Sam Tambimuttu

Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.

Hon.

Sam Tambimuttu
Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament
for Batticaloa District
In office
1989–1990
Succeeded byJoseph Pararajasingham
Personal details
Born1932
Died(1990-05-07)7 May 1990
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
ProfessionLawyer
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Early life and family

Tambimuttu was born in 1932.[1] He was the grand nephew of E. R. Tambimuttu, member of the State Council of Ceylon.[1][2] He was married to Kala, daughter of Senator M. Manickam.[1][3] They had a son Arun.[2]

Tambimuttu was a Methodist.[1][2]

Career

Tambimuttu was a proctor and practiced law in Batticaloa.[1][3] He was chairman of Batticaloa Citizen's Committee.[1][3] In this capacity he would intervene on behalf of youths arrested by the paramilitary Special Task Force.[4]

Tambimuttu had been a member of the Tamil United Liberation Front for a long time.[3] He contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to Parliament.[5]

Tambimuttu was assassinated on 7 May 1990 outside the Canadian High Commission in Colombo.[3] His wife Kala died on 16 May as a result of injuries sustained in the assassination.[3] The assassination was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[6][7]

References
  1. Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon. p. 221.
  2. "Thambimuttu's widow in touching cemetery farewell" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (7): 9. 15 June 1990. ISSN 0266-4488.
  3. "MP and Wife Assassinated" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (7): 9. 15 June 1990. ISSN 0266-4488.
  4. Mohamed, Suresh (15 June 1990). "Sam Thambimuttu" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (7): 11. ISSN 0266-4488.
  5. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009.
  6. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (16 March 2008). "Assassinating Tamil Parliamentarians: The unceasing waves". The Nation (Sri Lanka).
  7. Subramanian, T. S. (14 August 1999). "Chronicle of murders". Frontline. 16 (17). ISSN 0970-1710.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.