G. Yogasangari

Veerasingam Ganeshasangari Yogasangari (died 19 June 1990) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant, politician and Member of Parliament.

Hon.

G. Yogasangari

MP
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament
for Jaffna District
In office
1989–1990
Succeeded byK. Srinivasan
Personal details
Died(1990-06-19)19 June 1990
Kodambakam, Madras, India
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Yogasangari was the son of V. Ganeshasangaree, brother of Tamil United Liberation Front politician V. Anandasangaree.[1]

Yogasangari contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to Parliament.[2]

Yogasangari and other senior members of the EPRLF were assassinated on 19 June 1990 in Kodambakam, Madras, India.[3][4] The assassination was blamed on the rival rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[5][6]

References
  1. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (15 June 2008). "Last TULF Leader standing: Sangaree at 75". The Nation (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 2014-02-20.
  2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
  3. Parthasarathy, R. (15 July 1990). "A Massacre in Madras" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (8): 9. ISSN 0266-4488.
  4. Rajasingham, K. T. "Chapter 44: Eelam war - again". Sri Lanka: The Untold Story.
  5. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (16 March 2008). "Assassinating Tamil Parliamentarians: The unceasing waves". The Nation (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  6. Subramanian, T. S. (14 August 1999). "Chronicle of murders". Frontline. 16 (17). ISSN 0970-1710. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012.


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