[2][3][4] He later left the conflict, after work as an independent peace negotiator between the two sides of the civil war.
Arulpragasam graduated from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow with a degree in Engineering.
[5] Having created EROS in 1975 in Wandsworth, England the group staged demonstrations at the inaugural Cricket World Cup that year, prompting clashes between Tamil and Sinhalese cricket supporters, and bringing the conflict in Sri Lanka to international attention for the first time.
[6] In March 1976, he moved to Vavuniya and was one of three EROS members selected to train for six months in Lebanon with Palestinian militants associated with the Fatah wing of the PLO.
He left after three months of training, returning to Jaffna, Northern Sri Lanka with his family.
He made sporadic visits to Jaffna where his family lived, introducing himself to his children as their uncle.
Although never himself a member of the LTTE, Arulpragasam was an old friend of the group's military leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran during the early years of the Tamil rebellion.
[7] His wife and three children left Jaffna in the late 80s and were granted political asylum in the United Kingdom, while he remained behind.
has stated in interviews her father shared revolutionary ideals, and that he was a politician, although she had no contact with him since the early 1990s.
On his involvement in the war and some writers referring to him as a former Tiger rebel, she has said "People write it because it's easy.
[12] Arulpragasam moved to Britain and, at the time of his death, headed the Britain-based Global Sustainability Initiative, which has overseen inventions such as a redesigned bullock cart, a motorised wheelbarrow and a car that consumes less petrol.
told EGO Magazine that despite her father's involvement in the conflict, she felt no affiliation to either armed party in the war, noting her work to be the voice of "civilians and refugees that get caught up in the cross fire of politics" and shocking enough to invoke discussion in young people that felt they had no right to talk.