Master Ponniah Lambotharan 06 Jan 1974 - 1990

I recall a photograph which was taken in 1981 at the front of the entrance to the 'Sathiamanai' which had no doors. My eldest son Sathiarajan, also known as ‘Meera Master’ of PLOTE with the eldest son of my brother, Ponniah Lambotharan, who was born on 06 Jan 1974 and joined LTTE as ‘Viji’ in 1988 at the age of 14 years and my comrade K.A. Subramaniam. Later all 3 had different political ideologies and passed away now. Early 1990 IPKF was preparing to leave Trincomalee, with its allied groups preparing to decamp with them. That was the situation at the ENDLF camp in Uppuveli. The camp had a number of cadres who had caught a debilitating tropical infection and were convalescing. The LTTE attackers came by sea including our child Lambotharan (Viji). Hardly meeting any resistance LTTE killed over ten ENDLF members groaning in sickness, loaded the captured weapons into boats and set off. One of the heavily laden boats capsized - it being the north-east monsoon - and about 22 LTTE men were drowned and then killed by IPKF. Only two senior persons survived and our beloved child Lambotharan was killed in Uppuveli seashore by IPKF at the age of 16. I looked after him as a baby at Sathiamanai and was very upset that he joined LTTE even after knowing what happened to Rasan.