27 July 1975(1975-07-27) (aged 49) Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Nationality
Sri Lankan
Political party
Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Spouse
Dr Parameswary Duraiappah
Children
Rochana (Eesha)
Alma mater
Ceylon Law College
Profession
Proctor
Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah (15 June 1926 – 27 July 1975) was a Sri Lankan lawyer who served as Mayor of Jaffna from 1970 until his assassination. He was also a Member of Parliament for Jaffna from 1960 to 1965. Duraiappah was killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah (15 June 1926 – 27 July 1975) was a Sri Lankan lawyer who served as Mayor of Jaffna from 1970 until his assassination. He...
notoriety in 1975 when Prabhakaran and three other members assassinated AlfredDuraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna. The group continued to carry out attacks and...
Thuraiappa) was discovered and excavated at the Duraiappah Sports Stadium (named after AlfredDuraiappah) in the formerly embattled northern city of Jaffna...
led him to militancy. In 1975, he assassinated the Mayor of Jaffna AlfredDuraiappah in revenge for the 1974 Tamil conference incident. The LTTE was subsequently...
against President Richard Nixon. 1975 – Mayor of Jaffna and former MP AlfredDuraiappah is shot dead. 1981 – While landing at Chihuahua International Airport...
the University of Western Ontario. Duraiappah is the nephew of lawyer and politician Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah, a former Sri Lankan Mayor of Jaffna...
murder the Jaffna Mayor AlfredDuraiappah. A member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party who was loyal to Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Duraiappah was seen as a traitor...
After the Tamil conference incident in 1974, the then mayor of Jaffna AlfredDuraiappah was assassinated by the leader of rebel LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran...
the precursor to the revenge killing of the SLFP mayor of Jaffna, AlfredDuraiappah by the LTTE which began the era of Tamil militancy amongst the youth...
at Muthirai junction Nallur and declared open by then Jaffna Mayor AlfredDuraiappah. On 2011 was the statue removed and a new statue was built at the...
– Attilâ İlhan, Turkish poet, author, and critic (d. 2005) 1926 – AlfredDuraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (d. 1975) 1927 – Ross Andru...
major wing of the library was opened in 1959 by then Jaffna mayor AlfredDuraiappah. The architect of the Indo-Saracenic style building was S. Narasimhan...
first major operation was the assassination of the mayor of Jaffna, AlfredDuraiappah, in 1975 by Prabhakaran. The LTTE's modus operandi of the early war...
Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam AlfredDuraiappah V. A. Kandiah E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam...
Lankan lawyer, politician and speaker of the State Council of Ceylon AlfredDuraiappah - Member of Parliament from 1960 to 1964; Mayor of Jaffna Jeyaraj...
one was in the car. No one suspected Sivakumaran. Mayor of Jaffna AlfredDuraiappah was a member of the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party and its chief...
began taking form with notable incidents such as the assassination of AlfredDuraiappah, the Mayor of Jaffna in 1975 and the killing of Inspector Bastianpillai...
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(1970-1977) and a Member of Senate of Ceylon. He was a political rival of AlfredDuraiappah and was initially suspected of behind his death. However, the assassination...
monitored activities of the Tamil parties following the assassination of AlfredDuraiappah. Bastiampillai was considered as one of the best CID officers at the...
Amirthalingam M. Balasundaram S. J. V. Chelvanayakam V. Dharmalingam AlfredDuraiappah V. A. Kandiah E. M. V. Naganathan V. N. Navaratnam M. Sivasithamparam...
staff and network within the island. Following the assassination of AlfredDuraiappah on 27 July 1975, CID began gathering intelligence on Tamil militant...