[3] Balasingham Nadesan was married to a Sinhalese woman, Vineetha Samarasinghe Gunasekara, when they worked in the police force for the Sri Lankan Government in Colombo.

He left the Sri Lankan Police joining the LTTE after the Black July riots in 1983 in Colombo.

He also accompanied numerous delegations of the LTTE overseas.

Nadesan was killed on 18 May 2009 when the Sri Lankan Army overcame the final stronghold of the Tamil Tigers.

[5][6] Nadesan and his family were executed by the Sri Lankan Army after an agreement to surrender during the White Flag incident that came to recognition on international terms.