release of the arrested LTTE supporters by the Sri Lankan army, but the suicide of 12 of them Made the case serious. And LTTE and IPKF came face to face. Political parties started demanding the withdrawal of the IPKF in Delhi and its soldiers were dying there in Sri Lanka.The first session of the Parliament of independent India was held in India
During the changing politics of Delhi
In 1989, power shifted to Delhi and the new VPSingh government withdrew the IPKF from Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, in August 1990, Rajiv Gandhi once again took the side of the India-Sri Lanka Accord and talked about a united Sri Lanka. This showed LTTE's dream of Eelam breaking and he understood that if Rajiv becomes Prime Minister again, this dream will be broken. So LTTE started plotting to assassinate him.
Plot form
The conspiracy was hatched by LTTE chief Prabhakaran, Pottu Omman, head of LTTE intelligence unit, Akila and Sivarasan of the Mahila Dal, in which Sivarasan was the mastermind of the plan. A month after Rajiv Gandhi's interview was published, the first group of LTTE militants arrived in India as refugees. After that, seven teams set up their hideouts in different places in India from where messages were exchanged.
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In the first week of May 1991, nine people, including Manav Bamo Dhanu and Suba, were trained to break the security cordon to Dhanu, Suba and Nalini at the meeting of VP Singh in Madras as a suicide squad training. Dhanu and Suba also garlanded VP Singh. After this, on May 19, Sivarasan came to know about Rajiv Gandhi's election program from newspapers. After which, on 21 May, the day of Rajiv Gandhi's visit to Sriperumbudur was chosen. In this meeting Dhanu and Suba reached there near Rajiv Gandhi and carried out the blast and in a moment the scene changed and the country lost its former Prime Minister.
