Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy (November 3, 1938 – December 12, 2006) was one of the founding member of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students and a noted Marxist-Leninist political leader.
He migrated to the United Kingdom when Sri Lanka was in the midst of its early stages of its ethnic conflict.
Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS) was founded on January 3, 1975, at Wandsworth, London, in the residence of Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy.
It was later alleged that it was George Habash's PFLP not the PLO that trained the early batch of Tamil militants from Sri Lanka.
In a tribute to Mr. Ratnasabapathy, the Tamil Information Center (TIC) in London said:[2] Friends and colleagues describe him as a person steeped in communist ideals and as a visionary leader who campaigned resolutely throughout the major part of his life.