Jeganathan, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jeganathan

Sri Lankan rebel

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1956

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1983

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Jeganathan

  • Jeganathan, also known as Jegan, (born 28 October 1956 in Thondaimanaru) was one of the members of former Tamil militant organization Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) from Sri Lanka.
  • He was arrested and sentenced to death and was killed in the 1983 Welikada prison massacre, along with the TELO leaders Nadarajah Thangathurai & Selvarajah Yogachandran.
  • At court he claimed "I am innocent.
  • The Army and the C.I.D.
  • Police tortured me and obtained my signatures on some documents and produced the documents in this court falsely as my statement.
  • I have been convicted on this false evidence.
  • I can be hanged....".

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