Chinniah Rajeshkumar — better known as Ragavan — co-founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with Velupillai Prabhakaran in the mid-1970s. He left the LTTE in 1984 and settled in the UK, where he now works as a legal advisor and activist.
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Editor’s Note: This essay, adapted from the latest issue of Jaffna Monitor, examines the political assassination of Alfred Duraiappah in 1975 and the broader evolution of the term “traitor” within Tamil nationalist
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