Suppayya Paramu Thamilselvan, commonly known as S. P. Tamilselvan, (sometimes transcribed as "Tamilchelvan"),[1] was the leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, an organisation fighting for a separate state for the ethnic Tamil minority in the north and east of Sri Lanka from majority Sinhalese government.
In 1993, he suffered a shrapnel wound at the Punarin battle which left him with a permanent limp and since then he walked with the aid of a cane.
Thamilselvan was appointed in 1994 as the LTTE”s political commissar as his leg wound made combat duties hard.
However the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) was monitoring LTTE activities using drones and the bunker was exposed.
[7][8][9][10] With the end of the Sri Lankan civil war and the defeat of LTTE, Thamilselvan's widow Sasirekha and two children surrendered to the government forces.