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by R. Thurairatnam

The Jaffna district leader of the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (Varatharaja Perumal Wing) Robert alias Kandiah Subaththiran was gunned down by an unidentified gunman at his office in Jaffna yesterday.

Subaththiran (47), a former member of the recently dissolved Jaffna Municipal Council was shot dead while he was doing his routine physical exercises in the morning on the top floor of his office building, which is situated along the Jaffna Hospital Street. Preliminary police investigations have revealed that the assassin may have used a sniper gun to kill the EPRLF stalwart who was expected to contest at the forthcoming local government polls in Jaffna.

Subaththiran joined the EPRLF in late seventies and worked closely with all senior members of the organisation. He later became the politburo member of EPRLF soon after the party entered the political mainstream following the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987.

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