KP the LTTE Arms Procurer Chief Remains Elusive
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
“They seek him here;they seek him there; they seek him everywhere”.
These lines from a doggerel about the scarlet pimpernel perfectly sums up the life and times of KP - the elusive chief procurer of arms and armaments for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The latest round of excitement is over the reported arrest of the man in Thailand. New Delhi and Colombo are supposedly requesting Bangkok to extradite KP to their respective countries. But there is a hitch. Despite the initial blaze of publicity about KP’s arrest the Thai authorities are now denying that the arrest ever took place.
Obviously there is something here that just does not seem “right” but as Andy Warhol observed famously every one is entitled to fifteen minutes of fame. Now KP is having more than fifteen minutes of fame or is it notoriety?
But who is this man and what has he been doing?
The man known as KP was born on on April - 6th - 1955 in the northern coastal town of Kankesanthurai (KKS). His name was Pathmanathan and his father’s name was Selvarajah . Though he was known by a number of names and aliases in later life KP’s real name was Selvarajah Pathmanathan. [Read the full article in transCurrents.com]
